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 apparatus, coding method and decoding method: Computer graphics data coding apparatus includes unit configured to acquire computer graphics data items, unit configured to pre-process acquired computer graphics data items, controlling/coding unit configured to subject pre-processed computer graphics data items to process for controlling number of codes to be finally output, to generate codes, accumulation unit configured... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080118168 - Image coding and decoding methods, image coding and decoding apparatuses, and recoding media for image coding and decoding programs: In an image coding method of the present invention, after a process such as DCT is performed to digital image data, quantization process is performed, and then, to resultant quantized transform coefficients, variable length coding process is performed with reference to a variable length code table showing how variable length... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20080118167 - Image coding and decoding methods, image coding and decoding apparatuses, and recording media for image coding and decoding programs: In an image coding method of the present invention, after a process such as DCT is performed to digital image data, quantization process is performed, and then, to resultant quantized transform coefficients, variable length coding process is performed with reference to a variable length code table showing how variable length... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20080118169 - Method for optimizing software implementations of the jpeg2000 binary arithmetic encoder: This invention is a JPEG2000 arithmetic encoder with improvements to conventional JPEG2000 encoder implementations. This invention decouples co-efficient bit modeling from arithmetic encoding, eliminates the RENORME while loop through least most bit detection, decouples encoding from BYTEOUT, exploits parallelism across conditional execution paths, uses look-up table storage and packing of... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080118170 - Method and system for quantization layer reduction in digital image processing: An image processing method and system is provided for reducing the quantization layer in an input quantized image. The system detects if a pixel in a quantized input image belongs to a ramp area in a selected direction. Based on such ramp detection, a quantization level is dynamically selected. Then,... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080118171 - Image data restoration apparatus, imaging apparatus, image data restoration method and computer readable medium storing image data restoration program: A method for restoring still image data acquired by capturing a subject image with an imaging element, includes: acquiring blur information regarding blur in a Y direction of the imaging element upon image capturing; sets a recovery matrix for recovering, from the still image data, image data to be acquired... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080118172 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus includes an image sensing part that generates image data of a document placed on a scanning plane, a shading correcting part that performs shading correction on the generated image data, a gamma correcting part that corrects the shading-corrected image data according to a gamma curve, and... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080118173 - Method for bilateral filtering of digital images: A method for processing an image using a bilateral filter. The bilateral filter is reformulated at each pixel location in the image into a sum of the original signal value of a central pixel at said pixel location and a bilateral correction term which is a function of local signal... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080118174 - Method and apparatus for detecting field order in interlaced material: Method and apparatus for determining a temporal sequence of an interlaced image sequence is described. In one embodiment, a first field pair and a second field pair are constructed from portions of both a first original field pair and a second original field pair from the interlaced image sequence. The... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080118175 - Creating a variable motion blur effect: An original image is comprised of pixels that are arranged in a first order. In one embodiment, an apparatus creates a blur effect in a portion of the original image. The portion is divided into at least two bands. The apparatus includes a buffer, a pixel modification unit, and a... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080118176 - Adjusting apparatus for enhancing the contrast of image and method therefor: An adjusting apparatus for enhancing the contrast of an image and a method therefor are provided. The adjusting apparatus includes a mask processor, a brightness detecting unit, a brightness adjusting unit, a ratio calculating unit and a contrast enhancing unit. The mask processor retrieves a pixel matrix from an original... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080118178 - Display systems and methods for eliminating mullions: A display system having a number of individual display devices that cooperate to display a large-scale image includes a number of display devices configured to cooperate to produce the large-scale image by each displaying a portion of the large-scale image; at least one camera for imaging the large-scale image displayed... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080118180 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus is disclosed. The image processing apparatus includes a thinning-out section generating thinned-out line data of thinned-out data constituted by a plurality of the thinned-out line data, the thinned-out data being obtained by thinning out wide-field image data with distortion captured using a wide-angle lens, and sequentially... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080118181 - Method and apparatus for reconstructing optical spectra in a static multimode multiplex spectrometer: The static MMS spectral reconstruction process is optimized using algorithmic methods. Because the static MMS encodes spectral information across the detector plane in a highly non-local way, optical errors have a non-local effect on the reconstruction which introduces noise and errors at regions throughout the spectral range. Mathematical signal processing... Agent: Coats & Bennett, Pllc

20080118179 - Method of and apparatus for eliminating image noise: A method and apparatus are provided for eliminating image noise to remove spatial-temporal noise and improve visibility. The method includes extracting a spatial-temporal noise level of neighbor pixels around a current pixel, filtering noise of the current pixel by applying a weight to spatial-temporal pixels around the current pixel based... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080118177 - Post-processing technique for noise reduction of dct-based compressed images: A new post-processing methodology reduces the unwanted noise artifacts present in the output images of DCT-based compressed signals. The method determines noise intensity in the region of each pixel of an image and filters each pixel corresponding to this noise intensity. This noise intensity includes ringing intensity and block noise... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080118182 - Method of fusing digital images: A method of fusing two volume representations wherein the fused information is created by blending the information of datasets corresponding with the volume representations by means of a blending function with a blending weight that is adjusted locally and/or dynamically on the basis of the information of either of the... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20080118183 - Virtual reality camera: A camera including a camera lens, acquisition circuitry receiving images via the camera lens, for acquiring a first field of view when the camera lens is in a first orientation and for acquiring a second field of view when the camera lens is in a second orientation, and a viewfinder... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080118184 - Swarm imaging: A method and apparatus is provided for collecting data and generating synthesized data from the collected data. For example, a request for an image may be received from a requestor and at least one data capture device may be identified as capable of providing at least a portion of the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080118185 - Imaging systems and method for generating video data using edge-aware interpolation with soft-thresholding: Embodiments of an imaging system and method for generating video data with edge-aware interpolation are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, an edge-aware demosaicing process is performed on image sensor data to generate pixel-edge data, and video output data may be generated by... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080118186 - Optical imaging device with motion sensing accelerometers field of invention: This invention relates to an optical imaging device that includes an elongate housing. An infrared sensor arrangement is arranged in the housing and is configured to sense information printed on a page with infrared ink. The device also includes a radio frequency transceiver arranged in the housing and operatively connected... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080112590 - Data hiding in media: The present invention provides steganographic embedding and detecting techniques, along with related apparatus. One claim recites a signal detector including: an input and an analyzer. The input obtains media including a signal hidden therein. The signal including plural-bit data, the signal being hidden in the media through an arrangement of... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080112589 - Method of notification of inadequate picture quality: In a digital camera including a digital signal processing portion processing a digital image and a display device displaying the image according to a digital signal from the digital signal processing portion, and a control portion controlling overall operation, after the user takes a picture, image data is analyzed by... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20080112591 - Apparatus and method for finding a misplaced object using a database and instructions generated by a portable device: The basic invention uses a portable device that can contain a camera, a database, and a text, voice or visual entry to control the storage of an image and its location into a database. The database can be distributed over several memory arrays in different devices. Furthermore, the stored image... Agent: Thaddeus Gabara

20080112593 - Automated method and apparatus for robust image object recognition and/or classification using multiple temporal views: An automated method for classifying an object in a sequence of video frames. The object is tracked in multiple frames of the sequence of video frame, and feature descriptors are determined for the object for each of the multiple frames. Multiple classification scores are computed by matching said feature descriptors... Agent: Okamoto & Benedicto, LLP

20080112592 - Motion capture apparatus and method, and motion capture program: A motion capture apparatus includes: generating means; predicting means; projecting means; evaluating means; and estimating means. The generating means generates a kinematics model having joints connected to one another. The predicting means hierarchically calculates predicted positions at a current time of the joints of the objective person, and predicts three-dimensional... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080112594 - Flir-to-missile boresight correlation and non-uniformity compensation of the missile seeker: The present invention provides for simple and streamlined boresight correlation of FLIR-to-missile video. Boresight correlation is performed with un-NUCed missile video, which allows boresight correlation and NUC to be performed simultaneously thereby reducing the time required to acquire a target and fire the missile. The current approach uses the motion... Agent: Noblitt & Gilmore, Llc.

20080112595 - Method for detecting image regions that are conspicuous in terms of the movement in them; apparatus and computer program for performing the method: Video surveillance systems are used for monitoring such areas as streets, railroad stations, industrial plants, buildings, or squares with video cameras, and on the basis of the sequences of images recorded with the video cameras, discovering anomalies in the monitored areas. A method for detecting image regions that are conspicuous... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20080112597 - Registration apparatus, verification apparatus, registration method, verification method and program: A registration apparatus includes: display control means for controlling display means to display a body part reflected on an image pickup surface and where the body part should be placed on the image pickup surface; driver means for driving a light source to emit light specific to a verification object... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080112596 - Sensing data from physical objects: Directional albedo of a particular article, such as an identity card, is measured and stored. When the article is later presented, it can be confirmed to be the same particular article by re-measuring the albedo function, and checking for correspondence against the earlier-stored data. The re-measuring can be performed through... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080112598 - Apparatus and method for indentifying a name coressponding to a face or voice using a database: The basic invention uses biometric signals to help identify the name of a family member, acquaintance or newly met individual. The biometric signals include facial and voice recognition. In addition, the invention can interactively produce the name of an individual met for the first time just after that individual shakes... Agent: Thaddeus Gabara

20080112599 - method of detecting redeye in a digital image: A method for detecting redeye in a digital image comprises initially examining the image to detect redeyes, examining the image to detect face regions and, from the results of the preceding examinations, identifying those detected face regions each including only one detected redeye. Next, the identified face regions are examined,... Agent: Fotonation Ip Dept.

20080112600 - Vein authentication device: Provided in this invention is a vein authentication device comprising: an interface on which a part of a living body; one or more light sources for emitting infrared light; an image pickup unit for picking up a blood vessel image of the part of the living body using infrared light... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080112602 - Medical image generating method: In the present invention, the difference between regions in which the signal value ranges are close to each other or the presence of overlapping regions of signal values can be clearly displayed on a predetermined image region of an observation image, and the displayed regions and display state thereof can... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080112601 - Systems and methods for an interactive pacs image display test image: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a test image including a plurality of bands and a plurality of markers in each band. Each band includes a plurality of pixels of the same pixel value. Each marker contrasts with the plurality of pixels in the band. The markers are adapted... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080112603 - Input compensating for imaging distortion: Certain aspects can relate to obtaining at least some input compensating information at least partially based on the distortion characterizing imaging information that when applied to an imaging modality used to obtain the at least one image information can limit distortions to the at least the portion of the at... Agent: Searete Llc

20080112605 - Methods and apparatus for automatic body part identification and localization: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for automatically identifying and locating body parts in medical imaging. To automatically identify body parts of in an image, an identification and location algorithm is used. This establishes a reference frame in relation to the image. Then, a location of the head in relation to... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080112604 - Systems and methods for inferred patient annotation: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide an improved method for automatically labeling an image using an intraoperative imaging system. The method includes acquiring a first image at a first position, labeling the first image with a first label, acquiring a second image at a second position, automatically labeling the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080112606 - Method for moving cell detection from temporal image sequence model estimation: A computerized robust cell kinetic recognition method for moving cell detection from temporal image sequence receives an image sequence containing a current image. A dynamic spatial-temporal reference generation is performed to generate dynamic reference image output. A reference based object segmentation is performed to generate initial object segmentation output. An... Agent: Shih-jong J. Lee

20080112607 - System and method for testing leds on a motherboard: An exemplary method for testing light-emitting diodes (LEDs) on a motherboard is provided. The method includes: using a camera module to take a first bulb image of a corresponding number of transparent bulbs which are connected to each of the LEDs when the LEDs are set in a power-on state... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080112608 - Method of detecting defects in patterns and apparatus for performing the same: In a method of detecting defects in patterns and an apparatus for performing the method, a first image of a detection region on a semiconductor substrate may be acquired. A second image may be acquired from the first image by performing a Fourier transform and performing a low pass filtering.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080112609 - Position detecting method and device, patterning device, and subject to be detected: A substrate to be processed by a patterning device has a group of a plurality of alignment marks formed within a predetermined area as an alignment area, each of the plurality of alignment marks being an information recording code that records its own location relative to a reference position on... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080112610 - System and method for 3d model generation: A camera including a Lidar and an optical camera captures 3D data representing scans of an object. The Lidar and optical camera may synchronously or asynchronously capture 3D data. An image is generated for each scan. The images are aligned and combined to generate a total image. Alignment of images... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Slc

20080112611 - Color processing apparatus, color processing method, computer readable medium and computer data signal: A color processing apparatus includes an image signal acquisition section, a color component preservation section, a first color conversion section, a color gamut compression section and a second color conversion section. The image signal acquisition section acquires an image signal including an input color signal having predetermined color components. The... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080112612 - Noise reduction of panchromatic and color image: A method for producing a noise-reduced digital color image, includes providing an image having panchromatic pixels and color pixels corresponding to at least two color photoresponses; providing from the image a panchromatic image and at least one color image; and using the panchromatic image and the color image to produce... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20080112613 - Detecting and correcting redeye in an image: Systems and methods of detecting and correcting redeye in an image are described. In one aspect, pixels of the input image are segmented based on projections of color values of the pixels onto two-dimensional thresholding planes. Candidate redeye pixel areas are identified in the input image based on the segmented... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080112614 - Histogram tile map for gpu based histogram computation: A method for identifying a region of interest within an image includes receiving an image. The image is divided into a plurality of tiles. It is determined which of the plurality of tiles includes the region of interest. A graphics processing unit (GPU) calculates a pixel intensity histogram for tiles... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080112615 - Secure prescription computer: A method to secure unique information about a handwritten document and to provide verification of document's authenticity, integrity and non-repudiation. The method includes the following steps: creating a document having an area of interest containing information, segmenting the area of interest on the document into a plurality of elements, obtaining... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080112616 - Method for adjusting disparity in three-dimensional image and three-dimensional imaging device thereof: A method and apparatus for adjusting disparity in a 3D image and a 3D imaging device thereof are provided. The apparatus includes a disparity estimator which estimates disparity in an input 3D image and determines a disparity histogram pixel-wise; a disparity adjustor which analyzes energy of a parallax range of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080112617 - Method and system for image segmentation by evolving radial basis functions: A method and system for image segmentation by evolving radial basis functions (RBFs) is disclosed. A set of RBFs define a contour on an image. The contour is the zero level set of an implicit function defined by the RBFs. The RBFs are weighted and parameterized by multiple parameters, such... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080112618 - Method for chaptering an image datum according to a scene change: A method for chaptering an image datum according to a scene change includes: (a) calculating a first image characteristic value of a first image frame of an image datum; (b) calculating a second image characteristic value of a second image frame of the image datum; (c) determining whether a difference... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080112619 - Ruled-line-projection extracting apparatus, ruled-line projection extracting method, and computer product: A set of straight lines that associate a top parallel geodesic projection positioned at an upper end with a bottom parallel geodesic projection positioned at a lower end, among sets of parallel geodesic projections, is extracted as a set of ruled-line candidate projections as a search target of a set... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080112620 - Automated system for understanding document content: A system and process for recognizing documents by type and understanding at least a portion of the contents thereof. The process includes the steps of providing a document in electronic form, determining a set of facts, data and information about the document, providing the set of facts, data and information... Agent: Roberts, Mlotkowski & Hobbes

20080112622 - Skin detection system and method: Provided is a skin detection system including a first skin region detecting unit that detects a region included in a first skin region from an image signal applied from outside, the first skin region represented by the distribution of sampled human skins; a second skin region detecting unit that detects... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080112621 - User interface for face recognition: A method of organizing an image collection includes detecting faces in the image collection, extracting features from the detected faces, determining a set of unique faces by analyzing the extracted features, wherein each face in the set of unique faces is believed to be from a different person than the... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080112624 - Pattern detection based on fractal analysis: Various systems, methods, and programs embodied in computer-readable mediums are provided for the detection of patterns. In one embodiment, a pattern detection method is provided that comprises the step of performing a fractal analysis of a pattern to generate a plurality of scaling parameters from a fractal associated with the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080112623 - Pattern matching based on global quantitative characterization of patterns: Various systems, methods, and programs embodied in computer-readable mediums are provided for detecting a match in patterns. In one embodiment, a method is provided that comprises performing a fractal analysis on a first pattern in a computer system to generate a first global quantitative characterization of the first pattern. The... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080112625 - Collective media annotation using undirected random field models: In an embodiment, the present invention relates to a method for semantic analysis of digital multimedia. In an embodiment of the invention, low level features are extracted representative of one or more concepts. A discriminative classifier is trained using these low level features. A collective annotation model is built based... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080112626 - Image compression based on parameter-assisted inpainting: Systems and methods provide image compression based on parameter-assisted inpainting. In one implementation of an encoder, an image is partitioned into blocks and the blocks classified as smooth or unsmooth, based on the degree of visual edge content and chromatic variation in each block. Image content of the unsmooth blocks... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080112627 - Image display method and image display apparatus: An image display method and an image display apparatus realize prevention of misdiagnosis which is caused by corruption of a part of at least one type of information including identification information, information on a series of images, and diagnosis-report information. The image display method and the image display apparatus perform... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, Pc

20080112628 - System and method for efficient non-overlapping partitioning of rectangular regions of interest in multi-channel detection: A system and method in a multi-channel detection system for multi-rate filter bank applications for converting overlapping rectangular two-dimensional (2D) regions into a new set of non-overlapping rectangular regions for the efficient reconstruction of a signal wherein each non-overlapping region has a maximum extent in a major dimension is described.... Agent: Duane Morris LLP Ip Department (harris Corp.)

20080112629 - Method for progressive jpeg image decoding and method for controlling decoder: A method for progressive JPEG image decoding and a method for controlling a decoder are disclosed. In the image decoding method, an amount of macroblocks that can be stored during the process of decoding is determined according to the size of the memory, and then, according to the amount of... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080112630 - Digital video stabilization based on robust dominant motion estimation: Various embodiments for performing digital video stabilization based on robust dominant motion estimation are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may receive an input image sequence and estimate dominant motion between neighboring images in the image sequence. The apparatus may use a robust estimator to automatically detect and discount outliers... Agent: Kacvinsky Llc C/o Intellevate

20080112631 - Method of obtaining a motion vector in block-based motion estimation: A method of obtaining a motion vector for a partition of a macroblock in block-based motion estimation by dividing macroblocks into partitions and determining a partition motion vectors for each partition. A best vector is selected for each partition from the partition motion vector for that partition and from vectors... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20080112632 - Lossless encoding and decoding of digital data: The disclosure relates to encoding and decoding of digital data, and in particular to lossless arithmetic encoding and decoding of digital data representing audio, image or video data. A probability density function used for lossless arithmetic encoding of digital data is controlled by employing one or more parameters that changes... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080112633 - Global quantitative characterization of patterns using fractal analysis: Various systems, methods, and programs embodied in computer-readable mediums are provided for the global quantitative characterization of patterns. In one representative embodiment, a method is provided in which fractal analysis is performed on a pattern to generate a global quantitative characterization of the pattern in a computer system.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080112634 - Method and apparatus for image processing: An image-processing method and apparatus are disclosed. The method includes compressing color information of an input image, generating additional data, which includes transparency information of the input image, and providing a compressed image, which includes the generated additional data and the compressed color information. The apparatus can include: a color-information-compressing... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080112636 - Image processing apparatus and method of the same: The invention provides an adjusting apparatus and a method thereof for adjusting a 3D image constituted by a plurality of interlaced first-eye-viewed image lines and second-eye-viewed image lines to be outputted to a display panel. However, in practice, there is a leakage problem in a pair of glasses for viewing... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080112635 - Imaging apparatus and method, and method for designing imaging apparatus: A single-focus imaging apparatus having an array of imaging devices includes an optical system including a first imaging system that produces a focused image, at least one imaging plane on which an image produced through the first imaging system is formed, and a second imaging system group including an array... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080112637 - Image processor: An image taken via lens system (100) and CCD (101) is converted at A/D (102) into digital signals that are then stored in buffer (103). The output of buffer (103) is entered in output block (106) via noise reduction processing block (104) and signal processing block (105) in order. In... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080112638 - Computer system and control method thereof: A method of controlling a computer system having a computer to generate and to transmit a video signal, a display to display the video signal transmitted from the computer, and an interface through which the computer communicates with the display, the method including transmitting a control command to check a... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080112639 - Method and apparatus for removing noise in dark area of image: A method and apparatus for removing noise in a dark area of an image are provided. An edge magnitude in an N×N window image including a plurality of pixels is calculated. It is determined whether an edge area is present in the window image on the basis of the edge... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080112640 - Apparatus and method for sharpening blurred enlarged image: Provided is an apparatus for sharpening a blurred enlarged image, including a digital image output unit for outputting a digital image input through a digital image input unit. The apparatus includes a digital image processing unit for calculating a primary edge direction of the digital image input through the digital... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080112641 - Image processing methods: A method of processing image data representing an image of a scene to generate an estimate of noise present in the image data. The method comprises evaluating a function for different values of said estimate, said function taking as input an estimate of said noise, and determining an estimate of... Agent: James D. Stevens Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.c.

20080112642 - Video completion by motion field transfer: Systems and methods for video completion by motion field transfer are described. In one aspect, a spatio-temporal target patch of an input video data sequence is filled in or replaced by motion field transfer from a spatio-temporal source patch of the input video data sequence. Color is propagated to corresponding... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080112643 - Correlation operation method, correlation operation device, focus detection device and imaging device: A correlation operation method includes: first processing executed to match a signal level of an AC component contained in a first signal data string made up with a plurality of sets of first signal data with a signal level of an AC component contained in a second signal data string... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080112644 - Imaging device: N separately-exposed images are serially captured in an additive-type image stabilization processing that generates one synthetic image having reduced influence due to camera shake by positioning and additively synthesizing a plurality of separately-exposed images. For each non-reference image (In), the strength (the degree of similarity) of a correlation between a... Agent: Mots Law, Pllc

20080112645 - Registration apparatus, verification apparatus, registration method, verification method and program: A registration apparatus includes: concealing means for concealing a part or whole of a verification area of an image generated by shooting a body part, the verification area being used for verification; production means for producing data for registration, the data representing a part or whole of a pattern of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080112646 - Image determining method, image determining apparatus, and recording medium having recorded therein program for causing computer to execute image determining method: In an image determining apparatus, a subject-shape presuming unit extracts a shape of a specified subject to be determined based on subject-area position information and structure/surface-height map information, a subject-feature-point extracting unit extracts a feature point based on the shape of the subject to be determined. Further, an other-object-influence determining... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080112648 - Image processor and image processing method: An information processor for resizing at least a part of an image includes a split section for splitting the image into a plurality of split images in a specific direction; a resize section for resizing at least one of the plurality of split images at an arbitrary ratio in the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080112647 - Systems and methods for resizing multimedia data: Systems and methods for resizing data that provides higher quality results while using fewer resources than traditional methods. In one embodiment disclosed herein, a nearest neighborhood technique is used to compute data that can be used to generate target data. The resizing method is ideal for use in mobile devices,... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080112649 - Method and system for dual energy image registration: A method and system for dual energy image registration is disclosed. In order to segment first and second images of a dual energy image pair, the first and second images are preprocessed to detect edges in the images. Gaussian pyramids, having multiple pyramid images corresponding to multiple pyramid levels, are... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080112650 - Image processor, image processing method, and program: An image processor is disclosed. The image processor includes: N execution means (where N is 2 or greater) for executing given image processing; and a control means for dividing an input image into N parts from a boundary portion between given processing unit blocks to be processed by the N... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080112651 - High dynamic range image sensor and method and medium for measuring charges in pixel: A high dynamic range image sensor and a method and medium for measuring charges in a pixel are provided. The high dynamic range image sensor includes a sensor that resets a predetermined pixel when the pixel has reached a saturation level, a storage unit that stores the number of times... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080107303 - Apparatus, method, and medium for tracking gesture: Provided is an apparatus, method, and medium for tracking a gesture, wherein, after a user is positioned approximately, a specific part of the user's body is tracked continuously. The gesture-tracking apparatus includes a positioning unit positioning a user appearing in an inputted image and a target-tracking unit tracking a first... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080107305 - Integrated mapping system: A system includes a tracking subsystem and a mapping subsystem. A portion of the mapping subsystem can be fixed in position relative to a portion of the tracking subsystem. The system also includes a processing subsystem in data communication with the tracking subsystem and the mapping subsystem. Other systems, methods,... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080107304 - Automated service measurement, monitoring and management: In a method and system of service management, a radiative sensor is positioned to observe an area of interest. At least one frame of data of the area of interest is electronically acquired from the radiative sensor. The acquired frame of data is electronically processing to determine the presence or... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.c.

20080107302 - Fast detection of left ventricle and its configuration in 2d/3d echocardiogram using probabilistic boosting network: A method for detecting an object of interest in an input image includes the computer-implemented steps of: receiving an image, providing a multi-class pose classifier that identifies a plurality of pose features for estimating a pose of the object of interest, providing a plurality of cascades of serially-linked binary object... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080107306 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus comprises a distance measurement section for measuring a distance from the section to a subject for each pixel on the basis of a plurality of images photographed at different visual point positions. A setting section sets a range of the distance in which an obstacle is... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080107307 - Motion detection method, motion detection program, storage medium in which motion detection program is stored, and motion detection apparatus: In a method of detecting motion of a particular part from a sequence of successive input images, motion vectors of a plurality of parts of the input images are detected by tracking feature points in the successive input images, the motion of the particular part is detected by processing the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080107308 - Medical biometric identification security system: A system manages access to patient medical information based on biometric identification information. A repository stores biometric information for multiple users. A biometric interface receives biometric information from a user. An access processor authorizes access, by a user, to requested medical information of a particular patient, by comparing biometric information... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080107309 - Method and apparatus for biometric identification: The invention describes the first practical, cost effective, truly non-contact implementation of a subcutaneous vein pattern biometric sensor. A laser diode (LD) illuminates the hand in such a way that the pattern of reflected radiation, when viewed by a conventional vein pattern infrared imager, provides a direct measure of target... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20080107310 - Method and device for analyzing the retinal vessels by means of degital images: It is the object of a method and apparatus for retinal vessel analysis based on digital images to enhance the ability to discriminate between healthy vessel states and at-risk vessel states while reducing manual effort and saving time in order to allow individual vascular risk, particularly stroke risk, to be... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20080107311 - Method and apparatus for face recognition using extended gabor wavelet features: A face recognition method and apparatus using extended Gabor wavelet features are provided. In the face recognition method, extended Gabor wavelet features are extracted from a face image by applying an extended Gabor wavelet filter, a Gabor wavelet feature set is selected by performing a supervised learning process on the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080107312 - Device and process for multimodal registration of images: The invention relates to a device and a process, with which images of different imaging methods can be registered, for example preoperatively obtained 3D X-ray images (A) and intra operatively obtained ultrasound images (B). First transformed images (A′,B′) are then generated in a data processing device (10), which are aligned... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080107313 - Methods and apparatus to facilitate picture archiving: A method includes providing a software core module, which is configured to communicate over a network using at least three different standards, directly providing the software core module on a first diagnostic imaging machine of a first size, and directly providing the software core module on a second diagnostic imaging... Agent: Thomas M. Fisher Fisher Patent Group Llc

20080107315 - Method for segmentation of ivus image sequences: Method for performing segmentation of an interior vessel within the body of a patient, the method including obtaining a sequence of intravascular ultrasound images of an interior vessel and dividing the sequence into batches, detecting uninformative regions in each of the batches, the uninformative regions arising from an acoustic shadow... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080107314 - System and method for simultaneously subsampling fluoroscopic images and enhancing guidewire visibility: A method for downsampling fluoroscopic images and enhancing guidewire visibility during coronary angioplasty includes providing a first digitized image, filtering the image with one or more steerable filters of different angular orientations, assigning a weight W and orientation O for each pixel based on the filter response for each pixel,... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080107316 - Automatic segmentation of stationary tissue in pcmr imaging: A method and system are described for compensating for the phase error in PCMR images due to eddy current effects. The phase noise due to eddy currents may be measured and characterized from phase images at selected regions near a vessel of interest.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080107317 - Method and apparatus for calculating coarseness level in target organ from ultrasonic image: Provided are a method and apparatus for quantifying a coarseness level of an organ of a living body from an ultrasonic image. The method includes: obtaining an ultrasonic image of area of an organ of a living body; determining a target area in the ultrasonic image of area; obtaining a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080107320 - Method and apparatus for obtaining a measurement of sun damage: Images of a first and a second area of skin of an individual are obtained wherein one of said first and second areas of skin comprises an area of skin of the individual generally not exposed to sunlight. The images are then processed to determine the concentration and distribution of... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler Pc

20080107318 - Object centric data reformation with application to rib visualization: A computer-implemented method for visualizing components of a 3D medical image includes the steps of performing a segmentation on the 3D medical image to generate a segmented structure, obtaining a surface definition based upon the segmented structure, and generating a series of 2D images using the surface definition and deformations... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080107319 - Practical image reconstruction for magnetic resonance imaging: A set of image-space data is reconstructed from a set of k-space data. The set of image-space data is generated by minimizing a cost functional by an iterative non-linear conjugate gradient process. The iterative process may be accelerated by introducing k-space weighting to the cost functional. With proper choice of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080107321 - Spiculation detection method and apparatus for cad: A method and an apparatus identify a spicule candidate in a medical image. The method according to one embodiment accesses digital image data representing an image including a tissue region; processes the digital image data by generating at least one line orientation map and at least one line strength map... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080107323 - Computer diagnosis of malignancies and false positives: A method for diagnosing malignancy of suspect regions in a 2D imaging projection of a body organ of a subject comprising the steps of: normalizing the image projection to map regions thereof onto a standard shape; extracting location of regions mapped on the standard shape and using normalized position of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080107322 - Method, code, and system for assaying joint deformity: A method, machine-readable storage medium embodying computer-readable code and automated system for assaying or monitoring the extent of joint or bone deformity reported by a summarized score that may include joint space narrowing, bone erosion and periarticular osteoporosis in a joint-degenerative or joint-damaging disease in a subject are disclosed. From... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080107324 - Systems, methods and apparatus for specialized filtered back-projection reconstruction for digital tomosynthesis: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in one aspect, a three-dimensional (3D) image of an object is constructed from a plurality of two-dimensional (2D) images of the object using a specialized filter. In some embodiments, the specialized filter implements a linear ramp function, a windowing function, and/or a... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20080107325 - Bank note processing machine and method for identifying forged bank notes: With the bank note processing machine according to the invention and the method for recognizing forged bank notes according to the invention the starting point is that the bank notes to be checked are compared with comparative data that are derived from authentic bank notes and known forgeries, additional comparative... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080107326 - Substitute check incorporating encoded indication of security feature in original check: A method includes scanning a check to generate image data representative of an image of the check. The method further includes detecting at least one security feature of the check. The method also includes transforming the image data to include at least one encoded indication of the detected at least... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080107327 - Overlay inspection system: A registration detection system performing registration-detecting each substrate in a lot without lowering an original throughput of a lithography system and maintaining high accuracy usable for the correction of an exposure process. Therefore, registration detection 5 system includes: the first detection apparatus installed on a pathway to a collection in... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080107329 - Method of detecting defects of patterns on a semiconductor substrate and apparatus for performing the same: In a method of detecting defects of patterns on a semiconductor substrate and an apparatus for performing the method information on positions of reference defects influencing an operation of a circuit including the patterns when the patterns are formed on the semiconductor substrate is acquired in advance. Preliminary defects of... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, Llc

20080107328 - Non-uniform image defect inspection method: A non-uniform image defect inspection method includes steps of inputting an original two-dimensional image; separating a non-uniform background image from the original two-dimensional image by Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) to obtain a residual image without the non-uniform background image; binarization segmenting the residual image to extract defects from the residual... Agent: Hdsl

20080107330 - Method and apparatus for generating special-purpose image analysis algorithms: Provides quantitative data about a two or more dimensional image. Classifies and counts number of entities an image contains. Each entity comprises a structure, or some other type of identifiable portion having definable characteristics. The entities located within an image may have different shape, color, texture, etc., but still belong... Agent: Dalina Law Group, P.c.

20080107331 - Album creating apparatus, album creating method and computer readable medium storing thereon program therefor: To easily create an album with colors visually harmonized with images. An album creating apparatus includes: a main subject determining section for determining the main subject of an image; a color extraction section for extracting a plurality of colors included in an image region other than the main subject determined... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080107332 - Image processing apparatus, image reproducing system and computer-readable medium: An image processing apparatus includes a storage unit, a judgment unit and a conversion unit. The storage unit stores a reference color characteristic. The judgment unit judges as to whether or not a difference between an input color characteristic that is a color characteristic of input image data and the... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080107334 - Image processing apparatus and method: The invention provides an image processing apparatus and method, for processing a captured or recorded image with a dimension of M×N temporarily stored in an external memory; M and N are both integers larger than 1. The image processing apparatus includes a reading module, a buffer, a first processing module,... Agent: The Law Offices Of Andrew D. Fortney, Ph.d., P.c.

20080107333 - Method and apparatus for color image correction: A method and apparatus of image processing is disclosed. The method and apparatus accomplish image processing by separating a luma component and a chroma component of an image signal. Averaging of at least some of the image pixels of the luma component is done over a plurality of image pixels... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20080107335 - Methods for processing image signals and related apparatus: The present invention provides methods for processing image signals, methods for displaying image signals, and related apparatus. One of the proposed methods includes: performing a predetermined detection on an image signal; partitioning a picture corresponding to the image signal into a plurality of image regions wherein each image region has... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080107336 - Method and device for extracting a subset of data from a set of data: A method for extracting a subset of data from an ordered set of bi-dimensional matrices (data arrays) such as a sequence of pictures or a multi-dimensional matrix, for instance, is implemented by dedicated hardware that may be used each time it is necessary to extract a subset of data from... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.a.

20080107338 - Media material analysis of continuing article portions: The present invention relates to systems and methods for analyzing media material having articles continuing across multiple pages. A media material analyzer includes a segmenter and an article composer. The segmenter identifies block segments associated with columnar body test in the media material. The article composer determines which of the... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20080107337 - Methods and systems for analyzing data in media material having layout: The present invention relates to systems and methods for analyzing media material having a layout. A media material analyzer includes a segmenter and an article composer. The segmenter identifies block segments associated with columnar body text in the media material. The article composer determines which of the identified block segments... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080107339 - Image processing apparatus with simd-type microprocessor to perform labeling: An image processing apparatus includes a plurality of processor elements including registers and configured to process respective data items, a global processor configured to control the plurality oaf processor elements; the global processor and the plurality of processor elements constituting an SIMD microprocessor, and a data control device coupled to... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080107340 - Handwritten word recognition using nearest neighbor techniques that allow adaptive learning: A handwritten word is transcribed into a list of possibly correct transcriptions of the handwritten word. The list contains a number of text words, and this list is compared with previously stored set of lists of text words. Based on a metric, one or more nearest neighbor lists are selected... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP Suite 205

20080107341 - Method and apparatus for detecting faces in digital images: A method of detecting faces in a digital image comprises selecting a sub-window of the digital image. Sample regions of the sub-window are then selected. The sample regions are analyzed to determine if the sub-window likely represents a face.... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080107342 - Methods and apparatus for generating images: A method of generating an image comprising a position identifying pattern 6 and content 7 comprises the steps of: defining criteria relating to a region where the content and the pattern are superimposed, the criteria determining whether the pattern 6 will be distinguishable over the content 7 when applied to... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080107343 - Recognizing blank and nearly blank images: A facility is provided for recognizing blank and nearly blank images. In various embodiments, the facility receives an indication of an image, creates an analysis image based on the received image by detecting edges, determines an edge ratio for the analysis image, determines whether the edge ratio exceeds a threshold... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080107344 - System and method providing subpixel-edge-offset-based determination of opacity: A system is provided for selecting a foreground region of an image, given a set of pixels defining the boundary of the foreground region of the image. The system includes a component to determine a foreground value (F) and opacity value (α) for each pixel on the set wherein α... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080107345 - System and method for visual searching of objects using lines: Disclosed is method of visual search for objects that include straight lines. A two-step process is used, which includes detecting straight line segments in an image. The lines are generally characterized by their length, midpoint location, and orientation. Hypotheses that a particular straight line segment belongs to a known object... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080107346 - Scene-based non-uniformity correction and enhancement method using super-resolution: A scene based non-uniformity, correction method super-resolution for eliminating fixed pattern noise in a video having a plurality of input images is disclosed, comprising, the steps of warping, each of the plurality of images with respect to a reference image to obtain a warped set of images; performing one of... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler P.c.

20080107347 - Image encoding apparatus and image encoding method: In an image encoding apparatus, pattern image cut-out means cuts out partial regions of an image of image data and generates pattern images. At the same time, the pattern image cut-out means outputs position information that is representative of positions on the image data, from which the pattern images are... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080107348 - Dynamic quantizer structures for efficient compression: A method and system are introduced that provide dynamic quantizer structures which are configurable during run time. A quantizer configuration and data are stored in a binary format. The dynamic quantizer data is represented as a bitstream, and the bitstream in turn is used as additional input during initialization (or... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080107349 - Method and circuit of high performance variable length coding and decoding for image compression: The differential value of the adjacent pixels is calculated firstly and is coded by a VLC coding. The VLC coding includes codes representing the Quotient and Remainder with a marker bit inserted in between. The divider is predicted with no code in the coded data stream. If three pixel components... Agent: Chih-ta Star Sung Rm. 308, Bld 52, No.195

20080107350 - Method for production of an image recording and/or reproduction device and device obtained by said method: A method for production of an image recording and/or reproduction device, including an optical image recording and/or reproduction system, an image sensor and/or generator and/or a synchronization system, the image being processed for improvement by a digital image processor. According to the method, parameters of the optical system and/or the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080107351 - Efficient segmentation of piecewise smooth images: A fast and robust segmentation model for piecewise smooth images is provided. Local statistics in an energy formulation are provided as a functional. The shape gradient of this new functional gives a contour evolution controlled by local averaging of image intensities inside and outside the contour. Fast computation is realized... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080107352 - System and method for structure enhancement and noise reduction in medical images: A method and system for structure enhancement and noise reduction of medical images using adaptive filtering is disclosed. The method utilizes feature estimation methods to determine multiple feature values for each pixel in an input image. Each pixel is then filtered using a filter type selected based on the feature... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080107353 - Noise reduction method: The invention discloses a noise reduction method for reducing noises of an image frame, wherein the image frame consists of a plurality of data rows. The method of the invention includes following step of selectively performing a one-dimensional median algorithm at least twice and a slope algorithm at least once.... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080107354 - Optimized image processing for wavefront coded imaging systems: An image processing system includes a wavefront coding element that codes a wavefront forming an optical image, a detector for converting the optical image to a data stream and an image processor for processing the data stream with a reduced set filter kernel to reverse effects of wavefront coding and... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20080107355 - Image-pickup apparatus: An image-pickup apparatus is provided which allows a user to accurately and easily know the out-of-focus amount for various images or objects. The image-pickup apparatus which picks up an image of an object comprises a producing unit for producing a pair of object images, the object images being displaced from... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.l.p.

20080107356 - Super-resolution device and method: A super-resolution device and method for setting at least one of a plurality of pixels included in image data as target pixels, the image data including pixels arranged in a screen and pixel values representing brightness, an area including the target pixel and peripheral pixels as a target area, and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080107357 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program: An image processing apparatus that generates an output image according to interpolation performed by using an input image includes a pixel-value calculating unit that calculates a pixel value of a pixel of the output image according to interpolation performed by using pixel values of pixels of the input image and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080107358 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program: An image processing apparatus that generates one output image front plural input images includes a detecting unit that detects a positional relation among the plural input images, a pixel-value calculating unit that calculates a pixel value of a pixel of the output image using pixel values of pixels of the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080107359 - Fixed form image reading apparatus and fixed form image reading method using the same: An fixed form image reading apparatus includes an imaging portion for taking an image of a fixed form image formed in accordance with a predetermined rule so as to deliver image data, a luminance detecting portion that detects an accumulated value of luminance of a plurality of predetermined areas in... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080107360 - Visual processing device, visual processing method, visual processing program, integrated circuit, display device, image-capturing device, and portable information terminal: The invention provides a visual processing device that has a hardware configuration that does not depend on the visual processing to be achieved. A visual processing device 1 is provided with a spatial processing portion 2 and a visual processing portion 3. The spatial processing portion 2 performs predetermined processing... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080107361 - Imaging apparatus, display apparatus, imaging method, and display method: Disclosed herein is an imaging apparatus including: imaging means for imaging a scene that is in a direction in which a user sees to obtain image data of the scene; biological sensor means for detecting biological information concerning the user; and control means for generating metadata based on at least... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080101650 - Device, method, and recording medium for embedding/detecting a digital watermark: Even in the case where a positional misalignment occurs to an embedded digital watermark, accurate detection of watermark information is provided. A digital watermark embedding device includes: a block dividing section (101) for dividing digital data into a plurality of blocks each having a predetermined size; a block selecting section... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080101651 - Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus and computer readable medium: An image processing apparatus includes a background image generation section and a combining section. The background image generation section generates a background image, which represents (i) background information containing copy prohibition information indicating copy is prohibited and (ii) copy prohibition release information indicating a condition to release copy prohibition, by... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080101654 - Information displaying method and information display terminal device: States of respective targets such as persons, buildings, and the like are expressed, on the basis of information such as various sensor data obtained from the targets, in analog quantities such as the size, color, color depth, and the like of geometric figures, and are displayed in a terminal or... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080101652 - Method and apparatus for tracking objects over a wide area using a network of stereo sensors: A method and/or system for tracking objects, such as humans, over a wide area (that is, over an area that is delineated by a large spatial domain and/or a long-duration temporal domain) is provided. Such tracking is facilitated by processing, in real-time, near real-time or otherwise contemporaneous with receiving, images... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler P.C.

20080101653 - Method and system for object detection in an image plane: Disclosed is an object detection method and system in an image plane. A Hidden Markov Model (HMM) is employed and its associated parameters are initialized for an image plane. Updating HMM parameters is accomplished by referring to the previous estimated object mask in a spatial domain. With the updated HMM... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080101655 - Photographing apparatus and method for controlling target tracking: A photographing apparatus and a method for controlling target tracking are provided. The photographing apparatus includes a target extractor for extracting target information in a present frame based on the difference between a pixel value of one pixel among previous pixels constituting the target of the previous frame in an... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080101656 - Method and apparatus for managing parking lots: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for tracking vehicles in a parking facility using optics. The process receives a series of two-dimensional images of a vehicle in a parking facility from a camera. The process generates an object representing the vehicle based on the series of... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080101657 - Method and apparatus for performing qualitative and quantitative analysis of produce (fruit, vegetables) using spatially structured illumination: A method and an apparatus for noninvasively and quantitatively determining spatially resolved absorption and reduced scattering coefficients over a wide field-of-view of a food object, including fruit or produce, uses spatial-frequency-domain imaging (SFDI). A single modulated imaging platform is employed. It includes a broadband light source, a digital micromirror optically... Agent: Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080101658 - Biometric authentication system: A biometric authentication engine includes components which are configured to authenticate a user based on one or more presented biometrics. The system makes use of multiple threshold parameters or scores so that the authentication process is better tailored to match the specifics of the authentication request... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20080101659 - Eye closure recognition system and method: A system and method are provided for determining eye closure state of the eye of a subject. The system includes a video imaging camera oriented to generate images of an eye of a subject and a video processor for processing the images generated with the video imaging camera. The video... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080101660 - Method and apparatus for generating meta data of content: A method and apparatus are provided for generating emotional information including a user's impressions in relation to multimedia content or meta data regarding the emotional information, and a computer readable recording medium storing the method. The meta data generating method includes receiving emotional information in relation to the content from... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080101661 - Method and apparatus for offender supervision using digital encoding of images of skin-covered body parts: Apparatus that includes a communication interface capable of communication with a management entity over a network; a biometric module adapted to acquire an image of a skin-covered body part submitted thereto; an output device; and a processing unit. The processing unit is adapted for releasing a prompting signal via the... Agent: Fetherstonhaugh - Smart & Biggar

20080101663 - Methods for gray-level ridge feature extraction and associated print matching: A method for level three feature extraction from a print image extracts features associated with a selected ridge segment using a gray-level image under the guidance of at least one binary image. The level three features are a sequence of vectors each corresponding to a different level three characteristic and... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080101662 - Print matching method and apparatus using pseudo-ridges: A method for comparing a search print image comprising a first plurality of minutiae to a file print image comprising a second plurality of minutiae and the apparatus implementing the method is provided. The method includes the steps of: aligning the search and file print images; obtaining the first and... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080101664 - Non-contact optical means and method for 3d fingerprint recognition: The present invention discloses a method of recognizing 3D fingerprints by contact-less optical means. The novel method comprising inter alia the following steps of obtaining an optical contact-less means for capturing fingerprints, such that 3D optical images, selected from a group comprising minutia, forks, endings or any combination thereof are... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080101666 - Automated imaging system with slide marking: An automated slide imaging system includes an imager for acquiring images of a specimen slide mounted on a slide stage movable relative to the imager; and an image processing system configured to process the acquired images and identify objects of interest on the slide. The image processing system is configured... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20080101668 - Distorting feature compensating: Certain aspects can relate to obtaining at least one image information that can be distorted at least partially resulting from an at least a portion of at least one distorting feature. Certain aspects can relate to determining the at least one relative orientation of the at least the portion of... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080101671 - Image generator for medical treatment and its method: An image generator for medical use includes a shape information acquiring unit acquiring shape information of a subject, a functional information acquiring unit acquiring a functional value of the subject, a polyhedron generating unit generating a polyhedron so as to have a clearance within a virtual display space on the... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080101672 - Image processing method: The present invention provides an image processing method capable of acquiring any image analysis processing result desired by the user in a short time. First, volume data is analyzed and a finite number of input candidates are created (step S11) and image analysis processing is performed using the input candidates... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080101667 - Method and system for the presentation of blood vessel structures and identified pathologies: A method of presenting information associated with a blood vessel to a user for assessment of the blood vessel is provided. A two-dimensional slice of three-dimensional imaging data of a blood vessel is presented to a user in a first user interface. A blood vessel selection is received from the... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080101669 - Systems and methods for calibrating alignment devices: A calibration device includes a structure, and a target object that is moveably coupled to the structure, the target object being a physical target towards which an alignment device can be aimed. A calibration device includes a block having a first opening, and a target object that is viewable through... Agent: Varian Medical Systems Technologies, Inc. C/o Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080101665 - Systems and methods of clinical state prediction utilizing medical image data: There is provided a method for predicting a clinical state of a subject based on image data obtained from a Volume Of Interest in the subject. The method comprise the establishment of a predictive model that relates image features and the future evolution of a clinical state.... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080101670 - Systems and methods of subtraction angiography utilizing motion prediction: A system and method for calculating a pixel-shift vector that predicts the motion in dynamic image data and can be used to shift reference image data in order to generate a subtracted image with reduced motion artifacts. The pixel-shift vector is calculated based on displacement vectors that have been calculated... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080101673 - Fiducial-less tracking with non-rigid image registration: A method and system is presented for tracking patient motion in image guided surgery, using skeletal reference structures instead of fiducial markers.... Agent: Daniel E. Ovanezian Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080101674 - Method and system for automatic analysis of blood vessel structures and pathologies: A method of defining a heart region from imaging data is provided. Received imaging data is projected into a first plane. A first threshold is applied to the first plane of data to eliminate data associated with air. A largest first connected component is identified from the first threshold applied... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080101677 - Apparatus for generating sectional images of tissue: A generation of sectional images of tissue is provided. In this arrangement a first light-conducting fiber of a device for generating sectional tissue images according to the optical coherence tomography principle, which light-conducting fiber is rotatably accommodated within a catheter tube, is additionally connected to a device for generating light... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080101675 - System and method for automated detection of mucus plugs within bronchial tree in msct images: A method for detecting and localizing mucus plugs in digitized lung images, includes providing a digitized lung image volume comprising a plurality of intensities corresponding to a 3-dimensional grid of points, extracting a bronchial tree from said lung image, said bronchial tree comprising a plurality of branching airways terminating at... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080101676 - System and method for segmenting chambers of a heart in a three dimensional image: A system and method for segmenting chambers of a heart in three dimensional images is disclosed. A set of three dimensional images of a heart is received. The shape of the heart in the three dimensional images is localized. Boundaries of the chambers of the heart in the localized shape... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080101678 - Method for segmenting digital medical image: A Markov Random Field (MRF)-based technique is described for performing clustering of images characterized by poor or limited data. The proposed method is a statistical classification model that labels the image pixels based on the description of their statistical and contextual information. Apart from evaluating the pixel statistics that originate... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20080101679 - Method for checking an imprint and imprint checking device: A method for checking an imprint reads an imprint, forms a data code from the imprint, and compares the data code with a predetermined number of check data codes of a stored data set. During a search for the data code in the data set, the method decides whether the... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20080101680 - Safty device for a motor vehicle including a front-end structure: A method and system for enhanced check image privacy are disclosed. Embodiments of the present invention provide a way to automatically link the results from quality assurance software to a check image archive to appropriately mark images as unretrievable by customers. Images are interrogated with a data matching algorithm to... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Bofa

20080101682 - Arc tool user interface: A combination of arc tool user interface features and operations are provided for efficiently defining an arc tool region of interest in a machine vision inspection system. Multiple distinct types of parameter control features are provide in an arc tool GUI. The distinct types of parameter control features may be... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080101681 - Methods for determining a position and shape of a bag placed in a baggage handling container using x-ray image analysis: An improved explosive detection system is configured to determine bag contour data from a pre-scan x-ray “ground truth” image of a bag that rests within a container. The bag contour data may be used to restrict a subsequent main x-ray scan to the bag and its contents. The bag contour... Agent: General Electric Co. Global Patent Operation

20080101683 - System and method of evaluating uncoated turbine engine components: Aspects of the invention are directed to a visual-based system and method for non-destructively evaluating an uncoated turbine engine component. Aspects of the invention are well suited for high speed, high temperature components. Radiant energy emitted from an uncoated turbine engine component can be captured remotely and converted into a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080101684 - Systems and methods for lithographic reticle inspection: Systems and methods for inspection of lithographic reticles are provided. The method begins with the generation of a topographical map for a reticle surface with the reticle being in a load-free state. The reticle is then loaded onto a reticle chuck in a lithographic apparatus. A topographical map is then... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080101686 - Defect detection through image comparison using relative measures: Inspection of objects such as semiconductor wafers can include comparisons of shapes between inspection and reference images. As part of the inspection process, relative values may be assigned to pixels within each image based on comparison of such pixels to neighboring pixels. For instance, the pixels may be ranked by... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20080101685 - Defect inspection method and apparatus: A method of inspecting patterns to detect a defect of the patterns by using information of a scattered diagram of brightness of said first and second images.... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080101687 - Method and device for machine-cutting a plate-shaped workpiece: In a known method for machine-cutting a plate-shaped workpiece, position and/or geometry and/or dimensions of the workpiece are detected without contact by means of a camera and the corresponding data are subjected to an evaluation by means of image processing. Starting from this, to permit a precise and reproducible detection... Agent: Tiajoloff & Kelly

20080101688 - 3d photogrammetry using projected patterns: A structured light pattern digitizing method is combined with photogrammetry to determine a 3D model of an object. The structured light digitizing operation generates a 3D model of the object being scanned, and this model is then used to compute a higher accuracy model using photogrammetry.... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20080101689 - Classification using feature scaling: Provided are systems, methods and techniques for machine-learning classification. In one representative embodiment, an item having values for a plurality of different features in a feature set is obtained, together with scores for the different features. The score for a given feature is a measure of prediction ability for that... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080101690 - Automatic white balance statistics collection: Automatic white balance of captured images can be performed based on a gray world assumption. One aspect relates to an apparatus comprising a collection module and a processor. The collection module is configured to accumulate (a) red/green and blue/green color ratio values of a plurality of pixels in a captured... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080101692 - Image data conversion device and image display device: An image data conversion device includes an image data input unit to which image data formed of a plurality of first pixel data, each including values of three basic colors of red, green and blue, is inputted; and a color converter configured to convert first pixel data into second pixel... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20080101691 - Transparency and/or color processing: A system or method of automated image processing that can automatically determine a color and transparency for a pixel with an observed color when given the pixel and a background reference color. A point in a color space can be automatically found by extrapolating in the color space based on... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080101693 - Video image based tracking system for identifying and tracking encoded color surface: A video image based tracking method and apparatus for identifying and tracking encoded color surface. Encoded color patterns are integrated with tangible objects such as tangible toys or tangible input objects so that they can be used as a tangible input device for a computing system to control virtual multimedia... Agent: Roger Pitt Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20080101695 - Color reproduction correction circuit and correction method: The invention discloses a color reproduction correction circuit and correction method, it comprises: a reverse gamma correction section for receiving at the reception side the video signal, which has been gamma corrected at the transmission side, and the video signal is corrected by the reverse gamma correction to become linear... Agent: Nields & Lemack

20080101694 - Auto color control circuit and video signal processing circuit: An auto color control circuit comprises an auto color control wave detecting unit configured to detect the amplitude of a burst signal contained in a carrier chrominance signal and to output the amplitude as an auto color control wave detection signal; a hysteresis signal generating unit configured to output a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080101696 - Histogram generating device: A histogram generating device is disclosed. An embodiment has a brightness signal generating module generating a brightness signal by use of RGB component data of an input frame, an image component data selecting module outputting a single component frame consisting of image component data, which is one of the RGB... Agent: Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080101697 - Image processing method, medium, and system: An image processing method, medium, and system. The image processing method includes classifying an input image into predetermined image categories based on a feature of a brightness histogram of the input image, and adjusting a brightness of the input image based on grayscale functions corresponding to the image categories and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080101698 - Area testing method, area testing device, image processing apparatus, and recording medium: A method for deciding correctly a type of a specific area of an image having inclination includes the steps of generating an edge image based on a target image to be a target of image processing, generating a first histogram indicating the number of edge pixels existing in the lateral... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080101699 - Image generation apparatus and recording medium: An image generation apparatus includes an information acquisition section and an image generation section. The information acquisition section acquires record information to be recorded on a recording medium. The image generation section generates an image including code pattern images and a latent image for checking paper being copied. The code... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080101700 - Image generation apparatus, computer readable medium, computer data signal, information generation method, information reading system, electronic pen and recording medium: An image generation apparatus includes an additional image information generation section and a superposition information generation section. The additional image information generation section generates additional image information in which control information, which controls operation of a machine for reading information recorded on a recording medium, is placed as second image... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080101701 - Communication terminal: It is shown how to select and insert a non-textual, e.g. a smiley, into an application such as a chat application in a communication terminal. A smiley insertion area in the form of a hand writing input area is displayed under the control of a user interface application. After recording... Agent: Perman & Green

20080101702 - Image generation apparatus, image processing apparatus, computer readable medium and computer data signal: An image generation apparatus includes an acquisition unit and a generation unit. The acquisition unit acquires information to be embedded in each of a plurality of partitions on a recording medium. The generation unit generates an image in which first pattern images representing the information and a second pattern image... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080101703 - Systems and methods for recognizing shapes in an image: Methods and systems for recognizing shapes in an image.... Agent: Burns & Levinson, LLP

20080101704 - 2-d encoded symbol quality assessment: An 2-D symbol orientation guide with parallel and spaced right angle guidelines with chevron-like spaces provided therebetween is selectively displayed in plural selected dispositions on a monitor screen as an overlay for the display on the same monitor screen of a 2-D Data Matrix symbol. Manual rotation of the symbol... Agent: Morris I. Pollack

20080101705 - System for pattern recognition with q-metrics: A pattern recognition system (100, 900, 1202, 1300) includes a configurable distance metric evaluator (112, 600, 1204). The configurable distance metric evaluator (112, 600, 1204) is adaptable, via a configuration parameter to better match distributions of feature vectors within classifications and clusters and moreover to better match boundaries between feature... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080101706 - Image data processing apparatus, image forming apparatus provided with the same, image data processing program, and image data processing method: An image data processing apparatus including: a compression processing section that divides image data into a plurality of partial data in a prescribed size, generates link information showing a mutual arrangement of each of the divided partial data, and generates compressed partial data by compressing each of the divided partial... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080101707 - Method for decomposing a video sequence frame: In a method for decomposing a block of a video sequence frame, it is determined as to whether either or both of the dimensions of the block equals a predetermined minimum dimension. In response to either or both of the dimensions equaling the predetermined minimum dimension, a motion vector for... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080101708 - Method, device and software for improving the quility of a video recording: The invention relates to improving the image quality of a video recording made in particular at a low bitrate. In a method according to the invention, motion of a video camera is observed during a recording process, and any such detected video camera motion that weakens the image quality of... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080101710 - Image processing device and imaging device: An image processing device according to the present invention comprises a motion detection processor for detecting a motion vector of image data, a particular region detection processor for detecting a particular region in the image data based on an imaging cycle of the image data and generating particular region position... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080101709 - Spatial sparsity induced temporal prediction for video compression: A method and apparatus are disclosed herein for spatial sparsity induced temporal prediction. In one embodiment, the method comprises: performing motion compensation to generate a first motion compensated prediction using a first block from a previously coded frame; generating a second motion compensated prediction for a second block to be... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080101711 - Rendering engine for forming an unwarped reproduction of stored content from warped content: A rendering engine including a first component configured to render warped content that is generated remotely from the rendering engine by applying a warping transformation to stored content according to warping information and a second component configured to inversely warp the rendered warped content according to inverse warping information that... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080101712 - Modulation transfer function of an image: The border of object in an image is blurred and so the modulation transfer function (MTF) of an image is reduced due to the blurred border. This present invention provides a deductive method for determining a border of an object in an image. Then the border of the object therein... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080101714 - Filter circuit, image processing circuit, and filtering method: A filter circuit includes: an adder/subtractor that performs at least addition; and a shifter that performs multiplication/division by a power of two through a shift operation. The adder/subtractors and the shifter are configured to obtain a first calculation result representing a pixel value of a target pixel included in image... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080101713 - System and method of fisheye image planar projection: Various embodiments of a system and method of fisheye lens image planar projection are disclosed. In general, an image created by a camera with a fisheye lens is mapped to an output image in such a way as to greatly reduce perceived distortions of people and other subjects in the... Agent: Image Trends, Inc. Suite 450

20080101715 - Method of point identification and tracking in a digital video environment: A computer implemented method, apparatus, data processing system, and computer usable program code are provided for identifying interest points. A set of digital images and a set of threshold values are received, where the set of digital images includes a set of digital frames. A set of directional values are... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080101717 - Image edge enhancing apparatus and method: An image edge enhancing method adjusts a luminance of a target pixel of a digital image. The target pixel has an original luminance. The method includes the steps of: performing an edge boosting operation on the target pixel to obtain an edge enhanced luminance; performing an edge detection on the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080101716 - Image sharpening apparatus and method thereof: An image sharpening apparatus for sharpening an original image is disclosed. The image sharpening apparatus includes a low-pass filter, a high-pass filter, an edge detector, a sharpening parameter generating unit and an operating unit. The low-pass filter, the high-pass filter and the edge detector receive the original image and respectively... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080101718 - Apparatus and method for deblock filtering: A method of processing a frame including a plurality of macro-blocks is provided. Each of the macro-blocks respectively includes M pixels. A local buffer is previously provided. The capacity of the local buffer is equal to the size of N pixels. M and N are both positive integers. N is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080101719 - Image enhancement method and system: An image enhancement method and system are provided. The image enhancement method and system are capable of improving image quality by performing gamma corrections on global and local illuminations and reflectance estimated from an input image, in consideration of dynamic range and contrast of the image, respectively. Particularly, in a... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080101721 - Device and method for image correction, and image shooting apparatus: The correcting device includes a flicker correction circuit installed in an image shooting apparatus, which is configured to employ a complementary metal oxide semiconductor image sensor for shooting an image in a rolling shutter mode. An image is divided into M pieces in a vertical direction and N pieces in... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20080101720 - Method and architecture for temporal-spatial deblocking and deflickering with expanded frequency filtering in compressed domain: A deblocking/deflickering filter decreases artifacts produced in a block-based image compression system, wherein a plurality of transform coefficients are produced respectively indicative of different frequencies in input signal values. The filter includes a first filter portion for deblocking filtering a first low frequency one of the transform coefficients and a... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP Patent Department

20080101722 - Correlation peak finding method for image correlation displacement sensing: A correlation function peak finding method for an image correlation displacement sensing system is provided. The method may include capturing a reference image and a displaced image, and searching for an initial peak correlation function value point (CFVP) with pixel-level resolution based on correlating the reference image and displaced images... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080101724 - Constructing arbitrary-plane and multi-arbitrary-plane mosaic composite images from a multi-imager: A method for constructing arbitrary-plane and multi-arbitrary-plane mosaic composite images from a multi-imager is disclosed. A first homography set is generated for a multi-imager based on a first reference plane. A second homography set is then generated for the multi-imager based on a second reference plane, where the second reference... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080101723 - Coverage-based image relevance ranking: Implementations of coverage-based image relevance ranking are described. In one implementation, an acquired image is ranked relative to a set of previously stored images based upon the conditional entropy of the acquired image. The conditional entropy may be computed after first removing overlapping pixels that are present in both the... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080101725 - Image display system configured to update correspondences using arbitrary features: A method performed by an image display system is provided. The method includes identifying a first arbitrary feature that is inherent in a first image frame and suitable for use as a first fiducial mark when the first image frame is displayed on a display surface by a display device... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080101726 - Method and apparatus for recognizing text in an image sequence of scene imagery: An apparatus and a concomitant method for detecting and recognizing text information in a captured imagery. The present method transforms the image of the text to a normalized coordinate system before performing OCR, thereby yielding more robust recognition performance. The present invention also combines OCR results from multiple frames, in... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080101727 - Programmable architecture for flexible camera image pipe processing: This invention is a programmable image pipe processing architecture that offers full software flexibility to implement latest and greatest algorithms at fully hardwired performance levels. This invention achieves hardwired image pipe processing performance but offers full flexibility and programmability of software achieving the best of both hardwired and software image... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080101728 - Image creation with software controllable depth of field: A method of controlling depth of field of an image by a computer after the image has been taken based on the data acquired while taking the images including, acquiring multiple images from the same perspective with different focal points, selecting parameters for preparing a displayable image, constructing an image... Agent: Gibbons P.C.