Image analysis inventions 01/09

20090028381 - Device capable of adjusting two-dimensional code: An image forming device is provided which embeds a decodable two-dimensional code when embedding (printing) a two-dimensional code in an original document. The image forming device represents additional information by associating virtual points with dots in one-to-one correspondence and arranges dots in positions deviated from virtual points associated with the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090028380 - Method and apparatus for realistic simulation of wrinkle aging and de-aging: Methods and systems are disclosed to realistically simulate facial wrinkle aging of a person using a neutral state (natural look) image and one or more expression images (e.g., smile, frown, pout, wink) that induce wrinkles. The neutral and expression images are processed to simulate wrinkle aging by registering the wrinkles... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, LLC

20090028379 - Method and system for identification of firearms: A system and method for identifying, test firing, marking, and imaging firearm cartridge cases and firearms for use by firearm manufactures. The system and method includes five subsystems, which work in the following sequence: a firearm serial number recognition sub-system; a cartridge case recovery sub-system; a cartridge case sorting sub-system;... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20090028382 - Techniques for positioning images in electronic documents: Techniques for positioning images in an electronic document. The images may encode information that can be decoded by devices configured to read the images. An area within the electronic document for positioning the image and a set of one or more colors to be used for the image are determined.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090028383 - Method and device for monitoring the transportation of a number of objects: The transportation progress of a number of objects that are provided with an identifier of a destination address, in particular mail items, are monitored. Each object passes through a sorting unit at least once. The sorting unit generates an image of the object and identifies the destination address of the... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090028387 - Apparatus and method for recognizing position of mobile robot: Provided is an apparatus for recognizing the position of a mobile robot. The apparatus includes an image capturing unit which is loaded into a mobile robot and captures an image; an illuminance determining unit which determines illuminance at a position where an image is to be captured; a light-emitting unit... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090028386 - Automatic tracking apparatus and automatic tracking method: The automatic tracking apparatus is equipped with: a first object detecting unit 52 for detecting an object from an image photographed by a camera and inputted; a first zooming control unit 53 for changing zooming magnification of the camera in such a case that a dimension of the detected object... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090028385 - Detecting an object in an image using edge detection and morphological processing: A representation of an object in a live event is detected in an image of the event. A location of the object in the live event is translated to an estimated location in the image based on camera sensor and/or registration data. A search area is determined around the estimated... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20090028384 - Three-dimensional road map estimation from video sequences by tracking pedestrians: Estimation of a 3D layout of roads and paths traveled by pedestrians is achieved by observing the pedestrians and estimating road parameters from the pedestrian's size and position in a sequence of video frames. The system includes a foreground object detection unit to analyze video frames of a 3D scene... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090028389 - Image recognition method: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method for detecting a subject in an image, comprising the steps of: dividing said image into a plurality of regions; calculating a similarity between a feature of one of said regions and the feature of another of said regions; determining a distribution... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090028388 - On-vehicle image processing apparatus: An on-vehicle image processing apparatus includes: an image taking apparatus for taking an image of a forward view of a vehicle; an edge detection section for generating a detection image data based on the image data; and a feature point detection section for detecting at least one feature point based... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090028390 - Image processing for estimating subject distance: An image processing method includes acquiring first information that indicates a size of an image of a specific subject in a target image relative to a size of the target image, acquiring second information that indicates a size of the specific subject, acquiring third information with which an angle of... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090028391 - Motion detecting method and apparatus thereof: The invention discloses motion detecting method and apparatus thereof. The method and apparatus are utilized to detect a motion condition of a target pixel. The motion detecting method comprises the following steps: receiving a composite signal including a target frame and a reference frame; selecting a first reference pixel from... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090028392 - Document comparison method and apparatus: The method compares a first document 10 and a second document 20. The documents may be scanned in 110,112 or an electronic image formed in other ways 114,116. Each electronic image is then segmented into basic units 14,24 such as words, lines or paragraphs. Differences between the matched basic units... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090028394 - Imaging device, image detecting method and focus adjusting method: An imaging device includes: an image pickup device that captures an image via an imaging optics; a focus detector that detects a focus adjustment state of the imaging optics; a face detection circuit that detects an image corresponding to a face of a person from the image captured by the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090028393 - System and method of saving digital content classified by person-based clustering: A system and method of saving digital content classified by person-based clustering. The system for saving digital content classified by person-based clustering, includes a database to save a plurality of digital content classified by person-based clustering; a data structure generation unit to generate a data structure composed of a plurality... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090028395 - Apparatus, method, computer program and user interface for enabling access to functions: An apparatus comprising: a memory for storing information associating a fingerprint input with a function of the apparatus; a user input device comprising a device for detecting a multi-fingerprint input, the multi-fingerprint input comprising a plurality of fingerprints where each fingerprint is associated with a different function of the apparatus;... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090028396 - Biometrics authentication system: A biometrics authentication system includes: a detection section; a light source section including a plurality of unit light sources capable of illuminating independently of one another; an image pickup device being arranged on the same side as a side where the light source section is arranged with respect to the... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090028402 - Medical image system: A medical image system capable of performing display corresponding to different monitor configurations of medical image display apparatuses is provided. In the medical image system (1) including the medical image display apparatuses (5A, 5B) having one or more monitors, a server (3) stores display format files of object data corresponding... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090028397 - Multi-scale filter synthesis for medical image registration: First and second images to be registered are filtered using a low-pass filter kernel having a sharp central peak and a slow decay away from the central peak. The apparatus determines a mapping function that transforms the filtered first image into the filtered second image.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090028401 - Radiation image capturing system: Radiation image information detected by a radiation detector of a radiation detecting cassette is compressed by an image compressor, and then transmitted by way of wireless communications to a display device, which displays a compressed image representative of a rough radiation image on a display unit. The radiation image information... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090028398 - Sensitivity lens for assessing uncertainty in image visualizations of data sets, related methods and computer products: Systems for rendering images from a multi-dimensional data set include a sensitivity lens configured to electronically render a sequence of images showing features in a region of interest to interrogate and/or explore potential uncertainties in the rendered visualizations of images.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20090028399 - System and method for detecting stripe artifacts in mip rendered images: A method for efficiently rendering a chessboard artifact free Maximum intensity projection (MIP) image is disclosed is disclosed. MIP is a widely used volumetric rendering technology in medical diagnostic imaging. When a volume dataset containing wideband noise is rendered using MIP, the resultant MIP image can show chessboard or stripe... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090028400 - System and method for visualizing a structure of interest: A system. The system includes a computing device configured for communication with an imaging system and with a display device. The computing device includes a contour modeling module. The contour modeling module is configured for superimposing reference anchors on a cross-sectional image generated from 3D image data, for generating a... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20090028403 - System and method of automatic prioritization and analysis of medical images: A system for analyzing a source medical image of a body organ. The system comprises an input unit for obtaining the source medical image having three dimensions or more, a feature extraction unit that is designed for obtaining a number of features of the body organ from the source medical... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20090028404 - Method and corresponding apparatus for quantitative measurements on sequences of images, particularly ultrasonic images: A method for assessing motion, including deformation, of a structure from a sequence of at least two consecutive image frames of such structure, which images are timely separated by a certain time interval. The method including the steps of defining a certain number of reference points at least on one... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20090028411 - Method and magnetic resonance apparatus to acquire temporally successive image data sets: In a method and magnetic resonance apparatus for acquisition and processing of a series of temporally successive image data sets of the series of temporally successive image data sets is acquired by magnetic resonance technology, wherein k-space image data corresponding to each image data set are acquired, and for each... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090028406 - Perfusion assessment based on animated perfusion imaging: An embodiment of a medical imaging system is proposed. The system includes means for providing a sequence of recorded input images each one offering a digital representation at a corresponding instant of a body part being perfused with a contrast agent, each input image including a plurality of visualizing values... Agent: Gray Beal Jackson Haley

20090028408 - Radiation therapy flanning procedure: An improved radiation therapy planning procedure is suggested. The procedure comprises the steps of specifying and determining the absolute grade of cell degeneracy by in-vitro tests, whereby marker(s) indicative for specific cell degeneracy are detected and quantified, establishing a biology-based segmentation of areas with similar grade of relative cell degeneracy... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090028407 - Scanning beam with variable sequential framing using interrupted scanning resonance: A scanning device for use in an endoscope or other applications can be driven to scan a region with one or more different scanning parameters during successive scanning frames. The scanning device, which can include an optical fiber or reflective surface driven by an actuator to move relative to one... Agent: Law Offices Of Ronald M Anderson

20090028405 - Three time point lung cancer detection, diagnosis and assessment of prognosis: malignancy classification method and medium for classifying a region of lung tissue are disclosed. The classifying includes: setting time points T1 and T2 measured from injection of a contrast agent. TI represents a wash-in time point for malignant lung tissue at which a first concentration value of the injected contrast... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20090028410 - Ultrasonic imaging apparatus: An ultrasonic imaging apparatus includes an image acquisition unit for acquiring tomographic image information of a subject on a real-time basis, a display unit for displaying the image of the tomographic image information, a DICOM server for storing and managing DICOM image information of the DICOM specification, a control unit... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (20459) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090028409 - X-ray computed tomography apparatus and image processing apparatus: An X-ray tube generates X-rays. An X-ray detector detects X-rays generated from the X-ray tube and transmitted through an object to be examined. A rotating frame continuously rotates the X-ray tube and the X-ray detector around the object. A reconstruction unit reconstructs a plurality of first volume data sets with... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090028412 - System and method for automatic detection of end of diastole and end of systole image frames in x-ray ventricular angiography: End-diastolic and end-systolic image frames are automatically selected on a real-time basis from a sequence of X-ray ventricular angiogram images by modeling the angiogram images by a dynamic graphical model and estimating a posterior probability density of the ventricular area in each angiogram image frame using Bayesian probability density propagation... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090028414 - Data management in a linear-array-based microscope slide scanner: Systems and methods for processing, storing, and viewing extremely large imagery data rapidly produced by a linear-array-based microscope slide scanner are provided. The system receives, processes, and stores imagery data produced by the linear scanner as a series of overlapping image stripes and combines the data into a seamless and... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090028413 - System and method employing photokinetic techniques in cell biology imaging applications: A system and method employing photokinetic techniques in cell biology imaging applications are disclosed. Systems and methods of acquiring image data of an object may comprise: selectively inducing photoactivation of material at a site on the object; performing an optical axis integration scan; simultaneously executing a time delay integration scan... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20090028415 - Apparatus for checking the authenticity of banknotes: The invention starts out from an apparatus for checking the authenticity of bank notes in unprotected areas, having a sensor assembly containing a light source which produces light of a first wavelength with which the bank notes to be checked are illuminated, whereupon one or more feature substances present in... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090028417 - Fiducial marking for multi-unit process spatial synchronization: A device for applying fiducial marks to a web for spatially synchronizing data from a plurality of processes is described. The device includes a fiducial mark reader to read fiducial marks of at least two formats on a web of material, a fiducial mark writer to write fiducial marks of... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20090028419 - Method for manufacturing plasma display panel, inspection method for inspecting phospor layer and inspection apparatus for inspecting phosphor layer: A phosphor paste is applied to inner surfaces of a cell. Then, a conveyer moves a substrate relative to a CCD camera at a constant speed. Simultaneously, two LEDs radiate visible light onto a portion, to be inspected, of the substrate. The visible light is light configured to have a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090028416 - Multi-unit process spatial synchronization: A conversion control system is described for spatially synchronizing data gathered from a plurality of operations performed on a web. The conversion control system applies a set of fiducial marks to a web, performs a plurality of operations on the web, generates a first and a second set of digital... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20090028418 - System and method for inspecting electronic device: The invention discloses a method for inspecting an electronic device to reduce the consumption of testers' labor and time and testers' erroneous or careless judgment, and increase the test efficiency and reliability. Furthermore, the method of the invention can help to maintain or modify the test standard immediately and feedback... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090028421 - Imaging characteristics fluctuation predicting method, exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method: A method for predicting imaging characteristics fluctuation of a projection optical system in an exposure apparatus which projects a pattern formed on a mask onto a photosensitive substrate through the projection optical system is provided. In a measurement step, the projection optical system is irradiated with exposure light under a... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20090028420 - Photomask defect-shape recognition apparatus, photomask defect-shape recognition method, and photomask defect correction method: To recognize a defect portion and a mask pattern with a distinctly distinguished state through AFM observation of a photomask without being influenced by a double-tips image, provided is a method of recognizing, through AFM observation of a photomask including a substrate (2) and the mask pattern formed on the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090028423 - Method and apparatus for mura detection and metrology: The invention addresses the lack of comprehensive and quantitative methods for measurements of unwanted visual “mura” effects in displays and image sensors. Mura is generated by errors that are significantly smaller than what is needed for the function of the device, and sometimes smaller than the random variations in the... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20090028422 - Systems and methods for detecting watermark formations on semiconductor wafers: Systems and methods for detecting watermark formations on semiconductor wafers are described. In one embodiment, a method comprises providing a semiconductor wafer having at least one watermark sensitive region fabricated thereon, subjecting the wafer to a wet processing step, enhancing a susceptibility to detection of at least one watermark formation... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20090028425 - Identifying an object in an image using color profiles: A representation of an object in an image of a live event is obtained by determining a color profile of the object. The color profile may be determined from the image in real time and compared to stored color profiles to determine a best match. For example, the color profile... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20090028424 - Image processing method, image processing system, and image processing porgram: The process captures a plurality of images under a light source whose luminance varies over time, such as a fluorescent lamp, under such an imaging condition that a plurality of images that are different from one another in terms of light source conditions can be captured (S11). The process detects... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20090028426 - Coloring picture, coloring picture generating apparatus, and coloring picture generating method: A watercolor effect-added coloring picture 10 includes original image color areas 16 formed along linework areas 12 to be extended in a predetermined range from the linework areas 12 and filled with specified colors based on the colors of an original image, and blank areas 14 formed adjacent to the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090028430 - Image date display method and mobile terminal using the same: An image data display method and a mobile terminal using the image data display method is provided for minimizing image processing delay. An image data display method of the present invention includes color-converting a first format image data acquired by a camera into a second format image data; displaying the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090028427 - Image decoding device and image decoding method: There are provided an encoding device, a decoding device, an encoding method, and a decoding method that enhance optimality in a case of encoding moving image signals having no sample ratio distinction between color components such as a 4:4:4 format. In a case of conducting compression encoding by inputting digital... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090028429 - Image processing apparatus, computer readable medium storing program, method and computer data signal: An image processing apparatus includes a partitions setting unit that sets up image partitions into which an input image is separated; a tone number setting unit that sets the number of tones for each of the image partitions set up by the partitions setting unit, based on gray levels of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090028428 - Media content management: The invention relates to media management and combats media degradations arising when transcoding the media. The invention solves this by—generating processing hints based on the media transcoding. The hints are employed for controlling a post-transcoding processing of the transcoded media content in connection with rendering the media. The hints and... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090028431 - Color adjusting apparatus, image forming apparatus, color adjusting method and computer readable medium: The color adjusting apparatus is provided with: a color signal receiving part that receives input of color signals; a distribution density calculating part that calculates a distribution density in a certain color space concerning the color signals received by the color signal receiving part; an adjustment range setting part that... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090028433 - Method for partitioning combinatorial graphs: A method of partitioning a weighted combinatorial graph representative of a dataset consists of the steps of generating a generalized Laplacian matrix corresponding to the combinatorial graph, computing the eigenstructure of the generalized Laplacian matrix, determining if an end criterion is satisfied using the eigenstructure, and if the end criterion... Agent: Jones Day

20090028432 - Segmentation of video sequences: A method of image processing, includes: providing a data processing apparatus, including a central processing unit and a graphics processing unit; feeding at least one video frame of a video sequence to the data processing apparatus, the at least one video frame including at least one foreground subject and a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090028434 - System and method for displaying contextual supplemental content based on image content: An image-based content item is analyzed to determine information about a subject of the content item. The analysis may include performing image analysis on at least an image of the content item. An inference may be programmatically made about one or more of (i) a viewer or holder of the... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20090028435 - Character image extracting apparatus and character image extracting method: In an extracting step, the extracting portion obtains a linked component composed of a plurality of mutually linking pixels from a character string region composed of a plurality of characters, and extracts section elements from the character string region, the section elements each being surrounded by a circumscribing figure circumscribing... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090028436 - Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus and image reading apparatus including the same, and image processing method: A feature point calculating section binarizes the image data to obtain a centroid of a consecutive component in which pixels are connected as a feature point, reverses the image data, obtains a centroid as a feature point from the reversed image data similarly, and adds them as a feature point... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090028437 - Document extracting method and document extracting apparatus: Document data corresponding to each page included in a document is stored, and furthermore, feature data indicative of a feature of the document data and a document index indicating the document are associated with the document data. A document extracting apparatus obtains input document data, calculates feature data from the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090028438 - Apparatus for single pass blob image analysis: A method and electronics circuit for processing very high resolution images or very high frame rate images in real time. Each pixel within a frame of pixels is compared to the neighboring pixels within the frame to determine if the pixel is part of a blob group. If the pixel... Agent: Navairwd Counsel Group

20090028439 - Providing virtual inserts using image tracking with camera and position sensors: Camera registration and/or sensor data is updated during a live event by determining a difference between an estimated position of an object in an image and an actual position of the object in the image. The estimated position of the object in the image can be based on an estimated... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20090028440 - Detecting an object in an image using multiple templates: A representation of an object in an image of a live event is detected by matching potential representation of the object against multiple types of templates. For example, the templates can include monochrome data, chrominance and/or luminance data, pixel data of the object from an earlier image, e.g., as a... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20090028442 - Method and apparatus for determining similarity between surfaces: A method for determining similarity between a non-planar probe surface and a non-planar model surface is disclosed. The method comprises calculating an extremal value of an objective function describing embedding of the probe surface into an embedding space having a non-constant sectional curvature; and determining similarity between the probe surface... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi

20090028441 - Method for determining near duplicate data objects: A system for determining that a document B is a candidate for near duplicate to a document A with a given similarity level th. The system includes a storage for providing two different functions on the documents, each function having a numeric function value. The system further includes a processor... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c.

20090028443 - Innovative ocr systems and methods that combine a template based generative model with a discriminative model: A method employing a hybrid classification model is used to perform optical character recognition operations for an image. Image data from the image is provided to a generative classification model of the hybrid model, and generative image classifications operations are performed, generating a feature data set which is outputted from... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Parc

20090028444 - Method, medium, and apparatus with object descriptor generation using curvature gabor filter: A method, medium, and apparatus with a generated object descriptor using a curvature gabor filter, with complementary object recognition being performed by applying a general gabor filter and a curvature gabor filter having various curvatures, such that the dimension and efficiency of a feature vector can be increased by detecting... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090028445 - Character image feature dictionary preparation apparatus, document image processing apparatus having the same, character image feature dictionary preparation program, recording medium on which character image feature dictionary preparation program is reco: An image of a character string composed of M pieces of characters is clipped from a document image, and the image is divided character by character, and image features of each character image are extracted. On the basis of the image features, N (N>1, integer) pieces of character images in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090028446 - Document image processing apparatus, document image processing method, document image processing program, and recording medium on which document image processing program is recorded: An image of a character string composed of M pieces of characters is clipped from a document image, and the image is divided into separate characters. Image features of each character image are extracted. Based on the image features, N (N>1, integer) pieces of character images in descending order of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090028447 - Image compression method and image processing apparatus: When a motion image is to be compressed, the present invention divides a high-resolution still image into image segments to perform a motion image encoding process on each image segment. In this instance, the importance of each image segment and the relativity of each image segment with another image segment... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090028448 - Method of generating a sequence of display frames for display on a display device: A method of generating a sequence of display frames, for display on a display device, derived from a data string is described. The data string is encoded to include error correction in order to enable recreation of the data string at a receiving device. The method comprises the steps of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090028450 - Image encoding method, image decoding method, image encoding apparatus, image decoding apparatus, image encoding program, and image decoding program: Image encoding apparatus 10 according to the present invention is an image encoding apparatus 10 for dividing image signals into blocks, performing an orthogonal transform of each block, reading resultant orthogonal transform coefficients to obtain a coefficient string, and performing entropy coding, which has block selector 14 for selecting a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090028449 - 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

20090028451 - Processing methods for coded aperture imaging: The present invention relates to processing of coded aperture images. Multiple frames of data acquired by the coded aperture imaging system, each with a different coded aperture array, are processed to form an image. The processing incorporates the constraints that the image solution must be positive and that the solution... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090028452 - Image decoding method, image decoding device, and program: A lower hierarchical decoder (100) decodes lower hierarchical data (1001), and creates a lower hierarchical dummy image (1007). A switch (108) accepts a signal (1100) indicating which of the upper and lower hierarchies is to be decoded, and switches a filter processing. In case the lower hierarchy is decoded, the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090028453 - Content encoder and decoder and methods of encoding and decoding content: A content encoder for encoding content in a source image for display on a display device, the content encoder comprising: inputs for receiving data representing content to be encoded in the source image; a processor arranged to encode content as a time varying two-dimensional pattern of luminosity modulations within the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090028454 - Image processing apparatus and computer readable medium storing program: An image processing apparatus includes a criteria setter that sets selection criteria for selecting quantization intensities on the basis of feature indices of an inputted image; an intensity selector that selects, on the basis of the selection criteria set by the criteria setter, one of plural quantization intensities for each... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20090028455 - High-speed high-accuracy matrix singular value decomposition method, program, and device: A singular value decomposition method according to the present invention is a method for performing a singular value decomposition on an arbitrary matrix A using a computer, the method including the steps of: performing an upper bidiagonalization on the matrix A so as to obtain an upper bidiagonal matrix B... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.l.p. (main)

20090028456 - Method for improving image quality, and image signal processing apparatus and av device using the same: A method for improving image quality, and an image signal processing apparatus and an AV device using the same are provided. In the method for improving image quality, processing image signals relating to improving the image quality can be adaptively performed based on the amount of movement of an input... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20090028457 - Noise elimination apparatus and noise elimination method: A noise elimination apparatus has a subtracting section 11 for obtaining a difference value between input image data and reference image data; a calculation processing section 12a for performing calculation processing of multiplying the difference value by a prescribed coefficient; an adaptive integerization processing section 13a for obtaining an integerized... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090028458 - Scaling filter for video sharpening: A device has a single scaling filter to filter a video signal once to perform both sharpening and scaling. A memory stores original scaling filter coefficients for the scaling filter. An integrated circuit calculates new sharpening-scaling filter coefficients derived from the original scaling filter coefficients and one of sharpening filter... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090028459 - Method for reducing blocking artifacts: A method for removing blocking artifacts from moving and still pictures, comprising classifying horizontal and vertical boundaries in each picture as blocky or non-blocky; for each blocky boundary, defining an adaptive, picture contentdependent, one-dimensional filtered pixels region of interest (ROI) that crosses the boundary and is bound at each of... Agent: Zoran Corporation C/o Darby & Darby Pc

20090028460 - Method and apparatus for adjusting backlight brightness: A method for adjusting backlight brightness for an image display device whose backlights are arranged in an M×N, 2-dimensional array, and an apparatus for realizing this are provided. The method comprises a full search step determining the brightness adjustment value for each of the M×N image blocks corresponding to the... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20090028462 - Apparatus and program for producing a panoramic image: a panoramic image producing apparatus provides an intensity image production unit which produces intensity images from input source image captured by an imaging device, a reference image data storage unit for storing a reference image which is used to compute the motion data of the intensity image and its absolute... Agent: Muramatsu & Associates

20090028461 - Imaging of buried structures: According to the method, an image can be obtained while discarding specular reflections of the object. Thus, deeper structures will be better visible. In a further aspect, the invention offers a method of enhancing imaging of buried structures in an object, comprising: analysing said image as a first image in... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20090028463 - Unique digital imaging method: A method for using an image sensor to obtain an image of a specimen focused thereon, such that the resolution of the image obtained is greater than the designed resolution of the image sensor includes focusing the specimen onto an image sensor having multiple pixels. Relative movement is carried out... Agent: Renner Kenner Greive Bobak Taylor & Weber

20090028464 - Image upscaling based upon directional interpolation: A method for interpolation includes receiving an input image having a plurality of pixels. The edge direction proximate a first pixel of the input image is estimated using a first technique from a plurality of discrete potential directions. An edge direction is selected based upon the estimating the edge direction... Agent: Kevin L. Russell Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel LLP

20090028465 - Image upscaling technique: A method for interpolation includes receiving an input image having a plurality of pixels. The edge direction proximate a first pixel of the input image is estimated using a first technique from a plurality of discrete potential directions. An edge direction is selected based upon the estimating the edge direction... Agent: Kevin L. Russell Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel LLP

20090022362 - Apparatus and methods for video alarm verification: A method for verification of alarms is disclosed. The method involves receiving an alarm signal trigger associated with an alarm signal, receiving video data from a premise associated with the alarm signal, rapidly analyzing the video data to test for the existence a significant event, and when a significant event... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20090022361 - Audio content digital watermark detection: Digital watermark detection apparatus including detection units which calculate detected values of watermark signals by use of keys for PCM data of channels of audio content, a plurality of units which add the detected values corresponding to each of the channels and each of the keys for each possible combination... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20090022358 - Method of digital watermark and the corresponding device, and digital camera which can append watermark: A digital camera comprising a watermark-adding device, which comprises a device for obtaining the signal values of digital signals, a bits dividing device, an altered regions initializing device, an eigenvalue calculating device, an encrypting device and a watermark embedding device. The bits dividing device divides the data recording each pixel... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20090022360 - Quantization-based data embedding in mapped data: Novel methods and systems for quantization based data embedding and reading in host signals, such as image, audio and video signals. To embed auxiliary data in a host signal, an embedder maps the host signal from a first domain into a mapped signal in a second domain. The embedder performs... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20090022357 - System and method for making presentations of images more enjoyable: A method and a system for storing metadata with a digital image, wherein the metadata is associated with the condition at the moment of capturing the image. The metadata is then used by an image viewer for choosing the best image effect when the image is displayed.... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090022359 - Vegetation index image generation methods and systems: Methods and systems for generating a vegetation index image of a geographic region are disclosed by the present invention. The vegetation index image is generated by identifying one or more obscured locations within the geographic region, determining a vegetation index value for each location within the geographic region, replacing the... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090022363 - Watermarking and transferring material: A client device for use in a system having a server, the client device including: a receiving device configured to receive information material from the server, the information material containing a reversible modification providing a perceptible disturbing effect to the information material, and to receive identifying information that distinguishes the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090022365 - Method and apparatus for measuring position and orientation of an object: An information processing method includes acquiring an image of an object captured by an imaging apparatus, acquiring an angle of inclination measured by an inclination sensor mounted on the object or the imaging apparatus, detecting a straight line from the captured image, and calculating a position and orientation of the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090022368 - Monitoring device, monitoring method, control device, control method, and program: The present invention relates to a monitoring device, monitoring method, control device, control method, and program that use information on a face direction or gaze direction of a person to cause a device to perform processing in accordance with a movement or status of the person. A target detector 251... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p.

20090022364 - Multi-pose fac tracking using multiple appearance models: A system and method are provided for tracking a face moving through multiple frames of a video sequence. A predicted position of a face in a video frame is obtained. Similarity matching for both a color model and an edge model are performed to derive correlation values for each about... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090022366 - System and method for analyzing video from non-static camera: A novel system and method of treating the output of moving cameras, in particular ones that enable the application of conventional “static camera” algorithms, e.g., to enable the continuous vigilance of computer surveillance technology to be applied to moving cameras that cover a wide area. According to the invention, a... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.c.

20090022367 - Three-dimensional shape detecting device and three-dimensional shape detecting method: A three-dimensional shape detection device which can detect a three-dimensional shape of an object to be picked up even in the case that an image pick-up part with a narrow dynamic range is used is disclosed. An image of an object to be picked up is picked up under a... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090022369 - Position/orientation measurement method and apparatus: This invention relates to a position/orientation measurement apparatus which can measure a position and orientation while achieving both high stability and precision. An image including indices laid out on a space is captured, and the indices are detected from the captured image. When a plurality of indices are detected, their... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090022370 - Method and apparatus for detecting meaningful motion: A method and apparatus for detecting a meaningful motion. The method of detecting a meaningful motion includes generating a difference image including a plurality of regions each having a sign according to a motion of an input image from a plurality of input images, and by calculating the amount of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090022372 - Movement detection method and device with a thresholding algorithm per envelope: m

20090022371 - Movement detection method and device with adaptive double filtering:

20090022373 - Dynamically varying classified image display system: A dynamically varying image display system including an electromagnetic radiation emitting display, a thematic based sorting algorithm processor, and a display processor. The electromagnetic radiation display is configured to sequentially display a plurality of thematically classified images and the thematic based sorting algorithm processor relies on various recognition systems.... Agent: Belasco, Jacobs & Townsley LLP Howard Hughes Center

20090022374 - Revocable biometrics with robust distance metrics: Techniques, systems and methods relating to cryptographically secure revocable biometric signatures and identification computed with robust distance metrics are described. Various biometric cryptographically secure revocable transformation approaches are described that support a robust pseudo-distance computation in encoded form, thereby supporting confidence in verification, and which can provide for verification without... Agent: Law Office Of Dale B. Halling, Llc

20090022377 - Medical image observation system: The report storage stores an interpretation report that includes patient-identifying information, examination-specifying information, and medical image-specifying information that specifies medical image data. The image data storage stores the medical image data that includes image data and additional information for the image data that includes the patient-identifying information, the examination-specifying information,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090022376 - Method for processing images in interventional radioscopy to detect guiding instrumentation equipment: A method for processing images in interventional radioscopy for detecting guiding instrumentation equipment. The method of the invention enables objects of longilinear or very curved shapes to be detected within the radioscopic image having very low contrast to noise ratios. In one embodiment, an algorithm enables the measured contrast to... Agent: General Electric Company Ge Global Patent Operation

20090022375 - Systems, apparatus and processes for automated medical image segmentation: A system and process for combining multiple datasets to provide a composite dataset is described. The system includes a data collection tool, a computation engine and a memory coupled to the data collection tool and computer-readable code embodied on a computer-readable medium. The computer-readable code is configured so that when... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20090022378 - Image display device: There is provided an image display device capable of easily checking an enormous number of tomograms. Display synthesis means (326) synthesizes continuous n tomograms from an enormous number of tomograms and causes tomogram display means (323) to display the synthesized image. Thus, the number of tomograms to be displayed becomes... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090022382 - Imaging method for motion analysis: The invention concerns a system and method for generating a 3D imaging data set of an object or of at least two elements, including: obtaining a 3D image data set of the object or the at least two elements in a first shape, first absolute position, or first relative position,... Agent: Don W. Bulson (brai)

20090022387 - Medical image display system and medical image display program: A medical image display apparatus of the present invention is used in a medical image display system having a function of preparing three-dimensional image data on a subject including a plurality of luminal organs and displaying the prepared three-dimensional image data on a display (15) as a three-dimensional image. The... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20090022384 - Method for correction of distortion in image data records recorded by means of a magnetic resonance scanner, as well as a computer program, image processing unit and magnetic resonance scanner for carrying out the method: A method is disclosed which calculates local shifts of image elements in a loaded image data record which has been recorded by a magnetic resonance scanner using known recording parameters. In at least one embodiment, the known recording parameters and known local discrepancies of a basic magnetic field of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090022385 - Method for correction of distortion in image data records recorded by means of a magnetic resonance scanner, as well as a computer program, image processing unit and magnetic resonance scanner for carrying out the method: A method is disclosed for correction of distortion, which is created by way of discrepancies in a basic magnetic field of a magnetic resonance scanner, in image data records which are recorded via the magnetic resonance scanner. In at least one embodiment, the method includes loading a first image data... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090022379 - Method for quantifying organ motion, apparatus therefor, method for estimating organ position, apparatus therefor, method for irradiating radiation, apparatus therefor, and apparatus for detecting abnormal organ: A plurality of CT images of an organ (10) which has undergone a subtle variation or deformation are used as input data, blood vessels and trachea 12 distributed inside the organ are extracted and subjected to thinning, the thus thinned images 14 are used to extract the coordinates of bifurcations... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20090022381 - Method to correct the registration of radiography images: A method for the correction of registration of radiography images comprises means to determine a residual rigid transformation in comparing the pre-operation 3D image with a fluoroscopic image. This residual transformation is determined according to a registration based on the content of the image. Once the residual transformation is computed,... Agent: General Electric Company Ge Global Patent Operation

20090022383 - Methods and systems for compensating for changes in anatomy of radiotherapy patients: Portal images are combined with 3D ultrasound to determine adjustments to patient treatment parameters. The images are acquired while the patient is in an initial position, and the images are registered to a treatment coordinate system. The images are combined and outlines of anatomical structures are superimposed on the portal... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20090022386 - Methods and systems for computer aided targeting: A method for acquiring an image on an imaging system includes accessing at least first image data from a first imaging system, processing the first image data in accordance with a CAD algorithm, acquiring at least second image data based upon results of the CAD algorithm and processing the second... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090022380 - Sub-voxel motion correction for phase-contrast magnetic resonance imaging: A method and system are described for image registration using an information theoretic approach that can be used for correcting motion in blood flow studies as well as other applications. The joint probability distribution between two MRI (or other modality) images is estimated where the interpolation method is referred to... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20090022388 - Method and apparatus for analyzing clusters of objects: m

20090022390 - Currency bill sensor arrangement: A currency processing device for receiving a stack of U.S. currency bills and rapidly processing all the bills in the stack, the device comprising: an input receptacle adapted to receive a stack of U.S. currency bills of a plurality of denominations, the currency bills having a wide dimension and a... Agent: Cummins-allison Corp. C/o Nixon Peabody LLP

20090022389 - Method of sorting documents of value: b) sequentially feeding all the documents in the stack through a sorting machine to inspect the documents and to sort the documents into one or more output stations in dependence upon the results of the inspection, and sorting all first separators to a separator output station.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20090022392 - Method and apparatus for utilizing representational images in commercial and other activities: In a method and apparatus for an object using a representational image, positioning the object at a predetermined position relative to the representational image, illuminating the representational image, presenting information from the representational image to an operator, at least one of controlling the illuminating of the representational image and presenting... Agent: Joel N. Bock

20090022391 - Method and product for detecting abnormalities: A new method for processing image data in order to detect abnormalities in a web is provided. The web is monitored by at least one camera, whereby an image comprising of plurality of pixels is generated. The data of the image is stored in a memory. Image data is filtered... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20090022393 - Method for reconstructing a three-dimensional surface of an object: Method for determining a disparity value of a disparity of each of a plurality of points on an object, the method including the procedures of detecting by a single image detector, a first image of the object through a first aperture, and a second image of the object through a... Agent: Merchant & Gould Pc

20090022394 - Method for manipulating regions of a digital image: A method for dividing a digital image into regions comprises identifying potential region borders based on edge content in the digital image. The digital image is divided into regions based on user-selected ones of the potential region borders. A method of processing a region of a digital image comprises receiving... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (c/o Patent Administrator)

20090022395 - Apparatus and method of enhancing color of image: An apparatus and method of enhancing color of image is provided. The apparatus for enhancing color of image including: a saturation enhancement unit to enhance a saturation of an input image using a saturation variation according to a brightness feature of the input image; a gray scale area protection unit... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090022396 - Image processing device, image processing method, image processing system, program, storage medium, and integrated circuit: Input image data is first converted into brightness information by a brightness information calculation portion. The interest level within the image is then estimated by an interest level estimation portion based on that information. The vanishing point is then estimated by a vanishing point estimation portion. Next, a depth estimation... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20090022397 - Method and apparatus for removing noise from a digital image: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that removes noise from an image. During operation, the system first identifies blobs in the image, wherein a blob is a set of contiguous pixels which possibly represents a character or a portion of a character in the image. Next, the... Agent: M.h.k.k.g., P.c. / Adobe Systems Incorporated

20090022398 - Head detecting apparatus, head detecting method, and head detecting program: A head detecting apparatus, including a foreground extraction section for extracting a foreground region in which a person is captured from an input image; a first main axis computing section which includes a first moment computing section for computing a moment around a center of gravity of the foreground region... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20090022399 - Processing system for identifying a string formed from a number of hand-written characters: The present invention is a processing system for identifying a string formed from a number of hand-written characters. The system includes a processor and memory, an input device and an output device, a bus connecting the processor, memory, input and output devices, as well as an external interface for connecting... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090022400 - Image extracting apparatus, computer program product, and image extracting method: Provided are a scene-transition-image extraction unit that extracts a scene transition image from a sequence of successive images using a predetermined extraction condition, a display unit that displays a near image of the scene transition image, an operation history acquiring unit that acquires image information of an image, for which... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, Pc

20090022401 - Image processing, image feature extraction and image matching apparatuses, methods and programs, and image matching system: An object of the present invention is to eliminate instability in processing results of either one of image restoration processing, image feature extraction processing, and image matching processing, which is caused depending on an image division method, to enhance identification accuracy in image matching. An image processing apparatus includes an... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20090022404 - Efficient detection of constant regions of a region: A technique that improves image analysis efficiency by reducing the number of computations needed to detect constant regions. Constant region detection according to the present techniques includes determining whether an image analysis window at a current position contains a constant region by analyzing a new line of pixels in the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090022403 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer readable medium: There is provided an image processing apparatus for processing a moving image including a plurality of moving-image-component images. The image processing apparatus includes a characteristic region detecting section that detects a characteristic region in one or more of the plurality of moving-image-component images, and a characteristic region identifying section that... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20090022402 - Image-resolution-improvement apparatus and method: Provided is an image-resolution-improvement apparatus and method which can increase the resolution of an input image at a high magnification to thereby obtain a high-quality final image. The apparatus includes a textured-region-detection unit to detect a texture region in an input image; and a final-image-generation unit to synthesize a first... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090022405 - System and method for video object identification: A video object identification system used to identify an object, to locate its position in the view, and to determine its angular orientation. It digitizes a field of image view and subdivides the viewed area into a grid pattern of small cells. It then encodes the angle of a tangent... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20090022406 - Method for finding specific pattern and method for compensating image offset: A method for finding a specific pattern is used to find a specific pattern in an image to be tested. The method comprises the following steps of: acquiring an image to be tested; performing a binary thresholding process on the image to be tested, thereby transforming the image to be... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090022407 - Method, apparatus and storage medium for image classification: In an image classification method, dividing an input image into blocks; obtaining block features of each block of the image; performing an evaluation of each block based on the block features thereof; obtaining image features based on the evaluations of the blocks of the image; and classifying the image based... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090022408 - Imiage processing apparatus and image processing program: It is an object to provide an image processing apparatus and an image processing program in which motion information detected from an image is used for a different image processing corresponding to image information so that the detected motion information capable of easily synchronizing the image with the motion information... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090022409 - Motion encoding of still images: The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for encoding a series of still images. The first image is captured and stored, then for each subsequent image of the series, that image is captured and compared to the first image or the previous image and difference information between... Agent: Gateway, Inc. Attn: Patent Attorney

20090022410 - Method and apparatus for coded aperture imaging: Methods for coded aperture imaging, and processing the data from coded aperture imaging are taught. Several snapshots of an image are acquired, each using a different coded aperture array. The several snapshots are combined together with appropriate weightings to form a single equivalent frame as are the aperture functions for... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20090022411 - Image display apparatus: An image display apparatus 100 comprises: a low-luminance frame generator 230 configured to generate a low-luminance frame in which a luminance of an original frame corresponding to an image input signal is decreased; a motion-compensated frame generator 240 configured to generate a motion-compensated frame in which a motion of an... Agent: Mots Law, Pllc

20090022412 - Image processing apparatus and image pickup apparatus using the same: A hierarchical coding unit hierarchically codes picked-up moving images. A storage stores moving image coded data which have been coded by the hierarchical coding unit. A hierarchical decoding unit decodes part of the moving image coded data so as to generate a moving image whose image quality is lower than... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090022413 - System and method for incremental and continuous data compression: A data compression system and method for that is capable of detecting and eliminating repeated phrases of variable length within a window of virtually unlimited size.... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.a

20090022414 - High dynamic range image hallucination: An apparatus and method provide for providing an output image from an input image. The input image may contain at least one portion that does not display certain desired information of the image, such as texture information. The desired information may be obtained from a second portion of the input... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090022415 - Method and system for filtering image data: A device that includes at least one memory unit adapted to store image data; the device is characterized by including a configurable filter adapted to apply de-ringing filtering and de-blocking filtering such as to filter image data retrieved from the at least one memory unit, whereas the device is adapted... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20090022416 - Reduction of compression artefacts in displayed images, analysis of encoding parameters: A hither before unknown cause of image artefacts has been identified. Encoders such as MPEG encoders may use two picture structures: Field pictures and frame pictures. For a frame picture both frame and field-based DCT (and other types) of coding may be used. The decision whether to use frame or... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090022417 - Method and apparatus for an intuitive digital image processing system that enhances digital images: To better realize the great potential of amateur digital photography, the present invention introduces an intuitive system for digital processing. The system of the present invention allows a user to enhance digital images that appear dark or dull. In one embodiment, the user activates an image enhancement button on a... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20090022419 - Method for realistic stitching image blocks of an electronically recorded multipart image: A method for realistic stitching and showing image blocks of an electronically recorded multipart image wherein relative positional offset values of the image blocks recorded with overlap are determined in a co-ordinate system in directions x and y and stored in matrix format, and the image blocks to be presented... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20090022418 - Minimizing blocking artifacts in videos: Techniques for minimizing blocking artifacts in video images or frames are disclosed. In general, these blocking artifacts are the result of block-based compression standards, such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.261, H.263, and H.264. According to one aspect of the present invention, a blurring process is configured to replace pixels on... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20090022420 - Image processing device, method, and program: The present invention enables processing results which are more accurate and which have higher precision as to events of the real world to be obtained. (An inverse gamma correction unit 5001 applies inverse gamma correction to an input image wherein light signals of the actual world have been projected and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090022421 - Generating gigapixel images: A gigapixel image is generated from a set of images in raw format depicting different portions of a panoramic scene that has up to a full spherical field of view. Radiometric alignment of the images creates a set of images in radiance format. Geometric alignment of the radiance format images... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20090022423 - Method for combining several images to a full image in the bird's eye view: During the combination of several adjacent images to a full image in the bird's eye view, points of discontinuity in addition to distortions can form in the overlapping regions of individual image portions, in which detected objects cannot be detected due to perspective differences. The aim of the invention is... Agent: Patent Central Llc Stephan A. Pendorf

20090022422 - Method for constructing a composite image: A method for constructing a composite image comprises determining in an alignment between at least a first and a second image based on the content of the first and second image frames, and combining in a transform domain at least the first and second images with the determined alignment to... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20090022424 - Systems and methods for creating photobooks: A method for producing a photo album includes providing a library of page layouts, selecting a first group of one or more images to be placed in the first page of the photo album, selecting a second group of one or more images to be placed in the second page... Agent: Dr. Xin Wen

20090022425 - Alignment of tape cartridge accessor: A method for aligning a tape cartridge accessor with cartridges in cells of a tape cartridge magazine is provided. IR illumination is applied to an object expected to include a desired physical feature. Specular reflections are received from the illuminated object to create an image of the object. Dynamic image... Agent: John A. Griffiths, Pllc

20090022426 - Method and device for generating character data, method and control device for displaying character data, and navigation apparatus: A device includes a character-data rotating section that rotates a regular-position character by a predetermined angle with respect to a reference point that is the center point of the background area of the regular-position character by using regular-position character data having a rotation angle of 0° and a center-point matching... Agent: Alpine/bhgl

20090022427 - Method of controlling digital photographing apparatus: A method of controlling a digital photographing apparatus to enlarge and reproduce an image is provided. The method includes determining whether an instruction is given in an image reproduction mode, dividing the input image into a predetermined number of blocks when it is determined that the instruction is given, enlarging... Agent: Jason Y. Pahng And Associates, Llc

20090022428 - Mobile communication terminal with dual-display unit having function of editing captured image and method thereof: A mobile communication terminal with a camera and a dual-display unit, whereby, in an image capturing mode, a first display unit displays an image of a subject received through a camera in real time and a second display unit displays a still image of the subject captured according to an... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090022429 - System and method to manipulate an image: A method of operating an image reader comprising the steps of: capturing an image; recognizing a form within the captured image; and, cropping the captured image to the size of the form.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090016568 - Apparatus for observing and capturing latent images on objects, and method for using same: An apparatus for easily shooting an invisible image (such as an invisible two-dimensional bar code) latent on an object. The operation of the apparatus is made intuitive and simple and may be incorporated into cameras peripheral to computers and mobile telephones. A novel framing and focusing system is also disclosed.... Agent: Ibm Corporation (swp)

20090016566 - Apparatus for processing images, and method and computer program product for detecting image updates: The address calculating unit calculates a virtual address of a page for each pixel of a rectangular region of a predetermined size that is included in a screen. The acquiring unit acquires a physical address in correspondence with the virtual address of each pixel of the image information for which... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090016565 - Image analysis: Digital image data generated by an image capture device is analyzed in an example to identify the image capture device. A characteristic of the digital image data is identified, and used to provide suggestion information describing how the image capture device can be configured to improve subsequently-generated images.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090016567 - Image display apparatus, image display method, and program: An image display apparatus displays a digital image on a confirmation screen. The image display apparatus includes a blur variance value acquisition unit that acquires a blur variance value, which is an index relating to a difference in amount of blur between images obtained when the digital image is printed... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090016564 - Information retrieval using invisible junctions and geometric constraints: The present invention uses invisible junctions which are a set of local features unique to every page of the electronic document to match the captured image to a part of an electronic document. The present invention includes: an image capture device, a feature extraction and recognition system and database. When... Agent: Ricoh/fenwick

20090016569 - Method of controlling the flow of adjuvant for the casting of a molten metal: According to this method, the adjuvant is delivered from a supply means (12) placed above the casting bowl (4), a target zone (Z) for the theoretical passage of this adjuvant is chosen, said zone lying downstream of the supply means (12), and the actual passage of the adjuvant in the... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20090016570 - Method and apparatus for calibrating sampling operations for an object detection process: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that detects an object in an image. During operation, the system determines a relationship between sampling parameters and a detection rate for an object detection process. The system also determines a relationship between the sampling parameters and a detection speed for... Agent: Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090016571 - Blur display for automotive night vision systems with enhanced form perception from low-resolution camera images: The present invention relates to a night vision system human machine interface and particularly to an HMI display that provides enhanced road scene imagery from low resolution cameras.... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC Ford Global Technologies, Inc.

20090016572 - System and technique for retrieving depth information about a surface by projecting a composite image of modulated light patterns: A technique, associated system and program code, for retrieving depth information about at least one surface of an object, such as an anatomical feature. Core features include: projecting a composite image comprising a plurality of modulated structured light patterns, at the anatomical feature; capturing an image reflected from the surface;... Agent: Jean M. Macheledt

20090016573 - Bioindex mechanism for increasing the relative speed of biometric indentification against large population samples: A method and system for determining a smaller sample of large data objects to search through for a match to one under test. The data objects are in preferred embodiments biometric templates.... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20090016574 - Biometric discrimination device, authentication device, and biometric discrimination method: An authentication system includes the following elements: a guide mirror to be used when a subject checks the position of the eye with an image reflected therefrom during imaging the eye of the subject; a lens disposed behind the mirror; and illuminating LEDs that are disposed symmetrically about the optical... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090016577 - Collation sytem and computer readable medium storing thereon program: A collation system for selecting a registrant matched with a passer-by among a plurality of registrants registered in advance includes a photographing section for photographing the passer-by, a candidate searching section for searching a plurality of candidates for the registrant matched with the passer-by among the plurality of registrants based... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090016576 - Digital image processing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and recording medium for storing program for executing the method: A digital image processing apparatus for easily obtaining information regarding a face, a method of controlling the same, and a recording medium for storing a program for executing the method. The digital image processing apparatus includes a face recognition unit recognizing a face from an image, a face index assignment... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090016575 - Real-time face recognition-based selective recording apparatus and method: Provided are a real-time face recognition-based selective recording apparatus and method. The apparatus includes a face recognition unit which recognizes a face of a person in a decompressed input image frame; a recording position setting unit which sets one of an image frame in which the person appears and a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090016578 - Biometric image pickup apparatus: A biometric image pickup apparatus with a simple configuration capable of reducing light amount variations in a picked-up image. The biometric image pickup apparatus includes: a light source applying light to a living organism; a detection section for placing the living organism thereon; an image pickup lens section condensing light... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090016580 - Breast image processing system and breast image processing method: The problems that a skipping area is shown in the chest wall portion of the output image and image information on the chest wall portion lacks when the left and right breast images are recorded on films and outputted to compare and examine the images on the film viewer are... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20090016584 - Method and control equipment to control a medical imaging system: In a method and control equipment to control a medical technological imaging system to produce image data, several measuring request signals are transferred to the medical technological imaging system and, depending on the measuring request signals, the medical technological system is controlled to acquire raw data in a combined measurement... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090016582 - Method and system for generating display data: A method of aiding in the evaluation of lesions in a body using a plurality of sets of image data of sections of the body region in mutually parallel planes. Processing of the data requires several steps, including pixel intensity pattern recognition, contouring of the regions of probable pathology, thresholding... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090016579 - Method and system for performing quality control of medical images in a clinical trial: A method for performing quality control on medical images in a clinical trial setting. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of designating an image as reference image; obtaining attribute data from the reference image as reference attribute data; storing the reference image and the reference attribute data; subsequently... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090016586 - Region of interest methods and systems for ultrasound imaging: A region of interest is identified by user selection of a single point. Multiple regions of interest may be identified by selection of multiple points. Region growing is then used to define the boundary of the region of interest. In an alternative or additional embodiment, an image processing region is... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090016583 - System and method for detecting spherical and ellipsoidal objects using cutting planes: A method for detecting spherical and ellipsoidal objects is digitized medical images includes providing a 2-dimensional (2D) slice I(x, y) extracted from a medical image volume of a colon, said image volume comprising a plurality of intensities associated with a 3 grid of points, generating a plurality of templates of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090016581 - Systems, methods and apparatus to distribute images for quality control: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some embodiments an image acquisition station transmits images that have been identified as having inadequate diagnostic quality to a computer system of an image quality consultant. The image quality consultant may develop recommendations on how to improve the quality, and the... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20090016585 - Time-lapsing data methods and systems: Time-lapsing mirror methods and related systems.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20090016587 - System and method for two-dimensional visualization of temporal phenomena and three dimensional vessel reconstruction: A method for visualizing temporal phenomena and constructing 3D views from a series of medical images includes providing a first time series of digital images of contrast-enhanced blood flow in a patient, each acquired from a same viewing point with a known epipolar geometry, each said image comprising a plurality... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090016589 - Computer-assisted detection of colonic polyps using convex hull: A method for performing computer-assisted diagnosis includes receiving a plurality of two-dimensional views of an internal structure, defining a search space around one or more areas of analysis within each view of the internal structure, calculating a convex hull for each area of analysis within each search space of each... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090016588 - Method and system for segmentation of tubular structures in 3d images: A method and system for segmenting tubular structures in 3D images is disclosed. User inputs identifying a first region on the image inside of a tubular structure and a second region of the image outside of the tubular structure are received. Based on this information, an ordered series of pearls... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090016592 - Method for correcting truncation artifacts: The invention relates to a method for correcting truncation artifacts in a reconstruction method for computed tomography recordings. The projection images are recorded by an x-ray image detector being extended by determining the attenuation of the radiation outside the projection image for pixels. Non-horizontal filter lines are extended by transaxial... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090016590 - Method of analyzing diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance image: A method of analyzing a diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance image is adapted to analyze an orientation distribution function ψ0 of nerve fibers at a vector in space. The method includes the following steps: (A) finding an orientation {circumflex over (μ)}a with the largest probability in the ODF ψ0; (B) maximizing a... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20090016591 - Tissue detection method for computer aided diagnosis and visualization in the presence of tagging: A method for obtaining a tissue volume, includes inputting a dataset including a plurality of voxels; initializing a tissue probability volume for the plurality of voxels to a pre-determined value; updating, by one of increasing or decreasing the tissue probability volume of each of the plurality of voxels, based on... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090016593 - Imaging system and method utilizing primary radiation: An imaging system and method for producing an image based on primary radiation. A separate image based solely on scattered radiation may also be obtained and may be of practical interests. The separation of primary and scattered radiation is achieved by utilizing a small beam exposure and a cone beam... Agent: Feng Ma

20090016594 - Bank document image viewing apparatus and methods of a financial institution presenting an image of a bank document in a check truncation environment: A method is provided of a financial institution presenting an image of a bank document in a check truncation environment. The method comprises determining security permission level associated with a person to be presented with the image of the bank document, determining type of the bank document, locating a first... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20090016595 - Methods and systems for detecting defects in a reticle design pattern: Computer-implemented methods and systems for detecting defects in a reticle design pattern are provided. One computer-implemented method includes acquiring images of the reticle design pattern using a sensor disposed on a substrate arranged proximate to an image plane of an exposure system configured to perform a wafer printing process using... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP

20090016596 - Removal of relatively unimportant shapes from a set of shapes: A method for reducing a number of shapes, and a computer readable program code adapted to perform said method. The method forms first and second shape patterns. The second shape pattern includes the first shape pattern and error shapes. The error shapes are extracted from the second shape pattern. At... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090016597 - Signal processing fault detection system: A fault detection system designed to evaluate the structural integrity of a material employs an array of sensors disposed over the material being evaluated. The sensors detect vibrations in the material and the sensor signals are fed to a data processor. The processor employs a method to analyze the linear... Agent: Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport

20090016598 - Method for computer-aided identification of the child octants of a parent octant, which are intersected by a beam, in an octree data structure by means of look-up tables: The present invention relates to a method for computer-aided identification of the child octants of a parent octant, which are intersected by a beam, in an octree data tree. The method firstly determines the number of the child octants of the parent octant which are intersected by the beam and,... Agent: Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20090016600 - Cognitive model for a machine-learning engine in a video analysis system: A machine-learning engine is disclosed that is configured to recognize and learn behaviors, as well as to identify and distinguish between normal and abnormal behavior within a scene, by analyzing movements and/or activities (or absence of such) over time. The machine-learning engine may be configured to evaluate a sequence of... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090016599 - Semantic representation module of a machine-learning engine in a video analysis system: A machine-learning engine is disclosed that is configured to recognize and learn behaviors, as well as to identify and distinguish between normal and abnormal behavior within a scene, by analyzing movements and/or activities (or absence of such) over time. The machine-learning engine may be configured to evaluate a sequence of... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090016601 - Image data processing device and image data processing method: N-band image data are output from an N-band image capture device, being capable of N>4 multiband image capturing, to an image data processing device. An image data evaluation information provision unit provides a determination unit with evaluation information on the basis of the input N-band image data. On the basis... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090016602 - Color reproducing device: A multi-spectral camera is provided which includes an image pickup optical system which forms an image of a subject. A wavelength selecting device receives light beams from the image pickup optical system and outputs a light beam having a selected wavelength. A wavelength switching device selectively switches the selected wavelength... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090016603 - Contour finding in segmentation of video sequences: A method of image processing includes: receiving at least one video frame of a video sequence, the at least one video frame including at least one foreground subject and a background; and processing the at least one video frame so as to separate the at least one foreground subject from... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090016604 - Invisible junction features for patch recognition: The present invention uses invisible junctions which are a set of local features unique to every page of the electronic document to match the captured image to a part of an electronic document. The present invention includes: an image capture device, a feature extraction and recognition system and database. When... Agent: Ricoh/fenwick

20090016606 - Method, system, digital camera and asic for geometric image transformation based on text line searching: The present invention provides a method, system and/or a digital camera providing a geometrical transformation of deformed images of documents comprising text, by text line tracking, resulting in an image comprising parallel text lines. The transformed image is provided as an input to an OCR program either running in a... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090016605 - System and method for creating an editable template from a document image: Embodiments of the present invention recite a system and method for creating an editable template from a document image. In one embodiment of the present invention, the spatial characteristics and the color characteristics of at least one region of a document are identified. A set of characteristics of a graphic... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090016607 - Image processing device: When an original image in which an object to be concealed is mosaicked is so reduced as to have a low resolution, the mosaic block size at the lowered resolution is computed. It is judged whether or not the concealed object can be perceived by the eye of a human... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090016608 - Character recognition method: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method of character recognition out of an image having a frame and a plurality of characters in an area, comprises the steps of: dividing the area into a plurality of partial areas having a plurality of partial images, respectively; providing a template... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090016609 - Method for detection and recognition of fog presence within an aircraft compartment using video images: Detecting video phenomena, such as fire in an aircraft cargo bay, includes receiving a plurality of video images from a plurality of sources, compensating the images to provide enhanced images, extracting features from the enhanced images, and combining the features from the plurality of sources to detect the video phenomena.... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20090016610 - Methods of using motion-texture analysis to perform activity recognition and detect abnormal patterns of activities: Methods of using motion-texture analysis to perform video analytics are disclosed. One method includes selecting a plurality of frames from a video sequence, analyzing motion textures in the plurality of frames to identify a flow, extracting features from the flow, and characterizing the extracted features to perform activity recognition. Another... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090016613 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product: In an image processing apparatus, a binary image generating unit generates a binary image from a multi-value image, a ruled line candidate extracting unit extracts ruled line candidate pixels constituting a ruled line from the binary image, an edge detecting unit determines, from the multi-value image, target pixels that are... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090016612 - Method of reference contour propagation and optimization: The invention relates to a detection method (300) of detecting a boundary in a second image data from an image dataset on the basis of a reference contour in a first image data from the image dataset, the detection method (300) comprising a generating step (320) for generating a reference... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090016611 - Methods and systems for identifying digital image characteristics: Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for determining image characteristics in a digital image.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20090016614 - Global localization by fast image matching: An efficient technique is provided for determining a portion of a document corresponding to a captured image. Areas of a document in which the pattern is at least partially obscured are identified. A reference pixel in the image is selected, and an offset between the pixel and the pattern is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090016615 - Invisible junction feature recognition for document security or annotation: The present invention uses invisible junctions which are a set of local features unique to every page of the electronic document to match the captured image to a part of an electronic document. The present invention includes: an image capture device, a feature extraction and recognition system and database. When... Agent: Ricoh/fenwick

20090016616 - Category classification apparatus, category classification method, and storage medium storing a program: A category classification apparatus includes: an overall classifier that classifies a category to which an image belongs, based on an overall characteristic amount that is obtained from image data, the overall characteristic amount indicating an overall characteristic of the image represented by the image data; and a partial classifier that... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090016617 - Sender dependent messaging viewer: A mobile apparatus for receiving an electronic message that comprises a text message from a sender. The mobile device comprises a contact records repository that stores a number digital images, which are associated with a respective number of user identifiers. The mobile device further comprises a text analysis module that... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20090016618 - System and method for detecting scrolling text in mixed mode film and video: Various embodiments of a system are provided for detecting scrolling text in a mixed-mode video sequence. The system of certain embodiments includes a motion estimator that generates a plurality of motion vectors between blocks of two or more extracted frames of a mixed-mode video sequence. An extracted frame motion analyzer... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20090016619 - Image processing device: An image processing device and method decodes encoded image data, and converts a resolution of the decoded image data. The encoded image data is formed by encoding image data partitioned into blocks, each block including a plurality of pixels aligned in a matrix shape. The image processing device includes a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090016620 - Image processing device: An image processing device and method decodes encoded image data, and converts a resolution of the decoded image data. The encoded image data is formed by encoding image data partitioned into blocks, each block including a plurality of pixels aligned in a matrix shape having horizontal rows and vertical columns.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090016623 - Image processing device, image processing method and program: There is provided an image processing device that is capable of performing a frame rate conversion of the coded data. The image processing device includes an encoded difference data decoding portion that decodes the coded data that is input into encoded difference data. The image processing device also includes an... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090016622 - Image transmitting apparatus, image transmitting method, receiving apparatus, and image transmitting system: An image transmitting apparatus transmits an image based on image frame information including encoded data of a plurality of areas obtained by dividing an image frame and a header including configuration information of each area. The apparatus includes an area selecting unit selecting one area or a plurality of areas... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090016621 - Moving-picture coding device and moving-picture coding method: A moving-picture coding device that performs inter-field motion compensation prediction, includes a reference limit area determining unit that determines to select, for each reference picture, with respect to reference pictures used for coding, a luminance or chrominance reference limit area putting a limit to a reference picture used for generating... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090016627 - Image compressor, image expander and image processing apparatus: An image compressor has an input pixel value correction unit, a predicted pixel value generation unit, an error level detection unit, a predicted error computation unit, a predicted error coding unit, a packing unit and a target code amount difference level detection unit. The predicted error coding unit encodes, by... Agent: Gregory Turocy Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090016625 - Imaging apparatus and method of improving sensitivity of the same: An imaging apparatus and a method improving the sensitivity of the imaging apparatus are provided. The imaging apparatus includes a pixel binning unit pixel binning input image data to a given pixel size; a gain determining unit determining a pixel binning gain based on the input image data or the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090016626 - Joint coding of multiple transform blocks with reduced number of coefficients: A system and method for video/image encoding and decoding, where transform coefficients associated with a plurality of blocks are reorganized and coded together. Various embodiments perform transform and quantization and generate transform coefficients, where the coefficients of the transform blocks are reorganized and interleaved. Additionally, an encoding process involves coding... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090016624 - Method of graphics and image data compression: This image compression applies a mixture compression algorithm to code the differential value of the adjacent pixels. The first table saves a predetermined number of the most frequent patterns and the second table saves another predetermined number of the most frequent patterns and both apply fixed length code to represent... Agent: Chih-ta Star Sung

20090016628 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and printing apparatus: An image processing apparatus that creates a still image from a motion picture. A storage section has a storage region for correction required when a target image with a predetermined determination size is corrected by using a plurality of images. A size determining section determines whether or not the size... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090016630 - Apparatus and method for transforming between discrete cosine transform coefficient and discrete wavelet transform coefficient: Provided is an apparatus and method for transforming between a DCT coefficient and a DWT coefficient. The transforming apparatus includes a first fundamental matrix calculating unit, a second fundamental matrix calculating unit, and a DWT coefficient calculating unit. The first fundamental matrix calculating unit calculates a first fundamental matrix by... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090016629 - Method of performing fast compression and decompression for image: The present invention relates to an image compression and decompression method, in particular in the areas of computer image processing and data compression. The currently, the process speed for which JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group, a compression standard) is applied, it's not all too satisfactory. One aspect of the present... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090016631 - Video coding rate control: The video encoding rate control with the quantization parameter modulated by macroblock activity with macroblock activity measured using 16×16 intra-prediction mode SAD evaluations.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090016632 - Image processing system: An image processing system for restoring a resolution of a pixel-mixed image represented by a mixed-pixel signal which is acquired when a plurality of pixel signals in an image pickup device are mixed and are read out includes a shooting situation acquiring section, a restoration matrix generating section, and a... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20090016633 - Image processor, display device, image processing method, and program: By sequentially scanning pixel lines of an image signal that has been received as input linear interpolation application regions, which are regions in which gray-level changes are to be smoothed, are detected for each line of the input signal, and the detected linear interpolation application regions are then subjected to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090016634 - Half pixel interpolator for video motion estimation accelerator: Methods and an apparatus are provided for interpolation of pixels in a pixel array having rows and columns of pixels. The apparatus includes a shift register array to shift pixel values of the pixel array, the shift register array including two or more shift registers; an interpolation filter array interconnected... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090016635 - Edge-enhancement device and edge-enhancement method: An edge-enhancement device for subjecting input image data to edge enhancement so as to generate output image data has an edge-component generator, a weighting processor, and an addition processor. The input image data is obtained from a frame image having a plurality of pixels, and the input image data contains... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090016637 - Electronic appliance: An electronic appliance is equipped with: a voice processing unit for executing one voice processing operation selected from plural sorts of voice processing operations; a zapping detecting unit for detecting a zapping condition; and a process switching unit for switching the presently executed voice processing operation to a different voice... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090016636 - Image processing apparatus, and method, program and recording medium: The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus, method, program and recording medium, which make it possible to remove an obstacle, which blocks the field of view, and provide an image of a pleasant field of view. An interference status detector determines whether it is necessary to correct an... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090016638 - Defective pixel detector, imaging device, and defective pixel detection method: In a defective pixel detector 20 mounted on an imaging device 100, a pixel data acquisition module 20a successively obtains pixel data of a target pixel set as an object of defective pixel detection and pixel data of plural surrounding pixels located in a neighborhood of the target pixel. A... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20090016639 - Image processing method, apparatus, recording medium, and image pickup apparatus: The noise reduction process is appropriately changed according to a proportion of the facial region in an angle of view, thereby minimizing deterioration of background resolution as well as removing wrinkles and blemishes in the facial region.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090016640 - Directional hole filling in images: When transforming a 2.5D video format to a plurality of images viewed from different virtual positions, it can occur that for certain output pixels, no input data is available. Therefore, these output pixels do not have any definite values assigned in their pixel locations. These unassigned pixel values cause artifacts... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090016641 - Method and apparatus for efficient client-server visualization of multi-dimensional data: In response to a request from a client, a server for volume rendering loads a volume dataset from a storage archive, creates a low resolution sub-sampled copy of such volume dataset and transmits it to a client. In response to subsequent requests from the client, the server for volume rendering... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090016642 - Method and system for high resolution, ultra fast 3-d imaging: A high-speed three-dimensional imaging system includes a single lens camera subsystem with an active imaging element and CCD element, and a correlation processing subsystem. The active imaging element can be a rotating aperture which allows adjustable non-equilateral spacing between defocused images to achieve greater depth of field and higher sub-pixel... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090016643 - Method for digital image class detection: A system and method for analyzing and classifying digital images as color, black-and-white, black-and-white with spot color, monochromatic, or monochromatic with spot color is provided. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a digital image is received and selected pixel values thereof are transformed from RGB color component values... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20090016645 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: Disclosed herein is an image-processing apparatus. The apparatus includes: a taken-image acquisition section configured to acquire a taken image; and a to-be-processed area setting section configured to carry out an analysis on a taken image acquired by the taken-image acquisition section and configured to use the pixel area of a... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090016644 - Method and apparatus for downscaling a digital matrix image: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for downscaling a digital matrix image, using a selected ratio R, in which the matrix image includes a large number of lines, each line including a large number of pixels, so that the intensity values of the pixels form the matrix, and... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090016646 - Method and apparatus for detecting displacement with sub-pixel accuracy: A method for detecting displacement with sub-pixel accuracy includes the steps of: capturing a first array image and a second array image; interpolating the first array image to form a reference image; interpolating the second array image to form a comparison image; comparing the reference image with the comparison image... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090016648 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for processing image: A first combination of feature and processing content of image data is stored in a storing unit in a first period, and a second combination of feature and processing content of image data is stored in the storing unit in a second period that is later in terms of time.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090016647 - Image processing apparatus and control method thereof: Each page image of image data including a plurality of pages is divided into a plurality of areas by block selection, and meta information associated with at least one of the coordinate position, size, and type of each of the plurality of areas is held. As a combining condition, at... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090016649 - Systems and methods for improving image quality using digital signal processing techniques: A compensating technique, implemented as an image processing block inserted in a chain of sequential image processing blocks, is used to achieve custom tuning at an end-user site to provide a customer a desired image quality (IQ) different from the factory calibrated one, or to simply compensate for drift in... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20090016650 - Handheld image processing apparatus: A handheld inspection apparatus for inspecting an object in a non-contact manner is provided, the apparatus comprising: a telecentric lens arrangement comprising a telecentric lens arranged to collect light rays projected or reflected from an object to be inspected; a mobile image sensing device such as a CCD digital camera... Agent: Koppel, Patrick & Heybl

20090010484 - Apparatus and method for capturing information during asset inspections in a processing or other environment: An asset information collection device can be used during inspections of assets in a processing, production, or other system. The asset information collection device includes at least one image capture unit configured to capture images of assets, such as a video capture unit and a photo capture unit. The asset... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090010483 - Block-based lossless data hiding in the delta domain: A system and methodology for encoding or decoding hidden data, such as a digital watermark, in raster media is provided in delta domain, a domain that creates a high-pass version of the raster media. Hidden data, such as a watermark, can be embedded in the general smooth region (low variance... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090010482 - Diagrammatizing apparatus: A diagrammatizing apparatus (20) for vehicle lane detection which detects at least two lines of boundary lines of the sign lines (5L, 5R) or the boundary lines of a vehicle lane (4) on the road surface from a picked-up image of the road surface, includes a first boundary line extracting... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090010488 - Driving support apparatus, method and program: An age estimation device, based on a facial image photographed by a photographing device, estimates an age of a driver. An inattentiveness detection device sets conditions of detecting an inattentiveness to be laxer in order that it becomes easier to detect the inattentiveness as the driver's age rises. In the... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090010489 - Method for comparison of 3d computer model and as-built situation of an industrial plant: Method for carrying out comparison between the as-built state of an industrial plant and the associated CAD planning model, characterized in that the comparison is achieved by superimposition of unreliable components of the CAD model (see FIG. 1, 2b) and digital images of the plant (3), whereby the superimposition is... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090010486 - Modifying software to cope with changing machinery: A method for adapting a detection algorithm developed for usage with data generated by a first system to data generated with a second system, the algorithm for fail safe diagnosis of irregularities including a first procedure of detecting irregularities with minimal type I errors and a second procedure of filtering... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090010487 - Processor and method for processing image to update information embedded unreadably in a printed document: In a watermark processing system, a watermark detector detects first information represented by a watermark from an image, a watermark encoder decodes and error-corrects the first information and re-encodes it to second information, and a watermark eraser identifies the position of the tint-block pattern included in the watermark according to... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090010485 - Video communication system and method: A method of capturing an image from a video call between a first user and a remote user over a communication network. The method includes receiving video data from the remote user at a client executed at a user terminal of the first user, the video data comprising a sequence... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090010492 - Image recognition device, focus adjustment device, imaging apparatus, image recognition method and focus adjustment method: An image recognition device includes a detection unit which is configured to detect a first difference between partial information of at least a part of the first image information and the reference information and to detect a second difference between partial information of at least a part of the second... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20090010491 - Method and apparatus for providing picture file: A method and an apparatus for providing a picture file are provided. The picture file providing apparatus includes a controller which searches for one or more picture files based on a location of a subject, and a screen display unit which forms a display screen to display the one or... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090010493 - Motion-validating remote monitoring system: A method of autonomously monitoring a remote site, including the steps of locating a primary detector at a site to be monitored; creating one or more geospatial maps of the site using an overhead image of the site; calibrating the primary detector to the geospatial map using a detector-specific model;... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090010490 - System and process for detecting, tracking and counting human objects of interest: A method of identifying, tracking, and counting human objects of interest based upon at least one pair of stereo image frames taken by at least one image capturing device, comprising the steps of: obtaining said stereo image frames and converting each said stereo image frame to a rectified image frame... Agent: Sachnoff & Weaver, Ltd.

20090010494 - System for controlling vehicle equipment: A system for automatically controlling vehicle equipment includes a controller to generate control signals. The control signals are derived based on information obtained from the image sensor as well as other detected parameters pertaining to the detected light source(s), the vehicle having the inventive control system, and the ambient environment.... Agent: Brian J. Rees Gentex Corporation

20090010496 - Image information processing apparatus, judging method, and computer program: Image information is input by an image input unit, a marker is extracted from an image of the input image information by a marker detector, a position of the extracted marker in the image is detected by a position/posture detector, and the difference between indicators extracted from images is judged.... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090010495 - Vulnerable road user protection system: A range map of a visual scene generated by a stereo vision and associate image processing system, and is filtered to remove objects beyond a region of interest and for which a collision is not possible, and to remove an associated road surface. Objects clustered in range bins are separated... Agent: Raggio & Dinnin, P.C.

20090010497 - Classifying method and classifying apparatus for digital image: The invention provides a classifying method for digital images. First, a discrete cosine transform is performed on a candidate area of a digital image to generate a set of discrete cosine transform coefficients. Then, a set of texture parameters is generated based on the set of discrete cosine transform coefficients.... Agent: Reed Smith LLP Suite 1400

20090010498 - Print emulation of test pattern: Print quality feedback is provided about a printer. Printer operation is monitored to determine when printer parts are not operating correctly. Information indicating which printer parts are not operating correctly is stored. A test pattern is modified to produce an emulated test pattern. The emulated test pattern emulates how the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090010499 - Advertising impact measuring system and method: The present invention relates to an advertising impact measuring system and method counting in real time the people (4) looking at a target scene (5). The system comprises a video camera (1) located behind the target scene (5) and data processing means (2) responsible for processing the images captured by... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090010500 - Face recognition methods and systems: Various systems and methods are provided for face recognition. In one embodiment, a method includes assigning a texton to each pixel of a filtered image to produce a texton map; determining an approximation error for each pixel of the texton map; segmenting the texton map into a plurality of sub-blocks,... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090010501 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus for processing an image including an image of a face includes: a normalization unit configured to normalize the image including the image of a face so that the size of the face becomes a predetermined face size; a detection area setting unit configured to set an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090010502 - Vehicle occupant protection system: An occupant protection system or comfort system for a vehicle having a plurality of adaptive protection system or comfort system components which are assigned to one respective vehicle seat. The system components and which can be adjusted by a stored safety and/or comfort profile relating to a person when the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090010503 - Portable or embedded access and input devices and methods for giving access to access limited devices, apparatuses, appliances, systems or networks:

20090010504 - Confocal microscope apparatus: A confocal microscope apparatus capable of increasing a degree of freedom in varying sectioning resolution while keeping a configuration of a confocal microscope simple. The confocal microscope apparatus includes a confocal microscope capable of detecting two or more microscopic appearances with different sectioning and an arithmetic unit that performs arithmetic... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20090010508 - Medical image processing apparatus and medical image processing method: A medical image processing apparatus of the present invention has a three-dimensional model estimating section for estimating, based on an inputted two-dimensional image of an image of a living tissue within a body cavity, a three-dimensional model of the living tissue, a shape feature value calculating section for calculating shape... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090010509 - Method and system for detection of deformable structures in medical images: A method and system for detection of deformable structures in medical images is disclosed. Deformable structures can represent blood flow patterns in images such as Doppler echocardiograms. A probabilistic, hierarchical, and discriminant framework is used to detect such deformable structures. This framework integrates evidence from different primitive levels via a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090010506 - Method for processing image and volume data based on statistical models: A method for visually displaying and/or evaluating measurement data from imaging methods involve the following acts: a) calculating a parameterized statistical model from example voxel data sets that map different objects of an identical object class; b) carrying out at least one imaging method on an object to be examined... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090010505 - Method, a system and a computer program for segmenting a structure in a dataset: The method (1) according to the invention may be schematically divided into three major phases. Phase (2) comprises step (3) of acquiring a suitable dataset, which is then subjected to a suitable binary segmentation at step (4) results of which are being accessed at step (5). The results comprise temporally... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090010510 - Mr-compatible video system: In an MR-compatible video system, MR-compatible video eyeglasses are connected to a graphics unit. A position sensor arrangement is connected to the graphics unit to detect the position and/or orientation of the MR-compatible video eyeglasses and/or the position of the pupils of a user. The graphics unit comprises means for... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090010511 - Region of interest methods and systems for ultrasound imaging: A region of interest is identified by user selection of a single point. Multiple regions of interest may be identified by selection of multiple points. Region growing is then used to define the boundary of the region of interest. In an alternative or additional embodiment, an image processing region is... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090010507 - System and method for generating a 3d model of anatomical structure using a plurality of 2d images: A system and method are provided for generating a three dimensional (3D) model of an anatomical structure of a patient using a plurality of two dimensional (2D) images acquired using a camera. The method includes the operation of searching the plurality of 2D images to detect correspondence points of image... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20090010513 - Magnetic resonance method and apparatus for producing an angiographic image: In a magnetic resonance method and apparatus for generation of an angiographic image of a vascular system of a patient, a first data set of k-space data of the region to be examined is acquired using a contrast agent-free magnetic resonance angiography technique, a second data set of k-space data... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090010512 - System and method for coronary digital subtraction angiography: A method and system for extracting coronary vessels fluoroscopic image sequences using coronary digital subtraction angiography (DSA) are disclosed. A set of mask images of a coronary region is received, and a sequence of contrast images for the coronary region is received. For each contrast image, vessel regions are detected... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090010514 - Magnetic resonance imaging device, image data correcting device and image data correcting method: An image data correcting device has a movement information acquiring section, a correcting section and a synthesizing section. The movement information acquiring section acquires movement information showing a spatial distribution of the magnitude of a movement in the real space of an image pickup part of a detected body. The... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090010519 - Medical image processing apparatus and medical image diagnosis apparatus: A medical image processing apparatus comprises: an acquiring part configured to acquire a morphological image that is formed by a first apparatus and shows the morphology of an organ of an object, and a functional image that is formed by a second apparatus different from the first apparatus and shows... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090010518 - Method for reconstruction of computed tomography representations from x-ray ct data sets of an examination subject with spiral scanning: The image reconstruction is implemented along theoretical π-lines, wherein the theoretical π-lines not only lead to interpolated detector data but also can emanate from interpolated source positions. Interpolation thus occurs both at the detector and at the source.... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090010517 - Non-invasive in vivo mri axon diameter measurement methods: Magnetic resonance methods include modeling magnetic resonance signals obtained from specimens at low and high q-values to obtain parameters and distributions of parameters associated with specimen structure and orientation. In evaluation of brain white matter specimens, diffusion within axons can be modeled based on hindered diffusion parallel to an axis... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20090010515 - Robust reconstruction method for parallel magnetic resonance images: Methods and systems for reconstruction of an image from parallel Magnetic Resonance Image (pMRI) data are disclosed. A reconstructed pMRI image may suffer from noise and aliasing. A method for reducing aliasing by applying a bounded error function is disclosed. A method for reducing noise in a reconstruction by applying... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090010516 - Three-dimensional (3d) reconstruction of the left atrium and pulmonary veins: A method for centering a left atrium and pulmonary veins at an isocenter of an imaging device is provided. The method includes positioning an injection catheter at a bifurcation of a pulmonary artery; obtaining an anterior or posterior flouroscopic image of area including and/or surrounding the left atrium and pulmonary... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090010520 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus characterized by including a device which recognizes, in a bone part unit, a bone area extracted from a medical image and including a bone region constituted of several bone parts, a device which is used to select the bone region to be displayed, a device which... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090010523 - Method of inspecting outer wall of honeycomb structure body: There is disclosed a method of inspecting the outer wall of a honeycomb structure body which can be performed without relying on human sensory functions and in which a defect detection level and an inspection time per honeycomb structure body are constant, so that stable inspection can be performed. In... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090010524 - Methods and apparatus for detection of fluorescently labeled materials: Fluorescently marked targets bind to a substrate 230 synthesized with polymer sequences at known locations. The targets are detected by exposing selected regions of the substrate 230 to light from a light source 100 and detecting the photons from the light fluoresced therefrom, and repeating the steps of exposure and... Agent: Affymetrix, Inc Attn: ChiefIPCounsel, Legal Dept.

20090010522 - Optically measuring interior cavities: A method of measuring the three-dimensional volume or perimeter shape of an interior cavity includes the steps of collecting a first optical slice of data that represents a partial volume or perimeter shape of the interior cavity, collecting additional optical slices of data that represents a partial volume or perimeter... Agent: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC

20090010521 - System and method for determining whether there is an anomaly in data: A system and method for identifying objects of interest in image data is provided. The present invention utilizes principles of Iterative Transformational Divergence in which objects in images, when subjected to special transformations, will exhibit radically different responses based on the physical, chemical, or numerical properties of the object or... Agent: Rene A. Vazquez Williams Mullen

20090010525 - Method and apparatus for detecting positions of electrode pads: A method for detecting positions of a plurality of electrode pads of semiconductor chips formed on a semiconductor wafer includes: setting an imaging target region greater than a semiconductor chip on the semiconductor wafer; performing split imaging so as to entirely cover the imaging target region; and detecting positions of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090010527 - Defect inspection method: The present invention relates to a defect detection or observation method that detects fine defects in the course of defect inspection and observation, does not detect locations not constituting defects, or classifies a defect candidate as a grain phenomenon or other phenomenon that does not affect a product. In one... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090010526 - Tungsten plug deposition quality evaluation method by ebace technology: A first embodiment of the invention relates to a method for evaluating the quality of structures on an integrated circuit wafer. Test structures formed on either on the integrated or on a test wafer are exposed to an electron beam and an electron-beam activated chemical etch. The electron-beam activated etching... Agent: Jdi Patent- Kla-tencor Corp. Joint Customer Number

20090010529 - Method for automatically de-skewing of multiple layer wafer for improved pattern recognition: A method for processing wafers includes learning a first pattern at a de-skew site on a first wafer layer, saving the first patterns in a recipe for de-skewing wafers, learning a second pattern at the de-skew site a second wafer layer, and saving the second pattern in the same recipe... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Group LLP

20090010528 - Method for placing at least one component provided with connection points on a substrate, as well as such a device: A method for placing at least one component provided with connection points on a substrate. First, positions of the connection points are determined, after which the component is positioned at desired positions on the substrate with the connection points thereof. Upon placement of a number of components, the contour of... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090010530 - Information processing system: An information processing system for performing processes on first image and second image captured from different viewpoints, comprising: a first specifying part for specifying a first corresponding point on the second image, corresponding to a designation point designated on the first image, by searching on a line along a first... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090010531 - Method and apparatus for detecting preferred color and liquid crystal display device using the same: Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for detecting a preferred color, which is capable of accurately detecting a preferred-color area with a small amount of computations, and a liquid crystal display device using the same. The method for detecting a preferred color includes comparing a hue value of an... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090010532 - Image processing program product and image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes: a first area extraction unit that extracts as a first area an area assuming an intensity value equal to or greater than a first threshold value from an image; a second area extraction unit that extracts as a second area an area assuming an intensity... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090010534 - Color profile creating apparatus and color profile creation method: Colorimetric data of a tone patch of a specific color is transmitted from a specific-color-data extracting unit to a hue characteristic calculator, to obtain a hue characteristic of the colorimetric data. A replacement data generator generates replacement data by performing hue correction for reflecting the hue characteristic with respect to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090010533 - Method and apparatus for displaying an encoded image: An apparatus for displaying an encoded image is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a display device and a decoding unit. The decoding unit acquires a Bit-Per-Pixel (BPP) value from an encoded image, acquires a bit stream from the encoded image, acquires multiple pixel data indices by segmenting the bit stream every... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090010538 - Apparatus and method for automatically computing gamma correction curve: The present invention relates to apparatus and method for automatically computing a gamma correction curve. The apparatus according to the present invention comprises an image obtaining unit for receiving an input image data of a color chart through an image interface; a coordinate calculating unit for measuring input brightness values... Agent: Jones Day

20090010536 - Color conversion device, method of color conversion, image formation system and program: A correction profile acquisition part calculates a correction coordinate value based on a standard coordinate value stored in standard profiles color-matched to a predetermined printer to store the correction coordinate value in correction profiles. A color conversion processing part uses the correction profiles to convert input image data into CMYK... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20090010537 - Image display processing apparatus, image display system, and image display processing method: An image display processing apparatus receives input illuminant information relating to input illuminant illuminating object when photographing, input device information specifying input characteristic of a photographing device, and image signal. Spectral reflectance image signal of the object is obtained from the image signal, the input illuminant information, and the input... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090010535 - Image processing device, image processing program, and image processing method: An image processing device that transforms first image data of an image captured under an image-capturing condition into second image data that reproduce a color appearance under a viewing condition, includes: an image data acquiring unit that acquires the first image data of the image captured under the image-capturing condition;... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090010539 - Method and relative device of color interpolation of an image acquired by a digital color sensor: A method calculates statistical parameters in function of stochastic momentums of the pixel intensities of a same primary color or complementary hue of a first working window (2k+1)×(2k+1), and of at least a second working window of smaller size, both centered on the pixel to be filtered and in choosing,... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090010540 - Method and system for performing image registration: A method for performing image registration is provided. The method comprises obtaining a reference image dataset and a target image dataset and defining an image mask for a region of interest in the reference image dataset. The method further comprises registering a corresponding region of interest in the target image... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20090010541 - Image processing method: In accordance with an image processing method, a data region is detected from input image data. The input image data is rotated in accordance with inclination of an image. Determination is made whether the data region of rotated image data protrudes from an image area of the input image data.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090010542 - System for interactive note-taking: A system for interactive note-taking is provided having a receiver for receiving interaction data from a note-taking device used to interact with a note-taking form having note-taking information and a plurality of coded tags printed thereon, and a processor for recording or retrieving the note-taking by identifying, from the received... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090010543 - Image reading apparatus: An image reading apparatus includes a reading unit, a control unit, and a pattern region. The reading unit moves a linear reading range, which is provided in a main scanning direction, in a sub-scanning direction that intersects with the main scanning direction while reading an object that faces the reading... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090010544 - Method, apparatus, and program for detecting facial characteristic points: First, a face within an image, which is a target of detection, is detected. Detection data of the face is employed to detect eyes which are included in the face. Detection data of the eyes are employed to detect the inner and outer corners of the eyes. Detection data of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090010545 - System and method for identifying feature of interest in hyperspectral data: A system and method for identifying objects of interest in image data is provided. The present invention utilizes principles of Iterative Transformational Divergence in which objects in images, when subjected to special transformations, will exhibit radically different responses based on the physical chemical, or numerical properties of the object or... Agent: Rene A. Vazquez Williams Mullen

20090010546 - Edge-guided morphological closing in segmentation of video sequences: A method of image processing, includes receiving at least one video frame of a video sequence, the at least one video frame including at least one foreground subject and a background, and processing the at least one video frame so as to separate the at least one foreground subject from... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090010547 - Image recognition method and image recognition apparatus: The invention provides an image recognition method. First, it is judged whether a set of discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients corresponding to an image and/or a set of texture parameters corresponding to the DCT coefficients exist. If the judgment is no, the image is selectively performed a DCT or an... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20090010549 - Image recognition device, focus adjustment device, imaging apparatus, image recognition method and focus adjustment method: An image recognition device includes a detection unit which is configured to detect a first difference between at least a part of the first image information and the reference information, a second difference between at least a part of the second image information and the reference information, and a third... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20090010548 - Using photographic images as a search attribute: Method and computer program product including executable instructions on a computer readable medium for using a photographic image in a component search. A plurality of attributes for searching a component information source is gathered, including a photographic image of space available for receiving a component. The photographic image is analyzed... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ss)

20090010550 - Systems and methods for matching images: A method for matching images is disclosed. The method includes selecting a template image and a target image from a batch of images and sampling the template image so as to obtain a template-sampled image, and sampling the target image so as to obtain a target-sampled image, wherein the sampling... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090010551 - Image procesing apparatus and image processing method: In an image processing apparatus which processes time-series images picked up by an imaging device in time series, a motion-vector calculating unit calculates a motion vector between plural images constituting the time-series images with respect to plural pixel regions set in the image. A newly-appearing-rate estimating unit estimates a newly-appearing... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090010553 - Data processing apparatus, data processing method and data processing program, encoding apparatus, encoding method and encoding program, and decoding apparatus, decoding method and decoding program: A data processing apparatus includes a motion vector storage unit, an index value generating unit, a storage control unit, and a motion vector reading unit. The motion vector storage unit stores a motion vector in a unit block area. The index value generating unit generates the index value corresponding to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090010552 - Image distribution apparatus, communication terminal apparatus, and control method thereof: An image distribution apparatus divides image data of a single frame into a plurality of blocks, orthogonally transforms the blocks and calculates transformation coefficients, quantizes the calculated transformation coefficients, codes the quantized transformation coefficients, and distributes the coded image data. The image distribution apparatus acquires the quantized transformation coefficients, stores... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090010554 - Method for processing image data: In the method for compressing image data, a main block and it's sub-blocks are selected for processing and all sub-block groups and, finally, the main block to be compressed are processed in a fixed order starting from the lowest level blocks, i.e. blocks of level 1, whereby at the same... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090010556 - Image coding apparatus, image coding method, and image coding program for coding at least one still frame with still frame coding having a higher quality than normal frame coding of other frames: An image coding apparatus includes a still frame coding judgement unit for judging whether a target frame to be coded is a still frame or not from a difference value between the target frame and an immediately previous reference frame, and a quantization parameter control unit for performing control of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090010557 - Method and apparatus for realizing adaptive quantization in process of image coding: A method and apparatus for realizing adaptive quantization in the process of image/video coding, which includes the following steps: acquiring the parameter information of the neighbor blocks of the current block; determining the quantization mode of the current block according to the parameter information of the neighbor blocks; and performing... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090010555 - Multi-point predictive foveation for bandwidth reduction of moving images: A scene of an image sequence is transmitted that has been compressed using a number of foveation zones, each foveation zone being weighted based on a probability of a viewer looking at a corresponding portion of the first scene.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090010558 - Systems and methods for computer vision using curvelets: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system for computer vision including a plurality of images, a signature processor adapted to generate a signature based at least in part on a curvelet transform, and a matching processor adapted to receive a query image. The matching processor is adapted to... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090010559 - Encoding device and dynamic image recording system having the encoding device: An encoder 210 includes: a converting section 103 for converting picture data representing a moving picture into a coefficient including a plurality of frequency components on a predetermined unit basis; a determining section 212 for determining a matrix to define a frequency bit allocation characteristic based on the resolution of... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (pan) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090010560 - Method for image calibration and apparatus for image acquiring: The present invention relates to a method for image calibration and an apparatus for image acquiring. In the method for image calibration, the image formation position for an image acquiring unit of the apparatus is calibrated according to the relative location of the image acquiring unit to a objective lens... Agent: Wpat, PC

20090010561 - Device for removing noise in image data: A device for removing noise by using an adjustable threshold. The device for removing noise in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention determines a difference value between a maximum value and a minimum value of elements of inputted image data, determines a method of removing noise of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090010562 - Method of revising edge region and image forming device using the same: A method of revising an edge region and an image forming device using the same. The method of revising an edge region includes detecting edge regions from a half-toned image, and adjusting colors with respect to an edge region where a plurality of colors overlap each other among the detected... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090010563 - System and method for adjusting sensitivity of camera module: A system for adjusting a sensitivity of a camera module includes a memory unit configured for storing a plurality of pre-initialized pixel adjusting maps; an image capturing unit configured for capturing an image from the camera module and acquiring pixel values of the image to determine a pixel value range... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090010564 - Method and apparatus to facilitate creating ancillary information regarding errored image content: Pixels in a provided image for which the content has been provided in error are identified. This image content is processed to provide a version of the image wherein the error is at least partially concealed while also creating ancillary information regarding the errored pixel(s) and the spatial location to... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090010565 - Noise reduction device and method: The invention discloses a noise reduction device for adjusting gray levels of a video sequence to reduce noises. The noise reduction device of the invention includes a motion detector and a first noise reduction module. The motion detector is used for determining whether an inputted pixel is a motion pixel... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20090010566 - Method for aligning scanned image elements: For aligning two or more image elements on separate pages, a position of a common part of the image elements is determined relative to a predetermined reference position. The image elements are then shifted with respect to the reference positions such that each image element has substantially the same position... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090010567 - Image display apparatus and image display system for vehicle: If a display mode is set to a narrow angle enlargement image mode, an enlargement image area is inputted via a touch panel. A transformation is made to compress an image of a not-enlargement image area other than the enlargement image area, and a narrow angle enlargement image is generated... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20090010568 - Image processing device, image processing method and program: An image processing device is provided that includes an image acquisition unit that obtains video data that includes a plurality of consecutive frames, and also obtains image data that correspond to some of the frames and have a higher spatial resolution than the frames. The image processing device also includes... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090010569 - Image data processing method and image display apparatus: An image data processing method is provided. In this method, a plurality of original pixel values of an image is input. An interpolation position of a target pixel in the image is determined. Whether the interpolation position is in a central region of an object or in a marginal region... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090010570 - Image sensing apparatus and image file data structure: An image-sensing apparatus has: an image-sensing portion that acquires an original image by shooting a subject; an alteration processor that applies reversible alteration to an image inside a specific region in the original image to produce from the original image an altered image; and a recording controller that records in... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20090010571 - Optical scanning apparatus, light power control method, and image forming apparatus: An optical scanning apparatus includes a light source, rotational polygonal mirror, correction data calculating unit, modification computing unit, and adjustment unit. The adjustment unit adjusts drive current supplied to the light source using the correction data calculated by the correction data calculating unit when a first of a plurality of... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090003648 - Color image or video processing: The present invention relates generally to color image processing. One claim recites a method of color masking an image including: reading color values of an image sample and a corresponding change of an attribute of the image sample; and based on the color values of the image sample, mapping the... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20090003649 - Image processing apparatus and method for controlling the same: In an image processing apparatus, monochrome image data is printed onto a sheet and a user makes a mark in the sheet in order to specify an area. The marked sheet is scanned by a scanner. The mark is extracted from data generated by scanning. Registration is performed based on... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090003646 - Lossless visible watermarking: Systems and methodologies for lossless visible watermarking of images are provided herein. The provided systems and methodologies can utilize a Pixel Value Mapping Algorithm (PVMA), wherein a watermark can be embedded into an image by transforming respective intensities of areas of the image corresponding to the watermark using a bijective... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090003647 - Method for acquiring reserved block in holographic storage system: A method is provided for acquiring a reserved block in a holographic storage system. A symmetrical reference table is defined according to the characteristics of a known reference reserved block. Then, the differences between respective unit blocks and the reference reserved block are calculated according to the symmetrical reference table... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090003650 - Method for selecting image pixels to watermark and watermarking method using this selection: m

20090003651 - Object segmentation recognition: A system for segmenting radiographic images of a cargo container can include an object segmentation recognition module adapted to perform a series of functions. The functions can include receiving a plurality of radiographic images of a cargo container, each image generated using a different energy level and segmenting each of... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20090003652 - Real-time face tracking with reference images: A method of tracking a face in a reference image stream using a digital image acquisition device includes acquiring a full resolution main image and an image stream of relatively low resolution reference images each including one or more face regions. One or more face regions are identified within two... Agent: Tessera/fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20090003653 - Trajectory processing apparatus and method: A trajectory processing apparatus comprises a trajectory database configured to store a position coordinate of a movable body detected from a camera image in association with data that specifies the camera image from which the movable body is detected, and a camera image database configured to store the camera image.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090003654 - Single-aperature passive rangefinder and method of determining a range: A single-aperture passive rangefinder and a method of determining a range. In one embodiment, the single-aperture passive rangefinder includes: (1) an imaging system configured to form a first image that includes a point of interest at a first position and a second image at a second position that includes the... Agent: Hitt Gaines P.C.

20090003655 - Methods and systems for assessing patient movement in diagnostic imaging: Methods and systems for automatically detecting gross patient motion using a diagnostic medical imaging system are provided. The method provides for acquiring a plurality of frames of image data, positioning a first time window and a second time window over overlapping frames of image data, calculating a statistical correlation value... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20090003656 - Devices for checking the quality of sheets: The invention relates to a device for checking the quality of articles to be checked, comprising a first inspection device which detects image data of a surface on the front side of the article to be checked and an evaluation device which evaluates the quality of the article to be... Agent: Krieg Devault LLP

20090003658 - Digital ink-based search: Described is searching directly based on digital ink input to provide a result set of one or more items. Digital ink input (e.g., a handwritten character, sketched shape, gesture, drawing picture) is provided to a search engine and interpreted thereby, with a search result (or results) returned. Different kinds of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090003659 - Location based tracking: Location information is used to build a database of locations having associated audio, video, image or text data. In some implementations, a device includes a touch-sensitive display and collects data associated with a geographic location of interest. The geographic location of interest can be displayed on a map using an... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090003657 - System and method for grouping and visualizing data: A method for visualizing data comprises allocating the data to one or more groups. The method further comprises displaying one or more non-overlapping symbols on a map to represent the groups. The method further comprises merging the non-overlapping symbols into a lesser number of non-overlapping symbols when the map is... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20090003660 - Object identification and verification using transform vector quantization: An identification system uses mappings of known objects to codebooks representing those objects to identify an object represented by multiple input representations or to verify that an input representation corresponds to an input known object. To identify the object, the identification system generates an input feature vector for each input... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20090003661 - Separating a directional lighting variability in statistical face modelling based on texture space decomposition: A technique for determining a characteristic of a face or certain other object within a scene captured in a digital image including acquiring an image and applying a linear texture model that is constructed based on a training data set and that includes a class of objects including a first... Agent: Tessera/fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20090003662 - Virtual reality overlay: A mobile social networking system that provides aspects of an augmented reality experience comprising a wireless infrastructure; at least one central server having a at least one database of users; a mobile scanner that scans for other users through the use of an identification mechanism, queries the server, and downloads... Agent: Cades Schutte A Limited Liability Law Partnership

20090003663 - Threshold score validation: A method is provided whereby confidence in a validation parameter set is achieved by comparison with a known sample of a parameter in terms of the expected template comparison score as well as mean values and deviation from that score. Thus, with respect to user individual identification, biometric parameters such... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090003664 - Finger sensing with enhanced mounting and associated methods: A finger sensor may include a finger sensing integrated circuit (IC) having a finger sensing area, an IC carrier having a cavity receiving the finger sensing IC therein and having at least one beveled upper edge, and a frame surrounding at least a portion of an upper perimeter of the... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20090003667 - Cephalogram image analysis method: An automated cephalogram image analysis method is disclosed. In this method, a step is first performed for building a reference database in which a set of tracing feature curve models respectively representing a set of reference cephalometric patterns are established based on a set of tracing records. Then, a step... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090003669 - Diagnostic system for display of high-resolution physiological data of multiple properties: A diagnostic system for display of physiological data in a format useful for identifying or diagnosing physiological conditions. The system registers visual representations of different types of physiological data to aid in an understanding of bodily processes. In addition to registering the data, the system may display different types of... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090003668 - Image processing method, image processing program, and image processing device: An image processing method for specifying a region of interest encapsulating without omission a part of interest through a simple operation. Start and end points specified on a blood vessel center curve define the region of interest range of the blood vessel. A front point at the frontmost position and... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20090003671 - Medical image processing apparatus and medical image processing method: A medical image processing apparatus of the present invention includes an edge extracting section that extracts edges of an inputted two-dimensional image, a three-dimensional-model estimating section that estimates a three-dimensional model on the basis of the two-dimensional image, a voxel extracting section that extracts, on the basis of positions of... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090003670 - Method and apparatus for thickness compensation in mammographic images: Methods and apparatuses perform thickness compensation in anatomical images. The method according to one embodiment accesses digital image data representing an image including a breast; estimates thickness of the breast at multiple locations inside the breast using an image data characteristic and a reference tissue in the breast; compensates thickness... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090003665 - Method and system for multiple view volume rendering: A method and system for multiple view volume rendering are provided. The method includes identifying a plurality of view directions relative to an image of an object and automatically volume rendering a volumetric data set based on the plurality of view directions. The method further includes generating an image for... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20090003672 - Method for segmenting image data for detecting a liver: A method is disclosed for segmenting image data for detecting a liver of a subject under examination. In at least one embodiment, the method includes determining as rib pixels which represent a rib, determining pixels which delimit an area inside the rib cage, determining pixels which represent a pixel of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090003666 - System and methods for image analysis and treatment: An image analysis system comprising a computer apparatus programmed to access at least one image of tissue within a living organism and to register a plurality of segments of a region of interest of the tissue, the plurality of segments divided relative to a biological landmark of the living organism... Agent: Dunlap Codding, P.C.

20090003673 - Determining correspondence object pairs for medical navigation: A system and method for determining the position of correspondence object pairs including A-objects and B-objects that represent the same objects of the same anatomical body structure in two different reference frames A and B, including: defining A-objects and B-objects that each represent different objects of the body structure in... Agent: Don W. Bulson (brai)

20090003675 - Bleeding detection using a blanket ultrasound device: A method for differentiating between a blood vessel bifurcation and a bleeding blood vessel in an ultrasound volume includes performing vessel segmentation on the ultrasound volume, calculating vessel centerlines for the segmented vessels, automatically detecting a bifurcation candidate using the calculated vessel centerlines, placing a first marker at a predetermined... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090003676 - Image diagnosis supporting apparatus, method and program, and recording medium thereof: Slice image groups of a first photographing opportunity and a second photographing opportunity are acquired. Three-dimensional tumor areas (lesion areas) are extracted from the slice image groups, and a slice image with maximum tumor area is determined as a reference slice image of each slice image group. Based on the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090003677 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and recording medium: An image processing apparatus includes: a recognizing device which recognizes a bone area extracted from a tomogram, the bone area including a bone site composed of several bone pieces, in units of bone pieces; a display site selecting device which selects a bone site to be displayed; a display/non-display determining... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090003674 - Sense mr parallel imaging with continuously moving bed: During continuous moving of an imaging subject (12) through a scanner field of view (20), k-space data are acquired using a plurality of radio frequency coils (24, 26). The acquiring includes undersampling of k-space in at least one undersampled direction. A weighted transform (62) from k-space to real space is... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090003678 - Automatic gain and exposure control using region of interest detection: A region of interest may be determined using any or all of sound source location, multi-person detection, and active speaker detection. An weighted mean may be determined using the region of interest and a set of backlight weight regions, or, only the set of backlight weight regions if a region... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090003680 - Method for segmenting a myocardial wall and device for detecting a coronary artery with pathological changes: The present invention relates to a method for segmenting a myocardial wall with the following steps: recording a first data record and a second data record in the same cardiac phase by means of x-ray radiation with differing radiation intensities, reconstructing the myocardial wall from the first and second data... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090003679 - System and method for a digital x-ray radiographic tomosynthesis user interface: A system and method for an improved digital X-ray radiographic tomosynthesis user interface and workflow.... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20090003681 - Blood and cell analysis using an imaging flow cytometer: Multimodal/multispectral images of a population of cells are simultaneously collected. Photometric and/or morphometric features identifiable in the images are used to separate the population of cells into a plurality of subpopulations. Where the population of cells includes diseased cells and healthy cells, the images can be separated into a healthy... Agent: Law Offices Of Ronald M Anderson

20090003682 - Pattern inspection method and its apparatus: In a pattern inspection apparatus for comparing images of corresponding areas of two patterns, which are formed so as to be identical, so as to judge that a non-coincident part of the images is a defect, the influence of unevenness in brightness of patterns caused by a difference of thickness... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090003683 - Component sensor for pick and place machine using improved shadow imaging: A method of sensing a component held by a nozzle of a pick and place machine is provided. The method includes engaging a source of illumination and recording a reference background image when no component is held by the nozzle. Then, a component is adhered to the nozzle. A shadow... Agent: Christopher R. Christenson C/o Westman, Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090003684 - Defect analysis: In one embodiment, a method to analyze a semiconductor wafer comprises extracting inline defect data from a data source, counting a total number of inline defects and end-of-line defects, terminating the analysis when the total number of inline defects and end-of-line defects exceeds a threshold, and mapping the inline defects... Agent: Caven & Aghevli C/o Intellevate, LLC

20090003685 - Method and apparatus for inspection and fault analysis: Apparatus for inspection and fault analysis of semiconductor chip includes stage on which to mount LSI chip, and test pattern generator supplying test pattern via stage to LSI chip. Apparatus also includes optical system having function of modulating laser beam. This optical system operates so that LSI chip is scanned... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090003686 - Enhanced object reconstruction: Processing images includes projecting an infra-red pattern onto a three-dimensional object and producing a first image, a second image, and a third image of the three-dimensional object while the pattern is projected on the three-dimensional object. The first image and the second image include the three-dimensional object and the pattern.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090003687 - Segmenting image elements: A method of segmenting image elements into a foreground and background is described, such that only the foreground elements are part of a volume of interest for stereo matching. This reduces computational burden as compared with computing stereo matching over the whole image. An energy function is defined using a... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20090003688 - System and method for creating images: The invention provides a method of replicating the primary human field of view in an image. The method comprises receiving at least three digital images of a scene, the digital images comprising a centre image facing a scene directly, a centre left image obtained by rotating an image capture device... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20090003690 - Method and system for processing image at high speed: An image processing method and system that performs color space transformation on an image to be compressed and obtaining pixel values, performing intra-row differential pulse code modulation coding on the image pixel values to obtain numerical values, and determining whether each of the numerical values is within a preset range.... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090003689 - Variable/personalized colorization printing using tone reproduction curves: Disclosed herein is a method wherein each pixel is tagged with a special VI (Variable Information) flag, which indicates the color of the pixel is variable or fixed. When the document gets created during raster image processing (“ripping”), the output CMYK of the VI and non-VI pixels are constrained to... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090003691 - Segmentation of tissue images using color and texture: The present techniques provide for the processing of color tissue images based on image segmentation. In an exemplary embodiment, the color and texture features of pixels in a tissue image are used to generate a matrix of feature vectors. A subset of feature vectors is selected from the matrix of... Agent: General Electric Company (pcpi) C/o Fletcher Yoder

20090003694 - Automatic coloring of pixels exposed during manipulation of image regions: e

20090003693 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus, image data compression apparatus, and computer program readable storage medium: In image processing that expresses a small region with a predetermined number of representative colors, the image processing being carried out for each of small regions, with respect to the content of one small region, based on the extent of variation in that small region of each of the values... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20090003692 - Texture compression based on two hues with modified brightness: In an image-encoding scheme, an input image is decomposed into image blocks comprising multiple image elements. The image blocks are then encoded into encoded blocks. An encoded block comprises a first color codeword, a second color codeword, a color modifier codeword and a color index sequence. The color codewords are... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090003696 - Image processing method and image processing apparatus: One embodiment of the present invention is to provide an image processing method and an image processing apparatus which can also handle data other than a standard color space and can also handle a case in which the color space of an image color adjustment processing section and that of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090003695 - Method and circuit for correcting signals and image correcting method and circuit using the same: A signal correcting method and a circuit thereof are provided. In the method, first, the values of a plurality of input signals are clamped to generate a plurality of corresponding clamping signals according to a plurality of adjustable predetermined values. Then, a combined multiplication operation is performed to the clamping... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090003697 - Non-linear tone mapping apparatus and method and computer readable medium stored thereon computer executable instructions for performing the method: The present invention provides non-linear tone mapping apparatus and method and a computer readable medium stored thereon computer executable instructions for performing the method. The non-linear tone mapping apparatus according to the present invention comprises a luminance value computing unit for computing a luminance value of each pixel of an... Agent: Jones Day

20090003698 - Segmentaton of digital images: Methods and systems for segmenting a digital image are disclosed. In one embodiment, the image can be segmented based on adding parameters to the feature data of a pixel that representative of the location of the pixel. In another embodiment, the image can be divided into regions that are individually... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20090003699 - User guided object segmentation recognition: A system for segmenting radiographic images of a cargo container can include an object segmentation recognition module adapted to perform a series of functions. The functions can include receiving a plurality of radiographic images of a cargo container, each image generated using a different energy level and segmenting each of... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20090003701 - Method and apparatus for applying steganography to digital image files: A method and apparatus for applying steganography to digital image files are provided. This algorithm uses the basic idea of steganography. In one aspect of the invention a method is provided. The method comprises (a) taking a text message as input, (b) breaking up the input data into a series... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090003700 - Precise identification of text pixels from scanned document images: A system or method for identifying text in a document. A group of connected components is created. A plurality of characteristics of different types is calculated for each connected component. Statistics are computed which describe the group of characteristics. Outlier components are identified as connected components whose computed characteristics are... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20090003702 - Image completion: A computer-implemented method and media for completing images are provided. The computer-implemented method receives images having holes, identifies the holes, and searches an image database to locate images that fill the holes. Also, the computer-implemented method generates a multiscale graph of the image to locate images that fill the holes... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090003704 - Method and system for controlling browser by using image: Browser controlling method and system using an image are provided. The method includes inputting an image; recognizing the image; and executing a command based on the recognized image. Accordingly, the command based on the user's input image can be executed in the browser. Also, since the browser does not need... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20090003703 - Unifield digital ink recognition: Described is a unified digital ink recognizer that recognizes various different types of digital ink data, such as handwritten character data and custom data, e.g., sketched shapes, handwritten gestures, and/or drawn pictures, without further participation by a user such as recognition mode selection or parameter input. For a custom item,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090003706 - Combining online and offline recognizers in a handwriting recognition system: Described is a technology by which online recognition of handwritten input data is combined with offline recognition and processing to obtain a combined recognition result. In general, the combination improves overall recognition accuracy. In one aspect, online and offline recognition is separately performed to obtain online and offline character-level recognition... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090003705 - Feature design for hmm based eastern asian character recognition: An exemplary method for online character recognition of East Asian characters includes acquiring time sequential, online ink data for a handwritten East Asian character, conditioning the ink data to produce conditioned ink data where the conditioned ink data includes information as to writing sequence of the handwritten East Asian character... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20090003709 - Image processing apparatus and method, and storage medium: An image-processing apparatus for executing accurate facial expression recognition even for a subject hard to recognize a facial expression is provided. A person's face region is extracted from an image input from an image input unit. A predetermined partial region that changes between when the facial expression is in the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090003707 - Image processing apparatus, image capturing apparatus, image processing method, and program: An image processing apparatus includes an image clipping unit, a feature extracting unit, a candidate identifying unit, and a detecting unit. The image clipping unit clips a window image from a predetermined position of an original image. The feature extracting unit extracts a feature value of the window image on... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090003708 - Modification of post-viewing parameters for digital images using image region or feature information: A method of generating one or more new digital images using an original digitally-acquired image including a selected image feature includes identifying within a digital image acquisition device one or more groups of pixels that correspond to the selected image feature based on information from one or more preview images.... Agent: Tessera/fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20090003710 - Feature extraction apparatus, feature extraction method, and feature extraction program: To extract a feature advantageous for classification and correlation by using the information difficult to be acquired even when it is impossible to acquire the information difficult-to-be-acquired from all individuals. Sub-information input device inputs information difficult to be acquired and accumulates the inputted sub-information. Main information input device inputs information... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090003711 - Optimizing character rendering: Optimizing objects output to a user. One method includes accessing a reference object of a character representing an idealized output. A different representation of the reference object is accessed. The reference object is compared to the representation of the reference object to generate an error metric. An optimization is applied... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090003713 - Method and apparatus for classifying and ranking interpretations for multimodal input fusion: A method used in an electronic equipment (100) generates a set of joint multimodal interpretations (125) from a set of multimodal interpretations (115) generated by one or more modalities (105) during a turn, generates a set of integrated multimodal interpretations (135) including an integrated multimodal interpretation formed from each joint... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090003712 - Video collage presentation: A method, a computer-readable storage media, and a user interface describe techniques for creating a video collage synthesized from video content, selecting representative images from the video content, extracting and resizing regions of interest (ROI) from the representative images from the video content, and arranging the regions of interest on... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20090003714 - Efficient image compression scheme to minimize storage and bus bandwidth requirements: A method of encoding receives an image and tiles the image into a set of tiles. Each tile includes a set of pixels. The method selects a first tile and determines a first set of values for the pixels in the first tile. The method separates the determined values of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090003715 - 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 the 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

20090003716 - Image encoding device, image decoding device, image encoding method and image decoding method: An encoding device includes a color component separating unit for separating an input bit stream for the respective color components, a block dividing unit for dividing an input color component signal into blocks to generate a signal of an encoding unit area, a predicted image generating unit for generating a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090003717 - Image encoding device, image decoding device, image encoding method and image decoding method: An encoding device includes a color component separating unit for separating an input bit stream for the respective color components, a block dividing unit for dividing an input color component signal into blocks to generate a signal of an encoding unit area, a predicted image generating unit for generating a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090003718 - Inverse tone mapping for bit-depth scalable image coding adapted to variable block sizes: A method performs inverse tone mapping of an image in a decoder. For each block of each color channel of the image a scaling factor is determined by adding a predicted scaling factor for the current block to a difference between the predicted scaling factor and the scaling factor of... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090003719 - Encoding device: An encoding device includes an image processing unit that performs image processing on image data, using an image processing parameter, a throughput measuring unit that measures throughput necessary in the image processing performed by the image processing unit, a parameter configuring unit that configures the image processing parameter to the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090003720 - Efficient image representation by edges and low-resolution signal: An exemplary method for encoding an image includes receiving image data, detecting edges in the image data, selecting at least some of the detected edges, encoding the selected edges as selected edge information, down-sampling the image data, encoding the down-sampled image as down-sampled image information and multiplexing the selected edges... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20090003721 - Methods and apparatus for reconstructing digitized images: Methods and apparatus for reconstructing digitized images are provided that include an image reconstruction path that receives a digitized image and provides a processed RGB or CMYK image that may be printed or stored in memory. The image reconstruction path is configured to operate in either a multiple scan or... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090003722 - Methods for locating and decoding distorted two-dimensional matrix symbols: A method is presented for processing an image of a two-dimensional (2D) matrix symbol having a plurality of data modules and a discontinuous finder pattern, each distorted by “donut effects”. A resulting processed image contains an image of the 2D matrix symbol having a continuous finder pattern suitable for conventional... Agent: Cognex Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090003723 - Method for noise-robust color changes in digital images: A method for applying filters to digital images with minimal amplification of image noise, comprising filtering the digital image with an EPDR edge-preserving detail-reducing filter, determining a matrix from the filtered image as a result of one or more structure adaptive functions, and modifying the digital image using the filter,... Agent: Nik Software, Inc. C/o Sheldon Mak Rose & Anderson

20090003724 - Block noise reducer: A block noise reducer detects block boundaries in all components of an input video signal and smoothes the different components selectively on the basis of the detected block boundaries and their periodic locations. By removing block noise on the basis of block boundaries detected in color difference signals, the block... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090003726 - Illumination normalizing method and apparatus: An illumination normalizing apparatus and a method are disclosed. The illumination normalizing apparatus measures a discontinuity of each pixel of an input image, the discontinuity including a spatial gradient and a local inhomogeneity, produces a weight of each pixel from the discontinuity by using a transfer function, produces an estimated... Agent: Neal, Gerber, & Eisenberg

20090003725 - Image processing device for detecting and suppressing shadows, method, and computer program: An image processing device for the detection and suppression of shadows in a camera image of a surveilled scene, the camera image optionally showing static objects with static shadow regions and moving objects with dynamic shadow regions, includes a long-term module, which is designed to generate a long-term reference image... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20090003727 - Picture processing device, method therefor, and program: A picture processing device is capable of performing a process of superposing a sub picture image on a moving picture image which forms a base. The device includes a detection unit for detecting a region in which a movement amount is small, out of a plurality of regions in which... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090003728 - Depth perception: A method of rendering a multi-view image comprising a first output image and a second output image on basis of an input image (102) is disclosed. The method comprises: creating a modulation image (100) comprising irregular shaped objects (106-112); modulating pixel values of a portion of the input image (102)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090003729 - Fiducial artifact detection and compensation algorithm: Defects in an image forming system may give rise to scratched fiducials, missing fiducial regions, or other defects in an image that can run parallel to the process direction. The present disclosure provides for a fiducial compensation method and system for detecting defects thereby allowing spatial tone reproduction curves to... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090003731 - Image data providing apparatus, image display apparatus, image display system, method for controlling image data providing apparatus, method for controlling image display apparatus, control program, and recording medium: A display data generating apparatus according to the present invention includes: (i) a specification information specifying section for acquiring specification information of a television which specification information concerns display of an image, (ii) an image size control section for generating a display image by changing the number of pixels of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090003730 - Method and system for processing video data in a multipixel memory to memory compositor: A method and system for processing video data using multi-pixel scaling in a memory system are provided. The multi-pixel scaling may include reading pixel data for one or more data streams from the memory system into one or more scalers, wherein each of the plurality of data streams includes a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090003732 - Display processing apparatus for image information: On a display processing apparatus, on a case data selection screen, display call buttons for respectively instructing the display of the case data selection screen, a listing display of red color detection bars, a listing display of average color bars, a listing display of thumbnails extracted as observation targets, a... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090003733 - Electronic writing instrument, cap, computer system and electronic writing method: An electronic writing instrument is provided with: an electronic writing instrument body portion that captures a code image formed on a medium based on reflected light; and a detachable cap that is attached to the one end side of the electronic writing instrument body portion. The electronic writing instrument body... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC