Image analysis inventions 02/09

20090052733 - Image archive apparatus: Conditions regarding attributes of images for generating multi-frame image data including plural frames of images in one file from image data are previously stored. When image data is received, multi-frame image data is generated from the received image data based on incidental information included in the image data and the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090052731 - Image processing apparatus and accounting system: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus and an accounting system which comprise an accounting section of a high degree of flexibility in accounting for the output of image data. The accounting system is primarily made up of a client PC 100 including a keyboard 109, an administration server... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090052736 - Image ranking for imaging products and services: A computer-assisted method provides digital images, selects a digital image, obtains one or more image characteristics of the selected digital image, computes one or more image-ranking values for the selected digital image based on the obtained image characteristics of the selected digital image, and ranks the selected digital image using... Agent: Xin Wen

20090052729 - Image reproduction apparatus using image files related to an electronic map, image reproduction method for the same, and recording medium for recording program for executing the method: An image reproduction apparatus for displaying images of image files including an image of a target point to be observed by using image files located adjacent to the target point. A method of reproducing an image of an image file on an electronic map including the image file so that... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090052730 - Interactive image system, interactive apparatus and operating method thereof: An interactive image system includes a host having a first wireless module and an access device for accessing software, at least one reference point for generating light of a predetermined spectrum and an interactive apparatus including a second wireless module, an image module, a modulation module and a processing unit.... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090052732 - Material context analysis: A process for contextual analysis of radiographic image data can be embodied as a method, system, and computer software program, among other things. The process can include receiving a radiographic image and performing a region analysis including identifying a region within the radiographic images having an estimated atomic number within... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20090052728 - Method and device for displaying images: The present invention relates to a method and a device for displaying images aimed at combating the copying of images by filming during their display, for example by a camcorder in a cinema hall. It is known to modulate the luminance of the pixels of a pattern around the value... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20090052735 - Methods and apparatus to process video and audio media: The presently claimed invention relates generally to digital watermarking, and processing video or audio media files. One claim recites a method including: analyzing a plurality of video or audio media files; determining whether there are duplicate media files in the plurality video or audio media files; and avoiding duplicate video... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20090052727 - Methods for non-linear image blending, adjustment and display: A method for generating and adjusting an image obtained based on computed tomography data using a non-linear blending function is provided. In one embodiment of the method, first image data is obtained using a first X-ray energy, and second image data is obtained using a second X-ray image energy. An... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090052734 - Moving image creating apparatus, moving image creating method, and program: Disclosed herein is a moving image creating apparatus for creating moving image data using a plurality of images, the moving image creating apparatus including: template file storage means for storing a plurality of template files each of which holds a plurality of component templates for accommodating an image each; selection... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090052739 - Human pursuit system, human pursuit apparatus and human pursuit program: A human pursuit system includes a plurality of cameras, shooting directions of which are directed toward a floor, are installed on a ceiling, a parallax of an object reflected in an overlapping image domain is calculated on the basis of at least a portion of the overlapping image domain where... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090052737 - Method and apparatus for detecting a target in a scene: A method of detecting a target in a scene is described that comprises the step of taking one or more data sets, each data set comprising a plurality of normalised data elements, each normalised data element corresponding to the return from a part of the scene normalised to a reference... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090052740 - Moving object detecting device and mobile robot: A moving object detecting device measures a congestion degree of a space and utilizes the congestion degree for tracking. In performing the tracking, a direction measured by a laser range sensor is heavily weighted when the congestion degree is low. When the congestion degree is high, a sensor fusion is... Agent: Gregory Turocy Amin & Turocy, LLP

20090052741 - Subject tracking method, subject tracking device, and computer program product: A subject tracking method, includes: calculating a similarity factor indicating a level of similarity between an image contained in a search frame at each search frame position and a template image by shifting the search frame within a search target area set in each of individual frames of input images... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090052738 - System and method for counting follicular units: A system and method for counting follicular units using an automated system comprises acquiring an image of a body surface having skin and follicular units, filtering the image to remove skin components in the image, processing the resulted image to segment it, and filtering noise to eliminate all elements other... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20090052742 - Image processing apparatus and method thereof: An image processing apparatus includes an image input unit, a line segment extractor, an area extractor, a traveled amount estimator, a kerb and gutter model generator and a kerb and gutter detector, in which an image is divided into areas by a line segment extending along the direction of travel,... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090052743 - Motion estimation in a plurality of temporally successive digital images: Method for computer-aided motion estimation in a plurality of temporally successive digital images. The method includes first partial motion estimating in a second digital image relative to a first digital image temporally preceding the second digital image; constructing a reference image structure from the first digital image and the second... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090052744 - Application-procedure fraud risk evaluation apparatus: An application-procedure fraud risk evaluation apparatus having a unit for preparing, based on relationships between each document for identity verification and other one or more documents and procedures required for acquiring the each document for identity verification, relationships between a document group and procedures which are required to acquire a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090052746 - Apparatus, computer program product, and method for processing pictures: When groups of coordinates of face areas respectively contained in mutually different frames are within a predetermined error range, a face attribute assigning unit assigns mutually the same face attribute value to each of the face areas. In the case where a difference in the feature amounts between the frames... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090052745 - Personal identification system: According to the embodiment, there is provided a personal identification system including: a storage unit that stores previously registered personal information and biometric information; an input unit for inputting personal information and biometric information; a determination unit that determines whether or not the personal information input in the input unit... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090052749 - Digital image processing using face detection information: A method of processing a digital image using face detection within the image achieves one or more desired image processing parameters. A group of pixels is identified that correspond to an image of a face within the digital image. Default values are determined of one or more parameters of at... Agent: Tessera/fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20090052750 - Digital image processing using face detection information: A method of processing a digital image using face detection within the image achieves one or more desired image processing parameters. A group of pixels is identified that correspond to an image of a face within the digital image. Default values are determined of one or more parameters of at... Agent: Tessera/fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20090052747 - Face feature collator, face feature collating method, and program: The invention provides a facial feature verification apparatus capable of synthesizing an image suitable for verification to identify a person subjected to surveillance whom surveillance staff desires to watch. The facial feature verification apparatus includes a plurality of pickup units 1, a pickup controlling unit 2 for controlling the pickup... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090052748 - Method and system for constructing a 3d representation of a face from a 2d representation: A method and system for generating 3D images of faces from 2D images, for generating 2D images of the faces at different image conditions from the 3D images, and for recognizing a 2D image of a target face based on the generated 2D images is provided. The recognition system provides... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20090052751 - Using a surface based computing device for verification of an identification document: The current invention discloses a solution for using a surface based computing device for verification of an identification document, such as a driver's license. A surface based computing device can be a device capable of scanning an identification document, comparing the scanned document against a set of conditions for a... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090052752 - Pattern information registration device, pattern information registration method, pattern information registration program and pattern collation system: A pattern information registration device for selecting and registering pattern information data as an object for determination of registration for use in pattern collation includes unit which forms arbitrary pattern information data having a feature point of the same number as pattern information data of an object for determination, unit... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090052754 - Image display device and program: An image display device includes: an input unit (10) for selectively inputting desired image data from a plurality of images of an object captured by a medial image diagnosis device (2); a control unit (11) for extracting at least a fluid region of an organ containing air in the object... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20090052753 - Image display method, image display device and image display program: A desired medical image is selected by access to a server from a client terminal. A dataset relating to the selected medical image is read out from the image server and transferred to the client terminal via a communication network. The dataset includes raw image data, compressed image data, partial... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090052755 - Adjustable phantom: An adjustable phantom (36) includes a base (202), an actuator (204) and a phantom (210). The phantom includes first (210a) and second portions (210b), each having a different value of a physical characteristic measured by a scanner (10). The phantom (210) is movable with respect to the base (202). In... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090052757 - Deformable 2d-3d registration: A method for deformable registration including determining a vector field from a two-dimensional matching of a volume of an object of interest and a two-dimensional image of the object of interest, providing a deformation profile, and finding a volume deformation that maps to a state of the two-dimensional image, wherein... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090052758 - Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, image processing apparatus, and image processing method: In a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, an image storage unit correlates a reconstructed pre-correction image and a reconstructed post-correction image for each slice position and stores the correlated images. When a display condition related to a reconstructed image of one of either the reconstructed pre-correction image and the reconstructed post-correction... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090052759 - Method and apparatus for fast automatic centerline extraction for virtual endoscopy: A method for automatic centerline extraction for a virtual endoscopy image of an organ having a boundary surface includes centering on selected points of an initial path through the image, which is derived from an endoscopy dataset, respective spheres exhibiting respective maximal diameters short of contacting the boundary surface; and... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090052756 - System and method for global-to-local shape matching for automatic liver segmentation in medical imaging: is a mean shape, {Vi(x)}i=1, . . . , n are eigenmodes where n<N, αi are shape parameters, and h ε R3 and θ ε [0,2π]3 are translation and rotation parameters that align the training shapes, minimizing a first energy functional to determine the shape, translation, and rotation parameters to... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090052763 - Characterization of lung nodules: for k=1 to s; (e) calculating a NFBM feature, f(k), for each id(k): f(k)=log(id(k))−log(id(1); (f) integrating f(k), over k=1 to s; (i) classifying the cells into intensity contrast classes, according to intensity contrast between each cell and its neighbors, and the integration result; (k) remapping each cell of the sub-image... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090052760 - Image processing system for use with a patient positioning device: Three camera rigs (1, 2, 3) are connected by wiring (4) to a computer (5). The computer (5) is also connected to a treatment apparatus (6). A mechanical couch (7) is provided as part of the treatment apparatus (6) such that under the control of the computer (5) the relative... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20090052762 - Multi-energy radiographic system for estimating effective atomic number using multiple ratios: A method of determining an effective atomic number, Zeff, of an object may include obtaining a plurality of radiographic images of the object. Each radiographic image can be obtained using a different independent X-ray energy level. An intensity value for each pixel in a region of interest in each radiographic... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20090052761 - X-ray image orientation in radiography and fluoroscopy: In a method, apparatus, and computer program encoded with a data structure, for processing radiographic images and digital fluoroscopy radiographic (DFR) images acquired with the same imaging system using a single detector, three different types of image orientation are defined. These are a “system flip/rotation” that is dependent on the... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090052764 - System and method for detecting foreign objects in a product: The present invention relates to a system for detecting a change in material composition in a product. The system comprises a microwave transmitter emitting a microwave signal at a predetermined microwave frequency composition, and an ultrasonic transmitter emitting an ultrasound signal at a predetermined ultrasound frequency composition into at least... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090052766 - Method for the optical inspection and visualization of optical measuring values obtained from disk-like objects: The present invention relates to a method for optically inspecting and visualizing optical measuring values from at least one image of a disk-like object, including the steps of recording said at least one image of said at least one disk-like object, wherein a plurality of optical measuring values are produced... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20090052765 - Pattern shape evaluation method, pattern shape evaluation device, pattern shape evaluating data generation device and semiconductor shape evaluation system using the same: A pattern shape evaluation method and semiconductor inspection system having a unit for extracting contour data of a pattern from an image obtained by photographing a semiconductor pattern, a unit for generating pattern direction data from design data of the semiconductor pattern, and a unit for detecting a defect of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090052767 - Modelling: A method of modelling an object (313), comprising capturing images of the object from a plurality of spaced apart cameras (310), creating a three-dimensional model (31) of the object from the images and determining from the model and the images a lighting model (36) describing how the object is lit.... Agent: Abhir Bhalerao 217

20090052768 - Identifying a set of image characteristics for assessing similarity of images: The invention relates to a method (100) of and a system (200) for identifying a set of image characteristics for assessing similarity of images from a pool of image characteristics on the basis of a set of training images. The obtained set of image characteristics is especially useful for identifying... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090052769 - Method and apparatus for correcting chromatic aberration of image: Provided are a method and apparatus for correcting chromatic aberration of an image, the method and apparatus used in an image processing apparatus for an image pickup device or a display image processing apparatus. The chromatic aberration correction apparatus includes a chromatic aberration region sensing unit analyzing a luminance signal... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090052771 - Color processing method and apparatus: In order to implement color matching with higher precision, a device that handles object colors and a device that handles light-source colors must be separately processed. Hence, when the device type is a device that handles light-source colors, control is made so as not to perform processing (forward color appearance... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090052770 - Colorstick: A device comprising an illumination means and a light sensing means, that can examine and memorize a discrete color of an object based on the magnitude of the reflected light bouncing off of the colored surface in at least three areas of the electromagnetic spectrum. The device also provides output... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20090052772 - Compression format and apparatus using the new compression format for temporarily storing image data in a frame memory: Display driver (40) with a frame memory (43) for temporarily storing image data representing a color image and a data bus for feeding RGB-formatted image data to said display driver (40). The display driver (2) comprises means for performing an encoding decision process (42) that is based on an analysis... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20090052773 - Color converting apparatus, program, image display device, and mobile terminal device: A color converting apparatus which is used to correct the hue shift without narrowing the color reproduction region, has a small circuit scale, and does not need many memory resources. A primary area detector 10 determines to what area out of six areas classified according to the relation of magnitude... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090052776 - Color correction apparatus, method and computer program: The present invention relates to color correction of video signals from a plurality of cameras. The apparatus has a correction order that defines a plurality of camera pairs and an order of the camera pairs, where each camera pair specifies a reference camera and a target camera. In the correction... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090052774 - Image processing apparatus, image display apparatus, and image display method: A maximum and minimum color information detection means (3, 51, 52) detects a maximum color-signal gradation level or a value equivalent to the maximum gradation level (CMAX) and a minimum color-signal gradation level or a value equivalent to the minimum gradation level (CMIN) as color information for an image signal... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090052775 - Method and apparatus for simultaneously reducing various kinds of noises from image: Provided are a method and apparatus for simultaneously reducing various kinds of noises in an image output from an image sensor equipped to a camera. The image noise reducing method includes: determining a color reference value, which corresponds to a corrected value of the color value of a current pixel,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090052777 - Using handwriting recognition in computer algebra: Systems and methods for use in handwriting recognition in computer algebra are provided. One disclosed method includes receiving handwriting input from a user via a handwriting input device, the handwriting input representing a mathematical expression. The method further includes, at a recognizer, processing the handwriting input to recognize a plurality... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090052778 - Electronic annotation of documents with preexisting content: In a pen-based computing system, a printed version of a document having preexisting content is annotated using a smart pen. The smart pen captures handwriting gestures to obtain an electronic representation of the annotations. The smart pen computing system identifies a digital version of the document having the preexisting content... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090052780 - Method and apparatus for extracting feature points from digital image: An apparatus and method for extracting feature points from an image in a multiprocessor system having a plurality of processors, the method including: dividing an original image into a plurality of regions so as to be allocated to a plurality of processors of the multiprocessor system; performing, by the plurality... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090052779 - Object recognizing apparatus: The object recognizing apparatus includes an object detecting section , a shape model setting section 3, a conformance degree calculating section 4 and a profile shape determining section 5. The shape model setting section 3 extract arbitrarily samples of a group of samples detected by the object detecting section 1... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090052781 - Method, system and program product for representing a perceptual organization of an image: Under the present invention, an image is progressively blurred to yield a set of (progressive) scaling levels. Once blurred, the edges of the image are detected so that each image segment can be identified on each scaling level. Once the segments are identified, like segments (i.e., segments having a like... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090052782 - Image processing device: An image processing device is structured such that an appropriate judgement of an image, at which blurring or disappearance or the like will occur, is possible. When pixels, which form a line image at which there is the possibility that blurring or disappearance will occur at the time of printing... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090052786 - Computer vision-based methods for enhanced jbig2 and generic bitonal compression: A system and method of symbol matching may include a processor configured to determine which pixels of a first symbol are tangent pixels; for each of the determined tangent pixels, determine whether a second symbol includes a pixel corresponding to the tangent pixel that includes at least one same tangent... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090052784 - Detection and classification of matches between time-based media: A system and method detects matches between portions of video content. A matching module receives an input video fingerprint representing an input video and a set of reference fingerprints representing reference videos in a reference database. The matching module compares the reference fingerprints and input fingerprints to generate a list... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20090052785 - Rejecting out-of-vocabulary words: Enhanced rejection of out-of-vocabulary words, in which, based on applying an input gesture to hidden Markov models collectively modeling a vocabulary of training gestures, a likelihood that the input gesture matches each training gesture, and a quantity of states of the input gesture that match corresponding states of a modeled... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090052783 - Similar shot detecting apparatus, computer program product, and similar shot detecting method: If a difference between feature values of frames from different shots is within a predetermined error range, one or more target frames are selected from each of the shots. Based on face areas in the selected target frames, the feature values of the target frames are calculated. If a difference... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090052787 - Image search apparatus, image search method, and storage medium storing a program for causing a search apparatus to execute a search method: In an image search apparatus, a data manager responds to an instruction for a first search condition issued via a user interface to manage data of a target model acquired from a database and generates an image to be displayed on a user interface. A determination processor responds to an... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090052788 - Image processing method, image processing program, image processing device, and imaging device: An image-processing method is characterized by including a searching operation of searching for a local motion vector from each of blocks in the plural images, an electing operation of electing a representative motion vector from the local motion vectors of the respective blocks, and an approximating operation of approximating a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090052790 - Image compression device, compressing method, storage medium, image decompression device, decompressing method, and storage medium: An image compression device having a prediction unit for predicting a value of a compressing target pixel from peripheral values, and quantizing prediction error between a prediction value of the prediction unit and a value of an actual pixel in a predetermined quantizing step, comprising: a specific pixel level difference... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090052789 - Image processing apparatus and method for processing interlaced video: The invention provides an image processing apparatus for processing an interlaced video which includes a judging module, a determining module and a processing module. The judging module is used for judging if a pixel in the kth frame among P frames of the interlaced video relates to a moving object.... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20090052791 - Methods for calculating video inverse transform: Inverse transforms used in video and image compression/decompression, such as DCT/IDCT used in MPEG-2 and MPEG-4, or the integer transforms used in H.264, are usually calculated with fast algorithms, which only take advantage of the symmetry existing in the transform matrix but ignores the peculiarities in the input data. While... Agent: Venture Pacific Law, PC

20090052792 - Computer-assisted image cropping for book scans: Methods and systems for cropping images of book pages are disclosed according to one embodiment of the invention. A method may include identifying reference images and receiving cropping rectangles for the reference images. These cropping rectangles associated with reference images may then be used to generate cropping rectangles for images... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090052793 - Digital content processing methods and systems: Digital content processing methods and systems are provided. First, an image property and a specific value corresponding to the image property are determined according to an image enhancement operation. Then, a specific region is sought within a first digital content, wherein pixels in the specific region have the specific value... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20090052794 - Computing arbitrary fractional powers of a transform operator from selected precomputed fractional powers of the operator: A computer-implemented system and method for correcting misfocus in original particle beam image data by using a fractional Fourier transform operation or an approximation of it. In one embodiment, the particle beam image data is produced by an electron microscope. The approximation of a fractional Fourier transform operation may comprise... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20090052795 - System and method for auto-focusing an image: A method and system for auto-focusing is disclosed where the number of the fractal pixels having a fractal dimension within a predetermined range is determined. The focused image is determined by adjusting the image to maximize the fractal pixel count. Alternatively, the focused image may be selected from a set... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20090052797 - Imaging device, image processing device, image processing method, program for image processing method, and recording medium having program for image processing method recorded thereon: A method and apparatus to remove color noise included in raw data while effectively preventing image quality degradation. For Interest pixels serially set onto a mosaic image formed of raw data, conversion is executed into a pixel value for noise removal based on a processing reference pixel value having a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090052796 - Match, expand, and filter technique for multi-view stereopsis: In accordance with one or more aspects of a match, expand, and filter technique for multi-view stereopsis, features across multiple images of an object are matched to obtain a sparse set of patches for the object. The sparse set of patches is expanded to obtain a dense set of patches... Agent: Sadler, Breen, Morasch & Colby, P.s.

20090052798 - Method for eliminating noise from image generated by image sensor: A method for eliminating noise from an image generated by an image sensor, includes: setting a group of pixels arranged in a square matrix and including a central pixel intended to eliminate the noise in the image and peripheral pixels arranged around the central pixel; obtaining absolute difference values between... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090052799 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, computer-readable medium and computer data signal: An image processing apparatus includes a first enhancement degree calculation unit and a color contour enhancement unit. The first enhancement degree calculation unit calculates a contour intensity of a color component of an input color image and calculates an enhancement degree for a color contour, based on the contour intensity... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090052801 - Image processing apparatus, camera, image processing program product and image processing method: An image processing apparatus, includes: an information acquisition unit that obtains position information indicating a position of a first pixel group made up with pixels set along a predetermined direction among a plurality of pixels constituting an image; a smoothing processing unit that executes smoothing processing on pixel values indicated... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090052800 - Image processing system, projector, method and computer program product: The disclosure refers to an image processing system, projector, method and computer program product. In one example, an image processing system includes an interpolation unit that performs interpolation using an input image and a reference pixel in an input background part outside of the input image and interpolation pixels including... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20090052802 - User interface method for skew correction: Methods and systems for correcting skew in digital images are disclosed according to embodiments of the invention. Embodiments may include receiving the endpoints of the skew-line, calculating the sine and cosine of the skew-angle from the endpoints and rotating the image using the sine and cosine of the skew-angle. Embodiments... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090052803 - Data set conversion systems and methods: A system, apparatus, and method(s) for at least the conversion of a radial, polar, or coordinate system model footprint or types other than rectilinear to a rectilinear footprint to facilitate visual and/or comparative analysis of similarly formatted footprints in accordance with one or more embodiments is described herein.... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid, LLP

20090052804 - Method process and apparatus for automated document scanning and management system: An automated system and method for storing document data in a Web based document management system is provided. The method includes specifying a first identifier, scanning a document to produce an image file and resizing the image file to produce a resized image. The resized image has a width that... Agent: Bell, Boyd, & Lloyd LLP

20090052805 - Video framing control: In the creation of video program material, picture composition decisions—especially framing parameters—taken by an operator for small-display presentation of a scene are used the automatic generation of picture composition decisions for a larger display. Framing parameters such as pan, are temporally filtered before being applied to the wider field of... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090052806 - Process and apparatus for annotating electronic map data: The invention relates to a method and a device for annotating electronic background maps adapted in particular to navigation aid systems for vehicles. Projection parameters and geodesic parameters are associated with the said background map. Display references are associated with the display of at least part of the said background... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090052807 - Digital image capture and processing system employing automatic illumination control and a field of view (fov) folding mirror beneath the light transmission aperture of an illumination board disposed within the housing: A digital image capture and processing system having a housing with a light transmission window, and an illumination subsystem including an illumination board disposed adjacent the light transmission window, configured substantially within a plane, and having a central aperture mounted adjacent the imaging window. The illumination board supports an array... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., P.C. Soundview Plaza

20090046891 - Hair style simulation image creating method: A hairstyle simulation image is formed by combining a face image and a hair image such that a hair image of any hairstyle can be simply combined with the face image without impairing the naturalness of the fitted face and hair images, irrespective of whether or not a part of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090046890 - Method and system for digital image analysis of ear traits: A method of evaluating one or more kernels of an ear of maize using digital imagery includes acquiring a digital image of the one or more kernels of the ear of maize, processing the digital image to estimate at least one physical property of the one or more kernels of... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C Attn: Pioneer Hi-bred

20090046892 - Apparatus and methods for identifying and processing mail using an identification code: Apparatus and methods consistent with the present invention provide for identifying and processing mail using an identification code on a mailpiece as a redundant source of identification information in a mail sorting system. In one embodiment, this information is stored in a temporary database and used for the identification and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090046893 - System and method for tracking and assessing movement skills in multidimensional space: Accurate simulation of sport to quantify and train performance constructs by employing sensing electronics for determining, in essentially real time, the player's three dimensional positional changes in three or more degrees of freedom (three dimensions); and computer controlled sport specific cuing that evokes or prompts sport specific responses from the... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090046894 - System for the detection by a motor vehicle of a phenomenon that interferes with visibility: A process for the detection from a vehicle of a visibility interference phenomenon, comprising the following steps: the emission of a beam of light to illuminate the rear of the vehicle, the beam of light being emitted into a field of vision of a camera mounted in the vehicle, and... Agent: Matthew R. Jenkins, Esq.

20090046896 - Length measurement system: Disclosed herewith is a length measurement system, which obtains a value closer to its true one when figuring out the size and edge roughness of a pattern from a noise-included pattern image. Among plural band-like regions representing a portion around an edge in an image respectively, the system calculates the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090046895 - Method and measurement system for contactless coordinate measurement on an object surface: The invention relates to a method and a surveying system for noncontact coordinate measurement on the object surface (2) of an object (1) to be surveyed in an object coordinate system (O). With a 3D image recording unit (3), a first three-dimensional image (P1) of a first area section (S1)... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090046897 - Vehicle speed assessment system and method: A method of assessing the speed of a vehicle including the steps of obtaining a first image of a vehicle; obtaining a second image of the vehicle captured at a known time after capture of the first image; selecting a reference point on the vehicle in the first image; and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090046898 - Displaying ranked categories of data in a venn diagram: A solution that displays ranked categories of data in a Venn diagram is provided. In particular, entries of data are assigned to one of a plurality of categories based on one or more attributes of the entries. The categories are then ranked for each of one or more criteria. Each... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090046899 - Combined iris imager and wavefront sensor: An iris imaging system used for biometric identification provides a combined iris imager and wavefront sensor. The detector array allows for independent readout of different regions, such that a wavefront sensor region can be read out fast while allowing signal to integrate on the iris imaging region. Alternatively, the entire... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090046900 - Imaging apparatus, imaging method and computer program: An image processing apparatus for processing an image, includes a face detector for detecting an image of a face of a subject contained in a captured image, based on image information of the captured image supplied from an imaging unit, a face feature detector for detecting a face feature contained... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090046901 - Personal identity verification process and system: A personal identity verification process and system adopts an error correcting output code (ECOC) classifier approach. Image data representing an input facial images is processed to generate a first (ECOC) classifier output vector and image data representing a class of different training images of the face of an individual are... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20090046902 - Method of boresight correlation of imager video to reference video: The present invention provides for simple and streamlined boresight correlation of FLIR-to-missile video. Boresight correlation is performed with un-NUCed missile video, which allows boresight correlation and NUC to be performed simultaneously thereby reducing the time required to acquire a target and fire the missile. The current approach uses the motion... Agent: The Noblitt Group, PLLC

20090046903 - Biometric detection using spatial, temporal, and/or spectral techniques: A biometric feature detection system is provided according to one embodiment. The system may include a target, an illumination source, a color filter array, a light detector, and a computational unit. The illumination source illuminates a portion of the target with monochromatic light at a large angle of incidence measured... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090046904 - Fingerprint recognition apparatus and method: Provided are a fingerprint recognition apparatus and method which are capable of protecting registered fingerprint data and recognizing a fingerprint more quickly and accurately. In the fingerprint recognition apparatus, a fingerprint image generator generates fingerprint image data of an input fingerprint, and a memory stores registration fingerprint data for authentication.... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090046906 - Automated imaging device and method for registration of anatomical structures: A device and method for capturing images of a specific part of an anatomical structure using a series of images, wherein an image is taken of the anatomical structure and is compared to a database of information is order to determine and optimize the imaging conditions used for taken subsequent... Agent: Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090046908 - Detecting meniscal tears in non-invasive scans: Other techniques for automatically detecting meniscal tears includes receiving a meniscus object portion of scan data from a scanning device and receiving threshold data that indicates a meniscus extraction threshold. Without human intervention, a propensity for meniscal tears is determined based on the threshold data and the meniscus object portion... Agent: Evans & Molinelli PLLC

20090046909 - Feature dependent extended depth of focusing on semi-transparent biological specimens: A method and system for constructing a digital image of a three-dimensional biological specimen that displays diagnostically important information—substantially to the exclusion of unimportant information. The system de-enhances features in a cellular specimen which are not diagnostically important and enhances those which are The system selects the sharpest pixel for... Agent: Levisohn Berger, LLP

20090046907 - Parallel execution of all image processing workflow features: A method of parallel execution of image processing, having steps of acquiring at least one image from a patient, choosing a workflow to view the at least one image from the patient, processing the at least one image from the patient in at least two different workflows in parallel, and... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090046905 - Uterine cervical cancer computer-aided-diagnosis (cad): Uterine cervical cancer Computer-Aided-Diagnosis (CAD) according to this invention consists of a core processing system that automatically analyses data acquired from the uterine cervix and provides tissue and patient diagnosis, as well as adequacy of the examination. The data can include, but is not limited to, color still images or... Agent: Holger Lange

20090046910 - Method for enhancing blood vessels in angiography images: Disclosed is a method for enhancing blood vessels in angiography images. The method incorporates the use of linear directional features present in an image, extracted by a Directional Filter Bank, to obtain more precise Hessian analysis in noisy environment and thus can correctly reveal small and thin vessels. Also, the... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20090046911 - Radiation imaging apparatus and method of controlling the same: A radiation imaging apparatus detects the density distribution of an image formed by a radiopaque dye from each of two images obtained by radiation imaging. The apparatus predicts the moving speed of the image formed by the radiopaque dye based on the moving amount of the detected density distribution and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090046916 - Ct scanner and control method therefor: A CT scanner which can reconstruct high-quality tomographic images using only the projected images obtained by scanning an object without requiring any special three-dimensional phantom is provided. A two-dimensional radiation sensor placed to face a radiation source via the object acquires projected images while relatively rotating the object in the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090046915 - Method and device for correction of magnetic resonance images: A method of correcting magnetic resonance images is provided. Seed points having a same expected true intensity are selected from the image points in an image. An intensity correction function If(X) is determined by fitting measured intensities Im(Xs) of the seed points to Im(Xs)=If(Xs), where x denotes the coordinate of... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090046913 - Methods and apparatus for data communication across a slip ring: A method for reducing bandwidth required for transmission of data in a device having two portions rotating with respect to one another. The first portion includes a data acquisition system (DAS) having a charge-to-digital converter and a digital signal processor (DSP) configured to receive and compress digital data from the... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20090046912 - Process and system for simulation or digital synthesis of sonographic images: The invention relates to a method for the simulation or digital synthesis of echographic images, characterised by the direct transformation in real time, or quasi real time, of the information contained in an IRM-type medical or veterinary image, without delimitation or segmentation of the bodies or structures contained in the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090046914 - Time-sequential volume rendering: There is disclosed a method and apparatus for generating data for a two-dimensional image which identifies different classes of property of an imaged subject, this being done by separately rendering volumetric data classified into those different classes and, from all of those separate renderings, choosing one datum for use in... Agent: Dann, Dorfman, Herrell & Skillman

20090046917 - Imaging device, driving method therefor and imaging method: An imaging device includes an imaging unit (120) having a sensor in which pixels including a defective pixel are arrayed in a matrix, and sensing an image, a first image reduction unit (151) reducing the image by adding pieces of pixel information of pixels adjacent in the row direction in... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090046918 - Systems and methods for notes detection: To perform notes detection, candidate reference marks are identified in a document. A starting note zone is identified in the document. A pair of similar reference marks is identified from the candidate reference marks including a first reference mark in the note zone and a second reference mark outside the... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090046919 - Micr reader using phase angle extracted from frequency domain analysis: A system and method for implementing phase angle based magnetic ink character recognition (MICR). A system is provided that includes: a segmentation system for segmenting inputted MICR data into sets of temporal data for inputted characters; a Fourier system for generating a set of phase angle components from temporal data... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090046920 - Approximating wafer intensity change to provide fast mask defect scoring: To provide fast mask defect scoring, approximated wafer simulations (e.g. using one convolution) are performed on the defect inspection image and its corresponding reference inspection image. Using the approximated defect wafer image and the approximated reference wafer image generated by these approximated wafer simulations, a defect maximum intensity difference (MID)... Agent: Bever, Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20090046921 - Pick and place machine with improved component pick up inspection: Embodiments of the present invention improve upon component level inspection performed by pick and place machines. Such improvements include inspecting the pick operation in pick and place machines by collecting images of the pick event inside the machine and identifying errors as they happen. By detecting and displaying this information... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090046922 - Surface inspecting apparatus: A wafer to be inspected W is placed on an XY stage 1, and is positioned so that the location to be inspected is under an objective lens 2, after which an inspection image (RBG signals) is captured by a camera 3. Then, the incorporated reference image and inspection image... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090046923 - Apparatus and method for detecting surface defects on a workpiece such as a rolled/drawn metal bar: The present invention is directed to solving the problems associated with the detection of surface defects on metal bars as well as the problems associated with applying metal flat inspection systems to metal bars for non-destructive surface defects detection. A specially designed imaging system, which is comprised of a computing... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20090046924 - Stereo-image processing apparatus: A stereo-image processing apparatus includes a stereo-image taking means configured to take a plurality of images from different viewpoints, a parallax detecting means configured to detect a parallax of a subject on the basis of the images taken by the stereo-image taking means, an object detecting means configured to detect... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20090046926 - Image processing circuit, display device, and printing device: An image processing circuit includes: a storage unit that stores positions of pixels constituting a shape-image to be regularly-arranged and pixel values of the pixels; a conversion unit that: if a pixel value of a first pixel constituting an image represented by input binary image data, the pixel value of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090046925 - Method, apparatus and system for color component registration: A method, apparatus and system for image processing include a registration device configured to register component images for at least a block of an image to form a registered image. A quality control device is configured to receive the registered image, examine the registered image, and modify portions of the... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20090046928 - Auto white balance method: An auto white balance method includes converting a color space of an input image from an RGB color space into the Commission International de I'Eclairage (CIE) L*a*b* color space, determining at least a portion of pixels of the input image, assumed that a reference white color is changed, in a... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090046927 - Method and apparatus for reducing noise in image: An exemplary method for reducing noise in an image is disclosed. The image comprises a number of pixels including a current pixel that contains noise. The method comprises: measuring a value of each of the pixels; calculating a number of variances of value of a number of pixel areas, each... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090046929 - Image-based code: A computer-readable medium may include one or more instructions for providing sub-images, one or more instructions for receiving selection of a plurality of sub-images, one or more instructions for constructing a first image, the first image being a unified image including the selected plurality of sub-images, one or more instructions... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090046930 - Method and apparatus for extracting line segments from image using incremental pixel extension: A method of extracting line segments from a subject image includes calculating a gradient image and a direction image of respective edge pixels in a canny edge image obtained from the subject image, calculating a primary line passing arbitrary two pixels selected among the edge pixels, selecting candidate line segment... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090046931 - Segmentation-based image labeling: Disclosed are embodiments of systems and methods for segmenting an image into at least two layers, a foreground and a background layer. An embodiment of the present invention includes rough labeling or segmenting at least a portion of the image into foreground and background pixels. The rough labeled pixels may... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20090046932 - Parametric estimation of multi-dimensional homeomorphic transformations: In object registration and recognition based on a set of known templates, the tremendous set of possible transformations that may relate the template and an observed signature makes any detection and recognition problem ill-defined unless this variability is taken into account. The present invention estimates the deformation that transforms some... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20090046933 - Using photographer identity to classify images: A method of identifying at least one particular person of interest in a collection of digital images taken over time, includes providing the collection of digital images with each digital image containing one or more persons; storing in a digital database an appearance model having a set of features associated... Agent: J.lanny Tucker Patent Legal Staff

20090046934 - Storing and presenting ancillary information obtained from scanned prints: The present invention relates to a system and method for data storage and retrieval, and more particularly, for indicating that ancillary data is stored in a header of a JPEG file and accessible to a user. The system comprises a JPEG file having an EXIF header and associated image data,... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20090046935 - Image processing: First and second codewords are determined, based on first feature vector components of the image elements in an image block, as representations of a first and second component value. Third and fourth codewords are determined, based on second vector components, as representations of a third and fourth component value. First... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090046936 - Method of compressing digital ink: A method of compressing a digital ink input including a sequence of strokes is provided in which each stroke is represented as a series of digital words representing x and y co-ordinates, at least one reference co-ordinate of each stroke is expressed in absolute terms, and a co-ordinate other than... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090046937 - Method and system for data compression: The invention is a method and apparatus for compressing or decompressing two-dimensional electronic data. A method for compressing a two-dimensional electronic data set comprises the steps of: dividing the data set into data arrays, performing a wavelet transform on each array to provide a plurality of wavelet coefficients, and encoding... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20090046938 - Character contour correction: Systems and methods are presented for correcting contours of alphanumeric characters. At least one string of numbers that characterizes a given contour of an alphanumeric character is generated. Each number within the string of numbers represents a direction of transition between consecutive pixels in the contour. Sets of consecutive numbers... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino LLP

20090046939 - Apparatus and method for processing image data based on object movement speed with a frame: An apparatus for processing a non-interlaced image includes a wavelet transform part and a determination part. The wavelet transform part performs two-dimensional discrete wavelet transform of a level higher than or equal to level one on the data of the non-interlaced image. The determination part determines the movement speed of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090046940 - Embedded messages in pictures: The present invention relates to a system and method for indicating the presence of ancillary data in a header of a JPEG file. The system comprises a JPEG file having an EXIF header and associated image data, and at least one other file of digital data, and a computer. The... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20090046941 - Encoding method and apparatus applying coefficient reordering: In a method of encoding and encoder a method step is performed in which the scan order of a set of image region modeling coefficients is established on the basis of information of set of image region modeling coefficients preceding said set of image region modeling coefficients, and said set... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090046942 - Image display apparatus and method, and program: An image display apparatus, that displays a digital image on a screen for check use, includes: an image data storage unit that stores image data of the digital image; an edge detection unit that detects an edge included in the digital image through analysis of the image data; and an... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090046943 - Image processing method: An image processing method adopted to remove noise present in an image, includes: an image input step in which an original image constituted of a plurality of pixels is input; a multiple-resolution images generation step in which a plurality of band-limited images with resolutions decreasing in sequence are generated by... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090046945 - Method of rendering cross images unobservable particularly in projected or printed photographic reproductions, and reproduction thus obtained: The method renders unobservable cross images with low light intensity that appear in the combined reproduction of various different images. It consists of adding a percentage in negative of each of these cross images to the positive of the correct image prior to reproduction, so that as a result of... Agent: Moore & Van Allen PLLC

20090046944 - Restoration of color components in an image model: This invention relates to a method for improving image quality of a digital image captured with an imaging module comprising at least imaging optics and an image sensor, where the image is formed through the imaging optics, the image consisting of at least one colour component. In the method, the... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090046946 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes a partial image memory unit for reading partial image data from an image pickup device and sequentially storing the partial image data. The image processing apparatus also includes an image composition unit for generating the composite image data by synthesizing the partial image data obtained... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20090046947 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus that generates a combined image by combining plural image data acquired as a result of digitizing plural images acquired by shooting with different quantities of exposure, includes a weighting unit that adds weight to adjust proportion of combination of the image data, to at least one... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090046948 - Image processing circuit, display device, and printing device: An image processing circuit includes: a storage unit that stores positions of respective pixels, and pixel values of the pixels, the pixels forming a plurality of shape-images which are to be laid out in an array; a first multiplication unit that multiplies a pixel value from among the pixel values... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090046949 - Image processing circuit, display device, and printing device: An image processing circuit includes: a memory that stores the location and pixel values that compose graphical images; a calculation unit that calculates the difference between a target location to which the graphical images is aligned in binary image data and an initial location designated in the graphical images; an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090046950 - System and method of determining image skew using connected components: A system and method for determining skew of a document image. An image processing system is provided, comprising: an image segmentation system that identifies and segments a line of printed characters; and a skew processing system that determines the skew by calculating slope values for pairs of characters in the... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090046951 - System and method for dense image registration using markov random fields and efficient linear programming: wherein |G| is a number of control points, |E| is a number of pairs of neighboring control points on a neighborhood system, t is an iteration counter, and associating the MRF with a primary linear program and solving the primary linear program using a fast primal-dual algorithm to yield a... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090046952 - Super-resolution in periodic and aperiodic pixel imaging: A super-resolution algorithm that explicitly and exactly models the detector pixel shape, size, location, and gaps for periodic and aperiodic tilings. The algorithm projects the low-resolution input image into high-resolution space to model the actual shapes and/or gaps of the detector pixels. By using an aperiodic pixel layout such as... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090046953 - Image processing apparatus and method: An image processing apparatus (400) comprises a SIMD processor (401) which scans an image frame for regions of interest (step 301), for example corresponding to regions having objects or lines of interest. Each region of interest is rescanned to an orthogonal grid. The orthogonal grids are then floorplanned so that... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090046954 - Image sharing system and method: An image capture device, includes a body; an image sensor in the body; a lens configured to focus a scene onto the image sensor; a communications interface in the body; an image processor coupled to receive an image from or to send an image to the communications interface; executable program... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20090041295 - Image display device, image display method, and image display program: An image display device used for checking an image represented by digital image data includes a display section that displays the image and checking information used for checking the image, an image display control section that displays the image on the display section based on the digital image data, a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090041296 - Method and device for the detection, at the correct time, of print marks located at regular intervals on a print web: In a method and a device for the detection, at the correct time, of pressure marks situated at regular intervals on a print web, use is made of cameras, with a processing unit which is assigned to the camera. The activation of the camera is no longer triggered externally in... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090041292 - Multi channel radiometer imaging method and system: The invention provides for an expandable multi channel radiometer imaging method and system. The imaging system includes a scanner for reflecting millimeter wave energy emanating from a pre-determined scene. The millimeter wave energy is focused to a focal plane array using an optical lens and a multi channel radiometer receives... Agent: Mckinney Law, LLC

20090041293 - Multiple camera imaging method and system for detecting concealed objects: The present invention is an imaging system for detecting concealed objects on an individual. The imaging system includes an imaging zone that is illuminated with millimeter wave energy. A plurality of millimeter wave cameras are focused to fully surround the imaging zone and have the ability to detect millimeter wave... Agent: Mckinney Law, LLC

20090041294 - System for applying content categorizations of images: Disclosed herein are databases that contain image context categorizations, those categorizations identifying the context of an image based on a computed fingerprint. Also disclosed herein are applications of such a database, including a viewing application that blocks the rendering of images with undesirable content noted by a content categorization, and... Agent: Everett D. Robinson Echelon Ip, LLC

20090041301 - Frame of reference registration system and method: A system for assisting in work carried out on a workpiece and having a frame of reference. The system includes a referencing arrangement to register the position of a first location in the frame of reference of the system; a tool holder for holding a tool to assist with the... Agent: Egbert Law Offices

20090041300 - Headlight system for vehicles, preferably for motor vehicles: s

20090041297 - Human detection and tracking for security applications: A computer-based system for performing scene content analysis for human detection and tracking may include a video input to receive a video signal; a content analysis module, coupled to the video input, to receive the video signal from the video input, and analyze scene content from the video signal and... Agent: Venable LLP

20090041298 - Image capture system and method: Video capture systems, methods and computer program products can be provided and configured to capture video sequences of one or more participants during an activity. The video capture system can be configured to include one or more video capture devices positioned at predetermined locations in an activity area; a tracking... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20090041299 - Method and apparatus for recognition of an object by a machine: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for recognition of an object by a machine including isolating and processing an image to help facilitate recognition of the object by the machine.... Agent: OmikronIPLaw Group

20090041302 - Object type determination apparatus, vehicle, object type determination method, and program for determining object type: An object type determination apparatus, an object type determination method, a vehicle, and a program for determining an object type, capable of accurately determining the type of the object by appropriately determining periodicity in movement of the object from images, are provided. The object type determination apparatus includes an object... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20090041304 - Process for the automatic determination of speed limitations on a road and an associated system: An automatic process is provided for automatically determining a current speed limitation on a road being used by a motor vehicle, in which by means of a first system, making use in particular of a GPS aerial and cartographical details, a first set of information is established, in which at... Agent: Matthew R. Jenkins, Esq.

20090041303 - Vehicle, image processing system image processing method, image processing program, method for configuring image processing system, and server: An image processing system and the like capable of accurately recognizing lane edges defined by dotted lane marks are provided. According to an image processing system (100) of the present invention, a first processing unit (110) searches a road surface image captured by a vehicle-mounted camera for a “small area,”... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090041305 - Method for detecting anatomical motion blur in diagnostic images: A method for detecting one or more motion effects in a diagnostic image obtains image data for the diagnostic image and identifies at least one region of interest in the diagnostic image. The probability of motion blur within the at least one region of interest is calculated according to a... Agent: Susan L. Parulski Patent Legal Staff

20090041307 - Biometric information transfer system: A biometric information transfer system is provided, allowing the urgency, etc., of a biometric information measurement result contained in e-mail to be directly and instantaneously noticed. When the biometric information measurement result is converted into e-mail format, attention-drawing information is assigned to the e-mail in accordance with the biometric information... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090041306 - Living body variable measuring system with wireless internet access and biometric authentication: A physiological data measurement and analysis system comprises: a central processing centre for receiving physiological data for at least one subject, analysing the data and generating physiological information related to improving the subject's physiological condition based on the analysed data; at least one satellite station for measuring and transmitting selected... Agent: Justin Kwong

20090041308 - Object execution method and method with bio-characteristic recognition: An object execution system and a method with bio-characteristic recognition are disclosed. The system includes a biometric apparatus, a storage unit and a processing unit. The biometric apparatus is provides for receiving an inputted bio-characteristic data. The storage unit saves at least one predetermined bio-characteristic data, at least one profile... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090041309 - System and method for iris identification using stereoscopic face recognition: Disclosed herein is a system and method for iris recognition including stereoscopic face recognition, which can recognize irises using a stereoscopic face recognition system in order to recognize an authenticatee. The system includes two or more face recognition cameras for photographing two or more face images of an authenticatee; a... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Group LLP

20090041311 - Facial recognition based content blocking system: Methods and apparatus for blocking content. In one embodiment, an image is examined for pre-selected body portions. If the image contains a body portion (e.g. an image of a face larger than a pre-selected portion of the image) access is allowed. Otherwise, the content may be obscured or blocked with... Agent: Matthew E. Burr

20090041312 - Image processing apparatus and method: An image processing apparatus includes a unit configured to detect face areas from frames of an input moving image; a unit configured to identify face conditions, which vary depending on a face direction, from the face areas; a unit configured to classify the face areas based on the face conditions;... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090041310 - Video-based face recognition using probabilistic appearance manifolds: The present invention meets these needs by providing temporal coherency to recognition systems. One embodiment of the present invention comprises a manifold recognition module to use a sequence of images for recognition. A manifold training module receives a plurality of training image sequences (e.g. from a video camera), each training... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20090041313 - User validation of body worn device: A headset includes a detector providing an output indicating a donned or doffed condition, a memory storing a fingerprint data of an authorized headset user, and a fingerprint scanner for generating a fingerprint scan upon detecting a donned condition. The headset includes a finger pad on an exterior of the... Agent: Plantronics, Inc.IPDepartment/legal

20090041320 - Endoscope insertion direction detecting device and endoscope insertion direction detecting method: An endoscope insertion direction detecting device includes a classification section for performing, on a scene of an endoscope image of a moving image picked up by an endoscope inserted into a body cavity, classification into classes for a plurality of different feature values relating to detection of an endoscope insertion... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090041319 - Living body observation system: A living body observation system of the present invention includes an illumination unit for sequentially emitting as an illumination light a plurality of broad band lights and at least one narrow band light to a subject in a living body to illuminate the subject; an image pickup unit for picking... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090041321 - Method and apparatus for fast automatic centerline extraction for virtual endoscopy: A method for automatic centerline extraction for a virtual endoscopy image of an organ having a boundary surface includes centering on selected points of an initial path through the image, which is derived from an endoscopy dataset, respective spheres exhibiting respective maximal diameters short of contacting the boundary surface; and... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090041318 - Method for recording measured data of a patient while taking account of movement operations, and an associated medical device: A method is disclosed for recording measured data of a patient while taking account of movement operations by way of a medical device that is designed both for recording movement-related measured data, in particular measured data of high temporal resolution and/or measured data that can be interpolated with regard to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090041317 - Method of dental microscopic procedure: A method of dental microscopic procedure, using a digital surgical scope, includes steps for selecting a function of the digital surgical scope to perform, obtaining the corresponding images from the image data taking device or the image data processing/storing device, processing the images by the image data processing/storing device, and... Agent: Park Law Firm

20090041314 - Robust mosaicing method. notably with correction of motion distortions and tissue deformations for a vivo fibered microscopy: m

20090041315 - System and method for robust segmentation of tubular structures in 2d and 3d images: A method for segmenting tubular structures in medical images includes providing at least a start point and an end point in a digital image volume, minimizing an action surface U0(p) which, at each image point p, corresponds to a minimal energy integrated along a path that starts at start point... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090041316 - Vibratome assisted subsurface imaging microscopy (vibra-ssim): An system and method provide the ability to image a biological sample. A sample is embed to a support matrix that is compatible with an aqueous nature of the sample. A vibrating tissue sectioning system is coupled to a microscope and is used to remove a region of the sample... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP Howard Hughes Center

20090041322 - Computer assisted detection of polyps within lumen using enhancement of concave area: A method for performing computer assisted diagnosis, includes receiving medical image data of a structure under analysis including background and foreground pixels, matching a set of one or more masks to foreground pixels of the acquired medical image data, converting a background pixel of the acquired medical image data to... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090041324 - Image diagnosis support system, medical image management apparatus, image diagnosis support processing apparatus and image diagnosis support method: An image diagnosis assistance system which includes a medical image management apparatus and an image diagnosis assistance processing apparatus configured to communicate with each other via a communication network, wherein the medical image management apparatus includes storage unit which stores a medical image obtained by a medical image diagnosis apparatus,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090041323 - Systems and methods for constructing images: Techniques and systems for constructing a three-dimensional representations of anatomical structures from a series of images of the structure include creating interpolated images between actual images and defining voxels based on pixel values of the actual and interpolated images. A three-dimensional representation of the structure may be constructed based on... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20090041328 - Feature processing for lung nodules in computer assisted diagnosis: Feature processing is provided for lung nodules in computer-assisted diagnosis. A feature that may better distinguish nodules from background is extracted using a Hough transform. Rather than relying on a specific boundary shape, the Hough transform accumulates evidence associated with a region, such as a ring region. The accumulated evidence... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090041326 - Line structure detection and analysis for mammography cad: A method for image linear structure detection in medical imaging. The method includes locating microcalcification (mcc) candidate spots in a mammographic image; forming candidate clusters; assigning ranks to the candidate clusters; identifying linear structures in the neighborhood where the candidate clusters reside; and altering the ranks of the candidate clusters... Agent: Carestream Health, Inc. Patent Legal Staff

20090041327 - Linear structure verification in medical applications: A method is disclosed for verifying linear structures in a digital mammographic image, comprising providing a configurable linear structure verifier in mammography computer assisted diagnosis system; optionally using an microcalcification candidate cluster driven linear structure verification methodology; selecting parameters for the linear structure verifier from a plurality of different parameter... Agent: Patent Legal Staff Carestream Health, Inc.

20090041325 - Method for detecting clipped anatomy in medical images: A method for detecting clipped anatomy in a radiographic image obtains image data for the radiographic image and arranges the image data according to a predetermined image orientation. A set is formed having one or more regions of interest that are located near the borders of the image. Image content... Agent: Susan L. Parulski Patent Legal Staff

20090041329 - Network review in clinical hematology: Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for using digital imaging and networked communications in clinical hematology. An Area of Interest (AOI) on a slide is determined. A high resolution image of the AOI is analyzed for sample integrity and adjusted and rescanned based on programmable parameters. Sensitive HIPAA information is... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20090041330 - Enhanced check image darkness measurements: A system, method and program product for measuring darkness of a check image. A system is disclosed that includes a system for capturing MICR code line image data from the black white check image; a system for determining a darkness value from the captured MICR code line image data; and... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090041331 - Recursive image filtering: A system, method and program product for cleaning a black white image. A system is disclosed that includes a filtering system that applies a filter to the black white image, wherein the filter examines a set of neighboring pixels of each black pixel and determines if a black pixel being... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090041332 - Methods for generating a standard reference die for use in a die to standard reference die inspection and methods for inspecting a wafer: Methods for generating a standard reference die for use in a die to standard reference die inspection and methods for inspecting a wafer are provided. One computer-implemented method for generating a standard reference die for use in a die to standard reference die inspection includes acquiring output of an inspection... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP

20090041333 - Scanning electron microscope: An object of the present invention is to provide a scanning electron microscope for reducing a process concerning inspection positioning or an input operation, thereby functioning with high precision at high speed. To accomplish the above object, the present invention provides a scanning electron microscope having a function for identifying... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090041335 - Pattern defect inspection method and apparatus: The pattern defect inspection apparatus is operable to detect defects by comparing a detection image, which is obtained through scanning by an image sensor those patterns that have the identical shape and are continuously disposed on the object under tested at equal intervals in row and column directions, with a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090041334 - Pattern inspection method, pattern inspection apparatus and semiconductor device manufacturing method: A pattern inspection method includes scanning a substrate on which patterns are formed with a charged beam, detecting a charged particle generated from the surface of the substrate, and then acquiring an image of the patterns; comparing the image of the patterns with CAD data for the patterns to inspect... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090041337 - Image processing apparatus and method: Three-dimensional position information of each of feature points in a left and a right image is calculated based on a disparity between the left and right images; a lane marker existing on a road surface is detected from each of the left and right images; based on three-dimensional position information... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090041338 - Photographing field angle calculation apparatus: A memory of a photographing field angle calculation apparatus has stored therein the position of each point captured by an imaging system as three coordinate values in horizontal, vertical, and depth directions when a photography space is photographed by the imaging system. A usage pixel value extraction means selects a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090041339 - Pseudo 3d image generation device, image encoding device, image encoding method, image transmission method, image decoding device, and image decoding method: A pseudo 3D image generation device includes frame memories that store a plurality of basic depth models used for estimating depth data based on a non-3D image signal and generating a pseudo 3D image signal; a depth model combination unit that combines the plurality of basic depth models for generating... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20090041336 - Stereo matching system and stereo matching method using the same: A stereo matching system and a stereo matching method using the same. Here, a Sum of Edge Differences (SED) method as a disparity estimation method utilizing edge information is added to a disparity estimation method utilizing a local method to perform stereo matching. As such, it is possible to correct... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090041340 - Image processing system, learning device and method, and program: The present invention relates to an image processing system, a learning device and method, and a program which enable easy extraction of feature amounts to be used in a recognition process. Feature points are extracted from a learning-use model image, feature amounts are extracted based on the feature points, and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090041343 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and computer-readable medium: An image processing apparatus includes an analyzing unit, a determining unit and a color conversion unit. The analyzing unit analyzes colors being used in an image. The determining unit determines, based on an analysis result provided by the analyzing unit, as to whether or not the colors being used in... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090041341 - Method for mapping a color specified using a smaller color gamut to a larger color gamut: A method maps a color specified using a smaller color gamut to a larger color gamut. Under that method, a map in a chromaticity diagram is constructed that provides a direction and a magnitude for a unit change in chroma for a specified pixel value in the chromaticity diagram. Using... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20090041342 - System and method for determining color value of pixel: A method and a system are used for determining color value of a pixel for an image processing operation, including steps of: providing a reference depth value representing a level of motion of the pixel; providing a plurality of color values and corresponding depth values of the pixel at a... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20090041344 - Methods and systems for determining a background color in a digital image: Aspects of the present invention are related to methods and systems for determining a background color in a digital image.... Agent: Kristine Elizabeth Matthews

20090041345 - Method and system of facilitating search by color: A system and method of facilitating search by color processes an image of an item to obtain its color space parameter values and/or color names based on the color space parameter values, and adds the color space parameter values and/or color names as color attribute of the item. When a... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20090041348 - Image display apparatus, and method and apparatus for processing images: An image display apparatus, and an apparatus for and a method of image processing are provided that can reduce in real time a quantization noise in an image signal received by the image display apparatus. The image processor apparatus includes a variation calculator that calculates, as a variation B of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090041346 - Image processing apparatus capable of accurately removing isolated point noise, image processing method, and computer readable medium: An isolated point detection portion detects an isolated point in image data input from an image data adjustment portion. An isolated point removal portion makes a replacement of image data at a point of an isolated point detected by the isolated point detection portion. An edge identification portion performs edge... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090041347 - Image processing method and image processing apparatus: An amount of color correction of a facial region is modified based on changes caused in face average values by white balance correction. Also, the amount of color correction of the facial region is modified according to luminance of pixels of interest to perform optimum color correction on the facial... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090041349 - Image determining device, image determining method, and program: There is provided an image determining device including a frequency band signal detecting unit for dividing an image into a plurality of local regions and detecting for each local region signals of a plurality of frequency bands from the image signal; an average value calculating unit for calculating an average... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090041350 - Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus and image processing program: A white-balance imaging apparatus includes a first gradation converting unit performing gradation conversion depending on each pixel value of an original image, a second gradation converting unit performing gradation conversion based on pixel values within a predetermined range from each pixel of the original image, a selecting unit selecting a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090041351 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: A data distribution system in which distribution data is generated by a distribution data generation portion, a second range is specified by a specifying portion, the second range is mapped to a first range by a mapping portion, and third image data is generated by performing binarization based on a... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090041352 - Image formation device, image formation method, and computer-readable recording medium recording image formation program: An image formation device includes an obtaining unit obtaining an input image and a first reduction scale, a first extraction unit extracting a first region including a character from the input image, a first setting unit setting a second reduction scale greater than the first reduction scale when a size... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090041353 - Method and system for collecting event attendee information: A method and system for a user to collect point of contact information for one or more event attendees, in which identification information associated with an attendee is scanned and transmitted to a data server. More particularly, a method and system is provided for a user to scan a bar... Agent: Wyatt, Gerber & O'rourke, LLP

20090041354 - Hidden markov model based handwriting/calligraphy generation: An exemplary method for handwritten character generation includes receiving one or more characters and, for the one or more received characters, generating handwritten characters using Hidden Markov Models trained for generating handwritten characters. In such a method the trained Hidden Markov Models can be adapted using a technique such as... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090041355 - Electronic camera and object scene image reproducing apparatus: An electronic camera is provided with: an imager, having an imaging surface for capturing an object scene, for generating an object scene image; a designator for designating a specific position within the object scene image generated by the imager; a recorder for recording, together with position information of the specific... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090041356 - Method and device for automatic generation of summary of a plurality of images: Method and device for providing a summary of a plurality of images, e.g. a video sequence. The method includes dividing the video sequence into a plurality of segments. The segments are analyzed with respect to content and a set of content descriptors are associated to the segments. Preferably, additional textual... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090041357 - Face image detecting device, face image detecting method, and face image detecting program: An extraction-pattern storing unit stores therein information related to a plurality of different extraction patterns for extracting a predetermined number of pixels from pixels surrounding a pixel that is a target for detecting a face part image. A face-part-image detecting unit extracts a pixel using the different extraction patterns stored... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090041358 - Information storage apparatus and travel environment information recognition apparatus: An information storage apparatus recognizes a traffic sign on a road expressed by a road surface image, and stores recognized traffic sign in association with its position information in a hard disk drive. By recognizing and storing information on the traffic sign in combination with the position information for the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090041359 - Method, medium, and apparatus with estimation of background change: A method, medium, and apparatus with estimation of background changes. The method includes generating an edge map based on a pre-learned background image, and calculating a value representing the similarity between a foreground image extracted from an input image and the generated edge map and estimating a background change in... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090041360 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus capable of preventing deterioration of judgment accuracy when performing document matching process. To be more specific, when selecting feature points in the neighborhood of a target feature point, a predetermined number of feature points are selected after excluding a prespecified number of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090041361 - Character recognition apparatus, character recognition method, and computer product: A character recognition apparatus includes a hash table registering unit and a recognition processing unit. The hash table registering unit creates a hash table indicating a characteristic of each of partial character images as an area of each character. The recognition processing unit divides an input image into partial input... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090041362 - Image processing apparatus and method, and program: An image processing apparatus includes: a correlation value computing section that computes a correlation value between pixels in a noted image and its preceding and following reference images; a break determining section that determines a break in identical images based on the correlation value between pixels; a successive occurrence counting... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090041363 - Image processing apparatus for reducing jpeg image capturing time and jpeg image capturing method performed by using same: Provided are an image processing apparatus capable of reducing a joint photographic coding experts group (JPEG) image capturing time, and a method of reducing the JPEG image capturing time by using the image processing apparatus and a multimedia application processor (MAP) used in the image processing apparatus image processing apparatus... Agent: Jones Day

20090041364 - Image processor, imaging apparatus and image processing program: The invention provides an imaging apparatus wherein an image taken through lens system•stop (111) and CCD (112) are converted by A/D (113) into an image signal which is in turn subjected to tone transformation processing at tone transformation processing (106). The image signal is divided at signal division block (103)... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090041365 - Method and computer program product for compressing and decompressing imagery data: Techniques are provided for compressing and decompressing image data which may reduce the distortion that may otherwise be created by the compression of data values representative of null posts, overlays or other features that differ from the underlying image. In compression, at least one coefficient generated by a forward wavelet... Agent: Alston & Bird, LLP

20090041366 - Generating search requests from multimodal queries: A method and system for generating a search request from a multimodal query that includes a query image and query text is provided. The multimodal query system identifies images of a collection that are textually related to the query image based on similarity between words associated with each image and... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20090041367 - Quantization method and apparatus: Quantization for oversampled signals with an error minimization searches based upon clusters of possible sampling vectors where the clusters have minimal correlation and thereby decrease reconstruction error as a function of oversampling (redundancy) ratio.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090041368 - Enhancing digital images using secondary optical systems: Apparatuses and methods for enhancing a “primary” large format, digital, macro-image with “secondary” image data are provided. The secondary image data is collected utilizing one or more secondary optical systems having at least one electro-optical detector array (e.g., a CCD array) and a specific set of optical mirrors or optical... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090041369 - Image enhancement employing partial template matching: A method of image-resolution enhancement employing partial-template matching, including storing at least a portion of an image, and selecting from the image a window comprising a plurality of adjacent line segments having pixels, the window including a target pixel. The method also includes comparing the pixels of the window with... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/marvell

20090041370 - Background noise detection on rendered documents: A method of detecting background noise in a rendered electronic image derived from an electronic image includes capturing a rendered image to generate captured image data. From the captured image data, a subset of the image data corresponding to a region of interest in the electronic image comprising only blank... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090041371 - Image processing apparatus: A correlation judgment part judges a correlation direction on each pixel. In a case where a correlation direction of a specified pixel is a vertical direction and the correlation thereof is small in any other direction, it is judged that the specified pixel is a pixel on an edge in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090041372 - Method for an image adjustment: A method for an image adjustment is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: reading an interested pixel and its plural neighboring pixels from an image storage device; determining a so-called first gradient value of the first direction and a so-called second gradient value of the second direction, wherein the... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20090041373 - Method for discriminating textures regions and homogeneous or flat regions in an image and methods for estimating noise in an image sequence: A method for discriminating textured regions and homogeneous or flat regions in an image. A multi-scale or multi-resolution measurement is performed with respect to the image. Alternatively or additionally, the image is analyzed by using a prior measured noise value and a local variance value in or with respect to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090041374 - System and method for edge direction detection for spatial deinterlace: The system for edge direction detection for spatial deinterlace comprises an ignored region detector and an edge direction detection unit. The ignored region detector is configured to receive a first type field of a video frame and to define a search region based on the first type field. The edge... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20090041377 - Method and system for defect image correction: A method and system for defect image correction is disclosed. The present invention comprises a method and system for defect image correction. The present invention generally relates to detecting and correcting defects in one or more digital images caused by occlusions when the image was taken.... Agent: Image Trends, Inc. Suite 450

20090041376 - Method for real-time implementable local tone mapping for high dynamic range images: The present invention relates to a method capable of real-time implementable local tone mapping of high dynamic range images. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a method capable of accomplishing real-time local tone mapping of high dynamic range images so that they have clear details without, for example,... Agent: Roetzel And Andress

20090041375 - Viewing wide angle images using dynamic tone mapping: A dynamic tone mapping technique is presented that produces a local tone map for a sub-image of a wide-angle, high dynamic range (HDR), which is used in rendering the sub-image for display. The technique generally involves first computing a global tone map of the wide-angle, HDR image in advance of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20090041378 - Image processing device, image processing method, program thereof, and recording medium containing the program: In an image processing apparatus that processes image data containing a distortion of an image pickup optical section, which is obtained by picking up an optical image from a subject through the image pickup optical section giving the distortion, a region selection mode setting section (13b) selectively sets a first... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20090041380 - Information display device and information display method: In order to prevent interception of the information through the leakage electromagnetic waves when transmitting the information using an image display unit, an image converter generates plural converted images, stores the generated converted images in an image storage, an image output unit reads out the converted images from the image... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090041379 - Method for providing output image in either cylindrical mode or perspective mode: A method is disclosed for transforming a wide-angle video image in to a Perspective view or a Cylindrical video image with reduced distortion. The method for providing an output image in either a Cylindrical mode or a Perspective mode, and comprising steps of: (1) acquiring a wide-angle image, which is... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20090041381 - Method and apparatus for radiance processing by demultiplexing in the frequency domain: Method and apparatus for radiance processing by demultiplexing in the frequency domain. A frequency domain demultiplexing module obtains a radiance image captured with a lens-based radiance camera. The image includes optically mixed spatial and angular frequency components of light from a scene. The module performs frequency domain demultiplexing on the... Agent: Robert C. Kowert Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090041382 - Simulation method of optical image intensity distribution, program, and method of manufacturing semiconductor device: The intensity distribution of an optical image in a resist film is calculated (S1); the intensity distribution of the optical image is transformed through a Fourier transform in a periodic direction of the intensity distribution of the optical image (S2) and is transformed through a spectral transform in an aperiodic... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090041383 - Method for correcting skew in scanned documents: An apparatus and method for deskewing a scanned printed document is described. The original printed document is scanned with the scanner to obtain a first digital image, which contains skew (rotation) with respect to the original printed document. The first digital image is digitally flipped around a centerline to obtain... Agent: Ying Chen Chen Yoshimura LLP

20090041385 - Image processing apparatus and method for controlling the same: An image processing apparatus includes an input unit receiving an encoded image data stream; a decoding processor decoding the stream to obtain image data; a first storage storing the image data; a second storage storing the image data and having a storage area storing at least one picture whose size... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090041386 - Positional data error correction: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for correcting systematic errors in positional data of electronic devices configured to navigate across a surface. An apparatus configured to correct positional errors may comprise one or more navigation sensors, and a position module configured to control the one or more navigation sensors to capture a... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20090041384 - Video processing apparatus and video processing method thereof: Provided are a video processing apparatus and a video processing method thereof. The video processing apparatus includes: an input unit which receives a broadcasting signal which may include zoom-in information having regional information on a part of a video image; a video processor which processes the inputted broadcasting signal; and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090041387 - System and method of image zooming with intensity preservation: Systems and methods image zooming with intensity preservation is disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of minimizing energy levels over a set of high-resolution image pixels of a high-resolution image via total variational filtering to obtain the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090041388 - De-interlacing method and apparatus using remote interpolation: The present invention is directed to de-interlacing method and apparatus using remote interpolation. An up window and a down window are firstly determined. The closest pair of pixels of the up window and the down window along a direction of 90°, −45°, and 45° is determined, which is then used... Agent: Nixon Peabody

20090041389 - Apparatus and method for searching for erroneous data: An apparatus and method for searching for erroneous data is provided. The method of searching for erroneous data includes checking received data using an error-checking field included in the received data, and compensating for erroneous data of the checked data.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090041390 - Data file outputting program product and data file outputting device: A computer-readable computer program product that contains a data file outputting program for causing a computer to execute: a read-in instruction for reading in a plurality of data groups from a storage medium having recorded therein in correlation to each other post-edition data, pre-edition data and edition history data, and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090041391 - Image sensing device: An image sensing device is disclosed. The image sensing device comprises a plurality of image sensor units disposed separately and a plurality of wave guiding units. Each wave guiding unit is disposed on each corresponding image sensor unit.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090034786 - Application for non-display of images having adverse content categorizations: Disclosed herein are databases that contain image context categorizations, those categorizations identifying the context of an image based on a computed fingerprint. Also disclosed herein are applications of such a database, including a viewing application that blocks the rendering of images with undesirable content noted by a content categorization, and... Agent: Everett D. Robinson Echelon Ip, LLC

20090034787 - Image processing for reproducing code image from original information: It is determined whether an error detecting rate, when original information is extracted from a code image in a read image obtained by reading a sheet on which the code image is formed, is not smaller than a predetermined value. When it is not smaller than a predetermined value, a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090034781 - Method and computer program product for providing object information: A method for generating object information, the method includes: acquiring a representation of an object; acquiring contextual information; and processing the representation of the object and the contextual information to provide object information that includes indexing information.... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090034782 - Methods and systems for selecting an image application based on image content: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for selecting an application for processing an electronic image file based upon the content of the image file. Certain embodiments provide an image selector selecting an image from an image storage device, an identification module providing a label to the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090034784 - Methods, systems, and products for indexing scenes in digital media: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for indexing a digital scene in digital media. The digital media is stored in memory and a uniform resource locator is assigned to a digital scene within the digital media. The uniform resource locator uniquely identifies a resource from which the digital scene may... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090034788 - Sense/control devices, configuration tools and methods for such devices, and systems including such devices: A system for monitoring equipment in a non-invasive fashion may include at least one sense device comprising an electronics module that includes a image sensor, at least one controller coupled to receive image data from the image sensor and generate a reading value, a display that displays the reading value... Agent: Haverstock & Owens, LLP

20090034785 - System and method for solving the \"birthday problem\" with watermarking: A system and method are provided for facilitating the playing of a watermarked video having the “birthday problem”. Consumers send the problem disc to an authorization center where the disc is analyzed to determine if it is a legitimate disc. The authorization center generates a digital certificate uniquely associated with... Agent: Law Office Of Donald L. Wenskay

20090034783 - System and method for solving the birthday problem with watermarking: A system and method are provided for facilitating the playing of a watermarked video having the “birthday problem”. Consumers send the problem disc to an authorization center where the disc is analyzed to determine if it is a legitimate disc. The authorization center generates a digital certificate uniquely associated with... Agent: Law Office Of Donald L. Wenskay

20090034794 - Conduct inference apparatus: In a conduct inference process, feature points are extracted from a capture image. The extracted feature points are collated with conduct inference models to select conduct inference models in each of which an accordance ratio between a target vector and a movement vector is within a tolerance. Among the selected... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20090034793 - Fast crowd segmentation using shape indexing: A method for performing crowd segmentation includes receiving video image data (S21). Background differencing is performed on the received video image data to identify a foreground silhouette shape (S22). Approximate number and position of human subjects within the received video image data are determined by matching the foreground silhouette shape... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090034791 - Image processing for person and object re-identification: A device and method for processing an image to create appearance and shape labeled images of a person or object captured within the image. The appearance and shape labeled images are unique properties of the person or object and can be used to re-identify the person or object in subsequent... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090034796 - Incapacity monitor: A method of monitoring incapacity of a subject which includes the steps of continuously monitoring eye and eyelid movement of at least one eye of the subject; analyzing eye and eyelid movements to obtain measures of ocular quiescence and the duration of an interval of no eye or eyelid movement;... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090034790 - Method for customs inspection of baggage and cargo: A method and system of inspecting baggage to be transported from a location of origin to a destination is provided that includes generating scan data representative of a piece of baggage while the baggage is at the location of origin, and storing the scan data in a database. A rendered... Agent: The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20090034795 - Method for geolocalization of one or more targets: The subject of the invention is a method for geolocalization of one or more stationary targets from an aircraft by means of a passive optronic sensor. The sensor acquires at least one image I1 containing the target P from a position C1 of the aircraft and an image I2 containing... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20090034789 - Moving thing recognition system: A moving thing recognition system using a camera on a path that the moving thing (such as a train, vehicle or ship) is proceeding, in which a check aligning device is used to align each picture file of the moving thing with virtual checks to compare for the body type... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20090034792 - Reducing latency in a detection system: A first multi-dimensional digital image of a scan region is generated. The scan region is included in a materials-detection apparatus and is configured to receive and move containers through the materials-detection apparatus. A pre-defined background range of values is accessed, the background range of values representing a range of values... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090034797 - Line length estimation: A solution for monitoring an area is provided. At least one image of a physical area corresponding to a line is obtained and a set of hypotheses are evaluated based on the image(s). For one or more hypotheses, an estimated length of the line is extracted, and an estimated line... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090034798 - Method for recognition of an object: The invention relates to a method for the prediction of the size to be expected of the image of a stationary object associated with a road in a picture of the environment in the field of view of a camera device which is in particular arranged at a motor vehicle... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090034799 - Road division line detector: The present invention relates to a lane-dividing line detection device and has an object of detecting a lane-dividing line with high accuracy by accurately extracting characteristic points of the lane-dividing line while responding flexibly to road surface conditions. According to the present invention, pixel parts where a brightness variation is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090034800 - Method of automatic navigation directed towards regions of interest of an image: The invention is in the technological field of digital imaging. More specifically, the invention relates to a method of automatic navigation between a digital image (8) and a region of interest (14, 15) of this image (8). The method according to the invention enables, based on the display of the... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20090034801 - System and method of awareness detection: An awareness detection system and method are provided. The system includes an imaging device positioned to obtain a plurality of images of at least a portion of a subject's head, and an awareness processor in communication with the imaging device. The awareness processor receives an image from the imaging device... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090034802 - Method and system for image recognition for aiding the visually impaired: A method for tracking paper currency in a holder, includes: scanning paper currency deposited or removed from a holder; determining the total number of each individual denomination of paper currency contained within the holder based on the scanned paper currency deposited and removed from the holder; recording the total number... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Endicott

20090034803 - Apparatus and method for verifying the identity of an author: m

20090034804 - Security method and system using touch screen: A security method and system using a touch screen that allows manipulation input using only an input tool which is not part of a user's body, i.e., finger manipulation, when a secure function such as secure printing is set instead of a normal function when the touch screen is manipulated,... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090034806 - Electronic apparatus and face image display method: According to one embodiment, a two-dimensional face thumbnail display area includes a plurality of face image display areas which are arranged in a matrix including a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. A plurality of time zones each having the same time length, which are obtained by dividing... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090034805 - Using relevance feedback in face recognition: Images are searched to locate faces that are the same as a query face. Images that include a face that is the same as the query face may be presented to a user as search result images. Images also may be sorted by the faces included in the images and... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090034807 - Comparison of data signals using characteristic electronic thumbprints extracted therefrom: A characteristic thumbprint is extracted from a data signal, the thumbprint based on statistics relating to the data signal. The data signal can be compared indirectly by matching this thumbprint against one or more reference thumbprints. The data signal may be any type of signal, including streaming digitized audio or... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090034809 - Abnormal tissue pattern detection apparatus, method and program: In order to accurately detect an abnormal tissue pattern from a medical image, the following are performed: a candidate detection section receives the image and detects abnormal tissue pattern candidates from the image; a false positive candidate elimination section eliminates false positive candidates from the detected abnormal tissue pattern candidates;... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090034810 - Abnormal tissue pattern detection apparatus, method and program: An abnormal tissue pattern detection apparatus capable of accurately detecting abnormal tissue pattern candidates by mutually compensating for the disadvantage of the processing using a morphology filter and the disadvantage of the processing using a Laplacian filter. When an image is inputted, a first candidate detection section detects first abnormal... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090034808 - Automatic cardiac view classification of echocardiography: A method for view classification includes providing a frame of an object of interest, detecting a region of interest within the object of interest for each of a plurality of detectors (e.g., binary classifiers), wherein each binary classifier corresponds to a different view, performing a global view classification using a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090034811 - Mapping abnormal dental references: Embodiments are provided for accurately characterizing a tooth's movement. One method embodiment includes associating an abnormal tooth shape with a model tooth shape from a reference library of model tooth shapes, mapping a predefined dental reference from the model tooth shape onto at least a portion of the abnormal tooth... Agent: Brooks & Cameron, PLLC

20090034814 - Expanded pharmacokinetic model for population studies in breast magnetic resonance imaging (mri): A method for pharmacokinetic analysis, including: receiving time-series medical image data of a patient introduced with a contrast agent; identifying a reference region in the medical image data; identifying a plurality of points of interest in the medical image data; measuring an intensity of voxels in the reference region; and... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090034813 - Joint detection and localization of multiple anatomical landmarks through learning: A method for detecting and localizing multiple anatomical landmarks in medical images including: receiving an input requesting identification of a plurality of anatomical landmarks in a medical image; applying a multi-landmark detector to the medical image to identify a plurality of candidate locations for each of the anatomical landmarks; for... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090034817 - Method for correction of truncation artifacts in a reconstruction method for tomographic imaging with truncated projection data: There is described a method for correction of truncation artifacts in reconstructed tomographic images in a reconstruction method for tomographic images with truncated projection image data in the reconstructed tomographic images, in which divergent radiation is emitted from a radiographic source, an object to be examined is x-rayed with the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090034815 - Method of acquiring a diagnostic index: A diagnostic index that indicates a condition of obesity of an abdominal area of a human body with improved reliability is provided. For slice images representing two or more cross-sections of an abdominal area of a subject, a ratio of a size of the subcutaneous fat region and the visceral... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090034818 - Radiographic apparatus and arithmetic processing program: A radiographic apparatus according to this invention includes a back projection arithmetic processing unit which, when carrying out a back projection arithmetic process on projection data detected by a flat panel X-ray detector (FPD) 3 to reconstruct a sectional image, reconstructs the image using data R derived from an addition... Agent: Cheng Law Group, PLLC

20090034816 - Reduction of lymph tissue false positives in pulmonary embolism detection: A system for automatically detecting pulmonary emboli from medical image data includes receiving image data, automatically detecting one or more pulmonary embolism candidates from the image data, segmenting an airway tract from the image data, segmenting an artery structure from the image data, calculating a distance between each of the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090034812 - Superimposing brain atlas images and brain images with delineation of infarct and penumbra for stroke diagnosis: Brain images are processed and analyzed with the aid of a computer for stroke diagnosis or therapeutic decision making, where multiple stroke-related images are superimposed. The superimposed images include brain images that have infarct and penumbra regions, and patient-specific brain atlas images. The infarct and penumbra regions are determined and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090034820 - Diagnostic imaging system: A diagnostic imaging system includes a generation unit which generates a fluoroscopic image of X-rays that irradiate a subject, a setting unit which, when displaying the fluoroscopic image superimposed on a field image of a head mounted display, sets the display ratio of the field image and the fluoroscopic image... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090034821 - Radiation image processing device: A radiation image processing device comprises a noise component extraction part which extracts a noise component from a radiation image, a line-shaped noise component extraction part which extracts a line-shaped noise component from the noise component extracted by the noise component extraction part, and a line-shaped noise component subtraction part... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090034819 - Systems and methods for adapting a movement model based on an image: Various embodiments of the invention include systems and methods for adapting a movement model based on an image captured during radiation treatment of a patient. The movement model may, for example, be used in radiotherapy to treat lung cancer. The movement model is typically based on a series of images... Agent: Gard & Kaslow LLP (varian)

20090034823 - Compartment segregation by pixel characterization using image data clustering: The present invention relates generally to improved methods of defining areas or compartments within which biomarker expression is detected and quantified. In particular, the present invention relates to automated methods for delineating marker-defined compartments objectively with minimal operator intervention or decision making. The method provides for precise definition of tissue,... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090034824 - Computerized image analysis for acetic acid induced cervical intraepithelial neoplasia: A method for differentiating cancerous lesions from surrounding tissue, which includes extracting an opacity parameter from acetowhite regions of pre acetic acid and post acetic acid images of a cervix.... Agent: Martin E. Hsia

20090034822 - Methods and apparatus for characterising cells and treatments: Methods, data processing apparatus and computer program products for characterising cells and the affect of treatments administered to cells are disclosed. In particular methods of identifying bi-nuclear cells are described which include capturing an image of a plurality of marked cells and processing image to obtain features of the plurality... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090034825 - System and method for testing information-embedded region printing: A method for testing a printing system for printing information-embedded regions includes transmitting a test sheet data file to a print service provider. The test sheet data file includes a plurality of complete or incomplete information-embedded regions. A sample printed using the test sheet data file is received from the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090034826 - Payee detection: Methods, apparatuses, systems, and tangible computer readable media for processing note payables for fraud by searching an image file of a note payable for information in multiple zones on the image file and comparing the obtained information to corresponding information in the issue file that is associated with the note... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007131

20090034827 - Inspection device, inspection method, method of manufacturing color filter, and computer-readable storage medium containing inspection device control program: An inspection device of the present invention includes: a linear irregularity detecting section for detecting linear irregularities individually in an image L of dots on a substrate being inspected by projecting light from a first direction and in an image R of the dots by projecting light from a second... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090034828 - Method and apparatus for inspecting components: A method for inspecting a component is provided. The method includes generating an image of the component, generating a signal indication mask, and generating a noise mask using a signal within the signal indication mask. The noise mask facilitates reducing a quantity of prospective signals contained in the signal indication... Agent: John S. Beulick (12729) C/o Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090034829 - Method for inspecting a foreign matter on mirror-finished substrate: Provided is a foreign matter inspection method for positively detecting a foreign matter in the neighborhood of the edge of a mirror-finished substrate without fail. Edge-emphasis and binarization are performed following the taking of an image of a substrate-under-inspection at a contour of its inspection area, to further detect a... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090034830 - Pseudo low volume reticle (plvr) design for asic manufacturing: A Pseudo Low Volume Reticle (PLVR) which consists of multiple design layers on a single reticle. Specifically, the reticle can include two instances of each layer in order to facilitate die-to-die inspection techniques. A scribe is wrapped around each instance of the layer, such that both the frame and active... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20090034832 - Device and method for scanning the whole surface of a wafer: A device and a method for scanning the whole surface of a wafer are disclosed. The wafer is deposited on a table movable in the X-coordinate direction and in the Y-coordinate direction. A camera and at least one illumination source are arranged opposite the wafer. The camera is a line... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20090034831 - Patterned wafer defect inspection system and method: A system for inspecting semiconductor devices is provided. The system includes a region system selecting a plurality of regions from a semiconductor wafer. A golden template system generates a region golden template for each region, such as to allow a die image to be compared to golden templates from a... Agent: Mr. Christopher John Rourk Jackson Walker LLP

20090034833 - Exposure apparatus and exposure method: Any defect of a board fabricated via a drawing process executed by a drawing device attributed to Gerber data is prevented. Gerber data of vector form representing a wiring pattern drawn directly on a board is loaded before it is expanded into drawing raster data by a RIP processing (100).... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090034834 - System and method for image processing: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of generating a gradient representation of the image, and normalizing the gradient representation to generate an illumination-invariant gradient... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20090034835 - System and method for identifying complex tokens in an image: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of identifying token regions in the image, each token region comprising a connected image region of similar color... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20090034838 - Device adaptively switching color emphasis processing for image: The present invention provides an image processing device which adaptively switches between emphasis of a specified color in an image and emphasis of the entire image. The image processing device of the present invention includes: a storage unit storing a plurality of color emphasis tables for emphasizing a specified color;... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090034836 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer readable recording medium stored with image processing program: The image processing apparatus displays an image based on image data and identifies a focal position designated by a user within the displayed image. Next, the image processing apparatus creates patch image data equipped with patches indicating a plurality of candidates of output density after density adjustment using a tone... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090034837 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, computer program and storage medium: An image processing method is a method for correcting both an image quality of an overall image and an image quality of a partial image with excellent balance.... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090034839 - Intelligent hardware for detecting color value of an image: Pixel characteristics, such as whether a pixel forms part of the background of an image, are evaluated by computing histograms from pixel color space components, by comparing pixel color space components to threshold values, or by other methods.... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20090034840 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: In an image processing apparatus for carrying out a plurality of correction processes on an input image, a multi-dimensional histogram of the input image is calculated, and a feature amount of the input image for which a specific correction process has been carried out is analyzed based on the multi-dimensional... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090034842 - Image processing method, system, and computer readable medium:

20090034841 - System and method for identifying object in image: According to one aspect, a method for identifying an object in an image includes steps of determining a center of the object; calculating a radius for scanning the image; scanning along a scan circle defined by the center and the radius; and identifying the object according to scanned data of... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090034843 - Device for and method of displaying user information in a display: The invention relates to a device (DEV), comprising a display (DIS) for displaying user information (inf). The device (DEV) is adapted to identify regions (REG) on the display (DIS) being hidden by an object (OBJ) in front of the display (DIS). According to the invention, the user information (inf) is... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090034844 - System and method for capturing and processing business data: A method and a system for interpreting information in a document are provided, with the system receiving an image of a document from a remote source and converting it into multiple sets of blocks of characters. Tags indicating likely meaning of blocks are assigned to them. At least some of... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090034845 - System and method for maintaining paper and electronic calendars: The presently described embodiments solve the problem of getting electronic calendar entries back onto the paper calendar. To do so, in one form, according to the presently described embodiments, an inkjet label printer is mounted next to the paper calendar. Each time a daily entry gets updated online, the label... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Parc

20090034846 - High density queue estimation and line management: The present invention is directed to the measurement of attributes of a queue. A method for measuring an attribute of a queue in accordance with an embodiment includes: acquiring a plurality of images of a queue; extracting features from the images of the queue; analyzing the extracted features; and measuring... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090034847 - Image processing apparatus, image processing system, image processing method, and image forming apparatus: In a card serving as an external storage device to be inserted into a digital color multi-function printer, features of a reference image and processing rule information indicating processing content to be applied to input image data judged to be similar to the reference image are prestored. Then, in cases... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090034848 - Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image processing system, and image processing method: Line images in horizontal and vertical directions are detected from input image data, and an intersection of the line images is calculated. the calculated intersection is regarded as a feature point of input image data. Thus, it is possible to easily and promptly extract, from image data, a feature point... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090034849 - Image processing method, image processing system and computer program product: n

20090034850 - Method and apparatus for reading a surface coded pattern:

20090034851 - Multimodal classification of adult content: Systems and methods for classifying content as adult content and, if desired, blocking content so classified from presentation to a user are provided. Received content is analyzed using a sequential series of classification techniques, each successive technique being implemented only if the previous technique did not result in classification of... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090034852 - Method and system for identifying the source of an image: Described are a method and a system for identifying the source of an image. A first image is generated with an imaging device. The first image is represented by a first plurality of codes. A portion of the first plurality of codes is replaced with a further code providing information... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090034853 - Technique for creating print data: A print data creation apparatus for creating print data in band units may comprise an obtaining device, a decompressed data creation device, a band determination device, a deletion device, a data range storage device, a data range specifying device, and a print data creation device. The obtaining device obtains compressed... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090034854 - Video encoding and decoding method and apparatus using weighted prediction: Provided is a video encoding and decoding method and apparatus. The video encoding method includes selecting a plurality of reference blocks based on a plurality of motion vectors and setting weights assigned to the plurality of reference blocks independently for each of a plurality of regions of a current block... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090034857 - Image encoder and image decoder, image encoding method and image decoding method, image encoding program and image decoding program, and computer readable recording medium recorded with image encoding program and computer readable recording medium recorde: An image encoder including: a predicted-image generating unit that generates a predicted image in accordance with a plurality of prediction modes indicating predicted-image generating methods; a prediction-mode judging unit that evaluates prediction efficiency of a predicted image outputted from the predicted-image generating unit to judge a predetermined prediction mode; and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090034856 - Image encoding device, image decoding device, image encoding method, image decoding method, image encoding program, image decoding program, computer readable recording medium having image encoding program recorded therein: An image encoder including: a predicted-image generating unit that generates a predicted image in accordance with a plurality of prediction modes indicating predicted-image generating methods; a prediction-mode judging unit that evaluates prediction efficiency of a predicted image outputted from the predicted-image generating unit to judge a predetermined prediction mode; and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090034855 - Method for determining boundary strength: A method for determining the boundary strengths of edges in a block-based digitally encoded image is disclosed. The method includes setting the boundary strength of two adjacent blocks in an Inter MB to a first strength value if any one of the two adjacent blocks contains non-zero prediction residual in... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090034858 - Systems, methods, devices and arrangements for motion-compensated image processing and coding: A variety of methods, devices, systems and arrangements are implemented for processing and coding of video images. According to one such implementation, a method is implemented for encoding a sequence of images. A plurality of orthogonal transforms is implemented on a set of N images, where N is greater than... Agent: Crawford Maunu PLLC

20090034859 - Image display apparatus and method for correction chroma wrinkle: An image display apparatus and a color distortion compensation method are provided. The image display apparatus includes a detecting part which detects whether there is a color distortion in a block, using decoding information acquired from an incoming image and a pixel value of the incoming image, and a compensation... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090034861 - Image processing apparatus and method: An image processing apparatus partitions entered image data into first partitioned image data and appends margin data to the first partitioned image data. The image processing apparatus corrects the first partitioned image data other than the margin data to second partitioned image data and processes the second partitioned image data... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090034860 - Image-drawing method, image-drawing device, image-drawing system, and correction method: A correction method for an image-drawing device which carries out alignment on an object on the basis of reference position data acquired by reading a position reference mark or pattern provided at the object, and which carries out image-drawing on the object in accordance with image data while moving the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090034863 - Multi-scale robust sharpening and contrast enhancement: Embodiments of the present invention employ robust filtering at each of a number of scales, or resolutions, within a signal, such as a still image or video sequence. In certain embodiments of the present invention, robust filtering comprises or includes a non-linear neighborhood operation at each scale in order to... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090034864 - Multi-scale robust sharpening and contrast enhancement: Embodiments of the present invention employ robust filtering at each of a number of scales, or resolutions, within a signal, such as a still image or video sequence. In certain embodiments of the present invention, robust filtering comprises or includes a non-linear neighborhood operation at each scale in order to... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090034862 - System and method for image profiling: Described are a system and a method for image profiling. Image data is generated from an image engine of an electronic device. An image file is created from the image data. A profile that is unique to the image file is generated. The profile includes data relating to the electronic... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP/ Motorola

20090034865 - Method for filtering images with bilateral filters: A method filters an input image to produce an output image. A bilateral filter is composed of a spatial filter and a range filter. Pixel intensities in the input image are multiplied by each other to produce the set of power images, which approximate the application of the range filter.... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090034866 - Method of removing blur without ringing-artifact: Provided is an image processing method and apparatus for removing blur in a screen image, including detecting blur in an input image, segmenting the image according to an amount of the detected blur, performing a high pass filtering of the segmented image in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction,... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090034867 - Enhancing dynamic ranges of images: Methods and apparatus according to various aspects take as input image data in a lower-dynamic-range (LDR) format and produce as output enhanced image data having a dynamic range greater than that of the input image data (i.e. higher-dynamic range (HDR) image data). In some embodiments, the methods are applied to... Agent: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation

20090034868 - Enhancing dynamic ranges of images: Methods and apparatus according to various aspects take as input image data in a lower-dynamic-range (LDR) format and produce as output enhanced image data having a dynamic range greater than that of the input image data (i.e. higher-dynamic range (HDR) image data). In some embodiments, the methods are applied to... Agent: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation

20090034872 - Method and apparatus for increasing brightness of image captured in low light: An exemplary method for increasing brightness of an image captured in low light includes: transforming the captured image into an original image that has a brightness component; copying the brightness component of the original image as a brightness image; inverting the brightness image into a negative image; and incorporating the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090034871 - Method and system for enhancing image signals and other signals to increase perception of depth: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and systems for processing signals, particularly signals encoding two-dimensional images, such as photographs, video frames, graphics, and other visually displayed information. Rather than attempting 3D-boosting by attempting a global contrast enhancement, method and system embodiments of the present invention generate... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090034869 - Method and system for image background suppression using neutral adjustment of color channels: Printing systems and methods are presented for image background and neutral adjustment of luminance-chrominance pixel values corresponding to a scanned image, in which white and black pixels are identified which have luminance values close to whitepoint and blackpoint values for the image, and which have chrominance values close to the... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090034870 - Unified spatial image processing: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and systems for image processing that are unified in nature, carrying out many image-enhancement tasks together in a unified approach, rather than sequentially executing separately implemented, discrete image-enhancement tasks. In addition, the methods and systems of the present invention can... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090034873 - Image creating method and image creating system: For a halftone representation of a grayscale data of an original image of P tones, an output resolution, a screen ruling frequency, and a screen angle are based to set a basic array of L×L pixels, where L is an integer greater than 1, and a number N of tones... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20090034874 - Spatially-varying convolutions for rendering glossy reflection effects: Glossy reflections may include areas that are less clear (more blurry) than other regions. For instance, an area of reflection that is closer to the object being reflected may appear clearer than a region that is farther from the object. When generating a glossy reflection, the total amount of light... Agent: Robert C. Kowert Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090034875 - Image detection apparatus and method: Provided is an apparatus and method for detecting an image enhanced from a low resolution image to a high resolution image. An apparatus for detecting an image converted from a first resolution to a second resolution higher than the first resolution, the apparatus including: a frequency converter converting a received... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090034876 - Image analysis: The present invention relates to a method of and apparatus for image analysis and in particular may relate to the detection of cross-fades in film or video sequences. The invention relates in particular to a method of analysing an image of a sequence of images to determine a cross-fade measure... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090034877 - Method and device for modifying the size of an image: The method of reducing the size of an initial image into a final image, each image being formed by a matrix of ordered pixels, each pixel being characterised by a characteristic quantity (Cn), the reduction being effected by a ratio P/Q with P and Q integers and Q not a... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20090034878 - Pixel interpolation circuit, pixel interpolation method, and recording medium: A correlation along a horizontal direction and a correlation along a vertical direction are calculated with respect to a neighboring region around an interpolation target pixel by using respective pixel values of R pixels, G pixels, and B pixels in Bayer data. The pixel value of the G pixel to... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090034880 - Method of conferring interactivity on previously printed graphic containing text: A method of conferring interactivity on a pre-printed image containing text. The method comprises the steps of: (i) receiving association data indicating an association between an impression identity, absolute positions and a scanned image; (ii) performing Optical Character Recognition on the scanned image to convert text images into computer text;... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090034879 - Method of enabling interactivity to be conferred on a pre-printed graphic image: A method of swipe-scanning a graphic image pre-printed on a surface. The method comprises the steps of: (i) operatively positioning a swipe-scanner relative to the surface and swiping the scanner across the surface; (ii) capturing, during the swipe, successive images of portions of the graphic image; (iii) printing, during the... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090034881 - System for conferring interactivity on previously printed text: A system for conferring interactivity on a pre-printed image containing text, the image having been scanned and had a position-coding pattern printed thereon, the position-coding pattern identifying a plurality of absolute positions and an impression identity for the image, the system comprising a computer system configured for: (i) receiving association... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd