Image analysis inventions 07/08

20080181448 - Image forming apparatus, program and image forming system: An image forming apparatus comprising: a determining unit which determines a start time for forming an image on a recording medium; a judging unit having a first judging unit which judges whether to execute a quality improving process based on the start time; and a control unit which controls an... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080181447 - Method of and system for authenticating an item:

20080181450 - Methods combining multiple frames of image data: In one embodiment a document authentication station, for use with passports or the like, includes a 2D image sensor (e.g., CCD- or CMOS-based video camera), and a computer device. The image sensor produces produce image data corresponding to a presented document. From this image data, the computer extracts two or... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080181449 - Watermarking employing the time-frequency domain: Methods and systems for watermarking of signals employ time frequency analysis. An encoding method divides the signal into segments, transforms each segment into a time-frequency representation, and computes a time-frequency domain watermark signal based on the time frequency representation. It then combines the time-frequency domain watermark signal with the media... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080181451 - Authentication system and method: An authenticating system includes an object, an authentication service, a segmentation system, and an analysis system. The object includes a plurality of steganographic instruments on a visible portion of the object. The authentication service is configured to receive a digital image of at least one of the plurality of steganographic... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080181460 - Imaging apparatus and imaging method: An imaging apparatus is disclosed. The imaging apparatus includes: an imaging unit for imaging a subject to obtain image data; a display unit for displaying the obtained image data; a subject specifying unit for specifying the subject in the image data; a tracking frame displaying unit for displaying on the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080181458 - Light intensity measurement method and light intensity measurement system: In a light intensity measurement method of acquiring an image of a subject for detection, in which a plurality of target areas to be detected, each having a predetermined area, are arranged, and of measuring light intensity of each target area by analyzing the acquired image, each area smaller than... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080181454 - Method and apparatus for generating a precision fires image using a handheld device for image based coordinate determination: A software application to generate a Precision Fires Image (PFI) which provides a precision targeting coordinate to guide an air launched weapon using a forward deployed hand held hardware device executing the PFI software application. Suitable hardware devices to execute the PFI software application include the Windows CE handheld and... Agent: Navairwd Counsel Group

20080181459 - Method for automatically following hand movements in an image sequence: A method for following hand movements in an image flow, includes receiving an image flow in real time, locating in each image in the received image flow a hand contour delimiting an image zone of the hand, extracting the postural characteristics from the image zone of the hand located in... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080181453 - Method of tracking objects in a video sequence: A video surveillance system (10) comprises a camera (25), a personal computer (PC) (27) and a video monitor (29). Video processing software is provided on the hard disk drive of the PC (27). The software is arranged to perform a number of processing operations on video data received from the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080181455 - Pre-filter for object detection: v

20080181452 - System and method for three-dimensional interaction based on gaze and system and method for tracking three-dimensional gaze: A gaze-based three-dimensional (3D) interaction system and method, as well as a 3D gaze tracking system and method, are disclosed. The gaze direction is determined by using the image of one eye of the operator who gazes at a 3D image, while the gaze depth is determined by the distance... Agent: Jones Day

20080181456 - Vehicular actuation system: A vehicular actuation system installed in a vehicle includes an actuation device that includes an operation member manipulated by a vehicle occupant. The system also includes a detecting unit for detecting a three-dimensional image in an operational area of a predetermined range about the operation member. The system also includes... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080181457 - Video based monitoring system and method: There is described a video based monitoring system and method. The system comprises an image acquisition module, a movement detection module, and a stationary object detection module. The movement detection module is adapted for detecting the presence of a moving object in a region of interest of said captured video... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080181461 - Monitoring system: There is provided a monitoring system including an image capture module for capturing an image, an object detecting unit for detecting an object from the image, a monitoring range setting unit for setting a monitoring range in a side of the object on the image, a determining unit for determining... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080181462 - Apparatus for monitor, storage and back editing, retrieving of digitally stored surveillance images: A system and method of recording digitally stored surveillance images comprises dividing a series of continuous digital picture image frames according to timing intervals; storing a reference image in a frame buffer of a motion analyzer; detecting a motion difference between a captured image and the reference image; attributing a... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080181464 - Method for the viewing of visual information with an electronic device: The invention relates to a method, which comprises the capturing of image data representing a physical object using an electronic device. First visual objects are determined in the image data. Second objects are determined among the first visual objects. Position information is determined for the second visual objects within the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080181463 - Use of color in a site analysis report: In the context of a site analysis report showing paths between nodes, color is used to indicate a direction of traffic that follows a particular node-to-node path. Different colors are assigned to different nodes in a site analysis report. Paths are color-coded according to their destination nodes, so as to... Agent: Raubvogel Law Office

20080181465 - Apparatus and methods for identifying patients: A patient identification system based on a portable data terminal including a biometric data capture device for capturing biometric scan data from a person and creating a biometric template for the person. A reference biometric template is prepared based oil a biometric scan of patient. Software is provided on the... Agent: Hand Held Products, Inc.

20080181466 - Registration device, collation device, extraction method, and program: The present invention provides a registration device which can improve the authentication accuracy. The registration device includes a detection means for detecting fluctuation information that fluctuates according to an illumination intensity in an image-pickup element, a filter means for performing the spatial filter processing for an image signal output from... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080181467 - Method and apparatus for iris biometric systems for use in an entryway: A method and apparatus for designing an iris biometrics system that operates in minimally constrained settings. The image acquisition system has fewer constraints on subjects than traditional methods by extending standoff distance and capture volume. The method receives design parameters and provides derived quantities that are useful in designing an... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler P.C.

20080181468 - Face detection device: The face detection device detects a human face image in an image. The face detection device includes a face determining unit, a control unit, a display unit, and a receiving unit. The face determining unit performs a face determination process in which the face determining unit determines whether the image... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080181469 - Method of extracting ridge line and valley line from three-dimensional point data: Disclosed is a method of extracting ridge and valley lines from three-dimensional point data, the method including the steps of: receiving undefined point data obtained from a three-dimensional scanning system; estimating a normal vector by principal component analysis so as to calculate a normal vector with regard to each received... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080181472 - Hybrid medical image processing: The present invention uses a common, hybrid system platform to provide a generalized medical image processing system that can handle the existing medical image application as it is and route the compute intensive medical image processing to a multi0core processor/processing system. The invention allows the processing platform to be shared... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080181478 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes a storing section which stores data of a digital image, a rotation processing section which generates a plurality of rotated digital images having different rotation angles from the digital image, an image processing section which generates a plurality of image-processed digital images from the rotated... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080181475 - Medical image generating device, method and program: An image-constituting element group corresponding to bone areas is selected from among a plurality of image-constituting elements that make up a three-dimensional image model, and CT values originally associated only with the selected image-constituting element group are replaced by values resulting from multiplying the original values by 1/4. As a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080181474 - Method and apparatus for registering at least three different image data records for an object: A method and an apparatus are disclosed for registering at least three different image data records for an object. In at least one embodiment, the method involves first of all determining for each image data record the anatomical region which is covered by the image data record. Next, degrees of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080181477 - Methods, systems and computer program products for processing images generated using fourier domain optical coherence tomography (fdoct): Methods, systems and computer program products for managing frequency domain optical coherence tomography (FDOCT) image resolution. A spectrum used to acquire an image of a subject is calibrated and default dispersion correction parameters are set. Default dispersion management parameters associated with a region of the image of the subject are... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080181470 - Multi-modality method and software for representation and evaluation of extremity exposures of arthritis/arthrosis patients: In a multi-modality method for representing functional and morphological exposures of an extremity of patients exhibiting arthritis/arthrosis, and corresponding computer software, images obtained with different imaging modalities are supplied to a computer and displayed at the computer with a default line model of the extremity superimposed on each of the... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080181476 - Speckle suppression in ultrasound imaging: Methods and systems for enhancing an image exhibiting speckle noise are provided. An image exhibiting the speckle noise is received and a coefficient of variation is estimated in a part of the received image. Either a detail tuning parameter or a smooth tuning parameter are selected based on the estimated... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080181473 - Systems and methods for high-throughput radiation biodosimetry: Systems and methods for high-throughput radiation biodosimetry are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a high-throughput methods of analyzing a population for radiation exposure can include, in various possible sequences: marking a first capillary designed to retain a first sample from the population with a first identifier; transporting a plurality of... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080181471 - Universal image processing: The present invention provides a universal and centralized image (e.g., medical, bio-molecular, etc.) processing system platform. The invention permits sharing both computation and visualization across a single universal platform, thus allowing for sharing of computing resources and visualization of images on a variety of imaging (client) devices without high-performance graphical... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080181480 - Method for generating image files having a number of logical layers: A method for image acquisition is disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes acquiring, by a first imaging method, first image data of an object to be examined; acquiring, by a second imaging method, second image data of the object to be examined; generating an image file, the file format... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080181479 - System and method for cardiac imaging: Ultrasound systems and methods are described to measure changes in cardiac chamber volumes and organ wall areas, thicknesses, volumes and masses between the cardiac chambers using computer readable media employing image processing algorithms applied to 3D data sets acquired at systole and diastole. The systems for cardiac imaging includes an... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080181481 - Method and system for locating opaque regions in chest x-ray radiographs: A method and system for locating an opaque region, such as a heart region in a chest X-ray radiograph is disclosed. In order to segment a heart region in a chest X-ray radiograph, a heart region boundary is generated based on lung boundaries in the chest X-ray radiograph and an... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080181482 - Micro-array analysis system and method thereof: There is described a system and a method for analyzing spots in a micro-array, the spots containing targeted specimen, the method comprising the steps of: providing a slide with a micro-array of the spots thereon; illuminating at least one of the spots; directing the light onto the at least one... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080181483 - Scintillation evaluation method and device thereof: A scintillation evaluation method for quantitatively evaluating scintillation, the method comprising: obtaining an image data that includes at least an interference pattern of scintillation; increasing the contrast of the interference pattern; and determining the amount of variation of brightness in the image data, the amount of the variation corresponding to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080181484 - Advanced cell-to-cell inspection: Inspection of objects such as semiconductor wafers may proceed on a cell-to-cell or die-to-die basis. An image of a wafer may be obtained and the cells or dies shown therein can be inspected using any combination of appropriate die-to-die or cell-to-cell inspection methods. For example, one or more areas may... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20080181485 - System and method of identifying objects: A system and method for identifying objects using a robotic system are disclosed. Briefly described, one embodiment is a method that captures a first image of at least one object with an image capture device that is moveable with respect to the object, processes the first captured image to determine... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080181488 - Camera calibration device, camera calibration method, and vehicle having the calibration device: Cameras are installed at the front, right, left, and back side of a vehicle, and two feature points are located at each of the common field of view areas between the front-right cameras, front-left cameras, back-right cameras, and back-left cameras. A camera calibration device includes a parameter extraction unit for... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080181487 - Method and apparatus for automatic registration and visualization of occluded targets using ladar data: A method and apparatus for high-resolution 3D imaging ladar system which can penetrate foliage and camouflage to sample fragments of concealed surfaces of interest is disclosed. Samples collected while the ladar moves can be integrated into a coherent object shape. In one embodiment, a system and method for automatic data-driven... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler P.C.

20080181486 - Methodology for 3d scene reconstruction from 2d image sequences: The present invention is directed to a system and method for interactive and iterative reconstruction in a manner that helps to reduce computational requirements by generating a model from a subset of the available data, and then refining that model using additional data. Example embodiments directed to scene reconstruction, reconstruct... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080181489 - Segment-discriminating minimum classification error pattern recognition: Pattern model parameters are updated using update equations based on competing patterns that are identical to a reference pattern except for one segment at a time that is replaced with a competing segment. This allows pattern recognition parameters to be tuned one segment at a time, rather than have to... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080181490 - Apparatus and method for generating image using multi-channel filter: Provided are an apparatus and method for generating an image using a multi-channel filter. More particularly, provided are an apparatus and method for generating an image using a multi-channel filter, wherein images input into a plurality of image sensors are allowed to pass through different filters, each of which includes... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080181491 - Color to grayscale conversion method and apparatus: A method and apparatus for translating color to grayscale images, wherein at least some pixels of the color image having the same color are mapped to different grays in the grayscale image depending on the spatial surround of each pixel. Further, the method and apparatus may include applying a high... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20080181492 - Detection apparatus, detection method, and computer program: An apparatus for detecting a cut change based on a similarity between a first image and a second image, includes a unit for generating one of a luminance histogram and a color histogram of each of the first image and the second image, a unit for generating a spatial correlation... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080181493 - Method, medium, and system classifying images based on image properties: A classifying of an input image into a business graphic image or a photo image, such as in image calibration of the image. A system classifying an input image into at least one of a business graphic image and a photo image includes a color space transform unit transforming the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080181494 - Image processing method, display image processing method, image processing device, image processing program, and integrated circuit containing the image processing device: An aim of the invention is to achieve an image processing method that performs color information correction of an image more naturally with a simple configuration. The image processing method of the invention is an image processing method that performs color information correction of image data that have been input,... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080181495 - Reduction of color bleeding effects in a digitally processed image: A method of processing digital images to reduce the effects of color bleeding. Chrominance components for pixels in a working window are determined and weights are assigned to the pixels in the working window. A chrominance correction for a center pixel in the working window is generated based on the... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080181496 - Methods and systems for detecting character content in a digital image: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for detecting glyph pixels in a rasterized image.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080181497 - Methods and systems for characterizing regions of substantially-uniform color in a digital image: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for characterization of background regions of substantially-uniform color in a digital image.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080181498 - Dynamic client-server video tiling streaming: A system and a method for communicating video data associated with content across a network are disclosed. A server partitions the content into a plurality of tiles where each tile includes a subset of the content and index data describing a relationship between a tile and one or more adjacent... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080181499 - System and method for feature level foreground segmentation: Foreground segmentation in real world dynamic scenes, including under various lighting and shadow conditions, is disclosed. It may be used with one or multiple cameras for various automated tasks, such as classification of moving object, tracking moving objects, and event detection in various indoor or outdoor environments. Pixel to pixel... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080181500 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer product: When encoding each element in numeral string data, a code-string data creating unit creates code string data by assigning a code to a focused element to be encoded based on a magnitude relation between the focused element and an element adjacent to the focused element. An control unit stores primary... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080181501 - Methods, apparatus and software for validating entries made on a form: A method of filling in a form comprising using a digital pen to enter data into data entry areas of the form (64), and providing error feedback to the user (69) contemporaneously with filling in the form, said error feedback being indicative of the user entering a non-allowable entry in... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080181504 - Apparatus, method, and program for detecting garbled characters: To enable efficient detection of a garbled character from only output data of an application, a character string addition unit adds, to input data to the application or other data, an ASCII character string, and a particular character string that follows the ASCII character string and is highly likely to... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080181503 - Diffusion bases methods for segmentation and clustering: Methods for dimensionality reduction of large data volumes, in particular hyper-spectral data cubes, include providing a dataset Γ of data points given as vectors, building a weighted graph G on Γ with a weight function wε, wherein wε corresponds to a local coordinate-wise similarity between the coordinates in Γ; obtaining... Agent: Alon Schclar

20080181502 - Pattern recognition for during orientation of a display device: A method comprises using pattern recognition to determine whether a display device is being used in a first orientation or a second orientation with respect to the user.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080181505 - Image document processing device, image document processing method, program, and storage medium: A headline-region initial processing section clips a headline-region image in an image document, divides the image into individual character images, and extracts features of the individual character images. Based on the features, a candidate-character-sequence generating section selects N (N is an integer more than 1) character images as candidate characters... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080181507 - Image manipulation for videos and still images: In an embodiment, an image is received having a first portion and one or more other portions. The one or more other portions are replaced with one or more other images. The replacing of the one or more portions results in an image including the first portion and the one... Agent: David Lewis

20080181508 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: A feature point detection unit (153) and feature amount extraction unit (154) extract a plurality of features of an object from input image data. When there are unextracted features of the plurality of features, a weight setting unit (155) sets weights for the extracted features. A facial expression determination unit... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080181506 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging section, a subject extracting section, and an image processing section. The imaging section captures an object image and generates data of an image. The subject extracting section extracts a main subject from the image. The image processing section performs a noise addition process on... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080181509 - Method and apparatus for a fast graphic rendering realization methodology using programmable sprite control: A technique for updating computer-graphic digital images comprises coding a position of pixels located in a foreground of a computer-graphic image frame; sending the coded positions of the pixels located in the foreground of the computer-graphic image frame to a frame buffer of a sprite controller; separating a background pixel... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080181510 - Wavelet detector for finding similarities between major boundaries in images: A method of and a system for finding similarities between major boundaries of images using a wavelet detector is described herein. Unimportant edges of the image are disregarded by eliminating Gaussian wavelet coefficients and Haar wavelet coefficients of lower significance. Comparison between the images is made on the basis of... Agent: Jonathan O. Owens Haverstock & Owens LLP

20080181512 - Image editing system and method: An image editing system for use with a web-based video editing system is provided. The image editing system comprises: a detection system configured to receive image data; detect regions of the image representing faces; store the data representing the coordinates of the faces as points of interest; and receive user... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080181511 - Personal image and styling system and method: A system for improving an appearance and image of a human being. The system comprises a plurality of predefined profiles having in common a plurality of characteristics. Each of the predefined profiles has one or more attributes associated with each of the plurality of characteristics. The system may further comprise... Agent: Grant R Clayton Clayton Howarth & Cannon, PC

20080181513 - Method, apparatus and algorithm for indexing, searching, retrieval of digital stream by the use of summed partitions: A method and apparatus for indexing, searching and matching still images, digital audio, video images, text or any kind of digital stream where rules like color change and filtering are applied to images before their indexations, then they are partitioned and a means for producing individual values for each partition... Agent: Louis Ventre Jr

20080181514 - Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus divides an input image data string into a first data string and a second data string, and generates a sliding dictionary and a code value, which indicates correspondence between the first data string and the sliding dictionary, from the first data string. The image processing apparatus... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080181515 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: An image processing apparatus includes a compressed-feature extractor configured to extract a compressed feature from image data, the compressed feature being a feature having a less amount of data than the image data; a display controller configured to display the compressed feature; a processing-information determining unit configured to determine processing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080181516 - Dynamic information systems: This invention discloses the concept of a dynamic metasystem managing a dynamic system, achieved through the use of, and an environment (i.e., tools and ontologies) supporting dynamic artifacts. A system for generating a dynamic information system comprises a persistent dynamic repository of data and an integration metasystem. The repository forms... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080181518 - Method and apparatus for fast and flexible digital image compression using programmable sprite buffer: A system and method of performing digital image compression comprises comparing pixels in various locations in a digital picture image frame; coding a position of pixels located in a foreground of the digital picture image frame; sending the coded positions of the pixels located in a foreground of the digital... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080181517 - Motion estimation apparatus and control method thereof: The present invention enables highly accurate estimation of a motion amount of a target pixel for motion-estimation located between two adjacent lines in a current field when generating a non-interlaced video signal from an interlaced video signal. To achieve this aim, an inter-field motion-estimating unit estimates a motion amount between... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080181519 - Method for generating distance maps using scan lines: A method generates a distance map from an image including a set of pixels arranged in a Euclidian n-space. The set of pixels includes a subset of background pixels and a subset of foreground pixels. The distance map stores a distance value for every corresponding background pixel to a nearest... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080181520 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding subband decompositions of signals: An aspect of the present invention includes a method of encoding coefficients of a subband decomposition, to prepare the coefficients for compression. Another aspect of the present invention includes an inverse method of decoding coefficients of a subband decomposition, after they have been decompressed. Particular features and other aspects of... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20080181521 - Method for resizing images using integer dct coefficients: The present invention relates to a method of converting the size of an image, i.e., resolution of an image, and more specifically, to a method of reducing or enlarging the size of an image using coefficients of integer discrete cosine transform (Integer DCT), which is a type of block transform.... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20080181522 - Information processing apparatus and method: An information processing apparatus for encoding image data includes: a rearranging unit for rearranging coefficient data divided for each frequency band in order of executing synthesis processing for synthesizing the coefficient data of multiple sub-bands divided into frequency bands to generate image data for each line block including image data... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080181524 - Image evaluation method, apparatus, and program: A method and apparatus capable of efficiently calculating evaluation values by reducing the processing time when performing image evaluation. When a processing target image for evaluation is specified, a CPU determines whether or not a processing result of a process performed when calculating a characteristic amount and/or evaluation value is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080181525 - Image evaluation method, apparatus, and program: A method and apparatus capable of efficiently calculating evaluation values by reducing the processing time when performing image evaluation. When a processing target image for evaluation is specified, in order to calculate a comparative characteristic amount obtainable by comparing the processing target image with another image, a CPU determines whether... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080181523 - Method and apparatus for reducing noise: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for reducing noise. A method of reducing noise according to an aspect of the present invention includes calculating a noise level of a reference pixel forming an input image, determining a weighted value to be allocated to the reference pixel based... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080181527 - Apparatus and method of restoring image: Provided are an apparatus for and method of restoring an image, by which when the focus of an image is blurred, an image can be restored using the characteristic of a lens. The apparatus includes: an estimation unit estimating field information and focus blur of an input signal, a weight... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080181526 - System and method for reducing jitter during an optical navigation operation: A system and method for reducing jitter during an optical navigation operation operates to automatically switch the current resolution based on jitter-resolution correlation data.... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080181528 - Faster serial method for continuously varying gaussian filters: A fast method of implementing a recursive IIR filter, by using the data generated by the Thomas Algorithm for processing the first k pixels of an image, where k is a function of the convergence speed of the Gaussian filter is described herein. For all other pixels in the image,... Agent: Jonathan O. Owens Haverstock & Owens LLP

20080181529 - Image processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program: An image processing apparatus including a contrast detector that detects a contrast intensity of a pixel in a first image; a flat-intensity detector that detects a flat intensity of the pixel; an edge-intensity detector that detects an edge intensity of the pixel; a flat-weight setter that sets a flat weight... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080181530 - Image processing apparatus and method for reducing blocking effect and gibbs effect: This invention discloses an image processing apparatus comprising a filter module, an edge detection module, and a processing module. According to where each pixel locates in an image block, the filter module is used to perform the smooth processing on each pixel to generate a second gray level corresponding to... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080181532 - Apparatus and method for improving visibility of image: An apparatus and method for improving visibility of an image. The apparatus includes: a lookup table (LUT) generating module generating an LUT having image data in a high illuminance environment corresponding to image data of an input image set therein so as to increase lightness and chroma of the input... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080181531 - Emboldening glyphs without causing conglutination: A method is provided for emboldening a bitmap character, which includes using a bitmap for a character to be emboldened and selectively turning on pixels of the bitmap of the character, which are initially off, based on whether the pixels are immediately adjacent to an initially off pixel. The bitmap... Agent: Breiner & Breiner, L.L.C.

20080181533 - Targeted obstrufication of an image: Embodiments include a system, a device, an apparatus, a method, and a computer program product. An embodiment provides a device that includes an anonymization module operable to produce in response to an anonymization policy an anonymized image by causing a reduction in fidelity of a feature of a subject depicted... Agent: Searete LLC

20080181534 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus, image reading apparatus, image forming apparatus and recording medium: A document matching process section contains: features calculating section for extracting a plurality of connected components from input document images and calculating the centroids of the connected components and consequently determining the feature points; a features calculating section for calculating features of the document image from the distance between the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080181535 - Fog isolation and rejection filter: An imaging processing system adapted for use with a vehicle is provided in one aspect of the present invention. The system generally includes an image capturing device and an image processing device. The image capturing device is operable to capture an original image of a scene exterior to the vehicle.... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20080181536 - Portable communication device having a media time controller: A portable communication device includes a media time controller that facilitates searching for and viewing media content based on user-selected time constraints. The media time controller causes the portable communication device to prompt a user for a time constraint value and to receive user input indicative of the time constraint... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080175431 - Information processing method and device, computer program, and computer-readable storage medium: A partial data acquisition unit acquires partial data included in digital data, a partial data specifying information acquisition unit acquires specifying information for the partial data, a combining unit combines the partial data and the specifying information, and a verification data generation unit generates verification data. Thus, it is possible... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080175429 - Method and apparatus for steganalysis for texture images: Embodiments of the invention are directed toward methods for steganalysis that improve the detection of steganography in texture images. The methods combine features extracted from the image spatial representation and from a block discrete cosine transform (BDCT) representation with multiple different block sizes (i.e., N×N) to improve detection of data... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080175430 - System and method for embedding dispersed miniature security marks: A method is provided for embedding dispersed miniature security marks within documents and images, utilizing a mark parameters database, graphical user interface, and detection simulator. The method includes predicting detection error rates for each pixel location of a host image, defined as a digital representation of at least one recipient... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20080175432 - System for analyzing mask topography and method of forming image using the system: Provided are a system for analyzing a mask topography, which can reduce calculation time and increase calculation accuracy in consideration of a mask topography effect, and a method of forming an image using the system. The system and method simultaneously obtains a first electric field using a Kirchhoff method without... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20080175434 - Automatic target recognition system for detection and classification of objects in water: A method of detecting objects in water, comprises the steps of capturing a plurality of images of a region of interest, extracting voxel data from the images, and processing the voxel data to detect items of interest in the region of interest. An apparatus that performs the method is also... Agent: Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, LLP

20080175435 - Device, method and program for processing image: Disclosed herein is a device for processing a moving image, the device including: a selection unit which selects an image group composed of a plurality of still images including a target image from the moving image, according to specified information for specifying the target image among the plurality of still... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20080175436 - Image processor, vehicle, and image processing method: An image processor includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a camera image captured by a camera provided on a vehicle, a first image converter configured to project the camera image onto a flat surface to convert the camera image into a flat surface projection image, and a second image... Agent: Mots Law, Pllc

20080175433 - Method for determining a set of boundary points in a lattice: A method and system for determining a set of boundary points within a lattice is provided herein. The lattice is normalized into a regularly-spaced array and a first point within the array is selected. A software routine repeatedly locates boundary points by examining neighboring points and tracking array direction. The... Agent: Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon LLP And The Boeing Company

