Image analysis inventions 12/08

20080317279 - Automated high-throughput seed sampler and methods of sampling, testing and bulking seeds: In various embodiments, the present disclosure provides an automated seed sampling and sorting system. The system includes an imaging station for collecting image data of a set of seeds and a seed orientation station for independently positioning each seed in the set in a desired orientation based on the collected... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080317278 - Method for computing a fingerprint of a video sequence: The invention concerns a method for computing a fingerprint of a video sequence. The method comprises the steps of—Computation of a visual digest for each frame of the video, —Computation of the distance between the visual digest of each frame of the video in order to detect shots, —Detection, for... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080317280 - Method of authenticating security documents: Provided is an interactive system for use with coded data printed on an item with infrared ink to define a hyperlabel. The interacting system includes at least one hyperlabel reading device configured to scan said hyperlabel from the item and to transmit information about such hyperlabel, as well as a... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080317277 - Spatial bandwidth imaging of structural interiors: Spatial bandwidth imaging of the interior spaces and elements of a structure by transmission of low frequency, continuous-wave, narrow band signal or signals through the structure, measurement of the electric and magnetic components of the received signal received by narrow band Doppler or focused synthetic aperture methods over a range... Agent: Davis Bujold & Daniels, P.l.l.c.

20080317284 - Face tracking device: A face tracking device for tracking an orientation of a person's face with using a cylindrical head model, the face tracking device comprises: an image means for continuously shooting the person's face and for obtaining a first image data based on a shot of the person's face; an extraction means... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080317287 - Image processing apparatus for reducing effects of fog on images obtained by vehicle-mounted camera and driver support apparatus which utilizies resultant processed images: Kalman filter processing is applied to each of successive images of a scene obscured by fog, captured by an onboard camera of a vehicle. The measurement matrix for the Kalman filter is established based on currently estimated characteristics of the fog, and intrinsic luminance values of a scene portrayed by... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080317285 - Imaging device, imaging method and computer program: With a digital still camera, a user freely detects a smiling face on a touchpanel displaying a through image and selects a subject having that smiling face. The digital still camera displays the smiling face as a smiling face detection target and a non-target detected face on the through image... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080317281 - Medical marker tracking with marker property determination: A method for tracking at least one medical marker is provided, wherein actual properties of the at least one marker are compared with nominal properties of the at least one marker. A basis for subsequent use of information obtained from the at least one marker is formed based on the... Agent: Don W. Bulson (brai)

20080317286 - Security device and system: A security device and system is disclosed. This security device is particularly useful in a security system where there are many security cameras to be monitored. This device automatically highlights to a user a camera feed in which an incident is occurring. This assists a user in identifying incidents and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080317283 - Signal processing method and device for multi aperture sun sensor: The disclosure relates to a signal processing method for multi aperture sun sensor comprising the following steps: reading the information of sunspots in a row from a centroid coordinate memory, judging the absence of sunspots in that row, identifying the row and column index of the sunspots in the complete... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080317282 - Vehicle-use image processing system, vehicle-use image processing method, vehicle-use image processing program, vehicle, and method of formulating vehicle-use image processing system: A system or the like capable of detecting lane marks more accurately by preventing false lane marks from being erroneously detected as true lane marks. A vehicle-use image processing system (100) allows a “road surface cluster” to be extracted from the “histogram” of luminance of each pixel in a “reference... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080317288 - Vehicle, image processing system, image processing method, image processing program, image processing system configuration method, and server: An image processing system and the like capable of improving recognition accuracy of a lane mark are provided. According to the image processing system of the present invention, a first processing unit (110) recognizes a lane mark candidate on the basis of the luminance of each pixel in a road... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080317290 - Fingerprint image forming apparatus, finger movement amount calculation method, and fingerprint image forming method: A disclosed apparatus for forming a fingerprint image includes a partial sensor configured to obtain partial images of a fingerprint of a finger moving over the partial sensor; a reference image storing unit configured to store a reference partial image; and an image difference calculating unit configured to calculate a... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080317289 - Image processing apparatus and method, program, and medium storing the program thereon: There is provided an image processing apparatus including motion vector extracting means for extracting a motion vector on a pixel basis from each of a plurality of input images, direct motion vector generating means for generating a direct motion vector to a pixel on an image for processing from a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080317291 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and program: An image signal processing apparatus controls display of a moving image and a still image. The image signal processing apparatus includes obtaining means for obtaining a moving image content constituted of a moving image and a still image content constituted of one or more still images, generating means for generating... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080317294 - Authentication apparatus, entry management apparatus, entry and exit management apparatus, entry management system, entry and exit management system, and processing methods and programs for these apparatuses and systems: An authentication apparatus includes a time-information storage unit configured to store a reference time used for authentication; a biometric-information storage unit configured to store biometric information used for authentication; a biometric-information obtaining unit configured to obtain biometric information of a person; a matching-score calculating unit configured to calculate a matching... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080317292 - Automatic configuration of devices based on biometric data: The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can obtain biometric data from a user as the user interacts with a device. Based upon the obtained biometric data, the architecture can determine an identity of the user and automatically apply settings associated with that particular user to the device.... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080317293 - Finger vein authentication apparatus and information processing apparatus: Provided is a finger vein authentication apparatus including a light source for emitting light toward a finger, an image sensor for taking an image of the transmitted light from the finger, a lens apparatus for imaging the transmitted light to the image sensor, and an image processor for processing the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080317297 - Computer-based facial paralysis assessment: A computer-based system is presented for grading facial paralysis, which system is adapted to be operated by a patient, including a camera system for collecting a series of images of the patient's face for analysis by a computer system, and a display which provides visual feedback to the patient so... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080317298 - Digital image search system and method: A method and system for matching an unknown facial image of an individual with an image of an unknown twin using facial recognition techniques and human perception is disclosed herein. The invention provides a internet hosted system to find, compare, contrast and identify similar characteristics among two or more individuals... Agent: Clause Eight Intellectual Property Services

20080317295 - Imaging device, recording medium having recorded therein imaging control program, and imaging control method: When a shutter key is operated, characteristic data is acquired. A determination is made as to whether the characteristic data has been acquired, and face image shooting processing is executed on condition that the characteristic data has been acquired. File generation processing is executed, at which a format of a... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080317296 - Method of controlling digital image processing apparatus for performing moving picture photographing mode, and digital image processing apparatus using the method: A method of controlling a digital image processing apparatus that performs a moving picture photographing mode and a reproduction mode. The method includes the operations of detecting face frames where faces of different persons exist in an operations of storing images of a series of frames in a moving picture... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20080317304 - Electronic apparatus: An electoronic apparatus includes a first housing; a second housing that has a periphery having a first edge, and a second edge intersecting the first edge; and a coupling unit that has a first rotation axis in a direction intersecting with the surface of the first housing, and couples the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080317300 - Fingerprint sensing circuit: A fingerprint sensing circuit for detecting a fingerprint of a user, including a signal source, at least a sensing unit, a resistor, an electrode, and a detecting circuit. The signal source provides a reference signal. The electrode is coupled to a reference level. The sensing unit generates a sensed value... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20080317299 - Image processing apparatus and control method thereof: Even when multiple document-data images are imposed on a sheet, a paper fingerprint registration can be performed securely with single processing and collation processing can be performed also after cutting of the sheet. An image forming apparatus according to the present invention, the image forming apparatus including: a imposition information... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080317303 - Imaging device and apparatus installed with the same: An imaging device includes a light source layer having imaging light source units for radiating the imaging light containing a first wavelength on an object to be imaged, a detection layer having detection elements for detecting the light of the first wavelength radiated from the light source units, and a... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080317301 - Low power fingerprint capture system, apparatus, and method: The present invention provides a large format fingerprint capture apparatus, system and method that is low power, compact, and lightweight and has a platen area greater than 3.0 square inches. The present system is typically powered, controlled, and exchanges data over a single data/control/power connection to a host PC, e.g.,... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080317302 - Man-machine interface for controlling access to electronic devices: The invention disclosed herein describes a man-machine interface device for controlling access to electronic devices. The man-machine interface device comprises an electronic display unit including a transparent finger touch sensor region that is seated above the display apparatus, which is responsible for determining the presence and absence of a finger... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080317309 - Image diagnosis support system and image diagnosis support method: Specific information for specifying a specific study or series for which an object, which is obtained by adding at least one information of a scan condition, a scan range, and a key image position as a basis of a diagnosis in an image, is to be generated is specified. It... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080317305 - Imaging apparatus and method of forming composite image from a plurality of source images: Source images, in particular images used for the planning radiotherapy, using internal images of the human body obtained with techniques such as X ray techniques, are processed to form a colored composite image that depends in a robust way on differences between different ones of the source images. For each... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080317306 - Methods of and apparatus for forming a biometric image: The invention relates to a method of forming a composite biometric image. The method comprises sensing first and second successive partial images of a biometric object with a sensor during relative movement of the biometric object and the sensor. The sensor comprises an array of sensing elements defining an area... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery LLP

20080317308 - System and methods for image segmentation in n-dimensional space: A system and methods for the efficient segmentation of globally optimal surfaces representing object boundaries in volumetric datasets is provided. An optical surface detection system and methods are provided that are capable of simultaneously detecting multiple interacting surfaces in which the optimality is controlled by the cost functions designed for... Agent: Valauskas & Pine LLC

20080317307 - Systems and methods for alignment of objects in images: Systems and methods for aligning objects in object sets are provided. An object set has objects that are in a corresponding image in a plurality of images. For each respective object in a first object set, a corresponding object group is constructed that contains the respective object, thereby constructing a... Agent: Jones Day

20080317310 - Method and system for image processing and assessment of blockages of heart blood vessels: One embodiment discloses a computerized method of assessing deposits and/or blockages in blood vessels in a human, specifically in a human heart. The method may include inputting patient data and creating a computerized interactive model of a heart based on the patient data. Patient data may include a plurality of... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080317314 - Automated determination of lymph nodes in scanned images: Techniques include automatically detecting a lymph node in a scanned image of a body without human intervention, using one or more of three approaches. First, a subset of scanned images is determined, which belongs to one anatomical domain. A search region for lymph tissue is in a particular spatial relationship... Agent: Evans & Molinelli PLLC

20080317311 - Coherent scatter imaging: A region of interest is identified using a conventional CT or X-ray approach. Then, the region of interest is scanned using a plurality of pencil beams (28) to obtain a plurality of different scattered X-ray spectra. A geometric correction is then applied to each spectrum as if the spectrum was... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080317315 - Magnetic resonance system and method for correction of movement artifacts: In a method and magnetic resonance (MR) for correction of movement in the acquisition of MR images of an examination region, wherein the movement that occurs between the acquisition of data of spatially different slices of the examination region is taken into account, data from the examination region are acquired... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080317317 - Method and apparatus for accelerated elastic registration of multiple scans of internal properties of a body: Techniques for accelerated elastic registration include receiving reference scan data and floating scan data, and a first transformation for mapping coordinates of scan elements from the first scan to coordinates of scan elements in the second scan. A subset of contiguous scan elements is determined. At least one of several... Agent: Evans & Molinelli, PLLC

20080317319 - Method for determining an optimal output of an ablation catheter for a myocardial ablation in a patient and associated medical apparatus: The invention relates to a method for determining an optimal output of an ablation catheter for a myocardial ablation in a patient with the following steps: creation of at least one at least three-dimensional image recording of an ablation region provided for the myocardial ablation using at least one image... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080317318 - Method for visualizing a three-dimensional image data record from an x-ray ct examination and workstation for carrying out the method: A method and a workstation are disclosed for visualizing a three-dimensional image data record having a multiplicity of voxels of a heart of a patient, recorded with the aid of an x-ray CT examination carried out with contrast agent present in the bloodstream. In at least one embodiment, the method... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080317312 - Method of guiding an irradiation equipment: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for guiding an irradiation equipment (2) located outside a human body (1) or an animal body. The method comprises the steps of identifying, in an image (4), a three-dimensional element (7) visible in the image (4), said three-dimensional element (7)... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080317313 - System and method for tracking motion for generating motion corrected tomographic images: A method and related system for generating motion corrected tomographic images includes the steps of illuminating a region of interest (ROI) to be imaged being part of an unrestrained live subject and having at least three spaced apart optical markers thereon. At least one camera is used to obtain images... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080317316 - Ultrasonic image processing apparatus and method for processing ultrasonic image: Obtains the position of each of points composing the contour of a specific tissue shown in ultrasonic image data having been acquired at each time phase by pattern matching for each time phase. Obtains motion information of each of parts composing the specific tissue based on the position of each... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080317320 - Correction of artifacts caused by the heel effect: According to the present invention, a 3D look-up table and a method for generating the same is provided, taking into account the x-ray spectrum variations in dependence of the cone beam angle caused by the heel effect. The 3D look-up table includes monochromatic attenuation values for all corresponding polychromatic attenuation... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080317323 - Evaluation method for a temporal sequence of x-ray images: A computer receives a temporal sequence of x-ray images of an examination region of an examination object. The examination region includes a blood vessel system and tissue supplied with blood. A detection time is assigned in each instance to the x-ray images. The x-ray images correspond locally with one another... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080317321 - High quality volume rendering with graphics processing unit: A technique for generating DRR (digitally reconstructed radiography) images includes dividing sample points along a ray trajectory through a 3-dimensional dataset of attenuation values into stages. Each of the stages includes a plurality of the sample points. The attenuation values are summed along the ray trajectory for each of the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080317322 - Identifying ribs in lung x-rays: A method of detecting lung nodules in an anterior posterior x-ray radiograph comprising the steps of: generating candidate regions in image showing changes in contrast above a threshold level, and eliminating false positives by eliminating edges assignable to organs by: identifying edges; categorizing and eliminating rib edges; categorizing and eliminating... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080317325 - Detection of circulating tumor cells using imaging flow cytometry: Photometric and morphometric features derived from multi-mode imaged. An imaging system simultaneously acquires a plurality of images for each cell passing through the field of view of the imaging system. Acquiring a plurality of different images (i.e., bright field, dark field, and fluorescent images) facilitates the determination of different morphological... Agent: Law Offices Of Ronald M Anderson

20080317324 - Method and device for the characterization of cells, clusters and/or tissue: This invention relates to an apparatus for characterizing cells, cell aggregates and/or tissue with an analysis unit which includes means by which morphological parameters of cells, cell aggregates or tissue are detected and which furthermore includes means by which the detected morphological parameters are evaluated for the purpose of the... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20080317326 - Method for ensuring quality of a sample carrier: A method is provided for ensuring the quality of a sample carrier in connection with performing an analysis of a sample in the sample carrier in an analysis instrument for in vitro diagnosis, wherein the sample carrier is provided with a symbol for confirming the compatibility of the sample carrier... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080317327 - Method of design analysis of existing integrated circuits: The present invention involves a computationally efficient method of determining the locations of standard cells in an image of an IC layout. The initial step extracts and characterizes points of interest of the image. A coarse localization of possible standard cell locations is performed and is based on a comparison... Agent: Price Heneveld Cooper Dewitt & Litton, LLP

20080317328 - Method of design analysis of existing integrated circuits: The present invention involves a computationally efficient method of determining the locations of standard cells in an image of an IC layout. The initial step extracts and characterizes points of interest of the image. A coarse localization of possible standard cell locations is performed and is based on a comparison... Agent: Price Heneveld Cooper Dewitt & Litton, LLP

20080317330 - Circuit-pattern inspecting apparatus and method: A circuit pattern inspection apparatus and inspection method facilitate the creation of a recipe and the confirmation of a defect. The apparatus and method employ a dialogue-based operation for the creation of a recipe and the confirmation of a defect. Input items (such as contrast, calibration, etc.) for the recipe... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080317329 - Visual inspection method and apparatus and image analysis system: An image feature is calculated based on the image of a detected defect, a coordinate feature is calculated based on position coordinates of the detected defect, and false alarm judgment is performed according to a decision tree constructed by threshold processing to the image feature or the coordinate feature.... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080317334 - Method and microscopy divice for the deflectometric detection of local gradients and the tree-dimensional shape of an object: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for high-resolution deflectometric determination of the local slope and of the three-dimensional shape of an object (6). The apparatus comprises a microscopic imaging system (5, 4, 8) having a numerical aperture (sin u), a focus plane (6a) and a receiving unit... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080317333 - Method and system for correction of fluoroscope image distortion: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide for a system and method for modeling S-distortion in an image intensifier. In an embodiment, the method may include identifying a reference coordinate on an input screen of the image intensifier. The method also includes computing a set of charged particle velocity vectors.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080317331 - Recognizing hand poses and/or object classes: There is a need to provide simple, accurate, fast and computationally inexpensive methods of object and hand pose recognition for many applications. For example, to enable a user to make use of his or her hands to drive an application either displayed on a tablet screen or projected onto a... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080317332 - System and method for determining geometries of scenes: A method and an apparatus determines a geometry of a scene by projecting one or more output image into the scene, in which a time to project the output image is t1. Input images are acquired of the scene, in which a time to acquire each input image is t2,... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080317335 - Method of identification according to selected patterns and related computer system: A method of identification of a computer system includes: (a) selecting a first partial pattern from a pattern group; (b) determining whether the first partial pattern selected in step (a) corresponds with a predetermined rule; and (c) controlling the computer system whether to operate a program according to a determining... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080317336 - Color naming, color categorization and describing color composition of images: The invention provides methods, systems and apparatus for assigning color names to individual image pixels, and generating verbal description of color composition in images, suitable for a wide variety of information processing applications. For an isolated image pixel (individual color sample or color value) an illustrative embodiment of this invention... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080317337 - System and method for decomposing a digital image: A system and method for decomposing a digital image is provided. A digital image is represented as a word-graph, which includes words and visualized features, and zone hypotheses that group one or more of the words. Causal dependencies of the zone hypotheses are expressed through a learned generative zone model... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20080317338 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: An information processing apparatus that suppresses occurrences of color conversions not intended by the user. Information on affected regions for individual color conversion processes applied to an image is stored in the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus determines whether or not the affected region of a color conversion... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080317340 - Method and apparatus for correcting preferred color and liquid crystal display device using the same: A method and apparatus for correcting a preferred color, which is capable of correcting the preferred color in consideration of an input image and the visual characteristics of a person by correcting differences between colors preferred by the person and an average color coordinate of a color to be corrected... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080317339 - Method and apparatus for red-eye detection using preview or other reference images: A method for red-eye detection in an acquired digital image acquiring one or more preview or other reference images without a flash. Any red regions that exist within the one or more reference images are determined. A main image is acquired with a flash of approximately a same scene as... Agent: Tessera/fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20080317341 - Methods and systems for identifying text orientation in a digital image: Aspects of the present invention relate to systems and methods for determining text orientation in a digital image.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080317342 - Method for segmenting structures in image data records and image processing unit for carrying out the method: In the method according to at least one embodiment of the invention, a first segmentation of a structure in an image data record is firstly carried out, and a first final segmentation result is obtained therefrom. A region in the image data record is selected based on the first final... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080317343 - Methods and systems for identifying text orientation in a digital image: Aspects of the present invention relate to systems and methods for determining text orientation in a digital image.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080317344 - Printing apparatus and method with respect to medium: A user operates the operation panel portion 6 and selects an image quality mode in a pre-stage of carrying but CD-R printing. If an operation of commencing CD-R printing on the operation panel portion 6 is enabled, the CPU 16 causes the scanner unit 21 to scan a sample CD-R... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080317345 - Method and apparatus for automatic object identification: A method and system for processing image data to identify objects in an image. The method and system operate using various resolutions of the image to identify the objects. Information obtained while processing the image at one resolution is employed when processing the image at another resolution.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080317346 - Character and object recognition with a mobile photographic device: Character and object recognition are provided from digital photography followed by digitization and integration of recognized textual and non-textual content into a variety of software applications for enabling use of data associated with the photographed content. A digital photograph may be processed by an optical character recognizer or optical object... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080317348 - Image processing apparatus, image reproduction apparatus, system, method and storage medium for image processing and image reproduction: An original document image is inputted as multi valued image data (original image data) from an input unit. The multivalued image data is binarized by a binary image generation unit. Then, layout analysis is performed based on the binary image data. Based on the layout information, a partial image having... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080317347 - Rendering engine test system: A system to compare a reference image of a text character, word or phrase with another image of the character, word or phrase that was rendered by a text rendering engine. Differences between the reference image and the rendered image may be recorded for subsequent analysis. Performance of a text... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080317351 - Method for interactively segmenting structures in image data records and image processing unit for carrying out the method: In the method according to at least one embodiment of the invention, an image data record having a structure to be segmented is first of all displayed by display equipment. Using an input apparatus, a segmentation algorithm to be used is selected from a group of different segmentation algorithms, including... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080317349 - Monitoring system and method, information processing device, and program: The present invention decreases the processing load of a server related to a collation processing system which is implemented by a server which performs collation processing with a registered facial image. An image acquisition section acquires the facial image of an individual who approaches a game machine as a facial... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080317350 - Pattern recognition apparatus and method: A image recognition apparatus includes a face input unit, an input subspace calculation unit, a dictionary subspace calculation unit, an eigenvalue calculation unit, a diagonal matrix generation unit, a transformation matrix calculation unit, a transformation unit, a similarity degree calculation unit, a recognition unit. The recognition unit, based on a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080317352 - Method for the characterization of a digital image and the applications thereof: A method of characterizing a digital image, in which a point of interest (PI) in the detected in the image. For each θ of a plurality I of different prescribed orientations in the digital image a family {fθ(k)(n)}1≦k≦K of K one-dimensional lines fθ(k)(n) of points is extracted from a region... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080317354 - Image selection support system for supporting selection of well-photographed image from plural images: A feature area extracting section extracts an area having a unique feature in an image input to an image selection support apparatus. A specific area feature collating and determining section determines whether or not the area having a feature and extracted by the feature area extracting section is a specific... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo Building 6, Suite 83

20080317353 - Method and system for searching images with figures and recording medium storing metadata of image: A method and a system for searching images with figures and a recording medium storing metadata of image are provided. The searching method is divided into an image analysis stage and an image search stage. In the image analysis stage, figures between images are compared with each other and assigned... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080317355 - Method and apparatus for determining characteristics of an object from a contour image: Systems and methods are provided for determining an associated occupant class for a vehicle occupant from an image of a vehicle interior. An image characterizer (154) determines a centroid of the image of the vehicle occupant is determined and produces an image representative signal that represents the image data as... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20080317356 - Image monitoring system: In an image monitoring system, an image data acquisition unit takes in video signals from a camera to acquire image data. An image recognition unit carries out image recognition processing using an inputted image obtained from the image data acquisition unit. A reference image registration unit registers a reference image... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080317357 - Method of gathering visual meta data using a reference image: A digital image processing technique gathers visual meta data using a reference image. A main image and one or more reference images are captured on a hand-held or otherwise portable or spatial or temporal performance-based image capture device. The reference images are analyzed based on predefined criteria in comparison to... Agent: Tessera/fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20080317358 - Class-based image enhancement system: A method for image enhancement includes providing for a semantic class to be assigned to a digital image based on image content, the assigned semantic class being selected from a plurality of semantic classes. The method further includes providing for an aesthetic enhancement to be applied to the image based... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080317359 - Printing apparatus and printing method: A printer 1 has transportation paths for conveying media in two directions, that of a first transportation path P1 and that of a second transportation path P2 (or third transportation path P3) perpendicular to the first transportation path P1. With this printer 1 a single compact unit can be used... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP Attn: Jim Coffman

20080317360 - Image forming apparatus and method: An image forming apparatus and an image forming method thereof are provided. An image forming apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present general inventive concept comprises a decoder to decode a compressed image to convert the compressed image into image data, a pure black determining unit to determine... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080317362 - Image encoding apparatus and image decoding apparauts, and control method thereof: An image encoding apparatus generate encoded data having a fixed length L which is less than or equal to m×n bits and an integral multiple of 32 by m×n pixel block, while resolution information and color information are excellently maintained. For this purpose, a block generation unit inputs image data... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080317361 - Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding image by partitioning image: A method and apparatus for encoding/decoding an image are provided. The method includes partitioning an image into a plurality of areas, allocating the partitioned plurality of areas to views of multi-view image sequences, and encoding the allocated plurality of areas. By doing so, the method can efficiently encode a large-screen... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080317363 - Method and apparatus for image data processing: An image data processing apparatus includes an encoding unit, a storage unit, a decoding unit and a Digital-to-Analog (D/A) converter. The encoding unit receives image data, compares (2n−1)th pixel data with (2n)th pixel data, and creates a header value, an encoding value and a reference value, which are used to... Agent: The Rafferty Patent Law Firm

20080317364 - Methods for determining neighboring locations for partitions of a video stream: This invention describes methods for pre-computing neighboring locations for partitions in a video stream and for placing those pre-computed neighboring locations into a table for later retrieval and later use. The redundancy in the information of the pre-computed neighboring locations can be used to reduce the number entries in the... Agent: Venture Pacific Law, PC

20080317365 - Method and device for condensed image recording and reproduction: A method for decoding coded image data, and which includes receiving the coded image data, in which some of the coded image data includes identifier information of a reference image for specifying the reference image among previous images, and other coded image data does not include the identifier information of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080317366 - Method and device for condensed image recording and reproduction: A method for decoding coded image data, and which includes determining whether a property type of an image data is a first coding type or a second coding type, in which the first coding type of the image data includes identifier information of a reference image for specifying the reference... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080317367 - Method and device for condensed image recording and reproduction: According to an embodiment, the invention discusses techniques of encoding image data and decoding the encoded image data in an effective manner. As a result, recording and reproduction of data is optimized by compressing an image signal based on whether or not there exists a significant difference between two adjacent... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080317368 - Reversible overlap operator for efficient lossless data compression: An efficient lapped transform is realized using pre- and post-filters (or reversible overlap operators) that are structured of unit determinant component matrices. The pre- and post-filters are realized as a succession of planar rotational transforms and unit determinant planar scaling transforms. The planar scaling transforms can be implemented using planar... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20080317369 - Digital video filter and image processing: An apparatus for video digital color pixel filtering and digital image processing that eliminates the need for Furrier Transforms, thus eliminating time-consuming multiplication and additions. It utilizes a new distributed computer architecture that operates in conjunction with First In First Out memories, utilizing simple software for each processor to minimize... Agent: Ned M. Ahdoot

20080317370 - Method and system for filtering elongated features: The present invention relates to a method of filtering an input image for producing an output image. The method comprising the steps of, for a first image point located at first spatial coordinates:—analysing intensity levels of the input image in a first vicinity of the first image point for calculating... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080317371 - Video noise reduction: A video noise reduction technique is presented. Generally, the technique involves first decomposing each frame of the video into low-pass and high-pass frequency components. Then, for each frame of the video after the first frame, an estimate of a noise variance in the high pass component is obtained. The noise... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080317372 - Method and apparatus for enhancing image, and image-processing system using the same: Provided is an apparatus and method for enhancing an image by optimizing exposure and grayscale. The apparatus includes a component-extracting unit separating luminance signals and color signals from input image signals; a luminance-enhancing unit enhancing the luminance of the luminance signals; and a contrast-enhancing unit dividing the luminance signal having... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080317373 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, recording medium, and program: An image processing apparatus includes a ridge strength detecting unit for detecting a ridge strength that is the strength of a ridge included in an image. When a pixel value is changed in the form of a pulse in accordance with a positional change in a region that includes a... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080317375 - Apparatus and methods for image restoration: The present invention relates to an apparatus and methods for performing image restoration. More specifically, the present invention relates to an apparatus and methods which are capable of quickly restoring various sizes of selected areas of an image. In one embodiment, a user may select or mark a target region... Agent: Howrey LLP-hn

20080317376 - Automatic image correction providing multiple user-selectable options: An arrangement is provided for automatically correcting a digital image by first examining the image to determine the class or type of correction that is needed to produce a more accurate rendition. The classes or types of corrections may include such items as exposure, color, depth of field, sharpness, distortion,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080317377 - Image coding apparatus and image coding method: The image coding apparatus according to the present invention is an image coding apparatus, including an imaging unit, a chroma quantization width adjustment unit configured to determine a chroma quantization width using a first method when the amount of the incident light on the imaging unit is larger than the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080317374 - Method of modifying brightness of color pixels: An apparatus includes an extractor, a first subtractor, a second subtractor, a third subtractor, an offset generator and an adder. The extractor receives the color pixel and to provides a first, a second, and a third image value, wherein the first, the second, and the third image values are associated... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080317378 - Digital image enhancement with reference images: A digital image processing technique is for detecting and correcting visual imperfections using a reference image. A main image and one or more reference images having a temporal and/or spatial overlap and/or proximity with the original image are captured. Device information, image data and/or meta data are analyzed of the... Agent: Tessera/fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20080317379 - Digital image enhancement with reference images: A digital image processing technique detects and corrects visual imperfections using a reference image. A main image and one or more reference images having a temporal and/or spatial overlap and/or proximity with the original image are captured. Device information, image data and/or meta data are analyzed of the one or... Agent: Tessera/fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20080317381 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program therefor: An image processing apparatus capable of reducing operator's waiting time and improving operating feeling and productivity. To carry out remote print, image is read. As a result of an operator's UI operation, if only part of the read image is required to continue image processing, the order of vectorization processing... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080317380 - System and method for detecting blemishes on image sensor package: A system for detecting blemishes on an image sensor package includes an initialization module configured for initializing a suspected blemish standard mean value range and a blemish standard deviation value; an image capturing module configured for capturing an image produced by the image sensor package and acquiring a brightness value... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080317382 - Adaptive point-based elastic image registration: A point-based elastic registration method for registering a first image and a second image. Initially, a single control point is randomly placed (S2) with the source image region and optimal parameter settings in respect thereof are determined (S3) for performing elastic deformation (S4) in respect of the first image so... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080317383 - Adaptive point-based elastic image registration: A point-based elastic registration method for registering a first image and a second image. A number of prominent feature are identified within the first image using a SIFT algorithm (S1). Then, a single control point is placed (S2) with the source image region at the most prominent SIFT feature and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080317384 - Process for tag imaging and decoding of machine readable coded data: Provided is a process for tag imaging and decoding of machine readable coded data which comprises a plurality of layouts. Each layout has at least order n rotational symmetry, where n is at least two. The layout encodes a first codeword comprising a sequence of at least n first symbols,... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080317385 - Storage medium storing an information processing program, information processing apparatus and information processing method: A game apparatus includes a camera cartridge, and detects a plurality of feature points from a facial image of a user photographed by the camera cartridge. The game apparatus calculates areas of black eye regions of a left eye and a right eye by utilizing the plurality of feature points.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20080317386 - Playback of digital images: A method of displaying digital images is described in which a display length indicator is received and digital images are accessed. A set of digital images are selected from the accessed digital images in accordance with the display length indicator and displayed in a predetermined order. The method may be... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080317387 - Perspective editing tools for 2-d images: Methods and apparatus, including computer systems and program products, to provide an image editing application including a perspective editing tool for performing edits in regions of an image having perspective. The perspective editing tool enables the user to identify one or more regions having perspective, i.e., perspective areas. The user... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080317388 - Smart erasure brush: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for erasing in a digital image. A method includes identifying a plurality of tip regions on the image, establishing an erasure color, and completely erasing pixels in the tip region that have a color matching the erasure color. Pixels having partially matching colors... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080310672 - Embedding and detecting hidden information: A novel method is disclosed for embedding hidden information in a document comprising characters, including: determining hidden information to be embedded in each class of layout transformation respectively; acquiring a code sequence for each class of layout transformation by coding the hidden information to be embedded in the class of... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080310675 - Faux-transparency method and device: A method and a device for producing faux-transparency of an object are disclosed and claimed wherein an ikon display device (IDD) is interposed between a viewer and object, which obstructs a background view from the viewer, and wherein an ikon acquiring device (IAD) acquires an ikon of the background, and... Agent: Denis Richard O''brien C/o Vermette & Co.

20080310674 - Seed sorter: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for sorting seeds based on identified phenotypes of the seeds. In various embodiments, the system includes an optics and controller station structured and operable to collect image data of a top portion, a bottom portion and a plurality of side portions of each... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080310673 - System reactions to the detection of embedded watermarks in a digital host content: Methods for adapting the operation of a system in response to the detection of embedded watermarks from a digital host content are provided. A digital host content is received and examined for the presence of watermarks. In response to the detection of embedded watermarks and in accordance with the value,... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080310676 - Method and system for optoelectronic detection and location of objects: Disclosed are methods and systems for optoelectronic detection and location of moving objects. The disclosed methods and systems capture one-dimensional images of a field of view through which objects may be moving, make measurements in those images, select from among those measurements those that are likely to correspond to objects... Agent: Cognex Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080310677 - Object detection system and method incorporating background clutter removal: A method and system for optically detecting an object within a field of view where detection is difficult because of background clutter within the field of view that obscures the object. A camera is panned with movement of the object to motion stabilize the object against the background clutter while... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20080310678 - Pedestrian detecting apparatus: A first pedestrian judging unit judges, on the basis of the size and motion state of a target three-dimensional object, whether the object is a pedestrian. A second pedestrian judging unit judges, on the basis of shape data on the object, whether the object is a pedestrian. A pedestrian judging... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080310680 - Frontal view imaging and control device installed on movable object: A frontal view imaging and control device installed on a movable object, includes: an image input unit receiving an image taken by an image device that captures a region of a road surface in a predetermined direction; a projection transformation unit linking each pixel of the image onto a virtual... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080310679 - Vehicle and lane mark recognizer: A vehicle capable of preventing detection of stud-type lane marks from being impossible and a vehicle having a lane mark recognizer are provided. The vehicle includes installation interval recognizing means (21) which recognizes an interval (L) between Botts Dots, vehicle speed recognizing means (22) which recognizes a traveling speed (v)... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080310681 - Method and system for three-dimensional feature attribution through synergy of rational polynomial coefficients and projective geometry: A method is provided for generating height information for an image point on a rectified image from first and second aerial images having respective first and second sets of rational polynomial coefficients (RPCs), the first and second aerial images and the rectified image including overlapping image locations. The method comprises... Agent: Ulmer & Berne LLP/ Oin

20080310682 - System and method for real-time calculating location: Provided is a system and method for providing location information of robot in real time using an artificial mark. The system includes: an image processing module for obtaining an image signal by photographing artificial marks installed at a predetermined space with a space coordinate and detecting an image coordinate of... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080310683 - Computer-based communication systems and arrangements associated therewith for indicating user status: A communication system for multiple users whereby an automatic indication of away status is prompted immediately upon a user's departure from the vicinity of a computer or other medium. In a preferred embodiment, this is accomplished, in an instant messaging environment, via a video camera arrangement whereby, upon there being... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20080310684 - Data acquisition for classifying slaughtered animal bodies and for their qualitative and quantitative determination: In accordance with the invention, during error recognition of contours of a slaughtered animal body which have complex structures and which are to be distinguished and identified with respect to each other, an operator at a workstation in the form of a PC interacts with the computer and provides sufficient... Agent: Michael J. Striker

20080310685 - Methods and systems for refining text segmentation results: Aspects of the present invention relate to systems and methods for refining text segmentation results.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080310688 - Automated indexing for distributing event photography: The present method relates to the automated indexing of event images for distribution. The automated indexing can use automated facial recognition to determine which people are in each image. The images indexed in this fashion can be presented in a gallery, ordered by characteristics of the people in the images... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20080310686 - Digital camera system and method of storing image data: A method of managing image data may include imaging a forward scene with a first camera assembly to generate a forward scene image file. A rearward scene may be imaged with a second camera assembly to generate rearward scene image data. Data derived from the rearward scene image data may... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080310687 - Face recognition using discriminatively trained orthogonal tensor projections: Systems and methods are described for face recognition using discriminatively trained orthogonal rank one tensor projections. In an exemplary system, images are treated as tensors, rather than as conventional vectors of pixels. During runtime, the system designs visual features—embodied as tensor projections—that minimize intraclass differences between instances of the same... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080310690 - Biometrical feature inputting system, image synthesizing apparatus, and image synthesizing method: A biometrical feature inputting system including: an imager placed in front of a finger, for imaging an image of a front face of the finger, and an image of either one of lateral faces of the finger; a reflector placed on at least one side of lateral faces of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080310689 - System and method for operating a moveable barrier operator: The presence of a first human fingerprint at the fingerprint scanner. The first human fingerprint is analyzed to determine whether the first human fingerprint has been previously learned by the barrier movement operator. When the first human fingerprint is determined to be previously learned, a first command is sent to... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080310691 - Systems and methods for fingerprint matching: A fingerprint matching system includes a first minutiae obtaining unit and a second minutiae obtaining unit adapted to obtain minutiae information of first and second fingerprints. On the minutiae of the first fingerprint, a deformable mesh is constructed by a mesh construction unit, and a mesh transformation unit is used... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080310692 - System and method of organism identification: A system and method for identifying organisms by analysis of scattergrams of colonies is disclosed. cattergrams are obtained by culturing samples and illuminating the resultant colonies by a laser. The forward scattered light is imaged and subject to a feature extraction process. The feature vector may include Zernike or Chebyshev... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080310694 - Image processing device and image processing program storage medium: An image processing device has: an image acquisition section that acquires a plurality of photographic images obtained by photographing the same subject at different photography times; and a part identification section that identifies a portion where a predetermined part among parts that form the subject in the photographic images appears.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080310693 - Polyp identification through subtraction of models of medical images: A method of identifying polyps and in a medical image is provided. In a first step, a 3-dimensional model is made of the medical image that contains both polyps (if any were present in the original medical image) and folds. Next, a second 3-dimensional model of the medical image, which... Agent: Lumen Ips

20080310698 - Image acquisition, archiving and rendering system and method for reproducing imaging modality examination parameters used in an initial examination for use in subsequent radiological imaging: A CT- or MRT-assisted image acquisition, image archiving and image rendering system allows generation, storage, post-processing, retrieval and graphical visualization of computed or magnetic resonance tomography image data that, for example, can be used in the clinical field in the framework of radiological slice image diagnostics as well as in... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080310695 - Locally adaptive nonlinear noise reduction: An imaging scanner (10) acquires imaging data. A reconstruction processor (30) reconstructs the imaging data into an unfiltered reconstructed image. A local noise mapping processor (64, 120, 136, 140, 142, 152) generates a noise map (68, 68′, 68″) representative of spatially varying noise characteristics in the unfiltered reconstructed image. A... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080310696 - Method and apparatus for correcting motion in multi-shot diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging: A method for performing motion correction in an autocalibrated, multi-shot diffusion-weighting MR imaging data acquisition includes performing motion correction on k-space data in an autocalibration region for each shot individually and then combining the motion-corrected k-space data from each shot to form a motion-corrected reference autocalibration region. Uncorrected source k-space... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080310697 - Method and system of multivariate analysis on normalized volume-wise data in the sinogram domain for improved quality in positron emission tomography studies: A method and system are provided for improving the quality in positron emission tomography (PET) images. PET input data is masked using raw dynamic PET data (sinograms) as input for primary component analysis (PCA) that generates primary components which in turn are used to create a mask. This mask can... Agent: Ge Healthcare, Inc.

20080310699 - Check information tampering detection method: A check processing system enables determining if tampering has occurred while sending check image information captured by a check processing device to a server. The digitally watermarked image information and the magnetic ink character data are then sent through a host computer to the server. If the image information is... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080310700 - Article visual inspection apparatus: An article visual inspection apparatus capable of detecting that the surface conditions of an article are so inferior as to render the article unusable as a product and rejecting the same as a defective article by inspecting the article for external defects, occurring on the surface of the article, such... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080310702 - Defect inspection device and defect inspection method: In an apparatus for photographing an image of a product to judge whether or not a defect is present, a manufacturing desirable image is formed from data acquired when the product was designed, which could be obtained if no defect was present when the product was photographed, an inspection portion... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080310701 - Method and apparatus for visually inspecting an object: A method comprises projecting a light and shade pattern defined by preset optic parameters through a body, detecting an image of the light and shade pattern through the body to obtain a detected image, processing the detected image to highlight any irregularities of the light and shade pattern in the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080310703 - Method for inspecting photomask and real-time online method for inspecting photomask: A method for inspecting a photomask is provided, which is applicable for the photomask with a pattern region and a blank region. First, a wafer is performed a photolithography process by the photomask. The wafer includes a plurality of exposure regions, each of which has a component pattern region. Each... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080310704 - Scanning electron microscope and method of imaging an object by using the scanning electron microscope: A scanning electron microscope capable of modifying the focal position of a condenser lens with high speed and high reproducibility in order that low-magnification images are obtained at large depths of focus and that high-magnification images are obtained at high resolution. The microscope has a specimen-holding portion, an electron beam... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080310705 - Legged locomotion robot: A robot capable of performing appropriate movement control while reducing arithmetic processing for recognizing the shape of a floor. The robot sets a predetermined landing position of steps of the legs on a present assumed floor, which is a floor represented by floor shape information used for a current motion... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080310706 - Projective transformation convergence calculation method: A method for performing a convergence calculation using a projective transformation between images captured by two cameras to observe a flat part of an object in the images, wherein a computational load is reduced while securing a convergence property of the convergence calculation. Initial values (n0(i), d0(i)) are set to... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080310708 - Method for improving image viewing properties of an image: An image processing method for improving image viewing properties of a digital image is disclosed. The method comprises converting a value of a property of at least one pixel of the image into a display value of the at least one pixel of the image by means of a parameterized... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080310707 - Virtual reality enhancement using real world data: Techniques for enhancing virtual reality using transformed real world data are disclosed. In some aspects, a composite reality engine receives a transmission of the real world data that is captured by embedded sensors situated in the real world. The real world data is transformed and integrated with virtual reality data... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080310709 - Annotating video segments using feature rhythm models: Each video segment in a plurality of video segments is annotated with an indicator of the likelihood that the respective video segment shows a particular feature. The plurality of video segments forms an episode of interest from a given video domain. Initial feature probabilities are calculated for respective ones of... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080310710 - Direct calibration of color imaging devices: A system for and method of determining calibration parameters while only capturing a single image is described herein. Furthermore, traditional calibration algorithms are avoided by the direct determination of the calibration parameters. The determination of the calibration parameters is possible by first determining a training data set from images acquired... Agent: Jonathan O. Wens Haverstock & Owens LLP

20080310711 - Image processing apparatus and control method thereof: An image processing apparatus, includes: a contrast enhancer which changes a color coordinate value of a color correction region in an image signal, which corresponds to a color to be corrected within the image signal, to a corrected color coordinate value in a range to perform a color correction; and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080310713 - Image processing method and apparatus: An image processing method aims to optimally improve a brightness distribution with respect to brightness of a face being a main subject of a person image. Thus, the method consists of: a brightness component extraction step of extracting a brightness component from image data; a low-frequency brightness component extraction step... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080310712 - Method and system to detect and correct whiteness with a digital image: A method and system to detect and correct teeth whiteness within a digital image is disclosed. Many images would be more aesthetically pleasing if the teeth of individuals within the image were whitened to reduce discoloration. In one embodiment of the present invention, the teeth of individuals within a digital... Agent: Image Trends, Inc.

20080310714 - Method and apparatus for enhancing images: A method and an apparatus for enhancing images are provided. An input image generated by an imaging device, such as a short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) camera, sensor, or any other imaging device, is processed to produce an input histogram representing the distribution of pixel intensities in the input image. Histogram start... Agent: Mccarter & English, LLP

20080310717 - Apparatus and method for image labeling: An apparatus for labelling images comprises a segmentation processor (103) which segments an image into image segments. A segment label processor (105) assigns segment labels to the image segments and a relation processor (107) determines segment relations for the image segments. A CRP model processor (109) generates a Constraint Reasoning... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080310715 - Applying a segmentation engine to different mappings of a digital image: An image processing method includes applying a segmentation engine to different mappings of a digital image, and using the different segmented mappings to identify segments in the digital image.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080310716 - Editing of pre-segmented images using seeds derived from contours: A method for processing an object in image data includes the steps of drawing a contour on a pre-segmentation of an object in image data, generating at least one seed point on the pre-segmentation from an intersection of the contour and the pre-segmentation, providing a weighting factor between the seed... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080310719 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium: An image processing apparatus includes an analyzing unit configured to analyze an incomplete portion of input image data; and an obtaining unit configured to identify a storage location of original data corresponding to the input image data from the input image data, and to obtain the original data from the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080310718 - Information extraction in a natural language understanding system: A method of extracting information from text within a natural language understanding system can include processing a text input through at least one statistical model for each of a plurality of features to be extracted from the text input. For each feature, at least one value can be determined, at... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C. Kevin T. Cuenot

20080310720 - Object pose normalization method and apparatus and object recognition method: An object pose normalization method and apparatus and an object recognition method are provided. The object pose normalization method includes: determining a pose of a non-frontal image of an object; performing smoothing transformation on the non-frontal image of the object, thereby generating a smoothed object image; and synthesizing a frontal... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080310722 - Identifying character information in media content: Implementations of identifying character information in media content are described. In one implementation, a frame of media content is marked with a frame identifier including one or more known characters. These known characters can uniquely identify the frame of media content. During transmission, compression, decompression, etc., of the frame, loss... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080310721 - Method and apparatus for recognizing characters in a document image: A method of recognizing characters in a document image comprises examining the intensity of pixels in the document image and identifying a peak intensity deemed to represent foreground in the document image. A threshold level for distinguishing the foreground from background in the document image as a function of the... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080310723 - Text prediction with partial selection in a variety of domains: A computing system may predict a word based on received user input that selects a part of the word (e.g., the first characters, the first root, etc.). Specifically, a program, when run on the computing system, may perform a method including creating a candidate list of words based on received... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080310724 - Text conversion apparatus capable of relieving inputting load and a method therefor: A text input device receives, in its information input circuit, a letter indicating a destination of transmission as information on the destination of transmission. The text input device stores, in its word-finder with learning function, an input text and an output text in a state correlated with the information on... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080310726 - Face detection method and digital camera: A face detection method is provided, including: classifying into levels time-wise continuously captured images by increasing/reducing the total number of pixels; selecting sequentially and reading out image data for all of the levels using read-out units of the same size of pixels, or a smaller size of pixels, as those... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080310725 - Image processing apparatus and method and program: An image processing apparatus includes the following elements. An image storing section stores a plurality of images related to time information. A feature extracting section extracts feature amounts of each image stored in the image storing section. An image selecting section that selects at least one of images included in... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080310728 - Method and system for side detection of 3d undetailed ear impressions: A method and system for side detection of an undetailed 3D ear impression is disclosed. In order to determine whether a received 3D undetailed ear impression is a left or right ear impression, a local coordinate system of the 3D undetailed ear is defined based on side independent features of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080310727 - Moving image analyzing apparatus, method and system: The present invention provides a moving image analyzing apparatus, method and system. The moving image analyzing apparatus comprises a moving image reading means for reading a moving image, a region-of-interest extracting means for extracting a region-of-interest from each frame in the moving image, an object feature extracting means for extracting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080310729 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and image forming apparatus: The number of pixels in an identified pixel region is counted, a feature point of the pixel region is extracted and the number of the feature points is counted when the number of the pixels counted has been determined to be equal to or higher than a first threshold value,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080310730 - Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image processing system, and image processing method: There are provided: a pattern detection process section for extracting a partial image made of pixels including a target pixel from input image data; a displaced image generation section for generating a self-displaced image by displacing at least a part of the partial image through a predetermined method; and a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080310731 - Methods and apparatus for providing a scalable identification of digital video sequences: Scaleable video sequence processing with various filtering rules is applied to extract dominant features, and generate unique set of signatures based on video content. Video sequence structuring and subsequent video sequence characterization is performed by tracking statistical changes in the content of a succession of video frames and selecting suitable... Agent: Priest & Goldstein PLLC

20080310732 - Contour recovery of occluded objects in images: The present invention relates to a method, apparatus and computer program product for providing contour information related to images. An image obtaining unit obtains a set of interrelated images (step 26), an image segmenting unit segments said images, (step 28) and a contour determining unit (22) extracts at least two... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080310733 - Facade rendering system: A façade rendering system is described. In various embodiments, the façade rendering system identifies horizontal waveforms and vertical waveforms from an image of a structure, combines the identified horizontal and vertical waveforms to generate façade waveforms that model a façade of the structure, and renders the façade waveforms as a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080310735 - Anomalous change detection in imagery: A distribution-based anomaly detection platform is described that identifies a non-flat background that is specified in terms of the distribution of the data. A resampling approach is also disclosed employing scrambled resampling of the original data with one class specified by the data and the other by the explicit distribution,... Agent: John P. O'banion O'banion & Ritchey LLP

20080310734 - High speed video action recognition and localization: An apparatus for detecting an action in a test video. In an illustrative embodiment, the apparatus includes a first mechanism for receiving a query for a particular action via a query video. A second mechanism employs motion vectors associated with the test video to compute one or more motion-similarity values.... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080310736 - Smart visual comparison of graphical user interfaces: The subject disclosure pertains to systems providing a smart visual comparison system, comprising a data compilation component that gathers control information relating to a first image and a second image, and a comparison component that identifies elements represented in the first and second image and compares the elements in the... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080310737 - Exemplar-based heterogeneous compositional method for object classification: A method for automatically generating a strong classifier for determining whether at least one object is detected in at least one image is disclosed, comprising the steps of: (a) receiving a data set of training images having positive images; (b) randomly selecting a subset of positive images from the training... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler P.C.

20080310738 - Device for outputting character recognition results, character recognition device, and program therefor: An output mechanism of a character recognition device includes a category classifier for classifying image data of characters to be recognized for each category recognized in character recognition processing, a clustering processor for determining feature values related to shapes of characters included in the image data in each category classified... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20080310739 - Moving picture compression coding apparatus: A moving picture compression coding apparatus divides a screen into at least three regions and performs compression coding for the at least three regions by encoding units. The moving picture compression coding apparatus includes a coding control unit configured to control the encoding units to encode the data for different... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080310741 - Method for progressive jpeg image decoding: A progressive JPEG image decoding method is provided. In the decoding method, a non-zero history table and a sign table of each variable length decoding (VLD) result are recorded and used as a reference for decoding the next scan layer. The decoded coefficients are no longer directly stored in a... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080310740 - Multi-mode image processing: The invention is applied to image processing schemes by providing at least one auxiliary block processing mode in addition to the standard default block processing mode of the scheme. An image to be decoded is divided into a number of image blocks (800) having multiple image elements (810). These blocks... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080310742 - Apparatus and method employing pre-atr-based real-time compression and video frame segmentation: One subject of this invention is the development of a novel region of interest (ROI) method, or Frame Segmentation Method that can be provided within a video stream, in real-time, or more precisely within a few milliseconds of video frame duration of 30 msec, or even in the sub-millisecond range.... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20080310745 - Adaptive coefficient scanning in video coding: This disclosure describes techniques for scanning coefficients of video blocks, e.g., quantized and transformed coefficients. Rather than use conventional zig-zag scanning, the techniques of this disclosure adapt the scanning order based on statistics associated with previously coded blocks that were coded in the same prediction mode. For each prediction mode,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080310744 - Method and apparatus for intraprediction encoding/decoding using image inpainting: A method and apparatus for intraprediction encoding/decoding is provided. The method includes performing image inpainting based on pixels included in a previously encoded region of a current picture among pixels that are adjacent to a boundary between a current block and the previously encoded region of the current picture in... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080310743 - Optimizing pixel labels for computer vision applications: Computer vision applications often require each pixel within an image to be assigned one of a set of labels. A method of improving the labels assigned to pixels is described which uses the quadratic pseudoboolean optimization (QPBO) algorithm. Starting with a partially labeled solution, an unlabeled pixel is assigned a... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080310746 - Apparatus and method for generating chain code: Disclosed are a chain code generating apparatus and a method thereof. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the chain code generating apparatus can include an image input unit, receiving an image signal from a camera and converting the received image signal to a digital image signal, and... Agent: Neal, Gerber, & Eisenberg

20080310747 - 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.

20080310748 - Image processor, image-processing method, and computer-readable medium: An image processor has: a unit that executes a conversion process on input image data represented by pixels of M grayscales (M≧3), to convert the input data into output image data represented by sub-pixels of two grayscales; and a unit that outputs the output data, wherein the conversion process includes:... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20080310749 - Method and apparatus for image processing: An image processing method and an image processing apparatus are provided. After receiving an image signal, the image and apparatus according to the invention first judge whether a target block in the image signal includes a non-chroma line. If the judging result is YES, a first edge detection procedure will... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080310750 - Adaptive post-deringing filter on compressed images: An image filtering method, apparatus and system, wherein the method comprising the steps of detecting at least one portion of an edge, wherein the portion of the edge provides an indication that ringing artifact are probable; subjecting at least one portion of a pixel, related to the at least a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080310751 - Method and apparatus for providing a variable blur: A de-noising circuit for filtering image data is provided. The denoising circuit includes a buffer for storing a portion of the image data and detail detection circuitry configured to determine a filter coefficient to be applied to a reference pixel value within the portion of the image data. A blur... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080310752 - Method and apparatus for contrast enhancement: A method of enhancing a contrast and an apparatus for enhancing a contrast are provided. The method of enhancing the contrast includes: dividing an image into a plurality of blocks and calculating an average luminance value of each block; interpolating a peripheral luminance value for each input pixel of the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080310753 - Method and system to detect and correct shine: A method and system to detect and correct shine within a digital image is disclosed. Many images would be more aesthetically pleasing if the shine, or reflectance, from was reduced. In one embodiment of the present invention, shine on the skin of a individual in a digital image is reduced... Agent: Image Trends, Inc.

20080310754 - System and method for assembling substantially distortion-free images: Exemplary systems and methods are provided for imaging a unit under test. Orientation of an imaging system is determined with a machine vision system, a unit under test is scanned with the imaging system, and the scanned image is processed into a substantially distortion-free image. The scanned image may be... Agent: Boeing (tlg) C/o Toler Law Group

20080310755 - Capturing long-range correlations in patch models: Systems and methodologies for modeling data in accordance with one or more embodiments disclosed herein are operable to receive input data, create data patches from the input data, obtain long-range correlations between the data patches, and model the input data as a patch model based at least in part on... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080310757 - System and related methods for automatically aligning 2d images of a scene to a 3d model of the scene: A system and related method for automatically aligning a plurality of 2D images of a scene to a first 3D model of the scene. The method includes providing a plurality of 2D images of the scene, generating a second 3D model of the scene based on the plurality of 2D... Agent: Sheldon Mak Rose & Anderson PC

20080310756 - System, computer program and method for 3d object measurement, modeling and mapping from single imagery: A method for deriving three-dimensional measurement information and/or creating three-dimensional models and maps, from single images of at least one three-dimensional object is provided. The method includes the steps of: (a) obtaining at least one two-dimensional single image of the object, the image consisting of image data and being associated... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080310758 - Image processing method and image processing apparatus: When a multi-level image having a first resolution is converted into a multi-level image having a second resolution lower than the first resolution, attribute data including a conversion processed flag indicating a kind of conversion and a conversion result is generated and held associated with pixel data of a pixel... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080310759 - Generic face alignment via boosting: There is provided a discriminative framework for image alignment. Image alignment is generally the process of moving and deforming a template to minimize the distance between the template and an image. There are essentially three elements to image alignment, namely template representation, distance metric, and optimization method. For template representation,... Agent: General Electric Company (pcpi) C/o Fletcher Yoder

20080310760 - Method, a system and a computer program for volumetric registration: The invention relates to a method for volumetric registration of a floating image with a reference image. At step 2′ a floating image and a reference image are accessed. At step 4 and at step 6 a transformation function T and a similarity function (S) are accessed. The method according... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080310761 - Image process method and apparatus for image enlargement and enhancement: An image processing device includes an image acquisition module, a memory module, and an image signal processing module, for performing an image enlargement and enhancement. The image acquisition module sequentially reads in an image block, including a unit pixel matrix and an exterior pixel matrix, wherein each pixel matrix includes... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080310763 - Network system: A network system in which a client device is connected to a server via a LAN. A CPU in the client device obtains date data of respective still picture files from the respective servers and generates representative thumbnail picture. Subsequently, the CPU in the client device generates a directory of... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080310762 - System and method for generating and regenerating 3d image files based on 2d image media standards: Disclosed are a system and a method for generating and regenerating three-dimensional (3D) image files based on two-dimensional (2D) image media standards. The system includes a 3D image file generating device for generating a 3D image file including a data area, which includes a first image data and a second... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080310764 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and recording medium: An information processing apparatus includes reproduction control means for controlling reproduction of a first parameter in order to reproduce an edit applied to a first image, generation means for generating a second parameter from a plurality of first parameters reproduced by the reproduction control means, and edit means for editing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080310765 - Optoelectric sensor and method for the detection of codes:

20080304697 - Apparatus and methods for interfacing reprographic and imaging systems with multiple set finishing devices: Reprographic or imaging systems and methods issue a command to place multiple finishing devices into an alternating delivery mode such that consecutive sets are sent to different finishing devices, rather than to the same finishing device.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20080304702 - Blind detection for digital cinema: The invention relates to embedding in, as well as to extracting a payload from a motion image signal. Furthermore, the invention relates to a motion image signal. A payload is embedded in the motion image signal by the following steps. A first and an at least second watermark are represented... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080304699 - Face feature point detection apparatus and method of the same: An image input unit configured to enter a face image, a search area and scale setting unit configured to set a search area and a scale, an image feature point detection unit configured to detect image feature points selected from local image information of respective points, a first dictionary storing... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080304700 - Image forming apparatus and method of image forming: An apparatus for and a method of image forming which embeds digital watermark information into an image data of a document and outputs the image data that includes determining the page of the document in which the digital watermark information is to be embedded based on a predetermined condition, the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080304701 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus in which a specific image including regulation information and a specific image including trace information are attached so that the specific images are different from each other is provided. An image processing apparatus 1 of the present invention is provided with an image reading section 210,... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080304703 - Image reading apparatus capable of reading infrared and visible images: An image reading apparatus includes a light source with a first luminescent portion that outputs light with a first wavelength range and a second luminescent portion that outputs light with a second wavelength range, the wavelength ranges being different from each other; a light-receiving portion that receives light reflected from... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080304696 - Infrared encoding for embedding multiple variable data information collocated in printed documents: The teachings as provided herein relate to a watermark embedded in an image that has the property of being relatively indecipherable under normal light by including a distraction pattern, and yet remains decipherable under infrared illumination when viewed by a suitable infrared sensitive instrument. This infrared mark comprises, a substrate... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20080304695 - Method that improves human interpretation of color images with limited spectral content: The present invention relates to image processing in general and more specifically to methods and means facilitating the human detection of physical object representations in colour images with a wide range of applications such as aviation and air transport, land transportation, shipping, submarine work, underwater inspections, medical investigations, marine archaeology,... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080304698 - Selection of regions within an image: Apparatus having corresponding methods and computer-readable media comprise a first input circuit to receive first data describing a first region of an image, the first region identified based on user markups of the image; a second input circuit to receive second data describing at least one of a second region... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080304704 - system for virtually distributing mailpieces: displaying a dynamic dialogue box on at least one consultation screen of a final recipient, said dynamic dialogue box including at least one counter whose value depends on the number of images that are assigned to the pigeonhole of said final recipient and that are accessible on said first server... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080304706 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: There is provided an information processing apparatus, comprising: an obtaining unit which obtains video data captured by an image capturing apparatus disposed in a monitored space, location information regarding a location of a moving object in the monitored space, and existence information regarding a capturing period of the moving object... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080304707 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program: An information processing apparatus that executes processing for creating an environmental map includes a camera that photographs an image, a self-position detecting unit that detects a position and a posture of the camera on the basis of the image, an image-recognition processing unit that detects an object from the image,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080304705 - System and method for side vision detection of obstacles for vehicles: This invention provides a system and method for object detection and collision avoidance for objects and vehicles located behind the cab or front section of an elongated, and possibly tandem, vehicle. Through the use of narrow-baseline stereo vision that can be vertically oriented relative to the ground/road surface, the system... Agent: Cognex Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080304708 - Device and method for creating a saliency map of an image: i

20080304709 - Image processing method for a tft lcd: Image compression, decompression and motion detection methods are described. Two temporally adjacent frame images, a previous time frame and a current time frame, are compressed in round-off and averaging techniques. Next, according to the compressed data of two corresponding pixels of the two frame images, whether or not the pixel... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080304710 - Method and apparatus for processing image of at least one seedling: In one embodiment, a method of processing a source image of at least one seedling may include: a) segmenting the source image into at least a foreground portion and a background portion to form a segmented image, b) skeletonizing the segmented image to form a skeletonized image, the skeletonized image... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20080304711 - Method of predicting crop yield loss due to n-deficiency: A method for determining the yield loss of a crop using remote sensor data is described. The yield loss is determined using the reflectivity of green light by the crop canopy measured from remote sensor data such as an aerial photograph that is digitized and spatially referenced to the field's... Agent: Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC

20080304712 - Apparatus and method of biometric determination using specialized optical spectroscopy systems: Methods and apparatuses for performing biometric determinations using optical spectroscopy of tissue. The biometric determinations that are disclosed include determination or verifications of identity, estimation of age, estimation of sex, determination of sample liveness and sample authenticity. The apparatuses disclosed are based upon discrete light sources such as light emitting... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080304713 - Image display method and system thereof: The present invention relates to an image display method and system thereof. When displaying an image, a picture is captured. A calculated number of human eyes is determined from the picture to quantify the attraction of the image for the crowd. And then, a reasonable charged fee is calculated.... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080304718 - Device and method for creating photo album: A device for automatically creating a photo album is disclosed. A face detection unit detects faces from an inputted image, an inclination determining unit determines an inclination of the inputted image based on inclinations of the faces, a temporary trimming reference area determining unit determines a trimming reference area containing... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080304716 - Face recognition device: A face recognition device of the present invention comprises a plurality of imaging devices capable of simultaneously capturing the face of a person from directions different from one another, and a storage device, the device further comprising: a depression/protrusion data determination device determining data indicating difference of areas of portions... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080304717 - Individual identification data register: The individual identification data register of the present invention includes: a storage device storing projection matrix data showing a projection matrix generated from plural image data showing plural persons' faces and individual identification data showing a component value indicating a registered person's facial feature; and an arithmetic processing device executing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080304715 - Individual-identifying communication system and program executed in individual-identifying communication system: An individual-identifying communication system of the present invention comprises an imaging device; a display device capable of displaying an image based on image data obtained by said imaging device; a selection device for selecting a predetermined area within the displayed image; a storage device storing plural standard face information data... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080304714 - Pairwise feature learning with boosting for use in face detection: Systems and methods for training an AdaBoost based classifier for detecting symmetric objects, such as human faces, in a digital image. In one example embodiment, such a method includes first selecting a sub-window of a digital image. Next, the AdaBoost based classifier extracts multiple sets of two symmetric scalar features... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080304719 - Bi-directional handwriting insertion and correction: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for providing bi-handwriting directional handwriting recognition and correction. A combined handwriting recognizer is provided that supports left-to-right and right-to-left language recognition by using a combined dictionary. The combined dictionary includes a dictionary from a language in a first direction, along with a backwards version... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080304723 - Bio-reader device with ticket identification: A method and device for determining a concentration of a biological target. The method and device include: capturing an image of a ticket including the biological target and information about the ticket; selecting pre-determined data corresponding to the ticket and the target responsive to the read information about the ticket;... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080304720 - Channel apparatus for focusing a fluid flow: Disclosed is a focusing channel device which focuses fluid containing micro particles so that the micro particles flow in a line. The channel device comprises a nozzle formed by left and right walls each of which comprises an inclination surface. The cross sectional area in vertical direction decreases from the... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080304724 - Endoscopic image viewing program and method: A computer is caused to perform a process for displaying an endoscopic image, including displaying an endoscopic image on a display, displaying overlay information on the displayed endoscopic image, and changing a position of the displayed overlay information in accordance with a change in the displaying of the endoscopic image.... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080304721 - Image detection method for diagnostic plates: The present invention relates to an image detection method for diagnostic plates, which detects the changes of signal lines in multiple assay regions at the same time, and promotes the detection efficiency remarkably. The diagnostic plates in the present invention may comprise Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, and comprise at... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080304725 - Method and device for preparing an implant from an implant material: A method and device for preparing an implant from an implant material are provided. A defect image of the defect which has a defect contour is made available, in which a first calibration member arranged in or adjacent to the defect is displayed. A second calibration member is arranged on... Agent: Lipsitz & Mcallister, LLC

20080304722 - System and method for assessing image interpretability in anatomic pathology: A portion of imagery data is obtained from a digital slide and a protocol of image analysis/diagnostic tasks is performed on the portion of imagery data by a pathologist or an image analysis module. The result of each task (e.g., success or no success) is recorded and a score is... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080304731 - Data processing apparatus, medical diagnostic apparatus, data processing method and medical diagnostic method: A data processing apparatus includes a SNR distribution data generating unit, a filter processing unit, a weighting function generating unit and a corrected data generating unit. The SNR distribution data generating unit generates SNR distribution data of processing target data based on the processing target data. The filter processing unit... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080304729 - Method and apparatus for continuous imaging by ultrasound transducer system: A low profile large aperture matrix based ultrasound transducer fixably attached to the human body by a disposable pad and is used to image the human anatomy. The image tuning and field of view is controlled remotely by inputs to the ultrasound imaging system.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080304727 - Method and apparatus for forming an image with dynamic projective data: An apparatus for forming an image of a body of a patient. The apparatus comprises an energy source which emits energy that passes through the body or which causes the body to emit energy. The apparatus comprises at least one detector element which receives the energy which has pass through,... Agent: Ansel M. Schwartz

20080304728 - Method and system for performing high temporal resolution bolus detection using ct image projection data: A method of evaluating changes in contrast of an image using a diagnostic imaging system is provided. The method provides acquiring raw image data of an organ or tissue, calculating a baseline of data based on the raw image data acquired before arrival of an agent, and determining changes in... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20080304726 - Methods and systems for improving spatial and temporal resolution of computed images of moving objects: A method of improving a resolution of an image using image reconstruction is provided. The method includes acquiring scan data of an object and forward projecting a current image estimate of the scan data to generate calculated projection data. The method also includes applying a data-fit term and a regularization... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080304730 - Ultrasonic image processing apparatus and method for processing ultrasonic image: A contour detector detects the contour of a specific tissue based on ultrasonic image data having been acquired in a predetermined time phase. A contour tracking part obtains the position of each of points composing the contour of a specific tissue in ultrasonic image data having been acquired in each... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080304733 - Apparatus and methods for automated assessment of tissue pathology: Methods and apparatus for assessing tissue pathology involve computing an index having a value based upon measures of a plurality of morphological features of cell nuclei in the tissue. The methods may be performed completely automatically or semi-automatically. The index value can be predictive of outcome. The index value may... Agent: Oyen, Wiggs, Green & Mutala LLP 480 - The Station

20080304732 - Automatic characterization of cellular motion: The present techniques provide for the evaluation of cellular motion and/or cellular properties based on an analysis of motion. In an exemplary technique, images of one or more cells are acquired and motion data for the one or more cells is derived from the images. The motion data is decomposed... Agent: General Electric Company (pcpi) C/o Fletcher Yoder

20080304734 - Alignment correction prio to image sampling in inspection systems: A method and apparatus, and variations of each, for inspecting a wafer defining at least one die thereon is disclosed. The present invention first obtains the electronic image equivalent of two die, and then determines the x and y offset between those electronic images. Prior to inspection for defects, those... Agent: Peters Verny , L.L.P.

20080304735 - Learning object cutout from a single example: Systems and methods are described for learning visual object cutout from a single example. In one implementation, an exemplary system determines the color context near each block in a model image to create an appearance model. The system also learns color sequences that occur across visual edges in the model... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080304737 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: If a pixel of interest on a line of interest is located in an attribute region different from that in which a pixel immediately preceding the pixel of interest is located, the luminance value and color difference values of the pixel of interest are recorded in this order adjacent to... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080304736 - Method of estimating a visual evaluation value of skin beauty: A method of estimating a visual evaluation value of beauty of a skin, and a device and a program for calculating a visual evaluation value of beauty of a skin are provided. Anybody can easily estimate a visual evaluation value of beauty of a skin objectively and quantitatively. A visual... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080304738 - Methods and apparatus for image compression and decompression using graphics processing unit (gpu): The invention provides, in some aspects, methods for image compression that utilize the central processing unit (CPU) of a digital data processor and its associated graphics processing unit (GPU), together, in order to compress an image. In related aspects of the invention, the GPU is adapted to render at least... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20080304739 - Color adjustment apparatus and computer-readable medium: A color adjustment apparatus includes a subspace setting unit, a non-adjustment region setting unit and a color adjustment unit. The subspace setting unit sets a subspace in a color space. The subspace includes an adjustment subject color, which is an adjustment source, and a target color representing an adjustment destination.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080304741 - Automatic detection of calibration charts in images: Methods and apparatuses for locating an embedded color chart in an image are described. In one exemplary method, an image that includes an embedded color chart is located without the intervention of the user. The embedded color chart is verified and used to create a color profile of the image.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080304740 - Salient object detection: Methods for detecting a salient object in an input image are described. For this, the salient object in an image may be defined using a set of local, regional, and global features including multi-scale contrast, center-surround histogram, and color spatial distribution. These features are optimally combined through conditional random field... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080304742 - Combining multiple cues in a visual object detection system: Systems and methods for detecting visual objects by employing multiple cues include statistically combining information from multiple sources into a saliency map, wherein the information may include color, texture and/or motion in an image where an object is to be detected or background determined. The statistically combined information is thresholded... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080304743 - Active segmentation for groups of images: Systems and methods of segmenting images are disclosed herein. The similarity of images in a set of images is compared. A group of images is selected from the set of images. The images in the group of images are selected based on compared similarities among the images. An informative image... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080304745 - Image display apparatus, image display method, and recording medium containing an image-display-method program: An image display apparatus includes a main portion detecting unit configured to perform detection of a main portion of at least one still image from the still image, a cutout unit configured to cut out the main portion from the still image on the basis of a result of the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080304744 - Method for facilitating post-processing of images using deformable meshes: Method and system for facilitating post-processing of images using deformable meshes in which a deformable mesh model of an object such as an organ is extended by attaching information thereon in order to simplify and/or facilitate a desired post-processing task so that the post-processing task effected when the mesh is... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080304746 - Method and apparatus for character string recognition: To provide a method and apparatus for character string recognition that enables improvement in accuracy of character recognition while maintaining high-speed operation performance in character recognition.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080304747 - Identifiers for digital media: A computer-implemented method includes receiving a piece of content, wherein the piece of content comprises a machine-readable identifier, identifying the machine-readable identifier in the piece of content, and associating the machine-readable identifier to the piece of media content.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080304748 - Method and system for line extraction in digital ink: A method and system of line extraction in a digital ink sequence of handwritten text data points is provided in which a stroke sequence comprised of a sequence of strokes is obtained, the strokes are segmented into a sequence of substrokes by applying a stroke segmentation algorithm, angular differences between... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080304749 - Image processing apparatus, image display apparatus, imaging apparatus, method for image processing therefor, and program: An image processing apparatus includes the following elements. An evaluation information storage section stores a plurality of evaluation information sets for determinations as to whether an image subjected to determination is a target image. An image input section inputs an image. A face detection section detects a face included in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080304750 - Pattern feature extraction method and device for the same: An input pattern feature amount is decomposed into element vectors. For each of the feature vectors, a discriminant matrix obtained by discriminant analysis is prepared in advance. Each of the feature vectors is projected into a discriminant space defined by the discriminant matrix and the dimensions are compressed. According to... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080304751 - Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image processing system, and image processing method: There are provided: a pattern detection process section for extracting a partial image made of pixels including a target pixel from input image data; a rotated image generating section for generating a self-rotated image by rotating the partial image; and a matching test determination section for determining whether an image... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080304752 - Systems and methods for detection of an airborne contaminant: A method is provided for detection of an airborne contaminant in a atmospheric environment. The method comprises capturing an air sample from the atmospheric environment; separating candidate particles of interest from particles of non interest in the air sample; generating an image of the candidate particles; identifying a contaminant from... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080304753 - Image processing apparatus and image retrieval method: A image processing apparatus extracts a plurality of feature points, comprising a local feature amount, from an inputted image, and a region information that relates to the feature point, identifies at least one of the plurality of feature points, associates the feature point thus identified with a feature point with... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080304754 - Method and system for targeted marketing by leveraging video-based demographic insights: Demographic and transaction data are presented in a report usable for marketing-related purposes and other applications using a camera apparatus to capture customer image data at a point-of-sale location and sends the image data to a customer image database where the image data is stored. Demographic data (such as gender,... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20080304755 - Face annotation framework with partial clustering and interactive labeling: Systems and methods are described for a face annotation framework with partial clustering and interactive labeling. In one implementation, an exemplary system automatically groups some images of a collection of images into clusters, each cluster mainly including images that contain a person's face associated with that cluster. After an initial... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080304756 - Compressing image data: A method of compressing a digital image comprises dividing 12 the image into cells of constant physical size regardless of resolution of the image to produce cell data for each cell which defines content of the cell and compressing 14 the cell data.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080304758 - Image-signal processing apparatus, image-signal processing method and image-signal processing program: Disclosed herein is an image-signal processing apparatus, including: a band pass filter configured to increase the bit count of an input digital image signal in a bit decompression process and pass on an image signal of a high frequency band; an amplitude limiting section configured to limit the amplitude of... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080304757 - Method and system for unified start code emulation prevention bits processing for avs: Aspects of a method and system for unified start code emulation prevention bits processing for AVS are provided. A Start code emulation prevention bit string with an arbitrary bit string length, for example 2 bits, may be inserted into AVS encoded data. When decoding, the received AVS encoded data may... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080304759 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding image by using inter color compensation: Provided are an image encoding method and apparatus and an image decoding method and apparatus that are capable of canceling a correlation remaining in a residual image by predicting the residual image by using residual pixel values of restored neighboring pixels of a current block and then encoding only the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080304760 - Method and apparatus for illumination compensation and method and apparatus for encoding and decoding image based on illumination compensation: A method and apparatus for compensating for illumination of a reference block and a method and apparatus for encoding an image, using the illumination compensation method and apparatus, are provided. The method of compensating for illumination of a reference block includes: predicting the mean values of pixels of a current... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080304761 - Process and device for the compression of portions of images: The process of compression of a block of a size L.times.H of a sequence of images comprises, in a repetitive manner, for said block: a search step, in one of the images of the sequence of images, for the zone L.times.H pixels the most similar to said block; a step... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080304762 - Image processing apparatus and method: An image, in which a character image and a photographic image are mixed, is efficiently encoded while preventing image quality deterioration. Hence, image data including foreground pixels and background pixels is input. In the image data, first image data is generated by setting a pixel value that does not occur... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080304763 - Transform domain fast mode search for spatial prediction in advanced video coding: This invention is method for determining direction mode for an image block in intra prediction of video frames. The method calculates a plurality of energy terms from the spatial frequency domain image block, then determines a coarse classification from these energy terms. For at least some coarse classifications the method... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080304765 - Image processing apparatus, control method thereof, and program: An image processing apparatus which corrects image data containing an image of a foreign substance, and outputs the corrected image data that has undergone correction as a visible image includes an image pixel count acquisition unit which acquires the number of pixels of the image, an output resolution acquisition unit... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080304764 - Removal of image artifacts from sensor dust: Removal of the effects of dust or other impurities on image data is described. In one example, a model of artifact formation from sensor dust is determined. From the model of artifact formation, contextual information in the image and a color consistency constraint may be applied on the dust to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080304766 - System and method for generating and regenerating 3d image files based on 2d image media standards: Disclosed are a system and a method for generating and regenerating three-dimensional (3D) images file based on two-dimensional (2D) image media standards, a 3D image file generating device for generating a 3D image file having a data area, which includes first image data and second image data synchronized with the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080304767 - Image processing method, image processor, drawing system, and program: An image processing method and image processor obtain image data of piece images and layout information of each piece image, convert the image data into piece drawing data, and then, preferably after performing compression processing on the piece drawing data, arrange the piece drawing data in accordance with the layout... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080304768 - Image forming apparatus and recording medium: The maximum number of scaled images formed for one document and the scaling ratio set for each of scaled images are accepted by an operation panel, the basic scaling ratio is read from a table defining the scaled image arrangement information and the like, the scaling ratio of the original... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080304769 - Common image format file image extraction: A utility is presented that may be used to extract check images and/or other information directly from a Common Import Format File (CIFF) file for presentation to a user. The utility may be used in addition to, and indeed in spite of, an existing check management database system that stores... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007131

20080304770 - Method and apparatus for managing image-processing operations: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for performing image conversion operations. The system starts by receiving a request from a client for one or more pixel buffers containing a pixel-formatted, cropped, geometrically transformed, and/or color matched version of an image representation. The system then determines if a provider... Agent: Pvf -- Apple Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080298633 - Anti-counterfeit measures: A conventional cigarette packet in a transparent film of bi-axially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) with a tear tape for removing the film adhered to the inside of the film. The tear tape bears an indicium which is either hidden or which changes according to the viewing angle when the image is... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080298631 - Computer-readable medium storing information processing program, information processing method and information processing system: An information processing system includes an image output unit, an image reception unit, and a determination unit. The image output unit outputs an image to a document to include first and second images. The first image includes at least one of a character and a symbol which represent at least... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080298632 - Correcting image capture distortion: The present invention relates generally to improving readability of machine-readable information, despite signal capture distortion. One claim recites a method including: obtaining input data; altering a digital watermark or a digital watermarking process to pre-distort a digital watermark signal, wherein the altering is intended to counteract or compensate for expected... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080298634 - Image processing apparatus and method of controlling the same: To provide a technique of embedding information in a document image containing character strings, photos, and graphics, an image processing apparatus for inputting a document image and embedding watermark information by controlling the line spacing between character strings in the document image includes an input unit which inputs a document... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080298635 - Method for identifying images using fixtureless tracking and system for performing same: A method and system for fixtureless vision tracking of a target image for use by the vision system when processing subsequent sheets/documents in a sheet handling apparatus. A sheet of material is passed through the sheet handling system to acquire image data within a field of view of the initialization... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080298637 - Head pose assessment methods and systems: Improvements are provided to effectively assess a user's face and head pose such that a computer or like device can track the user's attention towards a display device(s). Then the region of the display or graphical user interface that the user is turned towards can be automatically selected without requiring... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080298636 - Method for detecting water regions in video: A computer-based method for automatic detection of water regions in a video include the steps of estimating a water map of the video and outputting the water map to an output medium, such as a video analysis system. The method may further include the steps of training a water model... Agent: Venable LLP

20080298638 - Map change detection device, map change detection method, and program: Changes in houses and buildings on a two-dimensional map are detected using three-dimensional data obtained from stereo images. A change detection device that detects changes in features that are targets described on a map has a stereo processor, a feature height calculator, and a demolition and/or new building detector. The... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080298639 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and electronic appliance: In an image processing apparatus, the amount of motion between a low-resolution image as a datum image and each of N low-resolution images is detected and, based on the detected amounts of motion, the datum image, and M consulted images (N>M≧1) selected out of the N low-resolution images, a high-resolution... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080298640 - Method and system for dynamically altering the analysis methodology of millimeter wave imagery in response to the range and direction of motion of a subject: A system and method for dynamically altering the analysis methodology of millimeter wave imagery in response to the range and direction of motion of a subject is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, an imaging zone of a scene is scanned using at least one millimeter wave camera during a current... Agent: Mckinney Law, LLC

20080298641 - Method and device for the selective processing of printed products: Printed products are optionally processed in a preliminary stage (1) and a follow-up stage (2). The printed products are fed in a printed-product stream. The printed products, for optionally processing in the preliminary stage (1), are directed optionally, by means of a diverter (5), to different conveying paths (6.1, 6.2,... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080298642 - Method and apparatus for extraction and matching of biometric detail: A method and apparatus of identification by extracting and matching biometric detail from a subcutaneous vein infrared image. The image's Region of Interest is identified and artifacts are removed. A bank of filters, such as Symmetric Gabor Filters, Complex Gabor Filters, Log Gabor Filters, Oriented Gaussian Functions, or Wavelets, filters... Agent: Russell H. Walker Walker, Mckenzie & Walker, P.C.

20080298643 - Composite person model from image collection: A method of improving recognition of a particular person in images by constructing a composite model of at least the portion of the head of that particular person, includes acquiring a collection of images taken during a particular event; identifying image(s) having a particular person in the collection; identifying one... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080298645 - Personal authentication apparatus and personal authentication method: A personal authentication apparatus including a facial region extraction which extracts an image of a facial region of a person obtained from image sensing input unit, a guide unit which guides motion of the person of interest, a feature amount extraction unit which extracts the feature amount of a face... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080298644 - System and method for controlling image quality: An image quality control system and method is disclosed. At least one infrared camera takes a screen image of a room. When there are a plurality of cameras, images of the cameras are synchronized with respect to time, and a specific object of the image is tracked to estimate image... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080298646 - Method and device for improved fingerprint matching: A fingerprint sample input apparatus, a fingerprint verification device, a method for aligning fingerprint samples, and a method for fingerprint verification are disclosed. The fingerprint sample input apparatus comprises fingerprint reader, receiver for public part of fingerprint template, alignment matcher, matrix generator, and transmitter. The fingerprint verification device comprises memory,... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080298647 - System and method for identifying an enrolled user utilizing a biometric identifier: A system and method for obtaining a first alphanumeric identifier from a user, obtaining a first fingerprint scan image of a first finger from the user, comparing the first fingerprint scan image to a first image associated with the first alphanumeric identifier stored in a database at a first threshold... Agent: Ungaretti & Harris LLP Intellectual Property Group - Patents

20080298649 - Hygienic biometric sensors: Methods and systems for performing a biometric measurement on an individual are disclosed. A containment film is disposed between a skin site of the individual and a platen. Light is directed through the containment film to the skin site to illuminate the skin site under multiple distinct optical conditions. Light... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080298648 - Method and system for slap print segmentation: A method is performed in a print identification system to segment a non-segmented slap print image into its finger components. The method includes: receiving, for a hand, a non-segmented slap print image and a corresponding plurality of roll print images each corresponding to a different finger number; comparing the roll... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080298650 - Optical finger print acquisition apparatus using a prism: An optical fingerprint acquisition apparatus using a prism, which can improve the quality of a fingerprint image acquired by an image sensor, is provided. The optical fingerprint acquisition apparatus using the prism includes a pentagon prism including an input face 11 which receives a beam, a first support face 12... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080298651 - Method and device for color blood flow frame averaging: The present invention provides a method and device for color blood flow frame averaging. In the present invention, whether aliasing occurs to an output blood flow velocity of a previous frame is first determined. If aliasing does occur to the output blood flow velocity of the previous frame, the output... Agent: Mindray C/o Stoel Rives LLP

20080298652 - Method and system of previewing previous and forward frames of a selected end of diastole or end of systole frame candidate: A method and system for viewing a series of medical image frames. The method and system displays a candidate medical image frame selected from the series of medical image frames, in a first portion of a display screen of a user interface; displays, in a second portion of the display... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080298653 - Method for topographical presentation of alterations in an examined brain: The invention relates to a method for the topographical presentation of structural alterations in an examined brain using volume data records. In line with the invention, this method is distinguished in that functional areas are mapped by extracting profiles, where the profiles record boundaries for two functional areas in the... Agent: K.f. Ross P.C.

20080298655 - Methods, apparatuses, and systems useful in conducting image guided interventions: Methods, apparatuses, and systems relating to image guided interventions on dynamic tissue. One embodiment is a method that includes creating a dataset that includes images, one of the images depicting a non-tissue internal reference marker, being linked to non-tissue internal reference marker positional information, and being at least 2-dimensional. Another... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080298656 - Precision subtraction computed tomographic angiography: This invention relates to a novel technique for producing images of arteries that overcomes a significant limitation of conventional computed tomographic angiography (CTA). The technique is performed by the acquisition of pre-contrast computed tomography in addition to the conventional computed tomographic angiography and by the digital subtraction of the pre-contrast... Agent: University Of Medicine And Dentistry Of New Jersey Office Of Patents And Licensing

20080298654 - Temperature management for ultrasound imaging at high frame rates: To keep the temperature of an ultrasound probe down, the probe is operated at a low frame rate (with correspondingly low heat generation) for the vast majority of time. Probe operation is only switched to the high frame rate temporarily at times when high temporal resolution is needed, preferably under... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP Patent Department

20080298657 - Computer-aided method for detection of interval changes in successive whole-body bone scans and related computer program program product and system: A method of producing an image to aid detection of a change in progress of a disease in a patient is described. In the method, a first image of a distribution of a radioisotope in the patient is obtained. A second image of the distribution of the radioisotope in the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080298660 - 3-dimensional diagnostic imaging system: A 3-dimensional diagnostic imaging system for acquiring and displaying 3-dimensional images includes an ultrasound diagnostic imaging apparatus configured to display any cross section of a 3-dimensional image extracted from volume data including an affected part of a subject; a 3-dimensional medical diagnostic imaging apparatus configured to display a cross section... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080298662 - Automatic detection of lymph nodes: A method for detecting lymph nodes in a medical image includes receiving image data. One or more regions of interest are detected from within the received image data. One or more lymph node candidates are identified using a set of predefined parameters that is particular to the detected region of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080298658 - Medical image diagnosing support method and apparatus, and image processing program: a second region extracting step for extracting a second lesion candidate region from the site region based on a distribution of the pixel values of the site region extracted in the predetermined site region extracting step; and a region correcting step for correcting the first lesion candidate region extracted in... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080298661 - Method and apparatus for parameter free regularized partially parallel imaging using magnetic resonance imaging: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method and apparatus for parameter free regularized partially parallel imaging (PPI). Specific embodiments relate to a method and apparatus for high pass GRAPPA (hp-GRAPPA), doubly calibrated GRAPPA (db-GRAPPA), and/or image ratio constrained reconstruction (IRCR). The subject techniques can be applied individually or... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20080298664 - Method for data evaluation: A method is disclosed for data evaluation of first and second measured data records acquired substantially simultaneously with the aid of a combined medical examination device suitable for simultaneous and isocentric acquisition of first measured data, specifically magnetic resonance or computed tomography measured data, and second nuclear medicine measured data,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080298659 - Systems and methods for processing medical image data to facilitate comparisons among groups of subjects: Systems and methods for processing medical image data with increased sensitivity to facilitate comparisons among groups of subjects are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving a first three-dimensional image comprising a plurality of voxels, reducing a regional trend within the three-dimensional image, computing a semivariogram for a... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20080298663 - Task specific reconstruction of functional medical scans: The invention addresses the problem of algorithm specific artefacts introduced by reconstruction of functional medical scans. After a general purpose reconstruction is performed, regions of interest are identified from the data and task specific reconstruction of the region(s) of interest is carried out. The reconstructed data can be displayed (for... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080298666 - Identifying blood vessels in lung x-ray radiographs: A method of detecting blood vessel shadows in an anterior posterior x-ray radiograph comprising the steps of: generating candidate sub areas of the radiograph showing changes in contrast above a threshold level; supressing rib shadow edges; eliminating lung tissue shadow edges, and categorizing and eliminating nodule shadows.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080298665 - Methods and systems for grouping radiological images into event markers: grouping with the selected image at least one other neighboring image within the series of radiological images to form an event, the event ranging over a plurality of images within the series. In an embodiment, the event includes at least one of: the selected image within the series and at... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080298667 - Image portion identification methods, image parsing methods, image parsing systems, and articles of manufacture: Image portion identification methods, image parsing methods, image parsing systems, and articles of manufacture are described. According to one embodiment, an image portion identification method includes accessing data regarding an image depicting a plurality of biological substrates corresponding to at least one biological sample and indicating presence of at least... Agent: Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC

20080298668 - Method for fraud detection using multiple scan technologies: A method is disclosed for detecting fraud. The method optically recognizes a character imprinted with a magnetic ink on a medium using a first optical character recognition algorithm. The method also optically recognizes the character using a second optical character recognition algorithm. In addition, the method magnetically recognizes the character... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20080298669 - Data processing apparatus and data processing method: A data processing apparatus according to the present invention takes in a plurality of inspection, image and attribute data output from an inspection apparatus, a review SEM image, coordinate information of hot spots found by simulation, and CAD information in the hot spots, and displays these kinds of information side... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080298670 - Method and its apparatus for reviewing defects: As a result of the improvement in throughput of review SEMs, the volume of defect image data which are collected in a semiconductor mass production line becomes larger. In order to achieve efficiency in management (deletion, search, display, and the like) of the image data in response to the above... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080298671 - Method for increasing the accuracy of the positioning of a first object relative to a second object: A method is provided for increasing the accuracy of the positioning of a first object relative to a second object. The method overcomes the disadvantageous influence of thermal drift between a first and a second object during a positioning of a first object on a second object. The method finds... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080298674 - Stereoscopic panoramic imaging system: An imaging system for producing stereoscopic panoramic images using multiple coplanar pairs of image capture devices with overlapping fields of view held in a rigid structural frame for long term calibration maintenance. Pixels are dynamically adjusted within the imaging system for position, color, brightness, aspect ratio, lens imperfections, imaging chip... Agent: Robert Baker

20080298672 - System and method for locating a three-dimensional object using machine vision: This invention provides a system and method for determining position of a viewed object in three dimensions by employing 2D machine vision processes on each of a plurality of planar faces of the object, and thereby refining the location of the object. First a rough pose estimate of the object... Agent: Cognex Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080298673 - Three-dimensional data registration method for vision measurement in flow style based on double-sided target: The present disclosure is directed to a three-dimensional data registration method for vision measurement in flow style based on a double-sided target. An embodiment of the disclosed method that comprises A. Setting up two digital cameras which can observe the entire measured object; B. Calibrating intrinsic parameters and a transformation... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080298677 - Color processing apparatus and method: A color processing apparatus includes an input conversion unit configured to convert input data expressed in an input device-dependent color space into data expressed in a device-independent color space, a determination unit configured to determine an attribute of the input data and transmit a result of the determination to a... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080298676 - Color processing method and apparatus: A method for generating a color processing parameter used in color processing performed on an image captured by an imaging unit includes inputting data of an image captured by the imaging unit, inputting target data corresponding to the data, generating a pair of data and target data based on the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080298675 - Image color compensating apparatus and methods thereof: The invention relates to an image color compensating apparatus and related method thereof. A color space conversion operation is implemented in a pixel of a source image to convert first image signals corresponding to the pixel to second image signals corresponding to a color space plane. The color space plane... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080298678 - Chromatic aberration correction: A chromatic aberration (CA) correction technique is presented that substantially removes CA from an image captured by a digital camera. In general, the effects of any in-camera sharpening are reversed by applying a blurring kernel. The image is then super-sampled to approximate its state prior to the application of in-camera... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080298679 - Detecting red eye filter and apparaus 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.

20080298680 - System and method for image processing using integral histogram convolution: A system and method for performing integral histogram convolution for filtering image data is disclosed. The method may include generating an initial histogram for a kernel region of an input image comprising two or more column histograms. Each histogram may include a plurality of bucket values, each representing a sum... Agent: Robert C. Kowert Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080298681 - Image processing apparatus and computer readable medium storing program therefor: An image processing apparatus includes: a reference-based coding unit that encodes image information for an image partition having a predefined size by referring to image information for another image partition; an independently coding unit that encodes the image information for the image partition independently of any other image partition; and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080298682 - Method a system and a computer program for segmenting a structure associated with a reference structure in an image: The invention relates to a method of image segmentation for delineating a structure associated with a reference structure in an image. For this purpose a segmentation of the reference structure is accessed. The appearance of different tissue types is learned using the model by non parametric robust estimation that employs... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080298683 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: An object is designated as a designated object. Two or more image data items containing objects each being different from the designated object by an amount smaller than or equal to a first predetermined value are selected from among a specific image data item group. The selected two or more... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080298684 - Multi-spectral imaging: Systems and techniques for multi-spectral imaging. Light may be received at a multi-spectral optical module, which transmits a plurality of wavelength band portions of the received light, each having a pre-selected bandwidth between about two nanometers and about forty nanometers. The pre-selected bandwidths may be between about ten nanometers and... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid, LLP

20080298685 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: In order to perform appropriate image correction considering the moving image region and static image region of image data forming a moving image, the image data forming the moving image is input in a unit of frame, the image data is divided into a moving image region and static image... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080298686 - Image processing system, image processing method, and program: An image processing system includes a computer and an image processing apparatus. A control portion of the apparatus controls so that a whole of one side and the other side of a transparent sheet are optically read, and the obtained image data of the front and rear sides is transmitted... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080298687 - Human image recognition system: The present invention is to provide a human image recognition system capable of determining a next movement of a person approaching a particular region of space, which comprises a determination unit adapted to determine whether there is a moving object in continuous images taken by an image taking unit by... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080298690 - Digital photo content processing system and method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving digital photo contents thereof: A system for processing digital photo contents in a digital camera is disclosed. The system includes a content transmitting unit, and a content receiving unit. The content transmitting unit creates an image by photographing objects in a photographing area, requests supplementary information to at least one of persons in the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080298689 - Storing information for access using a captured image: An electronic device associates first information and at least a first portion of a first image, and uses a second image that includes a portion corresponding to at least the first portion of the first image to access the associated first information.... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080298688 - Method of classifying colors of color based image code: Provided is a method of classifying colors of a color based image code. The colors of each cell forming the color based image code are classified by sampling a predetermined number of pixels from each cell and then applying a max channel based clustering method, a white balance based color... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080298691 - Flexible mqdf classifier model compression: A memory footprint of an Modified Quadratic Discriminant Function (MQDF) pattern recognition classifier is reduced without resulting in unacceptable classification accuracy degradation. Covariance matrices for multiple classes are clustered into a smaller number of matrices where different classes share the same set of eigenvectors. According to another approach, different numbers... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080298692 - Method of scalable fractional motion estimation for multimedia coding system: A multimedia coding system has different picture qualities with different coding characteristics. It is done through a scaleable fractional motion estimation (FME) in H.264 and a block size trend prediction FME. Three quality levels are thus obtained. The first level processes a complete calculation and obtains a best picture; the... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080298694 - Method for coding rgb color space signal: A method for coding an RGB color space signal is disclosed. In accordance with the method, a base plane is encoded using an independent mode, and an enhanced plane is encoded by referring to the base plane without converting the RGB color space signal into YCbCr color space signal to... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20080298693 - Method, system, and program product for presenting electronic surveillance data: The invention provides a method, system, and program product for presenting electronic surveillance data. One method according to the invention includes identifying a point to be surveyed; establishing a schedule at which the point will be surveyed; capturing a first image of the point; storing the first image; capturing a... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080298695 - Motion vector detecting apparatus, motion vector detecting method and interpolation frame creating apparatus: According to one embodiment, a motion vector detecting apparatus performs block matching of a plurality of image frames to detect a motion vector. The motion vector detecting apparatus has a macroblock joining section forming a joined macroblock in which a plurality of macroblocks including repeating images among macroblocks being subjects... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080298696 - Buffer management for an adaptive buffer value using accumulation and averaging: An optical imaging system with dynamic buffer management is described. Embodiments of the optical imaging system include an image sensor, a buffer, and a buffer mode controller. The image sensor includes a pixel array to read out a plurality of pixel lines for a frame of an image. The buffer... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080298697 - User interface for presenting a list of thumbnail items associated with media items: A user interface allows a user to access media items by selecting from a list of thumbnail items associated with the media items. Various techniques are used to reduce the latency times when displaying the list of thumbnail items in the user interface. When the list is initially displayed, for... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080298698 - Image processing apparatus and computer readable medium storing program therefor: An image processing apparatus includes an image partitioning unit that partitions an image represented by input image information into image partitions, each containing plural pixels; a run coding unit that run-length encodes image partitions for which all pixels contained in any of the image partitions match with a pixel value... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080298699 - Method and device for down-sampling a dct image in the dct domain: A method and device that uses transform matrices to down-sample a DCT image directly in the DCT domain. The transform matrices have been selected to minimize an optimization problem which is a function of the visual quality of down-sampled images obtained using the matrices and the computational complexity associated with... Agent: Ridout & Maybee LLP

20080298701 - Method and device for selecting optimal transform matrices for down-sampling dct image: Down-sampling of an image may be performed in the DCT domain. Transform matrices are obtained for down-sampling a DCT image of size M×N to a down-sampled DCT image of size I×J. The transform matrices may be used to down-sample the DCT image directly in the DCT domain. A spatial domain... Agent: Ridout & Maybee LLP

20080298700 - Method and device for selecting transform matrices for down-sampling dct image using learning with forgetting algorithm: Down-sampling of an image may be performed in the DCT domain. A multiple layered network is used to select transform matrices for down-sampling a DCT image of size M×N to a DCT image of size I×J. A spatial domain down-sampling method is selected and applied to the DCT image to... Agent: Ridout & Maybee LLP

20080298702 - Fixed rate jpeg encoding: Systems and methods are disclosed for fixed rate JPEG encoding of a digital image. According to an implementation, the method includes estimation of image characteristics (e.g. frequency domain parameters—DCT coefficients, etc.) of a plurality of frequency components constituting the digital image. Subsequently, bits are allocated to each of the frequency... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080298703 - Hiding codes in input data: The present invention relates to hiding codes in input data such as still imagery and motion pictures. One claim recites: embedding an N-bit code with a source signal, N being at least one. The embedding proceeds, for each bit of the N-bit code, according to the following: mapping the bit... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080298704 - Face and skin sensitive image enhancement: Systems and methods of face and skin sensitive image enhancement are disclosed. In one aspect, a face map that includes for each pixel of an input image a respective face probability value indicating a degree to which the pixel corresponds to a human face is calculated. A skin map that... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080298705 - Image production method and apparatus for mobile terminal: An image production method and apparatus are disclosed for a mobile terminal. The image production method includes selecting photographs and applying editing effects associated with color information of at least one of the selected photographs to image data of the selected photographs to produce an output image.... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080298706 - Focal length estimation for panoramic stitching: A focal length estimation technique is presented that estimates the focal length used to capture each of a pair of overlapping images taken by a camera rotating about its center. When it is known that the focal length is the same for both images, it is estimated using just two... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080298707 - Image processing apparatus and method and image display apparatus: An image processing apparatus receives n-bit image data, carries out an α-bit bit extension, and outputs (n+α)-bit image data, where n and α are positive integers. The apparatus also performs an epsilon filtering operation that uses the additional gray levels provided by the bit extension to smooth out false edges... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080298708 - Methods and apparatuses that reduce noise in image signals: Methods and apparatuses for noise reduction of imager pixels signals. A weighted combination based on the presence of edges of two calculated demosaiced signals is used to produce a noise reduced signal. The noise reduced signal may be sharpened based on a calculated luminance of the two demosaiced signals.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080298709 - Apparatus and method for reducing image noise with filter matrix and computer readable medium stored thereon computer executable instructions for performing the method: An apparatus for reducing image noise with filter matrix comprises a first input unit for receiving input of an object image data for conversion; a second input unit for receiving input of a size data of a convention area; a first output unit for setting conversion unit matrixes movable in... Agent: Jones Day

20080298711 - Enhancing the quality of decoded quantized images: A system for image enhancement and, more particularly, a system for enhancing the quality of a quantized image.... Agent: Kevin L. Russell Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel LLP

20080298710 - Image signal processing apparatus for generating bright signal of high reproducibility: An image signal processing apparatus and method for processing an image signal input from an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) in a pixel-by-pixel basis and generating a bright signal corresponding to chrominance signals comprise a low pass filter (LPF), an subtractor, an adder, and a bright signal controller. The LPF cancels a... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20080298714 - Image edge correction apparatus and method: Provided is an image edge correction apparatus and method. The image edge correction apparatus includes an edge information extraction unit extracting edge information of an input image based on luminance change directivity information of the input image and an edge enhancement unit enhancing an edge of the input image by... Agent: Jones Day

20080298712 - Image sharpening with halo suppression: An image sharpening technique with halo suppression is presented. Generally, one implementation of this technique completely suppresses the haloing effect typically caused by image sharpening by restricting values to within the local minimum and maximum intensities of the unsharpened image. Thus, if the sharpened value is below the local minimum,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080298713 - Noise reduction apparatus having edge enhancement function and method thereof: Provided are a noise reduction apparatus having an edge enhancement function and a method thereof, in which edges in an input image can be prevented from being blurred when reducing noise in the input image and a clear output image can be obtained by reducing edge discontinuities. The noise reduction... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080298715 - Image analysis method: The present invention relates to an image analysis method for analyzing an image. By inputting starting point coordinates and ending point coordinates of individual image blocks contained in the image, an image block arrangement table is created. The image is analyzed according to the image block arrangement table.... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080298717 - Device of processing dead pixel: A dead pixel processing device is disclosed. The dead pixel processing device separates an inputted Bayer pattern image into corresponding component data; calculates the distribution (pattern) of pixels based on the median of each data; calculates a comparing value based on a component having a center pixel; outputs an external... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080298716 - Solid-state imaging device and pixel correction method: A solid-state imaging device capable of correcting defective pixel signals to improve image quality. A line memory provides a value of a pixel currently selected for correction, together with values of its surrounding pixels. The surrounding pixels include corrected pixels preceding the selected pixel and uncorrected pixels succeeding the selected... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080298718 - Image stitching: Disclosed are embodiments of systems and methods to stitch two or more images together into a composite image. By finding matching point pairs for a pair of images, a homography transform may be obtained for the pair of images. The homography transform may be used to generate a composite image... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080298719 - Sub-resolution alignment of images: A plurality of images, including a first image and a second image having a higher resolution than the first image, are aligned by generating an oversampled cross correlation image that corresponds to relative displacements of the first and second images, and, based on the oversampled cross correlation image, determining an... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080298720 - System and method for resizing images prior to upload: There is disclosed a system and method for resizing an image on a handheld mobile communication device prior to uploading to an image repository. In an embodiment, the method comprises: determining the size of an original image; determining any upload size restrictions for uploading the image to the image repository;... Agent: Fasken Martineau Dumoulin LLP

20080298721 - Apparatus and method thereof: The invention discloses a apparatus and related method. The apparatus comprises a front-end circuit, a back-end circuit and a determining unit. The front-end circuit is for measuring an image signal, determining the mode of the image signal according to the data of the image signal, and fetching image signal of... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20080298722 - Apparatus for color interpolation using adjustable threshold: An apparatus for color interpolation using an adjustable threshold is disclosed. The color interpolation apparatus calculates the difference between the maximum value and the minimum value of the elements of the image data and determines the color interpolation method of the image data depending on the difference to perform the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080298723 - Image processing device: An image processor includes a memory calculating unit, a storing unit, a mode selecting unit, and a Retinex process performing unit. The memory amount calculating unit calculates, based on an original size of an original image having an original pixels, a required memory amount required for performing a Retinex process... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC