Image analysis inventions 08/08

20080205694 - Apparatus and method for creating digital collage: A method and apparatus for creating a digital collage, the apparatus including a sending/receiving unit and a creating unit, the sending/receiving unit receiving contents from a plurality of slave devices, and the creating unit merging the received contents in a predetermined form to create the digital collage.... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080205699 - Digital watermark embedding and detection: Provided is a digital watermarking technology for embedding digital watermark information in text data thereby to generate a digitally watermarked image. The technology includes a digital watermarking program, a digital watermarking device and a digital watermarking method, in which digital watermark information can be embedded in document in such a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080205698 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: In image processing for embedding additional information in an image, degradation of image quality due to consecution of the same code is suppressed. Hence, determination whether or not the same code consecutively appears in additional information is performed, an embedding condition for embedding a code in an image controlled based... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080205695 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and computer readable medium: The image processing apparatus is provided with: an acquisition unit that acquires disaster information obtained based on the occurrence of a disaster; a form generation unit that generates an information registration form describing items for registering information on a disaster to be collected based on the disaster information acquired by... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080205697 - Image-processing device and image-processing method: For facilitating detecting the position of additional information embedded in image information shown on a printed matter, an input unit configured to input image information and an embedding unit configured to embed a plurality of code patterns in the image information according to additional information are provided. The additional information... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080205692 - Method and kit for determining consumer preferences: A method and kit for determining consumer preferences and desires for a product line or service, utilizing images which symbolize archetypes and/or represent emotional drivers of human behavior. Images are used to determine consumer preferences for product lines or services by examining Respondents' psychological framework to reveal the “must have”... Agent: Hasse & Nesbitt Llc

20080205693 - Monitoring and operation image integrating system of plants and monitoring and operation image integrating method: A monitoring and operation image integrating system include: a display signal synthesizing unit to which a display signal from a plurality of safety equipments and that from non-safety equipment are inputted, and which synthesizes a display signal from the plural safety equipments and a display signal from the non-safety equipment;... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080205696 - System and method for obtaining and utilizing maintenance information: A system for obtaining, recording, displaying, storing, transmitting and receiving maintenance and other information is provided. The system, which may include an electronic maintenance apparatus that may be in the form of a hand-held digital computer, allows a user to capture and store images, sound, and/or error codes and related... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080205700 - Apparatus and method for assisted target designation: A method for assisting a user to designate a target as viewed on a video image displayed on a video display by use of a user operated pointing device. The method includes the steps of evaluating prior to target designation one or more tracking function indicative of a result which... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20080205702 - Background image generation apparatus: The information of a detection area is obtained by using radar, the information is sent to a mobile body detection unit, the position of a mobile body existing within the detection area is detected, a zone excluding a predetermined range surrounding the mobile body is identified by using a nonexistence... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080205701 - Enhanced input using flashing electromagnetic radiation: Enhanced input using flashing electromagnetic radiation, in which first and second images, captured on a first side of a screen, of an object and an ambient electromagnetic radiation emitter disposed on a second side of the screen, are accessed. The first image being captured while the object is illuminated with... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080205703 - Methods and apparatus for automatically tracking moving entities entering and exiting a specified region: Techniques for tracking entities using a single overhead camera are provided. A foreground region is detected in a video frame of the single overhead camera corresponding to one or more entities. It is determined if the foreground region is associated with an existing tracker. It is determined whether the detected... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080205706 - Apparatus and method for monitoring a vehicle's surroundings: A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus has: a point-of-view converter that converts an image shot with a camera installed on a vehicle into a bird's-eye-view image through point-of-view conversion; a position adjuster that performs position adjustment between two bird's-eye-view images produced from two images shot at different time points, the position... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080205705 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing system: An image processing apparatus includes an input portion for entering an image signal from a camera, an exposure timing determination portion for determining exposure timing of the camera according to an object to be detected, an output portion for outputting a signal to the camera to expose it according to... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080205704 - Image recognition device for vehicle and vehicle head lamp controller and method of controlling head lamps: This device includes an input unit for inputting an imaging signal sent from a camera for imaging an area around a vehicle in which the device is loaded, a coordinate area extracting unit for extracting predetermined continuous coordinate areas from the imaging signal inputted by the input unit, a feature... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080205707 - Method and geodetic device for surveying at least one target: The invention relates to a method for surveying at least one target using a geodetic device. According to said method, a camera of the device captures a visual image and surveys an angle and/or a distance to the target with geodetic precision, the angle and/or distance surveillance being supported or... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080205708 - Ranging apparatus and ranging method: A first ranging apparatus includes a light-emitting unit for emitting a series of first through fourth modulated lights which have respective different time lengths from a reference time to respective time points at which the first through fourth modulated lights start being emitted, a light-detecting unit for detecting reflected lights... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080205709 - Ranging apparatus and ranging method: A first ranging apparatus includes a light-emitting unit for emitting a series of first through fourth modulated lights which have respective different start phases at which the first through fourth modulated lights start being emitted, a light-detecting unit for detecting reflected lights from an object that is irradiated with the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080205710 - Motion detection device: The invention refers to a device, a method and a computer program product for extracting motion information from a sequence of video frames. Existing solutions for extracting motion information from sequence of video frames need a massive computing power which make it difficult and expensive to implement a real-time system.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080205711 - Biometric information acquisition device: A biometric information acquisition device for acquiring biometric information of a biological portion includes a light emitter to emit an inspection light, a light guide to guide the inspection light from a light incident surface thereof to a light exit surface thereof and to output the guided inspection light to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080205712 - Separating directional lighting variability in statistical face modelling based on texture space decomposition: A technique for determining a characteristic of a face or certain other object within a scene captured in a digital image including acquiring an image and applying a linear texture model that is constructed based on a training data set and that includes a class of objects including a first... Agent: Fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20080205713 - Image reading device, image reading method, and fingerprint reading device: An image reading device is disclosed. The image reading device includes an image reading unit which reads an image of an object to be read, and an image reading control unit which adjusts a reading period of the image by the image reading unit to one of predetermined values based... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080205714 - Method and apparatus for fingerprint image reconstruction: Enhanced accuracy finger position and motion sensors devices, algorithms, and methods are disclosed that can be used in a variety of different applications. The sensors can be used in conjunction with partial fingerprint imagers to produce improved fingerprint scanners. Such improved scanners can use image analysis techniques, such as interpolation... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20080205718 - Automated organ linking for organ model placement: It is an object of the invention to provide a linking system (100) for linking a particular object model from a set of object models with an object in an image that requires relatively few user interactions to create the link. This is achieved in that the linking system comprises... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080205716 - Image processing device and method: The present invention relates to an image processing device and a corresponding image processing method for processing a multi-dimensional data set of image data, in particular of three-dimensional medical volume image data, including a segmentation unit (6, 16, 26) for a segmentation of an image object in said data set.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080205722 - Method and apparatus for automatic 4d coronary modeling and motion vector field estimation: A method for computer-aided four-dimensional (4D) modeling of an anatomical object comprises acquiring a set of three-dimensional (3D) models representing a plurality of static states of the object throughout a cycle. A 4D correspondency estimation is performed on the set of 3D models to determine which points of the 3D... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080205715 - Method and apparatus for variable resolution medical images: A hand carried medical imaging device includes a probe configured to acquire raw medical image data, an integrated display, a data memory configured to store the acquired raw medical image data, a back end processor, and a user interface operably coupled to the back end processor configured to receive commands... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20080205719 - Method of model-based elastic image registration for comparing a first and a second image: The invention aims at improving the point-based elastic registration paradigm. Point-based elastic registration is typically carried out by finding corresponding point landmarks (2, 4) in both images and using the point correspondences as constraints to interpolate the global displacement field. A limitation of this approach is that it only ensures... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080205721 - Segmentation method using an oriented active shape model: An improved method of segmenting medical images includes aspects of live wire and active shape models to determine the most likely segmentation given a shape distribution that satisfies boundary location constrains on an item of interest. The method includes a supervised learning portion to train and learn new types of... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080205720 - System and method for efficient real-time technique for point localization in and out of a tetrahedral mesh: A method for determining whether a point is contained in a sub-volume of a digitized medical image, includes providing a tetrahedron volume mesh (TVM) representing a sub-volume of a digital image volume and a point M, finding a vertex P of said TVM that is closest to point M, finding... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080205717 - System and method for three-dimensional image rendering and analysis: The present invention relates to methods and systems for conducting three-dimensional image analysis and diagnosis and possible treatment relating thereto. The invention includes methods of handling signals containing information (data) relating to three-dimensional representation of objects scanned by a scanning medium. The invention also includes methods of making and analyzing... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20080205723 - Utilizing physiological models to control functional acquisitions: Adaptively controlling an imaging system (200, 205) includes constructing model feature characteristics (105) of a process over time, determining parameters and commands (110) for controlling the imaging system for each state of the process, performing data acquisition (120) for the process, extracting current features (130) of the process from the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080205725 - Method for planning an angiographic measurement: In a method for planning of an angiography measurement of a body region in a magnetic resonance system, the body region being larger than the maximum field of view of the magnetic resonance system, and wherein the MR system has a control unit for controlling the workflow of the angiographic... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080205726 - Method for providing extended possibilities when imaging a patient's heart: The invention relates to the use of 2D projection images which belong to a specific common heart phase. A 3D image data set can be used to generate a reference projection image for the same projection angle for each of the 2D projection images and a differential image can be... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080205724 - Method, an apparatus and a computer program for segmenting an anatomic structure in a multi-dimensional dataset: The method 1 according to the invention is preferably practiced in real time and directly after a suitable acquisition 3 of the multi-dimensional dataset, which is accessed at step 5 and the images constituting the multi-dimensional dataset are classified at step 8. Preferably, for reducing an amount of data to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080205728 - Apparatus and method for providing 2d representation of 3d image data representing an anatomical lumen tree structure: A CT imaging apparatus (2) for providing a 2D representation of 3D image data representing a pulmonary vessel tree of a patient is disclosed. The apparatus comprises X-ray sources (6) and detectors (8) arranged in pairs for generating 3D image data representing a plurality of positions along lumen branches of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080205732 - Artifact suppression in dynamic magnetic resonance imaging: A method for removing one or more artifacts from a time series of magnetic resonance (MR) images is provided. In one embodiment of the invention, an MR time series of data sets is acquired while changing the k-space that is sampled at each time frame. By using the acquired data,... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080205727 - Computed tomography method with helical relative movement and conical beam bundle: The invention relates to a computed tomography method in which a periodically moving object is irradiated by a conical beam bundle. An nPi-relative movement is generated between a radiation source, which generates the conical beam bundle, and the object. During the nPi-relative movement, measured values are acquired, which depend on... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080205730 - Independent motion correction in respective signal channels of a magnetic resonance imaging system: A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, wherein a plurality of independent signal acquisition channels, defined by spatially separated coil elements (14a, 14b, 14c, 14d, 14e, 14f) is provided. The signals received by each of the channels are individually motion corrected before image reconstruction, so that non-uniform, non-affine motion across the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080205737 - Method and apparatus for the artifact-reduced detection of a 3d object in tomographic imaging: Incomplete data records owing to an object extent that stretches beyond the scanning field of view (SFOV) constitute a general problem in computed tomography. In these cases, parts of the object are to be reconstructed, for which only incomplete projections from an angular range of less than 180° are available.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080205729 - Method and device for the iterative reconstruction of tomographic ilmages: The invention relates to a device and a method for the iterative reconstruction of the attenuation coefficients μj in a tomographic image of an object (1) from projection measurements mi. In the update equation for μjn during the n-th iteration the backprojected error (mi−mi−(μjn)) is weighted by a voxel dependent... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080205735 - Method for generation of temporally high-resolution mr exposures: In a method for generation of MR exposures in an MR system, a number of under-sampled MR raw data sets are acquired with non-constant density in k-space. A density compensation is implemented dependent on the geometry of the structure to be depicted. The under-sampled MR raw data sets are translated... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080205736 - Method of forming ultrasound image by performing digital scan conversion in frequency domain: A method of forming ultrasound image is disclosed. A first, image data described with a cylindrical coordinate in a space domain is formed from receiving signals provided by a probe. A scan-converted Fourier transformation described with a rectangular coordinate in a frequency domain is applied to the first image data... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080205731 - Noise model selection for emission tomography: Accurate error estimates are beneficial for many applications of emission tomography, e.g. kinetic modelling or SUV quantification with confidence levels. Due to the variety of parameters influencing the noise properties of PET images, the use of a single error model for all imaging situations and data processing set-ups leads to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080205733 - Quantitative tract-of-interest metrics for white matter integrity based on diffusion tensor mri data: The exemplary embodiments of this invention relate at least in part to a method, apparatus and system to characterize white matter, such as for detecting a presence of a white matter impairment. An exemplary method to characterize white matter includes identifying at least one tract of interest (TOI) in the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080205734 - X-ray micro-tomography system optimized for high resolution, throughput, image quality: A projection x-ray imaging system that possibly utilizes a laboratory-based micro-focused x-ray source is disclosed. Techniques for optimizing the system for high quality, three dimensional image formation with tomographic imaging with the potential for high resolution and high throughput are described. It also concerns ways to optimize the system design... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20080205738 - Method and apparatus for calibration and correction of gray levels in images: A method and apparatus for calibrating an apparatus that acquires a sequence of radiographic images and correcting images of an object under observation. For each image of a sequence acquired by the apparatus and for a given frequency of acquisition of the sequence, the apparatus is calibrated by determining the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080205739 - Fluid focusing for positional control of a specimen for 3-d imaging: A method for loading a sample for imaging by an optical tomography system. A sample volume including at least one microscopic sample and a viscous fluid is coaxially loaded into a sample delivery tube. The sample volume is impelled through a focus cell into a capillary tube, where the capillary... Agent: George A Leone, Sr Citadel Patent Law

20080205740 - Method of analyzing cell structures and their components: A cell is provided that contains a plurality of virus particles. A first image of a first virus particle and a second image of a second virus particle are taken by electron microscopy technology. The first virus particle is characterized as being in a first maturity stage and the second... Agent: Fasth Law Offices (rolf Fasth)

20080205741 - Method and device for recognizing a coin by using the embossed pattern thereof: The invention relates to a method and device for recognizing a coin by using the embossed pattern characteristics thereof. For this purpose, the inventive method comprises in spreading the characteristics of the picture, in reducing said characteristics by reducing said picture and in transforming it by polar transformation, in comparing... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080205742 - Generation of randomly structured forms: A computer system and method for generating a plurality of unique, randomly structured forms, such as invoices, that may be populated with data to produce test forms for testing automatic document processing systems. The forms may have major blocks such as a header, a body and a footer, and the... Agent: Law Offices Of Barry N. Young

20080205744 - Drawing point data obtainment method and apparatus: In a method for obtaining drawing point data that is used for drawing an image on a substrate by moving, relative to the substrate, a plurality of drawing point formation units for forming drawing points based on the drawing point data and by sequentially forming, based on the movement, drawing... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080205743 - Mask defect analysis: A method of inspecting a photomask includes directing radiation from a radiation source onto a photomask so that at least a portion of the radiation is transmitted through the photomask. A first photomask image is detected from the transmitted portion of the radiation transmitted through the photomask and perceptible at... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080205746 - Method of inspecting an identification mark, method of inspecting a wafer using the same, and apparatus for performing the method: In a method of inspecting an identification mark, an image of the identification mark on a semiconductor wafer is obtained. The identification mark may be identified using the identification mark image. A region where the identification mark is formed may be inspected using the identification mark image after the identification... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.c.

20080205745 - Methods for accurate identification of an edge of a care area for an array area formed on a wafer and methods for binning defects detected in an array area formed on a wafer: Methods for identifying an edge of a care area for an array area formed on a wafer and/or for binning defects detected in the array area are provided. One method for identifying an edge of a care area for an array area formed on a wafer includes determining a value... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP

20080205747 - Defect detecting device, defect detecting method, image sensor device, image sensor module, defect detecting program, and computer-readable recording medium: A defect detecting device 1 includes a pixel value correcting section 16, a block-division processing section 17, and a defective/non-defective determining section 19. The pixel value correcting section 16 corrects a pixel value of an inspection-target image, on which detection of a defective area is to be carried out, in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080205749 - Polyp detection using smoothed shape operators: Improved surface feature recognition in CT images is provided by extracting a triangulated mesh representation of the surface of interest. Shape operators are computed at each vertex of the mesh from finite differences of vertex normals. The shape operators at each vertex are smoothed according to an iterative weighted averaging... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm, Inc.

20080205748 - Structural light based depth imaging method and system using signal separation coding, and error correction thereof: Provided is a structural light based three-dimensional depth imaging method and system using signal separation coding and error correction thereof capable of detecting, removing and correcting corresponding errors between a projection apparatus and an image photographing apparatus caused by phenomena such as reflection on an object surface, blurring by a... Agent: Needle & Rosenberg, P.c.

20080205750 - Method for adaptively boosting classifiers for object tracking: A method adapts a boosted classifier to new samples. A boosted classifier is trained using initial samples. The boosted classifier is a combination of weak classifiers. Each weak classifier of the boosted classifier is updated adaptively by adding contributions of new samples and deleting contributions old samples.... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080205752 - Image processor, method for processing image and computer readable medium: An image processor, includes: a gradation direction determination unit that determines a gradation direction existing in an image in which a color or density changes; a reference area setting unit that sets a shape of a reference area based on a determination result by the gradation direction determination unit; and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080205751 - Multi-color dropout for scanned document: A method for removing unwanted form color content from a scanned document by segmenting the image into two or more tiles (14). Each tile (14) is classified into at least a first and second set according to its combination of background and color content. A background color is identified from... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080205754 - Color identifying apparatus and color identifying method: A color identifying apparatus for identifying the color of a reaction surface which has caused a color reaction with a gas to be specified includes a storage that, for every set of a plurality of referential color coordinates generated pixel by pixel from RGB bitmap images of a reaction surface... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080205753 - Methods and systems for refining text detection in a digital image: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for refining text-detection results for a digital image.... Agent: Kristine Elizabeth Matthews

20080205755 - Method and apparatus for color matching: This disclosure generally relates to identifying objects by comparing their histograms. In aspect, the histograms of different color resolutions are constructed for each image and each compared to a corresponding histogram of another image. The results of the comparisons are combined to obtain an indicator of the difference between the... Agent: Merchant & Gould Pc

20080205756 - Matching apparatus, image search system, and histogram approximate restoring unit, and matching method, image search method, and histogram approximate restoring method: A matching method for comparing a set of feature points of two objects projected to an N-dimensional space and determining the similarity between the two objects, includes a mapping step (S3) of mapping the set to a one-dimensional space, a pairing step (S6) of creating a set of pairs of... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080205757 - Method, a system and a computer program for segmenting a surface in a multidimensional dataset: The invention relates to a method of segmenting a surface in a multi dimensional dataset comprising a plurality of images. In accordance with the method of the invention, at step 4 shape parameters and topology parameters for the object under consideration are acquired. Preferably that the multi-dimensional data set imaging... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080205758 - Distortion correction of a captured image: Disclosed are embodiments of systems and methods for eliminating or reducing the distortion in a scanned image. Embodiments of the present invention allow for the automatic pruning, de-skewing, and unwarping of an image using document layout information. In embodiments, dominant baselines may be selected by examining the letter regions on... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080205759 - Distortion correction of a scanned image: Disclosed are embodiments of systems and methods for eliminating or reducing the distortion in a scanned image. In embodiments, the image is segmented into foreground and background pixels. Foreground pixels may be grouped into “letters.” Using index-based searching, “letters” may be grouped into “words” and “words” may be grouped into... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080205760 - Comparison of patterns: A first visual image or other pattern (A) is represented by a first ordered set of elements (xi) each having a value and a second pattern (B) is a represented by a second ordered set of element (ui) each having a value. Iteratively, a comparison is made by: (i) selecting... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080205761 - Radical set determination for hmm based east asian character recognition: Exemplary techniques are described for selecting radical sets for use in probabilistic East Asian character recognition algorithms. An exemplary technique includes applying a decomposition rule to each East Asian character of the set to generate a progressive splitting graph where the progressive splitting graph comprises radicals as nodes, formulating an... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080205762 - Optical imaging pen having an orthogonal accelerometer: The invention provides for an optical imaging pen configured to capture and decode infrared (IR) position tags from a page. The pen includes a force sensor photodiode configured to sense when a nib of the pen is in contact with the page, and an LED configured to project IR radiation... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080205764 - Information processing apparatus, method, and program: An information processing apparatus that compares an input image with a model image to identify the subject of the input image with the subject of the model image. The apparatus includes feature value extraction means for setting feature points, each of which is on an edge of the model image... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080205763 - Method for fitting part assemblies: Shims used to join part assemblies are automatically designed and fabricated without the need for fitting part assemblies together in order to determine the exact dimensions of voids filled by the shims. The locations of key features on part assemblies are surveyed using a merged photogrammetry and laser tracking technique... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20080205765 - Light compression for color images using error diffusion: A light compression method that error diffuses image data provided with luminance and chrominance channels. During error diffusion, a higher number of bits are allocated to the luminance channel. A decompression method for the image data based on sigma filtering is also provided. By manipulating the bits in the luminance... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Xerox Corporation

20080205767 - Extraction method, extraction apparatus, program, drawing data creation method, and drawing data creation apparatus: The extraction method and apparatus acquire design data that has a hierarchical structure and is converted into raster data corresponding to drawing onto a substrate and extract from the design data a structural element that composes the design data, is repeatedly described in one hierarchical layer, and satisfies at least... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080205766 - Sign authentication system and sign authentication method: To provide a sign authentication system and method for authenticating the originality of an object having a sign such as a seal or a signature or a pattern which can be deemed as a sign, making counterfeit very difficult even if the mechanism of authentication is revealed, obviating the need... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080205768 - Method and system for optimizing business location selection: A method and system for making predictions about business locations. The method includes providing a spatial map and analyzing heterogeneous data having a spatial component to find utilizable data. Relationships are automatically extracted from the utilizable data. The step of automatically extracting relationships includes generating a composite indicator, which correlates... Agent: Kevin H. Fortin

20080205769 - Apparatus, method and program product for matching with a template: A similar image having a high correlation is selected through autocorrelation performs a template original image selected from an image photographed for a template, and a difference image between the similar image and template original image is formed. An image extracting a real difference is formed by removing noises and... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080205770 - Generating a multi-use vocabulary based on image data: Functionality is described for generating a vocabulary from a source dataset of image items or other non-textual items. The vocabulary serves as a tool for retrieving items from a target dataset in response to queries. The vocabulary has at least one characteristic that allows it to be used to retrieve... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080205771 - Classifying complete and incomplete date-time information: A method for automatically classifying images into a final set of events including receiving a first plurality of images having date-time and a second plurality of images with incomplete date-time information; determining one or more time differences of the first plurality of images based on date-time clustering of the images... Agent: Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20080205774 - Document clustering using a locality sensitive hashing function: Documents from a data stream are clustered by first generating a feature vector for each document. A set of cluster centroids (e.g., feature vectors of their corresponding clusters) are retrieved from a memory based on the feature vector of the document using a locality sensitive hashing function. The centroids may... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080205775 - Online document clustering: Documents from a data stream are clustered by first generating a feature vector for each document. A set of cluster centroids (e.g., feature vectors of their corresponding clusters) are retrieved from a memory based on the feature vector of the document and a relative age of each of the cluster... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080205772 - Representative image selection based on hierarchical clustering: In a computer-mediated method for providing representative images, image records are classified spatio-temporally into groups. In each group, image records are partitioned into clusters and the hierarchically highest cluster is ascertained. The partitioning is between a hierarchy of feature clusters and a remainder cluster, based on a predetermined plurality of... Agent: Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20080205773 - Video data matching using clustering on covariance appearance: Video data matching includes both a single region of data and sequences of regions of data. In an embodiment, a video processing system selects, from a first matrix row corresponding to a test appearance model, one or more other appearance models as a function of similarity measures populating the first... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080205776 - Image processing apparatus and method for histological analysis: An automated method for analyzing whether all cancerous or abnormal tissue has been removed as a result of surgical resection is disclosed. A number of tissue section slides are prepared representing all or a relatively large percentage of the tissue sample, and high-resolution digital microscopic images are formed of the... Agent: Wright, Lindsey & Jennings LLP

20080205777 - Image decoder and mobile device including the same: In one aspect, a mobile device is provided which includes a memory configured to store an original image and an output image, a display device configured to display the output image, and an image decoder. The image decoder is configured to receive the original image from the memory, to identify... Agent: Volentine & Whitt Pllc

20080205778 - Image predicting apparatus and method, and image coding apparatus and method: To code the current frame of a moving picture, a weighting coefficient and the mean pixel values in the current frame and a reference frame are obtained. The weighting coefficient is used to modify the mean pixel value in the reference frame, and an offset value is calculated from the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080205779 - Selective predictor and selective predictive encoding for two-dimensional geometry compression: A selective predictor utilizes a selective prediction method for coordinate data encoding. The selective predictor may calculate multiple prediction vectors for each vertex in the shape traversal order. Then, the selective predictor selects the vector that is closest to the vertex to be estimated. In determining the multiple prediction vectors,... Agent: Sughrue Mion Pllc Uspto Customer No With Ibm/svl

20080205780 - Lossless embedding of data in digital objects: Current methods of embedding hidden data in an image inevitably distort the original image by noise. This distortion cannot generally be removed completely because of quantization, bit-replacement, or truncation at the grayscales 0 and 255. The distortion, though often small, may make the original image unacceptable for medical applications, or... Agent: Milde & Hoffberg, LLP

20080205781 - Image processing apparatus and method: An image processing apparatus for converting image data between a raster format and a block format including an image data processor for providing the image data including a luminance component and at least one chrominance component in the raster format, at least two FIFO memories for storing corresponding image data... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080205782 - Jpeg processing engine for low profile systems: A method is provided for processing minimum coded units (MCUs) in a Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG) bit stream representing an image. A data structure is generated for storing MCU block numbers, corresponding MCU block coordinates, and corresponding MCU block editing lists. When an editing operation to the image is... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20080205783 - Image sequence enhancement system and method: Motion picture scenes to be colorized are broken into separate elements, backgrounds/sets or motion/onscreen-action. Background and motion elements are combined separately into single frame representations of multiple frames which becomes a visual reference database that includes data for all frame offsets used later for the computer controlled application of masks... Agent: Dalina Law Group, P.c.

20080205784 - Methods and apparatus for processing of a digital image: Edge information of an input digital image is obtained. Digital image data corresponding to the input digital image is transmitted to a receiver. The edge information is also transmitted to the receiver. An output digital image is obtained at the receiver by processing the digital image data received at the... Agent: Conley Rose, P.c. David A. Rose

20080205785 - Method and system for enhancing digital images: A system and method for enhancing digital images is described. A digital image is transformed into a series of decomposed images in frequency bands, or different resolution grids. A decomposed image is noise suppressed and contrast enhanced. Representative value of signal at each pixel is computed based on contributions to... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

20080205786 - Method and system for filtering images in video coding: A method, system and computer program product for filtering an image is disclosed. The image includes a plurality of pixels. A difference value between a pixel parameter of a pixel and the pixel parameter of one or more neighboring pixels is determined. Each pixel is then classified into a category... Agent: Innovation Management Sciences

20080205787 - Methods of noise reduction and edge enhancement in image processing: Methods of noise reduction and edge enhancement in image processing. An exemplary method comprises extracting a plurality of pixels from the video signal, evaluating measures of edge existence in a plurality of directions within the extracted pixels, determining a level of variation from the measures of edge existence, mapping the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080205788 - Image processing apparatus and method, and computer program and computer-readable storage medium: This invention obtains information required to quantitatively evaluate block distortion of an image on the basis of encoded data that utilizes the compression encoding technique for respective blocks. To this end, a compression encoding unit (106) compression-encodes an image input from an image input unit (104) in accordance with an... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080205789 - Dynamic photo collage: The invention proposes a photo display system that allows photo collages from any photo collection (2), in which the collage is changing over time in such a way that the refresh time and presentation form is dependent on user choices for selection and non-selection on photo per photo basis. The... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080205790 - Iterative region-based automated control point generation: The present invention presents a technique for use in registering two images. In a first aspect, the invention includes a computer-implemented method for use in registering a first image to a second image, comprising: generating a base transform between the first and second image; generating a plurality of candidate control... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20080205791 - Methods and systems for use in 3d video generation, storage and compression: A memory storage device readable by machine is presented, the device tangibly embodying a sequence of depth maps associated with a continuous scene sequence of digital 2D images of a predetermined resolution, the sequence of depth maps including at least one restricted redundancy depth map of a resolution lower than... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080205792 - Colour binning of a digital image: The invention relates to a method for reducing the pixel resolution of a digital image by binning pixels together to form macro pixels. The digital image comprises pixels arranged in a colour mask of at least three different colours. The colour mask can be a Bayer mask comprising one red... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080205793 - Generating image data: The present invention concerns the generation of image data, particularly, though not exclusively for motion estimation in the context of video coders employing inter frame differential coding. A method is provided for generating image data using a set of sampled pixels, the sampled pixels being representative of a sampled image,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080205794 - Migration for old image database: Techniques are described for causing digital image data to be interpreted according to a particular technique of a plurality of techniques. According to an embodiment, digital sensor data is received, and user input is received that specifies which technique of a plurality of techniques to use to generate a display... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/apple Inc.

20080205795 - System and methods of image retrieval: A visual image retrieval system is provided. The system includes an image database for storing images. The system also includes a preprocessor communicatively linked to the image database for segmenting the images and generating based upon segmented images a region-of-interest (ROI) extraction output. Additionally, the system includes an ROI feature... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080205796 - Image processing: In a method for editing a digital image by computer, operating controls for controlling properties are offered on a monitor; modifications of the image are formed in one step and modifications are applied to the image in a subsequent step. Operating controls for each type of modification are operative simultaneously.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080199040 - Copy protected information distribution: A device may capture an image in a portable device, embed a watermark into the image in the portable device, and transmit the watermarked image through a wireless interface of the portable device.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080199041 - Shaping classification boundaries in template protection systems: The invention relates to a method of authentication of a physical object and an apparatus applying said method. The method uses a helper data (W1) and a control value (V1) associated with a reference object to generate a first property set (C1) using the helper data (W1) and a metric... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080199042 - Targeted marketing system and method: A computer-implemented method for targeting marketing content to an online user, includes the steps of collecting data describing the user or the user's ownership item in a user profile, comparing the user profile with a target profile and presenting the user with content based on the comparison. The user profile... Agent: Manatt Phelps And Phillips Robert D. Becker

20080199043 - Image enhancement in sports recordings: A video signal representing rapid ball movement is produced from a series of source images. An initial image position for the moving ball is identified by, for each image, producing a difference image between sequential images. In the difference image, image elements representing a contents alteration below a threshold are... Agent: Moore & Van Allen PLLC

20080199044 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus for recognizing, from a taken image, an object corresponding to a registered image registered in advance, including, an image taker configured to take an image of a subject to obtain the taken image of the subject, a recognizer configured to recognize, from the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080199045 - Method and a system for detecting a road at night: A method of detecting a road feature in an image signal derived from an infrared-sensitive camera. The method, in overview, comprises processing an image frame by assigning binary values to pixels in the frame in response to their representative temperature, and then to analyze spatially the binary mask to identify... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080199047 - Indication position calculation system, indicator for indication position calculation system, game system, and indication position calculation method: When the user of a system directs an indicator toward a light-emitting section, an imaging section provided in the indicator acquires an image PA in a given area including the light-emitting section. A determination section determines whether or not each pixel individually satisfies a first condition based on light-reception information... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080199046 - Method of and apparatus for taking solid image and computer program for causing computer to execute the method: A solid image taking apparatus includes a plurality of image taking portions which obtain a plurality of images at each sight point by taking a plurality of images of objects from different sight points, a distance measuring portion which measures object distances which are distances to the objects from the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080199050 - Detection device, method and program thereof: A rotational movement component of a camera provided on a mobile object is to be detected in a precise and simple manner. Three motion vectors extracted from the forward images captured by a camera mounted on a vehicle are extracted on a random basis. A temporary rotation angle is calculated... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080199048 - Image processing system and method for alignment of images: A medical imaging system in which a current (X-ray) image (8) of a body volume is selected for association with one of several stored images (1Oa5IOb), the ECG and the respiratory cycle being determined each time together with the images. First and second static images (R1,R2) of the body volume... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080199049 - Methods and systems for display viewer motion compensation based on user image data: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for compensating for motion of a viewer relative to a display device.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080199051 - Motion detecting device, motion detecting method, imaging device, and monitoring system: A motion detecting device, a motion detecting method, an imaging device, and a monitoring system are provided. The motion detecting device include a processing unit for performing a process of determining a presence or absence of motion by comparing brightness difference information with a detection parameter of a motion detection,... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080199052 - Image processing apparatus: When an information medium is copied, information is printed while preventing personal information from leaking. An image scanning section 2 scans the information medium and inputs the image. An identification section 64 calculates the size of the information medium from the inputted image and identifies the type of the information... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080199053 - Method for consolidating various financial type cards into a single card and providing positive identification of an individual using such card: A method for each of simplifying, protecting and verifying financial transactions comprising the steps of selecting a predetermined electronic device capable of receiving and transmitting data; storing within such device selected certain predetermined financial information unique to an individual; providing at least one of a fingerprint scanner and a photographic... Agent: James Ray & Associates

20080199054 - Iris recognition for a secure facility: A method of performing iris recognition from at least one image, comprising: using a plurality of cameras to capture a plurality of images of a subject where at least one of said images contains a region having at least a portion of an iris; and processing at least one of... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler P.C.

20080199056 - Image-processing device and image-processing method, image-pickup device, and computer program: An image-processing device configured to process image data including at least one face image includes an image-input unit configured to input the image data, a face-detection unit configured to detect the at least one face image from an image frame of the input image data, an importance-determination unit configured to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080199055 - Method and apparatus for extracting facial features from image containing face: Provided are a method and apparatus for extracting facial features from an image containing a face. The method and apparatus filter an input image using a filter set for face recognition at each of predetermined locations in the input image, merge values obtained by filtering the input image at locations,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080199058 - Biometrics method based on a thermal image of a finger: A biometrics method based on a thermal image of a finger includes the steps of: acquiring the thermal image of the finger; and extracting a finger-print image or a finger-vein image from the thermal image and thus verifying a user's identity according to the finger-print image or the finger-vein image.... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080199057 - Portable storage device with fingerprint identification function: The present invention discloses a portable storage device with a fingerprint identification function. The portable storage device uses a slim sliding fingerprint identifier to detect a user's fingerprint. The slim sliding fingerprint identifier is installed on a lateral side of a housing of the portable storage device such that after... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080199059 - Information enhanced image guided interventions: Linking of interventional and real time ultrasonic information with nonereal time anatomical information of, for example, a vessel or a tumor vascularization provided by x-ray rotational angiography requires high computational performance. According to an aspect of the present invention, an ultrasonic reference image is calibrated with respect to a high... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080199060 - Distortion compensated imaging: Certain aspects can relate to responsive to the at least some input compensating information, imaging the at least the portion of the individual in a manner to limit at least some distorting effects of the at least the portion of the at least one distorting feature associated with the at... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080199063 - Iterative highly constrained image reconstruction method: An image reconstruction method includes reconstructing an initial composite image of a subject using a conventional reconstruction method. The initial composite image employs the best information available regarding the subject of the scan and this information is used to constrain the reconstruction of a highly undersampled or low SNR image... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080199062 - Method, device and computer program product for evaluating medical image data sets: The present invention relates to a method, a device and a computer program product for evaluating medical image data sets, which consists of two-dimensional section images, in particular MR images, wherein a plurality of two-dimensional cross-sections (K1, K2, . . . Kn) and at least one two-dimensional longitudinal section (L1)... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080199061 - Quantitative single image-based magnetization transfer weighted imaging using an inter-subject normalization reference within the image: Disclosed is a system and method for generating quantitative imagery of demyelination in the spinal cord. The method includes acquiring a magnetization transfer weighted (MTw) MR image of the spinal column, identifying a reference region of interest within the image corresponding to cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), averaging the signal intensity corresponding... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge

20080199064 - System and method for measuring left ventricular torsion: A system and method are provided for determining at least one torsion angle of a left ventricle. The method includes the steps of collecting three-dimensional ultrasound data of the left ventricle (36) to obtain at least one first two-dimensional view and at least one second two-dimensional view thereof, wherein the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080199065 - Method, system and device for in-vivo biopsy: A system and method for obtaining a sample from, for example, endo-lumina areas. One or more devices (10-12) may include an imager (16) and a transmitter for transmitter in vivo data, and a sampling mechanism for for example obtaining biopsy.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080199066 - Sample image obtaining method, sample image obtaining apparatus and sample image filing system: The present invention is to present a sample image obtaining method that is capable of reflecting the blood cell concentration of a sample and increasing the speed of the examination. The sample image obtaining method comprises steps of: (a) obtaining a wide area image of a sample by imaging, at... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080199067 - System for determining image resolution using micr characters: A system for determining the image resolution of a check image using MICR characters. The disclosed system includes an extracting system for extracting a magnetic ink code recognition (MICR) code line from the document image, wherein the extracting system provides coordinate values for each of a plurality of MICR characters... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080199068 - Inspection system: An inspection system for inspecting web printed electronic circuitry includes a strobed illuminator, a detector, a motion encoder, and a processor. The strobed illuminator is adapted to project light through a reticle to project a pattern of light onto an area of the web. The projected light occurs in a... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080199071 - Creating 3d images of objects by illuminating with infrared patterns: According to a general aspect, processing images includes projecting an infra-red pattern onto a three-dimensional object and producing a first image, a second image, and a third image of the three-dimensional object while the pattern is projected on the three-dimensional object. The first image and the second image include the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080199069 - Stereo camera for a motor vehicle: A device is described for a motor vehicle, having at least one first camera and at least one second camera, the first camera and the second camera acting as a stereo camera, the first camera and the second camera being different with respect to at least one camera property, in... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080199070 - Three-dimensional image display apparatus and method for enhancing stereoscopic effect of image: A three-dimensional (3D) image display apparatus for enhancing a stereoscopic effect of an image is provided. The 3D image display apparatus includes a disparity estimator which estimates the disparity between a first image and a second image which are obtained by photographing the same object from different angles; a computing... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080199072 - Image processing device and method, learning device and method, recording medium, and program: With the present invention, data continuity is used at the time of converting an input image into high-quality image data with higher quality than the input image data, to obtain processing results which are more accurate and have higher precision. A class tap extracting unit (902) and prediction tap extracting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080199073 - Red eye detection in digital images: A red-eye detection methodology is provided in which a likelihood of red-eye is estimated on a pixel by pixel basis for at least a portion of a digital image. Pixels that most likely belong to a red-eye area are identified by applying a red-eye probability model that is built from... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080199074 - Image processing device and method, recording medium, and program: An image processing device for processing image data includes: a gray level transforming processing unit which receives input, of image data, performs gray level transforming, and outputs image data having all of multiple color information by each pixel being configured of one of the multiple color information; the gray level... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080199075 - Computer implemented technique for analyzing images: An input image is received, represented by a matrix D having a first number of dimensions. Each of the first number of dimensions may represent or correspond to a portion of the image. A metric objective may be identified. A dimensional reduction on the matrix D may then be performed... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080199076 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, program, and storage medium: An image processing apparatus includes: a document type automatic classification section which determines whether input image data is image data for a text document or not; a newspaper document classification section which determines whether the input image data is image data for a newspaper document or not; a segmentation process... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080199081 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and computer-readable medium: An image processing apparatus includes an extracting unit, a representative-image generating unit and a vector converting unit. The extracting unit extracts pixel blocks from image data. The representative-image generating unit generates representative images from the pixel blocks extracted by the extracting unit, based on a similarity between the pixel blocks.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080199079 - Information processing method, information processing apparatus, and storage medium having program stored thereon: An information processing method of the present invention includes acquiring scene information of image data from supplemental data appended to the image data, identifying a scene of an image represented by the image data based on the image data, and storing the identified scene in the supplemental data when there... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080199077 - Pattern recognition filters for digital images: In an exemplary embodiment, a pattern is recognized from digitized images. A first image metric is computed from a first digitized image and a second image metric is computed from a second digitized image. A composite image metric is computed as a function of the first image metric and the... Agent: Boeing (tlg) C/o Toler Law Group

20080199080 - System and method for analyzing material properties using hyperspectral imaging: Systems and methods are provided for analyzing material properties of an object using hyperspectral imaging. An exemplary method includes obtaining a hyperspectral image of an object; analyzing the hyperspectral image according to an algorithm; and correlating data obtained from the analysis with material properties of the object.... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080199078 - System and method for image registration based on variable region of interest: An image registration system for aligning first and second images. The novel system includes a first system for extracting a region of interest (ROI) from each image and a second system for coarsely aligning the regions of interest. The first system determines the size and location of the ROI based... Agent: Raytheon Company, Patent Docket Administration 2000 E. El Segundo Blvd.

20080199082 - Method and apparatus for recognizing boundary line in an image information: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method of detecting boundary line information contained in image information comprising a plurality of pixels in either one of first and second states, comprising: detecting a first group of pixels in the first state disposed continuously in said image information to determine... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080199083 - Image filling methods: Image filling methods. A plurality of images corresponding to a target object or a scene are captured at various angles. An epipolar geometry relationship between a filling source image and a specific image within the images is calculated. The filling source image and the specific image are rectified according to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080199084 - Category classification apparatus and category classification method: A category classification apparatus includes: a first classifier that classifies whether an image belongs to a certain category, based on a probability information indicating a probability that the image belongs to the certain category; and a second classifier that classifies whether the image belongs to the certain category, and that... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080199085 - Category classification apparatus, category classification method, and storage medium storing a program: A category classification apparatus includes: a partial characteristic amount obtaining section that obtains a plurality of partial characteristic amounts indicating characteristics of portions that are respectively represented by each of a plurality of partial image data, based on each of the plurality of partial image data obtained by dividing image... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080199086 - Apparatus for performing fast closest match in pattern recognition: A method and apparatus for determining a closest match of N input patterns relative to R reference patterns using K processing units. Each of a set of input patterns are loaded into the K processing units. One of the Reference patterns is sequentially loaded into each of the processing units... Agent: Robert A. Voigt, Jr. Winstead Sechrest & Minick PC

20080199088 - Losslessly improving compression of compressed image data: For data compressed using the first compression method that includes codewords generated by variable length coding sets of quantized transform coefficients using a first variable length coding method, decoding the codewords to create ordered sets of quantized transform coefficients, each created set forming an ordered series of quantized transform coefficients,... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20080199087 - Scalable method for encoding a series of original images, and associated image encoding method, encoding device and decoding device: A series of decoded images is generated from a series of original images encoded by a first encoding technique following movement-compensated, predictive encoding, where a starting image of a group of successive original images that are to be encoded is defined by a second encoding technique following movement-compensated, temporally filtered... Agent: Richard A Gollhofer Staas & Halsey LLP

20080199090 - Coding method conversion apparatus: A coding method conversion apparatus converts the first coded data coded by the first coding method into the second coded data. The coding method conversion apparatus includes: an H.264 decoder which decodes the first coded data; a deblocking filter strength calculation unit which calculates a filter strength of deblocking filtering... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080199089 - Method for decoding binary image at high speed: A method for decoding a binary image at a high speed, wherein blocks having same pixel values are decoded in clock units, such that a decoding speed increases. The method includes: determining whether a predetermined number of sequential pixels corresponds to any one of a white_run, a black_run, and a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080199091 - Signaling and uses of windowing information for images: Techniques and tools for signaling and using image tiling information (such as syntax elements relating index tables and header size), signaling and using windowing information (such as techniques for using windowing parameters when rotating, cropping or flipping images), and signaling and using alpha channel information are described.... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20080199092 - Image data generating method, apparatus thereof, image distributing system, image distributing apparatus thereof, and their programs: There are included an image data storing means for accumulating image data of JPEG format; an image dividing means for dividing the accumulated JPEG images; and a distributing means for distributing the divided image data to a client. The image dividing means decides a title area containing an image area... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080199093 - Appratus and method for reversible data hiding for jpeg images: Embodiments of the invention are directed toward reversible/invertible and lossless, image data hiding that can imperceptibly hide data into digital images and can reconstruct the original image without any distortion after the hidden data have been extracted in various digital image formats including, but not limited to Joint Photographic Experts... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080199094 - Method of redundant picture coding using polyphase downsampling and the codes using the method: Provided are a method for redundant slice coding by polyphase down-sampling (PD) and a codec using the method. An encoder for redundant slice coding by PD includes a PD coding unit rearranging a residual block that is a difference between a current block and a prediction block into four sections... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080199098 - Information processing method, information processing apparatus, and storage medium having program stored thereon: An information processing method includes: obtaining, from image data, data indicating a characteristic of an image indicated by the image data; obtaining, from supplemental data appended to the image data, data other than data relating to a scene; and identifying a scene of the image with data indicating the characteristic... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080199096 - Method and system for the selective application of automatic image enhancement to digital images: A method and system for selective application of AIE (Automatic Image Enhancement) based on the characteristic of an image. The image can be evaluated utilizing PDL data, object location data, image layering data, image overprint data and image raster data in combination with a weighting scheme to ascertain whether the... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20080199097 - Multi-feature time filtering for enhancing structures in noisy images: A method for enhancing objects of interest represented on a moving background in a sequence of noisy images, and for displaying the sequence of enhanced images, the method comprising the steps of acquiring the sequence of images, extracting features related to an object of interest on a background in images... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080199095 - Pixel extraction and replacement: A method for pixel extraction and replacement is disclosed. In one implementation, the method includes generating a set of pixel values and pixel value frequencies for a pixel presented in a series of digital images of a scene. A digital image of the scene which includes a pixel value for... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080199099 - Image processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program: An image processing apparatus includes an edge-direction detector that detects an edge direction in an original image; a confidence detector that detects a confidence of the edge direction; a contrast detector that detects a contrast intensity; a texture-contrast-weight setter that sets a texture-contrast weight; an edge-contrast-weight setter that sets an... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080199100 - Image processing method: An image processing method for removing noise contained in an image includes: inputting an original image constituted with a plurality of pixels; generating a plurality of band-limited images, resolution levels of which are lowered in sequence, by executing a specific type of band pass filter processing on the original image;... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080199101 - Image processing apparatus and image processing program: [MEANS FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEM] Herein discloses is an image processing apparatus, comprising a horizontal edge strength calculating unit 22 for calculating an edge strength along a horizontal direction of a concerned pixel and pixels respectively disposed in left and right sides of said concerned pixel, a prefilter 24 for... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080199102 - Block noise detector and detection method, and block noise reducer and reduction method: A block noise detector has a spatial difference calculator that calculates differences between values of adjacent pixels. A spatial difference comparator detects edges by comparing the calculated differences. Eight counters count edges detected at different groups of positions spaced eight pixels apart in each horizontal line. The maximum count and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080199103 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and electronic camera: An image processing method of the present invention includes a detection step detecting a characteristic area from each of three or more shot images having a common graphic pattern in part thereof, the characteristic area having an image significantly different from the other shot images, and a combining step extracting... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080199104 - Method and apparatus for obtaining drawing point data, and drawing method and apparatus: The drawing point data obtaining method and apparatus subject original image data to transformation processing to obtain transformed image data as drawing point data used to draw an image carried by the original image data on a drawing target. The method and apparatus maintain in advance multiple sets of transformed... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080199105 - Method and apparatus for spatial interpolation of colour images: This invention concerns the spatial interpolation of colour images and, in particular, the reconstruction, or “de-mosaicing” of data from a single sensor-array electronic camera. Electronic cameras typically have an image sensor comprising a matrix of individual pixel sensors, each sensor being responsive to a colour component. In order to obtain... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080199106 - Information terminal: An information terminal includes an image input unit inputting images, a reference pattern detection unit detecting a reference pattern in the images input from the input unit, an image identification unit identifying an image within an area in a prescribed positional relationship to the reference pattern detected by the detection... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080192978 - Mail image profiling and handwriting matching: Method and systems for early detection of potentially hazardous material associated with the collection of mail or other objects. In an embodiment of the method of this invention, image characteristics for an image of an item being examined are obtained. A predetermined profile is then retrieved from a profile database.... Agent: Burns & Levinson, LLP

20080192981 - Audience scanning laser display projector and associated methods: An apparatus and method for an audience scanning laser display projector includes a laser projector capable of generating a laser beam output having a predetermined beam path, scan area and beam wavelength. A beam position sensor is associated with said laser projector. A camera capable of capturing an image of... Agent: Enrique G. Estevez

20080192980 - Liveness detection method and apparatus of video image: Object feature points are tracked in a video image, and detected feature points are affine-transformed. Then, it is determined whether the video image is a real object using characteristics of the affine-transformed feature points. Therefore, liveness detection resistant to spoofing can be performed without requiring user intervention and additional hardware.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080192979 - Shot pattern and target display: A display system for representing a shooter's performance by capturing and displaying an image of a shot pattern in mid-air in relation to a moving target, comprising an image capturing device arranged to capture such an image at an instant when such a shot pattern and such a target are... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080192982 - Video motion detection: A video motion detection apparatus including a mechanism to apply a motion test to detect inter-image motion between two or more test images, the motion test providing a test result providing a motion vector and an indication of the integrity of the detected motion vector, and a mechanism to apply... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080192984 - In-vehicle apparatus for recognizing running environment of vehicle: An in-vehicle running-environment recognition apparatus including an input unit for inputting an image signal from in-vehicle imaging devices for photographing external environment of a vehicle, an image processing unit for detecting a first image area by processing the image signal, the first image area having a factor which prevents recognition... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080192983 - Method and apparatus for detection of drowsiness and quantitative control of biological processes: The present invention is directed to a real-time automated video cognizer that functions as a facial video processor for detecting drowsiness in operators of motorized vehicles, including the use of a video cognizer to provide pattern recognition and control signal generation during monitoring of macroscopic or microscopic biological processes. More... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080192985 - Motion detection device, mos (metal-oxide semiconductor) integrated circuit, and video system: A motion detection device includes a current image memory, a reference image memory, a reference image memory control section, and a motion detection section. When the motion detection section detects a motion vector for a first current macroblock image, the reference image memory control section determines a motion estimation range... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080192986 - Video motion detection: A video motion detection apparatus generating successive output video signal messages based on input video signal images. The apparatus applies a motion test detecting inter-image motion between two or more input video signal images, providing two sets of one or more motion vectors used for generating respective output image generating... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080192987 - Apparatus and method for analysis of size, form and angularity and for compositional analysis of mineral and rock particles: Equipment and process for three-dimensional measurement of size and shape and for compositional analysis of mineral and rock particles and the like objects. A mixture of particles or objects of same or different sizes of minerals or rocks or the like are fed individually and automatically onto a conveyor belt... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20080192989 - Authentication device: An authentication device enabling access from multiple directions, comprises a biometric information acquirer that acquires biometric information from a biometric target; a detector that detects direction of access by the biometric target; a memory that stores in advance therein a template for authentication; and an authenticator that authenticates the biometric... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080192988 - Multibiometric multispectral imager: A skin site of an individual is illuminated and light scattered from the skin site under multispectral conditions is received. The light includes light scattered from tissue beneath a surface of the skin site. Multiple biometric modalities are derived from the received light. The biometric modalities are fused into a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080192990 - Gaze detection apparatus and the method of the same: An image input unit, a feature point detection unit configured to extract at least four image feature points including a feature point of a pupil and which do not exist on an identical plane from an input image, a three-dimensional face model storage unit configured to store shape information of... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080192991 - Magnetic resonance imaging at several rf frequencies: The invention describes a method of performing face recognition, which method comprises the steps of generating an average face model (MAV)—comprising a matrix of states representing regions of the face—from a number of distinct face images (I1, I2, . . . Ij) and training a reference face model (M1, M2,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080192992 - Authenticating and authentic article using spectral imaging and analysis: Authenticating an authentic article having an authentication mark. Acquiring a set of spectral images of the authentication mark, for forming a set of single-authentication mark spectral fingerprint data (FIG. 1). Identifying at least one spectral shift in the set of single-authentication mark spectral fingerprint data, for forming an intra-authentication mark... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080192993 - Ergonomic finger guide for biometric finger scanner: A finger guide device for a biometric fingerprint scanner, the device including a raised portion, a channel formed into the raised portion and extending from about a front side of the raised portion to about a rear side thereof, an aperture formed through the device at the channel, finger selection... Agent: Disney Enterprises, Inc. C/o Cantor Colburn LLP

20080192994 - Methods and systems for automated fingerprint recognition: A method of identifying a donor of a fingerprint image exhibiting a pattern of minutiae. The method comprises deriving a donor index code and a donor match code associated with the donor fingerprint image. A database of records is accessed—each record being associated with an identity and indicative of a... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080192995 - Example-based diagnosis decision support: A computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) technique matches an image of an undiagnosed tumor against respective images of a group of tumors of known pathology, either malignant or benign (104, 208). Either a database of malignant tumor images is designated, or a database of benign tumors is designated (112). The closest group... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080192998 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus includes: an image inputting unit configured to acquire an image of an organ having a cavity; a filtering unit configured to filter the image by applying a spatial filter to the image, the spatial filter emphasizing a pixel information of the image at a center position... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080192997 - Image processing device and method for blood flow imaging: The present invention relates to image processing device (5) for generating a time series of 3D volume images showing the blood flow in a vascular tree of an object (40), based on a first series of X-ray projection images (D) of the object acquired from different projection directions and a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080192996 - Image processing system and method for registration of two-dimensional with three-dimensional volume data during interventional procedures: Prior to an intervention, a 3D rotational scan is acquired (at block 10) in respect of a body volume and reconstructed. In addition, three-dimensional image data in respect of the body volume is acquired (at block 12) using another modality, such as computerised tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance (MR), reconstructed,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080192999 - System and method for applying a reflectance modifying agent to change a person's appearance based on a digital image: A computer-controlled system determines attributes of a frexel, which is an area of human skin, and applies a reflectance modifying agent (RMA) at the pixel level to automatically change the appearance of human features based on one or more digital images. The change may be based on a digital image... Agent: Rick B. Yeager, Attorney

20080193000 - Visual enhancement of interval changes using temporal subtraction: An image point in a displayed reference image R is selected and a non-rigid transformation resulting in a transformation field g(rR) mapping every location rR to a corresponding location rF in a floating image F is applied, next a rigid body transformation is applied to floating image F such that... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20080193001 - Visual enhancement of interval changes using temporal subtraction: Method to bring out a temporal difference between corresponding structures in a reference image R and a floating image F by convolving the reference image R and the floating image F with a window function Hw to generate Rw and Fw, applying a non-rigid transformation resulting in a transformation field... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20080193003 - Bands artifact reduction for cardiac ct imaging: A subject is imaged at a preselected phase point (34) which occurs in one or more successive cardiac cycles as the subject moves in an examination region (16). An illumination window (94) illuminates each reconstructed voxel (A, B, C) of the subject in phase point windows (92) adjacent surroundingly the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080193002 - Method of and system for automatic object display of volumetric computed tomography images for fast on-screen threat resolution: A method of and a system for automatic object display of volumetric CT data for fast on-screen threat resolution are disclosed, wherein the CT data includes a CT image in a single energy CT scanner, or a CT image and a Z image in a multi-energy CT scanner, and a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080193004 - Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and ultrasonic image display method: In the image acquisition mode, desired past images are registered in an image table. A past image selected from the past images registered in the table is displayed as a reference image together with a live image in a predetermined form. Selecting another image registered in the image table at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080193006 - User-steered 3d image segmentation methods: Methods for the improved interactive segmentation of medical image slice data using a computer include the novel combination of the well-known live wire and snakes methods. The improved techniques automatically insert new anchor points for each medical image slice that is processed. The improved methods called iterative live wire and... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080193005 - Visual enhancement of interval changes using temporal subtraction: A workflow method for temporal nodule review by registering a reference image R with a floating image F, convolving the reference image R and the floating image with the same window function Hw to generate Rw and Fw, generating a subtraction image by performing subtraction Rw−Fw (g(r)) wherein r represents... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20080193007 - Coding pattern with optimal number of target elements in each tag: A substrate having a coding pattern disposed on a surface thereof. The coding pattern comprises a plurality of target elements defining a target grid. The target grid comprises a plurality of cells, wherein neighboring cells share target elements. A plurality of data elements are contained in each cell. Tags are... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080193008 - System and method for generating magnetic ink character recognition (micr) testing documents: A system and method for accessing data to generate documents for use in MICR line testing. The system comprises a MICR testing station for testing MICR processing. The MICR testing station comprises a MICR line testing module for generating at least one MICR testing document for use in testing MICR... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080193009 - Tracking method and tracking apparatus: According to an embodiment of the present invention, a tracking method includes detecting a mobile unit within a space, tracking the detected mobile unit, making a position determination of the mobile unit to be tracked to obtain positional data, and making a movement prediction of the mobile unit, based on... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080193010 - Behavioral recognition system: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a system for analyzing and learning behavior based on an acquired stream of video frames. Objects depicted in the stream are determined based on an analysis of the video frames. Each object may have a corresponding search model used to track... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.l.p.

20080193012 - Apparatus and method for generating catalog image and program therefor: A catalog of images whose lightness has been changed in accordance with human vision is generated. For this purpose, a first image having reference shadow lightness, a second image having reference highlight lightness, a third image having desired lightness, a fourth image having lightness that is visually perceived to evenly... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080193011 - Pixel processor: A pixel processor employing an image processing technology by a computer capable of enhancing color identity. The pixel processor comprises a means performing color vision conversion processing for varying the component in the luminance axis direction depending on the component in the selected axis, i.e. any one of first axis... Agent: Trojan Law Offices

20080193014 - Method and device for the segmentation of regions and related computer program product: The invention relates to a method for segmentation of locally-defined regions. The input data obtained for the image region under investigation is separated into a foreground mask and a background mask by application of a threshold value, two different filter operations are applied to the input data to determine segmentation... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080193013 - System and method for on-the-fly segmentations for image deformations: A method for on-the-fly segmentations for image deformations, includes: selecting an object in an image that is displayed on a computer screen; immediately after selecting the object, automatically segmenting the object to find a boundary of the object and marking an area inside the boundary undeformable and an area outside... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080193015 - Contextual input method: A input method selects a character from a plurality of characters of a logographic script, and identifies characters proximate the selected character. One or more candidate characters are then selected based on a composition input and the proximate characters.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080193016 - Automatic video event detection and indexing: A method for use in indexing video footage, the video footage comprising an image signal and a corresponding audio signal relating to the image signals, the method comprising extracting audio features from the audio signal of the video footage and visual features from the image signal of the video footage;... Agent: Lipsitz & Mcallister, Llc

20080193018 - Image processing apparatus: According to an image processing apparatus of an aspect of the present invention, when an image is transmitted, a face image of a person whose privacy is guarded is automatically masked, or information of an area to be masked is transferred to an external device with an image, so that... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080193017 - Method for detecting scene boundaries in genre independent videos: A computer implemented method detects scene boundaries in videos by first extracting feature vectors from videos of different genres. The feature vectors are then classified as scene boundaries using a support vector machine. The support vector machine is trained to be independent of the different genres of the videos.... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080193019 - Image processing system, image processing method, and image processing program product: An image processing system includes an extraction unit for extracting a local region which contains one target region and at least one or more neighborhood regions from an image signal formed of a plurality of color signals from a CCD, a vectorizing unit for obtaining vector signals which contain the... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080193020 - Method for facial features detection: A method of detecting an object, in particular a face, in an image using template matching uses at least two different templates for the same object. Templates are provided for left eye, right eye and between-the-eyes. A confidence map is produced for each template and the confidence maps are merged.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080193021 - Method and apparatus for generating handwriting recognition template: A method and apparatus for generating a template for use in handwriting recognition are provided. In the method and apparatus text is obtained, character strings in the text are identified, each character string being formed from a sequence of one or more characters and each character having a respective type,... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080193022 - Interface for fast pattern projection: A method for projecting sequences of images from a standard digital source by packing the binary bit planes of an image is conveyed. The method enables 24× frame rates from a standard source using standard electrical interfaces.... Agent: Crockett & Crockett, P.c.

20080193023 - Spatial data encoding and decoding: Methods and systems for spatial data encoding and decoding are described. A tile may be designated within a source frame. The tile may be divided into at least one bit area. A particular message bit value of a message may be accessed. A statistical property calculation may be performed on... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080193024 - Apparatus and method for deblock filtering in a digital moving picture processing system: An apparatus deblock filters in a digital moving picture processing system with a macro block having a predetermined number of pixel blocks. An external memory controller reads a current sub-block of a current macro block from entire image data stored in an external memory, and delivers image data of an... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080193025 - Alias avoidance in image processing: An image processing apparatus in which output pixel values are generated with respect to pixels of an input image selected in accordance with an image feature direction in the input image. The apparatus includes a mechanism comparing blocks of pixels of the input image, the blocks being disposed with respect... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080193026 - Decoding method, decoding apparatus, storage medium in which decoding program is stored, and electronic camera: In a decoding method for decoding coded light ray information, coded first image information and coded second image information different from the first image information are decoded. The first image information and the second image information are obtained in taking a subject. The light ray information is generated based on... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080193027 - Method for locally decoding a bitstream of wavelet coefficients: A method is provided for decoding a data stream representing an object with at least three dimensions, associated with a basic mesh including of an assembly of facets defined by an assembly of vertices and ridges, and with wavelet coefficients corresponding to the local modifications of the basic mesh, indexed... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.a.

20080193028 - Method of high quality digital image compression: This image compression applies a lossless compression algorithm and a lossy compression algorithm to code the differential value of the adjacent pixels. If lossy algorithm is selected, it codes the differential value of the present pixel and the reconstructed previous pixel. In quantizing the differential value of adjacent pixel components,... Agent: Chih-ta Star Sung

20080193030 - Coding pattern comprising replicated and non-replicated coordinate data: A substrate having a coding pattern disposed on a surface thereof. The coding pattern comprises a plurality of contiguous square tags of length l. Each tag comprises x-coordinate data and y-coordinate data. A y-axis is nominally defined as north-south and an x-axis is nominally defined as east-west. A plurality of... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080193029 - Matching apparatus, image search system, and histogram approximate restoring unit, and matching method, image search method, and histogram approximate restoring method: A matching method for comparing a set of feature points of two objects projected to an N-dimensional space and determining the similarity between the two objects, includes a mapping step (S3) of mapping the set to a one-dimensional space, a pairing step (S6) of creating a set of pairs of... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080193031 - Method and apparatus for a natural image model based approach to image/splicing/tampering detection: Embodiments of the invention are directed toward methods for an effective blind, passive, splicing/tampering detection. The methods of the various embodiments of the invention use a natural image model to detect image splicing/tampering with a model that is based on statistical features extracted from a given test image and multiple... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080193033 - Apparatus and method of embedded quantization for the improved snr scalbility: Provided are a method and apparatus for enhancing coding efficiency by performing encoding and decoding by optimally calculating quantization intervals and reconstruction values through a distribution of DCT coefficients of each frame, when DCT coefficients of each SNR enhancement layer are quantized in scalable video coding. The encoding apparatus includes:... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080193032 - Methods and systems for coding multiple dynamic range images: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for encoding and decoding digital images.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080193034 - Deconvolution method using neighboring-pixel-optical-transfer-function in fourier domain: The present disclosure includes an image processing technique that is capable to increase spatial resolution of single frame images beyond diffraction limit. If an image is taken by diffraction limited optical system with regularly spaced pixel detectors, and if the spacing of pixels of the detectors is much small than... Agent: Yu Wang

20080193037 - Demosaicking methods and apparatus: A method includes performing a single pass filtering that integrates a first pass demosaicking and a second pass demosaicking into a single pass operation. The method can include interpolating in a vertical direction as well as interpolating in a horizontal direction. The vertical interpolation can be compared with the horizontal... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080193035 - Image analysis and representation: A one-dimensional representation of an image is obtained using a mapping function defining a closed scanning curve. The function is decomposed into component signals which represent different parts of the bandwidth of the representation using bi-directional filters to achieve zero group delay.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080193036 - Method and device for image filtering: The invention discloses a method and device for image filtering in the field of communication technologies, the method including: acquiring image data of a pixel dot of a current row to be filtered and a corresponding pixel dot of at least one adjacent row; obtaining contrast information containing a transparency... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080193038 - Method of reducing a blocking artifact when coding moving picture: A method of coding a moving picture is provided that reduces blocking artifacts. The method can include defining a plurality of defining pixels S0, S1, and S2, which are centered around a block boundary. If a default mode is selected then frequency information of the surroundings of the block boundary... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080193039 - Method of reducing a blocking artifact when coding moving picture: A method of coding a moving picture is provided that reduces blocking artifacts. The method can include defining a plurality of defining pixels S0, S1, and S2, which are centered around a block boundary. If a default mode is selected then frequency information of the surroundings of the block boundary... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080193040 - Method of reducing a blocking artifact when coding moving picture: A method of coding a moving picture is provided that reduces blocking artifacts. The method can include defining a plurality of defining pixels S0, S1, and S2, which are centered around a block boundary. If a default mode is selected then frequency information of the surroundings of the block boundary... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080193041 - Method of reducing a blocking artifact when coding moving picture: A method of coding a moving picture is provided that reduces blocking artifacts. The method can include defining a plurality of defining pixels S0, S1, and S2, which are centered around a block boundary. If a default mode is selected then frequency information of the surroundings of the block boundary... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080193042 - Image processing apparatus and method, program, and recording medium: Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including, a distortion correction processor for generating a distortion-corrected output image from a distorted wide-field-of-view image, and a selected area setting unit for setting a selected area in the output image, wherein the distortion correction processor corrects a distortion with a lower image... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080193043 - Method and system for reducing effects of undesired signals in an infrared imaging system: Effects of undesired infrared light are reduced in an imaging system using an infrared light source. The desired infrared light source is activated and a first set of imaging data is captured during a first image capture interval. The desired infrared light source is then deactivated, and a second set... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080193044 - Coding pattern comprising tags with x and y coordinate data divided into respective halves of each tag: A substrate having a coding pattern disposed on a surface thereof. The coding pattern comprises a plurality of contiguous tags, each tag comprising x-coordinate data and y-coordinate data. A y-axis is nominally defined as north-south and an x-axis is nominally defined as east-west. A plurality of data elements are contained... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080193045 - Method of imaging coding pattern comprising tags with divided x and y coordinate data: A method of imaging a coding pattern disposed on a surface of a substrate. The method comprises the steps of: (a) operatively positioning an optical reader relative to the surface and capturing an image of a portion of the coding pattern; (b) sampling and decoding x-coordinate data and y-coordinate data... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080193047 - Imaging apparatus and imaging method: An imaging apparatus includes imaging means for imaging an image at a first aspect ratio, and image processing means for converting an original image at the first aspect ratio, which is imaged by the imaging means, to a converted image at a second aspect ratio, which is different from the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080193046 - Method and system for image registration: Methods and systems for image registration are described. An area of an image may be selected. A length of at least one encoded wavelength for the area may be accessed. One or more candidate wavelengths may be identified in the area in at least one direction that includes at least... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080193048 - Picture collage systems and methods: Systems and methods provide picture collage systems and methods. In one implementation, a system determines a salient region in each of multiple images and develops a Bayesian model to maximize visibility of the salient regions in a collage that overlaps the images. The Bayesian model can also minimize blank spaces... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080193049 - Image processing apparatus and method, and electronic camera: An image processing apparatus obtains color image data by performing an interpolation processing for an image signal output from a color image pickup element having color filters arranged like a mosaic, by using a filter. The apparatus includes an interpolation processing unit which selectively modifies an interpolation processing according to... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080193050 - Programmable pattern-based unpacking and packing of data channel information: In general, the present disclosure describes various techniques for programmable, pattern-based unpacking and packing of data channel information, including still image, video, and audio component data. One example device comprises a programmable processor having a plurality of processing pipelines. The processor is configured to receive pattern information that specifies a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080193051 - Image forming processing apparatus and method of processing image for the same: An image forming apparatus of the invention outputs page number position information to indicate a position of a page number on an original document, generates image data of the original document by optically reading the original document to which the page number is given, compares, from the generated image data... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080193052 - Method of interpreting handwritten data inputted on a printed form: A method of interpreting handwritten data inputted on a printed form using an optically sensing pen. The form has a plurality of different form fields for the handwritten data input. The form also includes a plurality of printed tags, each tag encoding a location on the form. The method comprising... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080193053 - Method of imaging a coding pattern and calculating a perspective transform using optimal number of target elements: A method of imaging a coding pattern disposed on a surface of a substrate. The method comprises the steps of: (a) positioning a nib of an optical reader on the surface and capturing an image of a portion of the coding pattern; (b) locating at least nine target elements in... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080193054 - Method of imaging coding pattern comprising replicated and non-replicated coordinate data: A method of imaging a coding pattern disposed on a surface of a substrate. The method comprises the steps of: (a) operatively positioning an optical reader relative to the surface and capturing an image of a portion of the coding pattern; (b) sampling and decoding x-coordinate data and y-coordinate data... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080187170 - Display control device and display control method: Disclosed is a display control device characterized by means 1 for converting a supplied video signal into a video signal having a higher frame rate, means 2 for displaying two or more frames as one group of the video signal having a higher frame rate converted in partial region of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080187171 - Image processing apparatus and control method thereof: An image processing apparatus and a control method thereof. Information of image processing parameters, such as halftoning, edge emphasis, color correction, and gamma correction, is inserted into the document to be printed in the form of the watermark during the printing work. Thus, when the user wants to copy the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080187169 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: There are included an instruction reception unit to receive an execution instruction of a specified processing on image data read by at least one of plural image reading units to perform image reading at resolutions different from each other, a reading execution unit to cause, based on the instruction received... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080187178 - Detecting and tracking objects in images: A set of training images may be received. A multi-dimensional space (e.g., eigenspace) may be determined based on the set of training images. A set of training points may be generated by projecting the set of training images into the multi-dimensional space. An equation describing a model in the multi-dimensional... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080187177 - Method and apparatus for representing and searching for an object in an image: A method representing an object appearing in still or video image for use in searching, wherein the object appears in the image with a first two-dimensional outline, by processing signals corresponding to the image, comprises deriving a view descriptor of the first outline of the object and deriving at least... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080187175 - Method and apparatus for tracking object, and method and apparatus for calculating object pose information: A method and apparatus for tracking an object, and a method and apparatus for calculating object pose information are provided. The method of tracking the object obtains object feature point candidates by using a difference between pixel values of neighboring frames. A template matching process is performed in a predetermined... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080187173 - Method and apparatus for tracking video image: A video image tracking apparatus and a video image tracking method are provided. The method makes it possible to detect and track a target image having a variety of angles without a multi-view detector, easily adapt to addition of a new target image and removal of an existing target image,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080187174 - System and method for detecting and tracking features in images: A system and method for tracking features, e.g., facial features, is provided, which allows for the tracking of features which move in a series of images and whose shape changes nonlinearly due to perspective projection and complex 3D movements. A training set of images is processed to produce clustered shape... Agent: Mccarter & English, LLP

20080187172 - Tracking apparatus and tracking method: A tracing device and a tracing method for realizing a real-time trace of a moving object such as a person from a time-varying image by method of a light processing load, and for learning features through the trace thereby to realize a trace of higher precision. The tracing device divides... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080187176 - Video camera tracking system based on geoposition data feedback: The present invention discloses systems for tracking objects. A system in accordance with the present invention comprises a positioning mechanism, a camera, coupled to the positioning mechanism, a controller, coupled to the positioning mechanism, and a position sensor, coupled to the controller, wherein the position sensor sends data related to... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080187180 - Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and method of analyzing images provided thereby: A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a cine-imaging unit, a characterizing-part detecting unit, a motion-analyzing unit, and an image-extracting unit. First, the cine-imaging unit collects the time-series images of a region of interest in a subject and reconstructs an image. Next, the characterizing-part detecting unit detects the characteristics of the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080187179 - Video motion detection: A video motion detection apparatus includes a mechanism applying a motion test by comparing test areas of an image with respective sets of candidate areas in that or another image and generating motion vectors in dependence on a displacement between each test area and a candidate area giving a greatest... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080187181 - Methods and apparatus for generating a continuum of image data: The present invention provides methods and apparatus for generating a continuum of image data. The continuum can include image data representing a street level view of a geographic area. The image data can be captured at multiple disparate points along another continuum. Each continuum of image data can include a... Agent: Joseph P. Kincart, Esq.

20080187182 - Verification apparatus, verification method and program: A verification apparatus includes: a detection section that detects some or all of junction points, endpoints and turning points of a physical trait of a body part on an input image as feature points, the physical trait being used for verification; and a search section that searches a registered image... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080187183 - Identification of image characteristics: A method of identifying the characteristics of an image such as an iris image or other biometric image comprises taking repeated scans across the image and determining the variability between those scans. By taking a sequence of scans, a two-dimensional variation code (70) is built up. This may then be... Agent: Schwartz Cooper CharteredIPDepartment

20080187185 - Image pickup apparatus, and device and method for control of image pickup: A digital still camera includes a CCD image sensor for photographing an object image by photoelectric conversion, to obtain image data. A face detector determines a face feature value of a human face at an object image by image recognition according to the image data, and detects the face. A... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080187186 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and computer program: An image processing apparatus for performing identification processing of an input face image, including: an image conversion section receiving input of the face image to be identified, executing image conversion on the input face image, and performing normalization processing into an image having a predetermined setting; a similarity calculation section... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080187187 - Imaging device, image processing device, control method, and program: An imaging device 1 detects, using a face detection circuit 107, face regions of faces in an image input from the image input unit 151. When a plurality of face regions have been detected, the imaging device 1, using the selection unit 152, judges, for each of the detected face... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080187184 - System and method for facial image enhancement: The subject application is directed to a facial image enhancement system and method. Image data, including data representing at least one facial area, is first received. Following receipt of the image data, face region data is isolated from the image data. Luminance data and chrominance data are generated corresponding to... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080187189 - Apparatus and method for recognizing fingerprint dually: Provided are an apparatus and a method for recognizing a fingerprint dually. In the method, an optical sensor unit and a semiconductor sensor unit are prepared such that they are adjacent to each other. The optical sensor unit is driven to obtain a first fingerprint image of a user's fingerprint... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080187190 - Fingerprint recognition apparatus including sterilizing function and method for sterilizing the same: Provided are a fingerprint recognition apparatus including a sterilizing function and a method for sterilizing the same. The fingerprint recognition apparatus includes a sterilizing light source irradiating a sterilizing light on a fingerprint contact surface of a fingerprint sensor to sterilize at all times the fingerprint contact surface which many... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080187191 - Flim type package for fingerprint sensor: A thin-film fingerprint sensor package primarily comprises a fingerprint sensor chip, a plurality of bumps, a wiring film, an encapsulant and a metal base to mechanically hold the fingerprint sensor chip. A sensing area is formed on the active surface of the fingerprint sensor chip. The bumps are disposed on... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080187192 - Surface shape recognition sensor device: A detection element (1A) having a detection electrode (11A) connected to a surface shape detection unit (2) and a detection electrode (12A) connected to a common potential, and a detection element (1B) having a detection electrode (11B) connected to the surface shape detection unit (2) and a detection electrode (12B)... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080187188 - Systems, apparatuses and methods for facilitating efficient recognition of delivered content: Systems, apparatuses and methods for enhancing media fingerprint calculations by distributing the fingerprinting task among multiple terminals. A fingerprinting task is distributed among a plurality of terminals by calculating a plurality of different fingerprints or fingerprint portions of a media stream at a plurality of terminals. A stream of fingerprints... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20080187194 - Cad image normalization: A method for normalizing an image of tissue from a patient. The image type is determined, then the background content values in the image data are distinguished from tissue content values according to the image type. Noise is reduced in the background content values. A look-up table is formed for... Agent: Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20080187195 - Image processing system, particularly for circular and helical cone-beam ct: The invention relates to an examination apparatus with an X-ray device (10) for circular or helical cone-beam CT acquisition of projections images (Pi(E1), Pi(E2)) of a patient (1) with different energy spectra (E1, E2) and/or with an energy-resolved detection. By a combination of the projections, images (Ibone,i, Itissue,i) can be... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080187193 - Method and apparatus for forming a guide image for an ultrasound image scanner: A method for producing a three-dimensional guide image of an object to be scanned during an ultrasound scan. The method comprises insonifying the object, receiving return echoes from the object, processing the return echoes to generate a data set representing the object, comparing the data set with a plurality of... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20080187197 - Method and system for segmentation of tubular structures using pearl strings: A method and system for segmenting tubular or stroke-like structures in 2D images is disclosed. Examples of such structures include, but are not limited to, blood vessels, bones, roads, rivers, electrical wirings, and brush-strokes. User inputs identifying a first region on the image inside of a tubular structure and a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080187196 - Mri acquisition using 2d sense and partial fourier pace sampling: An MRI system produces a three-dimensional image by acquiring NMR signals that fully sample a central region of k-space and partially sample peripheral k-space as a set of asymmetric radial sectors. The NMR signals are acquired with a plurality of receive channels and coils. An image is reconstructed using a... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080187198 - System and method for cell analysis in microscopy: A computer implemented method for differentiating between elements of an image and a background includes inputting an image comprising pixels forming a view of the elements and a background, providing a model for assigning a probability of belonging to a predefined class to each of the pixels, assigning a probability... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080187202 - 3d segmentation of the colon in mr colonography: A method for segmenting a tubular structure includes providing a three-dimensional image containing the tubular structure, providing at least one seed point within the tubular structure, fitting an initial cylinder into the tubular structure at the seed point, adding cylinder segments to the initial cylinder in forward and backward directions... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080187200 - Lung cancer diagnosis using magnetic resonance imaging data obtained at three time points: A malignancy classification method and medium for diagnosing a region of lung tissue based on MRI data are disclosed. The classifying includes: setting time points T1 and T2 measured from injection of a contrast agent. T1 represents a wash-in time point for malignant lung tissue at which a first concentration... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20080187203 - Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, image processing apparatus, computer program product, and data storing method: A sequence control unit reconstructs image data by performing predetermined image reconstruction including data synthesis processing on a plurality of k-space data collected for each receiver channel. An inverse reconstructing unit creates k-space data synthesized from the K-space data by performing predetermined inverse reconstruction on the reconstructed image data. A... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080187199 - Robust vessel tree modeling: A method for extracting a local center-axis representation of a vessel, includes: placing first and second seed points in an image that includes the vessel, wherein the first and second seed points are placed near a beginning and an end of a centerline of the vessel; representing the image as... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080187201 - System and method for computer aided detection of pulmonary embolism in tobogganing in ct angiography: A method for detecting pulmonary embolisms in computed tomographic (CT) angiography includes providing a digitized (CT) image acquired from inside a pulmonary vessel, the image comprising a plurality of intensities corresponding to a 3-dimensional grid of voxels, for each voxel in the image, extracting a first pulmonary embolism (PE) candidate... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080187204 - System, method and apparatus for small pulmonary nodule computer aided diagnosis from computed tomography scans: The present invention is directed to diagnostic imaging of small pulmonary nodules. There are two main stages in the evaluation of pulmonary nodules from Computed Tomography (CT) scans: detection, in which the locations of possible nodules are identified, and characterization, in which a nodule is represented by measured features that... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20080187205 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus includes a combining unit configured to combine a visible light image obtained by capturing visible light from an object and a radiation image obtained by capturing a radiation ray that has passed through the object, and an image processing unit configured to change a proportion between... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080187207 - Method and system for robust classification strategy for cancer detection from mass spectrometry data: A robust classification method for cancer detection from mass spectrometry data includes inputting the mass spectrometry data, preprocessing the spectrometry data, conducting robust feature selection, generating predictions for the test data sets using multiple data classifiers, the multiple data classifiers including artificial neural networks, support vector machines, weighted voting on... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080187206 - Radiation image detecting system, radiation image detecting method, computer readable medium and computer program product: A radiation image detecting system includes an image detecting information storing section storing thereon an image detecting condition under which a radiation image judged by a reader of the radiation image to be inappropriate is detected in association with a site whose radiation image is detected under the image detecting... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080187208 - Virtual slide generation device, virtual slide generation method, virtual slide generation program product and virtual slide generation program transmission medium: In a virtual slide generation device for generating a virtual slide by patching/combining a plurality of observation images obtained by shooting and picking up an observation object observed by a microscope, by comprising an image patching/combination information calculation unit for calculating image patching/combination information about an area overlapping between observation... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080187209 - Billing process apparatus: In a bill processing apparatus 1 according to an embodiment of the invention, a lock device 400 is mechanically operated in connection with the movement of a loading tray 60 that is moved by a movement device 70. Accordingly, it is possible to drive the lock device 400 as well... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080187210 - Personal bill denomination reader: An apparatus includes a pattern recognizer configured to identify a match of an image of a portion of a bill to one of a plurality of templates. The pattern recognizer is configured to use a rotation-invariant pattern matching algorithm. The apparatus further includes an output device to provide an indication... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080187211 - Global matching methods used to fabricate semiconductor devices: A global matching method for semiconductor memory device fabrication may include extracting a graphic data system (GDS) image and a scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of patterns in a region on a wafer. First directional edges extending in a first direction and second directional edges extending in a second direction... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080187212 - Defect image classifying method and apparatus and a semiconductor device manufacturing process based on the method and apparatus: According to the present invention, techniques including a method and apparatus for classifying and displaying images are provided. In an embodiment of the present invention a defect image classification method using inspected objects is provided. The method includes defect images obtained from at least one inspected object. Next a set... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080187213 - Fast landmark detection using regression methods: A landmark detection technique that can quickly detect both objects of interest and landmarks within the objects in an image using regression methods. The present fast landmark detection scheme reuses existing feature values used for object detection (e.g., face detection) to find the landmarks in an object (e.g., the eyes... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080187214 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: To achieve the object, the invention includes: a color processing portion 77 that performs color image forming processing for a multi-color color original document made of more than one color; a color original document monochrome processing portion 74 that performs monochrome image forming processing for a monochromatic color original document... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080187216 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and computer-readable recording medium thereof: An image processing apparatus, which includes an image processing unit to perform image processing for image data corresponding to an image to be formed on a printable medium; and a compensation unit to performs compensation processing on the image processed image data by increasing, by a compensation amount, a depth... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080187215 - Method and system for visually presenting a high dynamic range image: Method for presenting an image, exhibiting a dynamic range, the method including the procedures of determining the dynamic range of the image, determining a color space configuration including more than one cycle of a color space, applying the color space configuration to the dynamic range, and displaying the image to... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20080187217 - Image processing apparatus, method and program: An image processing apparatus is connected to and accesses a database that stores items of characteristic quantity information to be used for recognizing, in image data, respective objects and items of color information of the respective objects, the characteristic quantity information and the color information are correlated with each other... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080187218 - Weight based image processing: In an image-encoding scheme, an input image is decomposed into several image blocks (600) comprising multiple image elements (610). The image blocks (600) are encoded into encoded block representations (700). In this encoding, color weights are assigned to the image elements (610) in the block (600) based on their relative... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080187220 - Device and method for fast computation of region based image features: A device and method for efficient computation of statistical information, such as a mean, co-variance, or histogram of the image pixels, over discrete image regions. The computation employs integral computations to determine the statistical information over image regions of arbitrary shape, including irregular polygonal shaped regions. The integral computations are... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080187219 - Video object segmentation method applied for rainy situations: A video object segmentation method takes advantage of edge and color features in conjunction with edge detection and change detection to improve the accuracy of video object segmentation for rainy situations. The video object segmentation method of the present invention includes analyzing HSI-color information of the initially extracted objects to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080187221 - Document processing apparatus, document processing method, recording medium and data signal: A document processing apparatus includes a marking detection part that detects a marking written on the form from data read by a first reading part, an attribute name extraction part that extracts a character string described beforehand within or near a marking area of the detected marking as an attribute... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20080187223 - Image segmentation apparatus, image segmentation method, and image segmentation intergrated circuit: In a boundary active only scheme proposed by the present invention, only a cell in a boundary of region growth is brought into an active mode, and the other cells are brought into a standby mode. The respective cells perform state transition in parallel, and decision of the state transition... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080187222 - Rendering images based on image segmentation: The invention relates to a method for providing rendered images based on image segmentation with determining an edge within the image introduced by boundaries of image segments. To allow shift-based rendering, the invention provides determining an edge within the image introduced by boundaries of image segments, determining an edge region... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080187225 - Computer-readable record medium in which a telop character extraction program is recorded, telop character extraction method and telop character extraction apparatus: A telop character extraction apparatus generates a gray-scale image from a telop region image, and generates an edge region image where an edge is extracted from within the gray-scale image. The apparatus uses the edge region image as a mask image, and creates a luminance histogram of pixels of the... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080187224 - Face component replacement: A method is provided for cloning a facial feature template image into an original image including a face to form a new image. The method includes detecting the face and facial features in the original image, reducing the original and the template images, cloning the reduced template image into the... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20080187226 - Method and apparatus for representing and searching for an object in an image: A method representing an object appearing in still or video image for use in searching, wherein the object appears in the image with a first two-dimensional outline, by processing signals corresponding to the image, comprises deriving a view descriptor of the first outline of the object and deriving at least... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080187227 - Method and apparatus for representing and searching for an object in an image: A method representing an object appearing in still or video image for use in searching, wherein the object appears in the image with a first two-dimensional outline, by processing signals corresponding to the image, comprises deriving a view descriptor of the first outline of the object and deriving at least... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080187228 - Activity detector: An activity detector for the recording and transmission of activity data of an animal to a reader unit is described. The activity detector comprises a movement sensor, a recording and transmission unit connected with the movement sensor, and an energy source with an energy store supplying the recording and transmission... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20080187229 - Method for recognizing and indexing digital media: The method is for recognizing and indexing a digital image. The digital image is converted to a gray-scaled image. A first pixel value of a first pixel, a second pixel value of a second pixel and a third value of a third pixel are identified. A first difference between the... Agent: Fasth Law Offices (rolf Fasth)

20080187230 - Change image detecting device, change image detecting method, computer program for realizing change image detecting function, and recording medium recorded with the computer program: A change image detecting device for detecting a change image, which has changed when compared with a temporally previous image, among a plurality of images arranged in time series includes: a change image detecting unit that selects a reference image and an image to be processed from the plurality of... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20080187231 - Summarization of audio and/or visual data: Summarization of audio and/or visual data based on clustering of object type features is disclosed. Summaries of video, audio and/or audiovisual data may be provided without any need of knowledge about the true identity of the objects that are present in the data. In one embodiment of the invention are... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080187232 - Picture reproducing and displaying apparatus and method: According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a picture reproducing and displaying apparatus which displays a compression-encoded picture on a display section. A first memory stores input encoded picture data. A decoding section decodes the input encoded picture data stored in the first memory. A second... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080187233 - Method and system of data transfer using printed media: According to the teachings of the present disclosure, an apparatus and methods for transferring data are provided. In one embodiment, a method for transferring data includes encoding binary data of one or more files into a plurality of respective colors. The method also includes generating one or more graphical images... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20080187234 - Image processing method and image processing device: In a device for combining a plurality of images having a same photograph range, a position shift between the images having the same photograph range is detected, and the position shift of the images is corrected, and after the position shift is corrected, similarity of the respective portions between the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080187235 - Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, imaging processing method, and computer program: An image processing apparatus that processes input image data includes an exposure-correction-value acquiring unit that acquires exposure correction values at plural stages with respect to an exposure control value during imaging of the input image data, an illumination-component generating unit that generates illumination components on the basis of the input... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080187236 - Image contrast and sharpness enhancement: The invention relates to a method for image enhancement. Overshoots of image boosting in areas with edges can be prevented by splitting an image into at least three sub-images, wherein each of the sub-images represents a corresponding spatial frequency range of the image, calculating a pixel detail signal for at... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080187237 - Method, medium, and system reducing image block noise: A method, medium, and system reducing block noise of a digital image, including an encoding/decoding method, medium, and system. The method of reducing block noise of a digital image includes calculating a value of a boundary block that includes a boundary between two neighboring blocks, calculating the visibility of the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080187238 - Noise reduction method based on diamond-shaped window: Neighbor pixels having greatest similarities and correlations with a central pixel are exploited to develop a diamond-shaped window for performing a noise reduction procedure. The diamond-shaped window merely covers significant pixels required by the noise reduction procedure to improve the performances in reducing noises. Besides, a size of the diamond-shaped... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080187239 - System and method for correcting an image: A method for correcting an image is provided. The method includes: mapping a regular grid according to the length and the width of a work plane of a measuring machine, and a preconfigured interval of the grid, wherein intersecting points of the regular grid refer to reference points; computing deviation... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080187240 - Apparatus and method for analyzing and determining correlation of information in a document: According to an aspect of an embodiment, an apparatus for analyzing and determining correlation of information contained in a given form containing blocks, at least one of the blocks containing data indicative of a header, the rest of the blocks containing data in association with header information, comprising: a memory... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080187241 - Methods and apparatuses for analyzing digital images to automatically select regions of interest thereof: Computer-implemented image processing methods and apparatuses are presented for automatically selecting regions of interest within an image represented by pixel intensity values. A first pixel box is employed in progressively scanning and evaluating the image. If pixels within the first pixel box have pixel-intensity-related characteristics exceeding respective defined thresholds, then... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20080187242 - Image reading apparatus: An image reading apparatus to read image of rectangle shape document set on a setting board, is supplied capable of assigning correct edge image to an output image. In the image reading apparatus, a image data storing section stores image data reading area lager than the rectangle shape document; an... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080187244 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: With respect to images read by an image reading apparatus, determination of a color original document or a monochrome original document is made for every document, and a processing suitable for each is used, so that images with good visibility are obtained. In order to achieve this object, according to... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080187243 - Image reading apparatus and image reading method: An image reading apparatus includes: a first image reading unit configured to carry out monochrome image reading with a first resolution from a reading target; a second image reading unit configured to carry out color image reading from the reading target, with a second resolution that is lower than the... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080187245 - Image processing apparatus, an imaging system, a computer program and a method for enabling scaling of an object in an image: The invention relates to an image processing apparatus arranged to scale an object within an image, said image processing apparatus comprising a calibrator arranged to scale the object based on a calibration factor derived from a relationship between a true dimension of a marker and a dimension of the marker... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080187247 - Techniques of imperceptibly altering the spectrum of a displayed image in a manner that discourages copying: Copying of visual images by electronic devices is discouraged by metamerically altering the relative weights of the color components forming the visual images in a manner that is not perceptible to the human eye but which is perceptible in the copy. In a preferred technique, the visual images are represented... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

20080187246 - Transforming a submitted image of a person based on a condition of the person: Apparatuses, computer media, and methods for altering a submitted image of a person. The submitted image is transformed in accordance with associated data regarding the person's condition. Global data may be processed by a statistical process to obtain cluster information, and the transformation parameter is then determined from cluster information.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 005222

20080187248 - Information processing apparatus, control method for use therein, and computer program: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: operation accepting means for accept an operation input; image storing means for storing a plurality of images; management information storing means for storing management information corresponding to the plurality of images stored in the image storing means; image drawing means for drawing,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080187249 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus, image reading apparatus, image forming apparatus, and recording medium: A plurality of type identifiers are stored that contains one or a plurality of image identifiers each for identifying each of a plurality of reference images and thereby identifies a type of a document. Then, it is determined whether each of a plurality of obtained document images is similar to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080187250 - Image reading apparatus and image density correction method: It includes plural line sensors arranged at different positions from each other in a sub-scanning direction and configured to read reflected light from a reading target surface, guided by a scanning optical system that moves in the sub-scanning direction, and a reading control unit configured to control image reading timing... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080187251 - Method and apparatus for recognition of writing, for remote communication, and for user defined input templates: A device including a housing, a writing tip connected to the housing, a writing surface position indicator, a processor in the housing, a memory device in the housing connected to the processor, and a sensor in the housing and cooperative with the writing surface position indicator. The device may be... Agent: John E. Grosselin, Iii Spilman Thomas & Battle PLLC