20080175437 - Vehicle-onboard driving lane recognizing apparatus: A vehicle-onboard driving lane recognizing apparatus of a small scale includes an image pick-up unit (1) mounted on a motor vehicle for picking up images of scenes making appearance in front of the motor vehicle, an image data selecting unit (2) for selecting image data only of a predetermined region... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080175438 - High occupancy vehicle (hov) lane enforcement: An HOV enforcement system comprises roadside imaging units connected over a network to a central processing center. The roadside imaging units include Ethernet cameras with integrated vehicle detectors, night-time lighting, and image servers. The central processing center includes a central server with license plate reading and vehicle matching software, storage... Agent: Law Offices Of Thomas E. Schatzel A Professional Corporation

20080175440 - Apparatus and method of motion adaptive image processing: An image processing apparatus for image conversion comprises first motion detecting means operable to detect motion to a first level of sensitivity; second motion detecting means operable to detect motion to a second level of sensitivity, the second level of sensitivity being of greater sensitivity than the first level of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080175441 - Image analysis method, apparatus and program: An image analysis method for analyzing the motion of an object by using the time-series image data. The method comprises inputting time-series image data, generating time-series object image data by extracting an object region from the time-series image data, and analyzing the motion of the object from the time-series object... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080175439 - Image processing device, image processing method, image pickup device, and image pickup method: An image processing device is provided. The image processing device includes per-block motion vector calculating means for calculating a motion vector between two pictures of an image input in picture units sequentially, performing block matching in each of divided regions obtained by dividing one picture into a plurality of regions,... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP

20080175442 - Method of displaying graphic images: A method for viewing images comprises: providing a user interactive image file viewing device 100; segmenting an image file 200 by establishing an offset, a line size, and a step size 201, the offset and line size relating to a first dimension (horizontal) and the step size relating to a... Agent: Ronald J. Koch

20080175444 - Imaging module for biometrics authentication, biometrics authentication apparatus and prism: An imaging module for biometrics authentication comprises: a light source irradiating a living body with light capable of passing through the living body; a prism having an incidence surface including an incidence area for taking in light emerging from the living body, two or more reflecting surfaces for reflecting the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080175443 - System control via characteristic gait signature: A device includes an access control element to compare new acceleration data from an accelerometer with registered gait signature associated with an authorized user of a mobile device to determine the identity of the user of the mobile device.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080175445 - Apparatus and methods for verifying identity using biometric information collected during a pre-enrollment phase: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for verifying identity using a plurality of biometric samples collected during a pre-enrollment phase, where the plurality of biometric samples concern one or more biometric measures. In one embodiment, the biometric measure comprises an individual's signature, samples of which are collected over a period of... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080175448 - Face authentication system and face authentication method: A face authentication system includes: a data processing section for performing a predetermined data processing operation; a first data input section for inputting three-dimensional data on a face area of a subject to the data processing section; and a second data input section for inputting two-dimensional image data on the... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20080175447 - Face view determining apparatus and method, and face detection apparatus and method employing the same: Provided are an apparatus and method for determining views of faces contained in an image, and face detection apparatus and method employing the same. The face detection apparatus includes a non-face determiner determining whether a current image corresponds to a face, a view estimator estimating at least one view class... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080175446 - Set to set pattern recognition: A pattern recognition system compares a set of unlabeled images (or other patterns) having a variation of state in a set-by-set comparison with individual data sets of multiple labeled images (or other patterns) also having a variation of state. The individual data sets are each mapped to a point on... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, Llc

20080175450 - Biometric piezo scanner: A piezoelectric thin film sensor array is used to scan and capture biometric data, for example, a fingerprint image. In one embodiment, a multi-layer structure includes a PVDF layer in between two conductor grids arranged orthogonally to one another. Urethane can be added to one side where a finger is... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080175449 - Fingerprint-based network authentication method and system thereof: A fingerprint-based network authentication method and system thereof comprises a user end and an authentication end. The user end has a fingerprint capture device comprising a fingerprint capture unit, a fingerprint processing unit, and a transmission unit. The fingerprint capture unit captures a fingerprint image, which is received and packaged... Agent: Troxell Law Office Pllc

20080175451 - Magnetic resonance imaging by subspace projection: Reconstructing an image from MRI data provided by an MRI machine includes: selecting a system transformation based on the MRI machine; selecting a subspace based on the system transformation; and obtaining a solution vector that solves a minimization problem. The minimization problem is formulated on the subspace, based on the... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080175452 - Method for super-resolution reconstruction using focal underdetermined system solver algorithm: Disclosed is a high-resolution image reconstruction method using a focal underdetermined system solver (FOCUSS) algorithm. The method comprises the steps of: outputting data for an image of an object; downsampling the outputted data; transforming the downsampled data into low-resolution image frequency data; and reconstructing a high-resolution image from the transformed... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080175453 - Reducing jittering in medical diagnostic ultrasound imaging: Jittering in medical diagnostic ultrasound imaging is reduced, such as in steered spatial compounding. A pattern of decorrelation is used to detect motion between component frames, register component frames, and/or reduce jitter in the motion correction. The ultrasound imaging adapts as a function of the pattern.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080175454 - Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and image filtering method of the same: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus uses the pixel value of each of the pixels found in a predetermined range relative to a reference position of image data as input matrix and computes an output value corresponding to the input at its image processing section. Thereafter, the sorting filter of the image... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080175455 - Method and device for the combined representation of 2d fluoroscopic images and a static 3d image data set: The invention relates to a method and a device for the combined representation of a series of 2D fluoroscopic images of the beating heart with a static 3D image data set of the same heart. The fluoroscopic images are registered with the 3D image data set and from this a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080175464 - Computer program products and methods for detection and tracking of rheumatoid arthritis: Methods for producing an image indicative of arthritic symptomatology are provided. The methods during a model building phase create a constrained deformable statistical template. The methods then during a runtime phase fit a plurality of loci in a digitized target radiograph of the specified joint; parameterize positions of the plurality... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20080175463 - Method and a system for registering a 3d pre acquired image coordinates system with a medical positioning system coordinate system and with a 2d image coordinate system: A method for registering a three dimensional (3D) coordinates system with a Medical Positioning System (MPS) coordinate system and with a two dimensional (2D) coordinate system, includes acquiring at least one 2D image of a volume of interest, the volume of interest including at least one tubular organ within the... Agent: Merchant & Gould Pc

20080175459 - Method and system for guided two dimensional colon screening: A method and apparatus for guiding image reading for colon screening, includes calculating a centerline for a colon; scrolling through a succession of two dimensional (2D) cross-sectional images of a colon in respective image planes, such that a current image plane includes a respective current focus point formed by an... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080175458 - Method and system for parallel reconstruction in the k-space domain for application in imaging systems: A method of performing parallel image reconstruction of undersampled image data in k-space. A defined partitioning of a k-space region into a plurality of segments is received. A segment of the plurality of segments is identified wherein data is sampled at less than a Nyquist rate. First imaging data is... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080175462 - Method for determining a position for at least one semi-transparent diaphragm and associated facility: The invention relates to a method for determining a position for at least one semi-transparent diaphragm during a radiological observation of a body region of a patient by means of a radiological facility, in particular during an observation accompanying an interventional measure, comprising: producing at least one radiological image recording... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080175461 - Method for displaying images by means of a graphics user interface of a digital image information system: A method is disclosed for displaying images by way of a graphics user interface of a digital image information system. In at least one embodiment, a two-dimensional image detail which contains the marked image feature is displayed in the same segment as the three-dimensionally displayed image of the graphics user... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080175456 - Methods for explosive detection with multiresolution computed tomography data: Disclosed is an x-ray computed tomography inspection system having a computer processor configured to execute one or more specialized software-based image processing and/or detection methods. Among other features and benefits, the new methods create low-resolution SP images from low-resolution CT volumetric data, thus significantly improving throughput. An image processing and/or... Agent: General Electric Co. Global Patent Operation

20080175465 - Optical coherence tomography imaging system and method: An optical imaging system includes an optical radiation source (410, 510), a frequency clock module outputting frequency clock signals (420), an optical interferometer (430), a data acquisition (DAQ) device (440) triggered by the frequency clock signals, and a computer (450) to perform multi-dimensional optical imaging of the samples. The frequency... Agent: Graham Curtin

20080175460 - Pacs portal with automated data mining and software selection: The present invention relates to a single, fully integrated image archival and workflow system, that provides instantaneous access to a variety of software programs, which are customized using user-specific profiles from a database which includes predetermined workflow preferences. The customized software applications are used during image analysis and interpretation, and... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080175457 - Spatially localized noise adaptive smoothing of emission tomography images: A method and system for spatially localized, noise-adaptive smoothing of filtered back-projection (FBP) nuclear images includes smoothing a FBP image on a pixel-by-pixel basis using a shift-invariant kernel such as a Gaussian kernel. The width of the kernel may be varied on a pixel basis, such that the smoothed image... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080175466 - Inspection apparatus and inspection method: An inspection apparatus 1 for detecting a defect on an inspection surface of a sample 2 by inspecting an image captured of the inspection surface, comprises: a defect detection unit 24 for taking as an input the image captured of the inspection surface of the sample 2, and for detecting... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080175467 - System for accumulating exposure energy information of wafer and management method of mask for exposure utilizing exposure energy information of wafer accumulated with the system: Disclosed is a management method of a mask for exposure utilizing exposure energy information of a wafer. According to the present invention, in case of exposing wafers in exposure apparatuses, information on masks loaded on exposure apparatuses are calculated from the exposure apparatuses, the light energy values applied during the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080175468 - Method and system for creating knowledge and selecting features in a semiconductor device: A method and system for creating knowledge and selecting features in a supervised classifier is disclosed. The method and system comprises changing a feature space of a plurality of defects and marking at least a portion of the samples of the defects in the feature space. The method and system... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080175469 - Pattern inspection apparatus and semiconductor inspection system: There is provided a pattern inspection apparatus that is capable of detecting a defect accurately and efficiently to inspect a pattern of a semiconductor device. The pattern inspection apparatus includes: a contour extraction means for extracting contour data of a pattern from a captured image of the semiconductor device; a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080175470 - Image reader and image forming apparatus: Disclosed is an image reader, which comprises a circuit board (36) designed to mount, to the same surface thereof, an image pickup device (34) and an IC device (128). The circuit board (36) is fixedly fastened to horizontally opposite ends of a board support plate (114) by a fastening member... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080175471 - Scanning device for carrying out a 3d scan of a dental model, sliding panel therefore, and method therefor: s

20080175472 - Method of providing contents using color marker and system for performing the same: The present invention relates to a color marker recognizing device using a color marker. The color marker recognizing device includes a coloring unit and a content unit. The coloring unit acquires a sub marker image from color marker images according to contextual information on a user. The content unit outputs... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080175473 - Device and method of estimating image signal noise and apparatus and method of converting image signal using the same: A device and a method of estimating noise of an image signal, and an apparatus and a method of converting an image signal using the same are provided. The apparatus for converting the image signal includes a noise estimation device determining a noise level by using the minimum frame sum... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080175474 - Method and system for adaptive quantization layer reduction in image processing applications: A method and a system for adaptively (dynamically) reducing quantization layer reduction for removing quantization artifacts in quantized video signals is provided. Adaptively reducing quantization layer reduction involves detecting if a selected pixel in a quantized image belongs to a ramp area in each of multiple pre-defined directions, dynamically selecting... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080175475 - Method of image frame compression: An image frame is compressed segment by segment by applying a lossless compression algorithm to the segment of pixels with simple pattern and a lossy algorithm to the segment with complex pattern. A segment comprising at least one homogenous area and one complex area will be compressed separately by assigning... Agent: Chih-ta Star Sung

20080175476 - Apparatus and method of segmenting an image and/or receiving a signal representing the segmented image in an image coding and/or decoding system: An apparatus usable in an image encoding and decoding system includes segmentation unit to divide an image into one or more blocks, to segment the blocks into a binary mask layer of a foreground and a background according to a cost optimized function and a feature vector to generate a... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080175477 - Apparatus and method of segmenting an image in an image coding and/or decoding system: An apparatus usable in an image encoding and/or decoding system includes a segmentation unit to convert a first image of a first resolution into a second image of a second resolution, to segment the second image of the second resolution with one or more blocks of a binary mask layer... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080175478 - Method, system, and apparatus for color representation of seismic data and associated measurements: The present invention is a method, system, and apparatus for visually displaying digitized information in a way that allows a human operator to detect easily patterns and characteristics within the data. A personal computer is used to extract raw data and to perform Boolean operations at the behest of a... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20080175479 - Video preprocessing of image information for character recognition: An apparatus processes video signals containing video information related to a scene which may contain a vehicle license plate. The apparatus includes a video camera having a video imaging device for viewing the scene and generating a first video signal. A character detector in the video camera processes the first... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.c.

20080175482 - Behavior and pattern analysis using multiple category learning: A video processing system is configured to receive training video samples from a plurality of video sensing devices. The training video samples are sets of pair video samples. These pair video samples can include both substantially similar subject matter and different subject matter. In the first step, there is a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080175481 - Color segmentation: A method of skin segmentation of a digital image is operable in an acquisition device. An image is acquired. A value indicative of a redness of a pixel of said image is compared with a face skin pixel redness criterion. The pixel is identified as a face skin pixel if... Agent: Fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20080175480 - Identifying computer graphics from digital photographs: Computer graphics may be detected in digital images by extracting a first set of features from an input digital image, extracting a second set of features from a prediction-error image derived from the input digital image, and applying a classification algorithm to the first set of features and the second... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080175483 - Pattern separating extraction program, pattern separating extraction device, and pattern separating extraction method: When an operator starts a pattern separation extraction tool, an input screen is displayed on the display device. The operator can choose and designate any one of document image data within the storage device through the input screen. The document image that is chosen by the operator is displayed on... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080175484 - Method for emphasizing differences in graphical appearance between an original document and a modified document with annotations: A method for emphasizing differences in graphical appearances between an original document and a modified document is provided in accordance with an aspect of the present invention. The method includes the step of receiving a first bitmap of the modified document, and a second bitmap of the original document. The... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20080175485 - Image processing method, image processing method program, recording medium recording image processing method program, and image processing apparatus: A method of processing a plurality of still images. The method includes the steps of: detecting an object photographed for each of the still images; arranging the object detected by the step of detecting an object with respect to the plurality of still images and detecting an object photographed by... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080175486 - Video-attribute-information output apparatus, video digest forming apparatus, computer program product, and video-attribute-information output method: An attribute-information-area extracting unit extracts an attribute information area in which attribute information is displayed when the attribute information area does not change between certain frames of adjacent scenes obtained by dividing a video content by a scene dividing unit. A character-areas extracting unit extracts character areas in which video... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080175487 - Apparatus and method of matching symbols in a text image coding and decoding system: An apparatus of a text image coding and decoding system includes a matching unit to compute a first distance between a symbol of a text image with a reference symbol of a symbol dictionary, to determine whether the symbol matches with the reference symbol according to the first distance and... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080175491 - Image coding apparatus, image decoding apparatus, image processing apparatus and methods thereof: The image coding apparatus according to the present invention includes: a similar image search unit 201 which searches at least one second still image which is similar to a first still image; a coding processing unit 202 which generates a predictive image for the first still image using the at... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080175488 - Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image forming system, computer readable medium storing program therefor, image processing method, and computer data signal: An image processing apparatus includes an image partitions manipulating unit that manipulates image partitions of encoded image information, each image partition containing plural values of pixels; a decoding unit that decodes the image information manipulated by the image partitions manipulating unit; and a pixels manipulating unit that manipulates pixels of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080175490 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding image: An apparatus and method for encoding and decoding an image are provided. The image decoding method includes (a) decoding luma blocks according to a predetermined decoding mode of each of the luma blocks, and (b) decoding chroma blocks according to the predetermined decoding mode of each of the luma blocks.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080175489 - Method, medium, and system effectively compressing and/or restoring binary images: A method, medium, and system effectively compressing and/or restoring binary images. By compressing pixel values making up a 2×2 block in an input image, using representative values representing the pixel values and a pattern of the pixel values represented by the representative values, it is possible to effectively compress and/or... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080175492 - Intraprediction/interprediction method and apparatus: An intraprediction/inter prediction method and apparatus is provided. In a method of intrapredicting an image processing unit of a current picture, the image processing unit including a plurality of sub blocks, a first prediction value of the image processing unit is generated by intrapredicting each of the sub blocks using... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080175493 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus and recording medium: When generating output image data represented by a reduced number of gray levels from gray level image data, an image processing apparatus subtracts a pixel value of a selected pixel from a pixel value of adjacent pixel, amplifies the reduced value obtained by the subtraction, adds the amplified value to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080175499 - Image processing apparatus: An apparatus calculates a change predicted value of a value of an interest pixel included in an interest field. The apparatus calculates a change predicted value before correcting the value of the interest pixel based on the interest field and at least one of fields which neighbors the interest field... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.c. John J Torrente

20080175498 - Method, medium and apparatus effectively compressing and restoring edge position images: Provided are an apparatus and method for effectively compressing and restoring edge areas in an image. Therefore, by predicting values of pixels positioned at each directional edge, among pixels constructing a 2×2 block in a current image, using values of neighbor pixels of the pixels positioned at each directional edge,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080175494 - Methods and systems for inter-layer image prediction: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for predicting image elements.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080175496 - Methods and systems for inter-layer image prediction signaling: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for predicting image elements.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080175495 - Methods and systems for inter-layer image prediction with color-conversion: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for predicting image elements.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080175497 - Methods and systems for multiplication-free inter-layer image prediction: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for predicting image elements.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080175500 - System of master reconstruction schemes for pyramid decomposition: A reconstruction system for digital signals processed by the laplacian pyramid including a master lifting-based parameterization reconstruction scheme. The system also involves the design of low-complexity FIR linear-phase integer-coefficient filtering operators for lapacian pyramid decimation and interpolation stages that deliver a minimum mean-squared error reconstruction.... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20080175501 - Compression of bi-level images with explicit representation of ink clusters: A system and method facilitating compression of bi-level images with explicit representation of ink clusters is provided. The present invention includes a cluster shape estimator that analyzes connected component information, extracts clusters and stores the cluster in a global dictionary, a page dictionary or a store of unclustered shapes. A... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080175502 - Method and system for providing arithmetic code normalization and byte construction: A method and system are provided for code normalization and byte construction. A plurality of subsets of bits is extracted from a first input. Each of the subsets of bits has a bit width equaling a number of leading zeros from a second input variable. Further, a consecutive sequence of... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080175503 - Method and device for estimating image quality of compressed images and/or video sequences: A method for estimating quality of images compressed with a transformation based compression method. The estimation method uses estimated errors generated by quantization to obtain an image quality indicator and does not require use of a reference image. The estimation method includes calculating a probability of at least one specific... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.c.

20080175504 - Systems, methods, and media for detecting content change in a streaming image system: Systems, methods and media for transitioning detecting content change in a streaming image system are disclosed. One embodiment provides a method for detecting a content change between image frames in a streaming image system. Embodiments may include selecting a change detection algorithm from a plurality of change detection algorithms and... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson Pllc

20080175506 - Image processing device, electronic instrument, and method of calibrating anti-aliasing filter: An image processing device includes: an anti-aliasing filter, a cutoff frequency of the anti-aliasing filter being variable; an analog-digital (AD) converter which converts an analog signal output from the anti-aliasing filter into a digital signal, and outputs the digital signal; and a filter calibration unit which calibrates the cutoff frequency... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, Llc

20080175505 - Image processor, computer readable medium storing image processing program, and image processing method: An image processor includes a signal acquiring unit, a first converting unit, a signal specifying unit and a second converting unit. The signal acquiring unit acquires a signal in a color space having a perceptual property. The first converting unit converts the signal acquired by the signal acquiring unit into... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080175508 - Image processing device: An image processing device according to an example of the invention comprises a differentiating section which differentiates input image data to generate gradient image data, a gradient domain deconvolution processing section which applies a deconvolution to the gradient image data, the deconvolution performing deblurring corresponding to a prior distribution of... Agent: Sprinkle Ip Law Group

20080175507 - Synthetic image and video generation from ground truth data: A system and a method are disclosed for generating video. Object information is received. A path of motion of the object relative to a reference point is generated. A series of images and ground for a reference frame are generated from the ground truth and the generated path. A system... Agent: Ricoh/fenwick

20080175511 - Image processor: An image taken via lens system (100) and CCD (101) is converted at A/D (102) into digital signals that are then stored in buffer (103). An output of buffer (103) is connected to output block (106) via noise reduction processing block (104), edge enhancement processing block (107) and signal processing... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080175510 - Imaging apparatus, noise removing device, noise removing method, program for noise removing method, and recording medium for recording the same: Disclosed herein is an imaging apparatus, including, an imaging section for acquiring an imaging result, and outputting image data, and a noise suppressing section for suppressing a noise of the image data, and outputting output data, wherein the noise suppressing section includes, a first ε-filter, a second ε-filter, a third... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080175509 - System and method for reconstructing restored facial images from video: A system and method for performing a facial image restoration is described. The system includes an active appearance model component for fitting an active appearance model to a facial image found in each of a plurality of video frames, a registration component for registering each pixel of each facial image... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20080175512 - Image processing apparatus and method thereof: The intensities of horizontal and vertical edges of each block of luminance signals of an image are measured, and horizontal and vertical edge intensity data of respective blocks are stored for one frame in an edge intensity mapping memory. A noise removal flag used to specify a filtering block is... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.c. John J Torrente

20080175513 - Image edge detection systems and methods: Various embodiments of edge detection systems and methods are disclosed. One method embodiment, among others, comprises receiving an image (602), applying a box-spline based tight wavelet frame to the image to decompose the image into low pass and high pass portions (604), and reconstructing the image from the high pass... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080175514 - Image processing apparatus, image processing system, imaging apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus includes an zoom position acquiring section for acquiring a zoom position representing a lens position condition of the optical zoom mechanism on taking the inputted image, a zooming-direction decoding section for decompressing correction parameter associated with the zoom position, which is acquired by the zoom position... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080175515 - Method for aligning a modified document and an original document for comparison and difference highlighting: A method for aligning a modified document and an original document is provided according to an aspect of the present invention. The method includes a step of receiving a first bitmap representative of the modified document, including a first anchor. Additionally, a second bitmap representative of the original document including... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20080175516 - Method and apparatus for determination of text orientation: The present invention relates to a method for determining the orientation of text, so that the text can be correctly read. In one embodiment, the method analyzes the “open” portions of text characters to determine in which direction the open portions face. By determining the respective densities of characters opening... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP Sri International

20080175517 - Reshaping a camera image: Apparatuses, computer media, and methods for altering a camera image, in which the source image may be angularly displaced from a camera image. A plurality of points on the camera image is located and a mesh is generated. Compensation information based on the displacement is determined, and a reshaped image... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 005222

20080175518 - Alignment system and method for overlapping substrates: A system including a data acquisition system and a processing system is provided. The data acquisition system has a fixed position relative to a first substrate with a first pattern. The data acquisition system is configured to capture a reference frame that includes the first pattern and capture a first... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080175519 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and program: An image processing apparatus includes a plurality of addition means and an image processing means. The addition means performs addition processing of adding pixels of a differential image at a second resolution representing a difference between an inputted image at a first resolution and an image at the second resolution... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080170746 - Authentication of objects using steganography: Steganographic methods for encoding auxiliary data into a host signal are used to authenticate physical and electronic objects. One claim recites an object comprising: a first graphic provided on an object surface, and a storage device carried by the object. The storage device includes a second graphic stored therein. The... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080170747 - Object verification method and system: Provided is a method and system for detecting an object in a conveying system, where the object is one of a plurality of similar but otherwise distinctly individualized objects. The method comprises the steps of: sequentially conveying a group of objects past a first and optionally a second identification station... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080170748 - Controlling a document based on user behavioral signals detected from a 3d captured image stream: A computer-implemented method, system, and program product comprises a behavior processing system for capturing a three-dimensional movement of a user within a particular environment, wherein the three-dimensional movement is determined by using at least one image capture device aimed at the user. The behavior processing system identifies a three-dimensional object... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20080170749 - Controlling a system based on user behavioral signals detected from a 3d captured image stream: A computer-implemented method, system, and program includes a behavior processing system for capturing a three-dimensional movement of a user within a particular environment, wherein the three-dimensional movement is determined by using at least one image capture device aimed at the user. The behavior processing system identifies a three-dimensional object properties... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20080170751 - Identifying spurious regions in a video frame: In a digital video surveillance system, a number of processing stages are employed to identify foreground regions representing moving objects in a video sequence. An object tracking stage 5 is also provided in order to identify a correspondence between candidate objects in a current frame and those that have already... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080170752 - Information processing device, image movement instructing method, and information storage medium: To provide an information processing device, an image movement instructing method, and an information storage medium for selecting any of a plurality of images in a simple operation and for designating a destination to which to move the selected image or images. The image processing device comprises an image displaying... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080170753 - Method for image prediction of multi-view video codec and computer readable recording medium therefor: Provided are a method for image prediction of a multi-view video codec capable of improving coding efficiency, and a computer readable recording medium therefor. The method for image prediction of a multi-view video codec includes partitioning an image to a plurality of base blocks, acquiring information of reference images which... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20080170750 - Segment tracking in motion picture: Segment tracking in motion picture, including: applying a marking material having a known pattern to a surface; acquiring a sequence of image frames, each image frame of the sequence including a plurality of images of the known pattern covering the surface; deriving position and orientation information regarding the known pattern... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080170754 - Apparatus for determining the presence of fog using image obtained by vehicle-mounted device: An apparatus that determines the presence of an element such as fog interfering with the visibility of a frontal view of an driver in an vehicle in an environmental atmosphere in ahead of the vehicle equipped with the apparatus in the daytime is provided. In this apparatus, the determination of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080170755 - Methods and apparatus for collecting media site data: Example methods and apparatus for collecting media site data for use with media exposure measurement systems are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves displaying a first image of a scene and receiving a user-provided selection of a location in the first image. An object of interest in the scene is... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080170756 - Method for hierarchical determination of coherent events in a seismic image: The invention concerns the determination of coherent events in a seismic image comprising the following operational phases: a phase of selecting a segmentation criterion based on a variable and at least one sliding window on said zone and its characteristics, a phase of hierarchical segmentation, for overlapping positions of the... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080170757 - Method to avoid mixed contours in pile fabrics: The purpose of the invention consists in defining a method in which, in the process of producing pile fabrics in accordance with card designs having been made, support is given, before or during processing, by a file activating the Jacquard machine in order to avoid that mixed contours are occurring.... Agent: James C. Wray

20080170758 - Method and system for selecting and allocating high confidence biometric data: A method and system for selecting and allocating high confidence biometric data. A combination of presented identification information along with gathered biometric data are associated with an entity separated by a sensor trigger. For example, presenting a driver's license in addition to automated gathering and identification of face, iris, voice,... Agent: Intellectual Property Honeywell International Inc.

20080170759 - Shape representation using cosine transforms: A method of approximating the inner or outer boundary of an iris comprises generating an approximate boundary representation (20) comprising a least squares approximation by a cosine transform series of a function of the angle (θ) about a fixed point (A) of the distance of measured points (10) on the... Agent: Schwartz Cooper CharteredIPDepartment

20080170760 - Shape representation using fourier transforms: A method of approximating the inner or outer boundary of an iris comprises generating an approximate boundary representation (20) comprising a least squares approximation by a Fourier Series of a function of the angle (θ) about a fixed point (A) of the distance of measured points (10) on the boundary... Agent: Schwartz Cooper CharteredIPDepartment

20080170762 - Alcohol test system, alcohol test device, alcohol test method, and program: In order to provide an alcohol test device which can keep evidence that an identical person has been surely tested in an alcohol test, the alcohol test device includes an alcohol test unit which measures alcohol concentration from breath exhaled by a subject; a drinking determination unit which determines whether... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080170761 - Method for image auto-selection and computer system thereof: A method for image auto-selection and a computer system thereof are provided. In the method, a characteristic value of each of the images is compared with the predetermined characteristic value stored in a characteristic value database, and the images with less difference between the characteristic value and the predefined characteristic... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080170770 - method for tissue culture extraction: An image guidance system is provided for improving tissue culture extraction where the tissue is extracted under the guidance of first and second knowledge-based systems. The first knowledge-based system provides initial suggested regions of interest for tissue biopsy in an internal organ. These regions of interest are then confirmed as... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20080170771 - Medical image processing apparatus and medical image processing method: A medical image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit which acquires an anatomical malignant grade of an abnormality candidate region that is possibly an anatomical abnormality included in an image showing the inside of a subject based on a candidate region characteristic amount indicative of characteristics concerning the abnormality candidate... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080170769 - Method and image processing system for producing result images of an examination object: At least one embodiment of the invention relates to a method for producing result images of an examination object, in the case of which a number of magnetic resonance images, determined by a magnetic resonance recording device, of the examination object are acquired, and radionuclide emission tomography image data, determined... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080170763 - Method and system for automatic analysis of blood vessel structures and pathologies in support of a triple rule-out procedure: A method of automatically performing a triple rule-out procedure using imaging data is provided. Imaging data is received that includes a heart region, a pulmonary artery region, an ascending aorta region, and a thoraco-abdominal aorta region of a patient. The heart region, an ascending aorta object, an abdominal aorta object,... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080170766 - Method and system for detecting cancer regions in tissue images: A pixel of an image is classified between a first kind and a second kind by centering a sample mask on the pixel and applying each of a population of R given basis functions to the mask pixels to generate, for each basis function, a bucket of values. A probability... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20080170767 - Method and system for gleason scale pattern recognition: A gradient is calculated for a pixel image representing a cancer area, the gradient having magnitude and direction. Local extrema of the gradients are identified, remaining pixels are zeroed. Significant gradients among the local extrema are identified, based on thresholds obtained through training. Probability distributions are calculated for the local... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20080170768 - Region correction method: In a region correction method of correcting a three-dimensional region on volume data, the region correction method includes: (a) acquiring a first region as a guide and a second region as a work region; (b) rendering the first region and the second region separately from each other; (c) acquiring a... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080170764 - System for early detection of dental caries: A method is disclosed for processing of images to detect dental caries, that includes the following steps. Directing incident light (16) toward a tooth (20), where this light excites a fluorescent emission from the tooth. Obtaining a fluorescence image (35) from the fluorescent light component (19), and obtaining a reflectance... Agent: Carestream Health Inc,

20080170765 - Targeted additive gain tool for processing ultrasound images: Ultrasound image processing system including a processor (16) for receiving a sequence of ultrasound image frames each including an object with a border and causing the ultrasound image frames to be displayed, and a user input device (20) for designating variable local regions of the displayed ultrasound image frames. A... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080170772 - Apparatus for determining positions of objects contained in a sample: The invention relates to an apparatus for determining positions of objects contained within a sample. The apparatus comprises an image sensor configured to transform incident light to image data, an optical system comprising a lens arrangement and an aperture, a light emitting device configured to generate light towards said image... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080170773 - Method for detecting lithographically significant defects on reticles: A method for identifying lithographically significant defects. A photomask is illuminated to produce images that experience different parameters of the reticle as imaged by an inspection tool. Example parameters include a transmission intensity image and a reflection intensity image. The images are processed together to recover a band limited mask... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve Sampson LLP Kla Tencor

20080170774 - Photomask inspection and verification by lithography image reconstruction using imaging pupil filters: A method and tool for generating reconstructed images that model the high NA effects of a lithography tool used to image patterns produced by a mask. Comparison of the reconstructed images with reference images characterize the mask. The method involves providing a mask reticle for inspection. Generating matrix values associated... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve Sampson LLP Kla Tencor

20080170775 - Wafer-scale image archiving and receiving system: A system for the long-term storage and high-speed retrieval of images stored on silicon wafers. The images are stored by utilizing semiconductor fabrication techniques. These images are organized and managed using metadata in the form of a barcode. Each barcode is a unique identifier that contains the location information for... Agent: Hiscock & Barclay, LLP

20080170777 - Combining multiple session content for animation libraries: A computer-implemented method includes comparing content captured during one session and content captured during another session. A surface feature of an object represented in the content of one session corresponds to a surface feature of an object represented in the content of the other session. The method also includes substantially... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080170776 - Controlling resource access based on user gesturing in a 3d captured image stream of the user: A computer-implemented method, system, and program product comprises a gesture processing system for capturing a three-dimensional movement of a user, wherein the three-dimensional movement is determined using at least one stereoscopic image device aimed at the user to identify and track at least one particular three-dimensional movement of the user.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20080170778 - Method and system for detection and removal of redeyes: Systems and methods for detecting and correcting redeye defects in a digital image are described. In one aspect, the invention proposes a color image segmentation method. In accordance with this method, pixels of the input image are segmented by mapping the pixels to a color space and using a number... Agent: Huitao Luo

20080170779 - Device, method, and program storage medium for color conversion, device, method, and program storage medium for color conversion coefficient generation: A color conversion device is provided including: a setting unit that sets a conversion mode, based on characteristics of a source color region related to an input image signal in a color space, for converting the input image signal to an image signal that falls within at least one color... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080170780 - Inspection method and apparatus,lithographic apparatus, lithographic processing cell and device manufacturing method: Building of a model profile for a target is disclosed. An embodiment of the method includes importing an image of a known object and superimposing, on this image, either by hand or automatically, an estimated profile. The estimated profile is defined mathematically and adjusted segment by segment in order to... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080170782 - Image processing apparatus, information management system, process for processing image, computer readable medium and computer data signal: An image processing apparatus includes: an image reading unit that reads an information image on which a plurality of sets each of which comprises image information and additional information are displayed according to a predetermined rule; an image information acquiring unit; an additional information acquiring unit; a positional relationship acquiring... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080170781 - Image selection on a screen: A method of bounding a select area (202, 204, 206) of an image on a display (200) by a select area boundary (208, 210). The select area boundary comprises at least one select area boundary portion (212, 214, 216). The method comprises actuating one of a plurality of keypad buttons... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080170784 - Method and apparatus for detecting objects in an image: A method of detecting generally rectangular objects in an image comprises determining candidate rectangles in the image based on detected corners in the image, ranking the candidate rectangles on the basis of a set of differentiating factors and detecting objects in the images based on the ranked candidate rectangles.... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080170783 - Method and apparatus for processing an image: Provided are an image processing method and apparatus capable of improving the result of segmenting an image and discriminatively determining the extent of processing the image. In the method, the extent of segmentation of the image is calculated; the result of segmentation is compensated for and the extent of processing... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080170785 - Converting text: Converting text may be provided. A user selectable element may be used to select a text. The selected text may include a first text within an electronic document and a second text within an image. The second text within the image may be converted to character information by receiving the... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080170786 - Image processing system, image processing method, and image processing program: A technique that can contribute to a reduction in an operation burden in managing a processing result of semantic determination processing applied to objects included in an image is provided. An object included in an image of image data is extracted. A semantic of the object in a layout of... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080170787 - Method for image separating: A method for image separating, said method being applied to an electronic apparatus to separate a foreground and a background of an image displayed on said apparatus, comprising the steps of scanning pixels in said image, applying arithmetic algorithm on said pixels and forming a plurality of segments on said... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080170788 - Chinese character learning system: A system of materials facilitates teaching Chinese characters to a child in progressive stages, whether or not the teacher is fluent in Chinese. Each stage associates a multi-colored object with a correspondingly multi-colored Chinese character that represents the object. For a child from birth to two years, a first stage... Agent: Sean D. Burdick

20080170789 - Organizing, editing, and rendering digital ink: A pen-based computing system supports organizing, editing, and rendering handwritten digital ink. A given page of text may include several word flows, but the flows may be prevented from overlapping one another, and each word and stroke may be assigned to only one flow on the page. Various functions are... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20080170790 - Computer system and method for calculating straightness of facial: A computer system and a method for calculating straightness of facial are provided. In the method, an image is processed to obtain a facial area and eyes locations. The facial area is divided into two sub-areas. Then, each of the sub-area and the corresponding symmetric image thereof are coupled together... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080170791 - Computerised cortex boundary extraction from mr images: Method for processing digital images, such as magnetic resonance images of a brain. The images contain a first object, for example the cerebrum white matter, a second object, for example the cerebral cortex, and a third object, for example the cerebrospinal fluid. The method involves providing a digital dataset representing... Agent: James C. Wray

20080170792 - Apparatus and method for identifying marker: A mobile application (13) and a matching processing section (21) execute template matching on an image input by an image input section (11), using classification templates (51) registered in a classification TP data management DB (22) and corresponding to classification information on markers. The mobile application (13) and matching processing... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080170793 - Image encoding device and image encoding method: There are provided an encoding device, a decoding device, an encoding method, and a decoding method that enhance optimality in a case of encoding moving image signals having no sample ratio distinction between color components such as a 4:4:4 format. In a case of conducting compression encoding by inputting digital... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080170794 - Image pickup apparatus, image recording program, image data recording medium, image processing apparatus, and image processing program: An image pickup apparatus is provided that allows image data to represent colors within the human visible region adequately. The apparatus includes an encoding part which encodes a color of each of pixels forming an image represented by image data that are input from an image pickup part, using an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080170795 - Feature block compression/decompression: A compressor for compressing a block of feature vectors representing a feature associated with image elements, includes means (20, 22) for determining the distribution of the feature vectors, means (20, 24, 26, 28) for transforming each point pattern in a predetermined set of point patterns to fit the determined distribution... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080170797 - Edge enhancement system and method and imaging system: A plurality of bandpass filters extract high frequency components of a digital image signal sampled every predetermined unit, thus generating a plurality of high frequency signals. The high frequency signals are added to produce a resultant high frequency signal. On the basis of the value of the resultant high frequency... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080170796 - Method and apparatus for detecting edge of image and computer readable medium processing method: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for detecting a noise distribution of an image close to a true distribution, and detecting an edge of the image precisely and quickly based on the detected noise distribution without performing a smoothing process for the image, and a computer readable medium... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP (oc)

20080170799 - Method for calibrating a response curve of a camera: A method for calibrating a response curve of a camera is provided. A homography relationship of an image sequence captured by the camera is calculated using a coplanar information including feature correspondence blocks of the image sequence. An intensity mapping function is then obtained from the intensity information of the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080170798 - System and method for adaptive contrast enhancement of video signals: A method for contrast enhancement of a video signal comprises receiving a video signal frame, gathering statistics about the video signal frame, calculating the effective input dynamic range of the video signal frame, calculating the effective output dynamic range of the video signal frame, and constructing a transform to enhance... Agent: Marissa R. Ducca, Esq. Jones Day

20080170801 - Automatic digital film and video restoration: A method, system, and computer program for automatic restoration of digital film and video frames, by operation of a sequence of five main interactive computer program blocks, mainly separating moving objects from still objects, separating smooth texture from regions containing edges using the coherency map, and detecting and removing defects... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080170800 - One-pass filtering and infrared-visible light decorrelation to reduce noise and distortions: A scanning device includes a scanning mechanism and a processing mechanism. The scanning mechanism scans an image fixed on a medium to generate a digital infrared representation of the image and a digital visible light representation of the image. The processing mechanism substantially reduces effects of noise and distortions within... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080170802 - Device for processing raw images or tensor images: A device (D) is dedicated to the processing of data constituting initial tensor images, each tensor being a real symmetric and positive definite matrix representing an elementary part of a received tensor image. This device (D) comprises, on the one hand, a first calculating module (MCI) capable of performing a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080170804 - Apparatus, method, and medium for processing image: Provided are an apparatus, method, and medium for processing an image. In the apparatus, at least one image selected from images to be stitched so as to make colors of overlapped sections of the images as identical with each other as possible and operating again in response to a re-alignment... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080170805 - Method and system for adding dynamic pictures to real-time image: A method for adding a dynamic picture to a real-time image and a system thereof are disclosed. First, a source image is obtained, and an image processing is executed on the source image to produce an image with a specific format. Then, a dynamic signet image is produced by integrating... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080170803 - Panoramic imaging techniques: A wireless device or camera phone device that is adapted to create in the device a larger, panoramic image of two photographic images provided the two images have a common overlapping region. The panoramic image can be created even if the two images are at different rotations or perspectives. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080170806 - 3d image processing apparatus and method: A 3d image processing apparatus and method for generating a three-dimensional (3D) image from two-dimensional (2D) images are provided. An image file format of the present invention includes an image start segment for indicating a start of an image file; an image information segment for storing information on the image... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080170807 - Method for sliced inpainting: A method for replacing image data in a destination region that is divided into sub-pieces along one or more cutting paths, which start and end at two different points on the border, and finding replacement data for the sub-pieces. The cutting paths may be determined as a function of the... Agent: Nik Software, Inc. C/o Sheldon Mak Rose & Anderson

20080170808 - Program, apparatus and method for determining interpolation method: According to a program, a computer determine an interpolation method for interpolating respective pixel values of plural pixels not existing in an input image and positioned on a straight line. Specifically, the computer selects a target pixel from among the plural pixels sequentially; calculates a local correlation value for each... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080170809 - Image processing system with an address snooping apparatus: An image processing system includes a first image processor that reads out a first image written in a main memory to apply a first process to the first image and write in the main memory as a second image, a second image processor that reads out a second image written... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080170811 - Image capture apparatus: An image capture apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an image capture, a memory unit, a sampling unit, and an image coder. The image capture captures a plurality of image data. The memory unit is coupled to the image capture and stores the image data output by the image capture.... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080170812 - Image composition processing method, computer system with image composition processing function: An image composition processing method is disclosed. The image composition processing method includes the steps of obtaining a template from a template database, producing a background in the image displaying area according to the template, wherein the image displaying area has at least a photo reserved area, obtaining a object... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080170810 - Image document processing device, image document processing method, program, and storage medium: An image document processing device extracts a character sequence image having M number of characters in an image document, divides the image into individual character images, extracts features of the individual character images, and based on the features, selects N (N is an integer more than 1) character images in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080166012 - Embedding data in material: An apparatus including a transformer for transforming transform domain data into time domain data and a combiner for receiving material and combining said time domain data with said material to form data embedded material. Hence, the material is not subject any transformation at all.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080166011 - Enhanced gnss signal processing: In accordance with embodiments of the invention, a skyward-looking sensor enables classification of points in its hemispherical field of view as either sky, partial sky or not sky, which in turn enables determination from data supplied by the GNSS receiver of whether each satellite in the GNSS antenna's field of... Agent: Bruce D. Riter

20080166013 - Image processing device and image processing method: An image processing method is disclosed that is capable of efficient information extraction when embedding information in an image by using plural information embedding methods. The image processing method includes steps of embedding target information in the image by using one or more methods selected from plural information embedding methods;... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080166016 - Fast method of object detection by statistical template matching: A method of detecting an object in an image comprises comparing a template with a region of an image and determining a similarity measure, wherein the similarity measure is determined using a statistical measure. The template comprises a number of regions corresponding to parts of the object and their spatial... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080166017 - Image processing apparatus: In an image processing apparatus for processing images, a transformation unit transforms an image on a first coordinate system representing a coordinate system during pickup to an image on a second coordinate system set up on a reference plane, a display unit displays an image transformed by the transformation unit... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080166015 - Method for finding paths in video: A system for detecting behavior of a target may include: a target detection engine, adapted to detect at least one target from one or more objects from a video surveillance system recording a scene; a path builder, adapted to create at least one mature path model from analysis of the... Agent: Venable LLP

20080166014 - Target recognition system and method: A target recognition system and method. The inventive method includes the steps of first receiving an image of a scene within which a target may be included and second using constrained image segmentation as a basis for target recognition. In the specific embodiment, the segmentation is variable and derived from... Agent: Intellectual Property & Licensing Raytheon Company

20080166018 - Method and apparatus for performing object recognition on a target detected using motion information: A system includes an interface that receives an image, which includes a motor vehicle and background, and a processing device that performs a method for object recognition on the received image. The method includes the steps of: determining motion information corresponding to at least one of the moving vehicle and... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080166019 - Systems and methods for object dimension estimation: A system and a method of obtaining a dimension of a target object in an image comprises receiving coordinates of a number of feature points in the image, receiving coordinates of at least one reference object in the image with a known dimension, performing a calibration to adjust the coordinates... Agent: Akin Gump LLP - Silicon Valley

20080166021 - Image data processing apparatus, method, program and recording medium: An image data processing apparatus includes recording means for recording contents data containing moving image data, which is encoded by a first scheme, moving image decoding means for loading the contents data recorded in the recording means and decoding the moving image data, still image encoding means for obtaining image... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080166024 - Image processing apparatus, method and program thereof: The performance of detecting the features of an object is to be improved. In one step, among pixels within a ROI, pixels whose feature amount is greater than a predetermined threshold value are extracted as a feature point candidate. In another step, a feature point density parameter is set based... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080166022 - Manipulation of virtual objects using enhanced interactive system: The detection of motion of a user via a camera and the generation of a dynamic virtual representation of a user on a display, where the user's detected motion causes the dynamic virtual representation to interact with virtual objects on the display. The magnitude and direction of the user's detected... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080166020 - Particle-group movement analysis system, particle-group movement analysis method and program: There is provided a particle-group movement analysis system which is capable of detecting from a plurality of objects in a form of a particle, an object in the form of a particle which moves in a manner different from the other objects in the form of a particle, a particle-group... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080166023 - Video speed detection system: A system and method for measuring vehicle speeds using video sensing. The system comprises a tracking camera that generates accurately time-stamped video sequences of the monitored road at high frame rates and a processing unit that analyzes the video sequences in real time to detect moving vehicles and calculate their... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20080166026 - Method and apparatus for generating face descriptor using extended local binary patterns, and method and apparatus for face recognition using extended local binary patterns: Since LBP features are selected by performing a supervised learning process on the extended LBP features and the selected extended LBP features are used in face recognition, it is possible to reduce errors in face recognition or identity verification and to increase face recognition efficiency. In addition, the extended LBP... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080166027 - Method and system for classifying scene for each person in video: A method of classifying a scene for each person in a video, the method including: detecting a face within input video frames; detecting a shot change of the input video frames; extracting a person representation frame in the shot; performing a person clustering in the extracted person representation frame based... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080166025 - Video processing: A method of processing video data (300) is disclosed. The video data (300) comprises a plurality of sets of frame data and is captured by mobile video data capture means. The method comprises: (a) finding a face in each frame of the video (400); and (b) processing a corresponding set... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080166029 - Method and apparatus for biometric analysis of sweat ducts: Sweat ducts present on finger prints can be used in biometric identification or authentication systems as a differentiating or corroborating biometric feature. In addition, the activity of sweat ducts can be seen as a proof of liveness. By stimulating an object such as a finger by blowing air over the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080166028 - Pressure actuated biometric sensor: The method and system disclosed herein decreases the rejection rate in fingerprint capturing and authentication by a pressure actuated fingerprint sensing module. The biometric device for fingerprint recognition of a user comprises a fingerprint sensing module for capturing the fingerprint image of the user at a pre-specified pressure, or a... Agent: Dr. Richard G. Wood The Matthews Firm

20080166031 - Computerized method and system for associating a portion of a diagnostic image with an electronic record: A computerized method for associating one or more portions of a diagnostic image with one or more electronic records is provided. The method includes receiving a diagnostic image having data particular to at least two persons and associating a first portion of the diagnostic image with an electronic record. The... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20080166030 - Method and computer-program product for detecting and quantifying protein spots: The present inventions is directed to a method and computer program product for detecting and quantifying protein spots, including: generating an average gel image by taking a pixel-by-pixel average of the intensities of a plurality of aligned gel images; detecting spots on the average gel image using pinnacle detection; and... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20080166032 - Automatically detecting the presence of contrast agent in medical image: A CAD system pre-analyzes a medical image to automatically determine whether contrast agent was introduced into the patient before forming that image. In one embodiment, contrast agent detection is performed by comparing the voxel values in known blood-containing areas to voxel values of known water-containing areas, and if there is... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080166033 - Method, system and apparatus for processing radiographic images of scanned objects: A method, system and apparatus for processing a radiographic image of a scanned object is disclosed. A pixel offset correction is performed in integer format on the radiographic image using saturation arithmetic to produce an image in integer format with any negative corrected values clipped to a value of zero.... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20080166034 - Tone scale transformation for radiological images: A method for transforming radiological image data from a digital receiver obtains digital image data values from the digital receiver and compensates for exposure response differences between a screen film system and the digital receiver. Modulation transfer function differences between the screen film system and the digital receiver are compensated... Agent: Susan L. Parulski, Patent Legal Staff Carestream Health, Inc.

20080166035 - Computer-aided pathological diagnosis system: The present invention is a computer-aided pathological diagnosis method for the classification of cancer cells in a tissue specimen based on a digital cellular image of the tissue specimen. The method of the present invention includes the steps of, extracting the histological characteristic features of the cellular image using preprocessing... Agent: Smith Hopen, Pa

20080166037 - Image recognition and analysis system and software: A method of analyzing bubbles, cells, cell viability, or other particles or agglomerates in a process liquid contained in a vessel is provided. Images of bubbles, cells or other particles in the liquid are obtained in-situ with a vision probe extending through a wall of the vessel. The images are... Agent: Howson And Howson

20080166036 - System and method for analyzing tissue slides for observable pathologies: A system, device, and method for analyzing cellular specimen slides for observable pathologies, including presenting a first image of a first slide including a first portion of a cellular specimen, wherein the first portion is stained with a first stain, initiating an automated randomization sequence, wherein one or more regions... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080166038 - Method and system for evaluating an evaluated pattern of a mask: A method, system and a computer program product for evaluating an evaluated pattern of a mask, the method includes: receiving multiple moments that represent an image of the evaluated pattern; wherein a size of information required for representing the multiple moments is substantially smaller than a size of pixel information... Agent: Applied Materials, Inc. C/o Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080166039 - Process control method, data registration program, and method for manufacturing electronic device: A process control method is provided for a surface mount line including a solder printer for printing solder on a surface of a substrate, a solder print inspector for inspecting the printed solder and outputting printing quality data, a mounter for mounting components on the substrate with the solder printed,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080166040 - Apparatus, and corresponding method, for detecting the anatomic shape of a subject: A light guide is provided. The light guide has an uneven light input face and even side faces, which are arranged directly downstream of the light input face. Furthermore, an optoelectronic component with such a light guide is provided.... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080166041 - Device and method for optically sensing a specimen with a large depth of field: A device for optically sensing a specimen with a large depth of field has a lighting module which illuminates a zone of the specimen during a predetermined measurement period with a pattern whose phase is modified in time during the measurement period, generating a specimen light to which a corresponding... Agent: Duane Morris LLP Patent Department

20080166042 - Color gamut mapping/enhancement technique using skin color detection: A method for mapping/enhancing the color of an image to be displayed on a display includes receiving an image having a plurality of pixels where each of the pixels has a plurality of color components. The image is processed using a pair of gamut color mapping operations in combination with... Agent: Kevin L. Russell Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel LLP

20080166043 - Color and geometry distortion correction system and method: Systems and methods for correcting color and geometry in an image are disclosed. In one example, image data are received in one format and are then converted to another format to perform color correction. In another example, geometric corrections are first applied to each color component of an image data... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080166044 - Color gamut mapping/enhancement technique using skin color detection: A method for mapping/enhancing the color of an image to be displayed on a display includes receiving an image having a plurality of pixels where each of the pixels has a plurality of color components. The image is processed using a pair of gamut color mapping operations in combination with... Agent: Kevin L. Russell Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel LLP

20080166045 - Method of tracking objects in a video sequence: A video surveillance system (10) comprises a camera (25), a personal computer (PC) (27) and a video monitor (29). Video processing software is provided on the hard disk drive of the PC (27). The software is arranged to perform a number of processing operations on video data received from the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080166046 - Efficient fixed-point real-time thresholding for signal processing: A method for efficiently calculating signal thresholds for use in signal processing is described. The method computes and stores a cumulative histogram and a weighted cumulative histogram. The method then provides a first estimate for a threshold based on a single ratio. The method next performs an iterative computation to... Agent: Samuel S. H. Wang

20080166048 - Method and system for digital pen assembly: A digital pen comprising: an electric circuit, an acoustic transmitter, detached from the electric circuit, and configured to transmit acoustic signals, and a resilient holder, configured to mechanically press the electric circuit into electrical contact with the transmitter, so as to electrically connect the electric circuit and the transmitter.... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi

20080166047 - Method for determining oriention of chinese words: A method for determining the orientation of Chinese words is provided. The amount of dark pixels in each column of a Chinese word image is calculated. Then, a first point, a second point, and a third point are determined. The first point and the second point correspond to the columns... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080166049 - Apparatus and method for handwriting recognition: An apparatus (100) for handwriting recognition has a touch-sensitive display screen (240) providing a hand writing input area (270) capable of detecting hand-made user input. The apparatus also has a processing device (300) coupled to the touch-sensitive display screen and providing a user interface to a user. The handwriting input... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080166051 - Database production method, database production program, database production apparatus and image content recording apparatus: The present invention provides a database production method including: a representative image selection step of selecting certain images each as a representative image which represents an image content from the image content; a display processing step of causing a display apparatus to display the representative image; an operation inputting step... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080166052 - Face condition determining device and imaging device: A face area detector detects a face area of a photographic subject in image data. A particular section detector detects a particular section in the face area. A motion detector extracts a difference between the image data of the particular section in a current frame of the image data and... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080166053 - Information presentation system, information presentation terminal and server: An information presentation system includes an imaging unit, a peripheral information acquisition unit which acquires peripheral information, a storage unit which stores registered information, an analytic basic information construction unit which constructs analytic basic information from the registered information stored in the storage unit, on the basis of the peripheral... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080166050 - Methods and systems for identifying events for a vehicle: A system for identifying an event for a vehicle is disclosed. The system includes: a video source; a receiving circuit, coupled to the video source, for receiving at least a target image from the video source positioned on the vehicle; and a determining circuit, coupled to the receiving circuit, for... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080166054 - Pattern inspection apparatus: A pattern inspection apparatus uses a die-to-database comparison method which compares detected pattern data obtained from an optical image of a pattern of a plate to be inspected with first reference pattern data obtained from designed pattern data in combination with a die-to-die comparison method which compares the detected pattern... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080166055 - Symbol recognition method: A symbol recognition method for increasing the symbol recognition speed by the processor includes the steps of obtaining a pixel density value and an aspect ratio of the symbol image. Then, the center-point value and the corresponding radius value are obtained by a partitional clustering algorithm. In sequence, a pixel... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080166056 - Template matching processing apparatus and method, hologram reproducing apparatus and method, and computer program: A template matching processing device includes: first calculation means for calculating a plurality of correlation values indicating the correlation between an inputted detection image and a predetermined template image for each pixel unit while shifting the template image with respect to the detection image in pixel unit; and second calculation... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080166057 - Video structuring device and method: A video structuring device includes: character string extraction means for determining whether or not a character string is present in a frame image, and if it determines that a character string is present, generating character string position information for the character string present in a character string present frame image... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080166058 - Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving image data in communication system: An apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving an image in a communication system are provided. The apparatus includes an identifying unit, an extractor, and a communication unit. The identifying unit identifies information on a display size of a reception stage. The extractor extracts from image data as much image... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080166059 - Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding an image: A method and apparatus for encoding/decoding an image that divide an image sequence into sub-groups and determine encoding modes applied to bi-directional pictures included in each sub-group using correlations between the bi-directional pictures and reference pictures are provided. The image encoding method includes dividing a group of pictures (GOP) to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080166060 - Adaptively de-blocking circuit and associated method: The present invention discloses an adaptively de-blocking circuit and associated method. A mean is derived according to the neighboring pixels surrounding a central pixel of an image. A blending factor is determined according to a flatness of the image. An updated pixel value of the central pixel is determined by... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080166061 - Enhanced infrared imaging system: A vision system has an infrared detector that adjusts the amount of filtering based on the thermal content of a scene being imaged.... Agent: Insight Technology Incorporated Attn: Peter W. Murphy

20080166062 - Method of sharpening using panchromatic pixels: A method of sharpening a full-color image of a scene includes capturing an image of the scene using a two-dimensional sensor array having both color and panchromatic pixels; forming the full-color image in response to the captured color pixels and forming a reference panchromatic image in response to the captured... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080166063 - Systems and methods for deblurring data corrupted by shift variant blurring: The present invention provides methods, systems and machine readable medium including machine readable code for deblurring data corrupted by shift variant blurring. A first version of data having shift variant blurring characterized by a first shift variant point spread function is provided. A target shift invariant point spread function is... Agent: Manisha Chakrabarti

20080166064 - Method and apparatus for reducing noise in an image using wavelet decomposition: A method of reducing noise in an image comprises decomposing the image to generate wavelet coefficients at different scales. The wavelet coefficients are then modified based on the energy of the wavelet coefficients at the different scales. The image is reconstructed based on the modified wavelet coefficients.... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080166065 - Reconstruction of shapes of objects from images: The present disclosure describes a system and method for transforming a two-dimensional image of an object into a three-dimensional representation, or model, that recreates the three-dimensional contour of the object. In one example, three pairs of symmetric points establish an initial relationship between the original image and a virtual image,... Agent: Bingham Mchale LLP

20080166066 - Image processing: Methods for the registration of images typically assume that there are only two images, an assumption that is not always valid. By using the remaining images to obtain a choice of paths between two selected images, the transformation between the two can be determined with greater accuracy by averaging those... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20080166067 - End-user-navigable set of zoomed-in images derived from a high-resolution master image: The invention relates generally to improvements in systems used in the development of interactive visual media. More particularly, the invention relates in some embodiments to (a) the automatic or semi-automatic generation of a set of files representing “zoomed-in” sections of a master high-resolution image file, and (b) the automatic or... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080166068 - Pixel interpolating method and device: The n-tap filtering for generating interpolated pixels is converted into calculation of terms consisting of the difference and sum of the pixel values of adjoining pixels. When the difference is equal to or less than a predetermined value, the calculation related to the terms including the difference is omitted, thereby... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080166069 - Image processing apparatus using the difference among scaled images as a layered image and method thereof: The present invention is to provide an image processing apparatus using the difference among scaled images as a layered image and a method thereof, which utilize the Gaussian and Laplacian pyramid theory to convert an original image into a plurality of scaled images of different scales, and the difference among... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080166070 - Method for providing adaptive hanging protocols for image reading: Embodiments of the presently described technology provide a method for adapting a hanging protocol based on an efficiency of use. The method includes monitoring usage information for a hanging protocol, determining a productivity factor based on an efficiency of a first user during a reading of an imaging study, and... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080166071 - Data processing method & device: This invention relates to a data processing method for pixels (7) of a field of view (5), wherein the field of view comprises a portion of a digital map (1) that is to be displayed and includes a plurality of pixels (7), the digital map (1) comprises a plurality of... Agent: Tomtom International B.v.

20080166072 - Methods to compensate manufacturing variations and design imperfections in a capsule camera: A method is provided for characterizing manufacturing variations in a capsule camera and imperfections in its operating environment to allow images captured by the capsule camera to be compensated for these defects. In one embodiment, a method for characterizing a camera includes: (a) illuminating a field of view of the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080159587 - Authentication of identification documents: Security of photographic identification documents is enhanced by embedding within the photographic image encoded information that may be correlated to other information pertaining to the individual represented by the image, such other information being, for example, printed on the document adjacent to the photograph.... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080159584 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: An information processing apparatus includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire image data, an output unit configured to select a question from a plurality of questions stored on a storage element and output the selected question, a response acquisition unit configured to acquire response contents responding to the question,... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080159588 - Methods for marking images: An image is marked by making slight changes to pixel values. These changes are essentially imperceptible on human scrutiny, but detectable by computer analysis. Such markings have applications in identifying ownership of images (including video), and also in device control (e.g., triggering a “do not copy” response in suitably configured... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080159585 - Statistical categorization of electronic messages based on an analysis of accompanying images: A system for categorizing electronic messages is based on analysis of images within them. Information is extracted about potential text areas in an image and represented as a series of bounding polygons that circumscribe the text-containing regions of the image. Descriptive information and statistics are extracted from the set of... Agent: Norma E Henderson Henderson Patent Law

20080159586 - Watermarking of an image motion signal: The present invention relates to a method for embedding a watermark (w) in an image motion signal (55). The invention describes a method for embedding a watermark (w) in a motion image signal (55) in the optical domain in several steps. Initially, the watermark, i.e. the information for embedding, is... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080159589 - Method of optically recognizing postal articles using a plurality of images: A method of processing postal articles in an automatic address-reading system in which a multi-level gray scale image is formed of the surface of each article including address information, the multi-level gray scale image is transformed into a first binary image and the binary image is sent to an OCR... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080159591 - Human detection with imaging sensors: A method and apparatus for determining human beings from terrain or man-made obstacles is provided. A long-wave infrared camera along with additional devices such as a color camera, two cameras in stereo configuration, and/or a LADAR scanner are used such that the physical scene captured in one image is the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080159590 - Processing digital video using trajectory extraction and spatiotemporal decomposition: Methods to process digital video using trajectory extraction and spatiotemporal decomposition for search and retrieval of video are described. An example method extracts interest point data from data representing a plurality of video frames. The interest point data is extracted from each of the video frames independent of the other... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, Llc

20080159593 - System and method for localizing imaging devices: A system and method for localizing imaging devices in a network using images taken by the imaging devices. The relative position and orientation of a network of camera-equipped communications devices are obtained by having each device examine images taken by its camera. The devices are also equipped with controllable light... Agent: Synnestvedt & Lechner, LLP

20080159592 - Video processing method and system: An improved video processing method and system is disclosed wherein a parent video having at least one critical image element is utilized to produce tracking information on the critical image element, a child video is obtained, the tracking information is adjusted using factors such as the compression ratio of the... Agent: Wang Su

20080159594 - Bird view visual system with fisheye distortion calibration and method thereof: A bird view visual system for a vehicle having a fisheye distortion calibration is provided. The bird view visual system includes at least one image sensor equipping therewith a wide lens, for monitoring an environment change around the vehicle and generating an image signal in accordance with the environment change,... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c.

20080159595 - Apparatus and method of measuring distance using structured light: Provided are an apparatus and method of measuring a distance using structured light. The apparatus includes a binarization unit binarizing an image, an image identification unit identifying an image having connected pixels in the binarized image, a length ratio calculation unit obtaining the length ratio of the major axis of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080159596 - Apparatus and methods for head pose estimation and head gesture detection: A method for head pose estimation may include receiving block motion vectors for a frame of video from a block motion estimator, selecting at least one block for analysis, determining an average motion vector for the at least one selected block, combining the average motion vectors over time (all past... Agent: Prass & Irving LLP

20080159597 - Monitoring system, monitoring method, and program: A monitoring system includes: an image capturing section capturing a motion image of a monitor region; a condition storing section storing a condition of an object to be extracted from the motion image; a matching judging section judging whether an object that matches the condition exists in the motion image;... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080159599 - Biometric authentication system and biometrics authentication method: A biometrics authentication system capable of easily performing biometrics authentication is provided. A biometrics authentication system includes: a microlens array section including a plurality of microlenses; an image pickup device for receiving light condensed by each microlens in the microlens array section from each different part of a living organism... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20080159598 - Systems and methods for biometric information automation: A method identifies persons based on biometric information. The method includes providing a cache of biometric templates. The cache stores segments of the biometric templates associated with biometric features contained in the segments. The method also includes receiving a sample biometric template to be identified; dividing the sample biometric template... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group, LLP

20080159600 - Iris image data processing for use with iris recognition system: Disclosed is an iris recognition method which is one of biometric technologies. According to a non-contact-type human iris recognition method by correction of a rotated iris image, the iris image is acquired by image acquisition equipment using an infrared illuminator. Inner and outer boundaries of the iris are detected by... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080159601 - Face recognition system and corresponding method: A face recognition system is provided, which is incorporated as part of traditionally worn items, so as to allow for face recognition assistance without being obvious to the person whose face is being recognized. The face recognition system includes a viewfinder, which has an image capture module and a display... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080159602 - Fingerprint reader combination: The combination of an electronic fingerprint reader and a second electronic transmission device includes a first portion with a top surface and an electronic transmission device disposed therein and a second portion having a top surface with a width between about 2 inches and about 12 inches and a depth... Agent: Sheldon Mak Rose & Anderson Pc

20080159607 - Method and system for evaluating two time-separated medical images: In a method for evaluation of two images of an organ system acquired at different points in time to establish a pathological variation, the organ system exhibits a first region and a second region that are present in and that are differentiated in each of the images, with the second... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080159604 - Method and system for imaging to identify vascularization: Apparatus and method for determining an extent of vascularization in which a digitaldigitalized representation of blood vessels in a selected area is generated; one or more statistical quantative measures for the blood vessels in the selected area are calculated; and the one or more statistical quantative measures are compared to... Agent: Lawrence S. Cohen

20080159608 - Method and system for pre-operative prediction: A system and method for pre-operatively obtaining a prediction of a post-operative image of at least part of a body is disclosed. A 3D pre-operative description is determined of at least part of a body, and a pre-operative 2D photograph is acquired of the at least part of the body... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080159603 - Method for automatically detecting degenerated regions in stained thin section slides: In a method for automatically detecting degenerated regions in many stained thin section specimens (40), color region information is obtained on a degenerated region and on a non-degenerated region on image data of a standard specimen in a stained thin section slide. Next, color region information is obtained on a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080159605 - Method for characterizing an image source utilizing predetermined color spaces: A system and method for identifying objects of interest in image data is provided. The present invention utilizes principles of Iterative Transformational Divergence in which objects in images, when subjected to special transformations, will exhibit radically different responses based on the physical, chemical, or numerical properties of the object or... Agent: The Fleshner Group, Pllc

20080159606 - Object recognition system for medical imaging: An improved system and method (i.e. utility) for segmentation of medical images is provided. The utility fits an estimated boundary on a structure of interest in an automated selection and fitting process. The estimated boundary may be a model boundary that is generated actual boundaries of like structures. In one... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20080159609 - Sem system and a method for producing a recipe for imaging or measuring a specimen by using the sem system: This invention relates to a SEM system constructed to create imaging recipes or/and measuring recipes automatically and at high speed, and improve inspection efficiency and an automation ratio, and to a method using the SEM system; a method for creation of imaging recipes and measuring recipes in the SEM system... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080159610 - Automatic coronary artery calcium detection and labeling system: Method and system for using segmentation and three-dimensional image-processing techniques of a method to create an automatic method to detect coronary artery calcification deposits and identify their location with respect to a major coronary artery. Finally, different scoring algorithms can be applied to generate calcium scores such as Agatston Janovitz,... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20080159612 - Drr generation using a non-linear attenuation model: A method and system are presented for generating a DRR of an anatomical region so that the visibility within the DDR of one or more skeletal reference structures is enhanced. 3D scan data, which have been obtained from a 3D scan of the object conducted at a 3D scan energy... Agent: Daniel E. Ovanezian Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080159611 - System and method for automated patient anatomy localization: A method of imaging comprises performing a scout image of an object and aligning major regions of interest within the object by comparing the scout image with a pre-determined atlas image. In a further embodiment, a method of imaging using a computed tomography (CT) scanner is provided and comprises performing... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20080159613 - Method for classifying breast tissue density: A method for classifying tissue density of a breast includes obtaining mammography image data and segmenting the mammography image to identify the region representing the breast tissue. A plurality of regions within the breast tissue region are identified for obtaining image features therefrom. A plurality of image features are computed... Agent: Carestream Health Inc,

20080159614 - Validation template for valuable media of multiple classes: A technique for use in automatic validation of a media item involves accessing a template that comprises multiple one-class classifiers, each corresponding to one of multiple classes to which the media item might belong, and then applying each of the one-class classifiers to an image of the media item to... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20080159615 - Banknotes with a printed security image that can be detected with one-dimensional signal processing: The present invention aims to propose a method to generate a security pattern to be embedded in an original image having the particularity that the detection of the security pattern can be achieved through a simple, low processing capability device. The present invention proposes a method for generating a security... Agent: Dla Piper Us LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080159617 - Real-time dispenser fault detection and classificaition method: A real-time dispenser fault detection and classification method for monitoring adhesive dots dispensed on a substrate by a dispenser includes dispensing adhesive on the substrate by the dispenser so as to form a plurality of adhesive dots on the substrate, capturing images formed on the substrate by the adhesive dots... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080159616 - Weatherization imaging systems and methods: Methods and systems for evaluating a performance installment in a building construction include preparing a first image of the building construction, implementing the performance installment in the building construction, preparing a second image of the building construction subsequent to or during implementation of the performance installment, and evaluating the performance... Agent: Johns Manville

20080159618 - Apparatus for measuring doctor blade geometric deviations: An apparatus for measuring geometric deviations in a doctor blade includes a camera defining an optical axis. The optical axis defines an X-axis in a Cartesian coordinate system. An origin of the Cartesian coordinate system defines an intersection point. A first light source has a first central axis. The first... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080159619 - Multi-frequency image processing for inspecting parts having complex geometric shapes: A method for detecting small cracks and other anomalies on parts having complex geometries is disclosed. The method includes eddy current inspection incorporating collection of data from multi-frequency eddy current signals. Phase analysis is used to combine the multi-frequency data to enhance the signal to noise ratio of the raw... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick Llc

20080159620 - Vehicular vision system: A vision system for a vehicle that identifies and classifies objects (targets) located proximate a vehicle. The system comprises a sensor array that produces imagery that is processed to generate depth maps of the scene proximate a vehicle. The depth maps are processed and compared to pre-rendered templates of target... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler P.c.

20080159622 - Target object recognition in images and video: A computer-readable medium for performing target object recognition in images and video includes instructions for receiving target image data including a target object, applying non-negative matrix factorization with enforced sparseness to the target image data to generate target extracted image feature data, training a neural network to identify the target... Agent: Venable LLP

20080159623 - Daytime and nighttime image recognizing method and apparatus: In a daytime and nighttime image recognizing method and apparatus, the method comprises predefining an air region and a terrestrial region for each image captured by a camera apparatus; inputting an image captured by the camera apparatus; calculating a lightness value histogram for the air region of the input image;... Agent: Alpine/bhgl

20080159624 - Texture-based pornography detection: Techniques are described herein for detecting pornographic content in digital image data by analyzing the texture of the digital image data, and as a result of analyzing the texture of digital image data, designating the digital image as being pornographic or otherwise containing adult or offensive content.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080159625 - System, method and apparatus for automatic segmentation and analysis of ink stream: A technique that provides for real-time segmentation of hand written traces during data entry into a computer. In one example embodiment, this is achieved by computing a current trace bounding contour as a function of a drawn current trace. A current selection bounding contour is then computed as a function... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080159628 - Image taking apparatus and image taking method: An image taking apparatus according to an aspect of the invention comprises: an image pickup device which picks up an object image and outputs the picked-up image data; a face detection device which detects human faces in the image data; a face-distance calculating device which calculates the distance between the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080159626 - Method for determining whether a feature of interest or an anomaly is present in an image: A system and method for identifying objects of interest in image data is provided. The present invention utilizes principles of Iterative Transformational Divergence in which objects in images, when subjected to special transformations, will exhibit radically different responses based on the physical, chemical, or numerical properties of the object or... Agent: The Fleshner Group, Pllc

20080159627 - Part-based pornography detection: Techniques are described herein for detecting particular body parts in a digital image, and as a result of detecting at least one of these body parts, classifying the digital image as a particular type. According to an embodiment, digital image data that defines a digital image is received as input... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080159630 - Apparatus for and method of robust motion estimation using line averages: A method of processing an image includes the steps of computing a plurality of line averages for a first image; identifying a set of pairs of line averages having high edge strengths; identifying a set of maximal pairs of line averages from among the set of line averages having high... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski Market Square

20080159631 - Algorithm to measure symmetry and positional entropy of a data set: A method and algorithm is given to measure the symmetry (SYM=global symmetry) of N points. The algorithm is based on counting the number of “elementary symmetric recognition acts,” or having two distances d(A,B) and d(C,D) be equal within a given tolerance t. The same algorithm can be adapted to measure... Agent: Lydia M. De Jesus

20080159632 - Image detection methods and apparatus: A method for designating a given image as similar/dissimilar with respect to a reference image is provided. The method includes normalizing the image. Normalizing includes performing pre-processing and a lossy compression on the given image to obtain a lossy representation. The pre-processing includes at least one of cropping, fundamental extracting,... Agent: Ipsg, P.c.

20080159633 - Method and apparatus for managing data-analysis parts in a word processor application: An interactive data-analysis part pane is provided for receiving and displaying a data-analysis part in a word processor application. The interactive data-analysis part pane includes a content region for receiving and displaying the data-analysis part in at least one predefined area of the word processor document in a data-analysis template.... Agent: Paul Van Eikeren Blue Reference, Inc.

20080159634 - Method and system for automatically analyzing categories in a physical space based on the visual characterization of people: The present invention is a method and system for automatically analyzing a category in a plurality of the categories in a physical space based on the visual characterization, such as behavior analysis or segmentation, of the persons with regard to the category. The present invention captures a plurality of input... Agent: Rajeev Sharma Videomining Corporation

20080159635 - System for software interaction using printed form: A system for enabling user interaction with computer software which includes a computer system which transfers print data to a printer. The printer is responsive to the print data to print a form by printing information indicative of a text field coincident with coded data indicative of the text field,... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080159636 - Encoding apparatus and encoding method: According to one embodiment, an encoding apparatus which encodes video data in accordance with MPEG4 AVC, the encoding apparatus includes a GOVU configuration determining unit configured to determine a group of video access units configuration of the video data, such that a last one of a plurality of group of... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080159637 - Deblocking filter hardware accelerator with interlace frame support: According to some embodiments, systems, methods, and apparatus are provided to load video data into a hardware accelerator that is not adapted to receive interlace frames, wherein the video data comprises interlace frames, configure the hardware accelerator to receive interlace frames, and de-block the video data via the hardware accelerator.... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar Llc

20080159638 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding multi-view images based on global disparity vector: A method and apparatus for encoding and decoding multi-view images. The multi-view image encoding method selects a block corresponding to a current block from another picture having a view-point which is different from a view-point of a current picture to which the current block belongs, on the basis of a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080159639 - Compressing high resolution images in a low resolution video: A method for compressing an image as a sequence of video frames, comprising dividing the image into a plurality of tiles and compressing a tile, or part thereof, as a frame in the video sequence.... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080159640 - Document image encoding decoding: A method of encoding a document image, the method comprising extracting one or more picture areas from the document image; extracting one or more character areas from the document image; obtaining a background image by subtracting the image and character areas from the document image; classifying character blocks of the... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20080159641 - 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.

20080159642 - Method for obtaining a phase image from an intensity image: A method of reconstructing a phase of a radiation wave field including determining a representative measure of an intensity variation of the radiation wave field on a selected surface extending globally from one end to another of the radiation wave field, determining a representative measure of the intensity of the... Agent: Ip Group Of Dla Piper Us LLP

20080159643 - Method of reducing image noise: A method of reducing image noise is provided. In the method, during the process of reducing image noise by a bilateral filter, the image noise filtering intensity of a domain filter in the bilateral filter is adjusted according to whether a regional area of the image has a frame boundary,... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080159644 - Condition dependent sharpening in an imaging device: Blur is reduced in an image generated by an imaging device by determining values of one or more atmospheric variables for the image, the one or more atmospheric variables characterizing conditions under which the image is generated. With these values, a sharpening filter is determined for the image. The sharpening... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080159645 - Gaussian noise rejection with directional variance capabilities for use in image processing: The noise reduction filter is intensity adaptive and incorporates directional variances of input images.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080159647 - Edge correction apparatus, edge correction method, program, and storage medium: This invention has as its object to provide an edge correction apparatus which can execute base clip processes optimal to different noise levels depending on the level of an input signal. To this end, an apparatus has a high-frequency extraction circuit for extracting a high-frequency signal equal to or more... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.l.p.

20080159646 - Image processing device and image processing method: An image processing device and an image processing method of the invention generate multiple images having different edge preservation performances based on an original image, and synthesize the multiple images based on edge information. In the synthesis, the generated images are synthesized in such a manner that an image of... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20080159648 - Method and apparatus for processing video data: In one embodiment of the invention, the invention my concern a method including receiving digital images, each image including object pixels and non-object pixels; and filtering the non-object pixels from the object pixels. Other embodiments are described and claimed.... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, Pc

20080159649 - Directional fir filtering for image artifacts reduction: The image processing method and system improve the digital image quality by filtering the image along edges of image features while maintaining feature details.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080159650 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus which applies processes to input image data is disclosed. The image processing apparatus includes a first processing section which applies processes to the image data by a specific calculating device, and a second processing section which applies processes to the image data by a general-purpose calculating... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080159652 - Image synthesis device, image synthesis method and memory medium storing image synthesis program: An image synthesis device selects frame images in an order stored in a DRAM, and calculates the characteristic amount of the selected frame image. The image synthesis device searches a block having the calculated characteristic amount in a next frame, and calculates a moving vector. The image synthesis device sets... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080159651 - Multiresolution ray intersection: According to some embodiments, systems, methods, apparatus, computer program code and means are provided to interpolate from a first portion of a digital object having a first level of detail to a second portion of the digital object having a second level of detail, create a third portion of the... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar Llc

20080159653 - Rotation compensation and image stabilization system: An image processing system is arranged to provide rotation compensation and image stabilization in a video scope system such as in endoscopy and laparoscopy systems. The image processing functions may operate at real-time frame rates so that the resulting processed image is observable with no time lag. A rotation sensor... Agent: Brett A. Hertzberg Merchant & Gould P.c.

20080159654 - Digital image decoder with integrated concurrent image prescaler: According to some embodiments, encoded information associated with an image is received at a decoder. The encoded information may be decoded at the decoder to generate full-sized first image pixels representing a full-sized version of the image. Moreover, the full-sized pixels may be scaled at the decoder to generate scaled... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar Llc

20080159655 - Prioritizing checks for electronic check processing: Prioritizing checks for electronic check processing based on check characteristics, such as check values, receiving institutions associated with the checks, and/or delivery methods associated with the checks. A prioritization module of a check processing system receives information regarding multiple checks in a check processing queue. The prioritization module assigns at... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20080159656 - Image processing apparatus and method of controlling same, computer program and computer-readable storage medium: The invention displays an image that conforms to an editing parameter set by the user and, depending upon the editing parameter requested, shortens the time required for the image to be displayed, thereby enhancing usability. To achieve this, the invention has a processing parameter input unit for inputting an editing-related... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080159658 - Image sensor and method for manufacturing the same: An image sensor and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The image sensor can include a lower layer on a substrate having a photodiode, a middle layer on the lower layer, and an upper layer on the middle layer. The middle layer can have a lower refractive index than the... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20080159657 - Method and system for nano-encoding and decoding information related to printed texts and images on paper and other surfaces: A method and system for nano-encoding and decoding information related to printed texts and images on paper and other surfaces is provided. The system and method includes a nano-encoder for encoding information related to printed texts and images; and then collocating the encoded information with the related printed texts and/or... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown