Image analysis inventions 09/08

20080232639 - Apparatus, method, and computer product for image processing: An image processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit, an area setting unit, and an adding unit. The obtaining unit obtains an adding method by which additional information is to be added to image data containing content information. The area setting unit sets an additional-information area to which the additional information... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080232637 - Appliance for controlling transparent or reflective elements: The invention relates to an appliance for measuring or controlling an optical element (3) comprising illumination means (1) and an associated artificial vision system (2), in which the optical element (3) can be inserted between the illumination means (1) and the artificial vision system (2), said illumination means (1) comprising... Agent: Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren P.C.

20080232640 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program product: An image processing apparatus configured to embed embedment information in image data includes an embedment information acquisition unit configured to acquire embedment information to be embedded in the image data, an information embedment manner determination unit configured to determine an information embedment manner to embed the embedment information according to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080232638 - Method for developing three dimensional surface patterns for a papermaking belt: A process for making an image for a papermaking belt wherein the image is the product of (a) providing an image; and (b) performing at least one image modification algorithm thereon, one of the at least one image modification algorithms being a beta image modification algorithm and the beta image... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Global Legal Department - Ip

20080232643 - Bitmap tracker for visual tracking under very general conditions: System and method for visually tracking a target object silhouette in a plurality of video frames under very general conditions. The tracker does not make any assumption about the object or the scene. The tracker works by approximating, in each frame, a PDF (probability distribution function) of the target's bitmap... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080232644 - Storage medium having information processing program stored thereon and information processing apparatus: A motion information obtaining step successively obtains motion information from a motion sensor. An imaging information obtaining step successively obtains imaging information from an imaging means. An invalid information determination step determines whether the imaging information is valid information or invalid information for predetermined processing. A motion value calculation step... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20080232642 - System and method for 3-d recursive search motion estimation: A method for 3-D recursive search motion estimation is provided to estimate a motion vector for a current block in a current frame. The method includes the following steps. First, provide a spatial prediction by selecting at least one motion vector for at least one neighboring block in the current... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080232641 - System and method for the measurement of retail display effectiveness: The present invention relates to the measurement of human activities through video, particularly in retail environments. A method for measuring retail display effectiveness in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: detecting a moving object in a field of view of an imaging device, the imaging device obtaining... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080232645 - Tracking a surface in a 3-dimensional scene using natural visual features of the surface: A facility for determining the 3-dimensional location and orientation of a subject surface in a distinguished perspective image of the subject surface is described. The subject surface has innate visual features, a subset of which are selected. The facility uses the location of the selected visual features in a perspective... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080232646 - Method and apparatus for the quantitative determination of surface properties: The invention relates to a method for the quantitative determination of surface properties, wherein a spatially resolved image of a surface to be analysed, which contains a large number of measured values, is recorded. In a first method step, the measured values are analysed in order to determine those surface... Agent: Hayes Soloway P.C.

20080232647 - Texture image compressing device and method, texture image decompressing device and method, data structures and storage medium: A texture image compressing device includes a separating unit configured to separate intensity maps that include intensity values and light source-independent texture images, those images including color components from a plurality of texture images corresponding to a plurality of different light source directions and a plurality of different viewpoint directions.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080232648 - System and method of sorting document images based on image quality: A document processing system and method for using image quality to sort documents. The document processing system comprises: a document sorting system that designates a destination pocket for each document based on data gathered from each document; a document imaging system that captures an image of each document; and an... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080232649 - Method and system for data reception with decreased bit error rate: A method and system is provided for improving bit error rate (BER) performance in delay spread fading conditions, such as the fading associated with simulcast systems. BER is improved through novel symbol synchronization that comprises oversampling an input signal and filtering the samples to determine a composite symbol sample point... Agent: Tyco Technology Resources Suite 140

20080232651 - Apparatus and method for detecting face region: A face region detecting apparatus includes a face detection and recognition unit for encoding a face image into a face feature code through an internal operation process and storing the face feature code in the form of a database, in which the face image is extracted in a face detection... Agent: The Rafferty Patent Law Firm

20080232652 - Device, method and computer readable recording medium containing program for evaluating image: An image evaluation device includes: an information acquiring unit to acquire, from an image containing at least one face, at least one type of information including at least the number of the at least one face and optionally including any of a size of the face, a position of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080232650 - Face region detecting device, method, and computer readable recording medium: An image capturing section captures a face of an observed person. A position detecting section detects, from a face image expressing the face captured by the image capturing section, one of a position expressing a characteristic of a nose and a position expressing a characteristic of a region between eyebrows.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080232653 - Biometrics based on locally consistent features: Systems, devices, methods, and software are described for biometric sensors that permit a reduction in the size of the sensing area without significant reduction in biometric functionality of the sensor. A skin site of an individual is illuminated, and light scattered from the skin site is received. An image of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080232654 - Fingerprint representation using localized texture feature: A system and method for processing fingerprints includes representing each minutiae in a fingerprint by determining quantized Gabor coefficients to represent texture content of the minutiae. A distance is computed between represented minutiae and stored minutiae. The minutiae matches are ranked based on the distance to identify the fingerprint.... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080232659 - Analysis processing method and device: The invention relates to image processing, and to a method and device for recognizing the reaction results of a test sample in which various reagents are arranged on a surface, by image analysis, and assay. An object is to provide an analysis processing method and an analysis processing device which... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080232655 - Apparatus and method for assisting the diagnostic evaluation of images: The invention relates to an apparatus and to a method for assisting a doctor in assessing a potentially pathological structure, such as a tumor (8) for example. In this connection, characteristic parameters (p10, p20, . . . ), such as its size or the edge contrast, are determined in a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080232657 - Feature intensity reconstruction of biological probe array: The invention provides methods and systems for reconstructing feature intensities from pixel level data. In certain embodiments, the invention uses an empirically determined transfer function to construct a theoretical estimate of pixel level data and then iteratively updates feature intensities based on a minimum multiplicative error between the pixel level... Agent: Affymetrix, Inc Attn: ChiefIPCounsel, Legal Dept.

20080232658 - Interactive multiple gene expression map system: Disclosed herein is a system and method for providing remotely accessible gene expression image data. The system and method allows for increased accuracy and semi-quantitative or fully quantitative data from images by enabling the remote user to select regions of interest on a compressed image, and then conducting quantitative analysis... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire

20080232661 - Method and apparatus featuring simple click style interactions according to a clinical task workflow: A computer-aided method (30) comprises alternating between one or more of (i) navigational tasks and (ii) measuring, qualification, and quantification tasks of a clinical task in accordance with defined simple click style user interactions. The defined simple click style user interactions are based upon a domain knowledge (34) that includes... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080232662 - Outline detection apparatus, outline detection method, and program thereof: An outline detection apparatus which detects an outline of a tooth in a dental image, including: a rectangular range specification device for estimating portions in the dental image as a tooth, gum, and background respectively, and specifying rectangular ranges with predetermined pixels in the positions estimated as the tooth, gum,... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080232656 - Recognizing a real world fiducial in image data of a patient: A storage medium contains a program which instructs a computer to recognize a predetermined shape of each of at least one portion of a medical assembly as a real-world fiducial in image data of a patient when the image data includes the predetermined shape and is received by the digital... Agent: Thompson Hine L.L.P. Intellectual Property Group

20080232663 - System and method for remote navigation of a specimen: A method of providing remote navigation of a specimen includes receiving a command to remotely control a microscope and a camera coupled with the microscope to view a portion of a specimen disposed on the microscope, capturing a digital image of the portion with the camera in response to the... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080232660 - Ultrasound system and method of forming elastic images capable of preventing distortion: The present invention is directed to an ultrasound system and a method of forming an elastic image, which are capable of preventing the distortion of the elastic image. The persistence of the previous frame and the present frame is performed after moving the boundary pixels set up in the previous... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080232664 - Couch positioning system for radiotherapy, treatment plan unit, and couch positioning unit: An object of the present invention is to easily maintain the couch positioning accuracy and reduce the couch positioning time while resolving the complexity of input operations by the operator at the time of couch positioning. To accomplish the above object, calculation points are set to a CT image at... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080232665 - Method for noise reduction in digital images with locally different and directional noise: A method is disclosed for noise reduction in images with locally different and directional noise, in particular for noise reduction in image data records of computed tomography. In at least one embodiment of the method, two image data records of an identical object region that have mutually independent noise are... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080232666 - Method for visualizing a sequence of tomographic volume data records for medical imaging: A method for visualizing a sequence of tomographic volume data records for medical imaging, which were recorded in temporal sequence with administration of contrast agents in vessels in an object volume, is provided. At least one extremal value and one time value are determined from the temporal sequence of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080232668 - Device, method and recording medium containing program for separating image component: A technique for appropriately separating three components contained in radiographic images is disclosed. A component image generating unit separates an image component, which represents any one of a soft part component, a bone component and a heavy element component including an element having an atomic number higher than that of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080232667 - Device, method and recording medium containing program for separating image component, and device, method and recording medium containing program for generating normal image: A normal image representing a normal structure of a predetermined structure in an input medical image is generated with higher accuracy. Further, an abnormal component in the input medical image is separated with higher accuracy. A supervised learned filtering unit inputs an input image representing a predetermined structure to a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080232669 - Method and/or system for analyzing biological samples using a computer system: A method and/or system for making determinations regarding samples from biologic sources. A computer implemented method and/or system can be used to automate parts of the analysis.... Agent: Quine Intellectual Property Law Group, P.C.

20080232670 - Method for calculating a bad-lot continuity and a method for finding a defective machine using the same: A method for finding a defective machine comprises the steps of selecting a searching period in which a plurality of wafer lots including good wafer lots and bad wafer lots passes through machines, acquiring a lot-passing information related to the passing sequence of the wafer lots through the machines, calculating... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080232671 - Mask pattern verifying method: A mask pattern verifying method include obtaining first information about a hot spot from design data of a mask pattern, obtaining second information about the mask pattern actually formed on a photo mask, and determining a measuring spot of the mask pattern actually formed on the photo mask, based on... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080232672 - Device and method for evaluating defects in the edge area of a wafer and use of the device in inspection system for wafers: A device for evaluating defects in the edge area of a wafer (6) is disclosed. The evaluation may also be performed automatically. In particular, the device includes three cameras (25, 26, 27), each provided with an objective (30), wherein a first camera (25) is arranged such that the first camera... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20080232673 - Method for manufacturing electronic device: A method for manufacturing an electronic device is provided. The method includes: pressure-bonding a plurality of terminals of an electronic component to a plurality of electrodes formed on a surface of a transparent substrate, respectively, via an anisotropic conductive film to mount the electronic component on the transparent substrate; obtaining... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080232674 - Method and apparatus for inspecting pattern defects: An apparatus for inspecting pattern defects, the apparatus including: a defect candidate extraction unit configured to perform a defect candidate extraction process by comparing a detected image signal with a reference image signal; and a defect detection unit configured to perform a defect detection process and a defect classification process... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080232675 - System for search and analysis of systematic defects in integrated circuits: Disclosed is a method of locating systematic defects in integrated circuits. The invention first performs a preliminary extracting and index processing of the circuit design and then performs feature searching. When performing the preliminary extracting and index processing the invention establishes a window grid for the circuit design and merges... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080232676 - Fabrication method of semiconductor integrated circuit device: In the fabrication of a semiconductor integrated circuit device, a 2D-3D inspection technique for solder printed on a substrate is provided which permits easy preparation of data and easy visual confirmation of a defective portion. In a substrate inspecting step, first, a 3D inspection is performed, followed by execution of... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080232677 - Method and device for assessing joins of workpieces: For assessing the position and quality of joins a combined image of a join including a light line image and a grey value image is taken in the same sensor, but in two different regions 20, 22 of the sensor. The grey value image is evaluated to detect the quality... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080232678 - Localization method for a moving robot: A localization method of a moving robot is disclosed in which the moving robot includes: capturing a first omni-directional image by the moving robot; confirming at least one node at which a second omni-directional image having a high correlation with the first omni-directional image is captured; and determining that the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080232679 - Apparatus and method for 3-dimensional scanning of an object: A 3-dimensional scanner capable of acquiring the shape, color, and reflectance of an object as a complete 3-dimensional object. The scanner utilizes a fixed camera, telecentric lens, and a light source rotatable around an object to acquire images of the object under varying controlled illumination conditions. Image data are processed... Agent: The Johns Hopkins Universityapplied Physics Labora Office Of Patent Counsel

20080232680 - Two dimensional/three dimensional digital information acquisition and display device: A two dimensional/three dimensional (2D/3D) digital acquisition and display device for enabling users to capture 3D information using a single device. In an embodiment, the device has a single movable lens with a sensor. In another embodiment, the device has a single lens with a beam splitter and multiple sensors.... Agent: Jonathan O. Owens Haverstock & Owens LLP

20080232681 - Object detection system based on a pool of adaptive features: A method, system and computer program product for detecting presence of an object in an image are disclosed. According to an embodiment, a method for detecting a presence of an object in an image comprises: receiving multiple training image samples; determining a set of adaptive features for each training image... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080232682 - System and method for identifying patterns: The present invention provides a system and method for identifying a pattern as belonging to one of a set of predetermined classes of patterns. The system comprises a plurality of classifier blocks wherein each classifier block corresponds to a distinct predetermined class of patterns and produces a mirror image of... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20080232683 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and computer program product: An image processing apparatus includes a first separator, a second separator, a dividing unit, and a generating unit. The first separator separates image data into character image data and other image data. The second separator separates the character image data into shape image data and color image data. The dividing... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080232684 - Image processing apparatus and computer-readable recording medium which records image processing program: An image processer has an extractor to extract a character area from color image data. A color-difference-value acquirer acquires information about color-difference values in the character area. A color-saturation-value acquirer acquires information about color saturation in the character area. A color-difference-subrange storage stores pre-defined color-difference subranges. A chromatic-region determination section... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080232685 - Categorizing moving objects into familiar colors in video: An improved solution for categorizing moving objects into familiar colors in video is provided. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for categorizing moving objects into familiar colors in video comprises: receiving a video input; determining at least one object track of the video input; creating a normalized cumulative... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080232686 - Representative color extracting method and apparatus: A histogram generating section generates a histogram for each channel of a color space which shows colors of pixels constituting an image, in which tone levels of said channel are divided into plural intervals as classes, and frequency of appearance of tone levels of the pixels in each interval is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080232687 - Method and device for selection of key-frames for retrieving picture contents, and method and device for temporal segmentation of a sequence of successive video pictures or a shot: Exemplary embodiments are described in which is performed not only a shot detection (continuous recording with a camera) and an association of several key-frames to the shots, it then being possible for a subsequent scene recognition to be based on the grouping of shots into scenes. Rather, it is observed... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080232688 - Event detection in visual surveillance systems: An improved solution for detecting events in video is provided, in which a region of interest within a series of video images of the video is monitored. An object at least partially visible within the series of video images is tracked and a fiducial region of the object is identified.... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080232689 - Coding systems for chinese characters and uses thereof: User friendly coding systems are provided for Chinese characters, either complicated or simplified. Each Chinese character is assigned a code based on the shape of the character. In particular, the characters sharing the same beginning strokes are grouped together. The coding systems are useful for searching or sorting Chinese characters,... Agent: Cheng-fu Lee

20080232690 - Method and apparatus for creating and editing node-link diagrams in pen computing systems: A method and system provides intelligent node-link diagram creation and editing, including an electronic display device having a surface on which a writing and/or drawing canvas is provided. An input device permits writing and/or drawing of electronic ink strokes, and a computing device is in operative association with the electronic... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Parc

20080232692 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: The image processing apparatus comprises: an image correction unit which applies a correction processing to the digital image data; a subject detection unit which detects a human subject from an input image data; a skin color setting unit which sets skin color information based on the detected human subject; a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080232693 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product: An image processing apparatus that detects a face area from image information includes a pattern database, a face-direction determining unit, and a face-area detector. The face-direction determining unit determines, as a face direction, a direction in which a face image in image information is upright based on determination pattern information... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080232691 - Method for using portable electronic equipment, which comprises a digital camera or can be connected to a digital camera, to scan a surface containing text and/or drawings or sketches: The invention relates to a method for using portable electronic equipment, which comprises a digital camera or can be used with a digital camera, to scan a surface containing text and/or drawings or sketches. According to the method, a digital photograph, which comprises the surface to be scanned, is taken... Agent: Davis Bujold & Daniels, P.l.l.c.

20080232694 - Fast imaging data classification method and apparatus: Image data is acquired, and a comparator circuit or similar structure determines the status of a value of at least one value type of the image data with respect to at least one predetermined range of valid values for the value type. Then, the image data is defined as a... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery Varian Medical Systems

20080232695 - Information processing apparatus, image display apparatus, control methods therefor, and programs for causing computer to perform the methods: An information processing apparatus includes a content storage unit storing a plurality of pieces of content; a background-image storage unit storing a background image corresponding to the plurality of pieces of content stored in the content storage unit; an attribute-information storage unit storing attribute information for each of the plurality... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080232696 - Scene classification apparatus and scene classification method: A scene classification apparatus includes: a characteristic amount obtaining section that obtains a partial characteristic amount indicating a characteristic of a partial image that is a portion of a classification-target image; a partial classification section that classifies, based on the partial characteristic amount, whether or not the partial image belongs... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080232697 - Image presentation system and operating method thereof: A system to display automatically organized images coordinating with pace of background music is disclosed. Users only need to give images and a music clip, and the system will automatically generate a presentation that combines visual and aural effects to display the organized images synchronously accompanying the music. Multiple images... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080232698 - Object image detection method and object image detection device: An object image detection device is disclosed that is able to rapidly detect an object image from an input image. The object image detection device includes an image block generation unit to generate plural image blocks from the input image for detecting the object images, an image classification unit to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080232700 - Atlas-based image compression: A technique for selecting portions of a medical image data set to be stored and portions of the medical image data set to be discarded in order to reduce the overall amount of image data that is stored for each image data set. The selection is based on the clinical... Agent: Ge Healthcare C/o Fletcher Yoder, PC

20080232701 - Content-based image compression: A technique for selecting portions of a multi-resolution medical image data set to be stored and the portions of the multi-resolution medical image data set to be discarded in order to reduce the overall amount of image data that is stored for each image data set. The selection is based... Agent: Ge Healthcare C/o Fletcher Yoder, PC

20080232702 - Image display apparatus: An object of the present invention is to be able to output moving image data that enables a desired image group partially included in all intra-subject images to be played as a moving image. An image display apparatus according to the present invention includes an image display function of displaying... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080232703 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An object is to provide a user with various options on a processing method of an original document including a code image. To accomplish the object, the image processing apparatus includes a decoding section for extracting information by decoding the code image contained in the original document image, and a... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080232699 - Processing of content-based compressed images: A technique for prioritizing portions of compressed multi-resolution medical image data to be processed. More relevant portions of medical image data are compressed at a higher resolution than less relevant portions of medical image data. A mask is created from the image data and used to assign data compression quality... Agent: Ge Healthcare C/o Fletcher Yoder, PC

20080232704 - Video decoder with adaptive outputs: In one aspect, there is provided a video decoder including a first write port to write uncompressed video data to a first buffer in a first format adapted based on an input required by the video decoder and to suppress writing to the first buffer. The video decoder also includes... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64046

20080232705 - Method and apparatus for image encoding and image decoding: Provided are a method and apparatus for image encoding which improves encoding efficiency in accordance with image characteristics by performing prediction in lines and performing a one-dimensional transformation in lines on an input image, and a method and apparatus for image decoding. Encoding efficiency of an image may be improved... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080232706 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding image using pixel-based context model: A method and apparatus for encoding and decoding an image are provided. The method includes selecting a context model by referring to previously encoded pixels that are adjacent to the current pixel for entropy-encoding a binary value of a pixel value of the current pixel, and entropy-encoding the binary value... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080232708 - Apparatus and method for reducing motion blur in a video signal: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for reducing motion blur in a video signal. The apparatus comprises motion estimation means (1) for providing motion information of a video signal, high pass filter means (3a, 3b) for high pass filtering said video signal, and first modulating means... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080232707 - Motion blurred image restoring method: A motion blurred image restoring method includes following steps. A blur parameter is estimated through a global motion relation between a target image and an image next to the target image, and a restored image is generated through the blur parameter. In order to avoid errors from occurring to the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080232709 - Method and apparatus for registration and vector extraction of sar images based on an anisotropic diffusion filtering algorithm: A computer system for registering synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images includes a database for storing SAR images to be registered, and a processor for registering SAR images from the database. The registering includes selecting first and second SAR images to be registered, individually processing the selected first and second SAR... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20080232711 - Two stage detection for photographic eye artifacts: The detection of red-eye defects is enhanced in digital images for embedded image acquisition and processing systems. A two-stage redeye filtering system includes a speed optimized filter that performs initial segmentation of candidate redeye regions and optionally applies a speed-optimized set of falsing/verification filters to determine a first set of... Agent: Fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20080232710 - Varying the exposure of a digital image by region: Methods and apparatus for creating a digital image in which exposure varies by region of the image are described. The image may be created from first and second images. In one embodiment, a method comprises writing pixels of the first image that are within a first region of a space... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080232712 - Image composer for composing an image by extracting a partial region not common to plural images: In an image composer includes a storage for storing a first and a second image, a region classifier compares the first image with the second image to extract as a non-common sub-region a partial region of one of the two images that does not have a similar pixel property to... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080232713 - Image matching method, image matching apparatus, and program: To provide an image matching method, an image matching apparatus, and a program able to perform a matching images at a high accuracy. A Hough transform unit 15 performs a Hough transform processing to a registered image AIM and an image to be matched RIM, in detail, an image processing... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080232714 - Image deformation using multiple image regions: Disclosed are systems for and methods of registering (i.e., aligning) a deformable image with a reference image subject to a plurality of regions within the deformable and reference images. Different members of the plurality of regions may be used in different phases of a deformation algorithm and the identity of... Agent: Gard & Kaslow LLP (varian)

20080232715 - Image processing apparatus: When different images are combined, the corresponding parts are to be aligned accurately. To thus combine images, the feature point of each pixel is calculated from each original image using an operator (filter). The pixels are divided into blocks that the resolution matches that of the reduced image of each... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080232716 - Video processing method and device for depth extraction: The present invention provides an improved method and device for generating a depth map (112) by extracting three-dimensional depth information from the movement vectors of an encoded video bit stream (102) to display two-dimensional video sequences onto three-dimensional displays. In particular, the invention performs depth extraction (110) by means of... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080232717 - Image recognition device and image rotating method: An image recognition device for generating an output rotation image from input original image data, including a memory section being capable of storing data of a line including pixels of the original image data to be processed, an angle-to-sine/cosine converting section obtaining an X component and a Y component where... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080232719 - Image storage apparatus having continuous-shooting function: An image storage apparatus comprises an image capture unit configured to sequentially capture images of a subject, a storage unit including storage areas to store the images of the subject captured by the image capture unit, a storage controller configured to overwrite a storage area which is permitted to be... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080232718 - Purpose-driven data representation and usage for medical images: A technique for selecting portions of a multi-resolution medical image data set to be stored and the portions of the multi-resolution medical image data set to be discarded in order to reduce the overall amount of image data that is stored for each image data set. The selection is based... Agent: Patrick S. Yoder Fletcher Yoder

20080226119 - Content image search: An embodiment of the present invention includes a search technique for image query. A region of interest (ROI) containing an image in a scene of a displayed content is captured. The ROI is analyzed locally or remotely to search for related content associated with the image. The related content is... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080226124 - Method for inserting and extracting multi-bit fingerprint based on wavelet: A method for inserting and extracting a fingerprint based on a wavelet is disclosed. The method includes: a) decomposing an original image into a first sub-band image having low frequency band columns and rows, a second sub-band image having high frequency band columns and low frequency band rows, a third... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080226125 - Method of embedding data in an information signal: This invention relates to a watermarking scheme that is robust to general distortions such as scaling and rotation of multimedia content (audio, video, images). This is achieved by embedding a watermark in a first component of the host signal and a transformed version of the same watermark in a second... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080226122 - Methods, apparatuses, and systems for image-based measurement and inspection of pre-engineered structural components: Methods, apparatuses, and systems for image-based measurement and inspection of pre-engineered structural components, such as building trusses and wall panels. A system can include: a light source; a camera; a first memory storage; a second memory storage; and a processing unit configured to (i) detect a characteristic of the structural... Agent: Mark D Miller Kimble, Macmichael & Upton

20080226118 - System and method for watermarking data: System and method for digitally watermarking data. A preferred embodiment comprises a quantizer to limit a data value provided by a signal input to a set of values, a rounder unit coupled to the quantizer, a control unit coupled to the rounder unit and to a watermark input, and a... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080226123 - Systems and methods for filling occluded information for 2-d to 3-d conversion: The present invention is directed to systems and methods for processing 2-D to 3-D image conversion. The system and method includes erode filling when an object has been removed from an image. In one embodiment, a target binary t image mask of the removed object is used for comparison with... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080226120 - Video watermarking using temporal analysis: Methods of embedding and detecting watermarks in video use temporal analysis to compute temporal components of video from which the watermarks are embedded and detected. Temporal analysis, such as a temporal wavelet, is used to compute representations of static and dynamic portions of the video. For embedding, watermarks are computed... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080226117 - Visual watermark in both data area and inner-ring of record carrier: The invention relates to a record carrier comprising a data area for storing data in the form of marks, in which the data is encoded by means of a channel code, wherein a parameter of the channel code is controlled so as to introduce a predetermined run length distribution in... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080226121 - Watermarking using multiple watermarks and keys, including keys dependent on the host signal: A method of embedding a watermarking in a host signal computes a first watermark depending on a particular party and computes a second watermark depending on the host signal. The method embeds the first and second watermarks in the host signal. At least one of the watermarks is embedded using... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080226129 - Cart inspection for suspicious items: Methods and apparatus provide for a Cart Inspector to create a suspicion level for a transaction when a video image of the transaction portrays an item(s) left in a shopping cart. Specifically, the Cart Inspector obtains video data associated with a time(s) of interest. The video data originates from a... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20080226127 - Linking tracked objects that undergo temporary occlusion: A method and system is configured to characterize regions of an environment by the likelihoods of transition of a target from each region to another. The likelihoods of transition between regions is preferably used in combination with conventional object-tracking algorithms to determine the likelihood that a newly-appearing object in a... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20080226126 - Object-tracking apparatus, microscope system, and object-tracking program: An object-tracking apparatus (1; 11) includes, for observing an object area in an image and accurately track a tracking target, an image acquiring unit (2c) that acquires image data; an area detector (2d) that detects the object area from the image; a parameter calculator (2e) that calculates an area parameter... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080226128 - System and method for using feature tracking techniques for the generation of masks in the conversion of two-dimensional images to three-dimensional images: The present invention is directed to systems and methods for controlling 2-D to 3-D image conversion and/or generation. The methods and systems use auto-fitting techniques to create a mask based upon tracking features from frame to frame. When features are determined to be missing they are added prior to auto-fitting... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080226130 - Automated location estimation using image analysis: An implementation of automated location estimation using image analysis is described. In this implementation, an image of a place is obtained and matched with previously stored images. The matching may be achieved by employing methods based on key feature extraction algorithm, color histogram analysis, pattern matching or other image comparison... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080226131 - Motion detection apparatus: A motion detection apparatus which extracts a 1-frame differential signal from a video signal, separates the 1-frame differential signal into a vertical low frequency signal having a frequency which is lower than a predetermined frequency with respect to the vertical direction of a frame of the video signal and a... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080226132 - Unitized ergonomic two-dimensional fingerprint motion tracking device and method: A sensor which uses a plurality of partial fingerprint readers (imagers), and various computational algorithms, to detect changes in fingerprint images as a function of finger movement. The sensor can provide both finger motion information and fingerprint images. The sensor uses multiple partial fingerprint readers, arranged in different directions on... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20080226133 - Use of optical sensors for spray jet diagnostics: An automated method of evaluating an electrospray jet includes: capturing image information about the electrospray jet, enhancing the image information to provide a clearer image when needed, comparing the captured image information, and generating a signal to indicative of the electrospray jet operation. The signal may be used to automatically... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080226134 - Fingertip visual haptic sensor controller: Systems, methods and devices for capturing environmental image data and providing tactile feedback about the visual environment to a user. One or more image sensing devices are mounted on various appendages of a user and are used to sense the environment. The image data is sent to a computer vision... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080226135 - Incremental recognition: Biometric data can be received from a biometric sensor responsive to a physical characteristic stimulus occurring during a sensing event. An incremental recognition process on the biometric data received can be executed prior to the termination of the sensing event.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080226136 - Living body guidance control method for a biometrics authentication device, and biometrics authentication device: A biometrics authentication device identifies characteristics of the body from captured images of the body and performs individual authentication. The device guides a user, at the time of verification, to the image capture state at the time of registration of biometrics characteristic data. At the time of registration of biometrics... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080226137 - Metabolism- or biochemical-based anti-spoofing biometrics devices, systems, and methods: A biometric device for detecting biological tissue based upon ratiometric measurements of metabolic and/or biochemical intermediates is provided in which a radiation source (103) is electromagnetically coupled to a target region (125). A radiation sensor (155) receives emission signals (128) from the target region as a result of emitted radiation... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20080226138 - Eyelid detection apparatus and program therefor: An eyelid detection apparatus includes edge image generating means for generating an edge image representing a magnitude of pixel value change per pixel in a predetermined direction in a region including an eye, based upon an image of the region; local peak value point searching means for searching a local... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080226139 - Eyelid detection apparatus, eyelid detection method and program therefor: An eyelid detection apparatus includes a face-image storing apparatus for storing an image of a face of a subject, an eyelid-candidate extracting apparatus for processing the image stored in the face-image storing apparatus to extract a pair of lines, which becomes a candidate of a combination of a line corresponding... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080226140 - Image selecting device, image selecting method, image pickup apparatus, and computer-readable medium: An image extracting unit and an album setting unit are provided. The image extracting unit sets a predetermined image of a plurality of images as a group photograph and extracts, from the plurality of images, images including each of face images of the group photograph. The album setting unit records... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080226141 - Digital encoding of images of skin-covered body parts: Methods and apparatus for obtaining a digital code representative of a skin-covered body part (fingertip or other). An image of the body part is acquired, where the image includes a plurality of pixels, each pixel having an associated shade value. A plurality of subsets of pixels from the plurality of... Agent: Fetherstonhaugh - Smart & Biggar

20080226142 - System and methods for customer-managed device-based authentication: A system and methods for customer-managed device-based authentication are disclosed. Embodiments of the invention provide a user interface that allows a customer with an on-line account to access and manage device fingerprint information that can be used to control or regulate the customer's access. Such a system can collect user... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Bofa

20080226143 - Character noise eliminating apparatus, character noise eliminating method, and character noise eliminating program: To provide a character noise eliminating apparatus that can eliminate a character noise when a fingerprint ridgeline area has a higher density than a character noise area. A character noise eliminating apparatus includes a device for repeating a processing in which a binary image is generated by binarizing an image... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080226146 - Biometric detector and identity control device: The present invention describes a biometric detector (1) comprising an optical sensor (21), preferably a visible light optical sensor, a surface (31) against which to lean a fingertip (5), and optical means (3,4) adapted to transfer an image of said surface (31) to said sensor (21) reducing it in order... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080226144 - Digital video imaging system for plastic and cosmetic surgery: A system for plastic surgery comprises entering patient information into a database; computing a video sequence template for the patient based on the information and a synthetic video model.... Agent: Patent Legal Staff Carestream Health, Inc.

20080226145 - Image processing apparatus and computer readable media containing image processing program: An image processing apparatus having improved detection performance for detecting an abnormal shadow, such as a tumor, and reducing a burden on the user is disclosed. In the image processing apparatus, an aligning unit aligns a previous image and a current diagnosis image with each other, and a corresponding position... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080226148 - Method of image quality assessment to produce standardized imaging data: Automated image quality assessment methods, which include locating a region of interest, region assessment, contrast assessment, blur assessment, and contaminant detection, on video data and high-resolution imagery. Where the blur assessment is performed without a reference image by dividing the region into non-overlapping block, measuring the wavenumber frequency of the... Agent: Cades Schutte A Limited Liability Law Partnership

20080226147 - Method to provide automated quality feedback to imaging devices to achieve standardized imaging data: Automated image quality assessment algorithms, which perform the functions of locating a region of interest, maximizing the image contrast, and ensuring the region of interest is properly centered in the image. Wherein the region of interest is located by spectral matching filter using a target spectrum obtained from samples of... Agent: Cades Schutte A Limited Liability Law Partnership

20080226149 - Motion compensation in functional imaging: Medical images are collected in a plurality of cardiac and respiratory phases. The images are transformed into a series of respiratory compensated images with the plurality of cardiac phases, but all at a common respiration phase. The series of respiratory compensated images are transformed into one image at a selected... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080226150 - X-ray ct imaging displaying method, x-ray ct image displaying apparatus, and x-ray ct apparatus: The X-ray CT image displaying method for displaying X-ray CT image of the head by X ray CT comprises: an occlusal surface specifying step of receiving an occlusal surface specifying in the X-ray image data obtained by X-ray CT of the head; an image producing step of producing from the... Agent: Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP Koda/androlia

20080226151 - Device and software for screening the skin: The present invention provides devices for screening the skin of an individual in real time using a region-fusion based segmentation with narrow band graph partitioning algorithm to analyze and classify a region of interest of the skin as benign or malignant. Also, provided is a method for screening the skin... Agent: Benjamin Aaron Adler Adler & Associates

20080226153 - Analyzing apparatus, program, defect inspection apparatus, defect review apparatus, analysis system, and analysis method: In order to allow to easily specify inspection recipe with which defects desired to be detected can be detected efficiently, a defect inspection apparatus performs defect inspection of a substrate in accordance with a plurality of inspection recipes and produces defect information associated with position of defect in the substrate... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080226156 - Defect detection apparatus and defect detection method: A primary defect detecting section performs a primary defect detection process for detecting a severe defect of more than a predetermined size on an inspection object. A secondary defect detecting section performs a secondary defect detection process for detecting a defect on the inspection object using image data of the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080226152 - Determining image blur in an imaging system: The invention relates to a method of determining a parameter relating to image blur in an imaging system (IS) comprising the step of illuminating an object having a test pattern (MTP) by means of the imaging system (IS), thereby forming an image of the test pattern. The test pattern (MTP)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080226155 - Sheet metal processing examination: For examining a metal sheet processing operation, a method includes scanning a detection beam along a processed metal sheet by causing a relative movement between the detection beam and the processed metal sheet, during the scanning, determining a position of an edge of the metal sheet hole by monitoring the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080226154 - Systems and methods for producing carbonaceous pastes used in the production of carbon electrodes: Systems and methods for producing a carbonaceous paste are provided. The systems and methods may include a paste control system that obtains an image of the carbonaceous paste and determines whether operational parameters associated with paste production require adjustment. One or more operational variables may be adjusted based on the... Agent: Intellectual Property

20080226157 - Inspection methods and systems for lithographic masks: Disclosed are apparatus and methods for finding lithographically significant defects on a reticle. In general, at least a pair of related intensity images of the reticle in question are obtained using an inspection apparatus. The intensity images are obtained such that each of the images experience different focus settings for... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve Sampson LLP - Kla Tencor Kla Tencor

20080226158 - Data processor and data processing method: There is provided a data processor and a data processing method for displaying feature quantities for facilitating classification of defects extracted by an appearance checking device, receive defect checking information including at least coordinates of a plurality of defects transmitted from the appearance checking device for extracting defects of a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080226159 - Method and system for calculating depth information of object in image: A method and a system for calculating a depth information of objects in an image is disclosed. In accordance with the method and the system, an area occupied by two or more objects in the image is classified into an object area and an occlusion area using an outline information... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080226160 - Systems and methods for filling light in frames during 2-d to 3-d image conversion: The present invention is directed to systems and methods for processing 2-D to 3-D image conversion. The systems and methods fill in light among image frames when object have been removed or otherwise changed. In one embodiment, light is treated as an object and can be removed during image processing.... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080226162 - Automatic film grain reproduction: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to automatically reproduce film grain into a new image. A reference image and new image are obtained. An image of the reference image is subdivided into two or more tiles. A grain simulation tool is then used to automatically determine... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP

20080226161 - Determining edgeless areas in a digital image: A computer program product and method for locating edgeless areas within digital images, by locating a pixel with a luminance value that does not vary from its major neighbors by more than a fixed tolerance, and seeking to expand an edgeless area about such pixel by examining the variance in... Agent: Daniel S. Coolidge Coolidge & Graves PLLC

20080226163 - Methods and apparatus for enhancing color data: In one embodiment, an image processor may be used to manipulate a hue value to obtain an updated hue value, manipulate a saturation value to obtain an updated saturation value based on the updated hue value and the saturation value, and if updated pixel data including the updated hue value... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080226164 - Image data decoding device, image data encoding device, image processing device, and electronic instrument: An image data decoding device decodes compressed image data obtained by encoding image data using a lossy compression process, the image data being subjected to a key color process that extracts a pixel of a color that coincides with a key color. The image data decoding device includes a decoding... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080226165 - Apparatus and method of creating composite lookup table: A method of creating a composite lookup table referred to when lattice points distributed in a color space of first image data are sequentially converted into lattice points distributed in a color space of second image data by a plurality of conversion profiles. When an input value range to which... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080226166 - Image signal processing device, image signal processing method and image signal processing program product: By providing an encoded image analysis unit for analyzing an amount of features of images for one screen of inputted encoded image signals, a decoding/regeneration unit for generating regenerative image signals by decoding the encoded image signals and a regenerative image correction unit for correcting the regenerative image signals generated... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080226167 - Method and apparatus to facilitate transforming grayscale level values: An image processing apparatus (800) partitions (101) an image into a plurality of blocks. For a selected one of these blocks, the apparatus then uses a given available range of grayscale level values to determine (102) grayscale level values for image data in the selected block to provide corresponding determined... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery Varian Medical Systems

20080226169 - Accelerated image volume segmentation using minimal surfaces given a boundary: A method for image volume segmentation includes receiving an input image, obtaining an oriented closed contour on one or more slices of the input image, determining a minimum-weight surface from the oriented closed contour using a minimum-cost circulation network flow, and outputting the minimum-weight surface as a segmentation of the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080226170 - Image sensing apparatus, method, program and storage medium: An image sensing apparatus has first and second image sensors is provided. In the image sensing apparatus, an optical system forms an optical image on the first and second image sensors; an area-of-interest extracting unit extracts an area of interest from image data output by the second image sensor; an... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080226168 - System and method for providing two-scale tone management of an image: The present invention provides two-scale tone management of an input image. A method of providing two-scale tone management contains the steps of: separating the input image into a base layer and a detail layer; separating a model image into a base layer and a detail layer; analyzing the input image... Agent: Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, PA C/o Peter Nieves

20080226171 - Correcting device and method for perspective transformed document images: This invention provides a correcting device and a correcting method for perspective transformation of document images. The correcting device comprises a horizontal vanishing point determining unit, for detecting a horizontal vanishing point of the perspective transformed document image; a vertical vanishing point determining unit, for detecting a vertical vanishing point... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080226172 - Method and apparatus for maintaining a background image model in a background subtraction system using accumulated motion: Methods and apparatus are provided for maintaining a background image model in a background subtraction system using accumulated motion. A background image model is maintained by obtaining a map of accumulated motion; and adjusting the background image model based on the map of accumulated motion. The map of accumulated motion... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP Suite 205

20080226175 - Apparatus, method, and program for face feature point detection: A face feature point detection apparatus includes an image capturing device, an edge calculating unit calculating edge values indicating a luminance change in a direction, and a detection target determining unit scanning an edge image, which is created by arranging the edge values for corresponding pixels based on pixel arrangement... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080226174 - Image organization: A system for organizing images includes an extraction component that extracts visual information (e.g., faces, scenes, etc.) from the images. The extracted visual information is provided to a comparison component which computes similarity confidence data between the extracted visual information. The similarity confidence data is an indication of the likelihood... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080226173 - Method and apparatus for video clip searching and mining: A method, apparatus, and electronic device for searching for repetitive video content are disclosed. A memory may store a set of video data. A processor may match a premier query window to a trellis match video window of the set of video data. The processor may compare a successive query... Agent: Prass & Irving LLP

20080226176 - Image displaying methods and systems: A reading/writing method for displaying an input image. M data sets of the input image are written into a first memory buffer at a first line scanning path. The M data sets are then read from the first memory buffer at a zig-zag scanning path to serve as a read-out... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080226177 - High-accuracy pattern shape evaluating method and apparatus: A quantity (or dispersion value) of a distribution of edge position due to random noise is expected to be reduced statistically to 1/N when N edge position data items are averaged. Using this property, the single page image is averaged in a vertical direction with various values of parameter S,... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080226178 - Method and system for image evaluation data analysis: A method is provided for operating a computer to analyze image evaluation data from electronic survey respondents to evaluate preferences related to two dimensional and three dimensional images. Data files, which include designated area data, image attributes, and survey respondent opinions for one or more images in an electronic survey,... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20080226180 - Method and apparatus for buffering output pixel data of a joint photographic experts group image: The invention provides a method for buffering output pixel data of a Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) image. First, a storing rule is determined for storing a scaled minimum coded unit (MCU) of the JPEG image in a memory module, wherein the scaled MCU comprises a plurality of pixels. A... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080226182 - Method of determining image transmission method, image supplying system, image supplying device, image display device, program and computer-readable recording medium: There is provided a method of determining an optimal image transmission method when image data is transmitted from an image supplying device 1 and 1′ to an image display device 2 and 2′, the method including: before the image data is transmitted after a transmission path from the image supplying... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20080226179 - Storage medium having stored thereon image processing program and image processing apparatus: A computer of an information processing apparatus sets an a value of each pixel in accordance with a depth value (Z value) of the pixel of a reference image. The α value is set such that a synthesizing ratio of the reference image is higher for a pixel having a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20080226181 - Systems and methods for depth peeling using stereoscopic variables during the rendering of 2-d to 3-d images: The present invention is directed to systems and methods for processing 2-D to 3-D image conversion. Rendering of left and right eye images is performed by order independent depth peeling. For each image that is created a number of scene traversals are performed that peel off each depth layer based... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080226183 - Dpcm with adaptive range and pcm escape mode: The embodiments of the present invention provide for methods, devices, and systems adapted to perform adaptive quantization processes. The adaptive quantization processes of the present invention are adapted to provide one or more adaptive quantization modes based on one or more previous pixels and their associated coding modes. The output... Agent: Michael Blaine Brooks, PC

20080226184 - Image feature identification and motion compensation apparatus, systems, and methods: Apparatus, systems, and methods disclosed herein may estimate the magnitude of relative motion between a scene and an image capture device used to capture the scene. Some embodiments may utilize discrete cosine transform and/or Sobel gradient techniques to identify one or more blocks of pixels in an originating calibration image... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080226185 - Methods and devices for coding and decoding multidimensional digital signals: In order to code a multidimensional digital picture signal by decomposition into frequency sub-bands, wherein the decomposition into frequency sub-bands uses a filtering according to a plurality of geometric orientations: a picture at a resolution lower than the resolution of the digital picture signal is obtained; the edges of the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080226186 - Image processing apparatus and method of image processing: An image processing apparatus that generates a code stream that encodes image data and includes a dividing unit that divides the image data into at least one rectangular area, a conversion unit that converts data of the rectangular area into conversion data, an ordering unit that adds the priority order... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080226187 - Image coding method, image coding apparatus, image coding circuit, information recording medium, and computer program: An image coding method is disclosed by which plural code data sets each having a different code amount are generated from one image data set that includes a target code amount setting step for setting a different target code amount for each of the code data sets; an entropy code... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080226188 - Threshold modification for limit cycle removal in vector error diffusion: A device and method is provided for breaking up undesirable patterns in vector error diffusion when the sum of inputs is near fraction values of the total input range. In the method, the value of the sum is calculated modulo the maximum input value. The mod value tendency to produce... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20080226189 - Method and apparatus for visual background subtraction with one or more preprocessing modules: Methods and apparatus are provided for visual background subtraction using one or more preprocessing modules. One or more effects are detected in a received image signal and one or more blocks are selectively enabled to preprocess the image signal to compensate for the detected one or more effects. Visual analysis... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080226190 - System and method for providing gradient preservation for image processing: The present invention provides gradient preservation of an input image. A method of providing gradient preservation of an input image, comprises the steps of: computing gradient fields of the input image; computing gradient fields of a remapped image, wherein the remapped image is the input image remapped; comparing a gradient... Agent: Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, PA C/o Peter Nieves

20080226191 - Picture processing apparatus and method: A smoothing filter generates a smoothed picture by smoothing a brightness component of an input picture. An adjustment filter generates an adjusted picture by applying a filter to an area of the input picture. The filter has the same characteristic as the smoothing filter. The area has a brightness matched... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080226192 - Image feature identification and motion compensation apparatus, systems, and methods: Apparatus, systems, and methods disclosed herein may estimate the magnitude of relative motion between a scene and an image capture device used to capture the scene. Some embodiments may utilize discrete cosine transform and/or Sobel gradient techniques to identify one or more blocks of pixels in an originating calibration image... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080226193 - Motion estimation apparatus and method: An estimation unit calculates an estimated motion vector between a first source region of a plurality of source regions and a first destination region on a destination picture. The first destination region has the highest correlation with the first source region. A weight calculation unit searches a plurality of second... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080226194 - Systems and methods for treating occlusions in 2-d to 3-d image conversion: The present invention is directed to systems and methods for processing 2-D to 3-D images. The system and method includes a procedure for optimizing occlusion and/or texturing by creating tolerances in which such texturing need not occur.... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080226195 - Generating an amalgamated image including a static image and a dynamic image: In an embodiment, a request is received that includes a specification of a static location and a dynamic location. A static image is created that includes a map that represents an area centered around the static location. A dynamic image is created asynchronously from the creation of the static image.... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080226196 - Image processing device, image processing method, and computer program product: An image processing device includes an acquiring unit that acquires, from image data, processing image data having a first resolution in a first direction and a second resolution in a second direction different from the first direction; a receiving unit that receives input of a first theoretical resolution in the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080226197 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An apparatus includes a memory which successively stores frame data of video data, an interpolating unit which generates interpolation frame data which is inserted between the frame data and stores the interpolation frame data in the memory, and a readout unit which successively reads out the frame data and the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080226198 - Information processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, image display control method and computer program: An apparatus for processing an image includes an input unit for inputting user operation information, a recording medium for recording moving image data, a data processor for retrieving data recorded on the recording medium and generating display data in response to an input to the input unit, and a display... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080226199 - Parameter setting superimposed upon an image: Tools and techniques allow visual media to be edited by superimposing a parameter adjusting mechanism on the visual media itself and adjusting parameter settings based on user input detected by the parameter adjusting mechanism. In a visual media editing application, the parameter adjusting mechanism is superimposed on visual media so... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/apple Inc.

20080219496 - Embedding data in and detecting embedded data from video objects: Methods for embedding data, such as digital watermarks, in video objects segmented from video frames. Watermarks are embedded such that they move with the object in the video frames. Interframe motion of video objects is estimated and used to modify the watermark accordingly. Methods for detecting embedded data from video... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080219495 - Image comparison: Image comparison techniques are described to compare an image with a database of image information. In an implementation, an image is converted to normalized intensity pixels which are shingled to determine individual shingle hash values. Interesting shingle hash values may be implemented as a fingerprint for comparison with fingerprints of... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080219497 - Image processing device, recording medium, and image processing method: An image processing device for embedding digital watermarking data into image data of a manuscript includes a storage device that stores digital watermarking data, a margin area detecting device that detects a margin area that is different from an object on which printing is performed, a margin size calculating device... Agent: Global Ip Counselors, LLP

20080219493 - Image processing system: An image processing system is described which is arranged to highlight information in image displays by selectively blurring less important areas of an image. By generating such displays comprising areas which are in focus and areas which are out of focus, a viewer's attention is preferentially drawn towards those areas... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler Pc

20080219494 - Method and system for watermark embedding in a multimedia system-on -chip: Methods and systems for watermark embedding in a multimedia system-on-chip are disclosed and may comprise decrypting an encrypted and signed watermarking signal using a security processor integrated within the system-on-chip and embedding a watermark into a multimedia signal utilizing the decrypted watermarking signal, which may comprise an embedding key, a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

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20080219500 - Shredding device with a decoder and transmitter: A shredding device which includes a feed mechanism configured to feed a substrate having identity data encoded thereon, said identity data identifying information printed on said substrate. Also included are sensors arranged adjacent said feed mechanism and configured to sense the identity data, as well as a decoder and transmitter... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080219498 - Visual discrimination model for single image applications: A computer implemented method for applying a visual discrimination model for single image applications includes receiving an image, defining a plurality of regions of interest in the image including a first region located to contain a feature or object to be detected and a second region located to encompass a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080219504 - Automatic measurement of advertising effectiveness: An automated system for measuring information about a target image in a video is described. One embodiment includes receiving a set of one or more video images for the video, automatically finding the target image in at least a subset of the video images, determining one or more statistics regarding... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20080219503 - Means for using microstructure of materials surface as a unique identifier: A method and apparatus for the visual identification of materials for tracking an object comprises parameter setting, acquisition and identification phases. The parameter setting phase comprises the steps of defining acquisition parameters for the objects. The acquisition phase comprises the steps of digitally acquiring two-dimensional template image of an object,... Agent: Dla Piper Us LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080219506 - Method and apparatus for automatic object identification: A method and system for processing image data to identify objects in an image. The method and system operate using various resolutions of the image to identify the objects. Information obtained while processing the image at one resolution is employed when processing the image at another resolution.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080219501 - Motion measuring device, motion measuring system, in-vehicle device, motion measuring method, motion measurement program, and computer-readable storage: An embodiment of the present invention includes: a tracking object image extracting section that extracts a tracking object image, which represents a tracking object, from an image captured by a monocular camera; a two-dimensional displacement calculating section that calculates, as actual movement amounts, amounts of inter-frame movement of the tracking... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080219505 - Object detection system: An object detection system is provided a plurality of image capture units for capturing images of surroundings of the system, a distance information calculation unit for dividing a captured image which constitutes a reference of captured images captured by the plurality of image capture units into a plurality of pixel... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080219507 - Passive touch system and method of detecting user input: A method of tracking an object of interest preferably includes (i) acquiring a first image and a second image representing different viewpoints of the object of interest; (ii) processing the first image into a first image data set and the second image into a second image data set; (iii) processing... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080219502 - Tracking bimanual movements: Hands may be tracked before, during, and after occlusion, and a gesture may be recognized. Movement of two occluded hands may be tracked as a unit during an occlusion period. A type of synchronization characterizing the two occluded hands during the occlusion period may be determined based on the tracked... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080219508 - Vision based navigation and guidance system: A method of controlling an autonomous vehicle with a vision-based navigation and guidance system. The method includes capturing image frames at a predetermined frame rate. Detecting image points that define an edge in each image frame. Using image points in each image frame to locate a determined edge. Dynamically predicting... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080219510 - Method and device for imaging cyclically moving objects: A method and a device are disclosed for imaging cyclically moving objects using a first and a second imaging method which differ at least with regard to the spatial resolution or the sensitivity. In at least one embodiment of the process, images of the object are continuously recorded by the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080219509 - Tracking an object with multiple asynchronous cameras: The path and/or position of an object is tracked using two or more cameras which run asynchronously so there is need to provide a common timing signal to each camera. Captured images are analyzed to detect a position of the object in the image. Equations of motion for the object... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20080219511 - Fluorescence observation apparatus: Provided is a fluorescence observation apparatus that enables efficient data acquisition by simplifying the positioning process of a small laboratory animal and that enables easy comparative examination of many images. The fluorescence observation apparatus includes a display unit configured to display a plurality of combined images arrayed in at least... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080219512 - Fluorescence observation apparatus: It is possible to efficiently perform data acquisition by simplifying an operation for positioning a small laboratory animal, and comparative observation of multiple images is straightforward. The invention provides a fluorescence observation apparatus including an image storage unit for storing a plurality of pairs of bright-field images and fluorescence images... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080219513 - Print quality evaluation apparatus and method of print quality evaluation: A method and apparatus to evaluate print quality determines an indicator thereof by measuring a reflectance of printed dots by scanning a medium on which pattern data having a predetermined pattern is printed. The predetermined pattern includes a highlight region and a shadow region. An average of reflectances of the... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080219514 - Skin detection sensor: A device for detecting the presence of human skin including an illuminator source for providing an IR band at a predetermined frequency known as a blue LED. The IR band frequency ranges from about 400 nanometers (nm) to about 500 nm, and preferably from about 450 nm to about 485... Agent: Kris T. Fredrick Patent Services

20080219515 - Iris recognition system, a method thereof, and an encryption system using the same: The present invention generally relates to an iris recognition system, a method thereof, and an encryption system, and more specifically, to an iris recognition system comprising: an image selector for selecting one image from a plurality of iris images inputted from an image input device; an internal edge extractor for... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080219517 - Illumination detection using classifier chains: A face illumination normalization method includes acquiring a digital image including a face that appears to be illuminated unevenly. One or more uneven illumination classifier programs are applied to the face data to determine the presence of the face within the digital image and/or the uneven illumination condition of the... Agent: Fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20080219516 - Image matching apparatus, image matching method, computer program and computer-readable storage medium: An image matching apparatus comprising, a detector adapted to detects, from an input image containing an object to be matched, a region where the object exists, an estimation unit adapted to estimates a parameter regarding a displaying characteristic based on an image of the region, a correction unit adapted to... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080219518 - Red eye false positive filtering using face location and orientation: An image is acquired including a red eye defect and non red eye defect regions having a red color. An initial segmentation of candidate redeye regions is performed. A location and orientation of one or more faces within the image are determined. The candidate redeye regions are analyzed based on... Agent: Fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20080219519 - Method and apparatus for rolling enrollment for signature verification: Improved techniques are disclosed for adapting signature verification systems to natural signature variations. For example, a technique for adapting a signature verification system to variations in a signature of a user includes the following steps/operations. One or more signature samples are obtained from the user. The one or more obtained... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080219522 - Finger sensor using polarized light and associated methods: A multi-biometric finger sensor may include an integrated circuit (IC) substrate for receiving a user's finger. The multi-biometric finger sensor may also include an optical source for projecting light of a known polarization angle onto the user's finger and at least one optical sensing pixel on the IC substrate for... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.a.

20080219521 - Method and algorithm for accurate finger motion tracking: 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. The finger motion sensors may also be used (either with or... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20080219520 - Sensor monitoring: State data in a sensor device is generated based on data that defines sensor operating states. The state data is monitored to determine if the sensor device is operating in a predetermined operating state.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080219525 - Acceleration of joseph's method for full 3d reconstruction of nuclear medical images from projection data: A method for interpolating at least one oblique line of response ray representing nuclear image projection data through a rectangular volume and a system for using the method. The method consists of steps of interpolating all the direct rays in a rectangular volume, making a projected ray by projecting the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080219527 - Cardiac region detection from motion analysis of small scale reconstruction: A diagnostic imaging system (10) images overlapping cyclically moving and stationary regions of a subject. A low resolution reconstruction processor (50) reconstructs acquired data into a series of consecutive low resolution volumetric image representations. A motion region determining processor (70) determines a boundary of the moving region from the consecutive... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080219524 - Graphical user interface for displaying a radiology image for a patient and an associated laboratory report summary: A user interface embodied on at least one computer readable medium for displaying a healthcare image for a patient and a clinical report for a patient simultaneously is provided. The interface comprises a first display area configured to display a healthcare image for a patient and a second display area... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. Intellectual Property Department

20080219529 - Method of, and apparatus and computer software for, performing image processing: A computer-implemented method of performing image processing for images of biological objects includes: storing definitions of a plurality of descriptors; receiving image data relating to an image of a reference population of biological objects; receiving image data relating to an image of a target population of biological objects; processing the... Agent: Ge Healthcare Bio-sciences Corp. Patent Department

20080219523 - System and method for associating electronic images in the healthcare environment: A computer system for associating a laboratory report for a patient with a radiology image, such as a Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) image, is provided. The system comprises at least one image database for maintaining at least one DICOM healthcare image for a patient and at least... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. Intellectual Property Department

20080219528 - System and method for providing simulated images through cosmetic monitoring: An automated cosmetic applicator uses wide-angle cameras, a high-resolution camera, and a differential lighting process to capture images of a body. Software analyzes these images to identify large and small features of the subject and to use these features as landmarks to create in computer memory a corresponding map that... Agent: Rick B. Yeager, Attorney

20080219526 - System and method for volume rendering three-dimensional ultrasound perfusion images: A three-dimensional visualization technique for easily identifying common morphological landmarks in volume rendered ultrasound perfusion images. The technique includes processing acoustic data received by an ultrasound imaging system (100) according to at least two different signal processing methods. One of these methods is perfusion-specific, while another of these methods is... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080219531 - Method and apparatus for metching first and second image data of an object: A method of matching prone and supine colon image data is disclosed. The method comprises matching prone centerline colon data with supine centerline colon data to identify partially matching sections of the prone and supine centerlines, and identifying a portion of the prone centerline (Trans(PO)) corresponding to a gap in... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080219530 - Method and system for automatic quality control used in computerized analysis of ct angiography: A method and a system for identifying a data quality issue associated with medical diagnostic data is provided. The system includes, but is not limited to, an imaging apparatus configured to generate imaging data and a processor operably coupled to the imaging apparatus to receive the imaging data. The processor... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080219533 - Apparatus and method for correlating first and second 3d images of tubular object: A computer tomography (CT) imaging apparatus (2) for correlating images of the colon in prone and supine positions is disclosed. The apparatus comprises pairs of x-ray sources (6) and detectors (8) for generating 3 D image data representing at least one first location on the colon wall in the prone... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080219534 - Extension of truncated ct images for use with emission tomography in multimodality medical images: An apparatus and method for expanding the FOV of a truncated computed tomography (CT) scan. An iterative calculation is performed on the original CT image to produce an estimate of the image. The calculated estimate of the reconstructed image includes the original image center and a estimate of the truncated... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080219532 - Geometry-dependent filtering in ct method and apparatus: A method is provided for processing an image. The method comprises identifying one or more contours or surfaces in a two-dimensional or three-dimensional image generated from a set of projection data. The set of projection data is differentially processed based on the identification of those data points that largely define... Agent: General Electric Company (pcpi) C/o Fletcher Yoder

20080219535 - Localized and highly constrained image reconstruction method: An image reconstruction method includes reconstructing a composite image of a subject using a conventional reconstruction method. The 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 image frames or improve the SNR... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080219537 - Medical image display apparatus: A medical image display apparatus has a dividing unit and a setting unit. The dividing unit divides a range after changing to an overlapping range that a range after changing overlaps a range before changing, and a non-overlapping range that not includes the overlapping range, when a position of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080219536 - Registration of ct volumes with fluoroscopic images: A method for registering images of multiple modalities includes acquiring first image of a subject using a first modality. A second image of the subject is acquired using a second modality. The first image includes greater structural detail of the subject than the second image and the second image is... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080219538 - Method and apparatus for generating an image using mri and photography: A method for generating an image of a region of interest of a subject includes obtaining a set of magnetic resonance (MR) data for the region of interest. In addition, photographic data for at least one surface of the region of interest is obtained, for example, from a database or... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080219539 - Method for neutralizing image artifacts prior to determination of signal-to-noise ratio in cr/dr radiography systems: A method for neutralizing the non-noise correlated, multiplicative image-artifacts introduced by the X-ray exposure, the detector or the digitizer prior to the determination of the Signal-to-Noise Ratio or the (Normalized) Noise Power Spectrum in CR/DR radiography systems. This method uses statistical techniques and the photon-noise physical model to correct the... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20080219540 - System and method for selective blending of 2d x-ray images and 3d ultrasound images: A system and method for simultaneously imaging a structure using two different imaging modalities and blending the images into a single blended two dimensional image, is provided. The system and method include obtaining two dimensional (2D) x-ray image data (132) using an x-ray system (102) and three dimensional (3D) ultrasound... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080219541 - Universal interface for medical imaging receptors: The present invention provides a plurality of interchangeable modules each of which is adapted to interface with at least one image receptor having predetermined physical interface parameters, including means for receiving image data from the at least one image receptor, processing means for converting the received image data into a... Agent: Bond, Schoeneck & King, Pllc

20080219542 - Systems for characterizing localization in biological cells: Systems for characterizing localization in biological cells.... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.c.

20080219543 - Document imaging and processing system: A document processing system comprising one or more document scanning devices that extract information from document images that uniquely identify a document. The system further comprises a central processor remotely connected to the document scanning devices. The central processor is configured to receive the document images and the extracted information... Agent: Cummins-allison Corp. C/o Nixon Peabody LLP

20080219544 - Factor estimating support device and method of controlling the same, and factor estimating support program: A factor estimating support device supports estimation of factor from a result generated in a production system. In the factor estimating support device, material/environment history data and test history data acquired from the production system, and the causality structure data indicating causality between the plurality of variables are stored in... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p.

20080219545 - Methods for identifying array areas in dies formed on a wafer and methods for setting up such methods: Methods for identifying array areas in dies formed on a wafer and methods for setting up such methods are provided. One method for identifying array areas in dies formed on a wafer includes comparing an array pattern in a template image acquired in one of the array areas to a... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP

20080219547 - Method of analyzing a wafer sample: In a method of analyzing a wafer sample, a first defect of a photoresist pattern on the wafer sample having shot regions exposed with related exposure conditions is detected. A first portion of the pattern includes the shot regions exposed with an exposure condition corresponding to a reference exposure condition... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, Llc

20080219546 - Method, apparatus and system for detecting anomalies in mixed signal devices: An embodiment relates generally to a method of testing a mixed signal device. The method includes monitoring multiple parameters of the mixed signal device and scanning the mixed signal device with an optical source. The method also includes forming multiple windows, where each window is assigned to a respective parameter.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080219548 - Method and apparatus for generating user preference data regarding color characteristic of image and method and apparatus for converting image color preference using the method and apparatus: A method and apparatus for generating user preference data regarding the color characteristic of an image and a method and apparatus for converting image color preference using the method and apparatus is provided. The method for generating user preference data comprises (a) obtaining an image color characteristic value of a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080219549 - Systems and methods for illuminant estimation: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for estimation of an image illuminant.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080219550 - Line drawing separation for individual colors: A line drawing region of an image is separated by determining a line drawing region of image data for each of at least one predetermined color using a color determination threshold for the predetermined color; and separating the line drawing region for each predetermined color from a region other than... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080219551 - Image processing apparatus: The invention discloses an image processing apparatus for adjusting lightness of an input image. The image processing apparatus includes a first processing module, a second processing module, a third processing module, and a fourth processing module. The first processing module is used for generating a lightness histogram with reference to... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, Pllc

20080219552 - 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 comprises a histogram storage for storing a plurality of associated sets of identifying information and a reference histogram of R, G, B signal intensities, which are... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080219553 - Controlling format of a compound image: A source image having a foreground section and a background section is segmented into a first image corresponding to the foreground section and a second image corresponding to the background section. Using size information of the source image, a pixel size of the first image and a pixel size of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080219554 - System and method for adaptively separating foreground from arbitrary background in presentations: System and method for distinguishing between foreground content and background content in an image presentation. An initial background model is provided, and a final background model is constructed from the initial background model using the image presentation. The foreground content and background content in the image presentation are then distinguished... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080219555 - Method and apparatus for automatic object identification: A method and system for processing image data to identify objects in an image. The method and system operate using various resolutions of the image to identify the objects. Information obtained while processing the image at one resolution is employed when processing the image at another resolution.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080219556 - Radical-based hmm modeling for handwritten east asian characters: Exemplary methods, systems, and computer-readable media for developing, training and/or using models for online handwriting recognition of characters are described. An exemplary method for building a trainable radical-based HMM for use in character recognition includes defining radical nodes, where a radical node represents a structural element of an character, and... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080219557 - Process performance evaluation for enterprise data systems: A method using integrated software and algorithms for measuring, modeling, benchmarking and validating any Enterprise Content management system, forms processing data capture system or data entry system, including, at the user's option, ingest of special engineered test materials such as a Digital Test Deck®, applying data quality scoring algorithms, use... Agent: Stephen B. Salai, Esq. Harter, Secrest & Emery LLP

20080219558 - Adaptive scanning for performance enhancement in image detection systems: A method and system for efficiently detecting faces within a digital image. One example method includes identifying a digital image comprised of a plurality of sub-windows and performing a first scan of the digital image using a coarse detection level to eliminate the sub-windows that have a low likelihood of... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080219559 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method and information processing program: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus for carrying out an information registration process to register preference information of a user for an item determined in advance. The information processing apparatus including: image feature quantity extraction means; an object image feature quantity database; an object image preference information database; matching... Agent: David W. Hill Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow,

20080219560 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and image forming apparatus: Based on an area detection signal, a layer separation section outputs a text component of a document, to a feature point calculating section, and generates four layers from a pictorial component of the document to output the generated layers to the feature point calculating section. The feature point calculating section... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080219561 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product: An image processing apparatus includes an image acquiring unit that acquires image data, a characteristic-feature acquiring unit that acquires a characteristic feature of the image data based on pixel value distribution in the image data, a determining unit that determines whether the image data corresponds to captured image data based... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080219562 - System and method for calculating aerial image of a spatial light modulator: A method of calculating an aerial image of a spatial light modulator array includes calculating pair-wise interference between pixels of the spatial light modulator array; calculating effective graytones corresponding to modulation states of the pixels; and calculating the aerial image based on the pair-wise interference and the effective graytones. The... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080219564 - Automatic selection of a visual image or images from a collection of visual images, based on an evaluation of the quality of the visual images: The invention automatically evaluates the quality of the visual images in a collection of visual images and selects one or more visual image(s) from the collection based on the evaluation of the quality of the visual images.... Agent: David R. Graham

20080219563 - Configuration of a plurality of images for multi-dimensional display: Configuration of a plurality of images for multi-dimensional display includes taking a multi-dimensional layout of the images, and analyzing different sets of locations in the layout. The analysis of each set includes determining whether swapping images at the set of locations would increase local similarity in the set.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080219565 - Training device and pattern recognizing device: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a training device for a classifier including weak classifiers, the training device including: a storing unit that stores sample images; a first calculator that acquires a local information for each of the sample images; and a training unit that... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080219566 - System and method for identifying and labeling cluster pixels in a frame of image data for optical navigation: A system and method for identifying and labeling cluster pixels in a frame of image data for optical navigation determines whether a current pixel of the frame of image data is a cluster pixel and uses neighboring pixels of the current pixel to label the current pixel as belonging to... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080219568 - Method, apparatus and computer-readable recording medium for obtaining information: A method of obtaining information included in an image, the image including a plurality of codes, each of the codes comprising a plurality of digits, the method comprises dividing the image into a plurality of pairs of blocks, determining a digit value of each of the block pairs on the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080219567 - Tomosynthesis imaging data compression system and method: A technique and system are provided for compression of tomosynthesis imaging data. In an embodiment of the present technique, tomosynthesis imaging data may be compressed by processing a stack of tomosynthesis images such that differences between some or all of the images or estimates of the images are encoded. In... Agent: General Electric Company (pcpi) C/o Fletcher Yoder

20080219570 - Methods and systems for remotely visualizing images: A method for remotely visualizing an image on a client includes the steps of rendering a 2D image from image data on a server, applying a 2D wavelet transform to the 2D image on the server to generate a plurality of sub-bands, identifying code blocks of the sub-bands that correspond... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080219569 - System and method for decoding and viewing of image files: System and method for memory efficient decode and viewing of compressed image files. A preferred embodiment comprises a decoder coupled to a data input, a resize unit coupled to the decoder, a memory coupled to the resize unit, and a reorder data unit coupled to the memory. The decoder decompresses... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.l.p.

20080219574 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus includes a first processing part selecting motion detection points for detecting a motion between images, and acquiring first motion vectors that are local motion vectors at the motion detection points, a second processing part acquiring first representative motions that are representative motions of translation, scaling and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080219572 - Method and apparatus for motion compensation supporting multicodec: Provided are a method and apparatus for compensating motion of a moving image. The method includes calculating a pixel value of a pixel located between pixels of a reference image corresponding to a current image based on pixel values of the pixels of the reference image by using at least... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080219571 - Moving image coding apparatus, moving image decoding apparatus, control method therefor, computer program, and computer-readable storage medium: In this invention, even if final code data is to be generated by selectively discarding code data for each bitplane, errors due to bitplane rounding down operation can be suppressed from being gradually accumulated in predicted data such as P- and B-pictures, thereby preventing a deterioration in image quality. For... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080219573 - System and method for motion detection and the use thereof in video coding: A system and method for motion detection and the use thereof in video coding are disclosed. In one aspect, a method of defining a region of motion within a video frame in a sequence of video frames comprises loading a current video frame and at least one reference video frame... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080219576 - Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding image: Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding/decoding an image. The method of encoding an image includes predicting pixel values in a first pixel group from among pixel groups of a block of a current image, using pixel values in a second pixel group of the block, and encoding the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080219575 - Method and apparatus for faster-than-real-time lossless compression and decompression of images: The present invention is a method and apparatus for compressing and decompressing data. In particular, the present invention provides for (de-)compressing naturalistic color-image and moving-image data, including high-precision and high-definition formats, with zero information loss, one-sample latency and in faster than real time on common computing platforms, resulting in doubled... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080219577 - Encoding device and image recording device: An encoding device including: a variable-length code table generation section generating a variable-length code table based on first image data acquired by a first imaging section; and an encoded information generation section generating encoded information by encoding second image data acquired by a second imaging section based on the variable-length... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080219578 - Method and apparatus for context adaptive binary arithmetic coding and decoding: A method of and apparatus for context adaptive binary arithmetic coding and decoding of a significance map indicating the position of a coefficient that is not zero in a residual block are provided. According to the method and apparatus, a subdivided context is selected according to whether or not a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080219579 - Methods and apparatus for compressed imaging using modulation in pupil plane: Methods and apparatus are provided for compressed imaging by performing modulation in a pupil plane. Image information is acquired by modulating an incident light field using a waveplate having a pattern that modifies a phase or amplitude of the incident light field, wherein the waveplate is positioned substantially in a... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080219580 - Method for filtering data with arbitrary kernel filters: A computer implemented method filters input data with a kernel filter. A kernel filter is defined, and a set of unique filter coefficients for the kernel filter are determined. A linkage set is constructed for each unique filter coefficient such that the linkage set includes relative links to positions in... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080219582 - Apparatus for filtering an image obtained by block based image decompression: Block-wise compressed image data is decompressed and the decompressed data is subjected to a cascade of low pas filtering operations, in order to remove block edge artefacts and/or ringing artefacts. Selected ones of said low pass filtering operations in the cascade are skipped for selected pixel locations. The decision to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080219583 - Image de-ringing filter: An image de-ringing filter system and method are provided. The method comprises: accepting image pixels; collecting data from a first group of pixels neighboring a test pixel; in response to the first group data, deciding if the test pixel includes image ringing artifacts; collecting data from a second group of... Agent: Gerald W. Maliszewski

20080219581 - Image processing method and apparatus: A method and apparatus for providing image processing. For one embodiment of the invention, an image processing apparatus is arranged to process a first relatively underexposed and sharp image of a scene, and a second relatively well exposed and blurred image, nominally of the same scene, the first and second... Agent: Fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20080219584 - Image enhancer for detecting and identifying objects in turbid media: An image enhancer that includes a laser for emitting an optical signal toward an object in a turbid medium, a modulator for modulating laser intensity of the laser, an RF source for driving the modulator and for providing a reference signal, an optical detector for detecting the modulated optical signal... Agent: Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Office Of Counsel Bldg 435

20080219586 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus for automatically improving the contrast of an input image that is obtained from a digital camera or the like, and obtaining a sharper and clearing image. A contrast improvement unit (11) performs a contrast improvement process on the input image by comparing an object pixel in... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080219585 - Image processing apparatus, image apparatus, image processing method, and computer program: An image processing apparatus includes the following elements. An image input unit receives a long-time exposure image and a short-time exposure image. An image analysis unit detects a brightness-change pixel in which a brightness change has occurred during a photographic period on the basis of analysis of pixel values in... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080219589 - Estimating shared image device operational capabilities or resources: This disclosure describes a number of devices or techniques that can be capable of obtaining an operational capacity for a shared image device; estimating at least one operational resource to perform a transformation of one or more images based at least in part on the obtaining the operational capacity; and... Agent: Searete Llc Clarence T. Tegreene

20080219587 - Method for retargeting images: A method for content-aware image retargeting generates an energy image from a source image according to an energy function. From the energy image, one or more seams are determined according to a minimizing function such that each seam has a minimal energy. Each seam is applied to the source image... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080219588 - Tiled output mode for image sensors: Methods and systems for a tiled output mode for image sensors are disclosed and may comprise receiving tiled image data from an image sensor that generates output in a tiled format, and sequentially processing the received tiled image data. The received tiled image data may comprise a plurality of lines.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080219590 - Method and system for correlating physical model representation to pattern layout: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that reduces computational complexity in simulating an image resulting from an original mask and an optical transmission system. During operation, the system obtains a set transmission cross coefficient (TCC) kernel functions based on the optical transmission system, and obtains a set... Agent: Pvf -- Synopsys, Inc C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080219591 - Recording medium storing image processing program and image processing method: An image processing program causes a computer to execute the following steps. A first step reads data of a first image and data of a second image which are generated by imaging a common object under natural light and have different contents of specular reflection components. A second step generates... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080219592 - Self-similar ordered microstructural arrays of amphiphilic molecules: The invention pertains, at least in part, to a method for determining the structure of an amphiphilic molecule using Self-Similar Microstructure Arrays.... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20080219593 - Image processing apparatus, image registering method, program causing computer to execute image registering method, and recording medium in which program is recorded: An image processing apparatus according to an aspect of the invention includes an LCD touch panel and a central control circuit. The LCD touch panel includes a display unit and an input unit. The central control circuit which is of an image processing unit performs a searching process for searching... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080219594 - Image resolution converting method and display apparatus applied with the same: Disclosed are a method of converting an image resolution according to the machinery characteristics of a display apparatus and a display apparatus using the same. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the image resolution converting method can include determining an image resolution of the input image; adjusting... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, Pllc

20080219595 - Image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a computer readable medium having recorded thereon a processing program for permitting a computer to perform image processing routines: In order to provide an image processing apparatus and an image processing method whereby a high quality output image can be consistently obtained, regardless of the order in which an operator sets the parameters for the performance of filtering, (I) a GUI module (9a) stores, in an input value storage... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080219596 - Method, apparatus, and program for searching for images: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method for searching a set of image data from a database which contains a plurality of sets of image data, at least one of the sets of the image data being associated with text data, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080219597 - Search device, search system, search device control method, search device control program, and computer-readable recording medium: A search device includes a first search section and a second search section. The first search section searches, for second image data sharing a common attribute with first image data being processed by an image processing apparatus, a storage section in which image data processed by the image processing apparatus... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080219598 - Image processing method and apparatus for generating sequential still images by extracting still images from moving image data, and printing apparatus: An image processing apparatus controls to print a plurality of sequential still images, which can be observed as a flip moving image, on the basis of moving image data. The image processing apparatus provides a window which has a start point button, end point button, seek bar, and the like.... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.c. John J Torrente

20080219599 - Universal interface for medical imaging receptors: The present invention provides interchangeable modules each of which is adapted to interface with at least one image receptor having predetermined physical interface parameters, including means for receiving image data from the at least one image receptor, processing means for converting the received image data into a converted, common format,... Agent: Bond, Schoeneck & King, Pllc

20080219600 - Associating attributes to captured input within a digital pen: Methods, systems, and media are disclosed for altering the captured input within a digital pen. One embodiment includes capturing the input by the digital pen, wherein the input comprises dots and measurements. Further, the method includes modifying, within the digital pen, the input based on an attribute selected for the... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson Pllc

20080219601 - Optical scanner and image forming apparatus: An optical scanner includes a housing and an intermediate member that includes a first joining surface and a second joining surface. The first joining surface is attached to the housing and the second joining surface is attached to at least one optical element of any one of a first optical... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080212829 - Beam light scanning device and image forming apparatus using same: A beam light scanning device includes an image data processing unit operable to output image-processed data of neighboring pixels in such a way that the data is divided for distribution into first pixel data and second pixel data. The scanner also includes a synchronizer circuit that receives the first and... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080212828 - Device, program, and method for determining sleepiness: A sleep prevention system captures a facial image of a driver, determines a sleepiness level from the facial image and operates warning devices including neck air conditioner, seatbelt vibrator, and brake controller if necessary based on the sleepiness determination. A sleepiness determination device determines sleepiness from facial expression information such... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080212826 - Image forming apparatus, controlling unit, image forming method and computer readable medium: The image forming apparatus is provided with: an image forming unit that forms an image on a medium; a speed changing unit that changes an image forming speed of the image forming unit; a detecting unit that detects a state quantity indicating a state of the image on the medium... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080212827 - Image processing apparatus, control method therefor, and control program: An image processing apparatus which is capable of extracting embedded information from the back side of a printed document without causing degradation of reading efficiency. A scanner unit reads an image on a first side of a sheet. An encoded information processing section extracts embedded information embedded in the image... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080212824 - Protecting images with an image watermark: A robust means of watermarking a digitized image with a highly random sequence of pixel brightness multipliers is presented. The random sequence is formed from ‘robust-watermarking-parameters’ selected and known only by the marker and/or the marking entity. A watermarking plane is generated which has an element array with one-to-one element... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080212825 - System and method for electronically combining images taken by two or more adjacent image sensors: An apparatus comprising two or more adjacent wide angle cameras, such as CMOS cameras, for imaging a document, and methods for combining corresponding images into one image while correcting radial, scale, rotation, translation and other linear or nonlinear deformations.... Agent: Cssn Inc. Card Scanning Solutions

20080212832 - Discriminator generating apparatus and object detection apparatus: A discriminator generating apparatus includes a learning unit (21) for performing a learning process on an example image of a target object and an example image of a non-target object using a rectangle filter so as to generate a discriminator for discriminating whether an image which is a target for... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080212830 - Efficient calculation of ensquared energy in an imaging system: Systems and methods are provided for determining an ensquared energy associated with an imaging system. In one embodiment of the invention, a focal plane array captures an image of a target comprising a plurality of point sources, each point source being associated with a pixel within the focal plane array.... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20080212833 - Enhancement of aimpoint in simulated training systems: Embodiments of the invention, therefore, provide improved systems and methods for tracking targets in a simulation environment. Merely by way of example, an exemplary embodiment provides a reflected laser target tracking system that tracks a target with a video camera and associated computational logic. In certain embodiments, a closed loop... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080212835 - Object tracking by 3-dimensional modeling: Disclosed a method for tracking 3-dimensional objects, or some of these objects' features, using range imaging for depth-mapping merely a few points on the surface area of each object, mapping them onto a geometrical 3-dimensional model, finding the object's pose, and deducing the spatial positions of the object's features, including... Agent: Haggai Borkow

20080212831 - Remote control of an image capturing unit in a portable electronic device: A method and computer program product are described herein for remotely controlling a first image capturing unit in a portable electronic device as well as to such a portable electronic device. The portable electronic device may include a first and a second image capturing unit. The device detects and tracks... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080212834 - User interface using camera and method thereof: A user interface using a camera and a method thereof, wherein two or more images that were shot in time sequence are preprocessed to form N×M matrices, and then each element of the matrices are compared. The comparison is thus made (N+1)(M+1) times to select a result of the highest... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20080212836 - Visual tracking using depth data: Real-time visual tracking using depth sensing camera technology, results in illumination-invariant tracking performance. Depth sensing (time-of-flight) cameras provide real-time depth and color images of the same scene. Depth windows regulate the tracked area by controlling shutter speed. A potential field is derived from the depth image data to provide edge... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20080212837 - License plate recognition apparatus, license plate recognition method, and computer-readable storage medium: A license plate recognition apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect a plurality of quadrangles of license plate region candidates from input images, a character recognition unit configured to execute character recognition of a character region included in the license plate region candidate detected, and an output unit configured... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080212839 - Method and system for determining a period of interest using multiple inputs: One or more techniques are provided for identifying a period of minimal motion for an organ of interest, such as the heart or lungs. Motion data is acquired for the organ of interest and for one or more proximate organs using sensor-based and/or image-based techniques. The sensor-based techniques may include... Agent: Ge Healthcare C/o Fletcher Yoder, PC

20080212838 - Methods and apparatus for 3d surface imaging using active wave-front sampling: According to one aspect, a method of determining motion of at least one feature present in a plurality of images, the plurality of images captured by a single camera of a scene, each of the plurality of images resulting from light passing through an aperture positioned at a different location... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080212840 - Imaging system, method, and accessory therefor: Systems and methods are provided for imaging and reconstructing topographical features of an object, in which an illumination system illuminates the object and images may be acquired by an image acquisition system, and wherein at least two components including the object, the illumination system, and the image acquisition system are... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20080212841 - Method for stratigraphic interpretation of seismic images: The invention is a method for stratigraphic interpretation of a seismic image for determining a sedimentary history of an underground zone having application to petroleum exploration. The seismic reflectors of the image are digitized by means of an applied shape recognition technique. At least one attribute characteristic of the structure... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080212843 - Pet eye correction: Correction of color defects in a pupil represented in a digital image is disclosed. For example, a location in the pupil within the digital image is identified, and a target color to be corrected is computed based at least upon an analysis of pixels within a first region in which... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080212842 - Two colour vision system: A vision system is described for viewing the end face of product mounted in a machine which in use produces measurements relating to the area of the end face and of at least one constituent part of the product which is visible in the end face. The system comprises means... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080212845 - Automatic form generation: A computer system and method for generating a plurality of unique forms, such as invoices or medical claim forms, that may be populated with data to produce test forms for testing automatic document processing systems. A blank form image is selected, and a layout data file is created that includes... Agent: Law Offices Of Barry N. Young

20080212844 - Method for the early identification of a deviation in the printed images that have been created by a printing press during continuous production: A method is used for the early identification of a deviation in the printed images which have been formed by a printing press during continuous production. A second decision threshold is provided, in addition to a decision regarding good or bad print quality. A current printed image, that has been... Agent: Douglas R. Hanscom Jones, Tullar & Cooper

20080212846 - Biometric authentication using biologic templates: Tools and techniques for biometric authentication obtain a biologic information input such as a fingerprint image, which is to be accepted or rejected as being input from an authentic user. Calculated matching scores show respective degrees of similarity between the biologic information input and several templates. The templates include a... Agent: Ogilvie Law Firm

20080212847 - Method and system for identifying medical sample information source: A system and method of providing a unique association of medical data and identity data is taught wherein the medical data and identity data are both extracted from the same biometric information source. Accordingly according to an embodiment of the invention a retinal image provides for both medical data, for... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20080212848 - Using biometrics on pervasive devices for mobile identification: A method, system, and computer program product for using biometrics on pervasive devices for purposes of mobile identification. A biometric device of the prior art is attached to, or incorporated within, a pervasive device. This augmented pervasive device may then be used for capturing biometric information from an arbitrary third... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20080212850 - Eyelid detection apparatus and programs therefor: An eyelid detection apparatus includes a face image storing means storing a plurality of face images of a subject captured at different timings, a change detecting means detecting changes in each face image caused by blinking after processing the plurality of face images stored by the face image storing means,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080212849 - Method and apparatus for facial image acquisition and recognition: A method and apparatus for facial image acquisition and/or recognition used for person identification. In infrared face image acquisition, near infrared (NIR) images of a face are captured by an imaging unit with the face illuminated by active NIR lights; an NIR optical filter is used in the imaging unit... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080212851 - Method for selecting an emphasis image from an image collection based upon content recognition: A method for selecting an emphasis image from a collection of images based on facial identification comprises the steps of: (a) obtaining a collection of digital images; (b) detecting image patterns indicative of the presence of one or more faces in the digital images, thereby identifying one or more detected... Agent: J. Lanny Tucker Patent Legal Staff

20080212853 - Computer aided diagnosis using dual energy subtraction images: Computer-aided diagnosis techniques may be combined with dual-energy radiography techniques to provide enhanced computer-aided diagnosis of, for example, lung nodules.... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080212854 - Diagnostic imaging support equipment: The present invention comprises: a data storage unit for storing series image data obtained by medical image acquisition equipment and object data containing image acquisition conditions for the series image data and the specific information for specifying other series image data related to the series image data; an information management... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080212855 - Medical image storage device: A medical image observation device relating to the present invention receives enhanced image data having a plurality of medical images, and splits the enhanced image data into a plurality of single image data each containing only one medical image, based on system information of the enhanced image data. According to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080212852 - Registration system and method for tracking lung nodules in medical images: A nodule registration system useful for tracking lung nodules in computed tomography (CT) scans is presented. The system registers a small sphere centered on a detected nodule in one scan with another scan under a rigid transformation assumption using a fast registration scheme. The registration scheme employs very fast simulated... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm, Inc.

20080212856 - Similar case search apparatus and method, and recording medium storing program therefor: More accurate search for similar cases can be carried out in the case where images at different time phases exist. A contrast enhancement information analysis unit obtains time phase information of search target images obtained at different time phases in the same examination from accompanying information of the images, and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080212858 - Method for image registration processes and x-ray angiography system: Registration of preoperatively acquired MRI images of soft parts to intraoperatively acquired X-ray images of soft parts is not possible. The invention shows a way of nevertheless using such preoperatively acquired images for superimposition with 2D projections of the soft parts, taking an indirect route via 3D/3D registration of images... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080212857 - Method for post-processing a three-dimensional image data set of vessel structure: The invention relates to a method for post-processing a 3D image data set of a vessel structure of a human or animal body, in which a 2D DSA (Digital Subtraction Angiography) of the vessel structure is recorded and registered with the 3D image data set. The 2D DSA is compared... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080212859 - Calibration image alignment in a pet-ct system: A phantom (44) is used to calibrate a multi-modality imaging system (10) that includes a nuclear imaging system (12) and a CT scanner (14). The phantom (44) includes marker receiving cavities (96) positioned at fixed locations in the phantom, in which markers (46) are removably placed. The markers (46) include... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080212860 - Fast reconstruction algorithm for cone-beam ct: A fast reconstruction algorithm for cone-beam computed tomography is presented. The algorithm is of the filtered backprojection type and uses nonuniform fast Fourier transforms to switch between functions defined and uniformly sampled on the detector plane and the Fourier transforms of these functions, sampled on a polar grid in the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080212863 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus: An image processing method of performing an imaging process on an original image having a connection figure including a first figure and a second figure connected to the first figure to generate an extraction image of the first figure extracted, includes the steps of: obtaining a first image in which... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080212862 - Method for displaying computed-tomography scans, and a computed-tomography system or computed-tomography system assembly for carrying out this method: At least one embodiment of the invention relates to a method and/or a computed-tomography system and/or a computed-tomography system assembly for displaying tomographic records, with a first computed-tomography display data record displaying structures of a first type and of a second type by way of a complex recording technique, with... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080212861 - Revolutionary series control for medical imaging archive manager: A series control algorithm (48) generates an interactive user interface screen (46) on a display (22) and enables a user to simultaneously control series and image levels operations associated with a selected study by interactively selecting and viewing the medical images retrieved from an archive (16), which includes a plurality... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080212864 - Method and arrangement relating to x-ray imaging: The present invention relates to a method and arrangement for detecting a Region of Interest in an image data set, especially digitalized X-ray image. The method comprises the steps of: extracting phase information from the image data, using said phase information for differentiating between different lines and edges, and skewing... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20080212865 - Image processing method for a microscope system: An embodiment is disclosed for performing the image processing for analyzing the results of a fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) microscopic automated sample analysis to determine specific chromosomal characteristics.... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20080212866 - Quantitative, multispectral image analysis of tissue specimens stained with quantum dots: A biological sample such as a tissue section is stained with one or more quantum dots and possibly other fluorophores (total number of fluorophores N). A camera coupled to a microscope generates an image of the specimen at a plurality of different wavelengths within the emission spectral band of the... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080212867 - Use of endogenous fluorescence to identify invading metastatic breast tumor cells: The present invention broadly provides methods and systems for detecting, identifying, and characterizing conditions, including diseases and other disorders in human or other animal subjects, by analyzing fluorescence from endogenous flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) fluorophors present in biological materials and samples. In particular embodiments, the invention relates to conditions of... Agent: Greenlee Winner And Sullivan P C

20080212868 - Process for segmenting leukocytes: A method for segmenting stained leukocytes in blood smears includes the following steps: the pixels of the digital images taken of the blood smears are allocated to one of at least three pixel classes according to their chromaticity values; the chromaticity values of all pixels of the image are subjected... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080212869 - Pattern correcting method of mask for manufacturing a semiconductor device: A method of correcting a mask pattern for manufacturing a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes extracting a corner portion of a transistor portion. A distance from the corner portion to a line portion is extracted. A distance where the line portion does not overlap a rounding of the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080212870 - Combined beacon and scene navigation system: A controller and navigation system to implement beacon-based navigation and scene-based navigation is described. The navigation system may generate position data for the controller to compensate for a misalignment of the controller relative to the coordinate system of the navigation system. The navigation system may also distinguish between a beacon... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080212871 - Determining a three-dimensional model of a rim of an anatomical structure: Determining a three-dimensional model of a rim of an anatomical structure using two-dimensional images of the rim. The images are taken from different directions and each image can provide a different two-dimensional contour of the rim. Corresponding pairs of points are identified in the images and are used with a... Agent: Don W. Bulson (brai)

20080212872 - Method of setting up multi-dimensional dda variables: An apparatus and a computer program product render a multi-dimensional digital image using raytracing in a multi-dimensional space. A multi-dimensional digital differential analyzer (DDA) is included. Variables of said multi-dimensional digital differential analyzer (DDA) are set up using multiplications only. The digital image is rendered based upon the variables of... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20080212874 - Method for spectral integrated calibration of an image sensor by means of a monochromatic light source: A method of spectral integrated calibration of an image sensor (6) in an image-recording instrument (1). The image sensor (6) is illuminated with a plurality of predetermined light spectra, preferentially by monochromatic light-sources. The method includes the following steps: providing an image-recording instrument (1) having a device, integrated therein, for... Agent: Byip, Ltd.

20080212873 - Vectorisation of colour gradients: A method is described of generating a vector description of a colour gradient in an image. The image comprises an array of pixels, each pixel having one or more associated colour values. The image has at least one gradient area in which at least one of the colour values varies... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080212876 - Color bitmap normalization: With the present invention, in case the number of colors does not exceed a predetermined thresholds, a palette table containing all the colors used in the bitmap is created. The pixel representations in the bitmap are then replaced by a pointer to the corresponding entry in the palette table. This... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080212875 - Compressive overdrive circuit and associated method: A compressive overdrive circuit includes: a compression unit for compressing a current frame to generate compressed data for buffering, where the compressed data comprises pixel values of a plurality of non-encoded pixels and a plurality of index values associated with the non-encoded pixels; and a decompression unit for decompressing according... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080212877 - High speed error detection and correction for character recognition: Systems and methods for high speed error detection and correction are disclosed. An exemplary method may include grouping character images (ci) by suspected character code (cc) to generate a set of CI(cc). The method may also include displaying the set of CI(cc) for manual verification. The method may also include... Agent: Trenner Law Firm, LLC

20080212878 - Multiple image processing and synthesis using background image extraction: A technique of efficiently extracting and synthesizing an object image from a plurality of images captured at different image magnifications. An image processing method of the present invention includes the steps of generating a first background image corresponding to a first image captured at a predetermined image magnification, extracting a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080212879 - Method and apparatus for detecting and processing specific pattern from image: In an image within which a face pattern is detected, when a ratio of a skin color pixel is equal to or smaller than a first threshold value in a first region and a ratio of a skin color pixel is equal to or greater than a second threshold value... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080212880 - Identification and classification of virus particles in textured electron micrographs: The method is for the identification and characterization of structures in electron micrographs. Structures in a first image are selected. The structures have a first shape type deformed in a first direction. The selected structures are transformed to a second shape type different from the first shape type. The transformed... Agent: Fasth Law Offices (rolf Fasth)

20080212881 - Image display apparatus: To reduce a display time of an image for which an observation is less required, and to effectively perform an observation of a series of images, the image display apparatus (1) includes an image processing controller (2a) that acquires an image from a storage unit (5), controls various image processes... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080212882 - Pattern encoded dictionaries: The present invention is related to a method and system providing a pattern-classifier encoded dictionary for use in language processing systems implemented in computer systems. The pattern encoded dictionary according to the present invention may be utilized in Optical Character Recognition systems or (OCR) or Automatic Speech Recognition systems (ASR)... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080212884 - Image coder and image decoder capable of power-saving control in image compression and decompression: An image decoder comprises a code decompression/decoding unit that decodes code data produced through compression and encoding of image data, a power supply state detection unit that detects a current state of a power supply of the image decoder, and a controller that controls the code decompression/decoding unit based on... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080212883 - Processing method of data structure for real-time image processing: The present invention relates to a method of processing a data structure for real-time image processing of huge-sized data, where the data structure of an original image comprising a plurality of pixels is processed, the method comprising the steps of: rearranging the plurality of pixels according to an index indicating... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20080212885 - Scaling down of data: The scaling down of data is provided. At least two blocks of transformed data samples representing at least two blocks of original data samples are received. One of at least two tables of constants is selected wherein each table of constants is capable of reducing the number of transformed data... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080212886 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus and image pickup apparatus using the same: A correlation evaluation unit evaluates a correction between a predetermined region in a targeted picture and a region corresponding to the region in a picture differing from the targeted picture in a temporal direction. A quantization control unit adaptively controls quantization processing for the predetermined region in the targeted picture,... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080212887 - Method for coding pixels or voxels of a digital image and a method for processing digital images: A method for coding pixels or voxels of a digital or digitalized two dimensional or three dimensional image, comprises the steps of: providing a digital image consisting in a two dimensional array of pixels or in a three dimensional array of voxels, each pixel or voxel being defined by at... Agent: Themis Intellectual Property Counsel

20080212888 - Frame region filters: One embodiment is directed to a display controller that comprises: (a) a selecting circuit and (b) a filtering circuit. The selecting circuit selects pixels of a frame of image data that are within at least one region of the frame designated for filtering. The filtering circuit modifies the selected pixels... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080212889 - Method for reducing image noise: A method for reducing image noise includes calculating a mean pixel-correlation between a central pixel and neighboring pixels within a working window in an image. The method also includes calculating a weighted horizontal similarity between the central pixel and horizontal neighboring pixels and a weighted vertical similarity between the central... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080212890 - Systems and methods for noise estimation in a single frame of video data: The present invention is directed, in at least one embodiment, to a method of estimating noise and, subsequently, filtering noise in a single frame of video data. The method comprises the steps of obtaining a single frame of video data within a memory and executing a plurality of instructions within... Agent: Patentmetrix

20080212891 - One dimensional feature enhancement: A method and device of feature enhancement for digital image processing. A predefined feature in one dimension of the image is searched to obtain several peaks, and each peak is either a local maximum or local minimum. Each peak is enhanced by adding an offset to increase the local maximum... Agent: Randy W. Tung Tung & Associates

20080212893 - Displaying elevation information from a digital map: m

20080212892 - Image processing device, computer program product , and image processing method: An image processing device includes: a saturated area extraction unit that extracts a saturated area corresponding to a saturated pixel from an image expressed by a color component signal of a predetermined color system corresponding to a pixel; a color information acquisition unit that acquires color information from a color... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080212894 - Method and apparatus for simulation of facial skin aging and de-aging: A novel method and system is disclosed to realistically simulate the progress or worsening of facial skin features that contribute to the overall look and condition of the skin. The method utilizes two close-up photographs of the face, one is captured with a digital camera in standard white light, and... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, LLC

20080212895 - Image data processing techniques for highly undersampled images: An exemplary method for processing undersampled image data includes: aligning an undersampled frame comprising image data to a reference frame; accumulating pixel values for pixel locations in the aligned undersampled frame; repeating the aligning and the accumulating for a plurality of undersampled frames; assigning the pixel values accumulated for the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080212896 - Image transformation method and apparatus, image recognition apparatus, robot control apparatus and image projection apparatus: An image transformation method to be implemented by a computer carries out an image transformation process, by transforming a picked up image that is picked up by a pickup unit having an optical axis tilted by an arbitrary angle with respect to a reference plane into an image substantially equivalent... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080212897 - Image processing method: According to an essential characteristic of the method, if the ratio between the width and height of the rectangular image part, called first ratio, is not equal to the reduced ratio, the width or the height of the rectangular image part is modified before the extraction step according to values... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080212898 - Image forming apparatus: An image file may be stored in an image forming apparatus in both a device-specific and a general-purpose format. To appropriately select whether to store an image file in either or both formats, according to the image file being stored, an image forming apparatus that is connected to an external... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080212899 - System and method for search portions of objects in images and features thereof: Embodiments enable searching of portions of objects in images, including programmatically analyzing each image in a collection in order to determine image data that, for individual images in the collection, represents one or more visual characteristics of a portion of an object shown in that image. A user is enabled... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080212900 - Imaging apparatus, image editing method and program: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device; a first storage section storing image data including an image obtained by the imaging device; a display section displaying the image data stored in the first storage section; an image-effect specification section specifying a type of image effect to be produced on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080212901 - System and method for correcting low confidence characters from an ocr engine with an html web form: A character based system and method for correcting low confidence characters from an OCR system facilitates operator review, editing and correction of character and field level data generated by an OCR system without the need for an application that is installed at the operator workstation. The system creates a data... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP