Image analysis inventions 02/08

20080049969 - Methods and systems for generating a symbol identification challenge for an automated agent: Methods, systems and machine readable medium storing a machine readable program for generating a representation of a symbol that presents an identification challenge for an automated agent are disclosed. A symbol is provided at a first system. A first version of the symbol is defined at the first system. A... Agent: Manisha Chakrabarti

20080049968 - Methods, systems and computer program products for tagging media files to create records of distribution: Methods, systems and computer program products for tracking distribution of digital photographs are provided. Two or more digital photographs are obtained with a digital camera device. Distribution tags are associated with ones of the at least two digital photographs. The distribution tags include a distribution history for the at least... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080049970 - Automatic detection and correction of non-red eye flash defects: A technique for detecting large and small non-red eye flash defects in an image is disclosed. The method comprises selecting pixels of the image which have a luminance above a threshold value and labeling neighboring selected pixels as luminous regions. A number of geometrical filters are applied to the luminous... Agent: Fotonation, Inc.IPDept.

20080049971 - Systems and methods for processing content objects: Watermark encoders and decoders can be integrated into operating systems, Internet browsers, media players, and other applications and devices. Such integration enables the watermark-enabled application or device to provide additional functionality and information available via the watermark. The watermark, for example, may link to metadata or actions related to a... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080049972 - Mail imaging system with secondary illumination/imaging window: An imaging and illumination system for use with a mail processing apparatus may include illumination and imaging assemblies located in a housing that has first and second windows to transmit imaging illumination for the illumination assembly and/or the imaging assembly. The first and second windows may be arranged to interact... Agent: Lockheed Martin Corporation C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080049973 - Finding blob-like structures using diverging gradient field response: A method for determining a blob-like structure in a target image includes receiving an input target image is received, determining a mean curvature of the input target image, smoothing the mean curvature is smoothed using a scale that determines a size of the blobs to be found, finding a blob-like... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080049974 - Methods for processing images to detect objects below the surface of the water: The present invention is a processing method to increase the detection of objects below the surface of the water comprising the steps of: acquiring image data in separate spectral regions simultaneously and converting the image data into intensity value arrays for each spectral region, transforming the intensity value arrays into... Agent: David B. Walter Suite 214

20080049975 - Method for imaging the surrounding of a vehicle: A method for imaging the surrounding of a vehicle is provided. The method includes the steps of (i) taking a series of two dimensional images of the vehicle surrounding, (ii) taking a series of three dimensional images of the vehicle surrounding that including depth information, (iii) determining at least one... Agent: The Eclipse Group

20080049976 - Album generating apparatus, album generating method and computer readable medium: There is provided an album generating apparatus for generating an album in which a desirable combination of images is disposed in one and same page. The album generating apparatus has an image storing section for storing a plurality of images, an object sampling section for sampling objects contained in each... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080049978 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus calculates a corresponding area on input images corresponding to a focused area on a real space in which a moving object moves, generates first images by scanning the input images along a horizontal line through the corresponding area, generates two-dimensional dynamic x-t images by arranging the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080049977 - Method for edge detection, method for motion detection, method for pixel interpolation utilizing up-sampling, and apparatuses thereof: A pixel interpolation method for interpolating a pixel value of a target pixel in a target picture is disclosed. The pixel interpolation method includes performing up-sampling upon the target picture for generating an up-sampled picture corresponding to the target picture, and interpolating the target pixel according to the up-sampled picture.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080049979 - Home entertainment chart and method of using same: A chart and method of creating and using said chart is described whereby a user may easily ascertain how to connect many and varied devices to an electronic device by any number of means. The chart is color-coded and organized by rows and columns to aid in ease of use... Agent: Kleinberg & Lerner, LLP

20080049980 - Button with integrated biometric sensor: A button assembly (100) that includes a flexible electronic circuit (105) having a first side (110) and a second side (115). The button assembly also can include a biometric sensor (100) mounted to the first side of the flexible electronic circuit. Further, a switch (200) can be positioned at least... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20080049983 - Multimodal biometric platform: A multimodal biometric identification or authentication system includes a plurality of biometric clients. Each of the biometric clients may include devices for capturing biometric images of a plurality of types. The system includes a router in communication with the biometric clients. The router receives biometric images from, and returns biometric... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080049981 - Personal authentication device: A compact authentication device that prevents user from feeling pressure and is strong against external light, when capturing an image of a finger blood vessel pattern with transmitted light. The device includes a guidance part for determining the finger position, a light source disposed on at least one side of... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080049982 - Personal authentication device: A compact authentication device that prevents user from feeling pressure and is strong against external light, when capturing an image of a finger blood vessel pattern with transmitted light. The device includes a guidance part for determining the finger position, a light source disposed on at least one side of... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080049984 - Portable device having biometrics-based authentication capabilities: Apparatus and method for implementing biometrics-based authentication. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention is embodied in a portable device. Specifically, in one embodiment, the portable device includes a microprocessor, a non-volatile memory coupled thereto, and a biometrics-based authentication module controlled by the microprocessor. Preferably, the biometrics technology used is... Agent: White & Case LLP Patent Department

20080049985 - Identification method: The present invention provides an identification method. A video capture device captures an identification video at a random time. Then a suitable identification image is obtained from the identification video. Subsequently, a current user characteristic value obtained from the identification image is compared with a stored user characteristic value of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080049986 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, signature registration program, and storage medium: Signature data of a handwritten signature input to a signature authentication device is analyzed to determine whether to register the signature based on the characteristics of the stroke shape of the signature. If the signature registration is denied, a response message for making the signature registerable is displayed according to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080049989 - Fingerprint detection apparatus: A fingerprint detection apparatus for obtaining an image of a fingerprint of a finger by using a light source for emitting a light to the finger and an image obtaining part for outputting electric signals in correspondence with received light is disclosed. The fingerprint detection apparatus includes a system controller... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080049987 - Fingerprint recognition system: A method and system of increasing the acceptance rate in fingerprint scans by the application of cascaded selective, plural and sequenced fingerprint recognition rules using a plurality of sensors. The finger is swiped over multiple sensors. A whole fingerprint sample is constructed from the scan of each of the multiple... Agent: Ashok Tankha, Esq. Lipton, Weinberger & Husick

20080049988 - Method of, and system for, accessing a home or dwelling: A biometric device comprising a scanner for reading a user's fingerprint. There can be at least one communication device in communication with the scanner. There can also be a control unit in communication with this scanner, this control unit can be for receiving biometric information from the scanner in the... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20080049990 - Automatic detection of skin lesions: The method collects digital images of the body surface of the tested subject after having divided the latter into one or more areas exactly located by spatial coordinates in a system of coordinated axes fixed with respect to predetermined unchanged reference points of the subject. The images are stored in... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080049999 - Computer aided detection of bone metastasis: A method for automatic detection of regions of suspicion within a region of interest includes acquiring image data sets. The region of interest is segmented within the image data sets. Each of the image data sets are co-registered to a common coordinate system. Each image data set is individually examined... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080049992 - System and method for classifying follicular units: A system and method for classifying follicular units based on the number of hairs in a follicular unit of interest comprises (i) acquiring a digital image of a body surface having a follicular unit of interest; (ii) selecting a region of interest with the digital image which contains the follicular... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20080049993 - System and method for counting follicular units: A system and method for counting follicular units using an automated system comprises (i) acquiring a digital image of a body surface having skin and a plurality of follicular units; (ii) selecting a region of interest with the digital image; (iii) segmenting the selected image to produce a binary image;... Agent: David T. Burse VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20080049991 - System and method for flattened anatomy for interactive segmentation and measurement: Systems and methods are provided for accessing three dimensional representation of an anatomical surface and flattening the anatomical surface so as to produce a two dimensional representation of an anatomical surface. The two dimensional surface can be augmented with computed properties such as thickness, curvature, thickness and curvature, or user... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20080049998 - Constant variance filter: Systems and methods associated with a constant variance filter are described. One system embodiment includes a memory to store a spatially dependent filtered data set having a first degree of homogeneity. The system embodiment may also include a filter logic to produce a data set having a second degree of... Agent: Mcdonald Hopkins LLC

20080049994 - Image registration method and apparatus for medical imaging based on multiple masks: An image registration method for use in medical imaging is proposed. The method includes the steps of: providing a sequence of images each one including a digital representation of a body-part under analysis, selecting a reference image within the sequence, the remaining images of the sequence defining moving images, and... Agent: Bryan A Santarelli Graybeal Jackson Halely

20080049997 - Method and device for enhancing images in display devices: An image enhancement system includes a data source providing image data of an object, an enhancement data storage including image enhancement information, an image enhancement unit configured to enhance the image data based on the image enhancement information, and a color display configured to display a monochrome image representing the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080049995 - System for obfuscating identity: Compositions, apparatus, systems, kits, and methods, including but not limited to, feedback and cooperative methods and systems for obfuscating target biological material identifiers in an environment.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080049996 - User definable scanning protocols for use with mammographic computer-aided detection and film scanning systems: A system and method for processing mammographic data are described. The system includes a user input/output system adapted and configured to receive from a user a user-defined scanning protocol that identifies the laterality and view type for each mammographic film in a film case to be scanned. A storage system... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080050002 - Display and analysis of medical images using calibrated pixel values in units of known properties of reference materials: Methods to calibrate and display medical images with pixel values with known properties of one or more reference materials provide images which allow more accurate quantification of certain tissue properties. The images provide advantages in medical diagnosis by being standardized and independent of imaging devices or imaging techniques. The images... Agent: Jerry Turner Sewell

20080050000 - Hot spot detection, segmentation and identification in pet and spect images: A potential region of interest segmentation device segments an image data into regions of potential interest. From the regions of potential interest, an identifying device identifies a region of interest including an object of interest based on a set of rules. A recognizing device differentiates among the identified objects of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080050001 - Use of subsets of the acquired data to improve the diagnostic outcome in cardiac spect imaging: Undesired effect reduction in a medical image. A set of medical images corresponding to a number of images each taken at a different time and from plural different projection views are obtained. The images are analyzed to determine which images in the set have effects from an undesired effect, such... Agent: Law Office Of Scott C Harris

20080050003 - Method for detection and visional enhancement of blood vessels and pulmonary emboli: A method for detecting a substantially cylindrical internal structures and dark structures surrounded by bright intensity values (contrast) in a medical image includes acquiring a medical image. A gradient of the medical image is calculated. Local shape index information for the calculated gradient of the medical image is calculated. Gradient... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080050004 - Method of identifying a copied security document: A method of determining a counterfeit security document which includes a number of coded data portions indicative of an identity of the security document; and at least part of a digital signature of at least part of the identity. The method includes using a sensing device to sense at least... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080050005 - Visual inspection system for ceramic balls: A visual inspection system for ceramic balls according to one embodiment of the present invention inspects flaws in the surface of ceramic balls, and includes an oil tank holding oil, a rotation device for rotating a ceramic ball targeted for inspection that is immersed in the oil in the oil... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080050010 - Apparatus for correcting defects in a reticle pattern and correcting method for the same: A reticle pattern defect correcting apparatus comprises a lithographic emulation system including an optical emulation system and a micromachining defect correcting system including a reticle defect correcting mechanism with a cantilever. Since correction of a reticle pattern defect is carried out while the transferred image is being observed in real... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080050008 - Image correction method and apparatus for use in pattern inspection system: A technique for correcting an image by using frequency division images and decomposition images corresponding in number to reference points is disclosed. An image correction apparatus includes an image divider which divides an inspection reference image into frequency regions to form frequency division images, a decomposition image generator for defining... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080050006 - Method and apparatus for semiconductor wafer alignment: The invention provides, in some aspects, a wafer alignment system comprising an image acquisition device, an illumination source, a rotatable wafer platform, and an image processor that includes functionality for mapping coordinates in an image of an article (such as a wafer) on the platform to a “world” frame of... Agent: Tracy Calabresi Cognex Corporation

20080050007 - Pattern inspection apparatus and method with enhanced test image correctability using frequency division scheme: A pattern image inspection apparatus with enhanced image correctability due to consolidation of alignment and image correction by using an image as divided by frequency regions while reducing image degradation and setup parameters is disclosed. The apparatus includes an image divider for creating for the test image and the reference... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080050009 - Topographic measurement using stereoscopic picture frames: Disclosed is a topographic measurement system wherein at least one satellite is used to scan the earth surface and send picture frames of a target area captured at different positions to an earth station. The picture frames are combined to produce a number of pairs of frames which constitute a... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080050012 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus, image processing program and program recording medium: The present invention provides an image processing method which can search, at high speed, for image coordinates of a pixel corresponding to a position whose three-dimensional position is known, with respect to a line sensor image in which a surface of an object (i.e. the earth) is continuously taken by... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080050011 - Modeling and texturing digital surface models in a mapping application: Digital Surface Model (DSM) texturing and modeling of various objects on the earth's surface are provided for implementation in a mapping application. One or more image capture devices having wide-angle lenses can be placed in various configurations to obtain nadir and oblique photography. Such configurations include a single lens, single... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080050013 - Systems for capturing three-dimensional images and methods thereof: Methods and systems for three-dimensional imaging include sampling one or more emissions which are reflected back from a target scene with one or more micro-channel plates. The one or more sampled emissions are processed in one or more frames. Within each frame a phase is extracted and a distance to... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP - Patent Group

20080050014 - Training and using classification components on multiple processing units: Provided are a method, system, and computer readable medium for training and using classification components on multiple processing units. A plurality of processing units each has a memory including one of a plurality of subsets of a set of data points. At least two of the processing units have different... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Int77

20080050015 - Visual characteristics-based news anchorperson segment detection method: A method to detect anchorperson segment in news reporting by using visual characteristics to provide the basis to divide news into various categories includes steps of providing news image for skin color detection on the image with color space; applying morphology depending on whether the object in the image subject... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC Suite 1404

20080050016 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, computer readable medium, and computer data signal: An image processing apparatus includes: an image decomposition unit that decomposes an input image into component images constituting the input image; a confidentiality setting unit that sets a confidentiality being a degree of security of each of the component images into which the input image is decomposed by the image... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080050019 - Image processing apparatus, and computer program product: An image processing apparatus includes a command-data storage unit, a handwritten-data recognizing unit, and a matching unit. The command-data storage unit stores therein a command-data table that contains a command character and content of a command corresponding to the command character in an associated manner. The handwritten-data recognizing unit performs... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080050018 - Method for generating dynamic representations for visual tests to distinguish between humans and computers: A method is disclosed for using software, to generate a representation of a visual test challenge, the answer to which may be used to distinguish between responses returned by a human, and responses returned by a computer-automated system, that substantially and reliably improves upon ordinary methods of such distinction.... Agent: Jason Koziol

20080050017 - Transmission and reception of handwritten data on wireless devices without character recognition: A mobile device and associated method for transmitting a plurality of characters to a remote device without requiring keypad input or character recognition. The device is operable to receive characters entered by the user via handwritten input and transmit the characters without requiring character recognition. User input is received to... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20080050020 - Density nodule detection in-3-d digital images: An algorithm is quickly scans a digital image volume to detect density nodules. A first stage is based on a transform to quickly highlight regions requiring further processing. The first stage operates with somewhat lower sensitivity than is possible with more detailed analyses, but operates to highlight regions for further... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080050021 - Method of difference sensing through optical coherent change detection: A method of difference sensing. A first step involves producing a reference image using temporal averaging and spatial averaging. A second step involves producing a test image. A third step involves computationally comparing the reference image with the test image to arrive at a resulting difference image. The temporal averaging... Agent: Davis Bujold & Daniels, P.l.l.c.

20080050022 - Face detection device, imaging apparatus, and face detection method: A face detection device for detecting the face of a person in an input image may include the following elements: a face detection circuit including a hardware circuit configured to detect a face in an input image; a signal processing circuit configured to perform signal processing based on an input... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080050023 - Data filling technique for compound document compression: A method and apparatus for data filling is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an image and a mask associated with the image and performing a block-based, iterative multi-pass data filling process to fill a layer as part of compound document compression.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080050024 - Method for encoding and serving geospatial or other vector data as images: A system and method are disclosed which include providing a first layer of an image, the first layer including features of the image having locations within the first layer; and providing a second layer of the image, the second layer including data blocks corresponding to respective ones of the features;... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080050028 - Image processing system, image compression system, image editing system, computer readable medium, computer data signal and image processing apparatus: An image processing system includes an identification unit, a region division unit and a pixel value change unit. The identification unit identifies a second pixel among an image including a first pixel and the second pixel. A pixel value of the first pixel is not to be changed. A pixel... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080050025 - Methods and apparatus for reducing storage size: Prediction-based compression engines are spoon-fed with sequentially efficiently compressible (SEC) streams of input data that make it possible for the compression engines to more efficiently compress or otherwise compact the incoming data than would be possible with streams of input data accepted on a TV-raster scan basis. Various techniques are... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080050026 - Methods and apparatus for reducing storage size: Prediction-based compression engines are spoon-fed with sequentially efficiently compressible (SEC) streams of input data that make it possible for the compression engines to more efficiently compress or otherwise compact the incoming data than would be possible with streams of input data accepted on a TV-raster scan basis. Various techniques are... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080050027 - Methods and apparatus for reducing storage size: Prediction-based compression engines are spoon-fed with sequentially efficiently compressible (SEC) streams of input data that make it possible for the compression engines to more efficiently compress or otherwise compact the incoming data than would be possible with streams of input data accepted on a TV-raster scan basis. Various techniques are... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080050029 - Methods and apparatus for reducing storage size: Prediction-based compression engines are spoon-fed with sequentially efficiently compressible (SEC) streams of input data that make it possible for the compression engines to more efficiently compress or otherwise compact the incoming data than would be possible with streams of input data accepted on a TV-raster scan basis. Various techniques are... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080050030 - Image density conversion method, image enhancement processor, and program thereof: Areas, allowed to overlap, are set for respective pixels in an image, and a maximum density value and a minimum density value, among inherent density values of the pixels in each area, are extracted and specified as maximum and minimum density values common to the pixels in the area. Among... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080050031 - Image processing apparatus and imaging device: An image processing apparatus generates a brightness component image of a low-sensitivity image by applying a smoothing filter to the low-sensitivity image, generates a brightness component image of a high-sensitivity image by applying the smoothing filter to the high-sensitivity image, generates a contrast component image of the low-sensitivity image by... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080050032 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image display apparatus: A first edge width correction process (2) is carried out in which edge widths are corrected by an interpolation process using zoom ratio control values (RZC) generated according to the edge widths in image data; an enlargement processing process (3) that enlarges the image data with edge widths corrected by... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080050033 - Spacial deblocking method using limited edge differences only to linearly correct blocking artifact: A de-blocking method smoothes pixels along a row or column that crosses a block boundary. Smoothing is performed to remove quantization or compression artifacts that appear on block edges when pixels in adjacent blocks are separately compressed. A maximum-allowed edge-pixel difference is generated from the quantization parameter QP. For each... Agent: Stuart T Auvinen

20080050034 - Image reproduction device and image reproduction method: An image reproducing device includes: an image signal inputting part for receiving input of a first image signal; a sub image signal generating part for generating a sub image signal from information on a sub image extracted from said first image signal; a main image signal decoding part for extracting... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20080050035 - Information processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, information processing system, device control method and program: An information processing apparatus of the present invention includes a shot image obtaining portion, an image processing portion, a data conversion portion and a control portion. The shot image obtaining portion includes an imaging element and obtains a shot image in a time-series from the imaging element. The image processing... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080050036 - Method and system for performing two-dimensional transform on data value array with reduced power consumption: In some embodiments, a method for performing and a system configured to perform a 2D transform (for example, an inverse discrete cosine transform) on each block of a sequence of data blocks, where the 2D transform includes a row transform and a column transform. To perform the row or column... Agent: Nvidia C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20080050037 - Image processing apparatus, copying system, and computer program: An image processing apparatus is provided with an original data management portion that stores original image data for reproducing an original image, a mask extraction portion that acquires a mask image executed in the original image written on paper, and a printing unit that prints an image obtained by overlaying... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080050039 - Apparatus and program for generating electronic albums: An evaluation value setting means sets evaluation values for one or more evaluation items that represent evaluations of images for each image. An image grouping means groups the images into a plurality of groups, based on the evaluation value of an evaluation item. A template selecting means selects one or... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080050038 - Systems and methods for panoramic image construction using small sensor array: Images are constructed by compositing a plurality of sequential images. The sequential images are obtained by moving the image capture device and storing the positional attribute data (focal attributes) in association with each captured image. For example, wide-angle views, 3D views and/or video views of a subject can be constructed... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080050040 - Lithographic apparatus, a device manufacturing method and a device manufactured thereby: A method of forming images on a lithographic substrate is disclosed, the method including grouping a plurality of image regions together to form a combined image, determining or receiving a location at which the combined image is to be positioned on the substrate, calculating locations at which the image regions... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080050041 - Method and apparatus for filtering an image: Objects are detected in an image using a spatially variant filter. The size of the filter is adjusted based on the portion of the image being processed by the filter. Portions of the image which are closer to an imaging device which captured the image are processed using a larger... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080050042 - Hardware-in-the-loop simulation system and method for computer vision: The disclosure relates to a hardware-in-the-loop simulation system and method for computer vision. An embodiment of the disclosed system comprises a software simulation and a hardware simulation. The software simulation includes a virtual scene and an observed object that are generated by virtual reality software. The virtual scene images are... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080050043 - Methods and systems for registration of images: A method for registering images, for example medical images, includes acquiring a first image. A second image is acquired. A deformation field for registering the second image to the first image is calculated. The deformation field includes a sum of a plurality of weighted distortion vectors each of which has... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080050045 - Image processing apparatus and method: An image processing apparatus capable of reducing frame loss and smoothly playing back vector data-based images is provided. A determination unit determines an intermediate rendering size smaller than a display rendering size by using vector data and its frame rate. A generation unit generates intermediate raster data by rendering at... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080050044 - Image processing system and method for image scaling: An image processing method for scaling an image from an original resolution to a target resolution is provided. A pixel value PT of a target pixel point NT in the target resolution is theoretically composed of original pixel values P1-PK of original pixel points N1-NK in the original resolution, wherein... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080050046 - Image processing system and method using feedback route: An image processing system and method using a feedback route for a final output are provided. The image processing system includes a capture unit outputting a first main frame signal and a first sub-frame signal. A main route unit processes the first main frame signal and outputs a main picture... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080050047 - Methods and apparatus for reducing storage size: Prediction-based compression engines are spoon-fed with sequentially efficiently compressible (SEC) streams of input data that make it possible for the compression engines to more efficiently compress or otherwise compact the incoming data than would be possible with streams of input data accepted on a TV-raster scan basis. Various techniques are... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080050048 - Method, apparatus, computer program, computer system, and computer-readable storage medium for representing and searching for an object in an image: A method of representing an object appearing in a still or video image, by processing signals corresponding to the image, comprises deriving a plurality of numerical values associated with features appearing on the outline of an object starting from an arbitrary point on the outline and applying a predetermined ordering... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080050049 - Method, apparatus, computer program, computer system, and computer-readable storage medium for representing and searching for an object in an image: A method of representing an object appearing in a still or video image, by processing signals corresponding to the image, comprises deriving a plurality of numerical values associated with features appearing on the outline of an object starting from an arbitrary point on the outline and applying a predetermined ordering... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080044054 - Ultrasound system and method for forming an ultrasound image: Embodiments of the present invention may provide an ultrasound system and a method for forming an ultrasound image. The ultrasound system includes: a diagnosis unit operable to transmit ultrasound signals to a target object and receive ultrasound signals reflected from the target object; a volume data forming unit operable to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080044055 - Image processing system and ordering system: The image processing system identifies a subject person corresponding to accompanying information based on consistency between the accompanying information and subject information and carries out image composition associating the accompanying information with a position of the subject person in a corresponding photographed image. The ordering system includes a first information... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080044056 - System and method for network-based object authentication: A method is provided for determining whether an object is an authentic object to which an expected encoded image has been applied. The expected encoded image having been constructed by encoding an authentication image using a set of one or more encoding parameters. The method comprises receiving a digital image... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080044057 - Method for processing mailings comprising wrong recipient addresses: A method for processing mailings comprising wrong recipient addresses, according to which the wrong recipient address is determined from a detected copy of a mailing surface. The inventive method is characterized in that a) a code containing data on instructions given ahead of time is detected on the surface of... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080044059 - Alignment of printed circuit board targets: A method for micromachining a material, including configuring an optical system to provide illumination of an illumination wavelength to a site via a given element of the optical system, the illumination generating returning radiation from the site. The method further includes configuring the optical system to receive the returning radiation... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080044058 - System and method for setting image-monitoring regions: This invention provides a system and method for setting image-monitoring regions for installing in an image-monitoring system to assist users in setting image-monitoring regions for the image-monitoring system to execute image-monitoring operations accordingly, the method including the steps of: dividing image data outputted by the image-monitoring system into a plurality... Agent: Law Offices Of Mikio Ishimaru

20080044060 - Image processor and image processing method: An image processor, includes: an image pickup part configured to pick up a pickup image of a certain area; an irradiator configured to irradiate at least a part of the certain area for the pickup image picked up by the image pickup part; an extractor configured to extract, as an... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080044061 - Image processor and vehicle surrounding visual field support device: One camera having a horizontally wide view angle is installed at each of the left and right rear ends of a tractor. The visual field of the left camera includes the road surface located to the left side of the tractor and a trailer, and the like. The visual field... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080044062 - Vehicle automatic exterior light control: A system and method of automatically controlling vehicle headlamps including an image sensor and a controller to generate headlamp control signals.... Agent: Price, Heneveld, Cooper, Dewitt, & Litton, LLP/gentex Corporation

20080044063 - Multimodal ocular biometric system: A multimodal biometric identification system captures and processes images of both the iris and the retina for biometric identification. Another multimodal ocular system captures and processes images of the iris and/or the from both eyes of a subject. Biometrics based on data provided by these systems are more accurate and... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080044064 - Method for recognizing face area: A method for recognizing a face area is disclosed. The method is suitable for determining a face block from multiple images. First, the differences between the constituent colors of each pixel are compared so as to determine skin color pixels from the pixels. Then, a skin color block that covers... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080044065 - Signature capture aesthetic/temporal qualification failure detection: A method and system for detecting that a signature capture device is not performing optimally by analyzing captured signatures for either aesthetic quality or expected form, wherein the signature capture device performs the aesthetic quality or expected form analysis and wherein the analysis is performed by software external to the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rsw

20080044066 - 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.

20080044070 - Abnormal mass candidate detecting apparatus, method and computer-readable medium: An apparatus, a computer-readable medium and a method of detecting cancer masses using mammography are described. From an input image, an iris contrast map and an iris ring filter response map of the input image are generated. Potential abnormal mass candidates are identified by locating those masses whose iris contrast... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080044072 - Method for automatic separation of segmented tubular and circular objects: A method for labeling connected tubular objects within segmented image data, including: receiving segmented image data; and labeling the segmented image data to identify a plurality of components in the segmented image data, wherein the labeling includes: processing the segmented image data to create a processed image that represents centerline... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080044068 - Method, apparatus and computer program for displaying marks in an image data set: A method and an apparatus display marks in an image data set, wherein an image data set comprising marks is provided and wherein during a review phase not all marks within the image data set are displayed at the same time. A list of the marks can be generated by... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080044067 - Presentation method, presentation device and computer program for presenting an image of an object: A presentation method and a presentation device presents an image of an object, wherein a starting image and at least one target image of the object, a first location within the starting image, and a second location within the starting image and the at least one target image are provided.... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080044069 - Processes and apparatus for imaging protocols and analysis: Systems, processes and apparatus are described through which signals are modified within a system. A process for image conditioning in a nondestructive imaging system includes acts of: (i) selecting a protocol from a group of protocols, each protocol of the group being structured to provide multiple coordinated views of a... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20080044071 - System and method for detecting a three dimensional flexible tube in an object: The present invention is directed to a system and method for populating a database with a set of image sequences of an object. The database is used to detect a tubular structure in the object. A set of images of objects are received in which each image is annotated to... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080044074 - System and method for spinal cord and vertebrae segmentation: A method for segmenting vertebrae in digitized images includes providing a plurality of digitized whole-body images, detecting (91) and segmenting a spinal cord using 3D polynomial spinal model in each of the plurality of images, finding (92) a height of each vertebrae in each image from intensity projections along the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080044073 - X-ray device having a dual energy mode and method to analyze projection images detected in the dual energy mode: A sequence of groups of projection images shows an object under examination comprising a vascular system and its environment. A computer determines a 2-dimensional evaluation image having a plurality of pixels based on combination images determined from the projection images of a group. The combination images have a plurality of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080044075 - Doped lithium fluoride monochromator for x-ray analysis: The invention relates to a crystalline lithium fluoride doped with at least 0.018 mol per kg of a divalent positive ion M present in the fluoride state, in particular of the single-crystal type. The ion may be Mg2+, Zn2+ or Co2+. This fluoride has a high reflectivity and intense radiation... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080044076 - System and method for the correction of temporal artifacts in tomographic images: The invention relates to an imaging system for imaging an object (4), said imaging system comprising a detection unit (3) for consecutively acquiring projection data sets (Pi) of the object (4), said detection unit (3) having a temporal response function that is characterized by at least a time constant (τ),... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080044077 - Automated document processing system using full image scanning: A document processing system comprises an input receptacle for receiving documents. A transport mechanism receives the documents from the input receptacle and transports the documents past a full image scanner and a discrimination unit. An output receptacle receives the documents from the transport mechanism after being transported past the full... Agent: Paul R. Kitch Nixon Peabody LLP

20080044078 - Data structure representing a plenoptic function via compressible layered orthographic projections from multiple orientations: A novel layered orthographic representation of the light field, comprising a set of 3-D orientations, each orientation having an associated depth direction and two sampling directions, each such orientation being associated with a set of planar grids normal to the depth direction and containing grid points evenly sampled along the... Agent: William Mantzel

20080044079 - Object-based 3-dimensional stereo information generation apparatus and method, and interactive system using the same: The present invention relates to an object-based 3-dimensional stereo information generation apparatus and method, and an interactive system using the same. The method comprises: obtaining at least two 2-dimensional images with respect to the same space at a first time point; extracting objects from the at least two 2-dimensional images,... Agent: Tung & Associates

20080044080 - Image processing method, apparatus, and program: Machine learning for learning a characteristic amount of each pixel in a plurality of sample images, each including a particular region with a known contour, is performed in advance to obtain an evaluation function capable of evaluating whether or not each pixel is a pixel representing the contour based on... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080044081 - Color indexing for images: In one embodiment, a method is presented. The method includes receiving image data for an image. The method further includes inventorying color values of the image data. The method also includes assigning color values of the image data to a set of predetermined precise color values. The method includes storing... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080044082 - Method and system for automatic determination of colors as well as a corresponding computer program and a corresponding computer-readable storage medium: The invention relates to a method and a system for automatic determination of colors, which can in particular be applied in online commerce. The invention makes it possible for a provider, for example, to indicate the correct color of merchandise, so that a customer can knowingly find, order and acquire... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080044083 - Adaptive contrast optimization of digital color images: Methods and systems are provided for adjusting the contrast and intensity of digital images. Digital images may be processed by first creating a histogram that identifies the intensity of components of the digital image. A transformation function is then computed using the histogram. The transformation function can be used to... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080044084 - Integrated human-computer interface for image recognition: A Recognition Frame presents multi-level application elements to the user simultaneously through a computer graphical user interface. The interface consists of an image display panel for displaying image channels; a data display panel for displaying object measurements and summary statistics; a configuration display panel for displaying recipe content; a master... Agent: Shih-jong J. Lee

20080044085 - Method and apparatus for playing back video, and computer program product: A scene dividing unit divides input video data into scenes based on similarity of feature-information that represents a feature of a frame included in the video data. A scene grouping unit classifies the scenes into groups based on similarity of feature-information that represents a feature of a scene. A feature-scene... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080044086 - Image processing system, image processing method, computer readable medium and computer data signal: An image processing system includes an area extracting unit, an area relation extracting unit, a relation analyzing unit and an image display unit. The area extracting unit extracts areas from an input image. The area relation extracting unit extracts a relation between the areas extracted by the area extracting unit.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080044088 - Image processing device and method: An image processing device for use with a storage circuit processes image data for a frame formed by a plurality of pixels. The image processing device includes a first functional macro performing first image processing on the image data, generating first processed image data, and temporarily storing the first processed... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080044087 - Integrating steganographic encoding in multimedia content: The present invention relates to steganographic encoding for multimedia content. In one combination, a method is provided including: encoding first information in a first component of a multimedia signal, the first component comprising audio, the first information being encoded though subtle changes to data representing the first component; encoding second... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080044089 - System & method for authenticating objects using multiple-level encoding and decoding: A method of producing a digital multiple-level encoded image is presented. The method comprises obtaining a digital authentication image, obtaining a first encoding parameter set comprising one or more encoding parameters, and constructing a first encoded image. The first encoded image is constructed using a first encoding methodology, the digital... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080044090 - Jpeg image processing circuit: A JPEG image processing circuit, capable of performing a JPEG process at high speed, and with low power consumption, and of automatically recovering from a slight trouble, has been disclosed. In the JPEG processing circuit, a JPEG processing section is configured so as to comprise a plurality of JPEG processing... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080044091 - Header-based processing of images compressed using multi-scale transforms: A method and apparatus is described for segmenting an image, for adaptively scaling an image, and for automatically scaling and cropping an image based on codestream headers data. In one embodiment, a file that can provide a header that contains multi-scale entropy distribution information on blocks of an image is... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080044093 - Apparatus for determining motion vectors and a reference picture index for a current block in a picture to be decoded: In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a decoder. The decoder is configured to obtain first and second motion vectors and a reference picture index of a block other than the current block. The decoder is configured to determine first and second motion vectors of the current block using the first... Agent: Jonathon Y. Kang, Esq. Lee & Hong P.C.

20080044092 - Image encoding device and image decoding device: Multiplexing means of an image encoding device multiplexes object display speed information or image display absolute time information, and an image decoding device performs image processing on the basis of the multiplexed object display speed information or image display absolute time information, whereby image decoding process can be performed smoothly... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080044094 - Method of determining motion vectors and a reference picture index for a current block in a picture to be decoded: In one embodiment, the method includes obtaining first and second motion vectors and a reference picture index of blocks other than the current block. The other blocks neighbor the current block. First and second motion vectors of the current block are determined using the first and second motion vectors of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080044095 - Method for binarizing a digital gray value image: A method for binarizing a digital gray value image includes generating a binary edge image from the gray value image so as to cause existing edges to be determined as line areas around an edge; and, thereafter, computing a mean value of gray values of the gray value image in... Agent: Walter Ottesen

20080044096 - Scanner authentication: A method of creating a signature for an article can be provided. The method can comprise illuminating regions of the article sequentially by light at non-normal incidence and detecting light reflected from the surface of each region of the article. The method can further comprise processing signals representative of the... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080044097 - Fast jpeg-ls based compression method for medical images: A system and method provide image data compression and reconstruction technique optimizations that may enhance (1) local gradient quantization, (2) quantized gradient merging, and/or (3) prediction and/or prediction error computations. A data structure may be created before image data compression that provides access to pre-computed quantization values during image data... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080044098 - Codevector trainers and real-time compressor for multi-dimensional data: The present invention relates to a real-time wideband compressor for multi-dimensional data. The compressor comprises a plurality of compression engines for simultaneously compressing a plurality of data subsets of a set of input data vectors and providing compressed data thereof using one of SAMVQ or HSOCVQ data compression. Each compression... Agent: Shapiro Cohen

20080044099 - Image processing device that quickly performs retinex process: An image processing device includes a reduced-image creating portion, a reduced-retinex-image forming portion, a normalizing-parameter setting portion, and an original-image correcting portion. The reduced-retinex-image forming portion calculates reflectance of each pixel in a reduced image based both on a pixel value of a subject pixel in a reduced image and... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080044100 - Image processing device that quickly performs retinex process: An image processing device includes a retinex-value calculating portion, a normalizing-parameter reading portion, a normalizing portion, and a correcting portion. The retinex-value calculating portion calculates a retinex value of each pixel in an original image based both on a pixel value of a subject pixel and on a peripheral average... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080044101 - Image processing apparatus and method of the same: The invention discloses an image processing apparatus for adjusting the lightness of an input image which has a hue. The image processing apparatus includes a look-up table, a processing unit and an adder. The look-up table records M lightness, N hues and M*N corresponding lightness offset values. The processing unit... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080044102 - Method and electronic device for detecting a graphical object: The method of detecting a graphical object in an image of the invention comprises determining a first value of a feature in an object region (31, 33, 37, 39) of the image, the object region (31, 33, 37, 39) possibly containing the graphical object, determining a second value of the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080044103 - Optimized image processing for wavefront coded imaging systems: An image processing method includes wavefront coding a wavefront that forms an optical image, converting the optical image to a data stream and processing the data stream with a reduced set filter kernel to reverse effects of wavefront coding and generate a final image. An optical imaging system includes a... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20080044104 - Systems and methods for interactive image registration: System and method for incorporating user input on the fly during an otherwise automatic registration process. During rigid registration, user input adjusts the current computed pose or transformation that relates the two images being aligned. During warping, user input adjusts the flow field locally, and is gradually smoothed into the... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20080044105 - Method for determining a transformation of coordinates of different images of an object: Disclosed is a method for registering images of an object according to which a landmark that is common to the images is first identified, and the transformations in relation to the remaining degrees of freedom are determined by means of a position alignment that is not based on the landmark.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080044106 - Image data enlarging/reducing apparatus enlarging/reducing image data by direct memory access transfer: When a line number counted by a line number counting unit corresponds to a prescribed line number, a transfer source address generating unit adds an offset address set in an offset address setting unit to respective transfer source addresses to output as addresses to a memory. A DMA control unit... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080044107 - Storage device for storing image data and method of storing image data: The image data storage device according to the present invention comprises, a plurality of memory devices, a data division unit for dividing the image data into units of the constant number of consecutive lines or into units of pixel rows each including the constant number of pixels respectively corresponding to... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080044108 - Method, apparatus, computer program, computer system, and computer-readable storage medium for representing and searching for an object in an image: A method of representing an object appearing in a still or video image, by processing signals corresponding to the image, comprises deriving a plurality of numerical values associated with features appearing on the outline of an object starting from an arbitrary point on the outline and applying a predetermined ordering... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080037821 - System and method for detection of miniature security marks: A method is disclosed for detection of miniature security mark configurations within documents and images, wherein the miniature security marks may include data marks or a combination of data marks and anchor marks. The method includes sub-sampling a received image, which is a digital representation possible recipient(s) of the miniature... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20080037822 - System and method for embedding miniature security marks: A method is provided for embedding miniature security marks within documents and images, utilizing a mark parameters database, graphical user interface, and detection simulator. The method includes predicting detection error rates for each pixel location of a host image, defined as a digital representation of at least one recipient of... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20080037825 - Digital watermarking for geospatial images: A geographic information system digitally watermarks by modifying pixels from a source image with additional spatial and non-spatial information for a destination image. When an image is digitally watermarked, the pixels of the image are modified to include an embedded redundant pattern that is imperceptible to viewers of the image.... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080037823 - Method and apparatus for image splicing/tampering detection using moments of wavelet characteristic functions and statistics of 2-d phase congruency arrays: Embodiments of the invention are a novel splicing detection scheme that detects the spliced images by distinguishing image features that are extracted by exploiting both magnitude and phase information of a given image. The image features include the statistical moments of characteristic functions of wavelet subbands of a test image... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080037824 - Video and audio steganography and methods related thereto: The present invention relates generally to hiding a signal in video, audio and/or audio-visual content. One form of hiding is steganographic encoding. In one implementation a method includes: receiving first data representing audio-visual content, the audio-visual content comprising a video portion representing video imagery or picture elements and an audio... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080037826 - Method and system for photo planning and tracking: A computer-implemented method and system are provided for tracking image capture compliance with an image capture criteria. Method and system aspects of the exemplary embodiment include receiving user-defined criteria for specifying an image capture plan that defines at least one image capture subject and constraints associated with the at least... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20080037827 - Real-time face tracking in a digital image acquisition device: An image processing apparatus for tracking faces in an image stream iteratively receives a new acquired image from the image stream, the image potentially including one or more face regions. The acquired image is sub-sampled (112) at a specified resolution to provide a sub-sampled image. An integral image is then... Agent: Fotonation, Inc.IPDept.

20080037828 - Apparatus and method for displaying image of view in front of vehicle: An apparatus and a method for displaying an image of a view in front of a vehicle, each of which detects edges in a monochrome image obtained by a camera, which is mounted on the vehicle and photographs a view in front of the vehicle, to generate an edge image... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080037830 - Pattern matching method and computer program for executing pattern matching: A pattern matching method which is capable of selecting a suitable measurement object pattern, even on a sample containing a periodic structure, and a computer program for making a computer execute the pattern matching. In a pattern matching method which executes matching between the design data-based first image of an... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080037829 - System and method for 3d space-dimension based image processing: Apparatus for 3D representation of image data, comprises: a structure identifier for identifying structures in motion within image data, and a skeleton insertion unit, which associates three-dimensional skeleton elements with the identified structures. The skeleton elements are able to move with the structures to provide a three-dimensional motion and structure... Agent: Professional Patent Solutions

20080037831 - Small object identifying device and its identifying method: A small object identifying device and its identifying method according to which a large number of small objects can be identified. In one embodiment, the device includes a dispersion region section which disperses a large quantity of several kinds of small objects which are labeled by a combination of the... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080037832 - Method and apparatus for choosing and evaluating sample size for biometric training process: At least two biometric measurements of a person are collected, then a statistical measure based on the measurements is computed. The statistical measure is a bounded estimate of the discriminative power of a test based on the measurements. While the discriminative power is less than a target value, additional biometric... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080037834 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus and program therefor: To suitably reduce data amount. For example, feature points from a branch point or an end point to the next branch point or an end point in a blood vessel line are set as a group. In the three feature points satisfying one of the condition that the absolute value... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080037833 - Method, system and program for authenticating a user by biometric information: A personal authentication method is provided for authenticating a user by cross-relation between an enrolled image and a verification image of biometric information of the user. Upon registration of the biometric information, the method generates a filter for scrambling the image and an inverse filter thereof, and applies the filter... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080037835 - Iris recognition system and method using multifocus image sequence: The present invention relates to an iris recognition system and method using a multifocus image sequence, the iris recognition system including: an eye image input unit calculating the distance between an image obtaining apparatus and a user using a distance sensor to receive a multifocus eye image sequence having focus... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080037836 - Method for driving virtual facial expressions by automatically detecting facial expressions of a face image: A method for driving virtual facial expressions by automatically detecting facial expressions of a face image is applied to a digital image capturing device. The method includes the steps of detecting a face image captured by the image capturing device and images of a plurality of facial features with different... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080037838 - Real-time face tracking in a digital image acquisition device: A database includes an identifier and associated parameters for each of a number of faces to be recognized. A new acquired image from an image stream is received potentially including one or more face regions. Face detection is applied to at least a portion of the acquired image to provide... Agent: Fotonation, Inc.IPDept.

20080037839 - Real-time face tracking in a digital image acquisition device: An image processing apparatus for tracking faces in an image stream iteratively receives a new acquired image from the image stream, the image potentially including one or more face regions. The acquired image is sub-sampled (112) at a specified resolution to provide a sub-sampled image. An integral image is then... Agent: Fotonation, Inc.IPDept.

20080037840 - Real-time face tracking in a digital image acquisition device: An image processing apparatus for tracking faces in an image stream iteratively receives an acquired image from the image stream potentially including one or more face regions. The acquired image is sub-sampled at a specified resolution to provide a sub-sampled image. An integral image is then calculated for a least... Agent: Fotonation, Inc.IPDept.

20080037837 - Behavior content classification device: A face portion detection device, a behavior content classification device, a speech content classification device, a car navigation system, a face direction classification device, a face portion detection device control program, a behavior content classification device control program, a face portion detection device control method, and a behavior content classification... Agent: Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner

20080037841 - Image-capturing apparatus and method, expression evaluation apparatus, and program: An image-capturing apparatus for capturing an image by using a solid-state image-capturing device may include a face detector configured to detect a face of a human being on the basis of an image signal in a period until an image signal obtained by image capturing is recorded on a recording... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080037842 - Smart card that stores invisible signatures: A transaction card 10 for use in a transaction includes a memory 15 and pressure sensors 20. The authorized user provides biometric data, such as a signature, by signing on the pressure sensors (20) using a pointer for storage in the memory (15) when the card is used for the... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080037843 - Image segmentation for drr generation and image registration: A system, method and apparatus for enhancing 2D-3D registration with digitally reconstructed radiographs derived from segmented spine data.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080037844 - Precomputed automatic pixel shift for review of digital subtracted angiography: Disclosed are method and apparatus for motion correction of Digital Subtracted Angiography (DSA) images. Prior to display of DSA image frames, a pixel shift vector is calculated for each fill frame. For a fill frame in which a pixel shift vector cannot be directly calculated, an approximate pixel shift vector... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080037845 - Accelerated image registration by means of parallel processors: A method is provided for accelerating non-rigid image registration, using parallel processors. To that end, on a commercially available graphics card, a block-matching algorithm is implemented, which, by histogram-based similarity standards, calculates the motion vectors for individual blocks. All the blocks are processed simultaneously and individually. The complete motion vector... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080037846 - Classification methods and apparatus: A method includes using a point spread function based rule to classify regions in a dataset.... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080037849 - Image transmission method, image transmission apparatus, and image transmission program: Volume data formed of tomographic images (medical images) is stored in a storage unit of a data center. Recorded in a tag area of each tomographic image is site information indicating the site contained in each tomographic image. A data server of the data center reads the volume data from... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080037851 - Medical image synthesis method and apparatus: There is disclosed a medical image synthesis method which comprises acquiring a plurality of different functional images in which functions of a test subject are imaged, taking a logical product of these functional images to generate new information, and superimposing and displaying the new information on a corresponding position of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080037848 - System and method for corpus callosum segmentation in magnetic resonance images: A method and system for segmentation of the corpus callosum in MR brain images is disclosed. The method utilizes an active shape model (ASM) with confidence weighting to iteratively adjust an initial corpus callosum contour to define a boundary of the corpus callosum in an MR image. An ASM is... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080037847 - System and method for processing imaging data: A system and method includes using a point spread function based rule to classify regions in a dataset and processing the dataset based on the point spread function based classification.... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080037850 - Method and processor for generating a medical image: In a method for generation of a medical image, starting from an acquired data set of an organ to be depicted, a magnification factor and/or an image section to be depicted are automatically determined dependent on the organ to be depicted. Based on this a medical image is generated from... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080037853 - Method for the processing of radiology images for a detection of opacities: In a method for the processing of radiological images for the detection of opacities in a radiography image, an algorithm is proposed for detecting opacities according to their contrasts. To determine a contrast that is not over-estimated in each element, an algorithm is proposed for computing the background intensity by... Agent: General Electric Co. Global Patent Operation

20080037852 - Computer aided detection and decision support: A system for computer aided detection and decision support includes an ontology of image representations for injecting meaning into and adding relationships among image contents, an image understanding and parsing module in communication with the ontology of image representations for extracting structures from an image including the image contents, and... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080037854 - Data source currency tracking and currency based execution: A method and system for determining currency of data in a data processing system. The processing steps along a dependency chain used to populate a data reporting program are back tracked recursively through each processing step until a first originating set of processing steps are reached. The currency of each... Agent: Perman & Green

20080037855 - Handheld security document scanner: A sensing device for use with a security document having disposed thereon or therein coded data including a number of coded data portions. Each coded data portion is indicative of an identity of the security document, with the sensing device including a housing adapted to be held by a user... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080037856 - Device and method for preventing counterfeiting using a currency serial number reader: A device and method for reading and authenticating currency serial numbers to prevent counterfeiting and other money-related crime is provided. The device may be retrofitted to be installed in an existing money counting machine, and may read serial numbers of currency that passes through the counting machine. The serial numbers... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080037857 - Method of classifying directional defects on an object and apparatus for performing the same: In a method of classifying directional defects on an object straight lines are drawn from any defect among all defects on the object toward adjacent defects. At least three defects that are positioned within an allowable angle from the straight lines are classified as directional defects. Thus, only the directional... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080037858 - Simultaneous computation of multiple points on one or multiple cut lines: Methods, and program storage devices, for performing model-based optical proximity correction by providing a region of interest (ROI) having an interaction distance and locating at least one polygon within the ROI. A cut line of sample points representative of a set of vertices, or plurality of cut lines, are generated... Agent: Law Office Of Delio & Peterson, LLC.

20080037859 - Method and apparatus for inspection of wafer and semiconductor device: An individually isolated wafer adapted to a semiconductor chip is subjected to inspection in which an infrared ray is irradiated onto the backside of the wafer whose surface is sealed with a resin layer such that the optical axis thereof perpendicularly or slantingly crosses the surface of the wafer, whereby... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080037860 - Pattern inspection apparatus, image alignment method, displacement amount estimation method, and computer-readable recording medium with program recorded thereon: A pattern inspection apparatus includes a first unit configured to acquire an optical image of pattern, a second unit configured to generate a reference image to be compared, a third unit configured to calculate elements of a normal matrix for a least-squares method for calculating a displacement amount displaced from... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080037861 - Apparatus and method for separating a circuit pattern into multiple circuit patterns: A method for separating an original circuit pattern to be printed on a wafer, into multiple circuit patterns is disclosed. Simulation to obtain an image log-slope (ILS), normalized image log-slope (NILS), or any other characteristic of an image quality on edges of polygons in the circuit pattern obtained from circuit... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080037862 - Extensible system and method for stereo matching in real-time: Disclosed are a system and a method extensible for performing, in real-time, stereo snatching for calculating depth images with a result of searching for points of similarity by using images taken with two cameras. The system includes a coordinate creating module, a census transform module, a delay XOR calculation module,... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080037863 - Image generation system, image generation method, program, and information storage medium: An image generation system includes a first image generation section for generating images IL1 and IR1 for the left eye and the right eye, a second image generation section for generating images IL2 and IR2 for the left eye and the right eye by performing correction processing to remove perspective... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080037864 - System and method for video quality measurement based on packet metric and image metric: A video quality measurement (VQM) system for a video stream includes a neural network VQM module having a constructed architecture to calculate a video quality metric based on a hybrid of image metric and packet metric of the video stream. An image metric measuring module receives the video stream and... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080037866 - Image display apparatus and high quality image providing method thereof: An image display apparatus and a method of providing a high quality image are provided. The image display apparatus includes an image signal processing unit which analyzes an input image signal and outputs an average picture level (APL) and histogram information of one frame; and a controlling unit which calculates... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080037867 - Image display device and image display method supporting power control of multicolor light source: Provided is an image display device, more particularly, an apparatus and method that can reduce power consumption and prevent image characteristics from being degraded in an image display device using a multicolor light source. The image display device includes a histogram analysis unit calculating a parameter representative of an input... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080037865 - System and method for non-rigid multi-modal registration on the gpu: A method for non-rigid multi-modal registration of digitized images includes providing a reference image and an alignment images acquired from different imaging modalities to a graphics processing unit (GPU), initializing a deformation field for registering said reference image and said alignment image, computing marginal and joint intensity histograms of the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080037868 - Method and apparatus for controlling contrast: A method and apparatus for contrast control is provided. The apparatus includes a cumulative density function which provides a second cumulative density function modified from a first cumulative density function based on a first luminance histogram of an input image; a transformer function provider which provides a transform function based... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080037869 - Method and apparatus for determining motion in images: A method of determining motion in a set of input images comprises registering the images in the set to identify stationary background content therein and generating difference images based on the registered images. The input images are segmented into regions and local motion within each of the regions is estimated.... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080037871 - Globally optimal uninitialized graph-based rectilinear shape segmentation: An improved method of graph-based segmentation of objects in images uses the property of rectilinear shape classes which optimize the ratio of specific metrics, that can be expressed as Laplacian matrices applied to indicator vectors. A relaxation of the binary formulation of this problem allows a solution via generalized eigenvectors.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080037870 - Image segmentation: A method of image segmentation using graph-theory techniques, in which pixels of an image are represented by the vertices of a graph. A minimum spanning tree is generated and edges of the tree are successively removed according to a morphological property to leave a spanning forest, trees of which correspond... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080037872 - Method for adaptive image region partition and morphologic processing: An adaptive dilation method receives an image and performs an adaptive background distance transform to create an adaptive background distance transform image. A threshold is applied to the adaptive background distance transform image to generate adaptive dilation image output. An adaptive erosion method receives an image and performs an adaptive... Agent: Shih-jong J. Lee

20080037873 - Reformatting documents using document analysis information: A method and apparatus for reformatting electronic documents is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises performing layout analysis on an electronic version of a document to locate text zones, assigning attributes for scale and importance to text zones in the electronic version of the document, and reformatting text in... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080037874 - System and method for scanning edges of a workpiece: An exemplary method for edge scan of an image is provided. The method includes: setting parameters of an image edge scan; setting parameters for scanning edges of the workpiece; obtaining an image of the workpiece; processing the image and designating a point in the image; searching a first edge point... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080037875 - Method and apparatus for shoulder-line detection and gesture spotting detection: A gesture spotting detection method and apparatus employ a shoulder-line algorithm. The shoulder-line detecting method recognizes a GSD calling gesture that occurs in a shoulder-line, head or higher part in a remote distance or a short distance, although a user does not have a fixed posture. In the method, an... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080037876 - Object based image retrieval: A computer-aided image comparison, evaluation and retrieval system compares objects and object clusters, or images. User controlled or automatic filtering to enhance object features may be performed prior to object definition/detection. The query image may be substantially continuously displayed during the image filtering and object definition processes. Scoring to suspected... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080037877 - Automatic classification of objects within images: A system for automatically classifying an object of a target image is provided. A classification system provides a collection of classified images along with a classification of the dominant object of the image. The classification system attempts to classify the object of a target image based on similarity of the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080037878 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, computer readable medium and data signal: An information processing apparatus for displaying a list of pieces of image data, includes a data processing section, a display information generating section and a display section. The data processing section classifies the pieces of image data, which are to be displayed in the list, into image groups based on... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080037879 - Method and apparatus for electronic literary macrame component referencing: An expansion of the construction and organization of the electronic literary macramé (ELM), the knowledge transfer tool (KTT), or any document of similar type to enrich the connections and associations for their readers, providing for manual author- or editor-defined links and directives for hypertext handling and navigation, easy-to-use indexing capabilities,... Agent: Hiscock & Barclay, LLP

20080037883 - Image encoding apparatus and image decoding apparatus: Even an image in which a gradation character/line image having variations in pixel values to a certain degree and a natural image are mixed can be reproduced with sufficient quality in the gradation character/line image and high encoding efficiency, and further, encoded data can be generated with high encoding efficiency.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080037882 - Image processing apparatus and control method thereof: In this invention, image data expressed by one component is encoded at a high speed by using a color image lossless encoder. To do this, a color conversion unit converts color image data read by a document reading unit into C, M, Y, and K data. In a color reading... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080037881 - Imaging apparatus: In an imaging apparatus, a JPEG coding unit makes JPEG data by respectively compressing plural images obtained from an imaging device. A code retention unit retains each JPEG data. A thumbnail data creation unit creates a thumbnail from each of the images. A thumbnail retention unit retains the thumbnail. A... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080037880 - Scalable, progressive image compression and archiving system over a low bit rate internet protocol network: An on-demand, interactive, scalable, image data compressor, data archiving, transmission and presentation system comprising a server, a compression engine, memory and user interface capable of communicating with the server is described. The compression engine provides progressive transmission of a compressed image and provides both a tree based compression method and... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080037884 - Method, apparatus, and program for image processing capable of preventing, detecting and correcting image alteration, and a medium storing the program: A method, apparatus, and program for image processing are provided to perform operations for generating an encoded image, detecting image alteration on the encoded image, and regenerating an original image from the encoded image. The encoded image is generated by an encoding apparatus, which inserts a redundant code into an... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080037886 - Apparatus for determining motion vectors and a reference picture index for a current block in a picture to be decoded: In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a decoder. The decoder is configured to obtain first and second motion vectors of a block other than the current block. The other block neighbors the current block at one of a left, top and top right position. The decoder is configured to determine... Agent: Jonathan Y. Kang, Esq. Lee & Hong P.C.

20080037885 - Apparatus for predicting a motion vector for a current block in a picture to be decoded: In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a decoder. The decoder is configured to obtain at least one motion vector of a block other than the current block, and the other block is associated with at least one reference picture indicated by a reference index for a set of multiple reference... Agent: Jonathan Y. Kang, Esq. Lee & Hong P.C.

20080037887 - Recording medium having recorded thereon coded information using plus and/or minus rounding of images: An image coding method including the steps of: estimating motion vectors between an input image to be coded and the reference image, synthesizing a prediction image of the input image using the motion vectors and the reference image, and generating a difference image by calculating a difference between the image... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080037888 - Image quantization method and apparatus: An image quantization method and apparatus are provided in which a block with a high possibility of having color distortion is more elaborately quantized using a predetermined color distortion removing quantization matrix. The image quantization method includes determining a possibility of color distortion in the block using discrete cosine transform... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080037889 - Apparatus for performing loop-filtering on sets of four successive pixels of an image: In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a decoder configured to obtain quantization information of a first block, obtain a block type of the first block, and compare the quantization information and a threshold value. Loop-filtering is performed by the decoder on a first set of four successive pixels by using... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080037890 - Method of generating image of component: An image generation method for distinguishing a shape of a component includes: a color image taking step (S101) of taking an image of the component in color, and a conversion step (S102, S104) of converting the color image taken in the color image taking step (S101) into a black-and-white grayscale... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080037891 - Image processing system, image formation apparatus, computer readable medium and computer data signal: An image processing system includes a setting section and an image processing section. The setting section sets a process condition of electrophotographic image formation suited to reading of an information image that represents data by a pattern. The image processing section performs an image process for preventing degradation, in image... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080037892 - Image transform apparatus and image transform program: It is an object of the present invention to provide an image transform apparatus and an image transform program which can reduce a computation load for transforming a luminance image to a brightness image. The present invention attains the object by performing wavelet resolution of the luminance image first to... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080037896 - Apparatus for filtering a pixel of an image using a weighted filtering coefficient: In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a decoder configured to obtain a pixel value difference between two successive pixels. The two successive pixels are on a block boundary. The decoder is configured to calculate the filtering coefficient based on the pixel value difference, weight the filtering coefficient, and obtain a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080037895 - Apparatus for performing loop-filtering and additional filtering on pixels of an image: In one embodiment, loop-filtering is performed by a decoder on four successive pixels if obtained quantization information for a first block is greater than the threshold value and the type of the first block and a second block is intra-coded block type. Two pixels of the four successive pixels are... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080037893 - Block noise removal device: A block noise removal device calculates a block boundary correction value. This correction value indicates a correction amount for a pixel sample value immediately before a block boundary position and a correction amount for a pixel sample value immediately after the block boundary position for each block boundary position in... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080037894 - Method of reducing a blocking artifact when coding moving picture: A method of coding a moving picture is provided that reduces blocking artifacts. The method can include defining a plurality of defining pixels SO, Si, and S2, which are centered around a block boundary. If a default mode is selected then 5 frequency information of the surroundings of the block... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080037897 - Automatic contrast enhancement: In a process for enhancing contrast of an image having pixels in different brightness intensities, a histogram in discrete bins is generated. Each bin represents a pixel population of at least one pixel brightness intensity. A peak and a peak region of the histogram is then identified, wherein the peak... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20080037898 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer product: An image processing apparatus includes a target-area setting unit that sets, in image data, an area around a target pixel as a target area, and an overshoot-undershoot suppressing unit that corrects a pixel value of the target pixel in the image data after processing based on pixel values of pixels... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080037899 - Image manipulation: Image data is scaled, rotated and/or otherwise manipulated. Diffusive effects of associated interpolation and/or re-sampling are compensated for, or corrected, by applying an adaptive packing form of error diffusion to output data of one or more manipulating transforms. For example, rank order error diffusion is applied to output data of... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080037900 - Affinity group: A method of creating an affinity group Image for application to an affinity group transaction means, the method comprising: displaying at least one image for application to a transaction means associated with the affinity group; receiving instructions to manipulate an image selected from the at least one image; processing the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080037901 - Image processing method and image processing apparatus: Indices in an image of a physical space on which a plurality of indices are allocated are identified, and the positions and orientations, on the physical space, of all or some identified indices are calculated (S142).... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080037902 - Image processing apparatus and control method therefor: This invention detects an area where image quality greatly changes upon resolution conversion. For this purpose, a block segmentation unit extracts a tile having Tw×Th pixels from a buffer, and stores the tile in a tile buffer. A two-colors ratio calculating unit counts the number of times the number of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080037903 - Data processing apparatus and data processing method: A data processing apparatus includes: a data input section for receiving input of a plurality discrete data arranged at predetermined time intervals; a first-derivative adding section for adding a first derivative to each input discrete data; using a plurality of the discrete data with the additional first derivative, when a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080037904 - Apparatus, method and program storage medium for image interpretation: An image interpretation apparatus including a registration section, an image search section, and an image interpretation section is provided. The registration section registers an object image in an object database. The image search section searches a type, an attribute, and an arrangement, or a combination of the object images included... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080037905 - Method and apparatus for determining the influencing of the state of polarization by an optical system, and an analyser: A method and an apparatus for determining the influencing of the state of polarization of optical radiation by an optical system under test, wherein radiation with a defined entrance state of polarization is directed onto the optical system, the exit-side state of polarization is measured, and the influencing of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080037906 - Image pickup device: An image pickup device includes a horizontal inversion section 6 for horizontally inverting at least a third one of first to third pixels signals to be outputted from individual CCD units 2a to 2c corresponding to R, G, and B, and a CCD actuation control section 9 capable of controlling... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20080031488 - Presentation apparatus and presentation control method: A presentation apparatus stores parts data that includes parts data that includes type, location, and size of component parts that are displayed within a selected screen area, together with a selection rule that depicts the type of the component part that is to change a drawing state when the presentation... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080031489 - Method and an apparatus for analysing objects: A method and an apparatus for analysing at least one object, comprising at least one means for capturing images of said at least one object and means for generating a relative mutual movement between said at least one image capturing means and said at least one object, and further comprising... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080031490 - Position and orientation measuring apparatus and position and orientation measuring method, mixed-reality system, and computer program: A position and orientation measuring apparatus comprising, a storage unit adapted to store character region specifying information and position information in association with a character region place in a physical space, a detection unit adapted to detect the character region from first captured image data obtained by capturing an image... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080031491 - Anomaly detection in a video system: In an embodiment, a video processor is configured to identify anomalous or abnormal behavior. A hierarchical behavior model based on the features of the complement of the abnormal behavior of interest is developed. For example, if the abnormal behavior is stealing or shoplifting, a model is developed for the actions... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080031493 - Identification apparatus and method for identifying properties of an object detected by a video surveillance camera: The present invention deals with an identification apparatus (100) in a video surveillance system for identifying properties of an object captured in a video sequence by a video surveillance camera. The identification apparatus comprises: an object identification unit (102) for identifying a specific object in a video sequence; a color... Agent: Ip Creators

20080031492 - Method and apparatus for tracking a number of objects or object parts in image sequences: A method for tracking a number of objects or object parts in image sequences utilizes a Bayesian-like approach to object tracking, computing, at each time a new image is available, a probability distribution over all possible target configurations for that time. The Bayesian-like approach to object tracking computes a probability... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20080031494 - Fluorescent light tomography: Described herein are systems and methods for obtaining a three-dimensional (3D) representation of the distribution of fluorescent probes inside a sample, such as a mammal. Using a) fluorescent light emission data from one or more images, b) a surface representation of the mammal, and c) computer-implemented photon propagation models, the... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080031495 - Image authenticating apparatus, image authenticating method, image authenticating program, recording medium, electronic device, and circuit substrate: The invention to be provided relates to focusing control for obtaining a detected image necessary for image authentication. Through the focusing control, a lens is controlled to be located at an optimum position upon starting authentication. An image authenticating apparatus compares a detected image with a recorded image to carry... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080031497 - Imaging device and biometrics authentication apparatus: e

20080031496 - Load balancing apparatus: A load balancing apparatus distributes a biometrics authentication request output from a client device to one of authenticating devices. The load balancing apparatus includes a storage unit that stores therein information on load evaluation indicative of load arising from particular processing in the biometric authentication; and a destination deciding unit... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080031498 - Face recognition with combined pca-based datasets: A face recognition method for working with two or more collections of facial images is provided. A representation framework is determined for a first collection of facial images including at least principle component analysis (PCA) features. A representation of said first collection is stored using the representation framework. A modified... Agent: Fotonation, Inc.IPDept.

20080031499 - Representing reflective areas in a product image: Shiny or reflective portions of a product surface, such as areas covered by foil, are represented to a user viewing a product image by a looped animation that simulates the visual effect of light on those reflective portions. The animation comprises a sequence of images generated by applying a gradient... Agent: Vista Print Usa, Inc. Attn: Patent Counsel

20080031500 - Method of filtering an image with bar shaped structures: In a method of filtering an image with bar-shaped structures by means of Gabor filters, which are formed in the spatial domain by a two-dimensional Gaussian bell-shaped curve on which a cosine function is superimposed in a main direction, the image is divided into tiles, a predominant direction of the... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080031501 - Fingerprinting device: Described is a fingerprinting device with a translucent top layer (8) which forms a finger rest and between which and a light-emitting layer (9) a layer (1) of light-sensitive elements is provided in a matrix arrangement, and with an evaluation circuit (7) connected to the light-sensitive elements. In order to... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20080031503 - Image interpretation report creating apparatus: An image interpretation report creating apparatus for displaying a case in combination of an image interpretation report and a blood test result even if they are stored in different computers. The apparatus includes: a display unit for displaying an image interpretation report creation screen along with a blood test result;... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080031502 - Program-controlled microscope and method for externally controlling microscopes: The object in a program-controlled microscope and method for the external control of microscopes is to ensure the availability of externally generated data independent from the external control device generating the data. The microscope has an interface by which data which are generated externally by the control device and which... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20080031504 - Optimized user interactions using archived data in medical applications: Retrieval of archival data from an application such as, for example, a CAD system, to aid in the interpretation of current data using the same application is disclosed. The data may comprise of medical imagery. The archival data may be used to transform a current set of images to be... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20080031505 - Method for producing a cropped medical image: A method of displaying a digital medical image. The steps include acquiring a digital medical image; determining from the acquired digital medical image the anatomically relevant region which defines the relevant image boundaries; and determining an optimum virtual plate size from a stored plurality of virtual plate sizes for displaying... Agent: Carestream Health Inc,

20080031506 - Texture analysis for mammography computer aided diagnosis: A method of characterizing a mass within a digital mammogram. A region of interest is identified that includes the mass and surrounding tissue. A border outline of the mass is identified. A rectangular image is formed wherein each column of the image is formed by repetition of steps. A vector... Agent: Carestream Health Inc,

20080031507 - System and method for computer aided detection and diagnosis from multiple energy images: A method, system, and storage medium for computer aided processing of an image set includes employing a data source, the data source including an image set acquired from X-ray projection imaging, x-ray computed tomography, or x-ray tomosynthesis, defining a region of interest within one or more images from the image... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080031508 - Interference security image structure: An interference filter having a plurality of layers and a spectrum as a function of angle of observation is combined with a metameric element adjacent the interference filter and appearing to have a same color as the interference filter at at least one angle of observation and a contrasting color... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080031509 - Apparatus and method for measuring the height profile of a structured substrate: The invention refers to an apparatus and a method for measuring the height profile of a semiconductor substrate. In particular, the present invention refers to a confocal wafer inspection apparatus and a method of recording the height profile of an entire wafer by the use of a dispersive element, in... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20080031510 - Method of and apparatus for inspecting wafers in chemical mechanical polishing equipment: The surfaces of wafers polished in CMP equipment are monitored in real time to detect a normal/abnormal state of operation of the CMP equipment. A camera is disposed alongside a path along which a wafer is transferred to a cassette stage from a cleaning unit. The camera is oriented to... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20080031511 - Pattern inspection method and its apparatus: A pattern inspection method including: sequentially imaging plural chips formed on a substrate; selecting a pattern which is suitable for calculating position gap between an inspection image of a subject chip and reference image stored in memory from an image of a firstly imaged chip among said sequentially imaged plural... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080031515 - Apparatus and method for generating and outputting stereoscopic images: An apparatus and a method for generating and outputting stereoscopic images. A user can select either a barrier mode and an interlaced mode. In the barrier mode, images are generated in the barrier scheme, whereas in the interlaced mode, images are generated in the interlaced scheme. In a case where... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080031514 - Camera calibration method and camera calibration device: Planar calibration indices (c1) including coordinate information of at least four points are placed on a first plane (S1), and an image plane of the camera image including the calibration indices is input as a second plane (S2). Points (c2) existing on the second plane and corresponding to predetermined portions... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080031512 - Markerless motion capture system: A markerless motion capture system is provided for measurements accurate enough for biomechanical, clinical, sport, entertainment, animation, game and movie, design, ergonomics, surveillance applications. The system has multiple cameras distributed around a viewing volume. The cameras allow for the creation of three-dimensional mesh representations of an object dynamically moving within... Agent: Lumen Intellectual Property Services, Inc.

20080031513 - Method and system for high resolution, ultra fast 3-d imaging: A high-speed three-dimensional imaging system includes a single lens camera subsystem with an active imaging element and CCD element, and a correlation processing subsystem. The active imaging element can be a rotating aperture which allows adjustable non-equilateral spacing between defocused images to achieve greater depth of field and higher sub-pixel... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080031516 - Method, apparatus and system providing hue calculation: A method of determining pixel hue values from red, green, and blue color component inputs. The hue color circle is divided into a number of segments. Each segment is assigned an output hue value. A set of conditionals are provided to describe each segment, define the outputs and create a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080031517 - Methods and systems for converting images from low dynamic range to high dynamic range: Aspects of the invention provide systems and methods for converting a digital image represented in a lower bit depth representation to a higher bit depth representation. A saturation region is identified, where a color model value of the pixels in the saturation region is above an upper saturation threshold or... Agent: Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, LLP

20080031519 - Apparatus and method of reducing color smearing artifacts in a low resolution picture: A method of reducing color smearing or color artifacts in a low resolution picture that is subjected to chrominance downsampling prior to display on a display device first upsamples the pixels in each row of the picture to double the picture width, then downsamples the chrominance values to produce a... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20080031518 - Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding color image: Provided are a method and an apparatus for encoding and decoding a color image. The method of encoding a color image includes generating a color transformation function for color format transformation for each block of the color image, performing color transformation on each block of the color image using the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080031520 - Systems and methods for detecting high-impedance faults in a multi-grounded power distribution system: The system and methods monitor odd harmonics within a power distribution system quantity using a special digital filter. A normal level of odd harmonics for the monitored quantity is established. Over predetermined time periods, the odd harmonics within the power distribution quantity are compared to the normal level, and a... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20080031521 - Automated segmentation of image structures: Methods and systems for segmenting images, wherein the image pixels are categorized into a plurality of subsets using one or more indexes, then a log-likelihood function of one or more of the indexes is determined, and one or more maps are generated based on the determination of the log-likelihood function... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20080031522 - Method and system for analyzing image identifications to identify an entity: A method for analyzing image identifications to determine whether image identifications identify an entity (e.g., license plate of a vehicle). Identification sets are received from at least one optical character recognition (OCR) engine. Each identification set includes a character string and an associated confidence level. Each character string is derived... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080031523 - Information parts extraction for retrieving image sequence data: A method of extracting information parts, and a recorded medium recording the method, for retrieving image sequence data are disclosed. According to an embodiment of the present invention, image frames included in an image sequence are converted to frames, in a quantity of n, including only the object that is... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080031524 - Increasing accuracy of discrete curve transform estimates for curve matching in higher dimensions: System and method for estimating a rotational shift between a first discrete curve and a second discrete curve, where the second discrete curve is a rotationally shifted version of the first discrete curve. First and second discrete curves are received. A rotational shift between the first discrete curve and the... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel PC

20080031525 - Method, apparatus, and program for discriminating the states of subjects: A single image is obtained from among a plurality of temporal series images. At least one of a plurality of types of classifiers, each type of classifier judging each of a plurality of predetermined states of a predetermined subject, is employed to discriminate the state of the subject within the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080031526 - Methods for discriminating moving objects in motion image sequences: In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for classifying pixel values in a motion sequence of images. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of determining spectral information relevant to the sequence of images, and utilizing the... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20080031529 - Decoding device, decoding method and decoding program: A decoding device has data extracting units extracting data from an image, data occurrence frequency calculating units calculating an occurrence frequency of data on a digit-by-digit basis, weighting units setting a weight corresponding to the occurrence frequency for every reference code so that the data with a smaller occurrence frequency... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080031527 - System and method for efficiently encoding data: A system and method are disclosed which may include converting data identifying a plurality of visual features into a plurality of pixel characteristic data values; and forming an image file with pixels having the respective pixel characteristic data values.... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080031528 - Method of restoring movements of the line of sight of an optical instrument: A sequence of successive images of a scene is formed using the instrument mounted on a moving carrier, by forming at least two images representing one and the same portion of the scene (P) at two successive instants, and the change of orientation of the line of sight is determined... Agent: Patzik, Frank & Samotny Ltd.

20080031531 - Line noise eliminating apparatus, line noise eliminating method, and line noise eliminating program: To provide a line noise eliminating apparatus and the like, with which the picture quality of the area that has no line noise is not deteriorated, and a line noise having no periodicity can be eliminated. The line noise eliminating apparatus includes: an image binarizing device which generates a binary... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080031530 - Method and apparatus for modulating sub-channel pixel in multi grayscale monochrome output apparatus: Provided is a method and apparatus for modulating sub-channel pixels in a multi grayscale monochrome output apparatus, more particularly, a method and apparatus for modulating sub-channel pixels in a multi grayscale monochrome output apparatus that can represent a high grayscale input image on a low grayscale output apparatus through sub-channel... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080031532 - Data processing method in embedded block coding with optimized truncation module: A data processing method for a context formation module and an arithmetic encoder in an embedded block coding with optimized truncation (EBCOT) module includes inputting column-based data into the context formation module, controlling the context formation module with a finite state so that the context formation module has a constant... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080031533 - Method and apparatus for image data compression: An image data file undergoes compression, such as JPEG compression. The size of the resulting compressed file is compared with a file size limit. If the file size limit is exceeded, then the compression factor may be increased. A scaler reduces the image pixel resolution if the required compression factor... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080031534 - Digital map shape vector encoding method and position information transfer method: It is an object to provide a method of coding the position information of a digital map in a small data volume by utilizing a compressing and coding technique. In a coding method of coding data indicative of a shape vector on a digital map, an arithmetic processing is carried... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080031535 - Apparatus and method for a generalized benford's law analysis of dct and jpeg coefficients: A method and apparatus for a novel statistical model based on Benford's law for the probability distributions of the first digits of the block-DCT and quantized JPEG coefficients. A parametric logarithmic law, the generalized Benford's law, is formulated. Furthermore, some potential applications of this model in image forensics, which include... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080031536 - Image processing method and device: An image processing method includes: when performing quantization processing on pixel values of an image, regarding each pixel of a plurality of pixels of the image, calculating a quantization error value of the pixel, where the quantization error value corresponds to a difference between a quantized value of the pixel... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080031537 - Reducing noise in digital images: A target digital image is received from an image sensor. The image is contaminated by noise of unknown magnitude that is represented by a reference digital image. A process is applied that uses statistical analysis of the target digital image and of the reference digital image to estimate a magnitude... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080031538 - Adaptive spatial image filter for filtering image information: The disclosure describes adaptive filtering techniques to improve the quality of captured image information, such as video or still images. An image sensor captures image information and determines a plurality of parameter values based on a current exposure index and a current scaling factor of the image information. The adaptive... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080031539 - Derivative image domain: A method of processing an image includes receiving an image to be displayed. Then at least one selective region of the image that has a transition from at least one of dark to bright and bright to dark is determined. The image is modified to include additional information so as... Agent: Kevin L. Russell Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel LLP

20080031540 - Systems and methods for reducing an artifact within an image: A method for reducing an artifact within an image of a substance is described. The method includes generating the image of the substance, and constraining a measured linear attenuation coefficient of a pixel of the image based on at least one of a measured diffraction profile, a measured effective atomic... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (22697) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080031541 - Better picture for inexpensive cameras: A method for correcting a radial distortion in an image includes receiving a radial distortion parameter from the user and calculating new intensity values of points in the image to correct a radial exposure distortion in the image.... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20080031542 - Document authentication using template matching with fast masked normalized cross-correlation: Techniques are described for authenticating security documents having security images that incorporate multiple security features. The techniques may produce robust template matching results in situations of lighting unevenness, even with stronger occluding objects. The techniques may be particularly useful in validating a security document having a security image composed of... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080031543 - Wide-field image input method and device: A wide-field image input device that joins a series of partial images obtained by continuously imaging an imaging object by an imaging device while the imaging device is manually scanned by a user, thereby generating a wide-field image, includes: a camera position/posture estimation unit for receiving a partial image series... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080031544 - Tilt detection method and entertainment system: A retroreflective sheet 13 (a sword 11) is imaged to obtain the maximum X-coordinate “maxX”, minimum X-coordinate “minX”, maximum Y-coordinate “maxY” and minimum Y-coordinate “minY” thereof. The pixel having the maximum luminance value among a plurality of pixels of which the X-coordinates are the maximum X-coordinate “maxX” is detected to... Agent: Jerome D. Jackson (jackson Patent Law Office)

20080031545 - Efficient scaling in transform domain: Methods and systems for efficient scaling in the transform domain are provided when transform coefficient data is provided as an input to a data processing system, comprising generating a first matrix from transform coefficient data; zeroing out a row or column of, or inserting a row or column of zeros... Agent: Driggs, Hogg & Fry Co., L.p.a. Dept. Itu

20080031549 - Image processing apparatus, image reading apparatus, image forming apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium: An image processing apparatus includes a feature point calculating section for calculating a feature point in an input image, a features calculating section for calculating features remaining unchanged during the movement, inclination, and rotation of the image, a vote processing section for voting for a preliminarily stored format in reference... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080031546 - Image reading apparatus capable of management of personal information: An image formation apparatus detects personal information, (a name, a contact address or the like) from image data obtained by scanning a document. Personal information stored in a database, or DB personal information, associated with an individual specified by the detected personal information, is retrieved. If the detected and retrieved... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080031547 - Reproducing apparatus: An apparatus reproduces moving image data from a recording medium on which moving image data of a plurality of scenes are recorded. The apparatus includes a memory to store a plurality of representative image data representing representative images of the plurality of scenes. The apparatus generates a list screen for... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080031548 - Systems and methods for data transformation: In an embodiment, a two-dimensional, grey-scale image is the data type to be analyzed, and a plurality of pixels which compose an image, are referred to as a data element. The image is analyzed and each pixel is assigned a value, for example from 0-255; in one embodiment, the values... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC