Image analysis inventions 05/08

20080123897 - Apparatus for simultaneously storing area selected in image and apparatus for creating an image file by automatically recording image information: An apparatus to collectively store areas selected in an image includes an image-editing unit to load a standard image file, to display a standard image based on the standard image file, and to enable a user to edit the standard image, a zooming unit to zoom into and away from... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080123896 - Method and apparatus for real-time digital image acquisition, storage, and retrieval: The invention described in this application is an image file system for the acquisition and storage of streaming digital image data onto persistent storage media in real time and for full-rate playback of streaming digital image data stored on persistent storage media. Input/output of non-streaming digital image data is processed... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080123895 - Method and system for fast volume cropping of three-dimensional image data: A method for quickly identifying object volumetric data and air volumetric data from image data of an object is disclosed. Significantly, embodiments of the method result in significant savings in disk space and a significant reduction in computer processing time as compared to the types of known three-dimensional image processing... Agent: General Electric Co. Global Patent Operation

20080123899 - Methods for analyzing electronic media including video and audio: The present invention relates generally to steganography and data hiding. One claim recites: a method including: at an Internet access point, obtaining data representing audio or video content, the data including a steganographic signal hidden therein, the steganographic signal being hidden in the data representing the audio or video content... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080123898 - System and method for automatically analyzing gene expression spots in a microarray: A digital image processing-based system and method are disclosed for quantitatively assessing nucleic acid species expressed in a microarray. The microarray is a grid of a plurality of sub-grids of the nucleic acid species. The system includes a scanner that has a digital scanning sensor that scans the microarray and... Agent: Technology, Patents And Licensing, Inc.

20080123901 - Method and system for comparing images using a pictorial edit distance: A method and system for comparing images are described. Embodiments of the invention apply the Levenshtein algorithm for matching or searching one-dimensional data strings to recognize objects of interest in graphical contents of 2D images.... Agent: Catalina & Associates A Professional Corporation

20080123900 - Seamless tracking framework using hierarchical tracklet association: A tracking system that may initially take image sequences from sensors and regions of interest computed automatically, or defined by the operator, or provided by another approach or way. Tracklets may be initialized from the provided regions of interest. The tracklets of the same target may be associated with each... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080123902 - Apparatus and method of estimating center line of intersection: Provided are a method and apparatus for estimating a center line of an intersection by recognizing a crosswalk on a road input through a camera installed in a vehicle. The apparatus includes a road information providing unit which provides information about a road being traveled based on location information of... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080123903 - Surveying apparatus: A surveying apparatus is provided having a telescope, a digital camera, a measuring device, and a calculating device. The telescope collimates an aiming point on a surveying object. The digital camera has an imaging optical system provided separately from the telescopic optical system of the telescope. The measuring device measures... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080123904 - Motion vector detection apparatus, motion vector detection method, image encoding apparatus, image encoding method, and computer program: An apparatus detects a motion vector using image data to be encoded, and a plurality of reference image data. The apparatus conducts a motion vector search for first reference image data using a large block obtained by dividing the image data to be encoded, and divides the large block into... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080123905 - Biometrics device: A device includes a supporting mechanism which movably supports a living body, light sources which emit near infrared rays, an imaging unit which picks up venous images of the living body with light emitted from the light sources and an image processing unit which processes venous images picked up by... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080123906 - Image processing apparatus and method, image sensing apparatus, and program: An eye region is detected, in the detected eye region, the region of an iris outline is extended inward, and a hollow region surrounded by the extended region is detected as a poor hue quality region. An outline of the poor hue quality region is shaped by approximating the outline... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080123907 - Personal identification device, personal identification method, updating method for identification dictionary data, and updating program for identification dictionary data: A personal identification device compares personal identification dictionary data, which is generated from feature data extracted from an identification element for identifying a person and is stored in association with person-specifying information for specifying a person, against feature data extracted from an identification element extracted from a person to thereby... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080123908 - Acquisition of high resolution biometric images: An apparatus for image acquisition of topological features of the surface of skin. The apparatus comprises a waveguide, having an entrance edge and top and bottom surfaces; a light source, configured to direct a light beam at the entrance edge of the waveguide; a skin contact layer, disposed at or... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080123909 - Method of transforming minutiae using taylor series for interoperable fingerprint recognition between disparate fingerprint sensors: A method of transforming minutiae using the Taylor series for interoperable fingerprint recognition between disparate fingerprint sensors, which parses the fields of a Standard Interchange Format (SIF) template having the level of minutiae proposed in SC37, extract information fields corresponding to resolution, image size, and minutiae, corrects the locations of... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20080123917 - An imaging study completion processing system: A system enables a user to signify completion of an imaging study comprising a collection of reports, worksheets and diagnostic data, based upon rules configured by a user saving user time and increasing reliability of image study processing. An automated system manages completion of a medical imaging study having one... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080123918 - Image processing apparatus: There is provided an image processing apparatus by which images sent from different modalities are simultaneously displayed on one monitor, such that even when at least one monochromatic image is displayed together with at least one color image, the at least two images can be easily reproduced to have optimum... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080123913 - Method and computer program product for the storage ensuring fast retrieval and efficient transfer of interrelated high-volume 3d information: A method for the storage ensuring fast retrieval and efficient transfer of interrelated, high volume, mainly 3D, information, whereby the input information is assigned to two files, so that image data information required for histological reconstruction is stored in one file and information regarding predetermined parameters of the image data... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20080123910 - Method and system for providing accuracy evaluation of image guided surgery: Methods and systems for the accuracy evaluation of an Image Guided Surgery system. One embodiment includes: identifying a position of a landmark in a three-dimensional image of an object; and overlaying a first marker on a reality view of the object according to registration data that correlates the three-dimensional image... Agent: Volume Interactions Pte Ltd

20080123912 - Purpose-driven enhancement filtering of anatomical data: A process for purpose-specific enhancement filtering of anatomical data includes acts of selecting at least one specific purpose from a predetermined list of a plurality of analytical tools for anatomical data analysis and setting specific parameter values for the specific purpose. The process also includes acts of enhancing the anatomical... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20080123919 - System and method for finding regions of interest for microscopic digital montage imaging: A system for determining tissue locations on a slide.... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080123916 - System and method for improved viewing and navigation of digital images: A system and method for improved viewing and navigation of large digital images, such as whole slide images used in microscopy. The system and method displays the digital image along with movable navigation and field of view boxes that enable a viewer to pan the digital image in an accurate... Agent: Upmc

20080123911 - Systems and methods for restoring a medical image affected by nonuniform rotational distortion: The field of the invention relates to medical imaging systems, and more particularly to systems and methods for restoring a medical image affected by nonuniform rotational distortion. In one embodiment, an imaging system includes an imaging catheter having proximal and distal sections, an imaging device coupled to the distal section... Agent: Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

20080123915 - Techniques for converting analog medical video to digital objects: Techniques for converting analog medical video data to digital objects include receiving a digital video signal. The signal is produced by converting an analog video signal from playing a legacy analog medical video medium on an appropriate analog video player. Without human intervention, a first portion of a video frame... Agent: Eugene Molinelli Evans & Molinelli PLLC

20080123914 - Volume of interest selection: A method of creating a segmentation of a volume of interest in an object data set is described, which object data set is formatted into object data slices, in which at least two object data slices each contain a contour line defining the portion of the volume of interest present... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080123928 - Analytical method for a number of two-dimensional projection images of a three-dimensional examination object: A number of two-dimensional projection images of a three-dimensional examination object are assigned image times and imaging parameters. The projection images are combined into reconstruction groups including projection images with image times specifically assigned or within a time interval specific to the reconstruction groups. The reconstruction groups are determined in... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080123927 - Apparatus and methods of compensating for organ deformation, registration of internal structures to images, and applications of same: A method and system of compensation for intra-operative organ shift of a living subject usable in image guide surgery. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of generating a first geometric surface of the organ of the living subject from intra-operatively acquired images of the organ of the living... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080123924 - Medical image diagnosis apparatus and the control method thereof: Obtain a tomographic image of a patient table in advance in a state in which the object is not placed on the patient table. Obtain a tomographic image of the patient table with the object placed on the patient table. This tomographic image consists of an image of a patient... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080123925 - Medical imaging system: In the image processing apparatus relating to the invention, number of pixels P1 of image data of medical image inputted from an image generating apparatus is compared with number of displayable pixels P2 of an image displaying apparatus representing an output destination, and when P1≦P2 is satisfied, and medial images... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080123923 - Method for identification of anatomical landmarks: A method for determining anatomical landmarks is provided. The anatomical landmarks can be used to determine anatomical targets of a patient. The method may be used for planning a procedure and performing a procedure, such as performing a procedure in the brain.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080123926 - Method for measuring the dimensions of a vessel: To measure the dimensions of a tubular vessel, it is planned to plot a set of wall lines on the surface of the vessels. Then, the lengths of these wall lines are measured between a starting section and an arrival section. The plotting of the wall lines starts from a... Agent: General Electric Co. Global Patent Operation

20080123922 - Method for planning a surgical procedure: A method for planning a procedure, which can include determining anatomical landmarks is disclosed. The anatomical landmarks can be used to determine anatomical targets of a patient. The plan can include a path or trajectory to reach a selected target.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080123920 - Methods and apparatus for new useful metrics: A computer readable medium is embedded with a program configured to receive or generate a PAI, and/or use the PAI in a diagnostic application.... Agent: Fisher Patent Group, LLC

20080123921 - System for identification of anatomical landmarks: A system for determining anatomical landmarks is disclosed. The anatomical landmarks can be used to determine anatomical targets of a patient. The system can allow for the detection of landmarks in the brain or other appropriate anatomical regions.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080123929 - Apparatus, method and program for image type judgment: Judgment means for judging which of a plurality of image types, predefined by one or more items out of radiographed parts, radiography directions, and radiography methods a target image belongs to, according to characteristic quantities of the target image is generated and prepared through machine learning using sample images belonging... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080123930 - Method for the three-dimensional viewing of tomosynthesis images in mammography: In a method for the 3D viewing of tomosynthesis images in mammography, an algorithm is proposed for the viewing of radiology signs in series of 3D data. When the digital volume is being viewed by a practitioner, the disclosed algorithm is used to provide a dynamic indication of the position... Agent: General Electric Co. Global Patent Operation

20080123932 - Automated check processing system with check imaging and accounting: 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 an image scanner and a discrimination unit. An output receptacle receives the documents from the transport mechanism after being transported past the image scanner... Agent: Cummins-allison Corp. C/o Nixon Peabody LLP

20080123931 - Automated recognition of valuable media: A technique for use in automated recognition of a media item involves accessing a template that includes multiple segmentation maps that each is associated with one of multiple classes to which the media item might belong. For each of the multiple classes, the segmentation map is applied to an image... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20080123933 - Method and apparatus for magnetic character recognition: A method for magnetic character recognition is disclosed. The method may include preparing a standard waveform that is used as a datum in an operation of reading magnetic ink characters, generating a regeneration waveform from a character string of the magnetic ink characters printed on a surface of an information... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080123934 - Apparatus and method for inspecting assets in a processing or other environment: A portable asset inspection device can be used during the inspection of one or more assets, such as assets in a processing or other environment. A camera in the portable asset inspection device can be used to take digital photographs of assets being inspected. A sound recorder in the portable... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080123935 - Mask data creation method: The photomask of this invention includes, on a transparent substrate, a semi-shielding portion having a transmitting property against exposing light, a transparent portion having a transmitting property against the exposing light and surrounded with the semi-shielding portion, and an auxiliary pattern surrounded with the semi-shielding portion and provided around the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080123936 - Method of reviewing defects and an apparatus thereon: The present invention solves the problem that a plenty of time required for data processing/alignment as the number of defects detected by an inspection apparatus increases. It is possible to provide a defect review method and an apparatus having the function to improve operability and user-friendliness, and rapidly search for... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080123938 - Apparatus and method for aligning images obtained by stereo camera apparatus: An apparatus and a method for aligning images obtained by a stereo camera apparatus are provided. The apparatus receives images from a first camera and a second camera and searches for a pixel block from an image obtained by one of the cameras (a non-reference camera) having the highest consistency... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080123937 - Fast three dimensional recovery method and apparatus: The present invention comprises a method and an apparatus for three dimensional modeling to allow dense depth maps to be recovered, without previous knowledge of the surface reflectance, from only a single pair of stereo images. Several initial steps are performed for stereo and radiometric calibration and rectification for obtaining... Agent: Zytek Communications Corporation

20080123939 - Method of correcting a volume imaging equation for more accurate determination of a velocity field of particles in a volume: The subject matter of the invention is a method of correcting a volume imaging equation for more accurate determination of a velocity field of particles in a volume, said volume being captured from different directions by at least two cameras, a coarse calibration of the position of the cameras relative... Agent: Pyle & Piontek Attn: Thomas R. Vigil

20080123940 - Cursive character handwriting recognition system and method: A cursive character handwriting recognition system includes image processing means for processing an image of a handwritten word of one or more characters and classification means for determining an optimal string of one or more characters as composing the imaged word. The processing means segments the characters such that each... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080123944 - Apparatus and method for color reproduction: A color-reproduction system is provided. The system includes an image-content-analysis unit that analyzes the color distribution of pixels that constitute an inputted image, a parameter-prediction unit that predicts scaling parameters based on the attribute information on the pixels, the color distribution, and the image size information, and a luminance-chroma-determination unit... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080123941 - Color fidelity metric: Various embodiments employ methods and techniques to determine if color reproduction by a device produces or may potentially produce objectionable or unacceptable color-related phenomena. The methods and techniques, in at least some embodiments, can analyze trends in color reproduction to detect artifacts that may indicate objectionable or unacceptable color-related phenomena.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080123942 - Image processing including, but not limited to, logarithimic coding in color coordinate systems including systems with a coordinate defined by a square root of a quadratic polynomial in tristimulus values and, possibly, by a sign of a function of one or m: Color is edited using a color representation including digital values B (brightness), e and f such that B=√{square root over (D2+E2+F2)}, e=E/B; f=F/B, where DEF is a linear color coordinate system. Alternatively, color is represented using digital values B, C (chroma) and H (hue), where cos C=D/B and tan H=E/F.... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080123943 - Imaging device: An imaging device includes an image sensor having a plurality of chromatic color pixels and high-sensitivity pixels having higher sensitivity to incident light than the chromatic color pixels arranged in a checkerboard pattern, a correlation detector that detects correlation of an imaged subject from a signal component of the high-sensitivity... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080123946 - Image processing device: A color image configured by a plurality of pixels is displayed on an image display region, and an arbitrary region of the image displayed in the image display region is specified using a mouse and the like. A two-dimensional specific color map based on hue parameter and chroma parameter and... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080123945 - Segmenting digital image and producing compact representation: A method (100), an apparatus, and a computer program product for automatically producing a compact representation of a colour document are disclosed. In the method, a digital image of a colour-document page is segmented (110) into connected components in one-pass, block raster order. The digital image of the page is... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080123947 - Image encoding device, image decoding device, image encoding method, image decoding method, image encoding program, image decoding program, computer readable recording medium having image encoding program recorded therein: An image encoder including: a predicted-image generating unit that generates a predicted image in accordance with a plurality of prediction modes indicating predicted-image generating methods; a prediction-mode judging unit that evaluates prediction efficiency of a predicted image outputted from the predicted-image generating unit to judge a predetermined prediction mode; and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080123950 - Image processing apparatus, image capturing apparatus, image processing method in these apparatuses, and program allowing computer to execute the method: An image processing apparatus to perform a denoising process of removing noise included in image data based on a predetermined parameter is provided. The image processing apparatus includes an input unit configured to input image data; a physical characteristic value calculating unit configured to calculate a brightness-dependent physical characteristic value... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080123951 - Image processing method: An image processing method used for enhancing the color saturation of an image is provided. The image comprises a pixel with a pixel data, wherein the pixel data has the data of three colors. The image processing method comprises the steps stated below. Firstly, a color purity of the pixel... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080123948 - Profile creation configuration file: An apparatus, computer product and method for configuring a color management system profile used to gamut map image data to the gamut capabilities of an output device is disclosed. The method executes the steps of deriving a first look-up table that is used to convert a device-dependent color space into... Agent: Breiner & Breiner, L.L.C.

20080123949 - System, medium, and method converting colors: A system, medium, and method converting image colors, more particularly, a system, medium, and method converting image colors by estimating the surface spectral reflectance of a subject in one or more wavelength ranges based on an input color signal and by converting the input color signal into a device-independent color... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080123952 - Contrast optimization of images: Aspects of the invention relate to methods and systems for optimizing contrast of digital images and video. Because of the size limitations placed on cameras and sensors that are part of devices, it is common for images to have poor quality. Different images traditionally require different solutions as they exhibit... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080123953 - Digital camera with histogram zoom: An image capture system capable of displaying a representation of properties of pixels in a selected portion of a captured image. The inventive system comprises an image capturing device for capturing an image, a recording device for storing the captured image, a user interface configured to permit selecting a portion... Agent: Gateway, Inc. Attn: Patent Attorney

20080123956 - Active environment scanning method and device: Methods and apparatuses are used for segmenting a viewing environment of an image display device (80) into angular regions based on the current positioning of viewers. Image data of the viewing environment may be captured and analyzed to detect possible regions (400) exhibiting the red-eye effect. These regions may be... Agent: Kurt Luther Honeywell International Inc.

20080123959 - Computer-implemented method for automated object recognition and classification in scenes using segment-based object extraction: One embodiment relates to a computer-implemented method for automated object recognition and classification in scenes using segment-based object extraction. The method includes automated procedures for receiving video images, creating segmentation maps from said images, grouping segments so as to form extracted objects, extracting features from said extracted objects, classifying said... Agent: Okamoto & Benedicto, LLP

20080123958 - Computer-implemented method for efficient image segmentation using automated saddle-point detection: One embodiment relates to a computer-implemented method of image segmentation using automated saddle point detection. An edge map is created by edge detection, and a distance map is generated based on the edge map. Saddle points are detected using the distance map. Connector pixels are determined using the saddle points,... Agent: Okamoto & Benedicto, LLP

20080123957 - Computer-implemented method for object creation by partitioning of a temporal graph: One embodiment relates to a computer-implemented method for the automated extraction of objects from a video stream. The method includes an automated procedure for creating a temporal graph, and an automated procedure for cutting the graph into graph partitions. The method further includes an automated procedure for mapping the graph... Agent: Okamoto & Benedicto, LLP

20080123960 - Image processing method and apparatus: Provided is an image processing method and apparatus. The image processing method includes receiving an image signal an image, detecting a feature of the image, and analyzing the image signal based on the detected feature of the image, performing segmentation on the image signal according to the analysis result, and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080123955 - Method for estimating boundary of video segment in video streams: A method for estimating a boundary of a video segment transmitted via an input multimedia stream includes utilizing a sliding window to calculate shots occurring in the input video stream for generating a plurality of shot numbers respectively, and estimating the boundary according to the shot numbers and a predetermined... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080123954 - Video pattern thumbnails and method: An electronic equipment and method for creating a composite image or video pattern thumbnail from portions of data extracted from given frames in a sequence of frames. The extracted portions of frame data vary according to the location of the given frame within the sequence, and the composite image is... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080123962 - Apparatus and method for embedding data into image, and computer product: In a data embedding apparatus a code calculating unit extracts a feature quantity from the image and calculates a code by using extracted feature quantity and a code embedding unit embeds calculated code into the image. An embedding determining unit that determines whether the code has been embedded normally into... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080123963 - Image retrieval apparatus and method thereof: An image retrieval method and apparatus for extracting a desired frame as still image data from moving image data is provided, in which when a character search string is input, frames having the character search string are retrieved from moving image data including a plurality of frames, and if retrieved... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080123964 - Photographing apparatus, method and program: Processing for judging whether a face is included in a frame is performed, in a predetermined interval, on each of frames included in a moving image of a subject, displayed on a monitor, until the judgment becomes positive. If it is judged that a face is included in a frame,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080123961 - Scalable method for rapidly detecting potential ground vehicle under cover using visualization of total occlusion footprint in point cloud population: Techniques for facilitating detection of an object in a point cloud of three-dimensional imaging data representing an area of study where the object potentially is obscured by intervening obstacles are provided. The imaging data is processed to identify elements in the point cloud having substantially common attributes signifying that the... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080123966 - Image processing apparatus: According to the present invention, it is possible to improve the usability of an automatic image editing apparatus by finding subject-captured scenes from inter-frame motion vectors for automatic editing of motion images. If the result of analyzing inter-frame motion vectors indicates that all motion vectors in a region are the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080123965 - System and method of detecting absolute coordinates: A system and method of recognizing absolute coordinates are provided. The absolute coordinate recognition system includes: a pattern recording medium in which each cell is diagrammatized, and a predetermined microcode is allocated to the pattern formed by each arrangement of the diagrammatized cells; a pattern sensing unit recognizing the microcode... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20080123967 - System and method for parallel image processing: A system and method for processing images includes a plurality of image providers configured to transmit images. A plurality of destination processors receives the transmitted images and transforms the transmitted images to internally useable image data. A plurality of feature object engines find and identify in the internally useable image... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080123968 - Human detection and tracking system: A human tracking system for tracking a plurality of humans in motion, in a video of the humans in motion, includes a human detection subsystem, and a combined tracker. The human detection subsystem is configured to generate a detection output by detecting the plurality of humans in a part-based representation,... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080123970 - Encoding apparatus, encoding method, encoding program, and imaging apparatus: Data can be transferred from a picture processing section to an encoding section without necessity of using an external memory. In addition, with internal data transfer having a wider band than an external memory, data can be processed at high speed. An entire picture 41 as an original picture is... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080123972 - Image encoding method and image decoding method, image encoder and image decoder, and image encoded bit stream and recording medium: The present invention makes it possible to include, when encoding processing is applied to three color components using a 4:0:0 format, data for one picture in one access unit and makes it possible to set the same time information or the same set encoding modes among the respective color components.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080123971 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus, which reduces occurrence of color-unevenness and a color shift under low illuminance and high illuminance, includes a data processing means for obtaining image data, converts the image data into frequency data in a frequency band, and performs certain processing on the frequency data, an illuminance detection... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080123969 - Localized signal data preservation within signal bandwidth: A system and method for reducing the noise induced in a particular section or level of a signal bandwidth. The section is isolated from the rest of the signal data, by resealing this data to produce a buffer section adjacent the section with little or no data in it. The... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080123973 - Executing functions using image code: A method of generating an image code, which includes selecting a function identification code including instructions corresponding to a function to be performed by a terminal and including a content code to represent a target object of the function, and generating the image code including the function identification code and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080123974 - Method of parallelly filtering input data words to obtain final output data words containing packed half-pel pixels: The present invention is to provide a parallel filtering method, which is implemented to an interpolation filter and comprises the steps of separating coefficients of the interpolation filter into two sets comprising the positive and negative coefficients respectively for parallelly filtering a plurality of input data pixels packed into data... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080123975 - Abnormal action detector and abnormal action detecting method: An abnormal action detecting device and method for detecting an abnormal action from a moving picture. An abnormal action detecting device (11) creates from-to-frame difference data from moving picture data inputted from a video camera (10), extracts feature data from three-dimensional data composed of frame-to-frame difference data by using a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080123977 - Image encoder and image decoder, image encoding method and image decoding method, image encoding program and image decoding program, and computer readable recording medium recorded with image encoding program and computer readable recording medium recorde: An image encoder including: a predicted-image generating unit that generates a predicted image in accordance with a plurality of prediction modes indicating predicted-image generating methods; a prediction-mode judging unit that evaluates prediction efficiency of a predicted image outputted from the predicted-image generating unit to judge a predetermined prediction mode; and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080123978 - Information processing apparatus and control method thereof: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus and control method thereof and a storage medium that stores its control program capable of generating a code image with the optimum device in accordance with the amount and/or contents of the information to be encoded, and/or considering the load of the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080123976 - Remote picture editing: A system and method for remote picture editing is provided. High-resolution digital image files containing metadata are uploaded onto a hub from computers local to one or more photographers at an event. Lower-resolution copies of the digital images are made and are sent over the Internet to a web server.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080123979 - Method and system for digital image contour removal (dcr): Aspects of a method and system for digital image contour removal (DCR) are provided. Digital image contours resulting from video compression may be detected in a portion of a video image by determining a variance within a search window. The variance may be compared to a threshold value for selecting... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080123980 - Fingerprinting digital video for rights management in networks: Systems and methods generate video fingerprints for video data streams. A collection of sub-fingerprints constitute a fingerprint block. The size and temporal position of the block is chosen to represent the video that is being served. The video server has prior information about the video semantics. Based on this information,... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20080123981 - Method of compressing an ultrasound image: Embodiments of the present invention may provide a method of compressing an ultrasound image. The method of compressing ultrasound images by coding pixel values of the ultrasound images with a Huffman table, comprises: a) receiving consecutive ultrasound images each having a plurality of pixels; b) determining characteristics of the pixels... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080123982 - Data transformation device: A data transformation device including a pre-processing unit, a calculating unit and a post-processing unit is disclosed. The pre-processing unit performs a first pre-process with received image data to generate pre-processed image data, and performs a second pre-process with received result data to generate pre-processed result data. The calculating unit... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080123983 - Non-dyadic spatial scalable wavelet transform: A non-dyadic spatial scalable wavelet transform may scale an original digital video frame or digital image at a non-dyadic ratio. The digital video frame or digital image is quantized to create a set of data representing the digital video frame or digital image. The set of data is then input... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080123985 - Image adjustment amount determination device, image adjustment amount determination method, image adjustment amount determination program, and image processing device: An image adjustment amount determination device comprises: processing target image determination means for receiving an input video signal which comprises a plurality of frame images and which is input from the outside, for dividing the input video signal into the plurality of frame images, and for determining a processing target... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080123984 - System and method for efficiently enhancing videos and images: System and method for efficiently enhancing videos and images. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a method for processing videos and/or images. The method includes providing a target pixel that is characterized by a first pixel value. The method further includes obtaining a plurality of surrounding pixels that... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080123987 - Method and apparatus for eliminating image blur: A method for eliminating image blur, includes: performing motion detection on two successive images of a video signal to generate a motion index; and adjusting the luminance of the two successive images according to two transfer functions determined by the motion index, respectively.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080123986 - Ultrasonic imaging system and a method for optimizing the gray level of ultrasonic images: The invention relates to an ultrasonic system and a method for optimizing gray level value of ultrasonic images used in the ultrasonic system, the method comprises: an acquiring step for acquiring the ultrasonic image; a searching step for searching non-evenly divided sub-areas from the acquired ultrasonic image; analyzing step for... Agent: Mindray C/o Stoel Rives LLP

20080123988 - Image processing method and device for performing block effect reduction: The present invention provides an image processing method for processing an image. The method includes: detecting at least an edge in the image; selecting at least a first pixel and at least a second pixel according to the edge; deciding whether the edge is a block effect by determining whether... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080123989 - Image processing method and image processing apparatus: An image processing method for improving image quality by appropriately detecting ringing artifacts and reducing only the detected ringing artifacts, is an image processing method which includes: selecting, from among a plurality of pixels included in an input image, a candidate for a noise pixel included in the ringing artifacts,... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080123990 - Method and apparatus of correcting geometry of an image: In the method of correcting geometry of an image using a LOS vector adjustment model of the present invention, an image, obtained by photographing a ground surface, and auxiliary data for the image, are acquired. Ground coordinates for a ground control point, and image coordinates of the image matching the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080123991 - Counterfeit proof label having optically concealed security safety features and clues for consumer's self identification: The prevention of counterfeiting labels for various products is addressed by introducing counterfeit proof labels having optically concealed security safety features and clues for consumer's self identification and verification. The images of groups of questions and answers are printed in a precise serial formation, parallel to the optical center of... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080123992 - Method and apparatus for preprocessing ultrasound imaging: The present invention provides a method and module for preprocessing ultrasound imaging. The method comprises a calculation step for constructing a multivalue vector field and a smoothing step for smoothing the whole volume data. The method further comprises a judgement step and minification and magnification steps. The module includes a... Agent: Mindray C/o Stoel Rives LLP

20080123994 - Mosaic oblique images and methods of making and using same: A method for creating an oblique-mosaic image from a plurality of source images is disclosed. Initially, a desired area to be imaged and collected into an oblique-mosaic image is identified and then a mathematical model of a sensor of a virtual camera is created, where the virtual camera has an... Agent: Dunlap Codding & Rogers, P.C.

20080123993 - Templated collage generation with occlusion costing: In a computer implemented method of generating a collage of images, image saliency data is received for a plurality of images that are to be collaged within a templated viewing region. The templated viewing region is generated by scaling a template relative to the plurality of images that are to... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080123995 - Image alignment method: An image alignment method includes: fetching at least two images; calculating a relative displacement between those adjacent images by utilizing a phase correlation algorithm; calculating an absolute displacement between any one of those images and the first image of those images; and computing a common area of those images by... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080123996 - Method of registering and aligning multiple images: A method of registering and vertically aligning multiply-layered images into a mosaic is described. The method comprises performing an iterative process of vertical alignment of layers into a mosaic using a series of defined alignment correspondence pairs and global registration of images in a layer using a series of defined... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080123997 - Providing a desired resolution color image: A method for forming a digital color image of a desired resolution, includes providing a panchromatic image of a scene having a first resolution at least equal to the desired resolution and a first color image having at least two different color photoresponses, the first color image having a lower... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080124001 - Apparatus and method for shift invariant differential (sid) image data interpolation in non-fully populated shift invariant matrix: An image processing system interpolates image data of an image array by ascertaining shift invariant points and non-shift invariant points within the array. The average illumination and the second order derivative are determined for the shift invariant locations. The second order derivative and the intensity at the non-shift invariant locations... Agent: Stephen B. Ackerman

20080123998 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program of image processing method, and recording medium in which program of image processing method has been recorded: The present invention is applied, for example, to resolution conversion. An edge gradient direction v1 with the largest gradient of pixel values and an edge direction v2 orthogonal to the edge gradient direction v1 are detected. Edge enhancement and smoothing processing are performed in the edge gradient direction v1 and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080123999 - Image processor and computer program product: To acquire the signal values of all the color components (RGB) at the positions of all the pixels constituting an image, the processing for interpolating the signal value of a lacking color component is performed by converting the gradation space from a linear gradation space into a square root gradation... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080124000 - Imaging device: An imaging device includes a sensor having a cell layout having a plurality of chromatic color pixels and high-sensitivity pixels having higher sensitivity to incident light than the chromatic color pixels arranged in a checkerboard pattern, a white balance block that normalizes the pixel output from the sensor with respect... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080124003 - Content preservation: A long-term solution for document and information storage is based on the storage of an image of the actual document, rather than on binary coding. Associated with the storing of this image are readers and writers that allow reading/writing in numerous formats as well as the supplementing of the stored... Agent: Jason H. Vick Sheridan Ross, PC

20080124002 - Method for storing and retrieving large images via dicom: Systems and methods that acquire digital slides and other large images and store these images into commercially available PACS systems using DICOM-standard messaging are provided. A digital slide or other large two-dimensional image is acquired and each separate resolution level of the digital slide or large image is divided into... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080124004 - Method of selecting image, program and storage medium for the method, and image processing apparatus using the method: An image processing apparatus includes a storage unit, an input unit, a reading unit, a controller, and an output unit. The storage unit stores article images embedded with mark data. The input unit is used to input a search information element for searching an article image. The reading unit reads... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080124005 - Portable electronic device: A portable electronic device is disclosed. The portable electronic device includes: an image capturing device, for capturing a first image; a focal distance measuring device, for measuring a plurality of focal distances corresponding to a plurality positions of the first image; a display device, for outputting a picture; and a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080118102 - Digital data set watermarking method and device implementing said method: P

20080118099 - Identification and protection of security documents: The present invention provides methods and systems that are helpful for authenticating or protecting physical and electronic documents like financial documents and identification documents. In one implementation, a method is provided including: accessing a data repository including a library; obtaining a graphic or image from the library, wherein the graphic... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080118100 - Information processing apparatus and control method thereof, and computer readable storage medium: Whether or not to execute position information acquisition processing is set. Whether or not position information can be acquired is determined. Additional information to be added to input image data is set according to the setting state and determination result. The set additional information is added to the image data.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080118101 - System and method for embedding additional information in video data: A method and system for embedding an electronic watermark directly in an MPEG stream is provided. An intra-macroblock of an I-frame or of a P or B-frame is detected in an MPEG stream, and following the detection of an intra-macroblock of the I-frame or of the P or B-frame, data... Agent: Ference & Associates Llc

20080118108 - Computer program and apparatus for motion-based object extraction and tracking in video: A computer program and apparatus function to extract objects from a video by identifying regions to be tracked, tracking the regions across several frames, calculating motions of the regions, and identifying new regions to be tracked. Regions of a selected frame of the video that are appropriate for tracking are... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski Market Square

20080118106 - Crowd counting and monitoring: This document discusses, among other things, methods and systems for determining the number of members in a group as well as changes over a period of time. Using an image of the scene, an overlap area is calculated by projecting portions of the image onto spaced apart and parallel planes.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080118104 - High fidelity target identification and acquisition through image stabilization and image size regulation: A system to identify targets comprising a camera module to track a target and to generate a relatively stable image of the target while the target moves with respect to the camera module, sensors to sense a movement of the camera module and to generate sensor data, a memory storing... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080118105 - Method and system for learning object recognition in images: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method for learning object recognition in an image is provided. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing a training set of standard images, calculating intrinsic images corresponding to the standard... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, Llc

20080118107 - Method of performing motion-based object extraction and tracking in video: A method of extracting objects from a video includes the identification of regions to be tracked, tracking the regions across several frames, calculating motions of the regions, and identifying new regions to be tracked. Regions of a selected frame of the video that are appropriate for tracking are selected. Tracking... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski Market Square

20080118103 - System and method of navigating a medical instrument: A system for navigating an image-guided object through an imaged subject supported on table in relation to an image acquired by an image detector is provided. The system includes a first tracking element attached to the patient, and a second tracking element attached at the table. The first and second... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080118109 - Method of tracking position and velocity of objects' borders in two or three dimensional digital images, particularly in echographic images: A method of tracking position and velocity of objects' borders in two or three dimensional digital images, particularly in echographic images comprises the steps of: Acquiring a sequence of at least two consecutive ultrasound image frames of a moving tissue or a moving object which frames are timely separated by... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20080118110 - Apparatus and method for analyzing image identifications generated by an ocr device: A method for analyzing image identifications. An optical character recognition (OCR) identification of an image, an associated confidence value, and a photograph of the image are received. After determining that the received confidence value is below a predefined threshold, a data store is searched to find OCR identifications matching the... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080118111 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing corresponding landmarks among a plurality of images: A method is provided for synchronizing corresponding landmarks among a plurality of images of an elastic object. The method includes identifying a plurality of landmarks in a first image of the object and a second image of the object, determining a correspondence between the landmarks in the first image and... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20080118112 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image reading apparatus: A document matching process section calculates feature points (e.g., the centroid) on the basis of an inputted document image, then selects a plurality of feature points from among the calculated feature points, and then calculates a hash value on the basis of the selected feature points. Then, on the basis... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080118113 - Method and apparatus for detecting eyes in face region: Provided are a method and an apparatus for accurately detecting positions of eyes in an input face image. The method includes extracting a symmetric face region from a face image based on magnitude and phase of gradient in each pixel of the face image; detecting available eye positions based on... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080118114 - Living-tissue pattern detecting method, living-tissue pattern detecting device, biometric authentication method, and biometric authentication device: The present invention enables permanent biometric authentication without the risk of forgery or the like. The present invention enables living-tissue discrimination as well as biometric authentication. The roughness distribution pattern of deep-layer tissue of the skin covered with epidermal tissue is detected, thereby extracting a unique pattern of the living... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080118123 - Image diagnosis support apparatus and image diagnosis support program: An image diagnosis support apparatus according to the invention comprises an adipose distribution data computing device which figures out adipose distribution data measured of a desired site in a subject from at least one medical image; an abnormal shadow candidate detecting device which detects an abnormal shadow candidate based on... Agent: Ivan S. Kavrukov Cooper & Dunham LLP

20080118126 - Image display method and image display apparatus: An image data apparatus comprises a view angle defining section for defining a plurality of view angles relative to an object of examination, an image data preparing section for preparing a plurality of three-dimensional image data for the plurality of view angles from four-dimensional image data of the object of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080118115 - Medical navigation system with tool and/or implant integration into fluoroscopic image projections and method of use: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for representing a tool or implant in an image. Certain embodiments provide a user interface system for displaying a representation of a tool or implant with respect to an image. The system includes a processor configured to establish a surface... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080118118 - Method and apparatus for segmenting images: Method and apparatus for extending regions in two-dimensional (2-D) image space or volumes in three-dimensional (3-D) image space that are generated by a test area-based region growing mechanism. Embodiments of a dilation mechanism may perform post-processing of a region or volume generated by the test area-based region growing mechanism to... Agent: M.h.k.k.g., P.c. / Adobe Systems Incorporated

20080118121 - Method and system for creating and using an impact atlas: A method and system for processing a cardiac image dataset acquired from an imaging system is provided. A location of a first potential blockage point within a first cardiac vessel is located. A functional impact of the first potential blockage point on the cardiac tissue is predicted, and a representation... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20080118122 - Methods and apparatus for generating a risk metric for soft plaque in vessels: A method for generating a score for soft plaque in coronary arteries includes using the computer to estimate the soft plaque content within at least one object depicted in a medical image, using the computer to determine a plaque score dependent upon the estimated soft plaque content of the at... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20080118120 - Study navigation system and method: A system and method for navigating an image series, the image series containing a number of substantially aligned planar images. First, the images of the image the image series are grouped into a number of subseries, the number of subseries being less than the number of substantially aligned planar images... Agent: Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, Lc Attn: Box Ip Dept.

20080118119 - Systems and methods for automatic routing and prioritization of exams bsed on image classification: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method for automatic prioritization and routing of exams for patients in a medical center based on image classification. The method includes capturing an image and digitizing it, automatically classifying the image based on its content, prioritizing the image based on its classification,... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080118125 - Systems and methods for synchronized image viewing with an image atlas: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for synchronizing a view of a patient image with an atlas image. Certain embodiments provide a method for synchronizing a patient image with an atlas image. The method includes retrieving an image atlas including at least one atlas image, registering... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080118116 - Systems and methods for tracking a surgical instrument and for conveying tracking information via a network: Systems and methods for tracking a surgical instrument and for conveying tracking information via a network provide a primary tracking image generally within an operating room, and also a variety of types of secondary tracking images, either outside of the operating room or within the operating room.... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080118117 - Virtual endoscopy: A method of orienting a virtual camera for rendering a virtual endoscopy image of a lumen in a biological structure represented by a medical image data set, e.g., a colon. The method comprises selecting a location from which to render an image, determining an initial orientation for the virtual camera... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080118124 - Systems and methods for classification of biological datasets: This invention relates to supervised or unsupervised classification of biological datasets. Specifically, the invention relates to the use of Graph Embedding as a method of reducing dimensionality thereby improving supervised classification of classes, both conventional and new ones.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080118127 - Methods and apparatus for detecting aneurysm in vasculatures: Methods and apparatus for detecting aneurysm in vasculatures are provided. The method includes removing bone structures from three-dimensional (3D) computed tomography (CT) angiography image data and extracting spherical shapes from the bone removed 3D CT angiography image data. The method further includes displaying the extracted spherical shapes on an image... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20080118130 - method and system for grouping images in a tomosynthesis imaging system: A method and system for grouping images generated from a Tomosynthesis process is disclosed herein. The Method of grouping series of images obtained from a tomosynthesis process comprises generating an identifier during each imaging stage and writing the identifier to the DICOM header of the images generated during each imaging... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080118135 - Adaptive navigation technique for navigating a catheter through a body channel or cavity: A method for using an assembled three-dimensional image to construct a three-dimensional model for determining a path through a lumen network to a target. The three-dimensional model is automatically registered to an actual location of a probe by tracking and recording the positions of the probe and continually adjusting the... Agent: Inskeep Intellectual Property Group, Inc

20080118129 - Cursor mode display system and method: A cursor mode display system and method for indicating an offset distance between a cursor position on an image and a closest image slice in a corresponding image series. First, the three-dimensional coordinates associated with the cursor position on the image are determined by projecting the cursor position onto a... Agent: Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, Lc Attn: Box Ip Dept.

20080118134 - Method and system for automatic algorithm selection for segmenting lesions on pet images: A method and system is provided for automatically processing a volumetric diagnostic image dataset. A first seed point is defined within a lesion. The lesion is within a first image dataset representative of a subject. A first boundary is defined in three dimensions within the first image dataset and the... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20080118131 - Method and system for automatically identifying and displaying vessel plaque views: A method for processing computed tomography (CT) datasets comprises identifying regions of interest (ROIs) within a CT dataset is provided. The ROIs are ranked based on a comparison to at least one predetermined parameter. The ranking determines a level of importance for the ROIs with respect to each other. A... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20080118137 - Method and system of image fusion for radiation therapy: An image fusion method which is used for medical applications. The method includes: (a) acquiring a first image with a planned radiation region; (b) acquiring a second image with actual radiation region; (c) determining if user defined landmarks have been placed on the first and second images, if user defined... Agent: Susan L. Parulski Patent Legal Staff

20080118132 - Methods and apparatus for automatically registering lesions between examinations: Methods and apparatus for automatically registering lesions between examinations are provided. The methods include performing a rigid registration using computed tomography (CT) images from a first image set and a second image set and performing a local non-rigid registration using positron emission tomography (PET) images from the first image set... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20080118133 - Methods and apparatus for suppressing tagging material in prepless ct colonography: A method for suppressing tagged material in prepless colonoscopy includes identifying and segmenting multiple density classes, intensity classes, or both in a volumetric medical image of a patient including a volume of the patient's colon and classifying the volume of the patient's colon into a plurality of types based upon... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20080118128 - Methods and systems for enhanced accuracy image noise addition: Methods and apparatus for reconstructing a simulated image of an object that includes a predetermined amount of noise are provided. A method includes receiving a base image, determining an amount of noise in the base image, generating a noise field image based on the determined amount of noise in the... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (12553 - 1000)

20080118136 - Propagating shell for segmenting objects with fuzzy boundaries, automatic volume determination and tumor detection using computer tomography: A dynamic thresholding level set method combines two optimization processes, i.e., a level set segmentation and an optimal threshold calculation in a local histogram, into one process that involves a structure called a “propagating shell.” The propagating shell is a mobile 3-dimensional shell structure with a thickness that encompasses the... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080118140 - Computer aided tube and tip detection: A computer aided tube and tip detection method for a radiographic image. Radiographic image data is obtained, and a region of interest in the image is determined. The image is processed to provide edge enhancements forming an edge-enhanced image. Edge segments in the edge-enhanced image are detected. Connected lines from... Agent: Carestream Health Inc,

20080118138 - Facilitating comparison of medical images: Facilitating analysis of one or more mammography images on a review workstation is described. A point or region of interest is identified in a first mammography image of a human breast. The distance between the point or region of interest and a point of reference, preferably the breast nipple, on... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080118139 - Roi-based rendering for diagnostic image consistency: A method for consistent rendering of two or more diagnostic images according to a region of interest. Image data as input code values are obtained for each of the two or more diagnostic images. The background image content is segmented from tissue image content for each of the two or... Agent: Frank Pincelli, Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20080118141 - Assembling multiple medical images into a single film image: A printer receives a plurality of image sections and corresponding image headers from the host as an image concatenation command. The plurality of image sections store the plurality of image sections in a print queue. The printer creates a virtual canvas representing a full image size. The printer determines how... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080118142 - Monitoring system for manufacturing semiconductor wafers: A monitoring system for manufacturing semiconductor wafers is described. The monitoring system includes a first monitoring picture and a second monitoring picture to display manufacture information of a semiconductor manufacture apparatus for the supervisor to judge the efficiency of the apparatus. The first monitoring picture includes a plurality of bars.... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20080118143 - 3d geometric modeling and motion capture using both single and dual imaging: A method and apparatus for obtaining an image to determine a three dimensional shape of a stationary or moving object using a bi dimensional coded light pattern having a plurality of distinct identifiable feature types. The coded light pattern is projected on the object such that each of the identifiable... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20080118144 - Edge based cmy automatic picture registration: An automatic process for performing CMY (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow) registration for film digital restoration. After three color components Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow of a picture are scanned into files, each component is divided into blocks, and edge detection is applied to each block, and an edge match is performed. The... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080118145 - Image inspection apparatus and method: An image inspection apparatus determines whether a test image is a copy of an original image. The image inspection apparatus includes an image group generation unit that determines one or more types of image transform, and transforms the original image according to the determined types of image transform to generate... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080118146 - Method and apparatus for representing a group of images: A method of representing a group of images comprises determining the values of one or more dominant colours for the group of images and deriving a dominant colour representation expressing the group of images in terms of one or more of said dominant colour values.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080118147 - Display apparatus, control method thereof and display system: A display apparatus includes: a signal receiving unit which receives an image signal from an imaging device; an image processor which performs an image processing operation on the image signal received by the signal receiving unit; a display unit which displays an image based on the image signal processed by... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080118148 - Efficient scissoring for graphics application: Scissoring for any number of scissoring regions is performed in a sequential order by drawing one scissoring region at a time on a drawing surface and updating scissor values for pixels within each scissoring region. A scissor value for a pixel may indicate the number of scissoring regions covering the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080118149 - Method and apparatus for partitioning an object from an image: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for partitioning an object from an image, such that substantially the entire object is contained in the partitioned region. An embodiment of the present invention includes pre-setting a reference width for the object; extracting a shadow underneath the object from the image... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080118150 - Data obfuscation of text data using entity detection and replacement: Data obfuscation of text data using entity detection and replacement A data obfuscation method, apparatus and computer program product are disclosed in which at least selected text entities such as words or abbreviations in a document are obfuscated to prevent the disclosure of private information if the document is disclosed.... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, Llc

20080118151 - Methods and apparatus for retrieving images from a large collection of images: An image retrieval program (IRP) may be used to query a collection of digital images. The IRP may include a mining module to use local and global feature descriptors to automatically rank the digital images in the collection with respect to similarity to a user-selected positive example. Each local feature... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080118154 - Absolute position determination of an object using pattern recognition: A position determining system that includes a spherical inertial sensor assembly, at least one position determining device and a processor is provided. The spherical inertial sensor assembly has a surface with a reference pattern. Each position determining device includes a focal plane configured to record images of the reference pattern... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080118155 - Image processing apparatus, camera apparatus, image processing method, and program: An image processing apparatus includes a combining processing unit combining plural images into a piece of combined image. The plural images is taken by a plurality of image-capturing from a certain position to different plural directions. The combining processing unit configured to extract a parameter by performing block matching processes... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080118153 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: An image processing apparatus is disclosed which processes moving images each divisible into a plurality of shots, the image processing apparatus including: a holding unit configured to hold discrimination models acquired by learning beforehand a first rule and a second rule from a moving image formed by a plurality of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080118152 - Using image recognition for controlling display lighting: A system obtains an image that depicts a region adjacent a display device. The system determines a content of the image and alters a lighting level associated with the display device based on the determined content of the image.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.l.p.

20080118157 - Control apparatus, control method, and program for implementing the method: A control apparatus capable of further improving operability and flexibility of operations related to the image. Images inputted by a network camera are displayed on an digital TV. Operations related to an image display function of the digital TV are performed by a remote controller. Objects in an image inputted... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080118158 - Image area extraction method, image reconstruction method using the extraction result and apparatus thereof: Since spatial frequency information, chromaticity information, and a quantization table are acquired for respective predetermined blocks from inputted compressed image data, and are used in combination upon searching the compression-recorded image data for an image of interest, information containing AC component information for each image data block is acquired without... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080118156 - Imaging apparatus, image processing apparatus, image processing method and computer program: An imaging apparatus includes an image pickup unit for capturing an image of a subject, an image input unit for inputting the image captured by the image pickup unit, a face detecting unit for detecting a face from the image input by the image input unit, a face position marker... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080118159 - Gauge to measure distortion in glass sheet: Disclosed is a coordinate measuring apparatus for measuring distortion and or dimensional variations in one or more planar substrates. In one aspect, the coordinate measuring apparatus comprises a base assembly comprising a base plate having a top surface configured to receive the planar substrate; and a multi-dimensional array of image... Agent: Corning Incorporated

20080118160 - System and method for browsing an image database: Systems and methods for organization and browsing a set of images allow a user to find and identify desired images. A collection of images (e.g., stored in an image database) may be organized using a tree or pyramid hierarchy such that each level of the hierarchy represents a finer level... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080118161 - Method and apparatus for determining a classification boundary for an object classifier: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for determining a classification boundary between an object, such as a vehicle, and a background, using an object classifier. In an embodiment of the invention, a trained classifier is configured to classify and recognize each a plurality of object images and a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080118162 - Text detection on mobile communications devices: A mobile communications device with an integrated camera is directed towards text. A video stream is analyzed in real time to detect one or more words in a specified region of the video frames and to indicate the detected words on a display. Users can select a word in a... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080118163 - Methods and apparatuses for motion detection: Methods and apparatuses for motion detection are disclosed. One proposed method includes: detecting at least a field to generate a plurality of statistical values; determining at least one threshold value according to the plurality of statistical values; and performing motion detection on pixel positions of a subsequent field according to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080118164 - Method for image compression coding: A method for image compression coding is provided. According to the method, a plurality of codebooks is created according to the correlation between pixels, and the quantization value of each state is determined by dynamically looking up the codebooks. Therefore, the present invention not only enhances the image compression ratio... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080118165 - Method, system and computer-readable medium for detecting pulldown sequence from input interlaced images device: A 2:3 pulldown sequence detecting system includes a history data table that stores a correspondence between each input field and a determination result of whether each input field is a repeated field and a threshold value table that stores threshold values. The system compares pixels of each (or a first)... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080118166 - Computer graphics data coding apparatus, decoding apparatu