Image analysis inventions 06/08

20080152188 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and storage medium: An image processing apparatus stores moving image data including a plurality of frames and enables a user to select at least one frame from the plurality of frames included in the moving image data and select a type of processing that is to be performed to the selected frame. The... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080152187 - Imaging device: Second control means (being a main control section) outputs first information which includes original verifying information to verify the authenticity of the image data, and first control means (being a sub-control section) superposes outputted first information and second information which the camera module has, onto the image data as an... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080152189 - Method and apparatus for embedding data: A method of embedding data such as a watermark in a two dimensional information signal such as an image. The method comprises filtering a portion of the information signal using a two dimensional filter. In order to reduce the visibility of the watermark in sharp and elongated edges, the filter... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080152190 - Method of imaging fluorescence and fluorescence imaging apparatus: A method of imaging fluorescence, in which an inverted fluorescence imaging apparatus provided with an immersion objective is used to image an observation phosphor for a constant term, includes an imaging position locating step of locating a vessel incorporating the observation phosphor at an imaging position of the fluorescence imaging... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080152191 - Human pose estimation and tracking using label assignment: A method and apparatus for estimating poses of a subject by grouping data points generated by a depth image into groups representing labeled parts of the subject, and then fitting a model representing the subject to the data points using the grouping of the data points. The grouping of the... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20080152193 - Output apparatus, output method and program: An output apparatus is provided that includes a moving image acquiring section that acquires a moving image, a moving object extracting section that extracts a moving object in the moving image acquired by the moving image acquiring section, an object area identifying section that identifies an object area, which is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080152192 - System for 3d monitoring and analysis of motion behavior of targets: The present invention relates to a system for the 3-D monitoring and analysis of motion-related behavior of test subjects. The system comprises an actual camera, at least one virtual camera, a computer connected to the actual camera and the computer is preferably installed with software capable of capturing the stereo... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080152194 - Motion detection for video processing: Various embodiments for performing motion detection for video processing are described. In one or more embodiments, motion detection may be performed by computing a temporal difference measurement, a local spatial complexity measurement, and a content dependent motion detection value based on the temporal difference measurement and the local spatial complexity... Agent: Kacvinsky Llc C/o Intellevate

20080152197 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: An information processing apparatus according to the invention comprises: an image input unit to which an image is input; a face detecting unit which detects a face area of a person from the image input to the image input unit; a face-for-recording selecting unit which selects a desired face area... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080152196 - Method and device for verifying the authenticity of a captured biometric characteristic: The invention relates to a method of checking the authenticity of biometric sensing performed optically, in which a body organ (6) placed on a main face (2) of a prismatic optical element (1) is illuminated (8) with total internal reflection, and then the reflected radiation carrying the biometric image of... Agent: Patzik, Frank & Samotny Ltd.

20080152195 - Personal authentication device: A compact authentication device that prevents user from feeling pressure and is strong against external light, when capturing an image of a finger blood vessel pattern with transmitted light. The device includes a guidance part for determining the finger position, a light source disposed on at least one side of... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080152198 - Biometric identification device, authentication device using same, and biometric identification method: A living body determination device for determining whether or not an object is an eye of a living body. The living body determination device has an imaging section for taking an image of an object, a light source section for emitting light rays to the object at an angle different... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080152200 - 3d face reconstruction from 2d images: A 3D face reconstruction technique using 2D images, such as photographs of a face, is described. Prior face knowledge or a generic face is used to extract sparse 3D information from the images and to identify image pairs. Bundle adjustment is carried out to determine more accurate 3D camera positions,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080152201 - Efficient propagation for face annotation: Systems, engines, user interfaces, and methods allow a user to select a group of images, such as digital photographs, and assign to the group of images the name of a person who is represented in each of the images. The name is automatically propagated to the face of the person,... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080152199 - Image orientation for display: A device may include processing logic to obtain an image file including orientation information indicating a first orientation in which an image is to be displayed; detect, in the image, at least one human face; and modify the orientation information to re-orient the image based on the detected at least... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.l.p.

20080152202 - System and methods of acquisition, analysis and authentication of the handwritten signature: The invention refers to a computer-based system for the acquisition, analysis, and authentication of the handwritten signature. The person that performs a handwritten signature performs a series of three-dimensional movements with a plane graphical finality. The movements generate kinetic information perceived by the special pen that the signature is performed... Agent: K.f. Ross P.c.

20080152203 - Radial adaptive filter for metal artifact correction: A diagnostic imaging system (10) corrects metal artifact streaks (38) emanating from a metal object (36) in a tomographic image (T). A first processor (40) reduces streaks (38) caused by mild artifacts by applying an adaptive filter (82). The filter (82) is perpendicularly oriented toward the center of the metal... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080152204 - Enhanced display of medical images: A method of processing a digital radiographic medical image. The digital radiographic medical image is accessed and a plurality of regions of interest is determined. For each of the plurality of regions of interest, steps are performed: determining at least one candidate region of interest (ROI) disease; identifying one ROI... Agent: Carestream Health Inc,

20080152206 - Image reporting method and system: A method and system are provided to report the findings of an expert's analysis of image data. The method and system are based on a reporting system that forms the basis of an image management system that can efficiently and systematically generate image reports, facilitate data entry into searchable databases... Agent: Dann, Dorfman, Herrell & Skillman

20080152205 - Methods for displaying a location of a point of interest on a 3-d model of an anatomical region: Methods for displaying a location of a point of interest on a 3-D model of an anatomical region of a person are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, the method includes generating first and second 2-D images of the anatomical region utilizing an image acquisition system when an X-ray source of... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080152207 - Arrangement and imaging of biological samples: High-resolution three-dimensional imaging of a specimen is facilitated. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a series of very thin slices from a specimen are serially and robustly arranged on an imaging device such as a microscope slide. The slices are imaged and the images are used to... Agent: Crawford Maunu Pllc

20080152208 - Method and system for locating and focusing on fiducial marks on specimen slides: Methods are disclosed for locating and focusing on a fiducial mark on a specimen slide. A plurality of pixels are identified as candidate pixels. A pixel is identified as a candidate pixel based on a number of empty pixels in an area defined by boundary lines extending from the pixel,... Agent: Vista Ip Law Group LLP

20080152209 - Electronic transaction processing server with automated transaction evaluation: An invoice processing system generates a data structure, comprising a data field value associated with each of a plurality of identified data fields, from a document image comprising text representing each of such data field values. The secure document data capture system includes a character recognition system receiving the document... Agent: Timothy P. O'hagan

20080152210 - Inspection apparatus method and apparatus comprising motion responsive control: An inspection apparatus can process image data of one or more frames. In one aspect processing of image data can include processing for determination of a motion parameter. In one aspect an inspection apparatus can be controlled responsively to the processing of image data for determination of a motion parameter.... Agent: Ge-gpo-marjama Muldoon Blasiak & Sullivan LLP General Electric / Global Patent Operation

20080152211 - Rotating prism component inspection system: An inspection system is provided. The system includes a rotating prism having a first end and a second end. The first end receives a first image area, such as a circular view, and rotates about a center point so as to cover a field of view area that is larger... Agent: Mr. Christopher John Rourk Jackson Walker LLP

20080152212 - Simulation of aerial images: A method for generating a simulated aerial image of a mask projected by an optical system includes determining a coherence characteristic of the optical system. A coherent decomposition of the optical system is computed based on the coherence characteristic. The decomposition includes a series of expansion functions having angular and... Agent: Applied Materials, Inc. C/o Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080152213 - 3d face reconstruction from 2d images: A 3D face reconstruction technique using 2D images, such as photographs of a face, is described. Prior face knowledge or a generic face is used to extract sparse 3D information from the images and to identify image pairs. Bundle adjustment is carried out to determine more accurate 3D camera positions,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080152215 - Coding method, electronic camera, recording medium storing coded program, and decoding method: In a method of coding light ray information including information about a position on a predetermined surface and information about an incident angle to the surface when a ray of light from a subject enters the surface, the light ray information is divided into two or more processing unit blocks.... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080152214 - Method and apparatus for generating files and method and apparatus for controlling stereographic image display: An apparatus for generating a file comprises a three-dimensional information generating means, a displacement information storage means and a file generating means. The three-dimensional information generating means generates three-dimensional information representing each point obtained by an imaging system by an inherent coordinate system inherent to the imaging system. The displacement... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080152216 - Methods for and apparatus for generating a continuum of three dimensional image data: The present invention provides methods and apparatus for generating a continuum of image data sprayed over three-dimensional models. The three-dimensional models can be representative of features captured by the image data and based upon multiple image data sets capturing the features. The image data can be captured at multiple disparate... Agent: Joseph P. Kincart

20080152217 - System and method for modeling the neocortex and uses therefor: A processor architecture for a learning machine is presented which uses a massive array of processing elements having local, recurrent connections to form global associations between functions defined on manifolds. Associations between these functions provide the basis for learning cause-and-effect relationships involving vision, audition, tactile sensation and kinetic motion. Two... Agent: Eleanor M. Musick Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch

20080152218 - Pose estimating device and pose estimating method: A pose estimating device includes: a pose dictionary; an image feature extracting unit configured to extract observed image feature information; a past information storing unit configured to store past pose estimating information of the articulated object; a pose predicting unit configured to predict a present pose; a node predicting unit... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080152219 - Sequential color reproduction method: An improved color processing method for use in imaging systems transforms the input color image components into an output set of color image components, at least one of which is transformed using a non-linear transformation function.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080152220 - Mass segmentation using mirror image of region of interest: A method and an apparatus for automatic segmentation of an image representing a mass of a tissue region based on dynamic programming that guarantees an accurate and closed contour of the mass is disclosed. The method according to one embodiment accesses digital image data representing an image including the mass... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080152221 - Dynamic, locally-adaptive, lossless palettization of color and grayscale images: The present invention leverages a lossless pixel palettization scheme to locally compress portions of at least a two-dimensional image. This provides a lossless compression means with a compression ratio comparable with lossy compression means, allowing for efficient data transfers without loss of image information. By utilizing locally-adaptive palettization, two-dimensional pixel... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080152222 - Noise reduction circuit and image processing device: A representative-value calculator calculates a representative value of signal values of pixels included in each of divided regions of a neighboring region of a pixel of interest. The divided regions are obtained by dividing the neighboring region into the predetermined number of divisions. The number of divisions is determined based... Agent: Mots Law, Pllc

20080152223 - Image processing apparatus and method, and storage medium: An image processing apparatus includes an input unit configured to input a moving image on a frame-by-frame basis, a feature quantity calculating unit configured to calculate a feature quantity of the input image, a storing unit configured to store the feature quantity corresponding to a plurality of frames, a motion... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080152224 - Patterns encoding communication parameters: A document processing system comprises a pattern generating system 212 arranged to generate a data encoding pattern 6, a printer 202 arranged to print a document 2 having the pattern thereon, and a receiver 220 arranged to receive data over a communication link. The pattern generating system 212 is arranged... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080152226 - Apparatus, method and program for information processing: A personal computer (12) executes an information processing program (43) to start a shooting process. Under the shooting process, an extraction circuit (48) reads thumbnail image data from a HDD (42). The extraction circuit (48) analyzes the thumbnail image data, and extracts a partial image including a human face. A... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080152227 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image signal is resolved into a plurality of frequency components whose spatial frequencies are different from each other; a variation component of the image signal is extracted based on each of the plurality of frequency components, an absolute value of the variation component being smaller than a predetermined reference... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080152228 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: An image processing apparatus includes a face-image storage unit storing a face image of a predetermined face as a registered face image; a color storage unit storing face-color information, which is information regarding a face color of the registered face image; a detector detecting a face image in an input... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080152225 - Image similarity calculation system, image search system, image similarity calculation method, and image similarity calculation program: There is provided an image similarity calculation system which yields a large value for image similarity between an edited image and an original image. A local region weight calculation means 14 calculates a weight value for each local region in the image as a local region weight value, based on... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080152229 - Monitoring device and monitoring method: A monitoring device and a monitoring method are provided. The monitoring device includes an image-capturing unit, an image-determining unit and a mark-catapulting unit. The image-capturing device is used for capturing an image of a person. The image-determining unit is used for determining whether the image of the person is an... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080152233 - Apparatuses for detecting and recognizing analytes based on their crystallization patterns: The invention contemplates apparatuses for recognition of proteins and other biological molecules by imaging morphology, size and distribution of crystalline and amorphous dry residues in droplets (further referred to as “crystallization patterns”) containing predetermined amount of certain crystal-forming organic compounds (reporters) to which protein to be analyzed is added. Changes... Agent: George Mason University Office Of Technology Transfer, Msn 5g5

20080152232 - Camera tampering detection: A method and a module for identifying possible tampering of a camera view. The method comprising receiving an image for analysis from an image sequence, converting the received image into an edge image, generating a similarity value indicating a level of similarity between said edge image and a reference edge... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c.

20080152230 - Programmable pattern matching device: A programmable pattern-matching device is provided that may perform bad pixel correction and image sharpening and smoothing (noise removal). Soft edges of an image are identified and adaptively sharpened. Soft edges are identified by subtracting adjacent pixel values along a diagonal, row and/or column, generating a pixel string pattern based... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080152231 - System and method for enabling image recognition and searching of images: Embodiments programmatically analyze each of a plurality of images in order to determine one or more visual characteristics about an item shown in each of the plurality of images. Data is stored corresponding to the one or more visual characteristics. An interface in is provided for which a user is... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080152234 - Simulation of aerial images: A method for generating a simulated aerial image of a mask projected by an optical system includes determining a coherence characteristic of the optical system. A coherent decomposition of the optical system is computed based on the coherence characteristic. The decomposition includes a series of expansion functions having angular and... Agent: Applied Materials, Inc. C/o Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080152236 - Image processing method and apparatus: A method (100) is disclosed of classifying elements in a region within a frame (410). The method (100) creates (145) a background model (150) of at least said region based on a statistical function applied to features of elements of said region in a set of frames. A mapping (130)... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080152235 - Methods and apparatus for reducing storage size: Prediction-based compression engines are spoon-fed with sequentially efficiently compressible (SEC) streams of input data that make it possible for the compression engines to more efficiently compress or otherwise compact the incoming data than would be possible with streams of input data accepted on a TV-raster scan basis. Various techniques are... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080152237 - Data visualization device and method: A data visualization device comprises a focal attribute calculator for calculating a focal value of each of a plurality of data input items, and for categorizing each of the plurality of data input items as either non-cluster blobs or second blobs. The device further comprises a clustering attribute calculator for... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, Llc

20080152238 - System and method for performing classification through generative models of features occurring in an image: A system and method for image performing classification through generative models of features occurring in an image. Category-conditional probability distributions of features occurring in a plurality of training images are maintained. Each distribution is assigned to a category. The features occurring in an unclassified image are identified. Category-conditional likelihoods for... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20080152239 - Image compression system: Video/image analysis and compression systems are described, that can be used in conjunction with image, video, and/or sound files. A master image can be created from a series of images. The difference between the next image and the master image is compared (320 of FIG. 4) and is placed in... Agent: Philip R. Warn Warn, Hoffmann, Miller & Ozga

20080152240 - Image-processing device, image-processing method, program of image-processing method, and recording medium recording program of image-processing method: An image-processing device including a pulverization-core unit configured to divide input-image data into blocks, generate basic blocks by reducing each of the blocks in size, and arrange the basic blocks into the blocks so that processed-image data including at least one noise particle of the input-image data is generated, where... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080152241 - Stereoscopic image encoding and decoding device multiplexing high resolution added images: A left-eye image signal and a right-eye image signal are supplied to a pixel structure converter of a stereoscopic image pre-processor, and multiplexed, so to form one image, an interlace image is formed by a frame/field converter, encoded in an MPEG format by an MPEG encoding unit, stored into a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080152242 - Application based adaptive encoding: A system and method for encoding dynamic image information for an image generated by a computer application executing on a processor. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise determining a first set of information describing a reference image. A second set of information may be determined for describing an... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080152243 - Image encoding and decoding method and apparatus using texture synthesis: Provided is an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. In the image encoding method, a portion of a texture region included in a current picture is selected as a sample texture for synthesizing the texture region and only the sample texture is encoded in place of the texture region, thereby improving... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080152244 - Image-processing apparatus, image-processing method, program and computer readable information recording medium: An image processing apparatus and method for decompressing compressed image data is described. In one embodiment, the image processing apparatus decompresses compressed image data that is obtained by dividing an original image into blocks and compressing each block. The apparatus may comprise a decompression unit to decompress the compressed image... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080152245 - Decoder-side region of interest video processing: The disclosure is directed to decoder-side region-of-interest (ROI) video processing. A video decoder determines whether ROI assistance information is available. If not, the decoder defaults to decoder-side ROI processing. The decoder-side ROI processing may estimate the reliability of ROI extraction in the bitstream domain. If ROI reliability is favorable, the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080152246 - Method and apparatus for image processing: A method for image processing includes generating a pixel window of image data and determining whether the pixel window-is stable or unstable. Image enhancement values are then obtained from a look up table for stable windows when the window is stable, and image enhancement values are obtained from a look... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.c.

20080152252 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium: An image processing apparatus includes a filter processing unit configured to perform filter processing that emphasizes high-frequency components of an input image, a value limit calculation unit configured to calculate value limits that define a range of pixel values for converting a gradation in the image using a result of... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080152250 - Low-complexity film grain simulation technique: The simulation of film grain in a video image occurs by first creating a block (i.e., a matrix array) of transformed coefficients for a set of cut frequencies fHL, fVL, fHH and fVH associated with a desired grain pattern. (The cut frequencies fHL, fVL, fHH and fVH represent cut-off frequencies,... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080152249 - Method of separating vertical and horizontal components of a rasterized image: A method of separating an image is provided. The method comprises: running a bitmap image of at least one polygon comprising a plurality of pixels through a distance filter; skeletonizing the polygon formed after filtering by modulo arithmetic; logically ANDing the skeletonized image with two masks separately consisting of horizontal... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Parc

20080152247 - Methods and systems for image noise processing: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for identifying and separating noise from an image.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080152251 - Pyramidal decomposition for multi-resolution image filtering: A modified Laplacian-pyramid method and system filters (340-360, 440-460) the Gaussian image at each level (31-33, 41-43) of the pyramid, and uses the filtered Gaussian image (341-361, 441-461) to produce the Laplacian-pyramid images (349-369, 449-469). The filtering of the Gaussian image is adaptive, and based at least in part on... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080152248 - Reduction of position dependent noise in a digital image: Noise is reduced in a digital image generated by an imaging device utilizing information which specifies noise level as a function of position for the digital image. A noise reducing algorithm is applied to the digital image while one or more parameters of the noise reducing algorithm are varied. The... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080152253 - Noise cancellation: A technique for reducing noise in a digital video signal is disclosed. In one embodiment, the technique involves receiving a digital signal. The digital signal can be filtered thereby generating a filtered signal. The digital signal and the filtered signal can be mixed according to a composite blend map thereby... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080152255 - Automated statistical self-calibrating detection and removal of blemishes in digital images dependent upon changes in extracted parameter values: A method of automatically correcting dust artifact within images acquired by a system including a digital camera includes determining that certain pixels correspond to dust artifact regions within a first digitally-acquired image. The dust artifact regions are associated with one or more extracted parameters relating to a variable optical system... Agent: Fotonation Ip Dept.

20080152254 - Image processing apparatus and control method thereof: This invention provides an image processing apparatus which can effectively remove conspicuous noise contained in image data, while suppressing deterioration of image information. Image data containing noise is input from an input terminal (100). Based on the output condition upon outputting image data after noise is removed, a parameter determination... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080152256 - Method for estimating noise: An image noise detection method is disclosed. The image noise detection method includes the following steps: obtaining a spatial information of an image; obtaining a temporal information of the image; and determining a spatial noise or a temporal noise of the image according to both the spatial information, and the... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080152257 - Measurement apparatus and method of measurement of video spatial scale, offset and cropping: A method and apparatus are provided to measure spatial distortion. Measure and remove borders; and rescale the active test image, the active reference image, or both, such that they are the same size. A representative line is obtained, or selected, from each image providing a reference representative line (ReferenceRL) and... Agent: Matthew D. Rabdau Tektronix, Inc.

20080152258 - Digital mosaic image construction: Digital mosaic image construction with an apparatus, method, computer program, and integrated circuit is disclosed. In the method, a first digital image and a second digital image are obtained, and a global motion vector is defined between the first digital image and the second digital image. Next, a mosaic image... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080152260 - Method and system for optimizing web page images: In computer multimedia technology, a system, method and computer program product for optimizing images and transmission of images of a web-page transmitted over the Internet and furthermore, optimizing images of a web page on a network server. The method includes detecting the images in the web page to determine the... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.c.

20080152259 - Motion adaptive image processing: An image processing apparatus for image conversion comprises calculating means operable to calculate a first metric for a selected pixel position in a current image field, the first metric being the difference between a directly preceding image field and a spatially interpolated version of the current image field at the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080152261 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, computer program, and information storage medium: An image processing apparatus is disclosed that includes a characteristics acquisition unit that acquires characteristics of a picture image; a format selection unit that selects the format of image data depending on the processing time for restoring the picture image based on the characteristics; and a format conversion unit that... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080152262 - Image processing device image processing method, and computer program: An image processing device for enlarging an image includes an attribute determining unit, a pattern matching determining unit, and a data selecting unit. The attribute determining unit determines an attribute of each pixel constituting an input image. The pattern matching determining unit determines whether a pattern of the input image,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080152263 - Data transfer using hand-held device: A hand-held electronic device and file transfer method are disclosed. The device may comprise a case, a processor and a memory. A case motion sensor and a remote device detector may be coupled to the processor. A communication interface may be coupled to the memory and processor. The processor may... Agent: Joshua D. Isenberg Jdi Patent

20080144883 - Automated verification of copyrighted digital images: A computer-assisted method for detecting copyright protection in digital images receives a digital image, searches for capture device information associated with the digital image, calculates one or more image characteristics of the digital image, and verifies copyright ownership and usage authorization of the digital image in response to the capture... Agent: Dr. Xin Wen

20080144881 - Electronic transaction processing server with automated transaction evaluation: An invoice processing system includes a document system and an invoice hub. The document system receives a document image (either a paper invoice or an image file). A character recognition system generates a data file representation of the invoice data from the document image. A data field value validation engine... Agent: Timothy P. O'hagan

20080144880 - Method and system for associating source information for a source unit with a product converted therefrom: The invention provides a method and system having a computer system and imaging sensors that capture image data of an object, such as a carcass, as it moves through a processing facility and is converted into individual food products. The computer system analyzes the image data to produce a blob... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080144882 - System and method for determining like-mindedness: Methods and apparatus for a participant response system according to various aspects of the present invention operate in conjunction with an information system and an assessment system. The information system may store selection information in response to a first participant's selection of images from a set of candidate images. The... Agent: Noblitt & Gilmore, Llc.

20080144886 - Camera based sensing in handheld, mobile, gaming, or other devices: Method and apparatus are disclosed to enable rapid TV camera and computer based sensing in many practical applications, including, but not limited to, handheld devices, cars, and video games. Several unique forms of social video games are disclosed.... Agent: Stites & Harbison Pllc

20080144884 - System and method of aerial surveillance: A system and method for an aerial surveillance system are disclosed. Briefly described, one embodiment comprises a lighter-than-air aerial platform, at least one image capture device carried by the lighter-than-air aerial platform and operable to sequentially capture a plurality of images, and at least one control surface physically coupled to... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group Pllc

20080144885 - Threat detection based on radiation contrast: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for threat detection based on radiation contrast. In general, an image from a device having a sensitivity to infrared radiation having a wavelength between three and fifteen micrometers may be received, images features from the image may be extracted, a classification may be... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64046

20080144887 - Video and audio content analysis system: The present invention is directed to various methods and systems for analysis and processing of video and audio signals from a plurality of sources in real-time or off-line. According to some embodiments of the present invention, analysis and processing applications are dynamically installed in the processing units.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080144888 - Image recognition apparatus, image recognition method, and electronic control device: An image recognition apparatus includes a comparing unit that sequentially compares a reference pattern with an image in a search window having a shape corresponding to a size of an object to be determined in an input image while moving the search window relative to the input image to acquire... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080144889 - Registration apparatus, registration method and program: A registration apparatus includes: a calculation section that calculates a positional difference between a part of a physical trait on a first image that is processed and a corresponding part of the physical trait on a second image that is processed earlier than is the first image, the physical trait... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080144893 - Apparatus and method for selecting key frames of clear faces through a sequence of images: A system for determining a key frame of an image sequence wherein the key frame includes the clearest image of the face of a person from the image sequence, the system included an image input means for receiving the image sequence of the person and a processing means for identifying... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080144892 - Converting a digital image from color to gray-scale: Converting a digital image from color to gray-scale. In one example embodiment, a method for converting a digital image from color to gray-scale is disclosed. First, an unconverted pixel having red, green, and blue color channels is selected from the color digital image. Next, the red color channel of the... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080144890 - Image processing apparatus and image display method: An image processing apparatus may include an input accepting unit configured to accept an operation input about an input image; a time-series section generating unit configured to accept information specifying a time-series section where frames including a face of a specified person appear in the input image and information specifying... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080144891 - Method and apparatus for calculating similarity of face image, method and apparatus for retrieving face image, and method of synthesizing face image: A method and apparatus for calculating a similarity of a face image, a method and apparatus for retrieving a face image by using the calculation method and apparatus, and a method of synthesizing a face image are provided. According to the methods and apparatuses, by separately calculating a holistic similarity... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080144894 - Method for filtering a fingerprint image continuation-in-part: This object is achieved by providing a method for filtering a fingerprint image, the method including the step of sequentially processing areas of the image by a directional filter having at least one central ridge and adapted to local properties of respective areas of the image, the local properties including... Agent: Maria Nilova, C/o Patentica Llc

20080144898 - Method for forming an optimally exposed image of cytological specimen: First and second images of respective portions of a cytological specimen are acquired at different brightness levels. Sections of the respective first image are selected and combined with selected sections of the second image of each portion to form a composite image, so that non-nuclei cytological components that would otherwise... Agent: Vista Ip Law Group LLP

20080144897 - Method for performing distributed analysis and interactive review of medical image data: A technique is provided for improving workflow in processing and exchange of image data in a medical context. Image data may be accessed for processing, and save-state information may be generated following such processing that captures a state of an application used to process the image data files. A link... Agent: Patrick S. Yoder Fletcher Yoder

20080144896 - Online system and method for providing interactive medical images: An online method for providing interactive medical images over a communication network includes receiving a request from a client computer via the communication network for a diagnostic imaging modality image. The diagnostic imaging modality image is retrieved from a database. A user interface is generated and is configured to display... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080144895 - System, method, and kit for processing a magnified image of biological material to identify components of a biological object: A system, method and kit for processing an original image of biological material to identify certain components of a biological object by locating the biological object in the image, enhancing the image by sharpening components of interest in the object, and applying a contour-finding function to the enhanced image to... Agent: Incaplaw

20080144899 - Process for extracting periodic features from images by template matching: A method for extracting array elements from an image of an array, the array being contained within a well of a substrate is provided. The method comprises detecting coordinate locations of frequency spectrum peaks in the image by establishing local regions of the image, each local region containing a distinct... Agent: Bose Mckinney & Evans LLP 2700 First Indiana Plaza

20080144901 - Cartoon-like exaggeration of medical images to emphasize abnormalities: A method for displaying a medical image using a computer controlling a display includes animating a stored medical image by smoothly altering properties of the stored medical image between at least a first image and a second image, not necessarily in that order, wherein the second image exaggerates an abnormal... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20080144900 - Fast self-calibrating radial sensitivity encoded image reconstruction using rescaling and preconditioning: In a magnetic resonance imaging method and apparatus, sensitivity encoding (SENSE) with radial sampling trajectories combines the gridding principle with conjugate-gradient least-squares (CGLS) iterative reconstruction. Radial k-space is mapped to a larger matrix by a resealing factor to eliminate the computational complexity of conventional gridding and density compensation. To improve... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080144902 - Optimal block searching algorithm for tissue displacement estimation in elasticity imaging: Disclosed is a method and system that efficiently compares data from two ultrasound images and derives a tissue displacement map for real-time diagnostic imaging applications.... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.c.

20080144903 - Real-time hardware accelerated contour generation based on voi mask: A method and an apparatus for volume based contour generation have been presented. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving a volume dataset representing a volume of interest (VOI) in a three-dimensional (3D) space. The method may further include generating a contour of the VOI from the volume dataset representing... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080144909 - Analysis of pulmonary nodules from ct scans using the contrast agent enhancement as a function of distance to the boundary of the nodule: For differential diagnosis of pulmonary nodules, a certain fraction of malignant nodules do not exhibit significant enhancement when averaged over the whole nodule volume. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, not only a single averaged contrast enhancement number is determined, but an enhancement curve for each nodule,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080144904 - Apparatus and method for the processing of sectional images: The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for the processing of reconstructed 3D images (I) in C-arm based volume imaging which often exhibit spatially slowly varying inhomogeneities caused by inconsistent projection data. To correct the images (I), a retrospective homogenization procedure is proposed. The image (I) is segmented... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080144907 - Devices and methods for reconstructing three dimensional images: The present invention relates to a device and a method for reconstructing three dimensional (3D) images form plural of two dimensional (2D) images in succession.... Agent: Wpat, Pc Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080144910 - Image fusion visualization: An apparatus and method for displaying at least two different image series obtained from the same region of interest of an object include fusing the a first image series and a second image series to obtain a spatial relationship between the first and second image series. Then, a first viewing... Agent: Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080144905 - Novel display adjustment features: A graphical user interface presents an image of an object coded with values from a sequence of qualitative values, according to a calibration of the qualitative values to a selected range of quantitative values. The interface includes a display adjustment feature, having the sequence of qualitative values superimposed thereon, and... Agent: Intellectual Property Group Fredrikson & Byron, P.a.

20080144906 - System and method for video capture for fluoroscopy and navigation: Systems and methods are provided in some embodiments for recording, storage and replay of captured video from a surgical navigation system, a fluoroscopic imaging system, or an integrated fluoroscopy and navigation system. In some embodiments, full resolution video data is captured in an acquisition buffer and is available for replay... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20080144908 - Temporal smoothing of a deformation model: A method and apparatus for approximating a path of movement of a target. The method includes referencing a temporal sequence of images, identifying a plurality of data points associated with a selected volume element of the volume of interest, and calculating an estimated location of the selected volume element based... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080144914 - Artefact elimination for a medical pelvic registration using a tracked pelvic support known to the system: A system for registering a patient's body part in a medical workspace of a medical navigation system is provided, wherein the body part is supported by at least one support device. The system includes a medical navigation system including a processor and memory, a reference device coupled to the at... Agent: Don W. Bulson (brai)

20080144913 - Composite apparatus for radiation therapy and alignment correction data producing method: Discrepancies in alignment between an X-ray CT apparatus and an apparatus for radiation therapy are to be corrected. A phantom for alignment correction (P) is imaged, and data for alignment correction for conversion of data (x, y, z) of the coordinates of the X-ray CT apparatus (100) into data (X,... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080144912 - Measuring linear separations in digital radiographs: Digital pixel data is obtained from radiographic imaging of one or more objects, and corresponds to an imaged area containing a feature to be measured. A data profile for a region around the measured feature is created from the digital pixel data. A reference profile is then created from the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080144911 - Method and apparatus for candidate detection using hessian peak characteristics: A method and an apparatus process images. The method according to one embodiment accesses digital image data including a region of interest; and calculates a Hessian peak characteristic for the region of interest, the calculating step including summing eigenvalues of a Hessian matrix to obtain the Hessian peak characteristic, wherein... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080144916 - Loading and ejection systems for biological growth plate scanner: The invention is directed to a biological scanner for scanning biological growth plates. A biological growth plate can be loaded into the biological scanner. Upon loading of a biological growth plate, the biological scanner generates an image of the plate and may perform an analysis of the image. Various embodiments... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080144915 - Method and system for processing an image of a biological specimen: Components, e.g., background, cytoplasm, nucleus and nucleolus, of a biological specimen are identified using multi-wavelength analysis. Specimen components, such as nucleoli, are selected, and a determination is made whether cells having nucleoli are cancer cells or regular repair cells based on one or more physical characteristics of the identified component.... Agent: Vista Ip Law Group LLP

20080144917 - Method and apparatus for automatic measurement of pad geometry and inspection thereof: An image of a semiconductor interconnection pad is analyzed to determine a geometric description of the zone regions of a multiple zone semiconductor interconnection pad. Edge detection machine vision tools are used to extract features in the image. The extracted features are analyzed to derive geometric descriptions of the zone... Agent: Cognex Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080144918 - System and method for tube scarf detection: A system and method are provided for detecting extraneous material, often referred to as scarf, in the interior of a tubular steel product. The system is arranged to illuminate one end of the tube as it passes through the field of view of an imaging system, preferably a Smart Camera.... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

20080144919 - Determining transmittance of a photomask using optical metrology: Transmittance of a photomask is determined using optical metrology. In particular, reflectance of a portion of the photomask is determined by directing an incident beam of light at the portion of the photomask. The reflectance is determined by measuring light diffracted from the portion of the photomask. One or more... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080144920 - Method of generating inspection data, inspection method, and computer readable storage medium: A method of generating an inspection data used for inspecting an inspection-object pattern on a substrate, the inspection-object pattern formed by transferring a first mask pattern formed on a first mask and a second mask pattern formed on a second mask onto one layer on the substrate, a part of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080144921 - Inspection method and apparatus for partially drilled microvias: Inspection of partially drilled microvias by fluorescence based optical imaging techniques, selective coaxial illumination and multivariable off-axis illumination and the use of comparative image analysis and the transformation of back reflected radiation by means of an integrated fluorescing plate mounted to the surface of a CCD or EMCCD array.... Agent: Davis Bujold & Daniels, P.l.l.c.

20080144922 - Pattern alignment method, pattern inspection apparatus, and pattern inspection system: The present invention relates to a pattern inspection apparatus that allows alignment of various patterns formed on a subject specimen to quickly and easily be performed in a manufacturing apparatus or inspection apparatus of a subject specimen such as a wafer. The pattern inspection apparatus of the present invention includes... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080144923 - Test apparatus and method for testing contact finger: A contact finger test apparatus is used for testing contact fingers of a printed circuit board. The contact finger test apparatus comprises a sampler, a processor and an image-analyzer module. The sampler is for capturing an image of the contact fingers, and converting the image to the digital image. The... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080144924 - Method and device for determining a calibrating parameter of a stereo camera: The invention relates to a method and a device for determining an object property of an object with the aid of images that have been recorded with the aid of a camera. Further, the invention relates to a method for determining a calibration parameter for a stereo camera. For determining... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20080144926 - Obstacle detection system and method therefor: An obstacle detection system using stereo cameras mounted on a vehicle, to detect an obstacle existing on a ground plane at a high speed and in a high precision even with the stereo cameras being uncalibrated and with a vibration during a traveling and a change in the inclination of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080144925 - Stereo-based visual odometry method and system: A method for estimating pose from a sequence of images, which includes the steps of detecting at least three feature points in both the left image and right image of a first pair of stereo images at a first point in time; matching the at least three feature points in... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler P.c.

20080144927 - Nondestructive inspection apparatus: A nondestructive inspection apparatus includes a sensor unit for detecting vibrations transmitted through a test object from a vibration generator and a signal input unit for extracting a target signal from an electric signal outputted from the sensor unit. An amount of characteristics extracting unit is also included for extracting... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080144928 - Color processing apparatus and method: A color processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire color conversion data corresponding to an image output device, a color stabilization accuracy calculating unit configured to calculate a color stabilization accuracy of the image output device, and a correcting unit configured to correct the color conversion data according... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080144929 - Apparatus and method of reproducing preferred color: An apparatus and method of reproducing a preferred color is provided. The apparatus includes a color distribution analysis module to analyze a distribution of colors in an input image, a dominant color extraction module to extract a dominant color from the input image according to a result of the analysis,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080144930 - Color image correcting apparatus and color image correcting method: A color image correcting apparatus includes: a high frequency image generating unit, generating a high frequency image having a high frequency component extracted from a color original image, represented by pixel values of a plurality of channels, for each channel; an average high frequency image generating unit, generating an average... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080144931 - Method and apparatus for local standard deviation based histogram equalization for adaptive contrast enhancement: Various embodiments for image contrast enhancement are described. In one or more embodiments, adaptive contrast enhancement may be realized by performing local standard deviation (LSD) based histogram equalization. In such embodiments, luminance (Y) values of an image may be grouped into one of several luminance regions, with each luminance region... Agent: Kacvinsky Llc C/o Intellevate

20080144932 - Robust feature extraction for color and grayscale images: Systems, methods and program products for converting a first image to an intensity image using principal components analysis where the intensity image is based on a first principal component. The intensity image is analyzed to identify a plurality of scale invariant features in the intensity image, each identified feature associated... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080144933 - Method for generating an image and an image generator: An image is generated by receiving a first image that is acquired during a first exposure period and defining the first image as a reference image; defining multiple reference regions of interest within the reference image, wherein an aggregate number of pixels within the multiple reference regions of interest is... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080144935 - Method for segmentation of digital images: A method for segmenting elements on an image, comprising: i) creating an active contour from at least one identified point on the image; ii) defining a reference intensity value from the pixels of the active contour; iii) simplifying the image by comparing the pixels of the image to the reference... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080144934 - Process for the analysis of the positioning of products on store shelves: The invention concerns a method for the analysis of the positioning of products on shelves based on a digital photograph of at least a part of the shelves. Each product to be analyzed is predefined by a signature of visual characteristics of the product. The method includes the steps of... Agent: Moetteli & Associates Sarl

20080144936 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An apparatus includes a content acquisition unit configured to acquire content data contained in image data, an extraction unit configured to extract a keyword from the image data, a setting unit configured to set acceptance or rejection of modification of the keyword according to a keyword extracted by the extraction... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080144937 - Leveraging temporal, contextual and ordering constraints for recognizing complex activities in video: A system (and a method) are disclosed for recognizing and representing activities in a video sequence. The system includes an activity dynamic Bayesian network (ADBN), an object/action dictionary, an activity inference engine and a state output unit. The activity dynamic Bayesian network encodes the prior information of a selected activity... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20080144938 - Method and apparatus for classifying an input character: A method for classifying an input character, the method comprising the steps of, in a processing system, for a plurality of character models, decomposing the input character into one or more segments in accordance with a segmentation scheme associated with the character model, and evaluating the one or more segments... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080144939 - Method and apparatus of using probabilistic atlas for cancer detection: Methods and apparatuses detect features. The method according to one embodiment accesses digital image data representing an object; accesses reference data including a shape model relating to shape variation from a baseline object, and a probabilistic atlas comprising probability for a feature in the baseline object; performs shape registration for... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080144940 - Method and apparatus of using probabilistic atlas for feature removal/positioning: Methods and apparatuses process images. The method according to one embodiment accesses digital image data representing an image including an object; accesses reference data including a shape model relating to shape variation of objects from a baseline object, the objects and the baseline object being from a class of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080144941 - Face recognition apparatus, face recognition method, gabor filter application apparatus, and computer program: In a face recognition apparatus adapted to recognize an input face image on the basis of one or more registered face images, similarity between an input face image and a registered face image is determined based on a Gabor jet calculated by performing Gabor filtering using Gabor filters defined by... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080144942 - Recognition of parameterised shapes from document images: A method (1100) of creating a document comprising a modifiable shape, is disclosed. The method analyses an image to detect at least a graphical object. The method matches the detected graphical object with at least one of a plurality of predetermined modifiable closed-form non-textual template shapes (e.g., 420) comprising control... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080144944 - Neural network systems for vehicles: Method for obtaining information about an occupying item in a space in a vehicle in accordance with the invention includes obtaining images of an area above a seat in the vehicle in which the occupying item is situated and classifying the occupying item by inputting signals derived from the images... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20080144943 - System and method for enabling image searching using manual enrichment, classification, and/or segmentation: Embodiments described herein provide for a system for creating a data collection of recognized images. The system includes an image analysis module that is configured to programmatically analyze individual images in a collection of images in order to determine information about each image in the collection. The system may also... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080144945 - Clusterization of detected micro-calcifications in digital mammography images: An iterative method for clusterization of objects in a digital image is taught. Recursivity occurs in both a forward and backward direction and connection is tested using a moving reference object. An optimized set of connection laws is used. A method for optimizing the connection laws to be used is... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080144946 - Method of chromatic classification of pixels and method of adaptive enhancement of a color image: A method of processing digital images by transforming a set of pixels from a three-dimensional space to a normalized two-dimensional space, determining a membership class and membership class level of each pixel in the set of pixels, and selectively modifying colors of pixels in the set of pixels based on... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group Pllc

20080144947 - Object authentication using encoded images digitally stored on the object: A method of authenticating an object using optically decodable encoded images is presented. The method comprises attaching a digital data storage medium to the object and storing an optically decodable digital encoded image in the data storage medium. The digital encoded image comprises authentication information determinable by decoding the digital... Agent: J. Michael Martinez De Andino, Esq. Hunton & Williams LLP

20080144949 - Portable terminal: A portable terminal including an input unit (1001), through which images are entered, an encoding unit (1002) operable to encode the input images, thereby providing encoded data, a transmitting unit (1003) operable to transmit the encoded data to a communication counterpart, a receiving unit (1006) operable to receive communication counterpart-related... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080144948 - System, method and article of manufacture for decompressing digital camera sensor data: The present invention includes a system, method, and article of manufacture for decompressing a bit stream of compressed data representing a plurality of image blocks. This includes a two-step method of processing both a DC code and a plurality of AC codes. With respect to the processing of the AC... Agent: Tips Group

20080144950 - Image encoding method and associated image decoding method, encoding device, and decoding device: Disclosed is an image encoding method in which a series of decoded images are generated from a series of original images with the aid of a first encoding process. Furthermore, a series of second images are generated from an image group of the series of original images with the aid... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080144952 - Method and apparatus for hybrid image compression: A Hybrid Compressor (304) and method (500) of compressing a tile (2200) of pixels within an image are disclosed. An Edge Processor (404) of the Hybrid Compressor (304) analyses pixel runs (403) of the tile (2200) and generates boundary data defining one or more regions comprising pixels of substantially identical... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080144951 - System and method for effectively performing an adaptive encoding procedure: A system and method for effectively performing an adaptive encoding procedure includes a texture analyzer that initially determines texture characteristics for blocks of input image data. An image transformer converts the blocks of image data into sets of coefficients that represent the various blocks. A block categorizer utilizes the texture... Agent: Gregory J. Koerner Redwood Patent Law

20080144953 - Image processing apparatus and method thereof: The present invention relates to an image processing method and apparatus for processing compressed image generated by segmenting image data into a plurality of MCUs and using a compression method in which a frequency transformation is applied to each MCU. In a case that the compressed image is decoded, each... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080144954 - Automatically selected adjusters: Automatically selected adjusters are described, including selecting an area of an image, determining a characteristic of the area, and selecting an adjuster of a set of adjusters based on the characteristic of the area.... Agent: Kokka & Backus, Pc

20080144955 - Efficient detection of camera shake: At least two sites in a frame of pixels are specified. The sites are arranged in a particular spatial distribution and correspond with the pixel locations of a block of pixels. Block parameters are calculated for each pixel block of first and second frames. The block parameters may be calculated... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080144956 - Automatic media edit inspector: A system that provides automatic background analysis of a digital image or other media element makes a determination that the image or media element may benefit from correction, and prompts the user to use a correction feature of the system. In some implementations, the prompt itself can navigate the user... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, Llc

20080144957 - Image processing device and method, recording medium, and program: A user interface unit sets a parameter based on operations of a user, and outputs to a parameter correction unit. The parameter correction unit extracts the feature quantity of pixels in an observation region that corresponds to the value of the parameter, and based on the maximal value of that... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080144960 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: There is provided an image processing apparatus and an image processing method capable of exerting a noise reduction effect corresponding to a pixel value of a target pixel. An image processing apparatus that reduces a noise included in a target pixel while reflecting a surrounding pixel located on a surrounding... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080144959 - Method and apparatus for pre-processing scans as a preparation for segmenting the same: A computer-implemented method for pre-processing image data of a three-dimensional volume includes providing the image data of a vessel, applying a super-sampling filter to the image data to generate super-sampled image data having an increased resolution as compared to the image data, applying an unsharp masking filter to the super-sampled... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080144958 - Method for removing noise in image using statistical information and system thereof: Disclosed are an image processing method capable of effectively removing noise contained in an image photographed in a low light environment by using statistical information, and a system thereof. There is provided an image processing method for an image consecutively inputted per frame unit, the method comprising: a step of... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080144961 - Method and image evaluation unit for scene analysis: A method is used for analyzing scenes. The scene or objects in the scene and an optical sensor perform a relative movement and the scene information obtained is evaluated. Visual information of the scene is detected by the individual pixels of the optical sensor and pixel co-ordinates of established variations... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080144962 - Apparatus and method for enhancing color images: Example embodiments are directed to an apparatus and method for enhancing an image. The method may include extracting contrast data from color image data, generating low resolution image data and band pass image data from the contrast data using a Laplacian pyramid, generating global brightness enhanced image data from the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080144963 - Method and related apparatus for modifying color saturation of a display device: A method of modifying color saturation for a display device includes receiving an image data including a brightness data and a saturation data of a frame, generating a brightness statistic result according to the brightness data, comparing the brightness statistic result with a predetermined value for generating a comparison result,... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080144966 - Automated statistical self-calibrating detection and removal of blemishes in digital images based on determining probabilities based on image analysis of single images: A method of automatically correcting dust artifact within images acquired by a system including a digital camera includes determining probabilities of dust artifact regions corresponding to pixels within a digitally-acquired image based at least in part on a pixel analysis of the region in view of predetermined characteristics indicative of... Agent: Fotonation Ip Dept.

20080144965 - Automated statistical self-calibrating detection and removal of blemishes in digital images based on multiple occurrences of dust in images: A method automatically corrects dust artifact within images acquired by a system including a digital acquisition device including a lens assembly. Multiple original digital images are acquired with the digital acquisition device. Probabilities that certain pixels correspond to dust artifact regions within the images are determined based at least in... Agent: Fotonation Ip Dept.

20080144964 - System, method, device, and computer program product for providing image correction: A system, method, device, and computer program product are provided for correcting motion skew in a frame of video or in other images captured using a rolling shutter image sensor. A method for removing motion skew may create a mathematical model of the motion skew, compute the motion skew using... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080144967 - Confidential viewing system utilizing spatial multiplexing: An apparatus and method for providing confidential viewing of a fundamental image on an image display device utilizing spatial multiplexing image modification, whereby fundamental image components of the fundamental image are spatially multiplexed or combined with appropriately determined inverted image components thereof, and aligned with adjacent display regions/pixels of an... Agent: Schroeder & Siegfried, P.a.

20080144968 - Dynamic viewing of wide angle images: A dynamic wide angle image viewing technique is presented which provides a way to view a wide-angle image while zooming between a wide angle view and a narrower angle view that employs both perspective and non-perspective projection models. In general, this involves first establishing the field of view for a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080144969 - Method for performing pattern decomposition based on feature pitch: A method for decomposing a target pattern containing features to be printed on a wafer. The method includes the steps of: (a) defining a kernel representing a function having positive values within an inner radius and negative values in an outer radius; (b) defining the features utilizing a plurality of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080144970 - Universal front end for masks, selections, and paths: A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium are disclosed for editing a digital image with automatic conversion of region modalities. Input comprising an instruction to perform an operation on a first portion of the digital image may be received. The first portion of the digital image may comprise data defined... Agent: M.h.k.k.g., P.c. / Adobe Systems Incorporated

20080144971 - Model-based dewarping method and apparatus: An apparatus and method for processing a captured image and, more particularly, for processing a captured image comprising a document. In one embodiment, an apparatus comprising a camera to capture documents is described. In another embodiment, a method for processing a captured image that includes a document comprises the steps... Agent: Jones Day

20080144972 - Geometric registration of images by similarity transformation using two reference points: A method for registering a first image to a second image using a similarity transformation. The each image includes a plurality of pixels. The first image pixels are mapped to a set of first image coordinates and the second image pixels are mapped to a set of second image coordinates.... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080144973 - Rendering images under cylindrical projections: Systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for forming composite images. In some implementations, a method is provided. The method includes receiving a set of component images for forming a composite image, defining a projection for the set of images transforming each component image into a projected... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080144974 - System for dynamically resizing information handling system images: A system for dynamically resizing information handling system images which dynamically resizes information handling system images and enables presentation of images (such as product images) at multiple sizes in a consistent compression/quality ratio without having to create a new offline batch process for each image dimension and without requiring manual... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080144975 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus includes a setting unit, a converting unit, and a transmitting unit. The setting unit sets a save-mode for image data to be output to reduce color of image data. When the save-mode is set for image data, the converting unit converts reduces color of the image... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080144976 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus (100) includes an operating unit (22A) that is capable of inputting a first operation input in acquiring generic image data and a second operation input in acquiring key image data in different operation forms. In addition, the imaging apparatus (100) stores the generic image data and the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080144977 - Method and system for adaptive recognition of distorted text in computer images: A method and system for recognizing text in computer images comprising distorted text provides an adaptive iterative process wherein recognition rules are adapted, added or omitted based on the present state of the recognition process. When the first pass through the recognition and adaptation is completed, the remaining unrecognized words... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c.

20080144978 - Mobile robot for sensing and decoding a surface coding pattern on a surface: A mobile robot for sensing and decoding a surface coding pattern on a surface includes a housing, A platform is in the housing. An on-board controller is mounted on the platform and configured for wireless communication with a host computer system. A differential drive system is mounted on the platform... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080137903 - Electronic watermark embedding device, electronic watermark detection device, method thereof, and program: A digital watermark embedding apparatus of the present invention includes: a block dividing unit for dividing an input image into plural pixel blocks; a digital watermark information spreading unit for obtaining an embedding series having a length corresponding to a number of divided pixel blocks; a block-by-block embedding unit for... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080137905 - Method and device for inserting data in fixed or animated images: A method for inserting data, including a predetermined number of symbols, into an image sequence of at least one image comprising a predetermined number of lines each containing a predetermined number of pixels, comprising the steps of generating a set of functions with a comb-shaped spectrum inserted in an image... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.c.

20080137904 - Sediment assessment: There are described methods and apparatus for assessing sediments generated in liquid-based systems. The methods involve optically obtaining information to enable height and, thus, volume data relating to sediments to be measured. Although single samples of liquid-based systems may be processed the methods are particularly suited to processing multiple samples... Agent: Jones Day

20080137906 - Smoke detecting method and device: A smoke detecting method is provided. The smoke detecting method includes steps of (a) capturing a video segment for a object and a background; (b) analyzing if an image of the object is moving; (c) analyzing a chrominance variance of the moving object with a corresponding background; (d) analyzing at... Agent: Bever Hoffman & Harms, LLP Tri-valley Office

20080137907 - Method and arrangement for recognizing objects in mail item images, their position and reading their postal information: s

20080137908 - Detecting and recognizing traffic signs: A method for detecting and identifying a traffic sign in a computerized system mounted on a moving vehicle. The system includes a camera mounted on the moving vehicle. The camera captures in real time multiple image frames of the environment in the field of view of the camera and transfers... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20080137909 - Method and apparatus for tracking gaze position: A gaze position tracking method and apparatus for simply mapping one's gaze position on a monitor screen are provided. The gaze position tracking apparatus includes an image capturing module, and an image processing module. The image capturing module illuminates infrared rays to a user's eyes, reflects an illuminated eye image... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080137910 - Locating method for locating a predetermined spot on a road and a locating apparatus using the method: A picked-up image receiver receives a plurality of picked-up images taken by image pickup apparatuses provided in a plurality of positions on a road, respectively, via a wireless network. A reference image acquisition unit acquires a reference image to be compared respectively with the plurality of picked-up images received by... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080137912 - Apparatus and method for recognizing position using camera: Provided are a location awareness apparatus using a camera and a method thereof. The apparatus includes: an image capturing unit for photographing a position identification tag using a camera; a distance measuring unit for measuring a distance to a position identification tag; an incident angle measuring unit for measuring a... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080137911 - Sight distance measuring device: The invention relates to a device for determining visibility distance in a landscape. The device comprises a camera for taking an image of said landscape; means for storing said image; means for associating each pixel of the image with information representative of the distance between the camera and the point... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080137913 - Optical flow based tilt sensor: A method is described for determining a description of motion of a moving mobile camera to determine a user input to an application. The method may involve capturing a series of images from a moving mobile camera and comparing stationary features present in the series of images. Optical flow analysis... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080137915 - Method and apparatus to detect print location error using print dots: A method and apparatus to detect a print location error using print dots. The method includes transforming values of pixels of a first image into frequency domains, where a plurality of print dots are arranged at predetermined intervals in the first image; transforming values of pixels of a second image,... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080137914 - Printer job visualization: A system for visualizing a print job includes a print job simulator which applies a print job model to print job image data to generate an image which simulates a rendered image of the print job if the print job were to be printed on a specific marking device. The... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080137916 - Biometic identification and authentication method: s

20080137919 - Face image processing apparatus and method: A face image processing apparatus, includes: a face region detecting unit configured to detect a face feature point of a person from a plurality of images picked up by a plurality of imaging units respectively, to detect a face region; a face feature extracting unit configured to extract a face... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080137918 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, person identification apparatus, and method and program of producing/updating dictionary data in person identification apparatus: In an information processing apparatus, an acquisition unit acquires information of a predetermined type, and a reliability information producing unit produces reliability information indicating reliability of the information of the predetermined type on the basis of a deviation from a predetermined standard condition. A storage unit stores the reliability information... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080137917 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method, recognition apparatus and information recognition method, and program: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus including combination generating means for getting a first feature quantity of N dimensions, N being an integer of at least two, from first information prepared for execution of learning and use the first feature quantity of N dimensions to generate at least... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080137920 - Personal identification device and method: A personal identification device including: an image pickup unit; a light source which emits the light adapted to be transmitted through a finger and incident on said image pickup unit; an image operating unit which generates a pattern from an image picked up by said image pickup unit and matching... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080137921 - Analyzing lesions in a medical digital image: A method of analyzing a lesion in a medical digital image using at least one point contained within a lesion to be analyzed includes propagating a wave-front surface from the point(s) for a plurality of steps; partitioning the wave-front surface into a plurality of wave-front parts wherein each wave-front part... Agent: Carestream Health Inc,

20080137924 - Device for merging a 2d radioscopy image with an image from a 3d image data record: The invention relates to a device for merging a 2D radioscopy image with an image obtained from a 3D image data record, having a memory unit that stores the 2D radioscopy image and the 3D image data record, a segmentation unit that segments an inner surface of a hollow organ... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080137925 - Method of generating multiscale contrast enhanced image: A method of generating a multiscale contrast enhanced image is described wherein the shape of edge transitions is preserved. Detail images are subjected to a conversion, the conversion function of at least one scale being adjusted for each detail pixel value according to the ratio between the combination of the... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20080137922 - Organization of dissimilar data for platform-independent diagnostic imaging presentation: Methods and systems for converting dissimilar raw data collected primarily from one or more imaging devices into standard formats, organizing the formatted data into a hierarchical arrangement to facilitate efficient memory storage and subsequent retrieval, generating an imaging presentation, and recording that presentation onto portable media are shown. The imaging... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080137923 - X-ray identification of interventional tools: A system and method enhance the visibility of medical devices shown in internal images. A medical device may be inserted into a patient. Internal images of the patient may then be acquired via various medical imaging techniques. However, the medical device may only be partially visible in the images, if... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080137929 - Anatomical visualization and measurement system: A method for determining the risk of rupture of a blood vessel using an appropriate set of 2-D slice images obtained by scanning the blood vessel, the method comprising: generating a mesh model of the blood vessel using the set of 2-D slice images; conducting finite element stress analysis on... Agent: Mark J. Pandiscio Pandiscio & Pandiscio, P.c.

20080137927 - Coloring electroanatomical maps to indicate ultrasound data acquisition: During acquisition of ultrasound data in a medical imaging procedure, three-dimensional model of a structure being imaged, e.g., an electroanatomical map, is co-displayed and visually marked, to indicate progress of data acquisition. The plane of intersection successive two-dimensional images are marked on the as a line or colored region on... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20080137931 - Method and device for registering an anatomical structure using markers: A method for registering an anatomical structure using at least one marker attached to the structure includes: obtaining a three-dimensional model of the structure via an imaging method; obtaining at least two two-dimensional recordings of the structure from different angles; and ascertaining a spatial position and location of the three-dimensional... Agent: Don W. Bulson (brai)

20080137926 - Method and system for adjusting 3d ct vessel segmentation: Method and system for processing an object within a diagnostic image comprises segmenting a three dimensional (3D) object within a diagnostic image. A contour of the object is fitted with a 3D mesh comprising splines in at least first and second directions. The splines provide a plurality of editable control... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20080137928 - Method and system for registering ct data sets: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for registering data points in data sets representing scan data. Data points corresponding to a physical feature represented in the scan data are automatically detected. The detected data points in one data set are correlated with detected data points in another data set. A... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080137930 - Motion correction of pet images using navigator data acquired with an mri system: A method for correcting subject motion in positron emission tomography (PET) imaging includes acquiring navigator signals from the subject with a magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system. The navigator signals are used to determine subject motion during a PET scan relative to a reference position and corrective values therefrom. Sinogram data... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080137932 - System and method for automatic detection of rib metastasis in computed tomography volume: A method and system for automatically detecting rib metastasis in a thoracic CT volume is disclosed. The ribs are segmented in said CT volume by recursive tracing. A series of cross-sectional images are then generated along a centerline of each rib. Cortical and trabecular bone structures are segmented in each... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080137933 - Variable tomographic scanning with wavelength scanning digital interface holography: A series of holograms is recorded by synchronizing a camera with laser pulses under the control of a digital delay generator. Amplitude and phase images are calculated while image distances are adjusted for the best focus on the object under observation. The amplitude and phase images are reconstructed while adjusting... Agent: Smith Hopen, Pa

20080137935 - Locally adaptive image enhancement for digital subtraction x-ray imaging: A system and method provide local image enhancement. Internal native images of a patient may be acquired during an interventional procedure. A portion of the native images may show an interventional device or material. Subtracted images may be created by subtracting mask images from the native images, such as via... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080137936 - Method for providing a 3d x-ray image dataset of a patient's heart: X-ray images are recorded of a patient's heart and the heartbeat phase is registered as that is done. The heartbeat phases are coarsely divided into intervals and all X-ray images that have been assigned heartbeat phase from the interval are used for reconstructing a 3D image dataset. The movement fields... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080137934 - Three dimensional image processing apparatus and x-ray diagnosis apparatus: A three dimensional image processing apparatus includes a feature point designation unit which designates feature points on at least two selected images selected from a plurality of images in different radiographing directions, a three dimensional position calculation unit which calculates a three dimensional position associated with a feature point, a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080137937 - Automatic image analysis and quantification for fluorescence in situ hybridization: An analysis system automatically analyzes and counts fluorescence signals present in biopsy tissue marked using Fluorescence in situ Hybridization (FISH). The user of the system specifies classes of a class network and process steps of a process hierarchy. Then pixel values in image slices of biopsy tissue are acquired in... Agent: Imperium Patent Works

20080137938 - Method for assessing image focus quality: A method for determining the quality of focus of a digital image of a biological specimen includes obtaining a digital image of a specimen using a specimen imaging apparatus. A measure of image texture is calculated at two different scales, and the measurements are compared to determine how much high-resolution... Agent: Vista Ip Law Group LLP

20080137939 - Method and apparatus for any which way check acceptance: An Any Which Way Check Acceptance method and apparatus is provided, which allow a set of checks to be deposited in a stack, where each check can be oriented in any of sixteen different ways. In one embodiment of the invention, the ATM check reader has an MICR and OCR... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080137940 - Object recognition apparatus and object recognition method using epipolar geometry: An object recognition apparatus that processes images, as acquired by an imaging means (10) mounted on a moving object, in a first image plane and a second image plane of different points of view, and recognizes an object in the vicinity of the moving object. The object recognition apparatus comprises:... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080137941 - Constructing basis functions using sensor wavelength dependence: Generation of basis functions for spectral reflectances of color samples is provided. Reflectance information of the color samples is input, the reflectance information is weighted with a weighting function based on a wavelength dependence of an optical sensor, and the weighted information is analyzed to obtain the basis functions. Basis... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080137942 - Apparatus and method of reproducing preferred color: An apparatus and method of reproducing a preferred color to eliminate or reduce errors caused when converting of colors of an input image in corresponding color regions of a color space, respectively, wherein the colors of an input image are included in a plurality of different color regions. The apparatus... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080137943 - Apparatus and method to improve clarity of image: Disclosed are an apparatus and method to improve clarity of images, which can prevent the degradation of the clarity of a display unit caused by deterioration of a contrast characteristic. The apparatus includes: an artifact reducing unit determining a representative color of one of the images and moving a color... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080137944 - Adaptive red eye correction: An image processing method takes as its input, a patch of an image where a candidate red-eye has been detected. The method includes classifying the patch with a classifier trained to assign the patch either to a default first class of patches associated with a standard correction of the candidate... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080137945 - Apparatus and method for equalizing illumination of light sources for digital image test member, and apparatus and method for testing color of digital image using the same: An illumination equalizing device includes a polygonal rotary column disposed in a sealed space, equipped with light sources, and rotatable at specific angular intervals, light sources radiating light onto an image test member attached to a wall of the sealed space for testing a digital image, the light sources mounted... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080137948 - Color processing apparatus and color processing method: Upon creating a color conversion table from a first color space to a second color space, a reversal region where hues are reversed is detected from at least one color gamut in step S2, and the reversal region is corrected in step S3. Mapping is done based on the corrected... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080137947 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: This invention more effectively suppresses color fringing in a color image by image processing. An image processing method includes estimating the degree of color fringing in a color image based on the color image that is generated by photo-electrically converting an object image and formed from a plurality of color... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.c. John J Torrente

20080137946 - System, medium, and method with noise reducing adaptive saturation adjustment: A system, medium, and method with noise reducing adaptive saturation adjustment. The system with adaptive saturation adjustment includes a luminance value extracting unit extracting luminance values of an input image, and a saturation adjusting unit adjusting saturation components of the input image on the basis of the extracted luminance values.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080137949 - Generalized rigid alignment of 3d ear impression models: A method for rigid registration of ear impression models, including: extracting a canal region from an undetailed ear impression model, the undetailed ear impression model representing an undetailed surface of an ear canal and outer ear geometry; extracting a canal region from a detailed ear impression model, the detailed ear... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080137950 - System and method for analyzing of human motion based on silhouettes of real time video stream: A system and method for analyzing the motions of an object based on the silhouettes of the object are provided. The system includes a foreground detector, a contour extractor, a model generator, a corner histogram generator, and a value of similarity measuring unit. The foreground detector detects a moving foreground... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080137951 - Image processing method and apparatus and storage medium: Software of a simple configuration checks whether an original image to be corrected is an image picture, and an image correction process based upon a formed histogram of the original image is not performed for an image different from the image picture. An image processing condition is set in accordance... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080137952 - User definable image reference regions: A method for image processing of a digital image, in which a region of interest is defined in the digital image, one or more sets of pixel characteristics are determined for the region of interest, along with an image editing function, and the digital image is processed by applying a... Agent: Nik Software, Inc. C/o Sheldon Mak Rose & Anderson

20080137953 - Conformal segmentation of organs in medical images: A method and an apparatus for segmenting contours of objects in an image is disclosed. It particularly applies to the segmentation of body organs or parts depicted in medical images. An input image containing at least one object comprises pixel data sets of at least two dimensions. An edge-detected image... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080137954 - Method and apparatus for identifying regions of different content in an image: A method of identifying regions of different content in an image comprises dividing image data into a plurality of pixel blocks, extracting features of the pixel blocks and classifying the content of the pixel blocks based on extracted features.... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080137955 - Method for recognizing characters: A method for recognizing characters is provided. All the characters to be recognized are categorized into a plurality of character categories according to the relative positions of the characters in the typographical lines before the characters are recognized. When recognizing the characters, a character is compared with only those characters... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080137956 - Fast human pose estimation using appearance and motion via multi-dimensional boosting regression: Methods and systems are described for three-dimensional pose estimation. A training module determines a mapping function between a training image sequence and pose representations of a subject in the training image sequence. The training image sequence is represented by a set of appearance and motion patches. A set of filters... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20080137959 - Device, method and program for detecting eye: An eye detecting device includes an image generating device for generating a face image, a nostril detecting portion for detecting a nostril in the face image, an eye searching area setting portion for setting an eye searching area in the face image based on a position of the nostril detected... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080137957 - Method of automatically detecting and tracking a face by an electronic capturing device: The present invention discloses a method of automatically detecting and tracking a face by an electronic capturing device that alternatively uses a face detecting algorithm to quickly locate a face in a frame based on a skin color model and a face tracking algorithm to locate a face in subsequent... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080137958 - Method of utilizing mobile communication device to convert image character into text and system thereof: A method of utilizing a mobile communication device to convert image character into text and a system thereof are provided, which are utilized in a service to wirelessly transmit the image character captured by the mobile communication device to a server for being converted into an encoded text and then... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080137960 - Apparatus and method for detecting horizon in sea image: Provided is an apparatus and method for detecting a horizon which is necessary to detect a camera movement when compositing sea images in a marker-free sea-image camera tracking system. In the method, an ROI is selected near a horizon in a still image of the moving image of the sea,... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080137961 - Image processing apparatus, method for controlling image processing apparatus, and storage medium storing related program: An image processing apparatus can generate a vector sequence representing each color region of a color image. The image processing apparatus divides the image into plural regions based on attribute information of the image, and extracts region boundary information relating to a boundary line between different regions. The image processing... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080137962 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus includes a receiving section, an edge detection section and a screen processing section. The receiving section receives image information. The edge detection section detects an edge area from the image information received by the receiving section. The screen processing section performs a screen process, which is... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080137963 - Device for processing video images, video projection system and signal intended for use by the projection system: The present invention relates to a processing device of a sequence of video images intended to be displayed by a digital cinema projection system, a projection system for the digital cinema and a video signal designed to be used by such a system. The use of an anti-camcorder method against... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080137964 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An apparatus (e.g. MFP) calculates the feature amount of a query image. The similarity between the feature amount of each image stored in a storage device and the feature amount of the query image is calculated, thereby obtaining a plurality of candidate images similar to the query image. The display... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080137965 - Image processor, control method therefor, image forming apparatus, and program: An image processor capable of detecting whether an image formed on a recording medium by the image forming apparatus is defective or non-defective with as high accuracy as possible and at high speed. A sheet-surface portion-determining section determines sheet-surface portions of a non-defective formed image on a pixel basis, and... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080137967 - editing apparatus, design editing method, and storage medium therefor: An apparatus includes a reference point setting unit configured to set a reference point on an image to be fitted into a layout frame of a template, a trimming unit configured to perform trimming processing on the image according to the reference point being set on the image and an... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080137966 - Display apparatus and method: A method of displaying an image from a image store to a display device at a predetermined output frame period is described in which the image is represented by a plurality of pixels and each pixel has a colour represented by pixel values which define a position within colour space.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080137968 - Apparatus and method for measuring quality of image received via communication network: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for measuring quality of an image received via a communication network. The apparatus includes an interface unit, a codec unit, a test image detection unit, and a Mean Opinion Score (MOS) measurement unit. The interface unit receives an image, including a start synchronization... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.c.

20080137970 - Automatic nodule measurements: A method for automatically estimating a measure of a nodule includes providing sliced image volume data comprising at least one marked position of the nodule, extracting a sub-volume from the sliced image volume data that includes the marked position, performing a figure-ground separation to determine a solid foreground of the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080137969 - Estimation of within-class matrix in image classification: For the classification of images, a classification measure is computed by registering a set of images to a reference image and performing linear discriminant analysis on the set of images using a conditioned within-class scatter matrix. The classification measure may be used for classifying images, as well as for visualising... Agent: Needle & Rosenberg, P.c.

20080137971 - Method and system for character recognition: A method and system for character recognition are described. In one embodiment, it may use matched sequences rather than character shape to determine a computer legible result.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080137973 - Image coding apparatus, image coding method, image decoding apparatus and image decoding method: A coded bit stream generated on a coding side consists of a VO header, a VOL header, a GOV header, a VOP header and VOP data, and the VOL header multiplexes an object intra-coded indicator signal indicating whether all the VOP data contained in a VOL or GOV are intra... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080137972 - Image signal processing apparatus and image signal processing method: An image signal processing apparatus may include a partial image data block obtaining unit configured to obtain partial image data blocks by dividing image data corresponding to a predetermined screen having a predetermined number of horizontal and vertical pixels into image data portions, each having a predetermined number of partial... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080137974 - Jbig coding and decoding system: A Joint Bi-level Image Group (JBIG) coding and decoding system, which provides a series of fully serial and parallel computational combinations in arithmetic coding and decoding to thereby reduce the complexity of JBIG arithmetic encoder and decoder and increase the processing speed. The JBIG coding system receives pixels and contexts... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080137975 - Decoder, decoding method and computer readable medium: There is provided with a decoder which decodes coded image data obtained by applying entropy coding to first data obtained by applying a discrete cosine transform and quantization processing to image data, including: a first decoding unit configured to apply entropy-decoding to the coded image data to obtain the first... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080137977 - Method of generating multiscale contrast enhanced image: A method of generating a multiscale contrast enhanced image preserving the shape of the edge transitions is described. Enhanced detail pixel values are computed by combining enhanced center difference images at least one scale.... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20080137976 - Representing and reconstructing high dynamic range images: A high dynamic range image can be recovered from a full-resolution lower-dynamic-range image and a reduced-resolution higher-dynamic-range image. Information regarding higher spatial frequencies may be obtained by extracting high spatial frequencies from the lower-dynamic-range image. In some embodiments an approximate impulse-response function is determined by comparing the higher- and lower-dynamic... Agent: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation

20080137981 - Focus monitoring method: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of monitoring a focus position on a surface of a wafer for an exposure apparatus which transfers by exposure a pattern formed on a mask onto the wafer, including tilting at least one of the mask and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080137980 - Image processing method and apparatus: An image processing method executes image processing to correct a non-uniform perceived resolution caused by image distortion correction, thereby achieving a uniform perceived resolution over an entire displayed image. The image processing method includes the step of adjusting an aperture compensation signal using distortion correcting data to correct a non-uniform... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080137978 - Method and apparatus for reducing motion blur in an image: A method and apparatus for reducing motion blur in a motion blurred image are provided. The method includes blurring a guess image based on the motion blurred image as a function of blur parameters of the motion blurred image. The blurred guess image is compared with the motion blurred image... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080137979 - Registration of separations: Separations or images relating to film or other fields may be registered using a variety of features, such as, for example: (1) correcting one or more film distortions; (2) automatically determining a transformation to reduce a film distortion; (3) applying multiple criteria of merit to a set of features to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080137982 - Blurring determination device, blurring determination method and printing apparatus: The blurring determination device references image data in which are recorded coefficients that are obtained when pixel values forming the image in the spatial domain are converted to the frequency domain, and detects edges oriented in two or more directions, from among the image data, by comparing a series of... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20080137983 - Image pickup processing method and image pickup apparatus: A roll correction section (21) performs correction to an image captured by a camera (11). A region limiting section (15) limits image data of an image in an upper region of the image and outputs the image data and a roll amount detection section (13) detects, from the limited and... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20080137984 - Smart grey level magnifier for digital display: Systems and methods are provided that facilitate grey level magnification to improve details and contrast for a dark scene of video on a digital display system. Preferably implemented over a limited pixel level range, the video enhancement process counts the number of pixels corresponding to each level within the range... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP Ip Prosecution Department

20080137986 - Automatic analysis and adjustment of digital images with exposure problems: Techniques and tools for analyzing and adjusting the exposure of digital images are described. For example, a computer processes a digital image by analyzing exposure data, assigning an image classification (e.g., StretchNeeded, UnderExposed, OverExposed, or Normal) based on the analysis, and selecting an exposure compensation technique (e.g., histogram stretch, positive... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20080137985 - Method, apparatus and system providing column shading correction for image sensor arrays: A method of column shading correction comprising measuring pixel response values in a pixel array, calculating column shading correction coefficients for each column in a pixel array based on the steps of calculating a column noise correction coefficient value using dark rows and averaging a plurality of the column noise... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080137987 - Correcting image distortion caused by scanning: An apparatus, system, method, computer program and product are disclosed, each capable of correcting distortion in a scanned image, using at least a character line extracted from the scanned image. To extract the character line, a circumscribed rectangle is formed for each character, having a length determined based on an... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080137988 - Camouflage articles and method of makng and using same: The present invention relates to a camouflage pattern comprising naturally occurring objects in combination with non-naturally occurring objects such as a logo, trademark, brand, name, symbol or other designation. In order to make such a camouflage pattern a two-dimensional layout of a collage or combination of images of a naturally... Agent: S. Michael Bender

20080137989 - Arrangement and method for three-dimensional depth image construction: Three-dimensional image data is generated. According to an example embodiment, three-dimensional depth information is estimated from a still image. A set of monocular images and their corresponding ground-truth depth maps are used to determine a relationship between monocular image features and the depth of image points. For different points in... Agent: Crawford Maunu Pllc Suite 390

20080137990 - Representing and reconstructing high dynamic range images: A high dynamic range image can be recovered from a full-resolution lower-dynamic-range image and a reduced-resolution higher-dynamic-range image. Information regarding higher spatial frequencies may be obtained by extracting high spatial frequencies from the lower-dynamic-range image. In some embodiments an approximate impulse-response function is determined by comparing the higher- and lower-dynamic... Agent: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation

20080137991 - Image file management apparatus and image file management method: An image file management apparatus capable of managing image data and attribute information associated with the image data includes an image file storage unit configured to store an image file including the image data and one or more pieces of attribute information associated with the image data, an attribute information... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080137992 - Fluid flow measurement system, fluid flow measurement method, and computer program: A fluid flow measurement system including a sheet-shaped light emitting device that emits a sheet-shaped light into a flow field of a fluid containing particles; a CMOS image sensor that captures an image on a sheet emitted by the light-emitting device and that can convert the image signal into digital... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080130944 - Digital watermark systems and methods: A digital watermark is added to audio or visual content. An illustrative embodiment permutes the content, alters the permuted content to encode a watermark, and inverse-permutes the content to return same to substantially its original form. Related watermark decoding methods are also detailed, as are ancillary features and techniques... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080130943 - Image processing apparatus, control method therefor, program, and storage medium: An image processing apparatus is configured to extract paper-fingerprint information from a printing sheet and to identify unique information unique to the printing sheet and attached to the printing sheet. The image processing apparatus is further configured to compare the identified unique information associated with the printing sheet with previously... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080130942 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program: Data representing a sheet of document is obtained. Then, an area where it is possible to obtain a paper fingerprint from the obtained data representing the sheet of document is determined, and a paper fingerprint intensity of the sheet of document is calculated based on a number of areas of... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080130940 - Method and system for obscuring and securing financial data in an online banking application: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that obscures critical information communicated over a network. During operation, the system receives a set of data and produces a file which represents a character in the data with at least one image, thereby avoiding representing the data in plain text... Agent: Pvf -- Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080130945 - Secure documents with hidden signals, and related methods and systems: A security document comprising artwork including a security pattern, characterized in that the security pattern has the form of a line structure in which lines width or line spacing is adjusted to carry predefined data. The artwork is generated by the modifying at least one color of at least a... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080130941 - Watermark detection device: According to one embodiment, a watermark detection device includes: a decoding unit comprising a plurality of decoders that respectively decode a plurality of data streams, at least one of which a watermark is superimposed on; a mixer that mixes the decoded data streams; a controller that specifies one of the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080130947 - Address disambiguation for mail-piece routing: Improvements are disclosed for automatically routing items, such as mail-piece items (FIG. 2), in support of efficiently and correctly delivering them to an intended destination. A destination address is read by a recognizer (12) but it may be too ambiguous (14,18) initially for routing the piece. The addressee name is... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080130946 - Method, system and data structure for processing documents and kit for finding and reading markings on a document: A method for processing a document, including performing one or more processing steps with the document, such as printing, franking, assembling mail pieces, or opening received mail pieces. The method further includes defining a first possible location of a marking on a document; and searching a first part of a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080130952 - method for scene modeling and change detection: A method for dynamic scene modeling and change detection applicable to motion analysis utilizes optical flow for capturing and modeling the dynamics of the scene. Uncertainties in the measurements are evaluated and utilized in order to develop a robust representation of the scene in a higher dimensional space. In another... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080130950 - Eye gaze tracker system and method: The invention relates to systems and methods for tracking the movement of an operator's eyes in order to determine the real-time gaze angle of the eyes of the operator. In one embodiment, the invention may utilize an eye camera and a processing device. A frame by frame image of the... Agent: Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon LLP And The Boeing Company

20080130953 - Operation estimating apparatus and program: An operation estimating apparatus includes an image obtaining unit, a human body feature point specifying unit, and an operation estimating unit. The image obtaining unit repeatedly obtains images. The human body feature point specifying unit specifies a predetermined human body feature point of an operator in each of the images.... Agent: Posz Law Group, Plc

20080130949 - Surveillance system and method for tracking and identifying objects in environments: A method and system tracks objects using a surveillance database storing events acquired by a set of sensors and sequences of images acquired by a set of cameras. Sequences of temporally and spatially adjacent events sensed by the set of sensors are linked to form a set of tracklets and... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080130951 - System and method for modeling movement of objects using probabilistic graphs obtained from surveillance data: A method and system tracks models and predict object movement in an environment. Sequences of temporally and spatially adjacent events sensed by the set of sensors are linked to form a set of tracklets. Each tracklet has an associated starting and terminating location. The tracklets are used to construct a... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080130948 - System and method for object tracking and activity analysis: Embodiments of the invention relate to methods and systems for providing real-time video surveillance of crowded environments. The method consists of several object detection and tracking processes that may be selected automatically to track individual objects or group of objects based on the resolution and occlusion levels in the input... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler Pc

20080130954 - Vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus: A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus is provided herein which is capable of determining an object type, particularly capable of determining an animal other than a human being among objects. The vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus which monitors the surroundings of a vehicle by using an image captured by a camera (2R,... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20080130955 - Land software tool: Disclosed is a network accessible tool that is capable of providing map and satellite image data, as well as other photographic image data to locate, identify, measure, view, and communicate information about land over the Internet-to-Internet users. The network accessible tool includes a location tool that allows the user to... Agent: Cochran Freund & Young Llc

20080130957 - System for scheduling, recordation and biometric validation of interpersonal interactions: A system for scheduling and recording interpersonal interactions using biometric validation to verify user identity and assure user conformance with preselected criteria upon which approval of an interpersonal interaction is contingent.... Agent: Erickson & Kleypas, L.l.c.

20080130956 - Virtual entry assistant using automated greeter: A virtual security guard or receptionist automatically allows entry to an area by determining a user's identity and comparing that to an access list. If the user is authorized, then the user is allowed entry to the area. The receptionist can be implemented by either a sign, or by using... Agent: Law Office Of Scott C Harris

20080130958 - Method and system for vision-based parameter adjustment: A vision-based parameter adjustment method (40) and system (10) can include a presentation device (14), a camera (18) and a processor 16). The system can visually recognize (41) a user or a set of users using a vision-based recognition system, track (42) at least one user preference setting for the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080130959 - Iris identification system integrated usb storage device: An iris identification system integrated USB storage device includes a USB interface unit which includes a USB port, and a USB controller adapted to control a data transmission between the USB port and the Data Storage; a Data Storage which stores data inputted from the computer through the USB interface... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080130961 - Face feature point detection apparatus and feature point detection apparatus: Plural nodes are arranged at predetermined initial positions, and feature values at plural sampling points around each node are obtained as a node feature value of each corresponding node. An error estimator indicating displacement between the current position of each node and the position of corresponding feature point is obtained... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080130960 - Identifying images using face recognition: A method includes identifying a named entity, retrieving images associated with the named entity, and using a face detection algorithm to perform face detection on the retrieved images to detect faces in the retrieved images. At least one representative face image from the retrieved images is identified, and the representative... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080130962 - Method and apparatus for extracting face feature: A method and apparatus for extracting a face feature to construct a face search system having a high recognition rate are provided. The method includes calculating an average image of each of a plurality of candidates having one or more face images to which different weights are given according to... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080130963 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method, program, and storage medium: Paper fingerprint information that represents a fiber pattern unique to a paper sheet is scanned, and the paper fingerprint information and its position information are embedded at two corners as the cater-cornered positions on a paper sheet. The paper fingerprint information is extracted based on the embedded position information.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080130968 - Apparatus and method for customized report viewer: A system for the automatic generation of custom report viewing utilizes imaging data and computer-aided detection technology to identify cancerous tumors. A typical collection of data from a patent's scan may include hundreds of images and associated data. The custom report viewer allows one physician, such as a radiologist, to... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20080130967 - Compression and decompression of medical images: A medical image compression and decompression technique is presented which exploits the special characteristics of medical images so as to increase the achievable compression ratio over existing generic image compression techniques. In general, the presented technique categorizes medical images based on the type of images. Medical images within the same... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080130969 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus includes at least two living-body detecting units, a imaging unit, and a drive unit. The living-body detecting units are provided at a imaging position where a part of a living body is laid, in conformity with the shape of the part of the living body. The imaging... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080130965 - Method and apparatus for parameter assisted image-guided surgery (paigs): Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices, and/or systems for performing Parameter Assisted, Image-Guided Surgery (PAIGS) are described. In one particular embodiment, a method of performing PAIGS comprises accessing image data for a surgical object, receiving one or more instrument parameters for a surgical instrument from one or more sensors coupled to... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20080130966 - Method of image acquisition notification: A method of image acquisition notification is disclosed. A visual and/or audible indication is provided to a user of an application to indicate to the user that image acquisition has occurred. At least one digital image is acquired using an imaging modality and the image is automatically transmitted in an... Agent: Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP

20080130964 - Methods and apparatus for analysing ultrasound images: A method of improving an image or a set of images, by transforming an intensity histogram thereof is disclosed. The method comprises: (a) fitting the intensity histogram to a sum of a plurality of localized functions; (b) using the plurality of localized functions to define a plurality of localized intensity... Agent: Martin D Moynihan Prtsi Inc.

20080130970 - System and method for feature score mapping and visualization of medical images: A system to collect and analyze medical image data is applicable for multi-modality medical imaging systems, such as x-ray, MRI, and the like. Medical image data is collected and analyzed to determine one or more regions of interest. A selected region of interest is further analyzed to determine morphological characteristics.... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20080130971 - Systems and methods for monitoring the amplification and dissociation behavior of dna molecules: The present invention relates to systems and methods for monitoring the amplification of DNA molecules and the dissociation behavior of the DNA molecules.... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.c.

20080130975 - Ct data processing apparatus and ct data processing method: A CT data processing apparatus and a CT data processing method capable of separating a subcutaneous fat region from a visceral fat region accurately and efficiently in CT data are provided. The CT data processing apparatus includes a center calculation part that calculates a body center 41 of an examinee... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080130974 - Method and device of reconstructing an (n+1)-dimensional image function from radon data: A method of reconstructing an (n+1)-dimensional image function ƒ representing a region of investigation comprises determining the image function ƒ from n-dimensional or less dimensional Radon data comprising a plurality of projection functions pθ(t) measured corresponding to a plurality of predetermined projection directions (Θ), wherein the image function ƒ is... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080130972 - Storing imaging parameters: A method of imaging. The method includes determining imaging parameters. Further, the method includes acquiring image data from a patient. Additionally, the method includes storing the imaging parameters with the acquired image data. The method also includes retrieving the stored imaging parameters for use in a subsequent examination. Systems and... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080130973 - Systems, methods and apparatus for multi-slice quantitative imaging: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which multi-slice acquisitions of T1ρ-weighted data are combined to form quantitative T1ρ values without retrospective correction for the contaminating effects of other MR relaxation parameters.... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20080130976 - Edge boundary definition for radiographic detector: A method for defining edge boundaries of an image formed on a flat-panel radiographic detector. The method includes obtaining digital image pixel values from the radiographic detector; obtaining dimensional information about a collimator in the radiographic signal path; analyzing the image to detect one or more collimator blade edges; and... Agent: Carestream Health Inc,

20080130979 - Matching geometry generation and display of mammograms and tomosynthesis images: A method and a system for using tomosynthesis projection images of a patient's breast to reconstruct slice tomosynthesis images such that anatomical structures that appear superimposed in a mammogram are at conforming locations in the reconstructed images.... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080130978 - Method and apparatus for detection using cluster-modified graph cuts: A method and an apparatus process images. The method according to one embodiment accesses digital image data representing an image including an object; clusters pixels of the image to obtain clusters; generates a graph with pixels of the image and cluster membership information of pixels in the clusters; and segments... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080130977 - Method and apparatus for detection using gradient-weighted and/or distance-weighted graph cuts: Methods and apparatuses process images. The method according to one embodiment accesses digital image data representing an image including an object; generates a connected graph associated with the image, the generating step including representing pixels of the image in a higher than two dimensional space to obtain pixel representations, generating... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080130980 - Paper currency note scanner and identifier for use by visually impaired individuals: A miniature hand held scanner easily transportable on a key ring or pocket, the scanner having a computer chip positioned therein, the computer chip having stored thereon indicia peculiar to each paper currency note denomination, the scanner capable of scanning a portion of a paper currency note presented to an... Agent: Clifford G. Frayne

20080130981 - Mask pattern matching method and mask pattern matching apparatus using the same: Mask pattern matching methods and apparatus are described. A mask pattern matching method comprises: presetting, in a measuring device, distinct tones of line and space of a mask circuit pattern, respectively; positioning a mask including an alignment mark on a stage; positioning the measuring device above the mask so as... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080130982 - Pattern inspection apparatus and method: A pattern inspection apparatus is used for inspecting a fine pattern, such as a semiconductor integrated circuit (LSI), a liquid crystal panel, and a photomask (reticle) for the semiconductor or the liquid crystal panel, which are fabricated based on data for fabricating the fine pattern such as design data. The... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.l.p.

20080130983 - Method for inspecting a region of interest: An inspection method utilizing vertical slice imaging. A number of horizontal slice images, extending through an object of interest, are acquired. A vertical region of interest is defined from the data representing the horizontal slice images. A vertical slice image is constructed based upon the horizontal slice image data falling... Agent: Teradyne, Inc. C/o Foley & Larder, LLP

20080130984 - Apparatus and method for compressing three-dimensional stereoscopic images: An apparatus and method for efficiently compressing three-dimensional stereoscopic images are provided. The apparatus and method include a search for Global motion between left and right images input through two image input units mounted in a mobile communication terminal. The images are arranged and a difference between the two images... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080130985 - Correlation extract method for generating 3d motion data, and motion capture system and method for easy composition of humanoid character on real background image using the same: Provided are a method for extracting a correlation to generate 3D motion data, and a motion capture system and method using the extracting method to easily compose a humanoid character on a real background image. Cameras for motion capture are installed in a real background capture location (such as an... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080130986 - Data training system and method thereof: A data training system and method thereof are provided. The example data training system may include a memory controller transmitting a given data pattern to a memory device, the memory controller first determining whether an error is present within the transmitted data pattern based on at least one error detection... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080130987 - Color management of raw content from digital capture devices: Various embodiments provide for the ability to convert back and forth between a RAW image file and a processed image file by associating metadata with the processed image file. The metadata is useable to effect conversion between and amongst image files. In addition, in at least some embodiments, a processing... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080130988 - 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.

20080130989 - 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.

20080130990 - 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.

20080130993 - Color processor and computer program product: The present invention provides a Creating unit that creates a color conversion table to be used to convert a CIE color to a device color, a Converting unit that converts a CIE color to a device color using the CIE color conversion table created by the Creating unit, a managing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080130991 - Processing images having color and panchromatic pixels: A method of processing an array of pixels captured by an image capture device, having a first two-dimensional array of pixels from the image capture device, some of which are color pixels, and some of which are panchromatic pixels; determining in response to ambient lighting conditions, whether panchromatic pixels are... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080130992 - Setup-screen display controlling apparatus, server apparatus, image processing system, printing apparatus, image pickup apparatus, display apparatus, setup-screen display controlling method, program, and data structure: A setup-screen display controlling apparatus includes a sample image display controlling unit that displays a sample image in which a plurality of subject groups set for every color to be corrected are arranged on the setup screen for confirmation of a correction effect involved in adjustment of an amount of... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080130994 - Display methods for high dynamic range images and user interfaces for the same: Display methods and interfaces for high dynamic range images. High dynamic range images and corresponding histograms are displayed on a display device. The histogram panel displays low dynamic range and high dynamic range data of the images simultaneously. The low dynamic range and high dynamic range data is brightness level... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080130995 - Method for adding marks in the page rasterizing process: This invention relates to the field of computer image processing technology, particularly, to a method for adding marks in the process of page rasterizing, which in detail is the method for adding marks on the output medium when description files of pages are output in raster imaging devices. The description... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, Pc

20080130996 - Method for character recognition: The present invention generally describes a method for classifying a line segment of a handwritten line into a reference feature set, wherein said handwritten line comprises one or several curves representing a plurality of symbols. First, sample data representing said handwritten line is received. Next, a sample line segment in... Agent: Hodgson Russ LLP The Guaranty Building

20080130998 - Identification of similar images: A method of processing a received image file, comprises receiving the image file; and detecting a match between the received image file and a previously received image file, if (a) the received image file differs from the previously received image file, and (b) an image represented by the received image... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20080130999 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image processing program, and image processing system: An information acquisition part 21 acquires fluctuation information fluctuating in real time, such as a time at the time of acquiring information. The write position setting part 23 obtains a write position of a tracing pattern 5 in image data based on the fluctuation information obtained by the information acquisition... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080130997 - Method and display system capable of detecting a scoreboard in a program: A method capable of detecting a scoreboard in a program includes detecting a region which displays static images in a program having a plurality of frames, identifying the text contents of the region, and determining whether the variation in the text contents is larger than a predetermined value and occurs... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080131000 - Method for generating typographical line: A method for generating typographical line is provided. In the present method, an asymptote of an upper or a lower edge of a line of printing words is obtained first. Then, two typographical lines of the other edge of the line of printing words are obtained according to the asymptote.... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080131001 - Multi-level neural network based characters identification method and system: A system and method, which enable precise and automatic identification of characters, perform and calibrate data verification to ensure data reliability. The system can process these identified characters, such as override adverse conditions, adjusting and correcting unclear characters and their images.... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman Pc

20080131002 - Rapid and high precision centroiding method and system for spots image: The disclosure relates to a rapid and high precision centroiding method for spots image comprising the following steps. First, the method requires convoluting the gray value of a pixel with a Gaussian filter and judging whether the result thereof exceeds a predetermined threshold. If the value exceeds the predetermined threshold,... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20080131003 - Method and device for processing and for searching for an object by signals corresponding to images: A method of representing an object appearing in a still or video image, by processing signals corresponding to the image, comprises deriving the peak values in CSS space for the object outline and applying a non-linear transformation to said peak values to arrive at a representation of the outline.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080131004 - System or method for segmenting images: The disclosed system identifies the images of particular objects or organisms (“segmented image” or “target image”) from images that include the segmented image and the surrounding area (collectively, the “ambient image”). Instead of attempting to merely segment the target image from the ambient image, the system purposely “over-segments” the ambient... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20080131005 - Adversarial approach for identifying inappropriate text content in images: An adversarial approach in detecting inappropriate text content in images. An expression from a listing of expressions may be selected. The listing of expressions may include words, phrases, or other textual content indicative of a particular type of message. Using the selected expression as a reference, the image is searched... Agent: Okamoto & Benedicto, LLP

20080131006 - Pure adversarial approach for identifying text content in images: A pure adversarial optical character recognition (OCR) approach in identifying text content in images. An image and a search term are input to a pure adversarial OCR module, which searches the image for presence of the search term. The image may be extracted from an email by an email processing... Agent: Okamoto & Benedicto, LLP

20080131007 - Image coding method and image coding device: Presented is a method of image coding with at least one non-flash exposure and at least one flash exposure of the same subject. The method includes-creating from at least one non-flash exposure a non-flash image, creating from at least one flash exposure a flash image, and generating a resulting representation... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080131008 - Method of and apparatus for compressing and uncompressing image data: The present invention provides for a method of and apparatus for compressing and uncompressing image data. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the method of compressing a color cell comprises the steps of: defining at least four luminance levels of the color cell; generating a bitmask for the... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080131009 - Image apparatus and captured image recording method: An imaging apparatus that records, on a recording medium, a moving image captured using a solid-state imaging device as stream data, is disclosed. The apparatus includes: an image encoding section that encodes data of the captured moving image with a unit of an image group being a sequence of images... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080131010 - Coherent image selection and modification: An example method includes receiving a first selection location and at least one selection parameter with respect to digital data. A portion of the digital data is selected relative to the first selection location. The selecting of the portion includes assigning an energy value to each pixel within a selection... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/adobe

20080131011 - Method and device for coding digital images and method and device for decoding coded digital images: A method of coding digital images, wherein the method comprises a step of video coding of a plurality of successive images, the plurality of successive images corresponding to a plurality of versions of one and the same initial image at spatial resolutions different from that of the initial image.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080131012 - Architecture and method for parallel embedded block coding: The present invention provides a high-speed, memory efficient parallel coding technique for embedded block coding with optimized truncation (EBCOT) used in still image compression. Attributing to parallel processing method and structure, it processes a discrete wavelet transform (DWT) coefficient at a clock cycle without any state variable stored. Therefore, the... Agent: Troxell Law Office Pllc Suite 1404

20080131013 - Image decoding technique for suppressing tile boundary distortion: An image decoding device for decoding a hierarchically encoded compressed code obtained by dividing an image into a plurality of tiles and performing discrete wavelet transform on the pixel values of the image tile by tile includes a tile boundary smoothing part that performs smoothing of tile boundary distortion on... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080131015 - Amount-of-compressed data control method and image data compressing apparatus: An amount-of-compressed-data control method applicable to image data compression processing for compressing an amount of data is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: performing quantization by: dividing one digital image into multiple blocks each having n×n pixels; performing orthogonal transform on each block; and dividing n×n conversion coefficients resulting... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080131014 - Apparatus for encoding and decoding image and method thereof: An image encoding and/or decoding apparatus and method are provided. The image encoding apparatus includes: a transform unit removing spatial redundancy by transforming an original image being input; an allowable noise obtaining unit obtaining an allowable noise from the original image; a quantization parameter determination unit determining a quantization parameter... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080131016 - Method for dynamic range editing: A method of displaying a high dynamic range image, comprising receiving the high dynamic range image, calculating a first set of tone mapping parameters as a function of the high dynamic range image, sub-sampling the first set of tone mapping parameters at a first resolution to create a first sub-sampled... Agent: Nik Software, Inc. C/o Sheldon Mak Rose & Anderson

20080131018 - Artifact removal from phase encoded images: PSF coding has become well known in recent years. Although it enables significant increases in the depth of field, defocus introduces artifacts in images that are a major detraction from the final image quality. A method is described that enables the deduction or defocus and consequently the removal of these... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20080131017 - Display method and device for reducing blurring effects: The present invention relates to a display method and device for improving the luminous efficiency of a matrix display using a pulse-width modulation, or PWM, technique. According to the invention, in order to reduce the blurring effect, the display method comprises the following steps: —detecting the moving object contours within... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080131019 - Interactive refocusing of electronic images: A method is performed to refocus a digital photographic image comprising a plurality of pixels. In the method, a set of images is computed corresponding to the digital photographic image and focused at different depths. Refocus depths for at least a subset of the pixels are identified and stored in... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20080131020 - Method for enhancing three-dimensionality of electronic images and device of the same: A method for enhancing three-dimensionality of electronic images and a device of the same comprises a multi-channel signal filtering module for receiving input video signals and then decomposing each of the images into a multitude of single-mode signals, a signal analyzing unit coupled with the multi-channel signal filtering module for... Agent: Ying-ching Hou

20080131021 - Image processing method and apparatus thereof: Automatic image correction is performed for a moving image while maintaining a fade-in or fade-out effect. Hence, a frame image included in the moving image is corrected by using a correction condition for brightness which is set based on the frame image, whether or not the frame image is included... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080131022 - Method and apparatus for resolution improvement in digital capturing: A method and apparatus for enhancing the resolution of digital images. For each image a white balanced image is generated, which takes into account the differences in the colors of the sensor cell upon which the values are generated. Edge detection filters are then activated on the white balanced image... Agent: Gibbons P.c.

20080131023 - Optimized image processing for wavefront coded imaging systems: An image processing method includes wavefront coding a wavefront that forms an optical image, converting the optical image to a data stream and processing the data stream with a color-specific filter kernel to reverse effects of wavefront coding and generate a final image. Another image processing method includes wavefront coding... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20080131025 - Panchromatic modulation of multispectral imagery: Method and system for creating a fused image from an image pair. The method includes obtaining (204) image data defining a first image of a panchromatic image type and a second image of a multi-spectral image type. The first image has a first spatial resolution and a first spectral resolution.... Agent: Harris Corporation C/o Darby & Darby Pc

20080131024 - Structured smoothing for superresolution of multispectral imagery based on registered panchromatic image: Method and system for creating a fused image from an image pair. The method includes obtaining (204) image data defining a first image of a panchromatic image type and a second image of a multi-spectral image type. The first image has a first spatial resolution and a first spectral resolution.... Agent: Harris Corporation C/o Darby & Darby Pc

20080131026 - Method and system for object recognition using fractal maps: A method for recognizing an object in an image is disclosed wherein a fractal map of the image is generated by estimating the fractal dimension of each pixel in the image. The fractal map may be segmented by thresholding and locations of candidate objects are determined. The pixel value of... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20080131027 - System and method for merging differently focused images: A system for merging differently focused images includes a computer for including a merge images program which includes a read module for reading a plurality of the differently focused images of an object disposed on a platform of a measuring machine, one image thereof as a first image (BMP), another... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080131028 - Producing low resolution images: A method of processing an array of pixels captured by an image capture device, includes providing a first two-dimensional array having first and second groups of pixels wherein pixels from the first group of pixels have narrower spectral photoresponses than pixels from the second group of pixels and wherein the... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080131030 - Frame interpolation device, frame interpolation method and image display device: According to one embodiment, a frame interpolation device includes a detecting section which receives a frame signal of 60 Hz and outputs a pull-down detection signal when determining that the frame signal is a pull-down signal, a generation section which generates a first frame signal of 120 Hz by use... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080131029 - Systems and methods for visualizing and measuring real world 3-d spatial data: Systems and methods for viewing and measuring real world 3-D spatial data using corresponding image data and interpolation of low resolution 3-D spatial data is disclosed. Image data and 3-D spatial data are organized as a 3-D polygonal model. The resultant 3-D polygonal model may be viewed, measured or edited... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080131031 - Handheld electronic device with diacritical selection and text disambiguation: A method and apparatus of enabling input on a handheld electronic device including the following steps: detecting as a first input a number of input member actuations comprising an actuation of an input member having assigned thereto both a non-diacritical version and a diacritical version; responsive to said detecting of... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080131032 - Optical vision chip (ovc) and image recognition method using the same: Provided are an optical vision chip (OVC) and an image recognition method using the OVC. The OVC includes: a first display displaying an object image; a second display displaying a standard model image; and an optical sensor optically or electrically coupling the object image and the standard model image respectively... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc