Image analysis inventions 03/09

20090080694 - Deriving multiple identifiers from multimedia content: The presently claimed invention relates generally to content identification, such as deriving identifiers from content itself. One claim recites a method including: using a processor, deriving first information from audio elements of an audio signal; using a processor, deriving second information from data representing picture elements of a video signal... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20090080688 - Digital watermarking for few-color images: Systems and methodologies for embedding a watermark in a few-color image are provided herein. A digital watermarking algorithm named Spatial Unified Key Insertion (SUKI) can be utilized, wherein adaptive threshold halftoning can be performed in combination with contour shaping and modification to embed a binary logo into a digital image.... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090080693 - Electronic watermark embedding apparatus and electronic watermark embedding method: An electronic watermark embedding apparatus and an electronic watermark embedding method can severally deal with both of the resistance property of an electronic watermark and the prevention of image quality deterioration. Electronic watermark information of a high importance level is embedded in a component having a strong resistance property, and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090080691 - Method of generating a clipping from a printed substrate: A method of generating a clipping from a printed substrate. The substrate has a graphic image and a position-coding pattern disposed thereon and the position-coding pattern identifies an identity and a plurality of locations. The method comprises the steps of: (i) receiving, in a computer system, interaction data indicative of... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090080690 - Method of imaging a coding pattern comprising reed-solomon codewords encoded by mixed multi-pulse position modulation: A method of imaging a coding pattern disposed on a surface of a substrate. The method comprises the steps of: (a) operatively positioning an optical reader relative to the surface and capturing an image of a portion of the coding pattern; (b) sampling and decoding a Reed-Solomon codeword contained in... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090080692 - Size measurement apparatus, image display unit, computer-readable size measurement program storage medium, and computer-readable image display program storage medium: A size measurement apparatus comprises a designation section that designates parts in images of two or more medical images acquired through image taking for a subject; a first measurement section that measures a size of an image on a part designated by the designation section, of the medical image, as... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090080689 - Watermarking encoded content: A system and method are described for inserting a watermark in encoded content, including receiving encoded content, receiving at least one pre-processed watermark unit, and replacing directly a number of bits starting at a position in the encoded content with an alternative value, wherein the alternative value has embedded therein... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090080699 - 3d beverage container localizer: Objects placed on a flat surface are identified and localized by using a single view image. The single view image in the perspective projection is transformed to a normalized image in a pseudo plan to view to enhance detection of the bottom or top shapes of the objects. One or... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20090080696 - Automated person identification and location for search applications: A “be on the look out” or BOLO device is an unsupervised device that can be deployed at a particular location to watch for a specific target or person. A camera produces scene images that the BOLO device analyzes to determine if they contain a pattern matching a target descriptor.... Agent: Kris T. Fredrick Honeywell International Inc.

20090080695 - Electro-optical foveated imaging and tracking system: Conventional electro-optical imaging systems can not achieve wide field of view (FOV) and high spatial resolution imaging simultaneously due to format size limitations of image sensor arrays. To implement wide field of regard imaging with high resolution, mechanical scanning mechanisms are typically used. Still, sensor data processing and communication speed... Agent: Michael Wang

20090080698 - Image display apparatus and computer program product: A comprehensive degree of relevance of other moving picture contents with respect to a moving-picture content to be processed is calculated by using any one of or all of content information, frame information, and image characteristics, to display a virtual space in which a visualized content corresponding to a moving... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090080697 - Imaging position analyzing method: c

20090080701 - Method for object tracking: The present invention relates to a method for the recognition and tracking of a moving object, in particular of a pedestrian, from a motor vehicle, at which a camera device is arranged. An image of the environment including picture elements is taken in the range of view of the camera... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090080702 - Method for the recognition of obstacles: A method is provided for the recognition of an obstacle, in particular a pedestrian, located in the travel path of a movable carrier such as in particular a motor vehicle, in the environment in the range of view of an optical sensor attached to the movable carrier, wherein a first... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090080700 - Projectile tracking system: A system and method for determining the track of a projectile use a thermal signature of the projectile. Sequential infrared image frames are acquired from a sensor at a given position. A set of frames containing spots with characteristics consistent with a projectile in flight are identified. A possible projectile... Agent: Stites & Harbison, PLLC

20090080703 - Optical systems and methods for determining tire characteristics: The invention is related to systems and methods for optically measuring conditions and characteristics related to vehicle tires. In one embodiment, a tire monitoring system comprises a grid, a camera, and a processor. The grid can be configured to deform in conjunction with a deformation of the tire. The camera... Agent: Infineon Technologies Ag Patent Department

20090080704 - Vehicle and lane recognition device: There is provided an image acquisition means (2) for acquiring a color image of a road via an imaging means (9) mounted on a vehicle (8), a lane mark detection means (3, 4) for performing processing of detecting lane marks of a plurality of predetermined colors different from each other... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090080705 - Rock core logging: The invention is provides a method of logging rock core. A digital photograph of core from a borehole is taken and the image is first processed. This involves calibration and correction, or un-distortion, of the digital image. A reference frame is included in the photograph to facilitate processing. The two-dimensional... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20090080706 - Machine imaging apparatus and method for detecting foreign materials: A combined X-ray and laser 3D imaging system for food safety inspection, which uses a 3D laser subsystem to get accurate depth information, which is further combined with an x-ray image to achieve accurate physical contamination detection in poultry and other meat products. A unique calibration model is used to... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090080710 - Biological information storing apparatus, biological authentication apparatus, data structure for biological authentication, and biological authentication method: A biological information storing apparatus includes: a biological information storing unit for storing biological information for authenticating reception of a first service; a biological information acquisition unit for acquiring biological information for authenticating reception of a second service different from the first service; and a determination unit for determining whether... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090080707 - Biometric camera authentication: Biometric Camera Authentication pairs users and computer devices using mathematical representations of facial features. A device camera aquires a user image for processing. Authentication is acheived by mathematical comparison of aquired image to user image stored in device.... Agent: Goran Djuric

20090080708 - Smart identity system: Biographic data associated with a user is received. Biometric data associated with the user is also received. External data associated with the biographic data and the biometric data is received and a determination is made as to a level of access to grant the user based on the external data.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090080709 - Whole-hand multispectral biometric imaging: A number of biometric systems and methods are disclosed. A system according to one embodiment includes an illumination subsystem, an imaging subsystem, and an analyzer. The illumination subsystem is disposed to illuminate a target space. The imaging subsystem is configured to image the target space under distinct optical conditions. The... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090080711 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for detecting object from image: A storage unit stores therein features and reliabilities of respective first segment regions divided from a first region. An object extracting unit extracts a second region including an object from input image data. A reliability calculating unit calculates reliabilities of respective second segment regions divided from the second region. A... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090080712 - Eye detection system: An eye detection system, method, and apparatus are disclosed. The eye detection apparatus includes illuminator, receiver, processor, and memory elements. The illuminator emits radiation at predetermined wavelengths from the eye detection apparatus toward an area of interest. Radiation from the area of interest is detected at the receiver which, in... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090080714 - Electronic apparatus and image display control method of the electronic apparatus: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus extracts face images of persons from video content data and outputs timestamp information indicating time points at which each extracted face image appears in the video content data, and displays face images in each column of a plurality of face image display areas... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090080715 - Face imaging system for recordal and automated identity confirmation: A face imaging system for recordal and/or automated identity confirmation, including a camera unit and a camera unit controller. The camera unit includes a video camera, a rotatable mirror system for directing images of the security area into the video camera, and a ranging unit for detecting the presence of... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery LLP Attn:IPDepartment

20090080713 - Face tracking in a camera processor: A method operable in a digital image acquisition system having no photographic film is provided. The method comprises receiving a relatively low resolution image of a scene from an image stream, wherein the scene potentially includes one or more faces. At least one high quality face classifier is applied to... Agent: Tessera/fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20090080716 - Image recognition device for performing image recognition including object identification on each of input images: A digital camera picks up an image of an object for face authentication prior to each of, for example, continuous photographing operations, and operates as follows if performing an actual photographing process only when a face of a designated person can be recognized in the acquired image. If the face... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090080717 - Method and system for detecting fingerprint spoofing: A system to detect fingerprint spoofing. In response to detecting a finger on a scanner plate, the finger is scanned to produce a scanned image of the finger. The scanned image of the finger is compared with a plurality of stored fingerprint images in a storage unit to validate an... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090080718 - Authentication apparatus, authentication method and program: The authentication apparatus includes: extraction means that extracts a plurality of points on an authentication target from an image obtained by shooting the authentication target unique to a living body; connection means that connects the points extracted by the extraction means; storage means that stores information indicating a connection state... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090080734 - Diagnosis support system: A region of interest is set by region of interest setting means in each of medical images obtained in chronological order. Similar case search means searches for a case information set including a case image having a region of similar pictorial characteristics to each of the regions of interest. When... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090080723 - Diffuse optical imaging corrected for boundary effects: A method of optically imaging an object includes the determination of a source point and a destination point within the object. Planar boundaries are selected that approximate a geometrical shape of the object, and virtual sources are found using a reflection of the original source through the boundaries. Subsequent reflections... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20090080724 - Image processing method and image processing apparatus: This invention consists in an image processing method in which the similarity between a first pixel and a second pixel constituting an image is numerically given by statistical testing, and the values of the first and second pixels are averaged when the similarity numerically given is high, whereas the first... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090080730 - Imaging facial signs of neuro-physiological responses: The invention provides an integrated framework for detecting peripheral sympathetic responses through imaging. The measurements may be performed on three facial areas of sympathetic importance, that is, periorbital, supraorbital, and maxillary. Because the imaging measurements are thermal in nature and comprise multiple components of variable frequency (i.e., blood flow, sweat... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20090080720 - Kits for redundant image acquisition: A kit for capturing a first primary image and a second backup image from a single exposure. The kit may include a first imaging source and a second imaging source. The kit may further include an attachment mechanism for attaching the first imaging source to the second imaging source such... Agent: Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP

20090080735 - Machine vision and spectroscopic pharmaceutical verification: A pharmaceutical solid in a prescription vial is identified from an optical property of the pharmaceutical solid using light reflected from two different light sources. For each known pharmaceutical solid, an optical property of the known pharmaceutical solid is stored. The prescription vial is illuminated with a first light source... Agent: Kasha Law LLC

20090080726 - Method and apparatus for measuring collagen thickness: A camera (1) is provided which is operable to obtain a RGB and infra-red image of an area of illuminated skin (2). The obtained image is then passed to a computer (8) which determines the manner in which light returned by points on the surface of the illuminated area of... Agent: Brooks, Cameron & Huebsch , PLLC

20090080729 - Method and system for evaluating image segmentation based on visibility: A method and system for evaluating image segmentation is disclosed. In order to quantitatively evaluate an image segmentation technique, synthetic image data is generated and the synthetic image data is segmented to extract an object using the segmentation technique. This segmentation results in a foreground containing the extracted object and... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090080721 - Method and system for image pumping: A method and system to “pump” radiation therapy (RT) images and associated patient information on an Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT) system to a Record and Verify (R&V) system via a standard DICOM connection to allow remote image viewing. Targeted image files in IGRT systems are searched for and transferred... Agent: Wright, Lindsey & Jennings LLP

20090080728 - Method and system for vessel segmentation in fluoroscopic images: A method and system for vessel segmentation in fluoroscopic images is disclosed. Hierarchical learning-based detection is used to perform the vessel segmentation. A boundary classifier is trained and used to detect boundary pixels of a vessel in a fluoroscopic image. A cross-segment classifier is trained and used to detect cross-segments... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090080719 - Method, system and software for displaying medical images: In a system for displaying medical images, a first linear array of medical images representing multiple views of a patient taken approximately contemporaneously may be displayed. The images may automatically be ordered within the array based on the represented views. A second linear array of medical images adjacent to the... Agent: Smart & Biggar

20090080727 - Methods and apparatus for quantifying photo-damage: A method of obtaining a measurement of the extent of telangectasia in an area of skin is disclosed. Initially (S3-1) an image of an area of skin (2) to be analyzed is obtained. The obtained image is then processed (S3-2-S3-3) to determine blood distribution data indicative of the distribution of... Agent: Brooks, Cameron & Huebsch , PLLC

20090080725 - Methods using recurrence quantification analysis to analyze and generate images: Methods for identifying and quantifying recurrent and deterministic patterns in digital images are provided. The methods, which are based on Recurrence Quantification Analysis (RQA), generate similarity or dissimilarity distance matrices for digital images that may be used to calculate a variety of quantitative characteristics for the images. Also provided are... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090080722 - Spectral image processing method, computer-executable spectral image processing program, and spectral imaging system: A spectral image processing method is capable of reducing noise while maintaining necessary information. The spectral image processing method performs processing on a spectral image of a specimen, including a step of normalizing spectra (=spectral brightness curves) of respective pixels constituting the spectral image such that their brightness levels become... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20090080733 - System and method for classifying follicular units: A system and method for classifying follicular units based on the number of hairs in a follicular unit of interest comprises acquiring an image of a body surface having a follicular unit of interest, processing the image to calculate a contour of the follicular unit and an outline profile which... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20090080731 - System and method for multiple-instance learning for computer aided diagnosis: s

20090080732 - System and method for performing probabilistic classification and decision support using multidimensional medical image databases: A system and method for providing decision support to a physician during a medical examination is disclosed. Data is received from a sensor representing a particular medical measurement. The received data includes image data. The received data and context data is analyzed with respect to one or more sets of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090080736 - Method and device for the separate three-dimensional representation of arteries and veins in an examination object and device: There is described a method for a separate three-dimensional representation of arteries and/or veins of a vascular system in an examination object by means of a tomography x-ray device with the following steps: Implementation of a mask pass of the x-ray device with N projections at N angular positions about... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090080740 - Automatic lesion detection and characterization using generative model of enhancement dynamics in breast mr: A method for automatic detection of lesions within MR images includes administering a magnetic contrast agent into a subject. A sequence of MR images are acquired at predetermined intervals of time. One or more regions of suspicion are automatically identified within the MR images. A bidirectional exchange of the magnetic... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090080749 - Combining magnetic resonance images: The invention relates to a method of combining magnetic resonance (MR) images to form a combined image, to a device for implementing such a method, and to a computer program comprising instructions for performing such a method when the computer program is run on a computer. Large transitions in pixel... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090080738 - Edge detection in ultrasound images: Embodiments of the present invention improve edge detection in 2-dimensional image data that may be carried out automatically with minimal user involvement. The invention is carried automatically, using an image processing technique that results in generation of a segmented edge contour, which may then be used in 3-dimensional reconstruction and... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20090080742 - Image display device and image display program storage medium: An image display device includes: an image acquiring section that acquires sets of cross-sectional images of a subject captured at different image capturing positions arranged in a predetermined direction with respect to the subject; and a target site setting section that sets a target site on a cross-sectional image of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090080744 - Image display system, apparatus and method: When a series of present images have been taken at a follow-up examination of a patient, correspondence data is produced, showing correspondence between the respective present images and past images that were taken at past examinations of the same patient under similar condition. The correspondence data is stored in association... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090080745 - Method and system for measuring left ventricle volume: A method and system for measuring the volume of the left ventricle (LV) in a 3D medical image, such as a CT, volume is disclosed. Heart chambers are segmented in the CT volume, including at least the LV endocardium and the LV epicardium. An optimal threshold value is automatically determined... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090080743 - Method to detect the aortic arch in ct datasets for defining a heart window: A method for processing anatomic images acquired in volume by a medical imaging system. Also, a medical imaging system and a computer program, each configurable to perform this method.... Agent: General Electric Company Ge Global Patent Operation

20090080741 - Multi-scale analysis of signal enhancement in breast mri: A method for computer assisted lesion detection in magnetic resonance (MR) images includes acquiring dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) MR images. The images are processed to produce a subtraction image illustrating change in voxel enhancement between the images. A Gaussian low-pass filter is applied to the subtraction image. An elimination mask... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090080750 - Passive mr visualisation of interventional instruments: The invention relates to a device for magnetic resonance imaging of a body (7), wherein the device (1) is arranged to a) generate a series of MR echo signals (20) by subjecting at least a portion of the body (7) to an MR imaging sequence comprising RF pulses and switched... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090080739 - Swept source oct apparatus: A method of performing spectral OCT imaging on a target involves repeatedly scanning said target along a transverse scanning line with an object beam derived from an OCT interferometer having a narrowband source. The wavelength of the narrowband source is modulated over a range of wavelengths at a rate that... Agent: Laubscher & Laubscher, P.C.

20090080746 - System and method for automated magnetic resonance scan prescription for optic nerves: A method and system for automated magnetic resonance (MR) scan prescription is disclosed. A 3D MR scout image is obtained by an initial MR scan. The location of an optic nerve in the scout image is determined by registering a template image to the scout image using a hierarchical series... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090080737 - System and method for use of fluoroscope and computed tomography registration for sinuplasty navigation: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods of improved medical device navigation. Certain embodiments include acquiring a first image of a patient anatomy, a second image of patient anatomy, and creating a registered image based on the first and second images. Certain preferred embodiments teach systems and... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090080748 - System, method and apparatus for small pulmonary nodule computer aided diagnosis from computed tomography scans: The present invention is a multi-stage detection algorithm using a successive nodule candidate refinement approach. The detection algorithm involves four major steps. First, the lung region is segmented from a whole lung CT scan. This is followed by a hypothesis generation stage in which nodule candidate locations are identified from... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20090080747 - User interface for polyp annotation, segmentation, and measurement in 3d computed tomography colonography: A method and system for providing a user interface for polyp annotation, segmentation, and measurement in computer tomography colonography (CTC) volumes is disclosed. The interface receives an initial polyp position in a CTC volume, and automatically segments the polyp based on the initial polyp position. In order to segment the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090080754 - Apparatus and method for processing radiation image: The invention relates to an apparatus and method for processing a radiation image. For a subject area, a radiation image signal corrected for leak charge is obtained by subtracting, from a GateOn signal obtained by turning on a transistor switch of a detecting element of a radiation detector, a GateOff... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090080755 - Apparatus and method for processing radiation image: The present invention relates to a radiation image processing apparatus and a processing method. A processing condition selector selects from a processing condition memory a processing condition for extraction or removal of a specific object in radiation image information. The processing condition includes two different image capturing conditions which are... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090080752 - Breast tomosynthesis with display of highlighted suspected calcifications: Systems and methods that facilitate the presentation and assessment of selected features in projection and/or reconstructed breast images, such as calcifications that meet selected criteria of size, shape, presence in selected slice images, distribution of pixels that could be indicative of calcification relative to other pixels or of other image... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20090080751 - Imaging system for the generation of high-quality x-ray projections: The invention relates to an imaging system and a method for generating high-quality X-ray projections (24) of a patient (1). The system comprises a rotational X-ray device (10), for example a cone-beam CT-gantry (12), and an associated data processing unit (20). During a medical intervention, low-dose raw projections (22) of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090080756 - Method and system for correcting butting artifacts in x-ray images: A method and system for correcting butting artifacts in x-ray images is disclosed. In order to correct a butting artifact in an x-ray image, a butting artifact region in the x-ray image is normalized. Multiple intensity shift estimators are calculated for each pixel of each line of the butting artifact.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090080753 - Radiography image processing method: A radiography image processing method includes obtaining an image of a body being examined. The intensity of each of a plurality of areas of the image are determined and the intensity of each of the plurality of areas of the image are used to determined a respective contrast range to... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090080757 - Detecting access disconnect by pattern recognition: A blood detection system is used to detect blood in a patient undergoing an extracorporeal blood therapy, such as hemodialysis or apheresis. The blood detection system uses a digital video device, which may be a camera, such as a standard digital video camera, a low light camera, an infrared camera,... Agent: Baxter Healthcare Corporation

20090080758 - Processes for encoding substrates with information and related substrates: The present invention provides processes to encode substrates (e.g., paper, synthetics, etc.) with information, and substrates including signals encoded therein. One claim recites a substrate-making process including: obtaining an element to be utilized in a substrate-making process, the element including a property to introduce a texture pattern including an encoded... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20090080760 - Anti-counterfeiting mark and methods: An anti-counterfeiting mark is formed on a surface of an object, preferably by engraving with a laser at the point of manufacture. The mark includes a padlock symbol visible to a person without magnification for informing the person that anti-counterfeiting techniques are in use. The mark also includes a microscopic... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC

20090080759 - Systems and methods for creating persistent data for a wafer and for using persistent data for inspection-related functions: Various systems and methods for creating persistent data for a wafer and using persistent data for inspection-related functions are provided. One system includes a set of processor nodes coupled to a detector of an inspection system. Each of the processor nodes is configured to receive a portion of image data... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP

20090080762 - Appearance for inspection method: To be provided is an appearance inspection method of acquiring an accurate data regarding a chipping of a semiconductor chip generated by a dicing step. It includes: acquiring the image data of the semiconductor chip; binary-processing the image data; recognizing a chipping end 23 provided in the semiconductor chip from... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090080761 - Simultaneous wafer id reading: The present invention discloses apparatuses and methods for simultaneous viewing and reading top and bottom images from a workpiece. The present ID reader can comprise an enclosure covering a top and bottom section of the workpiece with optical elements to guide the light from the workpiece images to a camera.... Agent: Tue Nguyen

20090080763 - Method and system for the visual classification of defects: A method and system for the classifying of defects in a device is disclosed. The method and system comprises directly classifying samples based upon a feature space; and creating knowledge from the samples of a feature group within the feature space for a supervised classifier. Finally, the method and system... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20090080764 - X-ray inspection of solder reflow in high-density printed circuit board applications: According to one embodiment, a method for processing one or more X-ray images includes: receiving at least one image of the one or more X-ray images, the one or more X-ray images being of an assembly extending along a plane; based on the at least one image, autonomously determining a... Agent: Teradyne, Inc. C/o Foley & Larder, LLP

20090080766 - Method and apparatus for the three-dimensional digitization of objects: This invention relates to a method and an apparatus for the three-dimensional digitization of objects with a 3D sensor, which comprises a projector and one or more cameras, in which a pattern is projected onto the object by means of the projector, and the pattern is detected with the one... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20090080767 - Method for determining a depth map from images, device for determining a depth map: Window based matching is used for determining a depth map from images obtained from different orientations. A set of fixed matching windows is used for points of the image for which the depth is to be determined. The set of matching windows covers a footprint of pixels around the point... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090080765 - System and method to generate a selected visualization of a radiological image of an imaged subject: A system to illustrate image data of an imaged subjected is provided. The system comprises an imaging system, an input device, an output device, and a controller in communication with the imaging system, the input device, and the output device. The controller includes a processor to perform program instructions representative... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20090080768 - Recognition method for images by probing alimentary canals: The present invention relates to a recognition method for images by probing alimentary canals. First, series first image data is received. Then, according to a plurality of judgments, judge if the first image data exceeds a threshold value. If so, the image data is stored and second image data is... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090080769 - Image data processing apparatus and method: An image data processing apparatus receives trichromatic image data with values expressing red, green, and blue and generates information indicating the gamut of colors of the image data. The gamut information is obtained from maximum and minimum values, or values equivalent to the maximum and minimum values, pertaining to different... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090080770 - Image pixel subsampling to reduce a number of pixel calculations: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for processing captured image data are described. A first array of pixel data values corresponding to a captured image is received. The first array is segmented into a plurality of N by M array portions. A subsample pattern is selected for each N by M array... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Intellevate

20090080771 - Image processing device, image processing method, and image pickup apparatus: An illumination component extractor is operable to extract an illumination component from input image data by: performing a smoothing process a certain number of times to generate a plurality of smooth image data having resolutions different from one another from the input image data, the smoothing process including an operation... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20090080772 - Radiometric calibration from a single image: Radiometric calibration of an image capture device (e.g., a digital camera) using a single image is described. The single image may be a color image or a grayscale image. The calibration identifies and analyzes edge pixels of the image that correspond to an edge between two colors or grayscale levels... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090080773 - Image segmentation using dynamic color gradient threshold, texture, and multimodal-merging: A method for segmenting an image receives the image. The image has a number of pixels and a number of color channels. The image is initially segmented into a number of initial regions at least by dynamically selecting a plurality of seeds within the image using a dynamic color gradient... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090080774 - Hybrid graph model for unsupervised object segmentation: This disclosure describes an integrated framework for class-unsupervised object segmentation. The class-unsupervised object segmentation occurs by integrating top-down constraints and bottom-up constraints on object shapes using an algorithm in an integrated manner. The algorithm describes a relationship among object parts and superpixels. This process forms object shapes with object parts... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090080775 - Image-processing apparatus which has an image region distinction processing capability, and an image region distinction processing method: In an image-processing apparatus having a capability of performing region distinction processing and an image region discrimination processing method, a first region distinction unit uses a previously set threshold value for an image region distinction to perform a region distinction processing of a character and a non-character on image data... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090080776 - Image data processing system and image data processing method: An image data processing system includes an extracting unit extracting from an image signal corresponding to one image a signal corresponding to a pixel block including plural pixels in the image, a threshold calculating unit calculating a threshold for classifying the plural pixels into plural segments by linear calculation of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090080777 - Methods and apparatus for filtering video packets for large-scale video stream monitoring: A method of filtering video packets for video stream monitoring is provided. A video packet of a video stream is received. One or more features are extracted from a specified frame of the video packet via one or more histograms and frequency domain coefficients of the specified frame. One or... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090080778 - Pattern recognition method and apparatus for data protection: Provided a secure pattern recognition method. The method includes: receiving data and generating a probe by converting the received data into a template for pattern recognition; accessing a gallery that is a template registered and stored in advance; determining a region to which the probe belongs and obtaining the center... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090080780 - Articulated object position and posture estimation device, method and program: An object is to provide an articulated object position and posture estimation device with reduced calculation cost of model fitting for estimating position and posture and with improved estimation speed. A posture model storage section 2 stores data concerning to a posture model with low-dimensional parameters under movement restraint. The... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090080779 - Method and system for registration of contrast- enhanced images with volume-preserving constraint: A method and system for registering a first image of, for example, a liver and a second image of the liver being contrast-enhanced comprises: deriving a statistical similarity measure between images; deriving a smooth divergence-free vector field derived from a gradient of the statistical similarity measure; and integrating the vector... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090080781 - Pattern retrieval method and apparatus: There is provided a pattern retrieval method for retrieving a reference pattern from a range to be retrieved, based on a correlation between image data in the range to be retrieved with the reference pattern indicated thereon and reference image data representing the reference pattern, wherein a plurality of characteristic... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090080782 - Image data output processing apparatus and image data output processing method: An image data output processing apparatus of the present invention, in a case where a reference document is duplex, causes a storage process section, in a storage mode, to store, at the time of storage, a DocID indicative of the reference document so as to correspond to an ID indicative... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090080783 - Image data output processing apparatus and image data output processing method: In an image data output processing apparatus of the present invention, an image matching section is capable of determining whether a similarity exists between each image of an N-up document and a reference document when input image data is indicative of the N-up document. An output process control section is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090080784 - Enhanced decompression of compressed data: Enhanced decompression of compressed images, in which a decompressed image with a target resolution is assembled using an iteratively decompressed and downscaled quantity of scanlines of a compressed image, the quantity of scanlines correlating to a downscaling factor determined based on an original resolution of the compressed image and the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090080785 - Bitstream format for compressed image data: It is desirable to provide a bitstream format for compressed data that would allow multiple processors to access and decompress different parts of the data in parallel. Compressed images are usually defined in terms of macroblocks that have a width less than the image width and a height less than... Agent: Oliver Strimpel, Patent Counsel Avid Technology, Inc.

20090080787 - Image compression and expansion technique: The present invention aims at improving an image compression rate and enhancing quality of images after expansion. An image compression device generates compressed data formed by compressing an image. The device includes a boundary area detection section for detecting boundary areas which include both of internal and external parts of... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20090080786 - Image encoding apparatus and method of controlling same: This invention encodes an image mixed of a character or line-drawing image and a natural image. An extraction unit extracts the color of a pixel, which constitutes a high-frequency component, from the input image data as an extracted color and generates identification information indicating whether each pixel in the image... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090080788 - Multiple technique entropy coding system and method: A system, method and computer program product having optimal matching to a known or measured probability distribution encodes data without the use of an excessively large lookup table. An encoder constructed according to the present invention uses two or more different encoding methods in combination. In one embodiment, Huffman coding... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090080789 - Projection display and projection display control program: A projection display may include a frame rate conversion section selectively performing a first frame rate conversion process or a second frame rate conversion process, an image process section selectively performing a black insertion process or a pair-frames gamma process, and outputting a result as a pair of consecutive image... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090080790 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image processing program, and image capturing apparatus: An image processing apparatus for correcting an input image for blur using a recovery filter in accordance with image blurriness includes a blurriness determining unit that receives a target image to be corrected, applies to the target image a recovery filter including a degree-of-blur parameter corresponding to blurriness while changing... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090080791 - Image generation method, device, and image synthesis equipment: An image generation method, image generation device, and image synthesis device include generating at least two images at different exposure times. Intensities of pixels in the images at different exposure times are respectively obtained. Reliabilities of the pixels in the images at different exposure times are respectively obtained. The intensities... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090080792 - Method and apparatus for anti-aliasing scan conversion: Methods and apparatuses for anti-aliasing scan conversion. In one aspect of the invention, an exemplary method to scan convert an image on a data processing system includes: sampling the image in a first direction to generate first signals for points along a second line in a second direction using a... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090080793 - Image adjustment apparatus and method thereof: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method thereof for adjusting a luminance of an image signal. The apparatus includes a complementary circuit, a statistical circuit, a calculating circuit, and a blending circuit. The complementary circuit receives an image signal to generate a complementary luminance according to the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090080795 - Image processing apparatus and method: An image processing apparatus comprises an extractor for extracting a brightness component from image data; a scale converter for obtaining a distribution of the brightness component on relatively large scale; a brightness component improver for improving the distribution of the brightness component of the image data by using the brightness... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090080794 - Image processing device, microcomputer, and electronic instrument: An image processing device that receives pixel-unit image data in a plurality of frames in time series and performs image processing, the image data being captured by an imaging section, the image processing device including a brightness change detection section that integrates pixel values or pixel components relating to luminance... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090080796 - Defect correction in blurred images: A method and apparatus for providing defect correction in blurred images is disclosed. For one embodiment of the invention, a digital image is acquired. One or more candidate defect regions in the image are identified. The candidate defect regions are corrected and responsive to the image being blurred, the corrected... Agent: Tessera/fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20090080797 - Eye defect detection in international standards organization images: A method and apparatus for providing image processing. For one embodiment of the invention, a digital image is acquired. One or more relatively large candidate red eye defect regions are detected in at least a portion of the image. Face detection is applied to at least a portion of the... Agent: Tessera/fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20090080799 - Method for creating reference images in electron microscopes: Methods for creating reference images of fiber optic sensor plates for use in electron microscopes. The methods include taking of reference images of stripe or dot patterns. The spatial frequency of the stripe or dot patterns is such that image artifacts of the fiber optic stacks is recorded. The reference... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20090080798 - Processing an input image to reduce compression-related artifacts: In a method for processing an input image to reduce compression-related artifacts, a plurality of block transforms of the input image having respective plurality of block-grid locations are generated, where each of the block-grid locations is shifted with respect to the block-grid locations in each of the other block transformed... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090080800 - Multiple index mixed media reality recognition using unequal priority indexes: An MMR system for processing image queries across index tables with unequal priority comprises a plurality of mobile devices, a pre-processing server or MMR gateway, and an MMR matching unit, and may include an MMR publisher. The MMR matching unit receives an image query from the pre-processing server or MMR... Agent: Ricoh/fenwick

20090080801 - Altering the appearance of a digital image using a shape: Technologies are described herein for altering the appearance of a digital image using a shape. A mask edit mode of operation is provided in which an application program displays a mask shape superimposed on a digital image. The application program also provides user interface controls for altering the size, position,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090080802 - Information processing apparatus and method for generating composite image: An information processing apparatus includes: a first decoder that decodes first image data into a first image; a second decoder that decodes second image data into a second image; a third decoder that decodes third image data into a third image; a compose unit that composes, into a first area... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090080803 - Image processing program, computer-readable recording medium recording the program, image processing apparatus and image processing method: Provided is a program that is executed by an image processing apparatus including a memory and a processor, and which generates two-dimensional image data obtained by performing perspective projection to a virtual three-dimensional space on a prescribed perspective projection plane. The program causes the processor to perform processes of (a)... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090080804 - Method for transmitting and receiving image, receiving device, and image storage device: A technique is provided for reducing the size of each of images included in an image signal and generating a high-resolution image with minimized degradation in the image quality from the reduced images. Alias components and motion information that are included in the image signal having the reduced images are... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090080805 - Fast method of super-resolution processing: A fast method of super-resolution processing for speeding up a super-resolution processing that estimates a high-resolution image from multiple low-resolution images with a displacement, which comprising: a first step for performing a registration of said multiple low-resolution images in a high-resolution image space and treating all pixels of said multiple... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090080806 - Fast method of super-resolution processing: A fast method of super-resolution processing for speeding up a super-resolution processing that estimates a high-resolution image from multiple low-resolution images with displacements, the method characterized in that an evaluation function and a differential of the evaluation function with respect to the high-resolution image are calculated by a combination of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090080807 - Image processing system and image processing apparatus: A raw image data creating unit that creates a raw image data; an image file creating unit capable of creating an image file conforming to a predetermined format based on the created raw image data; and a control unit for determining based on a predetermined criterion whether an external apparatus... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090074229 - Device and method for the visual representation of measured values: P

20090074230 - Electronic watermark embedding device and detection device, detection method, detection program, and intergrated circuit device thereof: An electronic watermark technique which allows precise detection of electronic watermark information from image having any size is provided. In an electronic watermark embedding device 100, an image size obtaining section 101 obtains an image size. A block size determination section 102 defines an area formed of a plurality of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090074242 - Electronic watermark embedding method, device, and program, and electronic watermark detecting method, device, and program: A digital watermark embedding apparatus for embedding embedding information, as digital watermark, into an input signal having dimensions equal to or greater than N (N is an integer equal to or greater than 2) and a digital watermark detection apparatus for detecting the digital watermark are disclosed. The digital watermark... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090074232 - History image generating system, history image generating method, and recording medium in which is recorded a computer program: A history image generating system and method is configured such that a determining unit determines whether or not an image to be combined with a history image stored as a history is a digital watermark image, and when it has been determined by the determining unit that the image is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090074236 - Image forming apparatus and image reading method: In an image forming apparatus, a reader reads an image of one page of an original thereby obtaining image data. A determining unit determines whether embedded data has been embedded in the image data. An extracting unit extracts the embedded data, acquires a target page number of a reading unnecessary... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090074233 - Information registration system: A memory device memorizes, in association, possessor identification information, which is recorded at recording mediums carried by authorized users of an image forming device, and inputter identification information corresponding to the possessor identification information. An information retention device memorizes image information and inputter identification information transmitted from an image formation... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090074243 - Method and apparatus for detecting errors in electronically processed images: A method of detecting one or more errors in a series of electronically processed, multi-pixel images, the pixels of which correspond from one image to the next, the method including monitoring the reflectance of one or more of the corresponding pixels during sequential processing of each image of the series... Agent: Cnh America LLC

20090074240 - Method and apparatus for embedding watermarks: Methods and apparatus for embedding a watermark are disclosed. An example method to embed media identification information in a compressed media data stream disclosed herein comprises reconstructing an uncompressed media data stream from the compressed media data stream, the uncompressed media data stream separate from the compressed media data stream,... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20090074238 - Method and system for determining poses of objects from range images using adaptive sampling of pose spaces: A method for determining a pose of an object from a range image is presented. A distribution of poses for an object is determined from a model of the object. A set of reference poses is selected according to the distribution, such that more reference poses are selected for more... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090074237 - Method for printing a printing substrate: A method for printing a printing substrate is disclosed. The printing substrate is printed by a printing-plate-based printing method, in particular by an offset printing method, with a printed image that is the same for printed copies of a print job and therefore with a static printed image as well... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090074231 - Secure article, notably a security and/or valuable document: The invention concerns a secure article, notably a security and/or valuable document (1), comprising: at least one substrate, at least one visible authenticating structure (4; 11; 22; 32; 42; 51), at least one inspection zone (5) defined at least partly by the authenticating structure, the authenticating structure delimiting at least... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090074241 - Steganographic systems and methods: The present invention relates to steganographic systems and methods. Once claim recites a method including: obtaining video content, wherein the video content comprises a steganographic signal embedded in picture elements of the video content, with multiple instances of the steganographic signal embedded in the picture elements of the video content,... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20090074234 - System and method for capturing images: An exemplary method for capturing images includes steps of: focusing on a scene, wherein the scene comprises at least one person; locating irises of the at least one person on an image of the scene; measuring a diameter and a height of each of the irises; comparing the ratio of... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090074239 - System and method for imaging with extended depth of focus and incoherent light: An optical arrangement is provided for use in imaging with a large depth of focus. The optical arrangement comprises an aperture unit, and a replication unit. The replication unit is configured for producing a plurality of replicas of an input optical field passed through the aperture unit such that the... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20090074235 - Systems and methods for generating bookmark video fingerprints: Systems and methods for replacing original media bookmarks of at least a portion of a digital media file with replacement bookmarks is described. A media fingerprint engine detects the location of the original fingerprints associated with the portion of the digital media file and a region analysis algorithm characterizes regions... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20090074248 - Gesture-controlled interfaces for self-service machines and other applications: A gesture recognition interface for use in controlling self-service machines and other devices is disclosed. A gesture is defined as motions and kinematic poses generated by humans, animals, or machines. Specific body features are tracked, and static and motion gestures are interpreted. Motion gestures are defined as a family of... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20090074246 - Method and system for the automatic detection of events in sport fields: The present invention refers to the problem of the automatic detection of events in sport field, in particular Goal/NoGoal events by signalling to the mach management, which can autonomously take the final decision upon the event. The system is not invasive for the field structures, neither it requires to interrupt... Agent: Steinfl & Bruno

20090074245 - Miniature autonomous agents for scene interpretation: A miniature autonomous apparatus for performing scene interpretation, comprising: image acquisition means, image processing means, memory means and communication means, the processing means comprising means for determining an initial parametric representation of the scene; means for updating the parametric representation according to predefined criteria; means for analyzing the image, comprising... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20090074247 - Obstacle detection method: A method is provided for the detection of an obstacle in a road, in particular of a pedestrian, in the surroundings in the range of view of an optical sensor attached to a movable carrier such as in particular a vehicle, wherein a first image is taken by means of... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090074244 - Wide luminance range colorimetrically accurate profile generation method: Generating a color profile for a digital input device. Color values for at least one color target positioned within a first scene are measured, the color target having multiple color patches. An image of the first scene is generated using the digital input device, the first scene including the color... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090074250 - Apparatus, method, and computer product for vehicle-type determination: A vehicle-type determination apparatus includes a vehicle-portion extracting unit, a hood recognizing unit, and a vehicle-type determining unit. The vehicle-portion extracting unit extracts a vehicle portion from an image of a recognition object. The hood recognizing unit recognizes an area corresponding to a hood in the vehicle portion extracted by... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090074249 - System and method for traffic sign recognition: This invention provides a vehicle-borne system and method for traffic sign recognition that provides greater accuracy and efficiency in the location and classification of various types of traffic signs by employing rotation and scale-invariant (RSI)-based geometric pattern-matching on candidate traffic signs acquired by a vehicle-mounted forward-looking camera and applying one... Agent: Cognex Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090074251 - Method and system for determining a force and/or torque applied to an orthodontic bracket: A method and system are disclosed for analyzing images of fiducials that provide an indication of the forces and/or torques applied to an orthodontic bracket. The mass of each of the pixels forming the fiducial image are multiplied by the square of the distance of the pixel along the image's... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090074252 - Real-time self collision and obstacle avoidance: A system, method, and computer program product for avoiding collision of a body segment with unconnected structures in an articulated system are described. A virtual surface is constructed surrounding an actual surface of the body segment. Distances between the body segment and unconnected structures are monitored. Responding to an unconnected... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20090074253 - Method and apparatus for the automatic grading of condition of livestock: A method of and apparatus for grading a characteristic of an animal is described. The animal is guided to a detection area whereupon an image of the back of the animal is captured. Analysis of the image identifies anatomical points and determines angles at these points. The angles are then... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090074254 - System and methods for dynamically generating earth position data for overhead images and derived information: Distributed adaptive geopositioning includes an objective architecture for imagery geopositioning. The positioning is distributed to fulfill the need to perform accurate geopositioning whenever and wherever it is needed. The positioning is adaptive to implement the idea that geopositioning is a dynamic, not static, quality of geospatial intelligence, for which accuracy... Agent: The Marbury Law Group, PLLC

20090074255 - Apparatus and method for capturing skin texture biometric in electronic devices: A method is provided for enabling a function on an electronic device (110, 210, 410) comprising a touch input device (112, 116, 212, 218, 312, 424, 432) including a plurality of pixels having a surface (316) for providing radiated energy having one or more spectral bands, and a plurality of... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (mot)

20090074256 - Apparatus and methods for testing biometric equipment: This invention encompasses an apparatus and methods which enable the testing of fingerprint readers in an automated fashion. A test object representative of a fingerprint can be created from an electrically conducive silicone material. Due to the properties of this material, the same test object can be read by fingerprint... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20090074257 - Method for optically scanning objects: A method for clarifying an image of an object to perform a procedure on an object includes applying electromagnetic energy to the object to provide reflected and/or transmitted energy according to an interaction of the electromagnetic energy and the object, determining an image quality metric in accordance with the reflected... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20090074259 - Automatic biometric identification based on face recognition and support vector machines: An automatic biometric identification method based on face recognition and support vector machines, includes enrolling a user to generate a user's reference template; and identifying the user based on the user's reference template, wherein generating a user's reference template includes acquiring a number of user's face images, and training a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090074260 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus determines a specific color region that includes a specific color, and a non-specific color region around which the specific color regions are present in three directions, i.e., an upper, left, and right directions, in a picture in the non-specific color regions that are not determined as... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090074261 - Interactive system for recognition analysis of multiple streams of video: A method of identifying an object captured in a video image in a multi-camera video surveillance system is disclosed. Sets of identifying information are stored in profiles, each profile being associated with one object. The disclosed method of identifying an object includes comparing identifying information extracted from images captured by... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090074258 - Systems and methods for facial recognition: Different colored rectangles are used to identify and categorize each of several faces in a single photograph. For example, red rectangles highlight faces which are unidentified and green rectangles highlight faces which have been identified. Alternatively identification and characterization are indicated via a mouseover block of text. The invention allows... Agent: Thomas M. Galgano

20090074262 - Medical injector with automatic dosage determination and electronic means for authentication of user: The invention relates to a medical injector, especially a syringe, with means (4, 5, S) for automatic dosage determination. It is the object of the invention to prevent unauthorized usage of medical injectors. Therefore the medical injector is applied with further electronic means for authentication (3) of user and/or medical... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090074263 - Apparatus for inputting biometrical feature: A biometrical feature inputting apparatus includes a 1-dimensional or quasi 1-dimensional image sensor. When a finger and the image sensor are relatively slid, a finger sliding guide keeps a finger and an effective pixel unit of the image sensor to a constant distance without any contact between them. An image... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090074264 - data representation for rtp: An imaging system (10) includes imaging modalities such as a PET imaging system (12) and a CT scanner (14). The CT scanner (14) is used to produce a first image (62) which is used for primary contouring. The PET system (12) is used to provide a second image (56), which... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090074273 - Analyzing image errors: A method for analyzing image errors in an image dataset of a medical imaging device is provided. The method includes transmitting the image dataset to a central computing center, analyzing the image errors by a server of the computing center, determining a type of image error in the image dataset,... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090074270 - Image analysis device: A CPU executes a gray value gradient calculation process to, for example, an R signal in step S10, executes an isotropic change feature value calculation process based on a gray value gradient calculated in step S11, and further executes a possible polyp detection process for generating a possible polyp image... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090074268 - Image analysis device and image analysis method: A CPU implements a possible polyp detection process of step S4 to execute processing for each label value of a thinned image and superimpose a processing result on a possible polyp image, thereby generating a possible polyp labeling image in which a possible polyp edge is labeled. The possible polyp... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090074265 - Imaging review and navigation workstation system: An imaging review system that displays sequences of in-vivo panoramic images stitched together into a single video while providing edit/review/location information of the individual images within the body being imaged.... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, LLC

20090074271 - Medical image processing apparatus and medical image processing method: A medical image processing apparatus which performs image processing on a medical input image, includes: a pixel extraction portion for extracting an inappropriate pixel satisfying a predetermined condition in the input image, a replacing pixel information calculation portion for calculating replacing information with which pixel information of the inappropriate pixel... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090074269 - Medical image processing device and medical image processing method: An image processing device includes; a lesion candidate region detecting section that detects a lesion candidate region based on at least one color signal in a medical image including a plurality of color signals; an incidental region detecting section that detects an incidental region that arises because of incidental attributes... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090074266 - Method and system for determining an optimal dilution of a reagent: A system and method for automatically and quantitatively determining the optimal dilution of a reagent is provided. In one embodiment of the claimed method, a plurality of dilution sets are received, where each of the dilution sets consist of a different respective dilution value and a respective plurality of immunoassay... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090074272 - Method and system for polyp segmentation for 3d computed tomography colonography: A method and system for polyp segmentation in computed tomography colonogrphy (CTC) volumes is disclosed. The polyp segmentation method utilizes a three-staged probabilistic binary classification approach for automatically segmenting polyp voxels from surrounding tissue in CTC volumes. Based on an input initial polyp position, a polyp tip is detected in... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090074267 - Method for generating quantitative images of the flow potential of a region under investigation: The invention relates to a method for generating images representative of the flow potential of a permeable body. The following steps are part of the disclosed method. First, providing a first sequence of digital images of the body perfused by a fluid at a rest condition. Then extracting a first... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20090074274 - Method for providing image objects in a medical image information system, and medical image information system: A medical image information system is disclosed which includes a PACS server having at least one non-volatile data storage device for storing the image objects, a terminal server which is connected to the PACS server for data purposes, and at least one terminal client which is connected to the terminal... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090074275 - System for preparing an image for segmentation: A system for cleaning up and preparing an image for segmentation is disclosed. An image transmitting device is configured to transmit a first image to an image receiving device. The image receiving device is configured to: receive the first image; apply a Dual Tree Complex Wavelet transform to the first... Agent: Ge Healthcare Bio-sciences Corp. Patent Department

20090074277 - Registration method with three-dimensional representation of a vascular tree as a function of blood flow: A three-dimensional volume data record contains a vascular tree. A two-dimensional projection image is an image of an actual fill state, to which the vascular tree is filled with a contrast agent at an acquisition time. The volume data record and the projection image are registered in relation to one... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090074276 - Voxel matching technique for removal of artifacts in medical subtraction images: A method for improving the alignment accuracy between different medical images may be disclosed. A warped or non-warped previous image and a warped or non-warped current image may include a plurality of respective previous and current basic units, for example, pixels in a 2-dimensional image or voxels in a 3-dimensional... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090074280 - Automated detection of planes from three-dimensional echocardiographic data: A plane position for a standard view is detected from three-dimensional echocardiographic data. The position of the plane within the volume is defined by translation, orientation (rotation), and/or scale. Possible positions are detected and other possible positions are ruled out. The classification of the possible positions occurs sequentially by translation,... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090074278 - Method and apparatus for metal artifact reduction in computed tomography: A method for reducing artifacts in an original computed tomography (CT) image of a subject, the original (CT) image being produced from original sinogram data. The method comprises detecting an artifact creating object in the original CT image; re-projecting the artifact creating object in the original sinogram data to produce... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090074279 - Method and system of multivariate analysis on slice-wise data of reference structure normalized images for improved quality in positron emission tomography studies: A method and system are provided for improving the quality in positron emission tomography (PET) images. Image quality may be improved by pre-normalizing dynamic PET images and then applying a multivariate analysis tool on the images to generate improved quality dynamic PET images. The dynamic PET images are the images... Agent: Ge Healthcare, Inc.

20090074281 - Method for energy calculation and pileup determination for continuously sampled nuclear pulse processing: A method for processing events in a medical imaging device may comprise the steps of receiving analog signals from at least one PMT into an Applied Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) comprising a Constant Fraction Discriminator (CFD) and transmitting analog outputs from the ASIC. Further, sampling the analog outputs continuously using... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090074282 - Methods and system for validating sample images for quantitative immunoassays: A method and system for automatically evaluating quality of a slide-mounted tissue sample includes receiving a digital image of a magnified portion of the slide-mounted tissue sample. At least one quantitative quality indicator is automatically determined for at least one of the samples, and the digital image of the magnified... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090074284 - System and method for creating magnified images of a microscope slide: A method and system for creating a digital, virtual slide having optimum image quality characteristics. Multiple regions of a physical slide are identified as well as at least two focus z-positions z1, and z2. Each region of the physical slide is scanned (imaged) at the first z position, so as... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090074283 - System and methods for rapid and automated screening of cells: A system for performing automated cell screening in drug discovery, includes an automated microscope, a fast autofocus device, and a digital imaging system. Processes are implemented in software through which relevant cellular material is segmented and quantified with minimal user interaction. Improvements in the following areas: known methods for image... Agent: Ge Healthcare Bio-sciences Corp. Patent Department

20090074285 - Surface inspection device: A surface inspection device, including an illumination light source that irradiates a surface of a wafer with an inspection illumination light; a camera that receives a scattered light from the wafer irradiate with the inspection illumination light, and captures an image of the surface; a display device that displays the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090074286 - Data management equipment used to defect review equipment and testing system configurations: A data management equipment connected with a general inspection system for detecting a defect candidate on a wafer and acquiring a location thereof, a design data server for storing a design data for a semiconductor circuit and a defect review system for acquiring a defect data image on the basis... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090074287 - Mask data generation method, mask fabrication method, exposure method, device fabrication method, and storage medium: The invention provides a generation method of generating data of a mask, comprising a calculation step of calculating an aerial image formed on an image plane of a projection optical system, an extraction step of extracting a two-dimensional image from the aerial image, a determination step of determining a main... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20090074288 - Data processing apparatus, computer program product, and data processing method: A data processing apparatus includes a feature-value calculating unit that calculates an image feature value indicating a feature of image data, a case database including a case set including a correspondence of image feature values and functions, and an optimum-function predicting unit that predicts an optimum function based on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090074289 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus comprises: an edge extraction section for extracting an edge of an object of a character or a line drawing included in an image; a judgment section for judging, based on the image, a possibility that the object is an image including a plurality of colors and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090074290 - Method, medium, and system adjusting predicted values based on color with image compressing/recovering: A method, medium, and system compressing an image, and a method, medium, and system recovering an image. Values of colors of a pixel from among pixels making up an image are predicted from values of colors of a reference pixel corresponding to the pixel, and the predicted values of the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090074291 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a document image, a primary region segmentation unit configured to segment the acquired document image into a plurality of regions, a detection unit configured to detect a text region including an erroneous sentence from the regions segmented by the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090074292 - Optimization of multi-label problems in computer vision: A method of labeling pixels in an image is described where the pixel label is selected from a set of three or more labels. The pixel labeling problem is reduced to a sequence of binary optimizations by representing the label value for each pixel as a binary word and then... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090074293 - Method and system for object recognition using fractal maps: A method for recognizing an object in an image is disclosed wherein a fractal map of the image is generated by estimating the fractal dimension of each pixel in the image. The fractal map may be segmented by thresholding and locations of candidate objects are determined. The pixel value of... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20090074294 - Document-image-data providing system, document-image-data providing device, information processing device, document-image-data providing method, information processing method, document-image-data providing program, and information processing program: In a document-image-data providing device, a document image inputting unit is configured to input document image data. An area recognition unit is configured to recognize a text area of a document image element containing text data among document image elements constituting the document image data, and another area of a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090074295 - Method of modifying classification scheme stored in processing system: The present invention provides a method of modifying a classification scheme for classifying hand-written characters to thereby make the classification scheme user dependent. The classification scheme includes a number of allographs, each allograph representing a respective style of a respective letter. The method includes obtaining at least one hand-written character,... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090074296 - Creating a document template for capturing data from a document image and capturing data from a document image: e

20090074297 - Hyperspectral image dimension reduction system and method: Provided is a method of hyperspectral image dimension reduction. The method includes receiving a hyperspectral image having a plurality of pixels. A set of basis vectors is established at least in part with respect to the spectral vectors of the initial hyperspectral image. For each pixel of the hyperspectral image,... Agent: Shughart Thomson & Kilroy, PC

20090074298 - Method and apparatus for creating document data, and computer program product: In an apparatus for creating document data, an acquiring unit acquires a handwritten figure; and a recognizing unit converts the handwritten figure acquired by the acquiring unit into a specific figure and recognizes a layout including the specific figure as a component as a user-specified layout. A storage unit stores... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090074299 - Increasing accuracy of discrete curve transform estimates for curve matching in four or more dimensions: System and method for estimating a rotational shift between a first discrete curve and a second discrete curve, where the second discrete curve is a rotationally shifted version of the first discrete curve. First and second discrete curves are received. A rotational shift between the first discrete curve and the... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090074300 - Automatic adaption of an image recognition system to image capture devices: A MMR system for newspaper publishing comprises a plurality of mobile devices, an MMR gateway, an MMR matching unit and an MMR publisher. The MMR matching unit receives an image query from the MMR gateway and sends it to one or more of the recognition units to identify a result... Agent: Ricoh/fenwick

20090074301 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and computer readable storage medium that stores program thereof: The present invention provides a technique relating to image processing capable of searching for, from a surface of paper, a more suitable region for matching of paper fingerprint information or print paper surface unique information. Its configuration includes a region dividing section for dividing image data including a read out... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090074304 - Electronic apparatus and face image display method: According to one embodiment, a face image list display process module classifies face images, which are extracted from video content data, into a first face image group belonging to a predetermined attribute section and a second face image group belonging to sections other than the predetermined attribute section. The face... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090074302 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium: An image processing apparatus of this invention includes a classification unit configured to classify anchor points that define the contour of an object into a plurality of groups based on features of the contour of the object, and a saving unit configured to identifiably save the anchor points classified by... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090074303 - Method and system for creating a form template for a form: A method and system for creating a form template for a form are disclosed. The method comprises analyzing an image of a form to detect object demarcations in the form. The method also comprises classifying the object demarcations into one of a plurality of predefined object categories and processing each... Agent: Hahn And Moodley, LLP

20090074305 - Method and system for fuzzy clustering of images: An approach to clustering a set of images based on similarity measures employs a fuzzy clustering paradigm in which each image is represented by a node in a graph. The graph is ultimately partitioned into subgraphs, each of which represent true clusters among which the various images are distributed. The... Agent: Mr S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20090074306 - Estimating word correlations from images: Word correlations are estimated using a content-based method, which uses visual features of image representations of the words. The image representations of the subject words may be generated by retrieving images from data sources (such as the Internet) using image search with the subject words as query words. One aspect... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090074308 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image compressor device includes a memory controller to store a plurality of compressed unit items in the continuous address range, and a pointer generator to generate pointer data including address information of the plurality of compressed unit data items.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090074307 - Textual image coding: Textual image coding involves coding textual portions of an image. In an example embodiment, a textual block of an image is decomposed into multiple base colors and an index map, with the index map having index values that each reference a base color so as to represent the textual block.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090074309 - Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding image data: x

20090074312 - High-speed motion compensation apparatus and method:

20090074310 - Image data compression method: An image data compression method is disclosed. Firstly, check a variance between a first image data and a second image data for comparing the variance with a threshold value. When the variance is smaller than a threshold value, compare the first image data with the second image data to generate... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090074311 - System and method for detecting visual occlusion based on motion vector density: A method of processing image data, comprising providing image data configured to display a first frame comprising a plurality of blocks, each block having a motion vector indicative of a change of location of the block between the first frame and a successive second frame and determining a change in... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20090074313 - Encoding method, encoding device, encoding process program, and recording medium on which encoding process program is recorded: The present invention is applicable to video cameras, for example. The present invention encodes input image data D1 on the basis of a true predicted code quantity TRUE PRED(n) calculated by correcting a roughly calculated predicted code quantity ROUGH PRED(n), predicted from the input image data D1, with a correction... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090074314 - Decoding variable lenght codes in jpeg applications: An approach to decoding Huffman symbols in JPEG images is described. One approach involves a method of decoding Huffman codes in a JPEG image file. This method involves obtaining a bitstream sample from a bitstream associated with the JPEG image file. The bitstream sample is compared against a threshold value,... Agent: Murabito Hao & Barnes LLP Third Floor

20090074315 - Method of image compression and device thereof: A method of image compression and a device thereof are provided herein. First, an image having a plurality of regions is received. Next, a quantization process is performed on a specific region of the image according to a quantization value, wherein the specific region is one of the regions. Next,... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20090074316 - Image input device and personal authentication device: An image input device is disclosed, including: a lens array in which a plurality of lenses are arrayed; a shielding member configured to prevent a crosstalk on an image surface of light rays passing each of lenses of the lens array; a flat board member configured to regulate a position... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090074317 - System and method for reducing halo effect in image enhancement: A method of enhancing an image, comprising providing an image having luminescence and at least one boundary, determining locations each of the at least one boundary in the image, computing an image enhancement technique having a gain for application to the image, and adjusting the gain of the image enhancement... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20090074318 - Noise-reduction method and apparatus: A noise-reduction method and apparatus are provided. The noise-reduction method includes estimating activity levels of regions in an input image; and applying different weights to a large noise filter kernel and a small noise filter kernel according to the estimated activity levels, wherein the estimating includes calculating a noise level... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090074319 - Adaptive image up-scaling technique: A method for scaling an image includes providing a set of filters based upon a low-resolution data set and a high-resolution data set suitable for up-scaling a low resolution image to a high resolution image. The filters are collectively representative of at least a portion of an image space and... Agent: Kevin L. Russell Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel LLP

20090074320 - Image magnification device, image magnification method and computer readable medium storing an image magnification program: A high-definition magnified image is obtained by simple computation. A magnified image is obtained by obtaining a deteriorated image on the basis of an input original image, determining enhancement filters used for individual small areas of the original image using the deteriorated image at least, performing a filtering process by... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090074321 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus according to the invention includes a peculiarity detector which detects a peculiarity and forcedly changes a flag as a base of filter selection; and a line adjustment processing selection table 208 which outputs cnt_b corresponding to patterns of lcount0 to lcount3 in accordance with a table... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090074322 - Method for dynamically adjusting the images of a web camera: A method for dynamically adjusting an image taken by a webcam. After providing a first threshold value, an environmental reference value is calculated according to an exposure time and an average brightness value. The environmental reference value is compared with the first threshold value to determine whether to enter a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090074323 - Image processing method, carrier medium carrying image processing program, image processing apparatus, and imaging apparatus: A proposition is to provide an image processing method, a carrier medium carrying an image processing program, an image processing apparatus, and an imaging apparatus capable of attaining line reproducibility and magnification distortion reduction in a well-balanced manner in an image. The image processing method is an image processing method... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090074324 - Image processing device and image processing method: An image processing device that converts a first image captured via an optical system in which at least one of a plurality of color components is missing in one pixel and MTF characteristics are different between a reference color component and at least one missing color component at an imaging... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090074325 - Method, device and program for cutting out moving image: To enable obtainment of a composite image including a movement trajectory of a moving body, even from a moving image including a background. Sampling means samples frames from moving image data. First mask frame calculating means calculates mask frames including mask regions, which correspond to positions of the moving body... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090074326 - Method for aligning point clouds: A method for aligning point clouds is disclosed. The method includes inputting point cloud data of a reference object and a to-be-measured object, and confirming an original position of point cloud of the to-be-measured object. The method further includes determining a virtual position of point cloud of the to-be-measured object... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090074327 - Curvature correction and image processing: A system and process for reading forms using a curvature distortion correction scheme is disclosed. A model image of a known form is partitioned into sectors defined by at least three alignment marks, and a transfer or correction function for each sector is generated by comparing the locations of alignment... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20090074328 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus calculates estimated pixel values of respective pixels of a provisional high-resolution image by interpolation on basis of pixel values in a reference frame, segmentalizes interior of the reference frame into an edge region, a texture region or a flat region and other on basis of pixel... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090074329 - Image display apparatus and method therefor: The present invention provides an image display apparatus and an image display method adapted for the apparatus. The apparatus stores a plurality of image files and metadata of each of the image files. The metadata includes a selection count and a weighted value of the image file. The weighted value... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090074330 - Image reading apparatus, image forming apparatus, image reading method and computer readable medium storing program thereof: An image reading apparatus includes: plural image pickup elements which are arranged unidirectionally, each image pickup element including plural photoelectric transducers that convert reflected light from an original document into pixel signals, and a forwarding unit that serially forwards pixel signals acquired by the photoelectric transducers; a dividing unit that... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090067671 - Authentication of physical and electronic media objects using digital watermarks: Digital watermark methods for encoding auxiliary data into a host signal are used to authenticate physical and electronic objects. One such method computes a content specific message dependent on the host signal, encodes the content specific message into a watermark signal, and embeds the watermark in the host signal such... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20090067666 - Determining document authenticity in a closed-loop process: A document authentication method uses a watermark added in a printed document to detection possible alterations made to the document after it was printed. First, a visible watermark in the form of a dot pattern is overlapped with an original digital image. The watermarked image is printed out as a... Agent: Ying Chen Chen Yoshimura LLP

20090067672 - Embedding hidden auxiliary code signals in media: Methods for embedding and reading identification codes from media signals use embedded code signals modulated with the auxiliary message. These embedded code signals convey hidden tracking codes in images, video, music and printed objects. The embedded code signals are embedded by varying characteristics of the signal. The identification code varies... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20090067669 - Liquid level detecting apparatus: A liquid level detecting apparatus detects a liquid surface of a liquid stored in a vessel, by taking an image of an inside of the vessel from a predetermined position where an opening edge of the vessel and the liquid surface come into an imaging range, and determining whether a... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090067667 - Method and system for image integrity determination: A method and system for determining integrity of images is disclosed herein. The method includes determining the integrity of a non-image data of an image file. The method of protecting images comprises: obtaining an image file having both image data and non-image data and generating at least one code based... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20090067670 - Methods and processes for detecting a mark on a playing surface and for tracking an object: Systems and methods for detecting a mark left by an object on a playing surface are provided. A system for detecting a mark left by an impact of an object on a playing surface, the system including at least one processor coupled to a memory arrangement. The system may further... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090067668 - Video processing system and method: A method of calculating a transform matrix for transforming points in a model of an object to an image of the object captured by a camera. The camera produces a two dimensional view of the object, the object having a plane, which includes a plurality of lines defining features on... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090067673 - Method and apparatus for determining the position of a vehicle, computer program and computer program product: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for determining the position of a vehicle moved along a path, markers, particularly code carriers or barcodes being located along the path.. The method is characterized in that the markers are detected with a digital camera placed on the vehicle... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090067674 - Monitoring device: The invention concerns a monitoring device with a multi-camera device and an object tracking device for the high resolution observation of moving objects. Hereby it is provided that the object tracking device comprises an image integration device for the generation of a total image from the individual images of the... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP 111 E. Wayne Street

20090067675 - Radar guided vision system for vehicle validation and vehicle motion characterization: A method for determining whether a target vehicle in front of a host vehicle intends to change lanes using radar data and image data is disclosed, comprising the steps of processing the image data to detect the boundaries of the lane of the host vehicle; estimating a ground plane by... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler P.C.

20090067676 - Method and apparatus for photographing discrete objects: A motion detector actuated camera for taking pictures of birds or other small thermally discernable objects utilizes a plurality of filters to detect the speed of certain bird movements within the field of view of the camera to actuate the camera when a bird is in the field of view... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20090067677 - Monitoring system and vehicle surrounding monitoring system: A parameter selection section selects one from a plurality of image synthesis parameters stored in a parameter storage section according to an output of a vehicle state detection section. An image synthesis section reads out camera images from frame memories according to the selected image synthesis parameter and generates a... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20090067678 - Motion capture device and associated method: p

20090067679 - Biometric data processing: Sets of biometric data related to different types of physical stimuli, e.g., a scanning of a fingerprint and a swiping of a fingerprint, can be compared and a transfer function can be generated based on the comparison.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090067680 - Systems and methods for minimizing aberrating effects in imaging systems: A biometric optical recognition system includes optics, including a wavefront coding mask, for imaging a wavefront of object to be recognized to an intermediate image, and a detector for detecting the intermediate image. A modulation transfer function detected by the detector contains no zeros such that subsequent task based image... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20090067681 - Face normalization for recognition and enrollment: The present invention is an iterative method for normalization of a probe image against the Eigenspace learned from a database of images. The invention is also an iterative method for normalizing the n images in a database, wherein the normalization is carried out without using a predetermined criterion.... Agent: Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, LLP

20090067682 - Facial region detection device and correction method for photoprinting: Disclosed is a method for correcting a facial region detected from image data for photoprinting of improved image quality. The method includes an image data input step of inputting the image data to an image processing device; facial region detection step of extracting a skin color region from the inputted... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090067683 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method and imaging apparatus: An image processing apparatus determines, when white balance correction is executed on an image signal of a face area detected by face detection unit, based on a first white balance correction value obtained by detecting white pixels, whether the corrected image signal of the face area is present in a... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090067691 - Authentication apparatus, registration method, collation method, and program: An authentication apparatus and authentication method which can improve the authentication accuracy are provided. The authentication apparatus consecutively picks up a biological authentication object of a predetermined biological part from different directions in series, and maps a plurality of images which are obtained as the consecutive image pickup result in... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20090067689 - Finger sensing apparatus performing secure software update and associated methods: A finger sensing apparatus may include a finger sensor having an integrated circuit (IC) substrate, an array of finger sensing elements on the IC substrate, and secure software update circuitry on the IC substrate. In addition, the finger sensing apparatus may include a host platform external from the finger sensor... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20090067686 - Finger sensing apparatus using hybrid matching and associated methods: A finger sensing apparatus may include a finger sensor including an integrated circuit (IC) substrate, an array of finger sensing elements on the IC substrate, and match circuitry on the IC substrate for performing final finger matching. The finger sensing apparatus may also include a host platform cooperating with the... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20090067687 - Finger sensing apparatus using image watermarking and associated methods: A finger sensing device may include an integrated circuit (IC) substrate, an array of finger sensing elements on the IC substrate, and image watermark circuitry on the IC substrate and cooperating with the array of finger sensing elements for generating finger image data with an image watermark embedded therein. The... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20090067685 - Finger sensing apparatus using template watermarking and associated methods: A finger sensing apparatus may include an integrated circuit (IC) substrate, an array of finger sensing elements on the IC substrate, match circuitry on the IC substrate, and a host platform external from the IC substrate and cooperating with the array of finger sensing elements for generating finger template data... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20090067688 - Finger sensing apparatus with credential release and associated methods: A finger sensing apparatus may include an integrated circuit (IC) substrate, an array of finger sensing elements on the IC substrate, match circuitry on the IC substrate for performing finger matching, and credential release circuitry on the IC substrate. The credential release circuitry may cooperate with the match circuitry for... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20090067690 - Fingerprint sensor with bump packaging: A biometric sensing device includes a sensor manufacture for sensing a biometric stimulus. The sensor manufacture includes a transitional segment between a side wall and an upper plateau. The transitional segment reduces deformation of a swiped finger, providing a tolerance in the positioning of the sensor device relative to a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090067684 - Variable resolution biometric sensor: A variable resolution biometric sensing device includes a sensor manufacture for sensing a biometric stimulus. The sensor device is configured to output data having a resolution selected from among at least two selectable output resolutions.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090067696 - Automated robust learning of geometries for mr-examinations: The present invention relates to a geometry planning software product for magnetic resonance system, comprising a database manager arranged to process an anatomical landmark set and a planning geometry of a current geometry planning session by forming a combination of both, and to add said combination to a database. The... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090067693 - Automatic calibration of computer aided diagnosis based on retrospective examination: A method for automatic detection of lesions within a medical image include acquiring medical image data. Regions of suspicion are automatically identified within the medical image data. It is automatically determined whether each identified region of suspicion is of a benign state, is of a suspicious state that requires a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090067694 - Efficient features for shape analysis of lesions in breast mr: A method for analyzing a shape of a region of interest in a medical image of a body part, including: finding a region of interest in the medical image; calculating a Reeb graph of the region of interest, and determining whether the region of interest is a malignant lesion candidate... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090067695 - Image processing system which calculates and displays color grade data and display image data: An image processing system is used for dentistry. Upon creating a false tooth of a patient (59), a plurality of illuminating light of LEDs with different wavelengths emit light and a photographing apparatus (1A) photographs a tooth portion of the patient (59), thereby obtaining image data. The image data is... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, P.C.

20090067692 - System and method for registration of medical images: The present invention relates to a system (1) and method for registration of medical image (10,11). Furthermore the invention relates to a computer program (5) for registration of medical images (10,11), when the computer program (5) is executed in a computer (2). In order to provide a more accurate registration... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090067699 - Optimization of velocity scale for color tissue doppler imaging: An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system is operable to produce tissue Doppler images and data for diagnostic use. The system includes a visual or audible alert which alerts a user to the possibility of aliasing in the tissue Doppler image data and the need to reset the velocity scale of the... Agent: Philips Medical Systems Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090067698 - Robust segmentation of breast and muscle in mri: A method for segmenting an anatomical structure within medical image data includes acquiring medical image data. The medical image data is transformed from an original image space into a projective dual image space. A boundary of an anatomical structure is identified within the transformed medical image data based on a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090067697 - System and apparatus for receiving magnetic resonance (mr) signals from an imaging subject: An apparatus for receiving magnetic resonance (MR) signals emitted by an imaging subject includes a receiver coil configured to detect the MR signals and a frequency translating preamplifier coupled to the receiver coil. The frequency translating preamplifier is configured to amplify the MR signals and to convert a frequency of... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20090067700 - Presentation of computer-aided detection/diagnosis (cad) results: A user may be provided with identified regions of interest superimposed on a larger image, which may permit the user to individually examine the regions of interest. The regions of interest may be independently windowed and/or leveled and/or magnified according to parameters associated with the region of interest, which parameters... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090067701 - System and method for detecting blemishes on surface of object: A system for detecting blemishes on a surface of an object includes at least an image capturing apparatus, at least a light source assembly, and a data processing device. The image capturing apparatus is configured for an image of a surface of an object and acquiring a brightness value of... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090067702 - Methods, devices, and systems related to pixel arrays: Methods, devices, and systems for an image sensor device are disclosed. An image sensor device comprises an array of image pixels wherein each pixel is configured for sensing light incident on the pixel. An image sensor device may further comprise a ground contact shared between at least two image pixels... Agent: Trask Britt, P.C./ Micron Technology

20090067703 - Memory cell and page break inspection: A method of inspecting an array having memory blocks with page breaks disposed between them. The memory array is imaged with a sensor at a magnification such that the memory cell size is a whole integer pixel multiple within the sensor. This creates an array image that is divided into... Agent: Lng/kla Joint Customer C/o Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.C.

20090067704 - Method and system for measurement of a cutting tool: A method for measurement of a cutting tool is provided. The method comprises positioning the cutting tool on a moveable stage, performing a first rotary scan of a first section of the cutting tool to generate a first scanning point cloud, segmenting the first scanning point cloud, performing a second... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20090067707 - Apparatus and method for matching 2d color image and depth image: Provided are an apparatus and method for matching a 2D color image and a depth image to obtain 3D information. The method includes matching resolution of the 2D color image and resolution of a light intensity image, wherein the 2D color image and the light intensity image are separately obtained,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090067705 - Method and apparatus to facilitate processing a stereoscopic image using first and second images to facilitate computing a depth/disparity image: The processing of a stereoscopic image using first and second images to facilitate computing a corresponding depth/disparity image can be facilitated by providing (101) the first and second images and then computing (103) a disparity value of each pixel in the second image by, at least in part, determining a... Agent: Motorola/fetf

20090067706 - System and method for multiframe surface measurement of the shape of objects: A system and method are provided for the multiframe surface measurement of the shape of material objects. The system and method include capturing a plurality of images of portions of the surface of the object being measured and merging the captured images together in a common reference system. The shape... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20090067708 - Color transforming method: A method for modifying original display device pixel values for a display device to maintain colorfulness, the method comprises the steps of obtaining original display device pixel values of an image; measuring white luminance from a viewing surface; and maintaining the colorfulness by calculating new pixel values based on the... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20090067709 - Perceptually lossless color compression: A system and method of color data compression may perform variations of MRC compression including taking into consideration means and/or variances within k×k cells of an image, background texture, background smoothed color, and gradient components for determination of which parts of an image belong to the background and foreground MRC... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090067710 - Apparatus and method of restoring an image: A method and apparatus for restoring an image. The method includes extracting predetermined channels from image data including a plurality of channels; and restoring the extracted channels using a first filter.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090067711 - Color processing apparatus and method thereof: Color processing is performed for an image such that more preferable color representation can be obtained under viewing environments having different viewing conditions. Hence, a setting unit inputs a plurality of viewing conditions of the output side of an image. A calculation unit sets a viewing condition used to calculate... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090067712 - Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image processing method: An image processing apparatus includes an input control unit that receives an input of image data and a first image-processing unit that performs first image processing on image data received from an image reading unit thereby obtaining first-processed image data. A first output control unit selectively-outputs the first-processed image data... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090067713 - Content-adaptive contrast improving method and apparatus for digital image: The present invention is directed to a digital image content-adaptive contrast improving method. The method includes forming a piecewise linear tone remapping function for a digital image according to the histogram thereof. The piecewise linear tone remapping function is formed by repeatedly performing a first and a second step. The... Agent: Stout, Uxa, Buyan & Mullins LLP

20090067715 - Electronic vision aid and electronic vision aid method: An electronic visual aid is provided that includes an evaluating unit, which is supplied with a recording of an information carrier on which information standing out visibly from the background is displayed. The evaluating unit determines a brightness distribution of the recording and derives from the brightness distribution a brightness... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090067714 - System and method for image fog scene detection: The subject application is directed to a system and method for image fog scene detection. Electronic image data is first received and divided into image regions, with each region consisting of a plurality of pixels. Next, a comparison matrix is generated corresponding to each image region based upon a comparison... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090067718 - Designation of image area: An image processing device includes an image display unit that displays an image; an area designation receiving unit that receives designation of a first area in a display image by a user; a transformation processing unit that transforms an image corresponding to the first area in a predetermined transformation area... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090067717 - Document-image-data providing system, document-image-data providing device, information processing device, document-image-data providing method, information processing method, document-image-data providing program, and information processing program: In a document-image-data providing device, a document image inputting unit is configured to input document image data. An area recognition unit is configured to recognize respective areas of document image elements which constitute the document image data. An element data extracting unit is configured to extract, when a document image... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090067716 - Robust and efficient foreground analysis for real-time video surveillance: Systems and methods for foreground analysis in real-time video include background subtraction and foreground detection, shadow removal, quick lighting change adaptation, static foreground region detection, foreground fragment reduction, and frame level change detection. Processes include background image extraction and foreground detection, integrating texture information of the background image and a... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20090067719 - System and method for automatic segmentation of asr transcripts: Text segmentation based on topic boundary detection has been an industry problem in automating information dissemination to targeted users. A system for automatic segmentation of ASR output text involves boundary identification based on “topic” changes. The proposed approach is based on building a weighted graph to determine dependency in input... Agent: Venable LLP

20090067720 - Color coded letter guide: A writing sheet assembly including a sheet-like body portion and a guide portion on the body portion. The guide portion includes at least three generally parallel spaced apart lines defining first and second portions therebetween such that a user can write on the portions while using the spaced lines to... Agent: Thompson Hine L.L.P. Intellectual Property Group

20090067721 - Image processing apparatus and method and a computer readable medium having computer executable instructions stored thereon for performing the method: Image processing apparatus and methods perform effective labeling of objects in an image while advantageously requiring only a small memory. The apparatus and methods practicably and effectively implement various applications, in particular, a detection technique for determination of a detection target. The apparatus comprises a detection unit for detecting values... Agent: Jones Day

20090067722 - Memory cell and page break inspection: A method of inspecting an array having memory blocks with page breaks disposed between them. The memory array is imaged with a sensor at a magnification such that the memory block size is a whole integer pixel multiple within the sensor. This creates an array image that is divided into... Agent: Lng/kla Joint Customer C/o Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.C.

20090067723 - Video image processing apparatus and video image processing method: According to one embodiment, a video image processing apparatus includes specification module which is configured to allow specification of a object from a displayed video image, a detection module which is configured to detect whether the object exists in the displayed video image, and control module which is configured to... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090067725 - Building shape change detecting method, and building shape change detecting system: There is provided a system for detecting a shape change of a building based upon an aerial photograph taken by an airplane. The system can process the aerial photograph without waiting for the airplane to land. On the airplane (2), edges are extracted directly from a central projected photographed image... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090067724 - Image matching apparatus, image matching method, and image data output processing apparatus: In an image matching apparatus of the present invention, when a document type discrimination section that discriminates a document type determines that a target document is an N-up document on which plural document images are laid out, a resolution conversion section that converts a resolution of image data into a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090067726 - Computation of a recognizability score (quality predictor) for image retrieval: A MMR system for newspaper publishing comprises a plurality of mobile devices, an MMR gateway, an MMR matching unit and an MMR publisher. The MMR matching unit receives an image query from the MMR gateway and sends it to one or more of the recognition units to identify a result... Agent: Ricoh/fenwick

20090067727 - Image matching apparatus, image matching method, and image data output processing apparatus: In an image matching apparatus of the present invention, only a connected region in which the number of pixels included therein exceeds a threshold value, among connected regions that are specified by a labeling process section, is sent to a centroid calculation process section from a threshold value processing section,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090067728 - Image matching method and image interpolation method using the same: An image matching method includes setting first and second lattices to first and second images respectively, computing potential force to each second lattice point of the second lattice by a gradient of an image correlation potential energy based on a position of each first lattice point and pixel thereof and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090067729 - Automatic document classification using lexical and physical features: An automatic document classification system is described that uses lexical and physical features to assign a class ciεC{c1, c2, . . . , ci} to a document d. The primary lexical features are the result of a feature selection method known as Orthogonal Centroid Feature Selection (OCFS). Additional information may... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20090067730 - Object recognizer and detector for two-dimensional images using bayesian network based classifier: A system and method for determining a classifier to discriminate between two classes—object or non-object. The classifier may be used by an object detection program to detect presence of a 3D object in a 2D image (e.g., a photograph or an X-ray image). The overall classifier is constructed of a... Agent: Jones Day

20090067731 - Compensated virtual scan lines: Disclosed are embodiments of methods, systems, and apparatus for providing virtual scan lines in an imaging system that compensate for the optical distortion associated with the system. In some embodiments, the virtual scan lines may be curved or angled according to their position in the Field of View (FOV) of... Agent: Datalogic - Stoel Rives LLP C/o Stoel Rives LLP

20090067732 - Sequential decoding of progressive coded jpegs: Progressive scan encoded JPEGS are decoded sequentially on a Minimum Coded Unit (MCU) basis and then the JPEG image is output one row at a time to a frame buffer. Since the entire image does not need to be decoded at once, a huge JPEG buffer is generally not required.... Agent: Robert Platt Bell Registered Patent Attorney

20090067733 - Byte representation for enhanced image compression: Various aspects can be implemented to enhance image compression by using a byte representation to reduce the color values and increase redundancy in the color information. In general, one aspect can be a method for enhancing compression of a digital image having a plurality of pixels, each pixel including at... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20090067734 - Methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding an image: A method as well as a system, a device, an encoding apparatus, a decoding apparatus, a module and a computer software product for image processing is disclosed. The image comprises a pixel matrix, in which the pixels comprise a first number of bits. The pixel matrix is divided to two... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090067735 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for a multi-resolution storage scheme for historical data: A method, system, and computer program product for a multi-resolution storage scheme for historical data are provided. The method includes dividing the historical data into a plurality of time frames and determining an amount of compression for each of the time frames, where at least two of the time frames... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20090067736 - Enhanced image compression utilizing hilbert curve scanning of quantized discrete cosine transform coefficients: A method for compressing images, the method including the steps of partitioning image information for an image into partitioned information, transforming the partitioned information into transformed information using a discrete cosine transform (“DCT”), and quantizing the transformed information into quantized information. The method further includes the steps of sequencing the... Agent: Ulmer & Berne LLP/ Oin

20090067737 - Coding apparatus, coding method, decoding apparatus, decoding method, and program: A coding apparatus includes a blocking unit configured to divide an image into blocks, a reference value acquiring unit configured to acquire two reference values not smaller and not greater than a pixel value of a focused pixel, a reference value difference calculation unit configured to calculate a reference value... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090067738 - Image coding apparatus and image coding method: An image coding apparatus for coding image data. The image coding apparatus includes: a first coding mechanism predicting a quantization parameter and a quantization matrix to be used for calculating a target amount of code for the image data by coding the image data; a second coding mechanism correcting the... Agent: Formmer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20090067739 - Color processing apparatus and method: A color processing apparatus for converting input spectral color data into output color component data corresponding to an output device is provided. A first conversion unit converts the input spectral color data into color component data, and converts the converted color component data into first output color component data corresponding... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090067740 - Spatial diffusion in images: c

20090067741 - Adaptive image processing device and method thereof: An adaptive image processing device is provided. The adaptive image processing device includes an image processing unit, a control unit, and a selection unit. The image processing unit receives an image data, for simultaneously execute a plurality of image processing processes to the image data, so as to obtain a... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090067742 - Image restoration apparatus and method: Provided is an image restoration method and apparatus, in which an image is restored by estimating the blur level of the image. The image restoration apparatus includes a block generation module which generates a plurality of overlapping blocks for an input image; a blur estimation module which generates a plurality... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090067744 - Image processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program: For each pixel read from an imaging device, a horizontal counter value and a vertical counter value corresponding to the pixel are supplied from a signal generator to a distance computation section via an optical-axis-center coordinate setting section and an up-and-down and right-and-left weighting section. In the distance computation section,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090067743 - Preprocessing for information pattern analysis: Pre-processing techniques for processing an image to improve the distinctiveness of an information pattern captured in the image before the information pattern is analyzed in a decoding process. The brightness of an image first is normalized by dividing the image into blocks of areas, such as pixels. A brightness distribution... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20090067745 - Correction of image distortion: An image sensor captures an image of a scene. This captured image has a pincushion distortion relative to an undistorted image of the scene. The distortion is corrected based on an approximation of the distortion D which satisfies the following equation for a given pixel in the captured image: D=(R−R′)/R=Da*(y2−x2+yoffset)+Db*R4,... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090067747 - Method and apparatus for generating image display data: An apparatus generates display data on a display unit. An image constructing unit constructs an image of an image list including a plurality of images each corresponding to an image data file. A data output unit outputs first display data of the image list, and then, when a switching command... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090067746 - Method for identifying images under distortion via noise characterization and bregman optimal matrix approximations: An image digest based search approach allows images within an image repository related to a query image to be located despite cropping, rotating, localized changes in image content, compression formats and/or an unlimited variety of other distortions. In particular, the approach allows potential distortion types to be characterized and to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20090067748 - Estimating orientation angle and translation values of a scanned image: Exemplary methods for estimating an orientation angle and a translation values for scanned images are disclosed. The methods described herein may be embodied as logic instructions on a computer-readable medium. In one exemplary implementation meaningful image information is removed from a scanned image, resulting in a transformed image that comprises... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090067751 - Alignment of fat-sat and non-fat-sat t1 weighted images in mri applications: A method for aligning medical images, including: generating a learned joint distribution of intensities of corresponding voxels of images acquired by a first modality and a second modality, wherein the first and second modalities are different from each other; acquiring a first image of a patient using the first modality;... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090067749 - Calibration method and calibration system for projection apparatus: The invention relates to a calibration method and a calibration system for at least one projection apparatus for projecting images onto at least one projection area, where the geometric data from the at least one projection area has been or are stored in advance in a computer unit, wherein a)... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090067750 - Chart display device and method for displaying chart: Methods and apparatuses perform image processing for blending image and/or data layers. The method according to one embodiment accesses data representing a first layer and data representing a second layer; and generates a blended layer by adjusting a transparency of said first layer relatively to said second layer based on... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090067752 - Image-registration method, medium, and apparatus: An image-registration method, medium, and apparatus obtaining first and second images, generating first and second image pyramids based on the first and second images, respectively, by performing sub-sampling which reduces the length and width of each of the first and second images by half, and determining one of five directions... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090067753 - Dynamic sizing and positioning of multiple images: A method of arranging images provides for automated scaling, positioning and organizing of a plurality of images on an image display, which may be transferred to a printed or electronic product design. A plurality of images are analyzed to produce image data. Display parameters determine permissible arrangement of the images.... Agent: Vista Print Usa, Inc. Attn: Patent Counsel

20090067754 - Black white image compression having print density control: A scaling system for compressing a bitonal image that has print density control. A system is disclosed that comprises: a pixel reduction system that generates a scaled image by reducing pixel pairs down to single scaled pixel based on a set of scaling rules; and a line density control system... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090067755 - System and method for geodesic image matching using edge points interpolation: A method for deformable registration of 2 digital images includes providing a pair of digital images, including a fixed image and a moving image, extracting a set of edge images from each image of the pair of images, each edge set being extracted at a different resolution, selecting a pair... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090067756 - Method and system for verification of uncertainly recognized words in an ocr system: The present invention provides a method and system for confirming uncertainly recognized words as reported by an Optical Character Recognition process by using spelling alternatives as search arguments for an Internet search engine. The measured number of hits for each spelling alternative is used to provide a confirmation measure for... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090067757 - Method and apparatus for forming image: A method of forming an image includes displaying a list of one or more editing items to be used in editing the image; selecting at least one editing item from the displayed list; and converting the image t using the at least one selected editing item and processing the image.... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090067758 - Edge detecting device, electronic equipment, and edge detecting method using the same: An edge detecting device for detecting a position of an edge of an object includes a measuring circuit for emitting an inspection light to a linear inspecting area including the object, and measuring first light quantity of a reflected light of the inspection light reflected from the inspecting area in... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090060269 - Content identification through deriving identifiers from video, images and audio: The present invention relates generally to obtaining information from a profile associated with a proprietor of a media object (e.g., video, images and/or audio), where the proprietor may change information within the profile from time to time. One claim recites a method including: receiving an identifier via the internet from... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20090060260 - Intelligent image smoke/flame sensor and detection system: An intelligent image smoke/flame/complex intelligent image smoke/flame sensor, and an intelligent image smoke/flame detection system formed of such an intelligent image smoke/flame/complex intelligent image smoke/flame sensor. The intelligent image smoke/flame sensor is formed of an image sensor, for example, CCD (Charge-coupled Device), a DSP Processor, an input/output circuit, an infrared... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090060263 - Map information display apparatus, map information display method, and program: A map information display apparatus for displaying map information on the basis of information on image-capturing times and image-capturing positions that are respectively associated with a plurality of captured images includes a captured image extraction unit configured to extract images captured within a predetermined time period that includes the image-capturing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090060256 - Method of advertisement space management for digital cinema system: A method for automatically collecting viewer statistics from one or more persons in a movie theater, the method including the steps of capturing an image of the one or more persons in the movie theater with an infrared camera; using a face recognition algorithm to determine persons present in the... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20090060266 - Methods and systems for analyzing ratiometric data: Systems and methods for analyzing ratiometric data, e.g., ratiometric image data such as fluorescent image data.... Agent: Mueting, Raasch & Gebhardt, P.A.

20090060268 - Methods, systems, and products for gesture-activated appliances: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for operating home appliances using gesture recognition. A sequence of video images is received and compared to a stored sequence of gesture images. A recognized gesture is associated to a home appliance and to an operation of the home appliance. An appliance controller causes... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090060265 - Processing data representing video and audio and methods related thereto: The presently claimed invention relates generally to processing data representing video and audio. One claim recites a method including: obtaining video, the video comprising at least picture portions and audio portions associated with the video; performing a first act of analyzing data representing picture portions of the video or audio... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20090060267 - Salience estimation for object-based visual attention model: The present invention provides a salience estimation method for object-based visual attention model. The method comprises steps of segmenting the image into a plurality of objects to be estimated, extracting feature maps for each segmented object, calculating the saliences of each segmented object in a set of circles defined around... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20090060261 - System and method for the generation of correlation-based digital watermarks: Disclosed are systems and methods directed to digital watermarks, and more particularly, the generation of invisible correlation-based digital watermarks embedded in halftone images.... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20090060262 - System and method for the generation of multi-layer correlation-based digital watermarks: Disclosed are systems and methods directed to the generation of multi-layer digital watermarks, including the generation of distinct watermarks on each of at least two color layers or channels within an image such that each may be retrieved or viewed independently of the other in the output image.... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20090060258 - System and method for the generation of multiple angle correlation-based digital watermarks: Disclosed are systems and methods directed to the generation of digitally watermarked grayscale images having a watermark embedded at different arbitrary Rotation Angles. A single public key can be used to retrieve the otherwise invisible watermarks from the watermarked images when overlaid atop the images at Orientation Angles corresponding to... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090060259 - Upc substitution fraud prevention: The present invention provides a system and method for detecting fraudulent identification tags, such as Universal Product Codes (UPC) applied to goods to be purchased. The invention may store in a database images of the goods to be purchased and feature models of these images. When a customer desires to... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20090060264 - Variable message coding protocols for encoding auxiliary data in media signals: Variable message coding protocols enable greater flexibility in encoding auxiliary data in media signals. One such protocol employs a version identifier that indicates the type of coding used to process an auxiliary data message before it is embedded in a host media signal. This version identifier specifies the type of... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20090060257 - Watermarking method resistant to geometric attack in wavelet transform domain: The present invention relates, in general, to a watermarking method resistant to a geometric attack in a wavelet transform domain, and, more particularly, to technology for embedding a watermark in a discrete wavelet transform (DWT) domain, thus extracting autocorrelation (AC) peaks, which play an important part in the estimation of... Agent: Adam K. Sacharoff Much Shelist Freed Denenberg Ament&rubenstein,pc

20090060277 - Background modeling with feature blocks: Video content analysis of a video may include: modeling a background of the video; detecting at least one target in a foreground of the video based on the feature blocks of the video; and tracking each target of the video. Modeling a background of the video may include: dividing each... Agent: Venable LLP

20090060270 - Image detection method: An image detection method is performed by a computer to determine whether or not an image in a region shot by a camera changes. According to the method, consecutive images shot by the camera are captured, and at least one anchored frame for the consecutive images is set. Whether or... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC

20090060274 - Image pick-up apparatus having a function of recognizing a face and method of controlling the apparatus: It is judged whether or not a human face detecting mode is set (S31). When it is determined that the human face detecting mode is set, a two-dimensional face detecting process is performed to detect a human face (S32). When it is determined that a human face has not been... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090060271 - Method and apparatus for managing video data: A method for managing video data including selecting a target object from a monitored area monitored by at least one image capturing device, extracting feature data of the selected target object, detecting motion of an object occurring in video data corresponding to the monitored area, comparing feature data the object... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090060276 - Method for detecting and/or tracking objects in motion in a scene under surveillance that has interfering factors; apparatus; and computer program: A method for detection and/or tracking of objects in motion 16 in a scene under surveillance 15, in which besides the objects in motion 16, interfering objects and/or interfering regions—both hereinafter called interfering factors 17, 23—can occur, is proposed, in which the scene under surveillance 15, a plurality of regions... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20090060275 - Moving body image extraction apparatus and computer readable storage medium storing program: A moving body image extraction apparatus calculates difference intensity relating to a background portion with respect to a plurality of frame of continuous shoot, calculates a value by dividing difference intensity of an arbitrary frame of the plurality of frames by summed difference intensity for the plurality of frames, outputs... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090060278 - Stationary target detection by exploiting changes in background model: A sequence of video frames of an area of interest is obtained. A first background model of the area of interest is constructed based on a first parameter. A second background model of the area of interest is constructed based on a second parameter, the second parameter being different from... Agent: Venable LLP

20090060272 - System and method for overlaying computer generated highlights in a display of millimeter wave imagery: A system and method for overlaying computer-generated highlights in a display of millimeter wave imagery is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, visible spectrum and algorithmically created images are displayed adjacent to corresponding millimeter wave imagery on a graphical user interface (GUI). The millimeter wave imagery is used to detect a... Agent: Mckinney Law, LLC

20090060273 - System for evaluating an image: In a system for evaluating an image, a processing device includes an input for receiving image data representing the image and another input for receiving distance information on a distance of an object relative to an image plane of the image. The distance information may be determined based on a... Agent: The Eclipse Group LLP

20090060279 - Vehicle discrimination apparatus, method, and computer readable medium storing program thereof: The pixels located at equal intervals in a shot image are converted into intensity components and applied with a differential filter. The number of the obtained variations that have values larger than or equal to a certain value among the obtained variations is counted. Then discrimination of a vehicle shot... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090060281 - Object distance deriving device: An object distance deriving device comprises a compound-eye imaging unit for capturing n unit images and a microprocessor for calculating an object distance of an object from the imaging unit based on the unit images. The microprocessor sets a first temporary distance D1 from discrete temporary distances D1-Dn prepared in... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090060280 - Stereo vision system and stereo vision processing method: A stereo vision system includes an image pre-processing unit for pre-processing the right and left images, and a stereo matching unit for carrying out stereo matching of the right and left images to acquire low-resolution distance information of the right and left images and high-resolution distance information of the right... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090060282 - Image capturing device and usage method thereof: An image capturing device includes an image capturing module, an image processing module coupled to the image capturing module, a comparing module, and an activating module. The image capturing module is capable of capturing images of an object including a pair of sequential pre-images and a final image of the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090060284 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program: An image processing apparatus for generating a motion compensation image. The image processing apparatus includes: a pixel-relative-position calculation section calculating a relative position between a pixel position of a pixel constituting the motion compensation image and a pixel position of a reference pixel of a reference image to be used... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090060283 - Systems and methods for determining position and velocity of a handheld device: Embodiments of the present invention provide a handheld device that comprises an information module for obtaining and/or receiving information pertaining to a surface adjacent to the device, and a position determination arrangement for determining at least one of a position and/or velocity of the handheld device. The position determination arrangement... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20090060285 - Rating individuals on a voluntary basis using legal non-discriminatory criteria: Disclosed is a system and method for generating security level ratings for individuals based upon background information of the individuals. The security level rating can be used by businesses to provide enhanced services and products. For example, airlines may offer A level flights for only those individuals having A level... Agent: Cochran Freund & Young LLC

20090060286 - Identification system and method utilizing iris imaging: A biometric identification system and method are provided. The system includes an image capture mechanism for capturing multiple images of a person's iris, a registration component for registering a portion of each image attributable to the iris, and a super-resolution processing component for producing a higher resolution image of the... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20090060289 - Digital image search system and method: A method and system for of identifying an unknown individual from a digital image is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the present invention allows an individual to photograph a facial image an unknown individual, transfer that facial image to a server for processing into a feature vector, and then search... Agent: Clause Eight Intellectual Property Services

20090060290 - Face image processing apparatus, face image processing method, and computer program: A face image processing apparatus selects feature points and feature for identifying a person through statistical learning. The apparatus includes input means for inputting a face image detected by arbitrary face detection means, face parts detection means for detecting the positions of face parts in several locations from the input... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090060295 - Face-image registration device, face-image registration method, face-image registration program, and recording medium: A face-image registration device extracts, from a moving image which is inputted thereto, a face image showing a face of a person and registers the face image in a dictionary. The face-image registration device includes representative-face-image extracting means for extracting, from the moving image, at least one face image which... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090060294 - Human image retrieval system: In a similar face retrieval system for retrieving an image photographing a face similar to a face detected from a retrieval query image from a retrieval target image group by using an image photographing a human face as the retrieval query image, whole image features as features representative of background... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090060288 - Image classification and information retrieval over wireless digital networks and the internet: A method and system for matching an unknown facial image of an individual with an image of a celebrity using facial recognition techniques and human perception is disclosed herein. The invention provides a internet hosted system to find, compare, contrast and identify similar characteristics among two or more individuals using... Agent: Clause Eight Intellectual Property Services

20090060292 - Image input apparatus, and image input method: The image input apparatus performs detection of a facial area of a person based on an input image. The image input apparatus compiles information of a position where the facial area is detected within a specified time and manages as a map. From the map, the image input apparatus specifies... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090060291 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program: An information processing apparatus includes a face detecting unit that detects a face area included in image data, a face-component detecting unit that detects a face component from the face area detected by the face detecting unit, and a line-of-sight discriminating unit that executes line-of-sight discrimination processing for a face... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090060293 - Personal identification device and personal identification method: A personal identification device of the present invention is provided with a registered data storage unit for storing registered data containing facial feature data for a registered user, a recognition parameter storage unit for storing recognition parameters, a image determination unit for determining whether or not the image quality of... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090060287 - Physiological condition measuring device: A device is configured for one or more of communication transfer and audio/video playback. The device includes a sensing system for measuring a physiological condition through manipulation of an output of the device and analysis of a user response.... Agent: Iv - Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20090060296 - Sensor security: The disclosure herein relates to biometric sensor device security. The biometric integrity of a stimulus; e.g., a finger, that is applied to a biometric sensor can be verified by the biometric sensor. Biometric data related to the stimulus can then be received from the biometric sensor. In order to be... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090060304 - Dermatology information: Among other things, in connection with scanning a lesion on the skin of a subject, the location of the lesion on the subject is automatically determined. The scan and the location are stored on a portable memory device. And the memory device is included in a physical patient record of... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090060301 - Image producing method using a light valve: An image system comprises a light valve and an image capturing unit. The light valve comprises an array of individually addressable pixels capable of generating an image. The image capturing unit comprises a detector having an array of detector pixels capable of capturing images. The detector pixels are correlated with... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090060303 - Method and apparatus for automated image analysis of biological specimens: A method including acquiring images of medical slides at a plurality of different focus positions, determining a position which produces a maximum value of pixel values relative to a pixel value mean, wherein said determining comprises using a pixel value mean as a coarse estimate of coarse focus position, and... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090060299 - Method and apparatus for efficient three-dimensional contouring of medical images: A technique is disclosed for generating a new contour and/or a 3D surface such as a variational implicit surface from contour data. In one embodiment, B-spline interpolation is used to efficiently generate a new contour (preferably a transverse contour), from a plurality of input contours (preferably, sagittal and/or coronal contours).... Agent: Thompson Coburn, LLP

20090060300 - Method and apparatus for image alignment: Methods and apparatuses align breast images. The method according to one embodiment accesses digital image data representing a first breast image including a left breast, and a second breast image including a right breast; removes from the first and second breast images artifacts not related to the left and right... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090060302 - Method and image evaluation system for preparation of medical 2d or 3 d data: In a method and system to prepare medical 2D or 3D data, in particular 2D or 3D image data acquired by means of computed tomography, a data set composed of medical 2D or 3D data is segmented with predeterminable first segmentation parameters, so a first data set with segmented data... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090060297 - Method and system for discriminating image representations of classes of objects: A method of identifying the location of a lesion in an image and evaluating whether the identified lesion is more likely to be cancerous, benign or uncertain is provided where the image includes a plurality of pixels, each pixel having a particular intensity I in the range of 0<I<2<sup.... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090060298 - Method, apparatus and computer program for quantitative bifurcation analysis on angiographic images: A method, data processing facility and program storage device for quantitative analysis on medical image data of a bifurcated tubular organ which involves processing the medical image data to identify contours of the bifurcated tubular organ. The contours are used to determine a Polygon of Confluence amongst the bifurcated tubular... Agent: Gordon & Jacobson, P.C.

20090060309 - Radiation image processing apparatus and method thereof: A radiation image processing apparatus which processes non-spiral projection data obtained by radiation imaging performed by rotating a radiation generator and a two-dimensional radiation detector relative to a subject reconstructs the non-spiral projection data into first volume data subjected to an averaging process in a direction of a rotation axis... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090060305 - Slice view: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture display multiple slices of a three-dimensional body in a computer drawing application. A first view of a 3D body is displayed. One or more slice sketches are defined on the first view. A single slice view of the three dimensional body is displayed.... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP

20090060308 - System and methods for automatic segmentation of one or more critical structures of the ear: A system and method for automatic segmentation of a structure of interest of an ear are disclosed, where the structure of interest includes the facial nerve and chorda tympani. In one embodiment, the method combines an atlas-based approach with a minimum cost path finding algorithm. A structure model is constructed... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20090060307 - Tensor voting system and method: Described herein is a method and system for facilitating a tensor voting scheme. The tensor voting scheme includes determining at least one voter point and at least one receiver point from input data and determining a tensor vote directed from the receiver point to the voter point.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090060306 - Ultrasonic image processing apparatus and a method for processing an ultrasonic image: A contour specifying part receives volume data representing a subject acquired by transmission of ultrasonic waves to the subject, and specifies a 3-dimensional contour of a myocardium based on the volume data. A forming part sets a reference point on the contour of the myocardium, and forms an image generation... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090060312 - Device, method and computer readable recording medium containing program for separating image components: A problem inherent to radiographic images, which may occur when an independent component analysis technique is applied to energy subtraction carried out on radiographic images, is solved to achieve separation of image components to be separated with higher accuracy. As preprocessing before the independent component analysis, a spatial frequency band... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090060313 - Device, method and computer readable recording medium containing program for separating image components: The invention relates to a method for reducing image noise in the context of capturing at least one radiation-based image of a region of interest using two different radiation spectra, in particular two different x-ray radiation spectra, comprising the following steps: capturing raw images of the region of interest using... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090060311 - Systems and methods for processing x-ray images: A method includes obtaining a first image of an object, obtaining a second image of an object, determining a level of correlation between the first and second images, and using the determined level of correlation between the first and second images to obtain information regarding a motion of the object.... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group (varian)

20090060310 - Systems, methods and apparatus for consistency-constrained filtered backprojection for out-of-focus artifacts in digital tomosythesis: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some embodiments during backprojection of filtered two-dimensional into three dimensional image each voxel is analyzed for inconsistent contributions based on at least two criteria and each of the inconsistent contributions is either replaced or excluded from the backprojection.... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20090060314 - Lockbox imaging system: A system and method for imaging and capturing information from checks and documents contained in a lockbox remittance. A computer workstation is used to generate and print a header sheet that includes information identifying the check. The header sheet is appended to the front of the documents and the document... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090060315 - Method and apparatus for inspecting objects using multiple images having varying optical properties: An automated object inspection system is presented. The inspection system includes an imaging system to produce at least two images of said object having different optical properties and an analyzer coupled to the imaging system to receive the images and to perform a variety of inspection operations on said images.... Agent: Acushnet Company

20090060316 - Method for monitoring a rapidly-moving paper web and corresponding system: The invention relates to a method for monitoring a rapidly-moving paper web. In the method, images of the rapidly-moving web are taken with cameras at several consecutive positions, of the same cross-direction point of the web. The images are analysed in real time in order to detect deviations, and the... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20090060317 - Mask defect repair through wafer plane modeling: Methods and apparatus relating to repair of mask defects through wafer plane modeling are described. In an embodiment, an updated edge location for a photomask is determined based on an image of the photomask and a comparison of contour of a corresponding wafer to physical design data of a corresponding... Agent: Lng/kla 2 Joint Customer Number C/o Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.C.

20090060318 - Legged mobile robot: In a legged mobile robot having an imaging device (such as CCD camera) for taking an image utilizing incident light from external world in which a human being to be imaged is present, brightness reduction operation is executed to reduce brightness of a high-brightness imaging region produced by high-brightness incident... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090060320 - Information presentation system, information presentation apparatus, information presentation method, program, and recording medium on which such program is recorded: Disclosed is an information presentation system that includes a plurality of information presentation apparatuses movable and displaying images of a plurality of objects, and a control apparatus outputting control signals for controlling the information presentation apparatuses. Each information presentation apparatus includes a display unit, a moving unit, a driving unit,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090060319 - Method, a system and a computer program for segmenting a surface in a multi-dimensional dataset: The method according to the invention is arranged to segment a surface in a multi-dimensional dataset comprising a plurality of images, which may be acquired using a suitable data-acquisition unit at a preparatory step 2. It is possible that data processing and data acquisition steps are temporally or geographically distanced,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090060321 - System for communicating and method: A system communicates a representation of a scene, which includes a plurality of objects disposed on a plane, to one or more client devices. The representation is generated from one or more video images of the scene captured by a video camera. The system comprises an image processing apparatus operable... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090060322 - Color control of pdl cie color: A method for processing image data includes receiving image data including an assigned color space, comparing the assigned color space of the image data to a known color space, and processing the image data using the known color space in place of the assigned color space if the difference between... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20090060323 - Noise removal device, noise removal method, and computer readable recording medium: A noise removal device that removes noise from an image signal includes: a separation unit that separates the image signal into at least two subband signals; a parameter setting unit that sets a plurality of coring ranges in relation to at least one of the subband signals; and a coring... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090060325 - Device and method for encoding image data: A reading unit reads image data. A re-reading unit that re-reads the image data read by the reading unit by performing, in a pixel matrix consisting of a plurality of pixels of the image data read by the reading unit, a process of scanning pixels in a partition in which... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090060324 - Image enhancement and compression: A digital image is compressed by determining a composite color number for each pixel in a digital image represented by a plurality of pixels in a first color space. A first set of color values are extracted from the determined composite color numbers. The first set of color image values... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20090060326 - Image processing apparatus and method: An objective color for a target color is set based on characteristic of the target color on a hue area to which the target color belongs in a color space represented by lightness, chroma and hue, and a shape of the most outer point of a color gamut reproducible by... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090060327 - Image and video enhancement algorithms: Ever since the advent of histogram equalization algorithms (“HE”) for image enhancements, there has been numerous variants of HE been proposed to improve or overcome the problems of the traditional HE. One of the drawbacks of the traditional HE is that the amount of enhancement is not adjustable. This invention... Agent: Venture Pacific Law, PC

20090060328 - Tone correcting apparatus providing improved tone correction on image: A tone correcting apparatus includes: a first determination unit that determines which one of first brightness levels that are previously defined a focused region corresponds to, the focused region being selected from among a plurality of block regions that are set to cover an entire area of the image; a... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090060329 - Image data analyzing device, image data analyzing method, and computer program: An image data analyzing device that reads and analyzes image data includes a number-of-blurred-pixels detecting unit that detects a number of blurred pixels, which is a number of pixels indicating blur width of a contour in an image represented by the image data, a number-of-image-pixels acquiring unit that acquires a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090060330 - Fast segmentation of images: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for performing fast segmentation of an image. In embodiments, an image may be segmented by generating a background mask, generating an edge mask, dilating the edge mask, and refining that edge mask by applying refinement operations that remove edge pixels from the edge mask.... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20090060331 - Image background suppression: Disclosed are embodiments of systems and methods for suppressing the background of an image. In embodiments, the number of foreground pixels or background pixels within a neighborhood of an identified background pixel may be compared against an aggressiveness threshold. Responsive to the number of foreground pixels within a neighborhood of... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20090060334 - Image foreground extraction using a presentation application: A presentation application is provided that allows a user to extract a portion of the foreground or background from an image. The user can define a polygon outlining a portion of the image, and can adjust the shape and width of the polygon. The presentation application may use the user-defined... Agent: Apple Inc. C/o Fletcher Yoder, PC

20090060333 - Interactive image segmentation on directed graphs: Methods for segmentation of an object from a background in an image are disclosed. Segmentation is achieved by an adapted Random Walker segmentation method using directed edges in a graph. The segmentation applies the minimization of an approximation of an energy function. A minimizer of the approximated energy function can... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090060332 - Object segmentation using dynamic programming: An object in an image may be segmented by determining local pixel costs based on the image and using the local costs to determined cumulative pixel costs. A contour may then be determined based on the cumulative pixel costs.... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090060336 - Document image processing apparatus, document image processing method and computer readable medium: A document image processing apparatus includes an specifying section, an extracting section, a recognizing section, an interpreting section, an arranging section and a generating section. The specifying section specifies a sentence region including a character row from a document image. The extracting section extracts at least one of character row... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090060335 - System and method for characterizing handwritten or typed words in a document: A method of characterizing a word image includes traversing the word image stepwise with a window to provide a plurality of window images. For each of the plurality of window images, the method includes splitting the window image to provide a plurality of cells. A feature, such as a gradient... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090060337 - Methods, systems and apparatuses for imager row-wise noise correction: Methods, systems and apparatuses that provide improved row-wise digital correction in an imager. During image processing, row-wise noise is corrected by applying a fractional portion of a maximum digital correction to the pixels. The maximum digital correction is determined from light shielded reference pixels in each row. During imager calibration,... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090060338 - Method of indexing chinese characters: In practicing the present invention, in analyzing a Chinese character, a 3×3 square grid of 9 boxes is superimposed over the character. The character is analyzed based upon the shape of the stroke that is at the lowest elevation within the lower right-hand corner. A Table is consulted consisting of... Agent: H. Jay Spiegel - H. Jay Spiegel & Associates

20090060339 - Method of organizing chinese characters: A method of organizing Chinese characters includes the steps of: generating Stroke Set; generating Symbol Set; generating Stroke Code Set; generating a sequential code for each of the Chinese characters to be organized; generating a spatial code for each of the Chinese characters to be organized; generating a character code... Agent: David And Raymond Patent Firm

20090060341 - Information input output method using a dot pattern: A quadrangular or rectangular area on a medium surface of a printed material is defined as a block. A straight line in a vertical direction and a horizontal direction along an edge of the block is defined as a reference lattice line. A virtual lattice point is disposed at a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090060340 - Method and apparatus for automatic image categorization using image texture: A method of automatically categorizing an input image comprises extracting texture features of the input image and generating a signature vector based on extracted texture features. The generated signature vector is processed using at least one classifier to classify the input image.... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20090060342 - Method and apparatus for determining highlight segments of sport video: In a method for determining highlight segments of a sport video, the sport video having a plurality of image frames is analyzed to recognize a scoreboard image and a plurality of scoreboard characteristics thereof. The scoreboard image comprises at least one of the scoreboard characteristics. Then, a request message showing... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090060343 - Method for partially obscuring content of documents and images: A method for partially obscuring part of a document (or image) for the purpose of hiding the content of that document while still revealing portions of the document so that the nature and validity of the content can be determined.... Agent: Kristina M. Grasso Kristina M. Grasso, Esq. PLLC

20090060344 - Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing program: An image processing device that executes deformation of an image includes a candidate area setting unit, an exclusion determination unit and a deformation processing unit. The candidate area setting unit sets candidate areas, each of which includes a specific image, on a target image used as a target for a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090060345 - Rapid, spatial-data viewing and manipulating including data partition and indexing: A high-density, distance-measuring laser system and an associated computer that processes the data collected by the laser system. The computer determines a data partition structure and stores that structure as a header file for the scan before data is collected. As the scan progresses, the computer collects data points until... Agent: Workman Nydegger/leica 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090060346 - Method and system for automatically determining the orientation of a digital image: A method of automatically determining orientation of a digital image comprises extracting features of the digital image and processing the extracted features using diverse classifiers to determine orientation of the digital image based on the combined output of the diverse classifiers.... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20090060347 - Method and program for creating analysis model: A method of creating an analysis model includes the steps of storing first shape information in association with instruction information that is used for creating the analysis model and that includes shape feature information about a connecting part in the first shape information; comparing second shape information with the first... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090060348 - Determination of image similarity: A method and apparatus for measuring the similarity of images comprising determining a plurality of displacement vectors indicative of the relative positions of similar pixels (230) or groups of similar pixels between a pair of images, and processing displacement vectors so determined to derive one or more quantities indicative of... Agent: Ungaretti & Harris LLP Intellectual Property Group - Patents

20090060349 - Determination of inventory conditions based on image processing: Image analysis techniques, including object recognition analysis, are applied to images obtained by one or more image capture devices deployed within inventory environments. The object recognition analysis provides object recognition data (that may include one or more recognized product instances) based on stored product (training) images. In turn, a variety... Agent: Vedder Price PC

20090060350 - Method for controlling electronic device and electronic device thereof: An object is held in any one of a plurality of specific orientations to present an aspect, corresponding to a specific orientation, to an imaging module of an electronic device. An image of the aspect is captured. The current captured image is compared with images in a library of image-command... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090060353 - Identifying whether a candidate object is from an object class: In one aspect, a method to identify a candidate object includes receiving an image of the candidate object and projecting the received image onto an image subspace. The image subspace is formed from images of known objects of a class. The method also includes determining whether the candidate object is... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20090060352 - Method and system for the detection and the classification of events during motion actions: The present invention relates to a system for detecting and classifying events during motion actions, in particular “offside” event in the football game. The system allows determining such event in a real-time and semi-automatic context, by taking into account the variability of the environmental conditions and of the dynamics of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090060351 - Visual language modeling for image classification: Systems and methods for visual language modeling for image classification are described. In one aspect the systems and methods model training images corresponding to multiple image categories as matrices of visual words. Visual language models are generated from the matrices. In view of a given image, for example, provided by... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090060355 - Method and apparatus for controlling image compression: A method and apparatus for controlling image compression is disclosed. A current block of pixels is firstly compressed. The average pixel size of the compressed current block is averaged with an average pixel size of preceding block or blocks to obtain an average value. The compressed current block is passed... Agent: Stout, Uxa, Buyan & Mullins LLP

20090060356 - Methods and apparatus for encoding and decoding images: Methods and apparatus for generating images, compressing image data, decompressing image data, and processing the decompressed image data so that it can be used by a rendering circuit of a device, e.g., a set top box, are described. Images are generated in the native format used by the rendering circuit... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20090060354 - Reducing compression artifacts in multi-layer images: Disclosed are embodiments of systems, devices, and methods to reduce compression artifacts in multi-layer images. Pixel dilation operations, such as morphological dilations, are performed to identify unlabeled pixels at boundaries between layers, and the colors of those pixels are adjusted to mitigate formation of artifacts during layer compression.... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20090060357 - Image decoding apparatus, image decoding method, and printing apparatus: An image decoding apparatus which decodes externally received encoded image information includes a storage unit which stores the image information. The image decoding apparatus includes a first decoding unit which receives, from the storage unit, image data to be decoded and reference data, and decodes the target image data. The... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090060358 - System and computer readable medium for the scaling down of data: The scaling down of data is provided. At least two blocks of transformed data samples representing at least two blocks of original data samples are received. One of at least two tables of constants is selected wherein each table of constants is capable of reducing the number of transformed data... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20090060359 - Method and apparatus for estimating and compensating spatiotemporal motion of image: A method of estimating and compensating for motion in image decoding are provided. The method involves determining a reference block of a reference frame indicated by a motion vector of a current block of a current frame being decoded, and generating a spatiotemporal estimation block of the current block by... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090060360 - Method and apparatus for processing image and electronic device using the same: A method and apparatus for processing an image, and an electronic device are provided. The method comprises: picking a maximum gray level from the gray levels in the sub-pixels of each image pixel in the image to obtain a luminance map which is consisted of the maximum gray levels of... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090060362 - Image and video compression using sparse orthonormal transforms: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for performing compression with sparse orthonormal transforms. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a block of data; classifying the block of data based on directional structure; selecting one of a plurality of available directional, orthonormal transforms to apply to the block based... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090060361 - Method for processing a macro block of image data: The image data are coded with field DCT or frame DCT depending on the characteristics of the image data. However different coding types will result in different boundary marks of boundaries between adjacent blocks or adjacent macro blocks. Therefore the de-blocking of a boundary between two adjacent blocks or adjacent... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090060363 - System and method for image compression: A system of image compression is disclosed. The system comprises a first encoder, a second encoder and a determining device. The determining device further comprises a quality lost calculator, a code length expense calculator and a selector. The first encoder generates a first coded data. The second encoder generates a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090060364 - Image processor for converting image by using image retrieved based on keyword: An image processor includes a keyword inputting unit, a first image acquiring unit, a first characteristic quantity determining unit, a second image inputting unit, a second characteristic quantity determining unit and an image correcting unit. The keyword inputting unit inputs a keyword. The first image acquiring unit acquires at least... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090060365 - Image display device, image processing circuit, and image processing method: To provide a processing method for reducing motion blur while increasing resolution. By performing a super-resolution process, a resolution-increased image is obtained from an input image in multiple frames. By performing an enlargement process, an enlarged image is obtained from the input image in one frame. A high-frequency image is... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090060366 - Object segmentation in images: Embodiments of the invention may process an input image using phase symmetry methods and use the resulting processing results to determine an object in the image. The object may be suppressed, if desired.... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090060367 - Method and apparatus for producing a contrast enhanced image: A method and apparatus for enhancing an input image to produce a contrast enhanced output image is disclosed. The method involves producing a contrast value for each pixel in the input image, the contrast value being proportional to an intensity gradient between each respective pixel and at least one pixel... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price P.C.

20090060370 - Filter for adaptive noise reduction and sharpness enhancement for electronically displayed pictures: Electronic images that are degraded by noise and data reduction, such as MPEG encoding, display artifacts in the reproduced image, such as ringing (“ripples”) and blocks (“huge pixels”), and noise in the image may be apparent as graininess. By performing image analysis, both on a frame-by-frame and pixel-by-pixel basis it... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20090060368 - Method and system for an adaptive hvs filter: Methods and systems for an adaptive HVS filter are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include generating standard quantized coefficients and filtering coefficients during processing of video data. The standard quantized coefficients may be filtered by utilizing the corresponding filtering coefficients. A filtering matrix comprising the filtering coefficients may be... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090060369 - Systems and methods for determination of a camera imperfection for an image: Methods and systems for creating an image filter is described. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first plurality of images captured by an at least one camera with a same setting as a first camera. The method further includes creating an averaged image from the plurality of captured... Agent: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP- Adobe Systems, Inc. 58083

20090060371 - Method for reducing image artifacts: A method for reducing image artifacts in an image that includes a number of pixels each of which includes at least one video information value, includes generating a plurality of filter coefficients for at least some of the pixels of the image, on the basis of which the video information... Agent: Patrick J. O'shea, Esq. O'shea Getz P.C.

20090060373 - Methods and computer readable medium for displaying a restored image: Methods and computer program readable medium for restoring an image. The methods include the steps of selecting one or more frames followed by determining the regions of interest so that blurring effect is determined in the regions of interest using various techniques. The regions of interest are then deblurred and... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20090060372 - Object removal from images: Using identification of their sizes and positions, objects may be attenuated or removed from images. This may involve the use of various filtering operations and may further include coordinate transformations prior to and/or after the filtering. The filtered objects may then be subtracted from the image.... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090060375 - Method and apparatus for detecting and removing false contour, method and apparatus for verifying whether pixel is included in contour, and method and apparatus for calculating simplicity: A method and an apparatus for detecting and removing a false contour, a method and an apparatus for verifying whether a pixel is included in a contour, and a method and an apparatus for calculating simplicity are provided. The method for detecting and removing the false contour includes: verifying whether... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090060374 - Method and apparatus utilizing step-wise gain control for image processing: An apparatus for image processing includes: an edge detection module, for performing an image edge detection for each pixel in an original image data and generating at least one edge detection result for a target pixel in the original image data; a step-wise gain controlling module, coupled to the edge... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090060376 - Blocking effect removal system and method: A blocking effect removal system and method is provided. A blocking effect removal system, including: a pixel segment extraction unit to extract a pixel segment which satisfies a homogeneity with respect to each pixel group adjacent to a block boundary of an image; a filtering mode determination unit to determine... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090060377 - Image processing methods and image processing apparatuses utilizing the same: An image processing method applied in an image processor for processing an image including first pixels each having a corresponding pixel value. The pixel values of first pixels are distributed within a first distribution range. Second pixels comprise a region and are obtained from first pixels when a difference between... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090060379 - Tone correcting apparatus providing improved tone correction on image: A tone correcting apparatus includes: a first acquiring unit that acquires first brightness information indicating brightness of each of a plurality of block regions that are set to cover an entire area of an image; a face detecting unit that detects a face portion where a human face is positioned... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090060378 - User interface methods and systems for image brightness and contrast: An image editing user interface includes a first control adapted to alter an image property of an image in response to a user input and a second control adapted to operate in cooperation with the first control to alter the image property in response to a user input. The image... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090060380 - Device and method for reducing visual artifacts in color images: A circuit and method for reducing artifacts in decoded color video and images are disclosed. The circuit includes a buffer for receiving an input pixel in a first color-space, and a detector for determining after transformation into a second color-space, if at least one component of the transformed pixel would... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price P.C.

20090060381 - Dynamic range and amplitude control for imaging: Systems and methods that enhance imaging by reducing artifacts and providing for dynamic range control. In aspects, the beam of illumination generated by a scanned beam imaging system can be modulated to offset fluctuations in the beam source. In other aspects, an image frame generated by a scanned beam imager... Agent: Thompson Hine L.L.P. Intellectual Property Group

20090060382 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus is provided. The image processing apparatus comprises a converting module, a sampling module, a processing module, a storage module, an output module and a display module. The converting module is used for converting an input image to image data. The sampling module is coupled to the... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20090060384 - Image processing device and image processing method: An image processing device includes a size setting unit and a deformation processing unit. The size setting unit sets the size of a specific subject in the width direction and in the depth direction in a target image generated through imaging. The deformation processing unit deforms an image within an... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090060383 - Method of restoring closed-eye portrait photo: The present invention is to provide a method of restoring closed-eye portrait photo, which comprises the steps of detecting the locations and range of the eyes of a portrait photo being taken, retrieving a patch of a designated range of the eyes area and its neighboring area which represents the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090060385 - Composite image generating apparatus, composite image generating method, and storage medium: A plurality of items of shot image data (Gn) obtained by temporally continuous shooting are analyzed. Marking data (24Mw) indicating that replaced graphic data (24Gw) is to be combined is added to the image data corresponding to actor P and the resulting data is displayed. When a preset gesture (motion)... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090060386 - Methods of automatic geometric calibration using laser scanning reflectometry: Systems and methods for calibrating a solid-imaging system (10) are disclosed. A calibration plate (110) having a non-scattering surface (140) with a plurality (150) of light-scattering fiducial marks (156) in a periodic array is disposed in the solid-imaging system. The actinic laser beam (26) is scanned over the fiducial marks,... Agent: 3d Systems, Inc. Attn: Keith A. Roberson

20090060388 - Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing program: An image processing device, which performs, on image data, image quality adjustment processing and resize processing to adjust an image size to a target size, and which outputs processed image data, including: an adjustment parameter creation unit which creates adjustment parameters for the image quality adjustment processing, on the basis... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090060387 - Optimizations for radius optical blur: Optical blur architecture that provides a significant improvement in the computation processes required to create optical blur. The architecture can be applied to efficiently implement optical blur on an image where the radius may vary from pixel to pixel and when the radius does not vary at all. The solution... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090060389 - Image processing apparatus: From an image pickup element, pixel signals of Bayer array are outputted. A correlation calculation part calculates correlation values with respect to a specified pixel in vertical and horizontal directions. A first interpolation part performs a pixel interpolation process while evaluating the correlation highly. A second interpolation part performs a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090060390 - Image processing method and apparatus: An image processing apparatus has a plurality of serially connected image processing blocks for sequentially processing image data input thereto. After a first command for controlling the plurality of image processing blocks and image data to be processed by the plurality of image processing blocks are output to the leading... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090060391 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and computer-readable medium: An image processing apparatus includes a storage unit, a receiving unit, a search unit, a processing unit and an output unit. The storage unit stores information of drawn image elements. The receiving unit receives a transformation instruction to transform a part of the image elements specified by the information of... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090060392 - Image reading device and image reading-transmitting method: The present technique provides an image reading device that allows an image transmission destination terminal to be designated simply from a console. The communication unit of the image reading device receives verification data from terminals via a network. The storage unit stores each of the received verification data in association... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090060393 - Image searching device, image searching method, image searching program, and recording medium recording the image searching program: An image searching device including a database, a user interface, a search unit, and an output unit. The search unit includes a data management unit configured to manage data on a model to be searched and acquired from the database and create an image to be displayed on a screen... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090060394 - Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing program: An image processing device that executes deformation of an image. A candidate area setting unit sets candidate areas, each of which includes a specific image, on a target image used as a target for a deformation process. An exclusion determination unit, when there is a candidate area that partially extends... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090060395 - Mobile system for exacting parking tolls: Mobile systems are provided for charging electronic toll collection accounts for parking fees. The systems are configured to wirelessly request and receive tag data from an electronic toll device. Some embodiments include a vehicle and a boom, some embodiments include a handheld device, and other embodiments include combinations thereof. Methods... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090060396 - Features generation and spotting methods and systems using same: An image partitioner is configured to find a partition point that divides a received image into four sub-images each having a pre-selected activated pixel count. A recursion processor is configured to (i) apply the image partitioner to an input image to generate a first partition point and four sub-images and... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester