Image analysis inventions 11/08

20080292136 - Data processing system and method: Embodiments of the invention provide a method of authenticating a physical document, comprising obtaining an electronic representation of at least part of the physical document; extracting at least one error detection code from the electronic representation; and using the at least one error detection code to detect errors in image... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080292129 - Embedding information in document blank space: A method for embedding information in a document includes encoding information as a plurality of data carrying dot patterns. For each of a plurality of blocks of a document page to be rendered, the method includes determining whether the block is blank. Each of the plurality of data carrying dot... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080292131 - Image capture environment calibration method and information processing apparatus: In a method of calibrating an image capture environment based on a captured image obtained by capturing an image of a physical space by an image capturing unit that captures the image of the physical space, an image of the physical space is captured using the image capturing unit, an... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080292138 - Image processing device and storage medium storing image processing program: A storage unit stores a plurality of pieces of image information and a plurality of pieces of position information corresponding to respective ones of the plurality of images individually. The storage unit correlates the plurality of pieces of image information with respective ones of the plurality of pieces of position... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080292133 - Image watermarking: A method (100) of watermarking an image (101) is disclosed. The method (100) segments the image (101) into regions. Each region is then characterised based upon one or more statistical features of the respective regions. For each region, a watermarking method and a number of bits to be embedded into... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080292135 - Method and device for reconstructing images: A method for reconstruction of an image function (r), which represents an object function (f) of an object (1) imaged with periodically structured illumination, from optical section images (gc, gs), which are formed following convolution operations on the object function (f) with a modified illumination point spread function (hI), comprises... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20080292132 - Method and system for inserting software processing in a hardware image sensor pipeline: Image data may be processed via one or more stages by a hardware image sensor pipeline (ISP) wherein one or more software processing steps may be inserted at any point within the hardware ISP. Output from any stage of the hardware ISP may be stored in memory. Stored hardware ISP... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080292137 - Methods and systems for interacting with physical objects: A user detects data from a physical object (e.g., a poster) using a handheld appliance. The appliance then contacts a remote computer based on the data obtained from the object, and can perform any of a variety of functions, such as purchasing tickets to a concert or movie, or downloading... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080292130 - Preserving scanner signature using mrc technology: Systems and methods are described that facilitate encrypting document status information into a scanned image of a document using a mixed raster content document parsing protocol, in accordance with various features described herein. A text string comprising status information can be imaged into a mask layer that overlays the scanned... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080292139 - System and method for applying watermarks: A system and method for selectively inserting a digital watermark into a visual rendering by an image processing device. The image processing device receives an image processing request including image data of an associated document. The request is then analyzed to determine if a watermark is to be inserted into... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080292134 - Wavelet domain watermarks: A wavelet domain watermark encoder and decoder embed and detect auxiliary signals in a media signal, such as a still image, video or audio signal. The watermark encoders and decoders employ techniques that take advantage of processing plural levels of resolution of the signal to embed and detect auxiliary information... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080292140 - Tracking people and objects using multiple live and recorded surveillance camera video feeds: Tracking a target across a region is disclosed. A graphical user interface is provided that displays, in a first region, video from a field of view of a main video device, and, in a plurality of second regions, video from a field of view of each of a plurality of... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20080292141 - Method and system for triggering a device with a range finder based on aiming pattern: Described is a method and system for triggering a device with a range finder based on aiming pattern. The system includes a processing device acquiring and processing data; an imager providing an image of an object; a range finder determining a distance from the imager to the object; a timer... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080292142 - Method and apparatus to segment motion area in real-time to detect motion in surveillance camera system: A method and apparatus to segment a motion area in real-time to detect motion in a surveillance camera system are provided. The method includes updating a background image by using a previous input image from among an input image sequence, generating a difference image between a current image of the... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080292143 - Identity verification system with interoperable and interchangeable input devices: The present invention is an interoperable biometrics system that utilizes one or more video communication control devices 32 and/or one or more digital data conversion devices 33 to allow multiple analogue 20 and/or digital 21 output biometric capture devices to communicate with a processing computer 25. The system further incorporates... Agent: Elizabeth R. Hall

20080292144 - Iris identification system and method using mobile device with stereo camera: The present invention relates to a face recognition and/or iris recognition system and method using a mobile device equipped with a stereo camera, which acquire a stereo image of a user's face using at least two cameras or a method corresponding thereto and, even when the size of the stereo... Agent: Park Law Firm

20080292147 - Facial recognition and the open mouth problem: A method of cropping a representation of a face for electronic processing, said method comprising: selecting a first geodesic contour about an invariant reference point on said face, setting a region within said first geodesic contour as a first mask, selecting a second geodesic contour about a boundary of said... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc

20080292148 - Image editing apparatus, method for controlling image editing apparatus, and recording medium storing image editing program: An image editing apparatus includes an image input unit including an image pickup circuit which takes a picture of a subject to obtain an image of a subject. A face detection circuit detects an image of a face of the subject from the image obtained from the image input unit.... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080292145 - Image processing device, image processing method, image processing program product, and imaging device: An image processing device includes: a face detection unit that detects a face region of a person from an image formed by a plurality of pixels; and a scene judgment unit that judges a scene of the image according to a pixel value of the face region of the person... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080292146 - Security system control for monitoring vehicular compartments: Security system and method for monitoring vehicular compartments includes at least one optical image receiving unit arranged to receive optical images of a compartment of the vehicle, e.g., from at least a portion of the face of a person located at a driver's station in a passenger compartment of the... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20080292157 - Automatic adaptive soft tissue thresholding for two-pass ct cone-beam artifact reduction: Since the soft tissue levels in an image usually comprise a variety of values between air and bone boundaries, it may not be obvious a priori what threshold value applies. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an examination apparatus is provided which is adapted for determining the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080292151 - Capturing data for individual physiological monitoring: A method for capturing images of an individual to determine wellness for such individual, including establishing baseline physiological data for the individual, and baseline capture condition data for the individual; detecting and identifying the presence of the individual in the image capture environment; providing semantic data associated with the individual;... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080292155 - Diagnostic imaging support system and diagnostic imaging support program: A diagnostic imaging support system includes input means (15) for setting a characteristic quantity for performing a predetermined threshold processing for a bone region in an image of a subject; control means (10) for reading out the image from storage means (11) which stores the image of the subject, extracting... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080292153 - Generating an anatomical model using a rule-based segmentation and classification process: A system for computer-aided detection uses a computer-implemented network structure to analyze patterns present in digital image slices of a human body and to generate a three-dimensional anatomical model of a patient. The anatomical model is generated by detecting easily identifiable organs first and then using those organs as context... Agent: Imperium Patent Works

20080292156 - Hospital system: A hospital system for generating image data is provided. The Hospital System includes a module for determining raw image data, with a server that is spatially separated from the module and can calculate image data from the raw image data, and a network for transmitting the raw image data from... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080292150 - Image display apparatus: An image display apparatus 4 includes a control unit 15 having an image display controller 15a and an image processing controller 15b to enable an easy recognition of a condition and the like of an imaging target with respect to respective image areas at each imaging point. The image display... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080292149 - Image processing system, particularly for images of implants: The invention relates to an image processing system that is adapted to generate a three-dimensional image (32) from projections (P, 31) of a body volume which may for example be generated by a rotational X-ray system (10). The image processing system is further adapted to display on a monitor (30)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080292161 - Implantable orthopedic device component selection instrument and methods: The present invention provides tools and methods designed to aid in the placement of artificial facet joints at virtually all spinal levels. One aspect of the present invention is a measurement tool for installing an artificial cephalad facet joint including a fixation measurement element and a support arm element. This... Agent: Shay Glenn LLP

20080292154 - Medical image processing method: A medical image processing method for image processing of a medical image picking up an image of a living mucous comprises a boundary information detecting step for detecting boundary information corresponding to a boundary portion of a living mucous from the medical image and a mucous feature detecting step for... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080292158 - Method and device for planning a treatment: A device for planning an irradiation is provided. The device includes an evaluation module with an input for receiving input data, a memory and an output for outputting determined output data. The evaluation module is designed for using the input data that includes the type and number of the imaging... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080292160 - Method for estimating the physiological parameters defining the edema induced upon infusion of fluid from an intraparenchymally placed catheter: A method for estimating the physiological parameters defining the edema induced upon infusion of fluid from an intraparenchymally placed catheter including; a) acquisition of patient-specific medical data; b) estimation of pertinent tissue microstructure based on the patient-specific medical data and/or generalized information derived or drawn from one or more of... Agent: Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080292152 - Radiology case distribution and sorting systems and methods: The invention provides a system and method for processing an image including means for receiving image information, means for queuing the image information, and means for receiving profile information for a plurality of image analysts. The system can further include means for selecting an image analyst from the plurality of... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080292159 - Second opinion network: Systems and methods are provided to facilitate consultations between a referral source (e.g., labs, pathologists and patients) and a consultant (e.g., pathologist, radiologist, or other digital image analyst). Links between the various referral sources and consultants are established through a scanning center via a data communication network such as the... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080292165 - Generalized 5d dynamic and spectral factor analysis: A method for processing image data includes representing the image data as a model having a spatial dimension, a time dimension, and an energy dimension; providing an objective function that is a function of energy factors, time factors, and image coefficients included in the model; and determining values of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080292168 - Image data acquisition system of an x-ray, ct or mri machine with an integrated data compression module for data reduction of acquired image data: A data acquisition and data reduction system (DERS) are disclosed for acquiring and compressing image data generated and loaded by an image data detection unit (DE) of an imaging system (BGS) in which the data acquisition and data reduction system (DERS) is integrated. The imaging system (BGS) can, for example,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080292166 - Method and apparatus for displaying phase change fused image: To allow the correspondence between a region having different susceptibility and a tissue structure to be easily visible, a phase change weighted image is produced by use of a phase of each pixel of phase change image data and a color bar, and an absolute value image is produced by... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080292167 - Method and system for constrained reconstruction applied to magnetic resonance temperature mapping: A method, system, and computer-readable medium are provided which perform reconstruction of an image from undersampled k-space data. Imaging data of an image area is received. The imaging data is thermal magnetic resonance imaging data in k-space generated at less than the Nyquist rate. A cost function is minimized based... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080292163 - Method and system for constrained reconstruction of imaging data using data reordering: A method, system, and computer-readable medium are provided which perform reconstruction of an image from undersampled, multi-image k-space data. A first undersampled image dataset and a second undersampled image dataset defined in a first dimension are received. The first undersampled image dataset and the second undersampled image dataset define a... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080292162 - Method and system for generating a collage to summarize a medical dataset: Certain aspects of a method and system for generating a collage of images or videos to summarize a medical dataset are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include segmenting medical images based on a type of tissue. A portion of each of the segmented medical images may be selected based... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080292171 - Method and x-ray ct system for generating computed tomography displays: A method is disclosed for generating computed tomography displays, in which with the aid of at least one X-ray source, an examination object is scanned in a rotationally circulating fashion with a measured dose rate dependent on the circulation angle, projection data are collected from a multiplicity of viewing angles,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080292172 - Method for automatically selecting a display mode for an image data record of an organ to be examined: According to an embodiment of the invention, a method for automatically selecting a display mode for an image data record is provided. In an embodiment of the process, spatially resolved values of a parameter are determined in a first image data record of the organ to be examined, with the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080292170 - Method for scattered radiation correction in an x-ray computed tomography system, and method for generating a tomographic display corrected for scattered radiation, and/or an x-ray computed tomography system: A method is disclosed for scattered radiation correction in an X-ray computed tomography system having at least two tube-detector systems. It is provided, according to at least one embodiment, to make use of a data record that includes data projections required for the reconstruction and a prescribed number of first... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080292169 - Method for segmenting objects in images: A method for identifying an attribute of an object represented in an image comprising data defining a predetermined spatial granulation for resolving the object, where the object is in contact with another object. In an embodiment, the method comprises identifying data whose values indicate they correspond to locations completely within... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080292173 - Methods and apparatus for artifact reduction: A method for facilitating a reduction in image artifacts is provided. The method includes receiving data regarding a scan of an object, reconstructing a plurality of images using the received data to form a three-dimensional image space, determining an orientation for a maximum intensity pixel operation, locating the maximum intensity... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080292164 - System and method for coregistration and analysis of non-concurrent diffuse optical and magnetic resonance breast images: A method for joint analysis of non-concurrent magnetic resonance (MR) and diffuse optical tomography (DOT) images of the breast includes providing a digitized MR breast image volume comprising a plurality of intensities corresponding to a 3-dimensional (3D) grid of voxels, providing a digitized DOT breast dataset comprising a plurality of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080292174 - Image processing device and method: The present invention provides image processing device and method for effectively generating a difference image from plural images. The plural images generated by an image generation unit are first associated with radiography date and time information and stored in a storage unit, at least one reference image and one comparison... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080292175 - Information processing methodology: An information processing methodology gives rise to an application program interface which includes an automated digitizing unit, such as a scanner, which inputs information from a diversity of hard copy documents and stores information from the hard copy documents into a memory as stored document information. Portions of the stored... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080292176 - Pattern inspection method and pattern inspection apparatus: In a pattern inspection apparatus for comparing images of areas corresponding to patterns each formed so as to be the same pattern and determining a non-coincident portion of the image as a defect, an image comparison processing unit configured with a processing system mounting a plurality of CPUs operating in... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080292177 - System and method for providing backside alignment in a lithographic projection system: A system and method of providing alignment of the top surface of the substrate to alignment marks on the back side of the substrate on a lithographic projection system. A back-side optical alignment system is integrated under a movable substrate stage of the projection system. Alignment marks on the mask,... Agent: Jennifer H. Hamilton The Eclipse Group LLP

20080292178 - Apparatus and methods for container inspection: Apparatus, systems, and methods to recognize features on bottom surfaces of containers on a container production line, detect defects in the containers, and correlate the defects to specific production equipment of the container production line, based in part on the recognized features. The system includes imaging apparatus, programmable processing devices,... Agent: Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP

20080292180 - Position and orientation measurement apparatus and control method thereof: A position and orientation measurement apparatus for measuring the position and orientation of an image capturing apparatus, which captures an image of a measurement object, relative to the measurement object, extracts configuration planes of the measurement object based on three-dimensional model data of the measurement object, and extracts measurement line... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080292179 - System and method for evaluating the needs of a person and manufacturing a custom orthotic device: A system for providing a custom orthotic can include a scanner, and imager for providing a digital three-dimensional image based on the scan, a gait and pressure measuring device and a data inputting system for inputting information regarding the customer. An analysis device can be provided to make modifications to... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20080292181 - Information processing method, information processing apparatus, and storage medium storing a program: An information processing method includes: for image data of each of a plurality of images, obtaining scene information concerning the image data from supplemental data that is appended to the image data, classifying a scene of an image represented by the image data, based on the image data, comparing the... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080292182 - Noise reduced color image using panchromatic image: A method for producing a noise-reduced digital color image, includes providing an image having panchromatic pixels and color pixels corresponding to at least two color photoresponses; providing from the image a panchromatic image and at least one color image; and using the panchromatic image and the color image to produce... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080292183 - Detecting red eye filter and apparatus using meta-data: A method of filtering a red-eye phenomenon from an acquired digital image including a multiplicity of pixels indicative of color, the pixels forming various shapes of the image, includes analyzing meta-data information, determining one or more regions within the digital image suspected as including red eye artifact, and determining, based... Agent: Fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20080292184 - Apparatus and method for automatically adjusting white balance: Provided is an apparatus for automatically adjusting white balance, the apparatus including an Image Signal Processing (ISP) unit that processes image data; a first histogram setting unit that is connected to the ISP unit, stores the number of pixels corresponding to each Cb and Cr value of the image data... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080292185 - Video signal processing method, program for the video signal processing method, recording medium recording the program for the video signal processing method, and video signal processing apparatus: Provided is a video signal processing method of measuring a noise level of an input video signal, the method including the steps of: setting a plurality of areas in the input video signal and extracting a characteristic amount which is an index of the noise level of the input video... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080292186 - Word recognition method and word recognition program: A word recognition method of performing recognition processing with respect to each word candidate obtained by reading characters in character information written in a reading material is provided. This word recognition method includes a matching processing step of collating each word candidate with a plurality of words in a word... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080292187 - Apparatus and software for geometric coarsening and segmenting of still images: An apparatus and software for processing an image reduces the number of pixels constituting the image by sequentially eliminating alternate rows and columns of pixels, the information represented by each pixel being eliminated (a “source” pixel) being redistributed into adjacent “destination” pixel locations. The redistribution is made in proportion to... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski Market Square

20080292188 - Method of geometric coarsening and segmenting of still images: A method of processing an image reduces the number of pixels constituting the image by sequentially eliminating alternate rows and columns of pixels, the information represented by each pixel being eliminated (a “source” pixel) being redistributed into adjacent “destination” pixel locations. The redistribution is made in proportion to the similarity... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski Market Square

20080292189 - Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image processing system, and image processing method: An image processing apparatus includes: a data obtaining section for obtaining input image data; a memory in which reference image data or features of a reference image is stored; and a similarity determination process section for performing a determination process in which it is determined whether the input image data... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080292190 - Classifying digital ink into a writing or a drawing: A method for classifying digital ink receives digital ink comprising ink strokes. A plurality of the ink strokes can be classified. A temporal line grouping is performed on a plurality of the classified ink strokes that are grouped to form a temporal line group. The temporal line group is segmented... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080292191 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: A disclosed information processing apparatus includes an image data obtaining unit configured to obtain image data generated by scanning a confirmation/correction form on a recording medium; a workflow definition obtaining unit configured to obtain a workflow definition of a workflow that includes a workflow step corresponding to the recording medium;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080292192 - Human detection device and method and program of the same: There is provided a human detection device capable of determining whether a human exists in an infrared image with information only contained in the infrared image at high speed with high accuracy regardless of an ambient environment temperature. The human detection device includes: a boundary information extracting unit which receives... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080292193 - Image processing method and apparatus: An image processing technique includes acquiring a main image of a scene and determining one or more facial regions in the main image. The facial regions are analysed to determine if any of the facial regions includes a defect. A sequence of relatively low resolution images nominally of the same... Agent: Fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20080292194 - Method and system for automatic detection and segmentation of tumors and associated edema (swelling) in magnetic resonance (mri) images: A method and system for segmenting an object represented in one or more input images, each of the one or more input images comprising a plurality of pixels. The method comprising: aligning the one or more input images with one or more corresponding template images each comprising a plurality of... Agent: Venable LLP

20080292195 - Data processing system and method: A method of organizing data, comprising receiving an image from an input device; recognising content in the image; and selecting, based on the content, a destination for at least one of the image and the content.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080292196 - Photo classification using optical parameters of camera from exif metadata: A method of classifying and organizing digital images utilizing optical metadata (captured using multiple sensors on the camera) may define semantically coherent image classes or annotations. The method defines optical parameters based on the physics of vision and operation of a camera to cluster related images for future search and... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20080292197 - Image encoding apparatus and control method thereof: According to this invention, encoded data are generated by sorting pixel data in a block according to different scan start positions and different scan routes upon generating encoded data for respective blocks, and encoded data with a smallest data amount of these encoded data is outputted. To this end, a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080292198 - Method for reducing the size of a digital image or video file: The invention concerns a method comprising a coding step consisting in replacing the original values of the file with coding values of reduced brightness, a common coding value being attributed to a group of original values, a step of restitution consisting in setting correspondence values between the coding value and... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080292199 - Charged particle beam apparatus: In step 701, the scanning method is determined. In step 702, according to the scanning method determined in step 701, the frequency of an artifact appearing on an image can be determined based on the relation depicted with reference to FIG. 5. In step 703, a frequency domain for removing... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080292200 - Visual enhancement for reduction of visual noise in a text field: The present invention provides for visual enhancement of text. A text area is selected. A plurality of non-identical images of the text area are captured. Background information is removed from these images. The contrast characteristics of text area of the plurality of images are increased. The contrasted images are combined... Agent: Ibm Corporation (cs) C/o Carr LLP

20080292201 - Pre-processing method and system for data reduction of video sequences and bit rate reduction of compressed video sequences using spatial filtering: Methods for pre-processing video sequences prior to compression to provide data reduction of the video sequence. Also, after compression of the pre-processed video sequence, the bit rate of the pre-processed and compressed video sequence will be lower than the bit rate of the video sequence after compression but without pre-processing.... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20080292202 - Dynamic range compensation-dependent noise reduction: Methods and corresponding apparatus are presented that perform digital range compensation (DRC) and noise reduction (NR) together on a pixel-by-pixel basis, adjusting the noise reduction parameters in response to the digital range compensation decisions. By such a modification of image noise reduction parameters based on the dynamic range compensation gain... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

20080292203 - Image processing apparatus and control method thereof: An image processing apparatus which performs dithering to an input image, includes: an input value storage unit which stores an input value to generate a mask seed value corresponding to a single pixel in a unit area among a plurality of pixels displaying an image, wherein the unit area includes... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080292204 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and computer-readable medium: An image processing apparatus includes a first edge extracting unit and a binarizing unit. The first edge extracting unit extracts an edge of chromatic components of a color image other than brightness components of the color image. The binarizing unit performs an enhancement process and a binarization process for pixels... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080292205 - Image output apparatus, image output method and image output program product: An image output apparatus is provided with an image conversion unit for converting image data into an output image of intermediate gradation using a line screen for forming pixel points in stripes, an element angle storing unit for storing the angle information of line segments of the image data, a... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080292206 - Highlight recovery using digital lighting module: The described methods and corresponding apparatus are for use in highlight recovery in a set of image data. The image data is inverted, treated by a digital lighting process, the subsequently inverted again. This allows the set of data image to be treated for dynamic range compression of detail in... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

20080292207 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus is provided, including a brightness change level classifying unit, a dynamic weight calculating unit, and a brightness correcting unit. The brightness change level classifying unit compares a brightness change average value representing brightness changes from a pixel of interest to neighboring pixels around the pixel of... Agent: Jones Day

20080292209 - Dynamic range compensation-dependent noise reduction: Methods and corresponding apparatus are presented that perform digital range compensation (DRC) and noise reduction (NR) together, adjusting the noise reduction parameters in response to the digital range compensation decisions. By such a modification of image noise reduction parameters based on the dynamic range compensation gain or, more generally, other... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

20080292208 - Image processing method, image processing device and recording medium on which image processing program is recorded: A method employing a statistic means to test whether or not luminance signals around a point of interest are distributed according to the same probability distribution with respect to luminance signals of respective pixels constituting the image; determining a range where the same probability distribution can be regarded as being... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080292210 - Method and device for converting and displaying web image data of different formats on display of electronic device: Disclosed are a method and a device for converting and displaying web image data of different formats on a display of an electronic device. An image format conversion module is linked to an internet and receives and converts web image data of different formats transmitted from a remote internet server... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080292212 - Image display apparatus, image display method, and computer program: There is provided an image display apparatus for displaying existing image data formed of a still image and a moving image, including a data group specifier 122 configured to specify an image data group that is a group of pieces of the image data in response to a request from... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080292211 - Vehicle exterior examination and search system: A low-cost, portable and highly-mobile “speed bump” which incorporates a plurality of electronic cameras, illumination devices, and range finders, coupled with one or more similar imaging systems configured to cooperate with the speed bump device to provide imaging of the undercarriage, sides or top of a vehicle. The system can... Agent: Robert H Frantz

20080292213 - Annotations in panoramic images, and applications thereof: A technique for efficient processing of annotations in images such as panoramic images is herein disclosed. In an embodiment, a first user annotation is received for a feature in a first panorama, and a second user annotation for the same feature is received in a second panorama. The coordinates for... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20080292214 - Method and computer program product for registering biomedical images with reduced imaging artifacts caused by object movement: A method of registering biomedical images to reduce imaging artefacts caused by object movement is disclosed, wherein a certain number of features or landmarks is automatically defined and tracked in a first and second image to be registered to determine the optical flow vector between the first and second image.... Agent: Themis Intellectual Property Counsel

20080292216 - Method and system for processing images using variable size tiles: Methods and systems for processing images using variable size tiles are disclosed and may include receiving raw image data for processing and dividing the received raw image data into a plurality of variable size tiles for processing. The variable size tiles may be sequentially processed. Each of the variable size... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080292215 - Selective text flipping and image mirroring system and method: Selectively flipping text and mirroring graphical elements of image without disrupting the readability of the overall image can be desirable. A multifunction device can manipulate an image by separating the image into a first object and a second object, processing the first object so as to mirror the first object... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20080292217 - Quantitative image reconstruction method and system: A technique is provided for generating quantitative projection images from projection images. The pixels of the quantitative projection images correspond to quantitative composition estimates of two or more materials. The quantitative projection images are reconstructed to generate a quantitative volume in which each voxel value corresponds quantitatively to the two... Agent: General Electric Company (pcpi) C/o Fletcher Yoder

20080292218 - Software for creating engraved images: A method of producing an engraved image on a computer screen includes loading an image to be engraved and converting the image into a high contrast image using at least two colors. The first lighter color is used for the lighter portions of the high contrast image and a darker... Agent: Morriss Obryant Compagni, P.C.

20080292219 - Method and system for an image sensor pipeline on a mobile imaging device: In an embodiment of the invention, images are processed within a mobile device. Image data may be divided into variable size tiles and processed in steps or stages on a per tile basis within a hardware image sensor pipeline. The processing steps or stages may comprise one or more distortion... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080285792 - Form data extraction without customization: A form processing method for extracting data items from a form previously digitized in the form of a digital image, the method comprising prompting a user to indicate a location of one or more physical fields each physical field relating to a data item of specific type; receiving one or... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080285790 - Generalized lossless data hiding using multiple predictors: A system and methodology for encoding or decoding hidden data, such as a digital watermark, in visual raster media is provided. The lossless data hiding methodology uses multiple predictors to choose an embedding location to be either a low variance region or a high variance region. Bijective mirror mapping is... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080285791 - Image processing apparatus and control method for same: A person is detected as a subject from an image obtained by image capture, and information, for example, the number of such subjects, is obtained as subject-related information. Then, the greater the number of subjects, the more a setting of a condition that the subjects should satisfy is relaxed. As... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080285789 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: An information processing apparatus includes an additional information conversion means for converting a text of related information into additional information and outputting this additional information, and for outputting an amount of additional information for each point of interest, an embedding region allocating means for outputting region management information including the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080285795 - Method and apparatus for acquiring digital microscope images: A method and apparatus for acquiring digital microscope images is disclosed, in which a plurality of magnified images of a specimen are captured for tiling together to provide an overall composite image of the specimen. In accordance with the described method, the specimen is moved relative to an imaging system... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20080285796 - Method to ensure temporal synchronization and reduce complexity in the detection of temporal watermarks: A method and/or apparatus for embedding and detecting a watermark among a plurality of frames of data is disclosed, where the watermark is correlated with a plurality of noise blocks, and the noise blocks are summed over a plurality of respective video frames. Each noise block is preferably subjected to... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080285793 - Methods and apparatus for lossless data hiding: Methods and apparatus are provided for subjecting an original, pixel domain image to an Integer Wavelet Transform (IWT) to obtain a matrix of wavelet coefficients; selecting at least one bit plane between a least significant bit plane and a most significant bit plane of the matrix of wavelet coefficients; compressing... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080285794 - Watermark signal generating apparatus, watermark signal generating method, computer-executable program for performing the same method and computer-readable storage medium in which the same program is stored, digital watermark embedding apparatus, as well: An apparatus 10 for generating wartermark signals to be embedded as a digital watermark in real-time contents includes: input means 12 for inputting the real-time contents; an input buffer 14 for storing the real-time contents; generation means for generating wartermark signals corresponding to predicted intensities of the real-time contents from... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080285799 - Apparatus and method for detecting obstacle through stereovision: According to an apparatus and method for detecting an obstacle through stereovision, an image capturing module comprises a plurality of cameras and is used for capturing a plurality of images; an image processing module edge-detecting the image to generate a plurality of edge objects and object information corresponding to each... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC

20080285800 - Information processing apparatus and method, and program: An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain feature quantities of an image; and a detector configured to detect a gazing point at which a user gazes within the image, wherein the gazing point detected by the detector among the feature quantities obtained by the obtaining unit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080285797 - Method and system for background estimation in localization and tracking of objects in a smart video camera: Aspects of a method and system for change detection in localization and tracking of objects in a smart video camera are provided. A programmable surveillance video camera comprises processors for detecting objects in a video signal based on an object mask. The processors may generate a textual representation of the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080285798 - Obstacle detection apparatus and a method therefor: An apparatus of detecting an object on a road surface includes a stereo set of video cameras mounted on a vehicle to produce right and left images, a storage to store the right and left images, a parameter computation unit to compute a parameter representing road planarity constraint based on... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080285802 - Tailgating and reverse entry detection, alarm, recording and prevention using machine vision: Unauthorized entry into controlled access areas using tailgating or reverse entry methods is detected using machine vision methods. Camera images of the controlled area are processed to identify and track objects in the controlled area. In a preferred embodiment, this processing includes 3D surface analysis to distinguish and classify objects... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080285801 - Visual tracking eye glasses in visual head and eye tracking systems: The invention relates to the application area of camera-based head and eye tracking systems. The performance of such systems typically suffers when eye glasses are worn, as the frames of the glasses interfere with the tracking of the facial features utilized by the system. This invention describes how the appearance... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20080285804 - Apparatus and method for recognizing the state of origin of a vehicle license plate: A system analyzes various design characteristics of a vehicle license plate, including character size, placement and color, to identify the state of issuance of the plate. In some embodiments, the system uses spectral properties of light reflected from a vehicle license plate to determine spectral frequency bands having the best... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.C.

20080285803 - Modulated light trigger for license plate recognition cameras: A camera system comprises a CCD imaging device, an infrared illumination source, and a power modulator for amplitude modulating the infrared illumination, e.g., with a 7-kHz tone. A beam splitter is set in front of the CCD imaging device, and a photo-diode array is attached to the beam splitter to... Agent: Law Offices Of Thomas E. Schatzel, P.C. Fairmont Plaza

20080285807 - Apparatus for recognizing three-dimensional motion using linear discriminant analysis: Provided is an apparatus and method for recognizing a three-dimensional (3D) motion using Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA). The apparatus includes: a 3D motion capturing means for creating motion data for every motion; a motion recognition learning means for analyzing the created motion data, creating a linear discrimination feature component for... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080285808 - Interpolation method for image pictures and image processing apparatus thereof: An interpolation method, applied to image pictures, for interpolating at least one pixel into a position to be interpolated in a target image frame is disclosed. The interpolation method includes receiving a plurality of image fields having a corresponding image object, estimating a motion speed of the image object according... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080285806 - Method for estimating motion and occlusion: This invention relates to digital image and video processing. It is concerned with determining the motion of pixels between frames in an image sequence. That motion relates to the motion of objects in the scene. The invention determines two kinds of motion information at each pixel site. The first kind... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080285805 - Motion tracking system: A system is provided for capturing motion of a moving object via a plurality of motion sensor modules placed on various body segments. The sensor modules capture both 3D position and 3D orientation data relating to their respective body segments, thereby gathering motion data having six degrees of freedom with... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080285809 - Photographic subject tracking method, computer program product and photographic subject tracking device: A photographic subject tracking method comprises calculating similarity levels of images input sequentially to a template image, determining a photographic subject position in each of the input images based upon the similarity levels, tracking the photographic subject position through the input images, judging whether reliability of the similarity level calculated... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080285810 - Method for characterizing the density and cross-section morphology of trees: A method is provided for reliably determining anatomical properties of a tree having a plurality of growth rings spaced from each other in a radial direction. The method involves preparing a sample from a tree to be analyzed, and preparing an image of the sample at a resolution sufficient to... Agent: Janet I. Stockhausen Usda Forest Service

20080285811 - System for providing information to a user via an interactive medium: Provided is a system for providing information to a user via an interactive medium. The system includes a server with a memory, a printer and a wireless interface. The printer is configured to supply the interactive medium in the form of a printed page with visible and invisible data thereon,... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080285813 - Apparatus and recognition method for capturing ear biometric in wireless communication devices: An apparatus and method is provided for recognizing ear biometrics of an approved user of a wireless device. The apparatus comprises a wireless communication device (50) including a first biometric device (52) for assessing the identity of the user, the biometric device (52) comprising a touch input display (52) including... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (mot)

20080285814 - Independent third party real time identity and age verification process employing biometric technology: A physically and technologically secured Network Operating Center (NOC), which collects physiological samples, including but not limited to fingerprints, voice prints, DNA samples and retina scans and commonly known information including but not limited to name, date of birth and social security number on a plurality of individuals and storing... Agent: Jim Di Carlo

20080285815 - Method, system, and program product for transforming a biometric image: The invention provides a method, system, and program product for transforming a multi-dimensional biometric feature point set. More particularly, the invention provides a method for transforming a biometric image using surface folding of the image. In one embodiment, the invention provides a method for transforming a multi-dimensional biometric feature point... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080285812 - Personal identification method and apparatus: The invention relates to a personal identification method and to a corresponding apparatus. Their elements are mainly a light source emitting a beam of light towards a target, a first imaging module receiving a return beam coming back from said target and displaying an image of the target of a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080285816 - Digital image processing apparatus for displaying histogram and method thereof: A digital image processing apparatus displaying a histogram. The apparatus includes a face recognition portion recognizing at least one face area in an image, a histogram generation portion generating a histogram of the face area, and a display for displaying the histogram of the face area or an indicator indicating... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20080285817 - Image pickup device, face detection method, and computer-readable recording medium: An image pickup device can effectively detect a face in accordance with an object without causing a user to do bothersome setting. A speed preference mode and a person-number preference mode both having different detection conditions of a face region are prepared beforehand as face detection modes. The user is... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080285818 - Fingerprint verification system for computerized course attendance and performance testing: This “Fingerprint Verification System for Computerized Course Attendance and Performance Testing”, relates to a new, useful, and significant means and method of verifying the identity of a computerized or computer-based course enrollee, and verifying said enrollee's attendance throughout the computer-based course, and the enrollee's identity during test taking throughout the... Agent: Robert N. Schlesinger

20080285822 - Automated stool removal method for medical imaging: A registration process that allows for assessment of deformation in the gastrointestinal region is provided. The registration process includes a classification process that classifies image data into the type of material imaged. The registration process further includes an automated segmentation process that allows for identification of the materials in the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080285823 - Device for imaging an interior of a turbid medium: The invention relates to a device (1) for imaging an interior of a turbid medium (25). The device (1) may be used to accommodate a turbid medium (25) inside a measurement volume (20) and irradiate the turbid medium (25) with light from a light source (5), after which light emanating... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080285826 - Display processing apparatus of image information and display processing method of image information: A display processing apparatus and a display processing method displays a lesion color mark displayed as a mark by arranging a vertical line expressed in a color depending on a lesion for each piece of video horizontal in a time series on the display screen for each type of lesion... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080285825 - Mass spicules detection and tracing from digital mammograms: The present invention provides an algorithm to detect and trace the spicules of a mass density in digital mammograms using an adaptive threshold edge algorithm and a flood-fill segmentation algorithm. Elongation criteria are used to remove false edges that do not radiate from a central mass margin. The algorithm works... Agent: Three Palm Software LLC

20080285821 - Method, a system and a computer program for image segmentation: The invention relates to a method 1 of image segmentation where in step 2 a prior model representative of a structure conceived to be segmented in an image is accessed. Preferably, the image comprises a medical diagnostic image. Still preferably, the medical diagnostic image is prepared in a DICOM format,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080285820 - Operating system having an operating lamp and a camera: A method is described for displaying an image of an illumination field of a medical operation. The method includes recording an image at an illumination field of an operation, receiving a color temperature signal representative of an operating lamp that illuminates the illumination field of the operation, based on the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080285824 - System and method of extended field of view image acquisition of an imaged subject: A system and method of imaging an imaged subject is provided. The system comprises a controller, and an imaging system including an imaging probe in communication with the controller. The imaging probe includes a transducer array operable to move through a range of motion along a first imaging path at... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080285819 - Systems and method for composite elastography and wave imaging: Systems and methods for composite elastography and wave imaging are presented. In exemplary embodiments of the present invention an imaging modality field of view, such as, for example, that of ultrasound, can be divided into N sectors, each having 1/Nth of a full field of view. In exemplary embodiments of... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080285831 - Automatically updating a geometric model: A computer implemented method for automatically updating a geometric model of an object of interest includes determining, automatically, a region of the geometric model for updating according to a update parameter, acquiring data at the region, extracting features from the acquired data, updating the geometric model described by the extracted... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080285830 - Computer aided lesion assessment in dynamic contrast enhanced breast mri images: A method for performing computer-assisted lesion assessment includes acquiring contrast enhanced MRI data. A region of interest is identified. Kinetic properties, morphological properties and pattern of enhancement are determined for the identified region of interest. A score is calculated for each of the kinetic properties, morphological properties, pattern of enhancement.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080285832 - Medical image processing device and method for recording incidental information: An ultrasonic apparatus images incidental information including at least either subject information or examination information to generate an incidental information image, and executes information processing of the incidental information image as an independent frame from a series of ultrasonic images as well as information processing to form the incidental information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080285834 - Method and apparatus for reconstructing parallel-acquired image: The invention discloses a method and an apparatus for reconstructing a parallel-acquired image, comprising: generating reconstruction data by combining uniformly under-sampled data and low-frequency fully-sampled data in MRI K-space according to a hybrid sampling mode; calculating the sensitivity distribution of a coil according to said low-frequency fully-sampled data; and reconstructing... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080285828 - Method and system for pet image reconstruction using portion of event data: A method and system for use in positron emission tomography, wherein a list-based reconstructor means (129) is configured to generate first portion volumetric data responsive to a first portion of a plurality of positron annihilation events detected during a positron emission tomography scan; generate a human-readable image indicative of the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080285833 - Method for calculating signal-to-noise ratio in parallel acquisition image reconstruction: The invention discloses a method for calculating the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in parallel acquisition image reconstruction, comprising: determining a reconstruction expression for a linear operation of the image reconstruction; determining a weighted coefficient according to the reconstruction expression; calculating the SNR according to the weighted coefficient and the raw data.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080285827 - Method for image processing and reconstruction of images for optical tomography: A method for reconstructing three-dimensional (3D) tomographic images. A set of pseudo-projection images of an object is acquired. Error corrections are applied to the set of pseudo-projection images to produce a set of corrected pseudo-projection images. The set of corrected pseudo-projection images are processed to produce (3D) tomographic images.... Agent: George A Leone, Sr Citadel Patent Law

20080285835 - Reducing distortion in magnetic resonance images: Systems and techniques for reducing distortions in magnetic resonance images. In one aspect, machine-implemented method for reducing image distortion in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) includes receiving a first MRI image and a second MRI image, estimating displacements of voxels between the first MRI image and the second MRI image by... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080285829 - System and method for consistent detection of mid-sagittal planes for magnetic resonance brain scans: A method for finding consistent mid-sagittal planes (MSPs) in a pair of 3D image head scans of a same patient includes, for each image, selecting a 2D transverse localizer image from a middle slice along a transverse view of the 3D image, fitting an ellipse to the transverse localizer image... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080285836 - Image processing device, image processing method and program storage medium: An image processing device is provided that corrects image data obtained by sequentially reading out as a current, charges from unit regions from a radiographic image detector provided with signal lines extending along a predetermined direction. The correction includes estimating the respective leakage current superimposed on the read-out current when... Agent: Taiyo Corporation

20080285837 - Method for detecting and quantitating multiple-subcellular components: A method for detecting and quantitating multiple and unique fluorescent signals from a cell sample is provided. The method combines immunohistochemistry and a fluorescent-labeled in situ hybridization techniques. The method is useful for identifying specific subcellular components of cells such as chromosomes and proteins.... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20080285838 - Document processing system: A document processing system comprises an input receptacle for receiving documents. A transport mechanism receives the documents from the input receptacle and transports the documents past an image scanner and a discrimination unit. An output receptacle receives the documents from the transport mechanism after being transported past the image scanner... Agent: Cummins-allison Corp. C/o Nixon Peabody LLP

20080285839 - Method and apparatus for magnetic character recognition: A method for magnetic character recognition may include preparing standard array data of peak intervals; generating a regeneration waveform out of a character string of magnetic characters printed on a surface of an information data recording medium; segmenting a character waveform of each magnetic character out of the regeneration waveform;... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080285840 - Defect inspection apparatus performing defect inspection by image analysis: A defect inspection apparatus obtains a color image signal of an inspection target. Based on a plurality of signal components forming this color image signal, a plurality of analysis images are obtained. Defect detection of an inspection target is implemented for each of the a plurality of analysis images. A... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080285841 - Image processing unit for wafer inspection tool: An image processing apparatus for wafer inspection tool that is able to perform continuously cell to cell comparison inspection, die to die comparison inspection, and cell-to-cell and die-to-die hybrid comparison inspection, employing a plurality of processors. This image processing apparatus for wafer inspection tool comprises a plurality of processors for... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080285843 - Camera-projector duality: multi-projector 3d reconstruction: A system and method are disclosed for calibrating a plurality of projectors for three-dimensional scene reconstruction. The system includes a plurality of projectors and at least one camera, a camera-projector calibration module and a projector-projector calibration module. The camera-projector calibration module is configured to calibrate a first projector with the... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20080285842 - Optoelectronic multiplane sensor and method for monitoring objects: An optoelectronic sensor and method for detecting an object in a three-dimensional monitored region uses a plurality of video sensors. Each sensor has a multiplicity of light-receiving elements that are configured to take a pixel picture of the monitored space, and a control unit identifies an object in the monitored... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080285845 - Image processing apparatus and method:

20080285844 - Method and apparatus for use of an universal color index (uci): a color appearance system calibrated to reflectance spectra: A method for establishing a relationship between a physical structure of reflectance spectra as defined in a Euclidean color space and a perceptual space of color appearance defined in terms of human perception of colors is performed by obtaining a cube root spectrum of the physical reflectance spectrum in a... Agent: Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080285846 - Image processing method, image zone detection method, image processing program, image zone detection program, image processing apparatus and image zone detection apparatus: An image processing method according to the present invention is contrived to change the gradation level (of the color component corresponding to the complementary color of yellow) for a pixel within a zone located on a corner of a rectangular image so as to maximize the difference between the gradation... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080285847 - Dynamo color coding system to validate, authenticate goods and services: Dynamo Color Coding System (DCCS) is a dynamic real time database and color-coding system that has uniquely been combined into a single web based application. The purpose of the DCCS is to give Producers an efficient mechanism to track, validate and authenticate their goods and services as they travel through... Agent: Davender Panwar

20080285848 - Method for identifying color in machine and computer vision applications: A method for identifying color in a target creates a ratio color space by determining the largest color component value of each pixel in an image and creating a ratio of all of the color component value with the largest component value for each pixel. The ratio for the color... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20080285849 - Two-level scanning for memory saving in image detection systems: A method and system for scanning a digital image for detecting the representation of an object, such as a face, and for reducing memory requirements of the computer system performing the image scan. One example method includes identifying an original image and downsamples the original image in an x-dimension and... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080285851 - Color correction method and apparatus of display apparatus: The invention discloses a color correction method for adjusting the color performance of a display apparatus. The color correction method first displays a plurality of images on a panel of the display apparatus and measures the chromatic value and the luminance of each image so as to obtain the color... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20080285850 - Method and system for removal of red eye effects: A method of performing red eye correction in an image including storing a high resolution image on a server computer, transmitting a low resolution image derived from the high resolution image, from the server computer to a client computer, displaying the low resolution image on a display device connected to... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080285852 - Preference color adjusting system and method: A preference color adjusting system includes a saturation calculator, a hue calculator, a first lookup table device, a second lookup table device, a mixer, and a UV converter. The saturation calculator receives an RGB pixel and produces a saturation of the pixel. The hue calculator receives the RGB pixel and... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080285853 - Contrast enhancement methods and apparatuses: Image contrast enhancement includes (i) computing a contrast measure incorporating an adjustable tone transformation function and one or more statistical measures of selected spatial arrangements of pixel or voxel intensities in an analysis image or image portion, (ii) adjusting the adjustable tone transformation function to increase contrast as indicated by... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080285855 - Image processing apparatus and image retrieval method: A plurality of feature points are extracted from an inputted image, and a feature amount is computed with regard to the feature point thus extracted. A prescribed plurality of alterations, i.e., a rotation, an enlargement, or a reduction, are applied to the inputted image, a plurality of altered feature amounts... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080285854 - Marker arrangement information measuring apparatus and method: A marker arrangement information measuring apparatus includes an image acquiring unit configured to acquire a captured image, a marker detecting unit configured to detect markers from the captured image, a marker identifying unit configured to identify the marker detected by the marker detecting unit, an arrangement information calculating unit configured... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080285856 - Method for automatic detection and classification of objects and patterns in low resolution environments: The invention is a method of using Wavelet Transformation and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) systems for automatic detecting and classifying objects. To train the system in object recognition different images, which usually contain desired objects alongside other objects are used. These objects may appear at different angles. Different characteristics regarding... Agent: Simon Kahn - Pyi Tech, Ltd. C/o Landonip, Inc

20080285857 - Data entry system and method of entering data: A method and apparatus for entering words into a computer system. Letters contained in a desired word are entered by giving approximate location and directional information relative to any specified keyboard layout. The inputs need not correspond to specific keys on the keyboard, a sequence of ambiguous key-entries corresponding to... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20080285858 - Method and system for applying silhouette tracking to determine attitude of partially occluded objects: A method and system for increasing the certainty of a silhouette matching process, where the process is being used for attitude determination of an object of interest, for example an aircraft. The method involves using one or more mask images that include structure or features that may or may not... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20080285861 - Information processing method and information processing apparatus: Processing data which belong to different classes and label data indicating the classes to which the processing data belong are input (S20). A distance relationship between the processing data is calculated (S22). An interclass separation degree between the classes is set (S23). The distance relationship is updated based on the... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080285859 - Method and system for processing video data: In an intelligent video surveillance system, video processing software performs a number of operations on video data received from a camera, including foreground extraction, shadow removal and object tracking. The foreground extraction stage classifies each pixel of a received frame as representing either foreground or background. Since shadow regions can... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080285860 - Studying aesthetics in photographic images using a computational approach: The aesthetic quality of a picture is automatically inferred using visual content as a machine learning problem using, for example, a peer-rated, on-line photo sharing Website as data source. Certain visual features of images are extracted based on the intuition that they can discriminate between aesthetically pleasing and displeasing images.... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080285862 - Probabilistic boosting tree framework for learning discriminative models: A probabilistic boosting tree framework for computing two-class and multi-class discriminative models is disclosed. In the learning stage, the probabilistic boosting tree (PBT) automatically constructs a tree in which each node combines a number of weak classifiers (e.g., evidence, knowledge) into a strong classifier or conditional posterior probability. The PBT... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080285866 - Apparatus and method for image data compression: Storage of JPEG data is speeded up by providing a RAW compression processing section for detecting high frequency components of image data, a JPEG parameter setting section for calculating feature data (entropy) representing distribution of frequency of appearance of the high frequency components, a JPEG parameter setting section for calculating,... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080285864 - Image encoding apparatus and decoding apparatus, and control method thereof: This invention maintains pixels as a source of a high frequency component such as a character and generates the encoded data having a fixed length for one block. A block generator reads out image data of one block from image data. An extractor extracts a color of a pixel having... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080285865 - Information processing apparatus and method: In an information processing apparatus, a synthesis filtering process is performed on image data which has been subjected to hierarchical executions of an analysis filtering process, each execution of the analysis filtering process having caused frequency components of the image data to be divided into high-frequency components and low-frequency components,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080285863 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding multi-view image: A method and apparatus for encoding and decoding a multi-view image for a multi-view display apparatus are provided. The method of encoding a multi-view image includes: compressing a multi-view image based on a reference image relative to multiple views; generating enabled stereo pair information in relation to multi-view images; and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080285867 - Multidimensional data encoding apparatus and decoding apparatus, and control method thereof: The invention losslessly encodes multidimensional data such as a color lookup table in which neighboring elements in a space have high correlations, by a simple arrangement at a high compression ratio. To this end, a multidimensional data input unit inputs data of an X-Y plane in an order of Z=0,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080285869 - Information processing device and method: An information processing device includes: a synthesis filter processing unit to subject image data to analysis filtering for dividing the frequency components of the image data into highband components and lowband components hierarchically, and subject the frequency components of the image data divided into a plurality of frequency components to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080285870 - Information processing device and method: An information processing device includes: an analysis filtering section that applies to image data an analysis filtering process of decomposing frequency components of the image data into each frequency band by lifting operations; an encoding section that performs an encoding process of encoding the frequency components decomposed into each frequency... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080285868 - Simple adaptive wavelet thresholding: A method for processing an image is described. In the method, image data representing an image into a memory device. The image data is filtered to obtain a plurality of coefficients representing low and high frequency image data. An area of low frequency data corresponding to one of the coefficients... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080285871 - Apparatus and method for image data compression: There are provided an image processing section for carrying out processing to detect high frequency components of an image, a calculating section for calculating feature data representing distribution of frequency of appearances of high frequency components, a compression parameter setting section for setting compression parameters based on feature data, and... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080285872 - Information processing device and method: An information processing device, configured to divide the frequency components of image data into a plurality of frequency bands, includes an analysis filtering unit configured to perform analysis filtering for dividing the frequency components into highband components and lowband components recursively, and a holding unit configured to supply, in sync... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080285873 - Method and apparatus for encoding image data: A wavelet transformer performs an analysis filtering operation on image data while storing coefficient data generated in the middle of the analysis filtering operation onto an intermediate calculation buffer. The wavelet transform segments the generated coefficient data into subbands using write buffers and writes the coefficient data on a per... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080285874 - Method and apparatus for processing image data: An image data processing apparatus includes a memory for storing coefficient data obtained by performing a wavelet transform on image data, a calculation unit for calculating a memory address of the memory storing the coefficient data, based on an encoding parameter of the image data and an amount of data... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080285875 - Image processing apparatus, method thereof, and program: An image processing apparatus that divides an input image signal into blocks, inversely quantizes image-compressed information, and decodes the image-compressed information by performing an inverse orthogonal transformation. The image processing apparatus includes a first inverse orthogonal transformer capable of performing inverse orthogonal transform processing on inversely quantized coefficient data and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080285877 - Apparatus for removing ringing noise and apparatus for removing noise: Provided are an apparatus for removing ringing noise and an apparatus for removing noise. The apparatuses includes a representative value setting block dividing pixel data in one block including a plurality of pixel data into two groups through a K-means algorithm and setting a representative value in each of the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080285878 - Image capturing apparatus and method for correcting captured image: A calligraphy/drawing camera image-captures a document and sends a resultant captured image to a personal computer (S101). The personal computer applies various image processes such as correction of various deformations including a trapezoidal deformation based on image information obtained from the captured image, a rotation process, a cut out process,... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, P.C. 25th Floor

20080285876 - Systems and methods for enhancing images produced in image forming devices: An image forming device is provided that facilitates enhanced image on an output image receiving medium based on one or more sensed or user-input characteristics of the output image receiving medium. A very light uniform toner dust layer is distributed over an entire page to be printed (including image and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20080285879 - Methods, software, and apparatus for focusing an optical system using computer image analysis: Methods, software, and apparatus for focusing an image in biological instrument are disclosed. Focusing elements are moved to various focus positions within a focus element travel range, and sample images are captured at the various focus positions. The sample images are resolved into subregions and an optimal focus position is... Agent: Mila Kasan, Patent Dept. Applied Biosystems

20080285880 - Method of filtering bending features: The present invention relates to a method of filtering an input image using a target oriented filter pattern, which has been obtained by warping a source oriented filter pattern. Such a method comprises a step of computing a source oriented filter pattern at a central image point of said input... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080285881 - Adaptive image de-noising by pixels relation maximization: A method is disclosed for adaptive filtering of at least one pixel having an initial value of an image composed of pixels. The method comprises: calculating local expected value for the pixel; calculating local signal to noise ratio; calculating local filtration ratio based at least on said local signal to... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080285883 - Apparatus and method for reducing image noise with edge tracking and computer readable medium stored thereon computer executable instructions for performing the method: A method for reducing image noise with edge tracking comprises receiving input of an object image data for conversion and a size data of a matrix, namely, a conversion area of the image data; calculating a statistical difference value between each pixel of the image data and a pixel adjacent... Agent: Jones Day

20080285882 - Image processing method and related apparatus for an image processing system: An image processing method for an image processing system for enhancing image quality after a sharpening procedure includes receiving a plurality of original image data, performing the sharpening procedure for the plurality of original image data for generating a plurality of sharpened image data, adjusting the plurality of sharpened image... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080285884 - Image processing method, apparatus and program as well as imaging apparatus: An image processing method, comprises: an input step of inputting a color digital image; a white balance correction step of correcting white balance of the inputted digital image; an exposure correction step of correcting exposure of the digital image having the corrected white balance; a determination step of determining a... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080285885 - Geospatial modeling system providing non-linear inpainting for voids in geospatial model cultural feature data and related methods: A geospatial modeling system may include a geospatial model database and a processor. More particularly, the processor may cooperate with the geospatial model database for inpainting data into at least one void in geospatial model cultural feature data based upon propagating contour data from outside the at least one void... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20080285887 - Image processing method and image processing apparatus: A CG image having a transparency parameter is superimposed on a shot image, which is an image picked up by an image-pickup device, to obtain a combined image. The combined image is displayed in a combined-image-display region. In the combined image, a mask region of the CG image is set... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080285886 - System for displaying images: The invention relates to an electronic image storage and display system. The system comprises a storage means for storing a plurality of images. The plurality of images are taken, at a location between two sides of a road, on a pavement or the like at a side of a road,... Agent: Matthew E. Allen

20080285888 - Image resizing device and parameter adjusting method thereof: A parameter adjusting method of an image resizing module. The method includes receiving an image signal; and referencing a signal characteristic of the image signal to adjust a parameter with which the image resizing module resizes the image signal.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080285889 - Image transform method for obtaining expanded image data, image processing apparatus and image display device therefore: It is an object of the present invention to output a clear, expanded image wherein step-shapes or chain-shapes of oblique lines are reduced, distortion is eliminated and no constituent lines of fonts or graphics are missing. An image transform method, for transforming original input image data into image data expanded... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (yor)

20080285891 - Image processing device, method and program: A marker corresponding to an editing state at an arbitrary point in time of image data being edited is stored in memory. The image of an arbitrary editing state can be displayed by a user selecting the displayed marker. The original image data is not updated. When saving the image... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080285890 - Method, apparatus, and system for searching for image and image-related information: An apparatus, method, and system for searching for images and image-related information are described in which the image information search system includes: an image reproducing apparatus reproducing or capturing an image; and an image/information search server searching for image/information associated with the captured image. In the image and image-information search... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080285892 - System and method for in-browser photo editing: An in-browser photo-editing application method and system. The method may typically include retrieving an image for manipulation along with a set of image manipulation instructions at a client computer and engaging a manipulation to the image from the client computer. Then, the client computer records image manipulation instructions simultaneous to... Agent: Graybeal Jackson Haley LLP / Jablonski Law Group

20080279418 - Fragmented data file forensic recovery system and method: A system and method of reassembly a file from fragmented data written onto digital storage media are disclosed. The data reassembling system and method is particularly useful for image data reconstruction, and in forensic data recovery. More particularly, the inventive concept allows for reassembling out-of-sequence data fragments.... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20080279419 - Method and system for determining attraction in online communities: The pairing of members in the online community based on at least physical preferences and displaying to a person advertisements depicting people whom that specific person is attracted are provided. The invention can provide face similarity technology to match a member with people they will find attractive based on preference... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080279417 - Method and system for embedding an image into two other images: A method and system embeds an image into two images by performing a digital halftoning process on a Cartesian product of color spaces.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080279416 - Print matching method and system using phase correlation: A system includes an interface receiving a search and file print and a processing device. The processing device performs a method that includes: performing at least one of a first comparison of quality of the search and file prints to a quality threshold, a second comparison of a minutiae matching... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080279421 - Object detection using cooperative sensors and video triangulation: Methods and apparatus are provided for detecting and tracking a target. Images are captured from a field of view by at least two cameras mounted on one or more platforms. These images are analyzed to identify landmarks with the images which can be used to track the targets position from... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080279420 - Video and audio monitoring for syndromic surveillance for infectious diseases: We present, in exemplary embodiments of the present invention, novel systems and methods for syndromic surveillance that can automatically monitor symptoms that may be associated with the early presentation of a syndrome (e.g., fever, coughing, sneezing, runny nose, sniffling, rashes). Although not so limited, the novel surveillance systems described herein... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080279422 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes a distance measurement section which measures a distance, on the basis of a plurality of images photographed by an imaging device at different visual point positions, from the imaging device to a subject for each pixel. A threshold setting section sets information indicative of a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080279425 - Human face recognition and user interface system for digital camera and video camera: The present invention discloses a face recognition system which includes a face recognition method and associate apparatus. The disclosed method provides improved face matching accuracy by introduction of user intervention. When a target face to be recognized has been detected, a candidate list is generated and the user is allowed... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20080279427 - Image processing device, image processing method, program, and storage medium: An image processing device which is capable of efficiently performing face-detection, red-eye detection, and/or image data correction including red-eye correction without waste when there are a plurality of chances of performing the image data correction including the red-eye correction on a single image. A printing apparatus acquires image data and... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080279424 - Method of identifying faces from face images and corresponding device and computer program: A method identifying faces from facial images called query images, associated with at least one person, including a learning phase using learning images and a recognition phase used to identify the faces appearing in query images. The learning phase includes filtering the images, applied on the basis of a group... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080279423 - Recovering parameters from a sub-optimal image: A subregion-based image parameter recovery system and method for recovering image parameters from a single image containing a face taken under sub-optimal illumination conditions. The recovered image parameters (including albedo, illumination, and face geometry) can be used to generate face images under a new lighting environment. The method includes dividing... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080279426 - System and method for verifying face of user using light mask: A system and method for verifying the face of a user using a light mask are provided. The system includes a facial feature extraction unit for extracting a facial feature vector from a facial image received from a camera. A non-user Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) configuration unit generates a non-user... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080279428 - Adaptive point-based elastic image registration: The present invention aims at improving the point-based elastic registration paradigm. According to the present invention, a force field, for example, with Gaussian-shaped forces, is applied at several points to the image to be deformed. In this case, no landmark correspondences are required and the optimal positions of the force... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080279431 - Imaging processing apparatus and computer program product: An image processing apparatus includes an organ determination unit that determines a type of observation target which appears in a target image among a sequence of observation images, an imaging distance estimation unit that estimates an imaging distance at a time of image pickup of the observation image, an abnormal... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080279432 - Method and medical device for controlling data acquisition or data processing therein: In a method to control the data acquisition and/or the data processing in at least one medical device, in particular to control the image data acquisition and/or the image data processing in a medical image data acquisition device, at least one work step already effected and/or still to be effected... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080279429 - Method for delineation of predetermined structures in 3d images: A method for delineating a bony structure within a 3D image of a body volume. A non contrast-enhanced tissue (reference) structure and a region comprising the bony structure and contrast-enhanced structures are identified (S2, S3) by thresholding or other image segmentation technique. A deformable model generally representative of the bony... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080279430 - System and method for enabling selection of an image registration transformation: System and method for enabling intra-operative selection of an image registration transformation for use in displaying a first image dataset and a second image dataset in correspondence with one another. Image dataset acquisition devices (12, 14) obtain the first and second image datasets. A similarity function indicative of a likelihood... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080279435 - Automated calcium scoring of the aorta: A method automatically scores calcium in the aorta and other arteries of the body using calcium plaque definitions that include subject specific in vivo blood/muscle density measurements, subject specific voxel statistical parameters and 2D and 3D voxel connectivity criteria to automatically identify the plaques. The images are optionally calibrated with... Agent: Jerry Turner Sewell

20080279439 - Distributed architecture for mammographic image acquisition and processing: A distributed architecture allows for decoupling of mammographic image acquisition and review, thereby enabling more efficient use of resources and enhanced processing. In one embodiment, the system (100) includes a number of image acquisition stations (102) and a number of image review stations (110) all associated with a central server... Agent: Hologic Inc.

20080279438 - Inverse planning using optimization constraints derived from image intensity: A method of automatically identifying a region of differing intensity in a functional image is described.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080279433 - Method and apparatus for multi-coil magnetic resonance imaging: A method for determining weights (or coefficients) for synthesizing k-space data for autocalibrated parallel imaging (API) combines training data sets (including k-space data such as autocalibrating signals (ACS)) acquired at multiple successive time points. Combining training data sets from multiple successive time points together to determine a set of weights... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080279434 - Method and system for automated modeling: Embodiments of the present invention include automated methods and systems for statistical modeling in high-dimensional problem domains. The automated statistical-analysis methods and systems of the present invention employ computationally efficient methods for preparing large amounts of high-dimensional data for analysis, computationally efficient methods for selecting and transforming predictors, and, based... Agent: Olympic Patent Works PLLC

20080279436 - Method and system of multivariate analysis on volume-wise data of reference structure normalized images for improved quality in positron emission tomography studies: A method and system are provided to mask out the background in dynamic PET images, to perform pre-normalization on the masked dynamic PET images, and to apply multivariate image analysis (e.g., principal component analysis PCA) on the masked pre-normalized dynamic PET images in order to improve the quality of the... Agent: Ge Healthcare, Inc.

20080279437 - System and method for the centralized editing, processing, and delivery of medically obtained obstetrical ultrasound images: A system and method uses images and video acquired from a medically necessary obstetric ultrasound procedure. The images and video are processed at a centralized location to create an end product to provide to the obstetric patient as a keepsake. Processing the images at the centralized location enables sophisticated editing... Agent: Kenehan & Lambertsen, Ltd John C Lambertsen

20080279440 - Method for rendering digital radiographic images for display based on independent control of fundamental image quality parameters: A system for enhancing a digital image. The system includes: means for providing a digital image; means for decomposing the provided digital image into a multi-frequency band representation of four frequency bands as follows: a lowest frequency band image which represents large-sized features in the digital image; a low-to-mid frequency... Agent: Susan L. Parulski Patent Legal Staff

20080279441 - Cell-image analysis method, cell-image analysis program, cell-image analysis apparatus, screening method, and screening apparatus: In compound screening using cell images, compounds having an effective action on cells are searched for by automated processing, to more perform existing methods for compound searching more effectively. There is provided an apparatus including an image-acquisition unit for capturing a plurality of cell images under different image-acquisition conditions; and... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080279442 - Inspection method and apparatus, lithographic apparatus, lithographic processing cell and device manufacturing method: A method of measuring a property of a substrate includes generating a patterned mask configured to cause a radiation beam passing through the mask to acquire the pattern, simulating radiating the substrate with a patterned radiation beam that has been patterned using the mask to obtain a simulated pattern, determining... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080279443 - Mask inspection process accounting for mask writer proximity correction: A mask inspection method and system. Provided is a mask fabrication database describing geometrical shapes S to be printed as part of a mask pattern on a reticle to fabricate a mask through use of a mask fabrication tooling. The shapes S appear on the mask as shapes S′ upon... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080279444 - Computer-implemented methods, computer-readable media, and systems for identifying one or more optical modes of an inspection system as candidates for use in inspection of a layer of a wafer: Computer-implemented methods, computer-readable media, and systems for identifying one or more optical modes of an inspection system as candidates for use in inspection of a layer of a wafer are provided. One method includes determining one or more characteristics of images of the layer of the wafer acquired using the... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP

20080279445 - Pattern defect inspection method and apparatus: The pattern defect inspection apparatus is operable to detect defects by comparing a detection image, which is obtained through scanning by an image sensor those patterns that have the identical shape and are continuously disposed on the object under tested at equal intervals in row and column directions, with a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080279447 - Computational solution of a building of three dimensional virtual models from aerial photographs: A method for processing in a computer a plurality of digital images stored in the computer. The digital images are from respective photographs (301) of a geographic region. The photographs were taken from different directions. The method includes displaying the images (311) and upon selecting an image point in an... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20080279448 - Device and method for automactically determining the individual three-dimensional shape of particles: A method for automated determination of an individual three-dimensional shape of particles includes: a) dosing, alignment, and automated delivery of the particles; b) observation of the aligned particles and image acquisition, and c) evaluation of the images. A device for automated determination of the individual three-dimensional shape of particles includes:... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080279446 - System and technique for retrieving depth information about a surface by projecting a composite image of modulated light patterns: A technique, associated system and program code, for retrieving depth information about at least one surface of an object. Core features include: projecting a composite image comprising a plurality of modulated structured light patterns, at the object; capturing an image reflected from the surface; and recovering pattern information from the... Agent: Jean M. Macheledt

20080279449 - Universal stereoscopic file format: Stereoscopic images may be represented in four coordinates where a first image is represented in three coordinates and a second image is represented of one coordinate. The brightness contrast is the property largely used in stereoscopic perception. The brightness and color of the first image is represented in three coordinates... Agent: Dr. Monte Jerome Ramstad

20080279450 - Illuminant estimation: A method of estimating, illuminant comprises minimising a Minkowski norm with illuminant constraints. The norm is preferably between 3 and 7 and most preferably between 4 and 6. The method is used to remove the colour of an illuminant from an image.... Agent: Intellectual Property Dept. Dewitt Ross & Stevens Sc

20080279451 - Color processing apparatus and method thereof: In order to match the color appearance of the display image on a monitor to that of a print image, the white point of the monitor and that of the viewing light upon viewing the print image are obtained, and a white point upon viewing the display image on the... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080279452 - Virtual earth image isolation system: A system for isolating an image of a target property provides a user interface apparatus for receiving a property identifier. A virtual tile retriever is provided for retrieving a set of virtual tiles from a source of virtual tile images using the property identifier. An image isolator provides for generating... Agent: Koppel, Patrick & Heybl

20080279453 - Ocr enabled hand-held device: A method of processing image data consistent with certain embodiments involves defining a segment of a visual field using a laser pointer; capturing an image of the segment of the visual field; and processing the captured segment to produce associated text associated with the selected segment. This abstract is not... Agent: Miller Patent Services

20080279454 - Slot in housing adapted to receive at least a portion of a printed paper item for optical character recognition: A system, comprising a camera and a housing comprising a slot. The slot is adapted to receive at least a portion of a printed paper item, an image of which is acquired by the camera. The system also comprises logic that performs optical character recognition on the image.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080279455 - Machine character recognition verification: Data on a document is recognized using at least two machine recognition processes. Data from one machine recognition process is used as reference data; data formed using the other recognition process is used as verification data. If the verification data matches the reference data, machine recognition may be verified. If... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20080279456 - Scene classification apparatus and scene classification method: The present invention is provided with: a characteristic amount obtaining section that obtains a partial characteristic amount indicating a characteristic of a partial image that constitutes a part of a classification target image; a partial evaluation section that carries out an evaluation based on the partial characteristic amount obtained by... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080279457 - Image processing apparatus and method, and program: An image processing apparatus includes a pattern generating unit that generates a plurality of two-dimensional array patterns, a radiating unit that emits light in each of the two-dimensional array patterns generated by the pattern generating unit to irradiate an object with the light, a spectrum measuring unit that measures the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080279458 - Imaging system for shape measurement of partially-specular object and method thereof: The present invention can perform the optical measurement in the partially-specular object by preventing a generation of light saturation and blooming for an object with partially-specular characteristics by lowering the transmittance of specular lobe through the spatial light modulator. Therefore, the present invention can widen the measurement range up to... Agent: Nath & Associates

20080279459 - Method and apparatus for image processing by using stored image: Provided are a method and apparatus for correcting an image under conditions where degradation of an image occurs. The method includes receiving an input image; comparing the input image with a stored image related to the input image, according to a predetermined standard; and selectively correcting the input image based... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080279460 - Scene classification apparatus and scene classification method: The present invention is provided with: a scene classification apparatus, that includes: a first partial classifier that determines that a classification target image pertains to a first scene, according to an evaluation result indicating that a partial image pertains to the first scene, by carrying out an evaluation as to... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080279461 - Pre-distribution image scaling for screen size: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to video scaling and compression and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for pre-distribution image scaling for screen size. In one embodiment of the invention, a compressed video delivery method can be provided.... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080279462 - Selective compression of synchronized content based on a calculated compression ratio: The present invention discloses a system and method for synchronizing data between a first data store and a second data store. The system can include a synchronization component, a compression pre-processor, and a compression/decompression component. The synchronization component can automatically synchronize content between the first data store and the second... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080279463 - Image processing apparatus, image processing circuit, and image processing method: A disclosed image processing apparatus divides an image into code-blocks of different levels by a wavelet transform, generates information codes of code-block-related information items related to the code-blocks of the different levels using separate tag trees corresponding to the different levels, and generates code data in which the image is... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080279465 - Apparatus and method for encoding digital image data in a lossless manner: A method of losslessly compressing and encoding signals representing image information is claimed. A lossy compressed data file and a residual compressed data file are generated. When the lossy compressed data file and the residual compressed data file are combined, a lossless data file that is substantially identical to the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080279464 - Transport stream structure of image data having additional information inserted, and method and apparatus for transmission and reception thereof: Provided are a transport stream structure of image data, a transmitting and receiving apparatus and method thereof. A transport stream structure of image data includes a header compressed by a lossless compression algorithm; an additional information field for additional information of image data, the additional information field being generated based... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080279466 - Methods and systems for rate-distortion optimized quantization of transform blocks in block transform video coding: Provided are methods and systems for rate-distortion optimized quantization and for skipping transform blocks that can take into account the rate-distortion tradeoff as well as the perceptual quality of reconstructed video.... Agent: Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP

20080279468 - Developing apparatus, developing method and computer program for developing processing for an undeveloped image: To facilitate setting of development condition an image developing apparatus is provided. The image developing apparatus performs a development process to first image data generated by a digital camera, each pixel of which lacks a part of color information, the image developing apparatus carries out a first type of development... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080279469 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product for image processing: To improve modification result where areas targeted for modification overlap, an image processing apparatus is provided. The image processing apparatus has a modification area establishing unit capable to establish a plurality of modification areas on a target image by analyzing the target image; an overlap detecting unit that detects overlapping... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080279467 - Learning image enhancement: Image enhancement techniques are described to enhance an image in accordance with a set of training images. In an implementation, an image color tone map is generated for a facial region included in an image. The image color tone map may be normalized to a color tone map for a... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080279470 - Motion blur reduction for lcd video/graphics processors: The present invention relates to a method and a system of reducing motion blur in a liquid crystal cell. A basic idea of the invention is to process, in an LCD system, a luminance component (Y) of a picture frame to provide motion blur reduction, wherein overdrive is applied to... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080279471 - Methods, apparatuses and systems for piecewise generation of pixel correction values for image processing: Methods, apparatuses and systems providing pixel correction values for a captured image, where the correction values are determined based on a piecewise-quadratic correction function in a first direction. The parameters for the piecewise-quadratic correction function in the first direction are calculated based on a plurality of piecewise-quadratic correction functions in... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080279472 - Noise reduction in a digital image by discreter cosine transform: A digitized image obtained by sensing noisy radiations is processed in a central unit. The image is considered to be an array of pixel intensity values that is decomposed into p elementary arrays of n pixels which are then ordered into a processing array with p rows and n columns.... Agent: William H. Eilberg

20080279473 - Enhancing the quality of decoded quantizes images: A system for image enhancement and, more particularly, a system for enhancing the quality of a quantized image.... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20080279474 - Punched hole detection and removal: A method for removal of punched hole artifacts in digital images includes, for a scanned document page, deriving an original digital image that defines the page in terms of a plurality of input pixels. A reduced resolution bitonal image is generated from the original image. The method further includes providing... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080279475 - Method for manipulating pictures via a wheel mouse: A method for manipulating pictures by rolling a mouse scrolling wheel is disclosed. The manipulations feature smoothness in operation, abundance in functionality, variety on the screen and much fun for the user's sights. Tool icons operated by the wheel mouse execute various functional commands: including a tool icon for adding... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080279476 - Method for producing an image and system for producing an image: According to an exemplary embodiment a method for producing an image of a physical object comprises receiving a plurality of raw images, dividing the plurality of raw images into a first subset of primary images and a second subset of secondary images according to a predetermined criterion. From the first... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080279477 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus which enables reduction of memory size required for image modification is provided. The image processing apparatus establishes a target block of the modification process; generates an image within the target block by storing an image within a referent block into a source memory area, and by... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080279478 - Image processing method and image processing apparatus: An image frame is segmented into a plurality of groups of blocks characterized by movements approximating each other. An image reader receives a source image frame and a destination image frame in image data including consecutive image frames and segments the frames into blocks. A corresponding point information generator computes... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20080279479 - Pixel interpolation apparatus and method thereof: A pixel interpolation method includes the following steps. First, multiple first macroblocks and second macroblocks are generated according to pixel data of a first real pixel row and pixel data of a second real pixel row, respectively. Next, block matching is performed on the first and second macroblocks to find... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080279480 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program, and recording medium: An image processing apparatus capable of automatically adjusting the enlargement ratio and the position of images and to display the noticed areas of all selected images is disclosed. When a two image display mode is selected, an image previously displayed (a first image) and an image to be displayed in... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080279481 - Information retrieving system, information retrieving method, information retrieving apparatus, information retrieving program, image recognizing apparatus image recognizing method image recognizing program and sales: Steps after a user finds an attractive product until he or she buys it are successively performed so that he or she can buy it stressfreely. The user photographs an attractive product with a portable camera telephone terminal 1 and transmits image data 7 to a server 3 through Internet... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080273747 - Controlling use of audio or image content: The present invention relates generally to controlling use of audio or image content (e.g., which may comprise video). In one claim, a method is provided including: receiving information, the information having been obtained from analyzing data representing audio elements or image picture elements to derive the information there from, accessing... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080273745 - Device including a lens array: An evaluation device includes more than three images showing at least two different appearances of keratinous materials, each of the images including an identifier; and an optical system that is configured to make the different images appear in succession as a result of a change in the angle of observation... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080273744 - Digital watermarking method and apparatus: A digital watermark embedding apparatus including a first scaling unit to scale an input image signal to one of enlargement and reduction, an extraction unit extracting a specific frequency component signal from the scaled image signal, a digital watermark signal generator to generate a digital watermark signal based on the... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20080273741 - Electronic watermark embedding method, electronic watermark detecting method, electronic watermark detecting apparatus and program: An electronic image into which an electronic watermark is to be embedded is divided into a plurality of image regions spatially, and pixels each having a property of being difficult to visually recognize a variation in a pixel value are extracted as adaptive pixels from each of the plurality of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080273748 - Image and part recognition technology: A system and method for recognition of images may include the use of alignment markers. The image recognized may be a pattern from an array, a character, a number, a shape, and/or irregular shapes. The pattern may be formed by elements in an array such as an identification marking and/or... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080273746 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus which is able to make a copy whose character information is clearly readable for a predetermined document registered as a special document is provided. A fixed-format document including the character information written in a predetermined format is determined as the special document and the special document... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080273743 - Synthesis of databases of realistic, biologically-based 2-d images: A method and computer program product to create an unlimited number of synthetic but realistic, biologically-based, 2-D images like irises and magnetic resonance images (MRIs), as well as other images is presented. New metrics for measuring the mathematical distance of such synthetic images from a source (original) image have also... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080273742 - Watermark embedding: Disclosed are methods and systems for embedding watermarks in information signals to obtain a watermarked information signal. The method of embedding a watermark comprises the steps of determining a predetermined first property of a first part of the information signal, said predetermined first property being indicative of whether at least... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080273749 - Implicit video coding confirmation of automatic address recognition: A method for sorting mail that may include performing an automatic address recognition process on a digitized image of a mail piece and generating a plurality of conditional address recognition results and a plurality of confirmation values each associated with one of the plurality of conditional address recognition results. The... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080273750 - Apparatus and method for automatically detecting objects: A device automatically detects boundary lines on the road from an image captured by a camera mounted on the vehicle. The device includes a controller that performs image processing on the image to compute the velocity information for each pixel in the image, and, on the basis of the computed... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20080273754 - Apparatus and method for defining an area of interest for image sensing: A method for defining an area of interest or a trip line using a camera by tracking the movement of a person within a field of view of the camera. The area of interest is defined by a path or boundary indicated by the person's movement. Alternatively, a trip line... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom PC - Leviton

20080273755 - Camera-based user input for compact devices: A camera is used to detect a position and/or orientation of an object such as a user's finger as an approach for providing user input, for example to scroll through data, control a cursor position, and provide input to control a video game based on a position of a user's... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080273751 - Detection and tracking of moving objects from a moving platform in presence of strong parallax: Among other things, methods, systems and computer program products are described for detecting and tracking a moving object in a scene. One or more residual pixels are identified from video data. At least two geometric constraints are applied to the identified one or more residual pixels. A disparity of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080273756 - Pointing device and motion value calculating method thereof: A pointing device is provided. A sensor generates a motion detection signal by sensing motion. A calculator receives the motion detection signal, calculates a motion value based on the motion detection signal, calculates a conversion motion value base on an angle of the motion value, and outputs the conversion motion... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080273752 - System and method for vehicle detection and tracking: A method for vehicle detection and tracking includes acquiring video data including a plurality of frames, comparing a first frame of the acquired video data against a set of one or more vehicle detectors to form vehicle hypotheses, pruning and verifying the vehicle hypotheses using a set of course-to-fine constraints... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080273753 - System for detecting image abnormalities: An image capture system for capturing images of an object, the image capture system comprising a moving platform such as an airplane, one or more image capture devices mounted to the moving platform, and a detection computer. The image capture device has a sensor for capturing an image. The detection... Agent: Dunlap Codding, P.C.

20080273757 - Image recognizing apparatus and method, and position determining apparatus, vehicle controlling apparatus and navigation apparatus using the image recognizing apparatus or method: The apparatus includes an image information obtaining section 3, an imaging position obtaining section 7, a land object information storing section 8, a land object information obtaining section 9 for obtaining, from the land object information storing section 8, the land object information on one or more land objects included... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080273758 - Apparatus and method for monitoring a spatial area, in particular for safeguarding a hazardous area of an automatically operated installation: An apparatus for monitoring a spatial area, in particular for safeguarding a hazardous area of an automatically operated installation, comprises an illumination device which at least temporarily emits light signals into the spatial area. A first image recording unit records a first image of the spatial area. The first image... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080273759 - Geospatial modeling system providing non-linear inpainting for voids in geospatial model terrain data and related methods: A geospatial modeling system may include a geospatial model database and a processor. The processor may cooperate with the geospatial model database for inpainting data into at least one void in geospatial model terrain data based upon propagating contour data from outside the at least one void into the at... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20080273760 - Method and apparatus for livestock assessment: A method and apparatus for capturing a three-dimensional representation of livestock involves simultaneously imaging the reflections of a light source from various portions of the animal on a two-dimensional pixel array and deriving range data for each pixel. The range data from the plurality of pixels is used to generate... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080273762 - Image determination device, image determination method, and program: An image determination device according to the present invention includes: an extraction means for extracting a figuration pattern of an identification subject in a finger reflected on an image; a detection means for detecting a joint line in the finger; and a determination means for determining the image as an... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080273761 - Image recognition device, image recognition method, and program for causing computer to execute the method: An average face-image is created from images belonging to a face-image group and sample points are specified on the average face-image. Sample points are detected on images in the face-image group corresponding to sample points on the average face-image thereby creating recognition subspaces of feature vectors. Sample points are detected... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080273763 - Method and device for locating a human iris in an eye image: The present disclosure relates to a method for locating the iris in an image of an eye, comprising steps of locating the pupil in the image, of detecting positions of intensity steps of pixels located on a line passing through the pupil and transition zones between the iris and the... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080273766 - Face recognition system and method based on adaptive learning: A face recognition system based on adaptive learning includes a specific person detection and tracking unit for detecting and tracking a specific person from a moving image. A facial feature extraction unit extracts a plurality of facial feature vectors from the detected and tracked specific person. A face recognition unit... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080273765 - Image storage device, imaging device, image storage method, and program: An image storage device includes a facial-expression-correlation estimator configured to estimate a facial expression correlation representing a degree of correlation between a facial expression in a face image and a predetermined reference facial expression, the face image being included in time-varying image data; a facial-expression estimator configured to detect, through... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080273764 - Personal gesture signature: The present invention relates to a system and a method of verifying the identity of a user and based thereon controlling access to user specific data or actions, said method verifies said identity by receiving an identification key, and based on a comparison with a pre stored reference identification key... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080273768 - Biometric sensor apparatus and method: A biometric sensor apparatus uses an infra red light source and a CMOS image sensor. A platen receives a body part and the image sensor receives light transmitted through the body part. A processor determines from the detected through-transmitted light whether the body part is live or is a spoof... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20080273767 - Iterative print matching method and system: A print identification system performs the following: comparing a primary search print to each of a plurality of file print to generate a primary sorted match report having a first set of file IDs each associated with a first match score; applying a decision logic to the first match scores... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080273770 - Fast fingerprint identification and verification by minutiae pair indexing: For each minutia in the fingerprint, a set of surrounding “neighborhood” minutiae is identified. In each neighborhood, each minutiae pair of central and neighboring minutiae is described by several features including (but not limited to) the spacing between the two minutiae in a pair, the difference of orientations of two... Agent: JasIPConsulting

20080273769 - Print matching method and system using direction images: A system includes an interface receiving a search print record including a first direction image of a search print and a file print record including a second direction image of a file print, and a processing device. The processing device performs a method and a computer-readable storage medium stores code... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080273771 - Apparatus for capturing a high quality image of a moist finger: An apparatus for capturing the image of a wet/moist fingerprint. The apparatus includes: a prism having an imaging plane on which a finger having valleys and ridges is place, a bottom plane parallel to the imaging plane and a reflective plane intercepting the imaging plane and intercepting the bottom plane... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080273776 - Apparatus and method for rapid microscopic image focusing: A method of capturing a focused image of a continuously moving slide/objective arrangement is provided. A frame grabber device is triggered to capture an image of the slide through an objective at a first focus level as the slide continuously moves laterally relative to the objective. Alternatingly with triggering the... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080273775 - Cartesian human morpho-informatic system: The present invention is a three dimensional Cartesian coordinate system for the human body, having three perpendicular and intersecting planes. The present invention is based upon the use of the three cardinal planes, in the universally recognized orientations. The cardinal planes in accordance with the present invention are: Sagittal: midsagittal... Agent: Smith Hopen, Pa

20080273772 - Component labeling: Disclosed herein are methods, computer systems and computer program products for labeling components. One method includes the step of labeling (130) with a current label all voxels that are internal to a predetermined sub-volume oriented with respect to an unlabeled voxel, and directly connected to the unmarked voxel. The labeling... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080273774 - System and methods for capturing a medical drawing or sketch for generating progress notes, diagnosis and billing codes: A system and methods are provided that allows an end user such as a doctor to draw a picture representation of a patient physical findings such as symptoms, treatments, imaging results or other procedures so that the rendering is captured and translated to a textual description as progress notes, diagnosis,... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20080273773 - Three-dimensional modeling of the oral cavity: A method for creating three-dimensional models of intra-oral scenes and features. The intra-oral scene is illuminated by a two-dimensional array of structured illumination points, with anti-aliasing achieved by using stored two-dimensional patterns of pixels for anti-aliasing. Using a single camera to form images reduces the amount of apparatus necessary to... Agent: Maurice Moshe Ernst

20080273777 - Methods and apparatus for segmentation and reconstruction for endovascular and endoluminal anatomical structures: Methods and apparatus for generating network of endoluminal surfaces by defining a set of medial axes for a tubular structure, defining a series of cross sections along medial axis in the set of medial axes, generating a connectivity graph of the medial axes, defining multiple surface representations based upon the... Agent: Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20080273779 - Elastic image registration functionality: A current diagnostic image (A) and an archived diagnostic image (B) of a common region of a patient are loaded into a first memory (14) and a second memory (18). The first and second diagnostic images (A, B) are automatically aligned and registered with one another. The three 2D orthogonal... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080273781 - Electronic stool subtraction in ct colonography: A method for processing CT colonography input image voxel data representative of 3-dimensional images of a colon having gas and stool tagged with stool tagging agent, to remove the stool from the images. The input image voxel data is generated by an imaging instrument having a characteristic point spread function... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20080273778 - Image reconstruction method and tomograph: m

20080273784 - Image system for retaining contrast when merging image data: The invention relates to a method for the joint of registering, archiving, contrast-retaining merging, and visualizing of 2D x-ray images and reconstructed 2D projections or 3D views of generated image data in minimally invasive medical interventions or operations performed under x-ray control on internal organs, areas of tissue, lesions, or... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080273780 - Methods and systems for attenuation correction in medical imaging: Methods and systems for imaging a patient are provided. The method includes scanning a patient and acquiring a plurality of frames of cine computed tomography (CT) images during one complete respiratory cycle. In one embodiment, a method is provided that includes selecting a value for each pixel that represents the... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20080273785 - Methods and systems for retrospective internal gating: The present invention, in one form, is a method for deriving respiratory gated PET image reconstruction from raw PET data. In reconstructing the respiratory gated images in accordance with the present invention, respiratory motion information derived from individual voxel signal fluctuations, is used in combination to create usable respiratory phase... Agent: Adam Kesner

20080273783 - Methods, systems and computer program products for mixed-density optical coherence tomography (oct) imaging: Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for acquiring an image set using optical coherence tomography (OCT). A first portion of a defined volume is scanned at a low-density sampling rate to obtain a plurality of low-density frames. A second portion of the defined volume is scanned at a... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080273782 - X-ray ct apparatus, myocardial perfusion information generating system, x-ray diagnostic method and myocardial perfusion information generating method: An X-ray CT apparatus has an image generating unit and a blood flow information acquiring unit. The image generating unit acquires projection data at rest and at non-rest from a myocardial part of an object into which contrast medium is injected continuously in a state in which each concentration of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080273787 - Automated selection of image regions: A method for automated selection of image regions (“tiles”) in an overall image includes computing a gray-level co-occurrence matrix and entropy of a green plane of the overall image, applying morphological closing to the matrix and thresholding the matrix and entropy image to provide binary masks. The matrix and entropy... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080273786 - Cell culture device, image processing device and cell detecting system: Consequently, by subjecting the data on the images captured with such different focuses to differential processing, only the cell portion can be extracted without being influenced by the color variation of the medium, the variation of the amount of light, the difference in brightness between the central and peripheral areas... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080273788 - System and method for quality assurance in pathology: Systems and methods for improving quality assurance in pathology using automated quality assessment and digital image enhancements on digital slides prior to analysis by the pathologist are provided. A digital pathology system (slide scanning instrument and software) creates, assesses and improves the quality of a digital slide. The improved digital... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080273789 - Acceptor device for sheet objects: An acceptor device for sheet objects such as banknotes, comprises a sensor to derive data corresponding to a spatial array of data samples from a face of a sheet object, said data being configured in a sampling frame that lies within a range of positional relationships to a reference frame.... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20080273790 - Measurement device for measuring the parameters of a blade rotor and measurement process for measuring with said device: The invention relates to a measurement device for measuring the parameters of a blade rotor and a measurement process for measuring with said device, consisting of an element (1) in which at least one high speed camera (2) and a light beam emitter (3) are arranged in opposition, said element... Agent: Dennis G. Lapointe Lapointe Law Group, Pl

20080273791 - Apparatus, method, and medium for dividing regions by using feature points and mobile robot using the same: An apparatus, method, and medium for dividing regions by using feature points and a mobile robot cleaner using the same are provided. A method includes forming a grid map by using a plurality of grid points that are obtained by detecting distances of a mobile robot from obstacles; extracting feature... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080273792 - Image file processing method including color conversion and corresponding image file processing apparatus: An image file processing method adopted in an image file processing apparatus, includes steps for: inputting from the outside an image file containing at least color information corresponding to each of pixels defined by a color space used in the image file, a color space identification tag indicating whether or... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080273793 - Signal processing apparatus and method, noise reduction apparatus and method, and program therefor: A signal processing apparatus including: a first noise reduction processing means that performs first noise reduction processing on an image, in which each of multitudes of pixels has one of a plurality of color components and the color components are distributed regularly, based only on pixel arrangement to obtain a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080273794 - User adjustable gamut mapping and conversion of images from a source color space to a destination color space including primary and redundant colors: A method and software for converting a digital representation of a reference image to a preferred representation having higher chroma in selected subject areas.... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080273795 - Flexible matching with combinational similarity: Computer-readable media, systems, and methods for flexible matching with combinational similarity are described. In embodiments, an object image is received, a query image is received, and the query image is compared with the object image. In various embodiments matching information is determined based upon combinational similarity and the matching information... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080273796 - Image text replacement: Image text enhancement techniques are described. In an implementation, graphically represented text included in an original image is converted into process capable text. The process capable text may be used to generate a text image which may replace the original text to enhance the image. In further implementations the process... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080273797 - Editing system with digital pen, editing method, and program thereof: An editing system is provided which is configured to include a paper 2, which is prepared to be able to specify entry locations, and on which paper space information is printed, a digital pen 1 for acquiring information entered by hand-writing as stroke data, and a pen server 3 for... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080273798 - Image processing device, image processing method, and program: There is provided an image processing device that includes a facial image extraction portion, a positivity computation portion, and a selected image update portion. The facial image extraction portion specifies a facial region of an imaged subject within at least one sequentially input selection-eligible image and extracts from the selection-eligible... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080273799 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and program storage medium: An information processing apparatus including a function of processing images is provided. The information processing apparatus includes a bitmap data obtaining unit configured to obtain bitmap data; a pixel extracting unit configured to extract, from the bitmap data obtained by the bitmap data obtaining unit, pixels on the basis of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080273800 - Template matching method, template matching apparatus, and recording medium that records program for it: There is provided a template matching method having a small amount of calculation and high detection accuracy. The amount of calculation is reduced while minimizing the degradation of the detection accuracy by calculating the similarity between a template image region and a reference image region at rough position intervals and... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080273801 - Method and system for searching a database of graphical data: A method and system for searching a database of graphical data are described. Embodiments of the invention use accelerated image-comparing techniques based on application of the Levenshtein algorithm for matching or searching one-dimensional data strings to recognizing pre-selected targets in graphical contents of 2D images.... Agent: Catalina & Associates A Professional Corporation

20080273802 - Program and apparatus for forms processing: A form processing program which is capable of automatically extracting keywords. When the image of a scanned form is entered, a layout recognizer extracts a readout region of the form image, a character recognizer recognizes characters within the readout region. A form logical definition database stores form logical definitions defining... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080273804 - Image transformation: A method of decoding an encoded image represented by a plurality of data chunks, the method comprising retrieving a run length indicator and a colour signifier from a data chunk and adding to a pixel map a run of pixels of a colour value determined by the colour signifier and... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080273805 - Semiconductor device and an image processor: An apparatus for encoding a plurality of image data series and decoding a plurality of encoded image data series includes an interface control circuit for executing data read/write operation from and to a memory area, an encoding/decoding circuit for selectively executing encoding of image data of one series written into... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith Hazel & Thomas LLP

20080273803 - System, method and article of manufacture for decompressing digital camera sensor data: The present invention includes a system, method, and article of manufacture for decompressing a bit stream of compressed data representing a plurality of image blocks. This includes a two-step method of processing both a DC code and a plurality of AC codes. With respect to the processing of the AC... Agent: Tips Group C/o Intellevate LLC

20080273806 - Method and system for initializing templates of moving objects: A method for tracking a moving object in a sequence of images is provided, comprising: partitioning each of said images of said sequence into blocks, identifying blocks which have moved between consecutive images of said sequence, grouping adjacent blocks, which have moved in a same direction by a same distance,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080273807 - Compression of digital images of scanned documents: A first aspect of the invention relates to a method for creating a binary mask image from an a inputted digital image of a scanned document, comprising the steps of creating a binarized image by binarizing the inputted digital image, detecting first text regions representing light text on a dark... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080273808 - Faster transforms using early aborts and precision refinements: Fast transforms that use early aborts and precision refinements are disclosed. When to perform a corrective action is detected based upon testing the incremental calculations of transform coefficients. Corrective action is then performed. The corrective action includes refining the incremental calculations to obtain additional precision and/or aborting the incremental calculations... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (ibm)

20080273809 - Method and system for improving compressed image chroma information: Methods, systems, and computer programs for improving compressed image chroma information. In one aspect of the invention, a resolution for a red color component of a color video image is used that is higher than the resolution for a blue color component of the color video image. Another aspect includes... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080273810 - Video coding mode selection using estimated coding costs: This disclosure describes techniques for coding mode selection using estimated coding costs. To provide high compression efficiency, for example, an encoding device may attempt to select a coding mode for coding blocks of pixels that codes the data of the blocks with high efficiency. To this end, the encoding device... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080273811 - Image processing method and apparatus: Disclosed is an edge sharpening method using maximum and minimum filters. In an embodiment of the present invention, the edge region of an input image signal is detected, minimum and maximum signals are generated for the detected edge region, the input signal of the detected edge region is compared with... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080273812 - Image-correction method and image pickup apparatus: An image correcting method capable of performing highly accurate shading correction using a table having a small storage area without causing any deterioration of performance even when the shading characteristics vary dynamically. The image correcting method comprises a step for calculating the distance between the coordinates of a pixel constituting... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080273813 - Method for controlling the combining of original image data and coded image data: An information processing device is provided that combines original image data and coded image data in a mutually non-overlapping manner. The information processing device generates coded image data to be combined with original image data. Next, the information process device determines whether or not the object region within the original... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080273814 - Scaling of multi-dimensional data in a hybrid domain: At least a system and data structure for the scaling of data is provided. An exemplary use of the disclosed embodiments involves the scaling up in size or the scaling down in size of computer images. n-dimensional transformed data representing some original n-dimensional real data is received. An m-dimensional inverse... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080273815 - Method and device for retrieving a test block from a blockwise stored reference image: The invention relates to retrieving a test block at a freely selectable position from a blockwise stored reference image. A method for retrieving a test block from a blockwise stored reference image is described. Said method comprises the steps of retrieving a reference block and generating from the reference block... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080273816 - Optical recognition device and optical recognition display comprising the same: An optical recognition device is provided. The optical recognition device includes a transparent substrate, a patterned infrared reflective film formed thereon, and an infrared anti-reflective film sheltering a gap in a recognition pattern of the patterned infrared reflective film, wherein the patterned infrared reflective film reflects the recognition pattern by... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP