Image analysis inventions 04/09

20090110230 - Image generating apparatus, image generating method, image display medium, and computer readable recording medium: A leak-prohibited image to be subjected to leak prohibition is comprised of dots DT so that two dots are included in an 8×8 matrix at a resolution of 600 dpi. The leak-prohibited image is formed as a computer terminal acquires image data, converts the image data to an image comprised... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090110234 - Image processing system and method thereof applied with instant messaging program: An image processing method for providing an output image for an instant messaging program is provided. The image processing method includes the following steps. Firstly, an image capturer captures an input image. Next, the input image is inputted to a dump memory block. Then in response to an operating event,... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090110233 - Image spam filtering based on senders' intention analysis: Systems and methods for an anti-spam detection module that can detect image spam are provided. According to one embodiment, an image spam detection process involves determining and measuring various characteristics of images that may be embedded within or otherwise associated with an electronic mail (email) message. An approximate display location... Agent: Michael A Desanctis Hamilton Desanctis & Cha LLP

20090110231 - Method, device and system for dynamically embedding watermark information into multimedia content: A method and devices for dynamically embedding watermark and/or end-user access information into multimedia content. The method includes providing multimedia content transformed into blocks that each include an array of pixel blocks, and dynamically embedding portions of watermark and/or end-user access information into selected pixel blocks based on the values... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090110232 - Methods and systems for detecting concealed objects: Methods and systems for detecting the presence of concealed objects. One embodiment of the method of these teachings for detecting the presence of concealed objects is passive, does not require any external radiation source, uses thermal radiation of a body as a source of radiation. Other embodiments include unique systems,... Agent: Burns & Levinson, LLP

20090110238 - Automatic correlation modeling of an internal target: A method and apparatus to automatically control the timing of an image acquisition by an imaging system in developing a correlation model of movement of a target within a patient.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090110241 - Image processing apparatus and method for obtaining position and orientation of imaging apparatus: An image processing apparatus obtains location information of each image feature in a captured image based on image coordinates of the image feature in the captured image. The image processing apparatus selects location information usable to calculate a position and an orientation of the imaging apparatus among the obtained location... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090110236 - Method and system for object detection and tracking: Disclosed is a method and system for object detection and tracking. Spatio-temporal information for a foreground/background appearance module is updated, based on a new input image and the accumulated previous appearance information and foreground/background information module labeling information over time. Object detection is performed according to the new input image... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20090110240 - Method for detecting a moving object in an image stream: According to the invention, said method comprises a step of searching (at 14), in at least one preceding image of the stream and along at least one predefined direction and orientation, for another zone determined as belonging to a moving object, and a step of negating (at 20) the fact... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090110237 - Method for positioning a non-structural object in a series of continuing images: A method for positioning a non-structural object in a series of continuing images is disclosed, which comprises the steps of: establishing a pattern representing a target object while analyzing the pattern for obtaining positions relative to a representative feature of the pattern; picking up a series of continuing images including... Agent: Wpat, PC

20090110239 - System and method for revealing occluded objects in an image dataset: Disclosed are a system and method for identifying objects in an image dataset that occlude other objects and for transforming the image dataset to reveal the occluded objects. In some cases, occluding objects are identified by processing the image dataset to determine the relative positions of visual objects. Occluded objects... Agent: Navteq North America, LLC

20090110235 - System and method for selection of an object of interest during physical browsing by finger framing: A system and method selecting an object from a plurality of objects in a physical environment is disclosed. The method may include framing an object located in a physical environment by positioning an aperture at a selected distance from a user's eye, the position of the aperture being selected such... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20090110242 - Geostatistical analysis and classification of core data: A novel database and method of classifying and searchably retrieving measurement data derived from a plurality of rock core and plug sample images that are analyzed to define their principal geostatistical attributes and characteristics, with the resulting analytical data being retrievably stored in a database, the method including calculating spatial... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20090110243 - Camera and image recording program product: A camera includes: an image-capturing unit that captures images of a photographic subject by image sensors and creates image data of a plurality of shot images based on an instruction for continuous shooting by a user; an identification unit that performs, each time when image data of one shot image... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090110244 - Apparatus, and associated method, for displaying data using data painting of an asymmetrical facial image: An apparatus, and an associated methodology, by which to display multi-dimensional data. Data of a plurality of dimensions is mapped onto visualization dimensions of an asymmetrical facial image. The resultant image is of characteristics permitting a viewer of the image, once displayed at a display device, to readily discern the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090110248 - Face recognition system: A face recognition system includes: an image input section that acquires a facial image of a user; a database in which a feature value of a part of a face of a registered person is stored; a facial position detection section that detects a position of a part of a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090110247 - Imaging apparatus for detecting a scene where a person appears and a detecting method thereof: An imaging device for detecting a scene where a person appears, and a detecting method thereof, are provided. The imaging device compares a representative image of a person, with persons detected in the generated images, to detect scenes where the person appears. Information about the detected scene is stored, along... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090110246 - System and method for facial expression control of a user interface: A mobile device obtains user input of message media for transmission to a remote device. The mobile device comprises a user interface including a display screen displaying information in accordance with a selected emotional indicator and an input device for obtaining the user input of the message media. A storage... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090110245 - System and method for rendering and selecting a discrete portion of a digital image for manipulation: A system enables a user viewing a digital image rendered on a display screen to select a discrete portion of the digital image for manipulation. The system comprises the display screen and a user monitor digital camera having a field of view directed towards the user. An image control system... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090110249 - Finger vein authentication device: The invention provides a finger vein authentication device using plural fingers that enables the plural fingers to be easily presented while maintaining high authentication precision. A finger vein authentication device according to an embodiment of the invention includes light sources that irradiate light onto fingers; imaging elements that photograph light... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090110250 - Method for generating digital test objects: e

20090110251 - Computerized method and system for associating a portion of a diagnostic image with an electronic record: A computerized method for associating one or more portions of a diagnostic image with one or more electronic records is provided. The method includes receiving a diagnostic image having data particular to at least two persons and associating a first portion of the diagnostic image with an electronic record. The... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20090110252 - System for visualizing regions of interest in medical images: A system for visualizing vascular fluid flow concentration includes at least one repository including a plurality of stored angiography scenes, an angiography scene comprises a plurality of individual images of a vascular structure successively acquired over a time period. A user interface control device enables a user to determine, (a)... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090110254 - External pixon smoothing for tomographic image reconstruction technical field: In another aspect, smoothing a first object thereby creating a smoothed object having a smoothed value associated to each object point in object space includes receiving the first object, determining, in a series of steps, single-kernel-smoothed objects, wherein each iteration step is associated with a kernel function and includes, determining... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090110257 - Interpolation interlacing based data upsampling algorithm for cone-beam x-ray ct flying focal spot projection data: A method of computed-tomography and a computed-tomography apparatus where a flying focal spot x-ray interpolation interlacing is used. Weighted or non-weighted interlacing of zero values is performed, or interpolation interlacing is performed. The interpolation interlacing may be implemented as part of backprojection and or may be a separate process prior... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090110258 - Method of removing an effect of side lobes in forming an ultrasound synthetic image: The present invention relates to a method of removing an effect of side lobes in an ultrasound synthetic image. The method includes: a) setting a plurality of scan lines and defining sequential indices upon the scan lines; b) setting a transmit order of a transmit beam for the scan lines... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090110255 - Reconstructing a tomographic image: In an aspect, tomographically reconstructing a 3D image object corresponding to a data set includes for each step in a series of iteration steps, determining an updated object by performing a combined operation, which includes performing an update operation for updating an input object and performing a smoothing operation, and... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090110256 - System and method for image-based attenuation correction of pet/spect images: A system and method for image-based correction including a receiver to acquire an image from one or more data storage systems, one or more processors to determine an attenuation mismatch estimate and calculate a correction for the image based on the attenuation mismatch estimate and the image, and an output... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090110253 - System and method for preventing sample misidentification in pathology laboratories: A block of tissue is imaged and used as a reference. Later slides formed from that tissue receive numbers, and are also imaged. The imaged slides are compared to the reference image to determine identification errors.... Agent: Law Office Of Scott C Harris Inc

20090110259 - Method for analytic reconstruction of cone-beam projection data for multi-source inverse geometry ct systems: A method for analytically reconstructing a multi-axial computed tomography (CT) dataset, acquired using one or more longitudinally-offset x-ray beams emitted from multiple x-ray sources is provided. The method comprises acquiring one or more CT axial projection datasets, wherein the CT axial projection datasets are acquired using less than a full... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20090110260 - Inspection system and a method for detecting defects based upon a reference frame: A method for inspecting objects and an inspection system, the system includes: an image acquisition unit adapted to acquire multiple images, according to a predefined image acquisition scheme, of multiple portions of a diced wafer that comprises multiple dice; and a processor adapted to locate multiple unique features within the... Agent: Reches Patents

20090110261 - Apparatus and method for verifying pattern of semiconductor device: An apparatus and method for verifying the pattern of a semiconductor device provides for automatically detecting the leaning of pattern by using a design layout and the upper and the lower SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) image of the pattern formed according to the design layout.... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090110262 - Evaluation object pattern determining apparatus, evaluation object pattern determining method, evaluation object pattern determining program and pattern evaluating system: There is provided an evaluation object pattern determining apparatus capable of determining local patterns to be evaluated. The apparatus is for use in a pattern evaluating system storing patterns of a LSI chip as CAD data, picking out coordinates of local patterns whose process margin is small from the CAD... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090110263 - Coplanarity inspection device for printed circuit boards: A coplanarity inspection device for a printed circuit board includes a base, a supporting disk, a driver, a printed circuit board, a light source, an image acquisition means, and a controller. The supporting disk is arranged on the base, and the driver rotates the supporting disk. The printed circuit board... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090110264 - Position detector, position detection method, exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method: A position detector, which detects the position of a mark formed on a substrate (W), comprises a creating unit (9), a search unit (13), and a correction unit (14). The creating unit (9) creates a template used for identifying a mark to be detected (WM) based on an image including... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090110265 - System for forming patterns on a multi-curved surface: According to one embodiment, a pattern forming system includes a patterning tool, a multi-axis robot, and a simulation tool that are coupled to a pattern forming tool that is executed on a suitable computing system. The pattern forming tool receives a contour measurement from the patterning tool and transmits the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20090110267 - Automated texture mapping system for 3d models: A camera pose may be determined automatically and is used to map texture onto a 3D model based on an aerial image. In one embodiment, an aerial image of an area is first determined. A 3D model of the area is also determined, but does not have texture mapped on... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20090110266 - Stereoscopic image processing device and method, stereoscopic image processing program, and recording medium having the program recorded therein: The present invention is directed to a stereo image processing apparatus adapted for generating stereo images which permit, at a glance, discrimination of a suitable observation method. This stereo image processing apparatus includes an image input unit (1) for inputting plural image data constituting stereo images by the parallel method... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20090110268 - Table of contents extraction based on textual similarity and formal aspects: An initial organizational table for a document is determined based on textual similarity between entries of the organizational table and target text fragments and not taking into account text formatting. A classifier is trained to identify text fragment pairs consisting of entries of the organizational table and corresponding target text... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090110269 - Method of obtaining a saliency map from a plurality of saliency maps created from visual quantities: The invention relates to a method of obtaining a saliency map from a plurality of saliency maps created from different visual quantities, comprising - a step for normalizing said saliency maps based on the theoretical maximum of each visual quantity, -an intra-map competition step selecting the main saliency areas in... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090110271 - Color recognition device and method thereof: A color recognition device is provided. The color recognition device includes a color image sensor, an image processing system, and a projection device. The color image sensor senses a color image having an image area with a specific color, and generates a first electrical signal corresponding to the color image.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090110273 - Image processing device and image processing program: An inspection apparatus includes an imaging device and an image processing device. The imaging device photographs a specimen and outputs a color image of the specimen to the image processing device. The image processing device subjects the color image of the specimen to negative-positive reversal. After detecting a mode value... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090110272 - Method and apparatus of searching for images:

20090110270 - Use of composite bitmapped images in conjunction with display of captured data: In order to efficiently present data extracted from a captured image of an assessment document, a single bitmapped composite image is constructed from multiple images or components such that each layer or content type is stored within discrete bits within each pixel. Different layers are then shown, hidden, emphasized, or... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20090110274 - Image quality enhancement with histogram diffusion: Techniques for improving the quality of images are described. A first histogram of intensity values may be obtained for an input image and diffused to obtain a second histogram with better intensity coverage. The diffusion may be achieved by filtering the first histogram for multiple iterations with a diffusion function... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090110275 - System and method for electronic document classification: A system and method for electronic document classification are provided. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: converting a candidate electronic document comprising character data to a candidate image; obtaining a representation of a degree of visual similarity of the candidate image to a reference... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090110277 - Method and apparatus for analysing a plurality of stored images: s

20090110276 - Segmented image processing apparatus and method and control factor computation apparatus: A segmented image processing apparatus and method and a control factor computation apparatus are provided. The segmented image processing apparatus, including: an image segmentation unit to segment an input image into an n number of images; an n number of segmented image processing units to process the segmented images based... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090110278 - System and method for viewing and utilizing data from electronic images: A method of utilizing data extracted from an electronic image includes receiving an electronic image associated with a subclient and receiving a plurality of data extracted from the electronic image and organized into predefined fields associated with the subclient. The method also includes displaying the electronic image in a first... Agent: Winstead PC

20090110280 - Image recognition apparatus, image recognition program, and image recognition method: m

20090110279 - System and method for extracting and organizing data from electronic images: A method of extracting and organizing data from electronic images includes processing a set of data fields representative of data to be extracted, mapping at least a subset of the set of data fields to at least one subclient, and attaching a rule from a set of rules to at... Agent: Winstead PC

20090110281 - Image forming apparatus, image processing apparatus, and image processing method: An image forming apparatus that processes image data using plural processors that operate in parallel includes an image-data receiving section that receives inputted image data, a layout analyzing section that analyzes a layout structure including a predetermined area on the basis of the image data received by the image-data receiving... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090110282 - Image recognition apparatus, image recognition method, and storage medium recording image recognition program: An image recognition apparatus recognizes the correspondence between character strings and logical elements composing a logical structure in an image in which the character strings are described as the logical elements to recognize each logical element. The image recognition apparatus includes outputting means for outputting the recognized logical elements when... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090110283 - Method and apparatus for operating, interfacing and/or managing for at least one optical characteristic system for container handlers in a container yard: Methods and several apparatus embodiments are disclosed operating Optical Characteristic Systems (OCS) in a container storage and/or transfer yard supporting the automated recognition of container codes displayed on various sides of the containers being stored and/or transferred. At least one processor may initiate an operational process by an OCS mounted... Agent: Gregory Smith & Associates

20090110284 - System and method for sorting objects using ocr and speech recognition techniques: To perform character recognition on an object for automatic processing of the object in a processing system, where the object contains at least one character string of processing information, a character string spoken by an operator is processed by a speech recognition procedure to generate a candidate list containing at... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090110285 - Apparatus and method for improving image resolution using fuzzy motion estimation: The subject matter discloses a method and apparatus for re-sampling a sequence of images in order to improve its resolution, fill-in missing pixels, or de-interlace it. The method operates locally in the images to be processed, comparing pixel values of pixels surrounding the target pixel to pixel values of substantially... Agent: Soroker-agmon Advocate And Patent Attorneys

20090110286 - Detection method: The invention relates to a method for the detection of a symmetrical object of a known shape, in particular of a road sign, preferably associated with a road, in an image of the environment in the range of view of an image taking device in particular arranged at a motor... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090110288 - Document processing apparatus and document processing method: A document processing apparatus comprises a layout analysis module configured to analyze image data input, divide areas for each classification, and acquire coordinate information of a text area from the areas by a classification; a text area information calculation module configured to calculate position information of a partial area for... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090110287 - Method and system for displaying image based on text in image: A method and a system for displaying an image based on texts in the image are provided. The method of the invention for displaying the image includes: a text extracting step, extracting text regions in the image to be displayed; a text occupancy amount calculating step, calculating occupancy amount of... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20090110290 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus has an image data reading section that reads image data formed on a document, an image processing section that separates regions where effective information is present from the read image data so as to determine, for every separated region, a shape of a see-through preventing pattern... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090110291 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: A key region extraction unit (303) extracts a first region including pixels having a predetermined pixel value in a physical space image. A motion vector detection unit (304) calculates motion vectors at a plurality of portions on the physical space image. An object region detection unit (305) specifies, using the... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090110289 - Image processing of apparatus condition: In one embodiment, a method of continually monitoring and detecting in real-time a condition of an apparatus is detailed. In one step, an apparatus is continually monitored in real-time using continual real-time images of the apparatus taken by at least one camera. In another step, the continual real-time images of... Agent: Evan Law Group LLC And The Boeing Company

20090110292 - Hand sign recognition using label assignment: A method and system for recognizing hand signs that include overlapping or adjoining hands from a depth image. A linked structure comprising multiple segments is generated from the depth image including overlapping or adjoining hands. The hand pose of the overlapping or adjoining hands is determined using either (i) a... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20090110294 - Automatic transfer of outlined objects from one data set into another data set: A method for automatically localizing at least one object or structure in a second data set is provided. A reference data set is provided, and at least one object or structure is outlined or marked in the reference data set, the outline or marking information being a first or reference... Agent: Don W. Bulson (brai)

20090110293 - Information management apparatus, information management method, and program: An information management apparatus includes a characteristic-amount management unit managing a characteristic amount; a characteristic-amount association unit maintaining an association with a similar characteristic amount for each of the characteristic amounts; a space index management unit managing a space index for the characteristic amounts managed by the characteristic-amount management unit;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090110295 - Product identification apparatus, product identification method, and program: A product identification apparatus for determining whether an inspection target product to be identified is the same as a predetermined verification product includes: an extraction unit configured to extract an input pattern formed of asperities on the surface of a predetermined part of the inspection target product from a captured... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090110297 - Computer readable recording medium storing difference emphasizing program, difference emphasizing method, and difference emphasizing apparatus: A difference emphasizing apparatus aligns a first three-dimensional model and a second three-dimensional model in orientation and position in accordance with a predetermined rule, and gets data of respective apices of the first three-dimensional model and the second three-dimensional model. Based on the gotten data, the apparatus finds a corresponding... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090110296 - Method of image feature coding and method of image search: A feature coding unit extracts and encodes a feature of a video signal so as to generate a feature stream. A feature identifying unit checks a decoded feature obtained as a result of decoding the feature stream against a search key from a user for a match so that a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090110298 - System and method for compiling images from a database and comparing the compiled images with known images: A method and system for discovering from a database an object which is confusingly similar with a known object. A database, such as the internet, is searched for objects which, when discovered, may be duplicated and stored. A determination is then made if any object from the database is confusingly... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090110300 - Apparatus and method for processing image: A classifying unit classifies a plurality of images by attributes. An obtaining unit obtains image characteristic information indicating an image characteristic from each of classified images. A first generating unit generates a characteristic amount vector for each of the images using the attributes and the image characteristic. A determining unit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090110299 - Apparatus, method and computer program for classifying pixels in a motion picture as foreground or background: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for classifying pixels in each frame of a motion picture as foreground or background. According to the invention, the apparatus has a decision unit and adjustment unit. The decision unit classifies a pixel as a foreground pixel, a background pixel... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090110301 - Classification of objects as well as recognition of their position and orientation in space: A method for the classification of objects (16) and/or the recognition of their position and/or their orientation in space is set forth, wherein measurement object data points of a measurement object surface are generated using a distance resolving receiver unit (18) and, with the aid of model object data determined... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20090110302 - Declustering point-of-interest icons: Super-clusters of point-of-interest locations are created based on how close the point-of-interest locations are to one another. Additionally, one or more mini-clusters are created in each of the super-clusters based on how close the point-of-interest locations within each super-cluster are to one another. For each of one or more mini-clusters,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090110303 - Object recognizing apparatus and method: An object is identified by detecting an object area image of an object to be recognized from a degraded image, converting the object area image to a frequency area, extracting a feature vector which indicates the amount of blur, comparing the feature vector and a classified plurality of blurred images,... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090110306 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program: A software architecture based on a concept called “pipes and filters” is applied to an image processing apparatus, thereby simplifying the customization, expansion, etc., of functions. In addition, filters are combined together using a description table in which the combination of the filters is described so as to construct a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090110305 - Method and apparatus for compressing and decompressing data: The invention provides a method and apparatus for compressing and decompressing electronic image data, and in particular texture data. The compressed data comprises at least two sets of reduced size data, modulation data and modulation and discontinuity flags. The modulation and discontinuity flags determine how the modulation data is used,... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20090110307 - Method and system for efficient transmission of rich three-dimensional geometry and animation content over narrow band communication networks: A method and system for compacting and distributing graphic data by representing three-dimensional models by primitive objects that are predefined in the system and instructions, which may include solid modeling operations for constructing at least one model from the identified primitive objects. The method and system enable creating compacted representation... Agent: Appelfeld Zer Fisher

20090110304 - Method and system for video compression with integrated picture rate up-conversion: Certain aspects of a method and system for video compression with integrated picture rate up-conversion (PRUC) may include generating picture rate up-conversion (PRUC) data from received video data while the received video data is being encoded. The generated PRUC data may be encoded and communicated to a decoder in order... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090110308 - Decoding and error correction in 2-d arrays: A system and process for determining the location of a captured image from a larger image is described. A non-repeating sequence may be folded into a non-repealing array in which the array is unique for every sub window of a given size. The image of the sub window may be... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20090110309 - Image decompression apparatus, medium recording image decompression program, image decompression method: An image decompression apparatus includes: a request frame number acquisition section that sequentially acquires request frame numbers which are the numbers assigned to frames for which decompression is required in the forward or backward direction of the frame number; a compressed data acquisition section that acquires compressed data of a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090110310 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus and method execute instructions contained in multiple threads in parallel. The image processing apparatus decodes code data that is obtained by dividing image data into areas and carrying out a compression process such that the individual areas can be independently decoded. The image processing apparatus includes... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090110311 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium storing computer program: An image processing apparatus includes an image area separation device, a compression device, an image storage device, an image area storage device, a data writing device, and an image output state monitoring device. The image area separation device separates input image data into image data and image area separation data.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090110312 - Method of image compression with intelligent prediction mechanism: A method of compressing an image by referring to the correlation of previous line information results in high image quality. A register is used to save the previous line information and the derived predictive method for compressing future line of pixels. Another register is used to save the complexity of... Agent: Chih-ta Star Sung

20090110313 - Device for performing image processing based on image attribute: The present invention provides an image processing device able to compress the information volume of attribute data by vectorizing the attribute data. A transmitting image processing device includes an attribute separating unit that extracts attribute data from image data, a vectorization processing unit that vectorizes the attribute data extracted by... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090110314 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus including: a decoder; an image size processor that executes image processing regarding an image size on uncompressed image data as the output from the decoder; a general-use interface that transfers the output from the decoder or the image size processor; an exclusive-use interface that transfers the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090110316 - Apparatus and method for performing video decoding processes in parallel: An apparatus and a method for performing video decoding processes in parallel are provided. The method is adapted for utilizing a first cluster and a second cluster of a processor to perform the video data decoding process in parallel. The method includes performing a VLD process to the video data... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090110315 - Image data compressing method and image data compressing apparatus: An image data compressing method, including: storing a plurality of data components of an original image data; assigning a value to a first bit sequence, where the first bit sequence includes a first group of bits associated with zero data components in the plurality of data components and a second... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090110317 - Method and apparatus for compressing image signal: A method of compressing image signals, to provide more efficient compression than a discrete cosine transform (DCT) while having the least amount of overhead information is provided. A partial exchange between a row and a column of a transform matrix is performed by applying several values to a parameter, which... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090110318 - Information encoding apparatus and method, information retrieval apparatus and method, information retrieval system and method, and program: An information retrieval apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain dynamic ranges or re-quantization codes of a target object to be retrieved and dynamic ranges or re-quantization codes of each of comparison objects to be compared with the target object, the dynamic ranges or re-quantization codes of the target... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090110319 - Methods and systems for background color extrapolation: Aspects of the present invention are related to methods and systems for determining a background color in a digital image.... Agent: Kristine Elizabeth Matthews

20090110320 - Methods and systems for glyph-pixel selection: Aspects of the present invention are related to methods and systems for detecting glyph pixels in a digital image.... Agent: Kristine Elizabeth Matthews

20090110321 - Determining a pixon map for image reconstruction: Determining a pixon map for pixon smoothing of an object based on a data set includes receiving the data set and an input object associated to the data set. Determining a pixon map further includes determining, in a series of steps, statistical objects for a set of pixon kernel functions,... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090110323 - Method and system for dual-envelope image enhancement: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and systems for processing signals, particularly signals encoding two-dimensional images, such as photographs, video frames, graphics, and other visually displayed information. In various method embodiments of the present invention, an input image signal is decomposed into an upper-envelope function, a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090110322 - Methods and systems for estimating illumination source characteristics from a single image: Certain embodiments provide systems and methods for determining light source characteristics from an image. An image having pixels is received that is affected by a light source. A silhouette boundary is received. The image may be filtered to decrease diffuse reflectivity. The presence of light sources is estimated by identifying... Agent: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP- Adobe Systems, Inc. 58083

20090110325 - Image sensor with pixel array subset sampling: An apparatus comprising a pixel array to capture an image of a symbol code, wherein the image is formed on a plurality of pixels within the pixel array and is moving relative to the pixel array, and circuitry and logic coupled to the pixel array to sample a subset of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090110324 - White/black pixel correction in a digital image sensor: Disclosed are embodiments of an apparatus comprising an image sensor comprising a pixel array including a plurality of pixels, a detection circuit coupled to the pixel array to detect potential white/black pixel defects in the pixel array, a correction circuit coupled to the detection circuit to correct potential white/black pixel... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090110326 - High bandwidth image processing system: The present invention provides a high bandwidth image processing system, which generally includes an image processing unit having a set of servers that each have a universal operating system for receiving image data corresponding to a set of images, generating commands for processing the image data, and sending the images... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090110327 - Semi-automatic plane extrusion for 3d modeling: In accordance with one or more aspects, a plane in a 3D coordinate system in which a 3D model is to be generated based on one or more 2D images is identified. A direction of extrusion for the plane is also identified. Additionally, a user identification of a region of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090110328 - Image processing apparatus, image scanning apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program: A method and system for correcting the inclination of a scanned document in which two integers “a” and “b” are input to perform a rotation process. Each time an x-coordinate of a target pixel of a rotated image is changed by one pixel, “a” is added to a factor “kwy”.... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20090110329 - Method and apparatus to facilitate forming a compensated image of a wide-angle image: Straight lines in a compensated image of a wide-angle image are identified (102) and corresponding curved lines of pixels in the wide-angle image identified (103) as well. For given points in the aforementioned straight lines, a corresponding point in the corresponding curved lines is identified by determining an intersection of... Agent: Motorola/fetf

20090110330 - System and method of viewing images of a device: An image viewing system includes a display, a memory, an image viewing unit, a resize unit and a processor. The memory is configured for storing the images. Each image acquires additional metadata about the corresponding image. A thumbnail of the corresponding image is built in the metadata. The image viewing... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090110331 - Resolution conversion apparatus, method and program: An apparatus includes unit acquiring a target image as a target of resolution conversion, unit acquiring an additional image from the image source, unit estimating a corresponding point in the target image using corresponding point estimation methods, the corresponding point being associated with at least one pixel in the additional... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090110332 - Increasing resolution of video images: A method and apparatus for increasing resolution of video images are disclosed. Vectors may be produced based on a sequence of video frames. Low dimensional vectors may be produced from the vectors. Groups of at least two of the low dimensional vectors may be interpolated to produce respective low dimensional... Agent: Prass LLP

20090110333 - Light measuring device and scanning optical system: A light measuring device is disclosed which can take in light from different portions of a plane light source efficiently to carry out measurement. The light measuring device for measuring light from a plane light source includes a spatial division device configured to carry out operation for successively taking in... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090103769 - Cognitive control framework for automatic control of application programs exposure a graphical user interface: The present invention relates generally to automatic control of software application programs and image analysis and, more specifically, to analyzing graphical component, an execution scenario script, and a playback component. The recording component is adapted to capture user input data and images displayed by the graphical user interface during a... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090103770 - Image data transmission system and method, and terminal apparatus and management center which constitute transmission side and reception side of the system: An image data transmission system comprises a first terminal device (110) and a second terminal device (210) included in a communication network. (I) The first terminal device (110) includes first processing means (111) for performing such a first operation upon image data as contains an adding operation to add management... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090103771 - Image processor, image forming apparatus, image processing method and computer readable medium: The image processor includes: an acquisition unit acquiring a read-out image read out by an image reading apparatus; a detection unit detecting, from the read-out image, an embedded image including a first specified image having a first shape and a second specified image having a second shape; an adding unit... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090103772 - Method and detection device for the imaging detection of a sample: The invention relates to a device for detecting a sample in a longitudinal sample container (10), comprising a sample container holder (30) for holding the sample container in a housing. Said sample container holder comprises a side viewing window in the region of at least one longitudinal side of the... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090103773 - Smart picking in 3d point clouds: An embodiment of the invention includes a method for identifying a point representing a feature in a 3D dataset. The method includes performing a pick, which includes filtering the dataset to extract a subset of points based on certain criteria including a seed point and evaluating a metric for each... Agent: Workman Nydegger/leica 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090103774 - Temporally threaded cmi watermark: Disclosed is a temporally threaded copyright management information watermark where fragile watermarks containing CMI are spread throughout a digital work temporally. In one embodiment of this invention, the copyright management information is divided into a multitude of copyright management information subparts; the copyright management subparts are applied to fragile sub-watermarks;... Agent: David Grossman

20090103778 - Composition determining apparatus, composition determining method, and program: A composition determining apparatus includes a subject detecting unit configured to detect one or more specific subjects in an image based on image data; a subject orientation detecting unit configured to detect subject orientation information indicating an orientation in the image of the subject detected by the subject detecting unit,... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090103780 - Hand-gesture recognition method: One embodiment of the invention includes a method of providing device inputs. The method includes illuminating hand gestures performed via a bare hand of a user in a foreground of a background surface with at least one infrared (IR) light source. The method also includes generating a first plurality of... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20090103777 - Lock and hold structured light illumination: A method, system, and associated program code, for 3-dimentional image acquisition, using structured light illumination, of a surface-of-interest under observation by at least one camera. One aspect includes: illuminating the surface-of-interest, while static/at rest, with structured light to obtain initial depth map data therefor; while projecting a hold pattern comprised... Agent: Jean M. Macheledt

20090103776 - Method of non-uniformity compensation (nuc) of an imager: The present invention provides for simple and streamlined boresight correlation of FLIR-to-missile video. Boresight correlation is performed with un-NUCed missile video, which allows boresight correlation and NUC to be performed simultaneously thereby reducing the time required to acquire a target and fire the missile. The current approach uses the motion... Agent: The Noblitt Group, PLLC

20090103779 - Multi-sensorial hypothesis based object detector and object pursuer: The invention relates to a method for multi-sensorial object detection, wherein sensor information is evaluated together from several different sensor signal flows having different sensor signal properties. For said evaluation, the at least two sensor signal flows are not adapted to each other and/or projected onto each other, but object... Agent: Patent Central LLC Stephan A. Pendorf

20090103775 - Multi-tracking of video objects: An inventive method for video object tracking includes the steps of selecting an object; choosing an object type for the object, and enabling one of multiple object tracking processes responsive to the object type chosen. In a preferred embodiment selecting the object includes one of segmenting the object by using... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090103781 - Process for the automatic calculation of the coefficient of a slope about to be ascended by a motor vehicle and an associated device: The present invention relates to a process for the automatic determination of the coefficient of a slope from a motor vehicle fitted with a camera.... Agent: Matthew R. Jenkins, Esq.

20090103782 - Method and apparatus for obtaining depth information: A method and apparatus for obtaining depth information are provided. The method includes calculating a relative depth value between a first color pixel and a second color pixel based on values of color pixels of a color image, and calculating a depth value of a second depth pixel that belongs... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090103783 - System and method for biometric behavior context-based human recognition: A system and method are provided for the biometric recognition of a human being based on a combination of biological and behavioristic traits to achieve increased recognition accuracy and to protect against false identifications based on imitated traits. Behavioristic traits comprise biometric traits involving behavior acquired by a human being... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20090103784 - Effective red eye removal in digital images without face detection: Methods and apparatuses for detecting and correcting red-eye in an image are provided. In one aspect, red-eye can be detected without detecting faces. Red-eye candidates are identified and eliminated by evaluating a series of statistics, including color, size, shape, distance, etc. A plurality of regions, including an eye region, a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090103785 - Ocular identification system for use with a medical device: A method and system for authenticating a user of a medical device is provided. Ocular signatures are stored in a database for at least one permitted user. Stored ocular signatures are compared to an individual ocular signature. The user can employ selected functionality of the medical device when at least... Agent: Advanced Medical Optics, Inc.

20090103786 - Apparatus and method for generating a three-dimensional representation from a two-dimensional image: In an apparatus and method for generating a three-dimensional representation from a two-dimensional image, a memory device stores information for processing a two-dimensional image and for generating a three-dimensional image from the two-dimensional image, a processing device processes a digital representation of an image by generating a two-dimensional image from... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090103788 - High performance multi-mode palmprint and fingerprint scanning device and system: Systems, devices and methods for providing rolled fingerprint capture and palm capture capability in a device having reduced size are provided. In certain embodiments, the systems and methods provide capture of rolled fingerprints, slap fingerprints and palm prints in one continuous workflow in a compact device. In certain embodiments, moisture... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090103787 - Sliding type thin fingerprint sensor package: A sliding type thin fingerprint sensor package defined as a sliding region and a conductive portion comprises a substrate, a fingerprint sensor chip and a metal plate. The fingerprint sensor chip is electrically connected with the substrate and a sensing region of the fingerprint sensor chip is exposed by a... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20090103789 - Delivering and receiving medical images: A method, apparatus, and program product are provided for delivering and receiving DICOM images. A plurality of files, including DICOM image files and non-DICOM image files, stored on a computer is accessed. The DICOM image files are identified from among the plurality of files by scanning header data of the... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20090103790 - Image diagnosis support system and image diagnosis support method: There is disclosed an image diagnosis support system which acquires a medical image from a medical image imaging unit, generates object information on the medical image, stores the medical image and the object information in a data storage unit and a database, stores case information for each patient based on... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090103792 - Depth of field extension for optical tomography: An optical projection tomography system is illuminated with a light source. An object-containing tube, a portion of which is located within the region illuminated by the light source, contains an object of interest that has a feature of interest. A detector is located to receive emerging radiation from the object... Agent: George A Leone, Sr Citadel Patent Law

20090103794 - Display of classifier output and confidence measure in an image: Systems and methods are described for displaying classifier output and confidence measure in an image. The confidence measure advantageously provides additional information to the user indicating the accuracy of the classification result. Based on the classification accuracy, the user may accept or reject the classification result. In an exemplary embodiment,... Agent: Boston Scientific Corporation Darby & Darby P.C.

20090103791 - Image interpolation for medical imaging: Presented are systems and methods that allow for interpolation of a 3-D volume from arbitrarily oriented 2-D medical images. The interpolation of 3-D volume from arbitrarily oriented 2-D images reduces or eliminates most constraints on image acquisition thereby allowing for, inter alia, freehand manipulation of an image acquisition device (e.g.... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20090103793 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for processing three-dimensional image data to render an image from a viewpoint within or beyond an occluding region of the image data: Methods, systems, and computer program products for processing three-dimensional image data to render an image from a viewpoint within or beyond an occluding region of the image data are disclosed. According to one method, a set of three-dimensional image data is accessed. The image data includes image data for a... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20090103795 - Robust motion correction for functional magnetic resonance imaging: A computer-implemented method to correct motion and interpolation effects for functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) analysis is provided. The method estimates the motion on every voxel of the data and removes those effects to leave a residual signal that can be analyzed to high accuracy. The estimation of the motion... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm

20090103797 - Method and system for nodule feature extraction using background contextual information in chest x-ray images: A method and system for nodule feature extract using background contextual information in chest x-ray images is disclosed. In order to detect false positives in nodule candidates for a chest x-ray image, background contextual information, such as contextual vessel tree information, is defined in the chest x-ray image. Features are... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090103796 - Method of discriminating between right and left breast images and breast radiographing system: The control apparatus sets the destination for sending data of the designated image reading apparatus and the breast image radiographing apparatus to be the control apparatus when receiving request for radiographing start in the mammography mode from the control apparatus. The breast image radiographing apparatus reads cassette ID of loaded... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

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20090103799 - Pattern matching method in manufacturing semiconductor memory devices: A pattern matching method for use in manufacturing a semiconductor memory device increases a pattern matching rate between a GDS image and an SEM image. The pattern matching method includes extracting a scanning electron microscope (SEM) image and a graphic data system (GDS) image to perform a pattern matching; performing... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20090103800 - Coordinate system converter: A coordinate system converter efficiently converts coordinates of one coordinate system to a different coordinate system. A base system library module provides a common platform where different algorithms based on different coordinate systems can “shake hands” or be integrated into an overall conversion process in a manner that is transparent... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090103801 - Separation of spectrally overlaid or color-overlaid image contributions in a multicolor image, especially transmission microscopic multicolor image: In one embodiment, the invention relates to a method for generating several single-color images from a multicolor image of a sample or object defined by intensity pixels (Iα(x,y), Iβ(x,y), Iγ)(x,y)) of at least two color channels (α, β, γ) in order to identify properties of structures of the object or... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20090103802 - Device, system and method for characterizing a colour device: A method for characterizing a colour reproduction device. A first output colour measure responding to a first reference input colour value is measured under normal measurement conditions. The measurement conditions are modified and a second output colour measure responding to the first reference input colour value is measured under the... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090103803 - Machine readable documents and reading methods: A method of independently encoding an image with two information channels comprises generating an image which encodes a primary information channel based on brightness levels. The image is modified to encode a secondary information channel. This image modification comprises applying one of two image output values to the image portion,... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090103806 - Adjustment for output image of image data: When a memory card is inserted into a slot, the control circuit of a color printer obtains image output control information from a memory card and analyzes it. When auto light source is not set as the light source, the CPU references the reference values and coefficients for the characteristics... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20090103805 - Color correction method and apparatus of rgb signal: A color correction method of an RGB signal includes the following steps. First, an original RGB-coordinate point in an RGB color space is defined according to the RGB signal, and a reference plane is obtained according to the original RGB-coordinate point. The original RGB-coordinate point locates on the reference plane,... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090103804 - Method for color transient improvement and apparatus thereof: A method for color transient improvement includes generating an angle value according to an included angle of two color components in a specific color space domain, and generating a transient enhancement signal according to the angle value. Furthermore, a color transient improvement circuit is provided. The color transient improvement circuit... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090103807 - Multi-imager display apparatus: A display apparatus includes a controller, a first addressing circuit, a first array of displaying elements, a second addressing circuit, a second array of displaying elements, and a reset circuit. The controller can separate a digital image into a first image portion and a second image portion and produce a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090103808 - Correction of distortion in captured images: An image processing method comprises analysing an image of a portion of text, and detecting the inter-line spacing and the inter-word spacing across the area of the image. Based on the inter-line and inter-word spacings, a quadrilateral shape is derived which represents the deformation of the text image from an... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090103809 - Input method transform: Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, a data processing system and a computer program product for transforming character data input between a first writing system and a second writing system. The computer implemented method comprises receiving character data input of a first writing system and ensuring the character data... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090103810 - Content generation, extraction and distribution of image region segments from video images: The present invention provides methods for extracting an image region segment from a video image, a system for extracting an image region segment, a program for extracting an image region segment, a method for distributing an extracted video image, and a method for generating content. Motion compensation data is calculated... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090103811 - Document camera and its method to make an element distinguished from others on a projected image: The invention discloses a document camera and a method to make an element distinguished from others on a projected image, the method which implements on the document camera, firstly to capture an image, then to generate a cursor image and paste it onto the image according to a latest relative... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group

20090103812 - Image analysis: This invention concerns image analysis of video signals or data in order to detect prior, block-based processing, and to quantify block-related picture impairments. Adjacent samples of video data are high pass-filtered, rectified and auto-correlated to form an auto-correlation function. The auto-correlation function may be analysed to provide information regarding block... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20090103813 - Method for assessing image quality: adding, for the distorted image, the quality levels associated to each pixel by weighting them by a weight depending on a perceptual interest of the pixel in order to get the image quality value, the weight being lower for a pixel of high perceptual interest.... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090103814 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: An information processing apparatus that compares a query image and a model image and provides support information for discriminating a subject of the model image from a subject of the query image is disclosed. The information processing apparatus includes: a feature point extracting means extracting one or more feature points... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090103815 - Body position detecting apparatus: In a body position detecting apparatus, a controller repeatedly acquires image data that includes an object and an operator in a place where the operator is capable of operating the object. When the controller detects that the operator is in an operating position where the operator operates the object, the... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20090103817 - Digital image processing apparatus, a method of controlling the same, and a digital image compression method: A digital image processing apparatus for significantly reducing an image file size in order to store a large number of image files, a method of controlling the same, a recording medium storing a program for executing the method, and a digital image compressing method. The digital image processing apparatus comprises... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090103816 - Method and device of image encoding and image processing apparatus: Provided is an image encoding method and device capable of encoding moving image random allowing access with low delay and high compression. The image encoding method which inputs image data and encodes the image data using a reference picture about the image data and a difference between the reference picture... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090103818 - Header-based processing of images compressed using multi-scale transforms: A method and apparatus is described for segmenting an image, for adaptively scaling an image, and for automatically scaling and cropping an image based on codestream headers data. In one embodiment, a file that can provide a header that contains multi-scale entropy distribution information on blocks of an image is... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090103819 - Moving image receiving apparatus: A moving image receiving apparatus has a moving image decoding apparatus (303) for decoding received moving image data. The moving image decoding apparatus (303) comprises: a media buffer (401) for storing moving image data; an intra-map memory (402) for storing an intra-map indicating a location of an intrablock included in... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090103820 - Method and device for encoding image data: An encoding method to encode image data comprising a sequence of blocks with a predetermined compression rate in one pass is disclosed. The blocks are divided into two sets, a first set and a second set. The blocks in the first set are encoded within the sum of an available... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090103821 - Frequency converter and frequency inverter: On the first hierarchical layer, the input image adjuster selects an overlap processing area from a frequency-unconverted image. On the first hierarchical layer, the overlap processor performs overlap processing on the overlap processing area, and holds the image data of the remaining processing areas, which cannot be frequency-converted. The remaining... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090103822 - Method for compression of image data: In a method and device for compression of image data, in particular medical image data, the image data are initially compressed by means of a lossy compression method with a predetermined starting compression factor. The compressed image data are then analyzed to determine a quality value relative to a defined... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090103823 - Method for processing a digital image and image representation format: An image representation format for representing a digital image comprises: image information stored as a bitstream representing sequential image blocks, each block comprising one or more components, each component comprising one or more data units and each data unit being represented as a Huffman-coded stream of coefficients of basis functions,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090103824 - Method for processing a digital image and image representation format: An image representation format for representing a digital image comprises: image information stored as a bitstream representing sequential image blocks, each block comprising one or more components, each component comprising one or more data units and each data unit being represented as a Huffman-coded stream of coefficients of basis functions,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090103825 - Arbitrary ratio image resizing in the dct domain: A method and system for arbitrary resizing of a compressed image in the discrete cosine transform (DCT) domain. First and second scaling parameters P and Q are determined in accordance with the block numbers L and M and the scaling ratio L/M or M/L. A non-uniform, or uneven, sampling in... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20090103826 - Image processing device and image processing method: An image-data reading unit reads image data stored after radiation irradiation is performed from a radiation detector. An offset-data reading unit reads offset data in a case in which no radiation irradiation is performed from the radiation detector. After radiation irradiation is performed, a drive control section drives the image-data... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090103828 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable recording medium having image processing program: An image processing apparatus includes an input filter configured to control an input process of image data input as an object being processed; output filters configured to control output processes of output image data being output to an outside of the apparatus; at least one process filter configured to process... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20090103827 - Methods, systems, and apparatuses that compensate for noise generated in an imager device: Methods, systems and apparatuses for using regular and/or dark pixels of a pixel array in either a fixed or dynamic fashion to compensate for fixed pattern noise.... Agent: Richard A. Henkler Micron Technology, Inc.

20090103829 - Noise correction circuit, imaging apparatus, and noise correction method: A noise correction circuit that detects and corrects noise included in an image signal output from an image sensor is provided. The noise correction circuit includes a noise determining unit, a noise removing unit, and a random number adding unit. The noise determining unit is configured to calculate an average... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090103831 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program therefor: An image processing apparatus processes an input image while also considering the luminous intensity information thereof, and thereby generates an output image wherein the apparent object surface roughness has been enhanced with respect to the input image. The image processing apparatus includes a luminous intensity information separator that separates the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090103830 - Method of simulating the star cross effect of a light source and electronic apparatus using the same: A method of simulating the star cross effect of a light source and an electronic apparatus using the method are disclosed. The method comprises the following steps: setting an image processing parameter; obtaining an image information with the electronic apparatus; analyzing the image information to select each usable point light... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20090103832 - Method and system for enabling real-time speckle processing using hardware platforms: Embodiments of the invention enable real-time speckle processing of video feeds that further enables the Speckle algorithm to be applied in numerous real-time applications. Exemplary embodiments of the invention include hardware, software and machine readable mediums for an accelerator for the Speckle atmospheric compensation algorithm.... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090103833 - Image playback device: Conventionally, there has been a problem that a viewer is tired when playing back images mixedly including 2D images and 3D images, because images change frequently. A storage part stores 2D images and 3D images, an image conversion part that converts the 2D image stored in the storage part into... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090103834 - Center based image resizer: A method for resizing image data from a first size image to a second size image is disclosed. In one operation of the method, a scale factor is determined based on a number of gaps between pixels in the first size image and a number of gaps between pixels in... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20090103835 - Method and system for combining edit information with media content: Systems and methods have been developed for manipulating media assets in a networked computing environment where processing power, bandwidth and/or storage capacity may be limited. More specifically, systems and methods have been developed whereby low-resolution media assets may be created that are optimized for transfer over low bandwidth networks and... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090103836 - System for endoscope data management, and system and data manager for washing data management: A system for endoscope data management of an endoscopic image of a body acquired by an endoscope is provided. An image filing apparatus retrieves the image from the endoscope, and records data of the image and scope ID assigned to the endoscope in association with one another. A washer washes... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090103837 - Label image editing apparatus, label image editing plotting system, and label image editing program storage medium: There is disclosed a label image editing apparatus for editing a label image on a recording media having a data side on which data is recorded, and a label side on which a label image is plotted to visually confirm recording contents on the data side. The label image editing... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090097702 - Error processing of steganographic message signals: A form of error processing is used to decode steganographic messages embedded in image and audio signals in the presence of distortion, which tends to introduce errors in steganographic data communication. Content signals with auxiliary embedded data are analyzed to detect embedded message signals. Confidence values are assigned to the... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20090097698 - Image processing apparatus, control method therefor, and computer-readable storage medium: An image processing apparatus which is capable of easily determining, when a user causes the apparatus to scan a sheet original to carry out predetermined processing, whether or not the sheet original has been modified or edited from a document file as the source of the sheet original. A scanner... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090097699 - Information processing apparatus and method, computer program and computer-readable recording medium: A watermark information embedding apparatus generates a document image from electronic document data that has been input thereto, modifies the electronic document data based upon the document image and embeds information in the electronic document data. The apparatus includes a document image generator for generating a document image from the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090097697 - Information processing apparatus, indication system, and computer readable medium: An information processing apparatus recognizes an object from plural images captured by a image capture device, decides an outline of the recognized object, and calculates average luminances of the inside and the outside of the decided outline. Further, the information processing apparatus determines that a difference between the average luminances... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090097700 - Method of data capture and recognition: A method of capturing data from a form is disclosed. The form is completed by a user. The form is identified from a library of forms by recognizing an overall layout of the form. Fields on the form correlating to data fields completed by the user are identified, and data... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20090097701 - Sleepiness level determination device for driver: A sleepiness level determination device includes: a detector processing a face image of an user and for detecting an eye image of the user based on the face image; a characteristic value calculating unit calculating a characteristic value regarding the eye based on the eye image; a sleepiness level determining... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20090097696 - System and method of dynamic insertion of data: Utilization of the on-demand/one-off digital content manufacturing process can be used to create a unique digital product that includes additional content targeted to the consumer. Through applying advanced analytical and artificial intelligence technology to data gathered at time of purchase, material that best matches the consumer's interests can be selected.... Agent: Stephen E. Feldman

20090097695 - Personal document authentication system using watermarking: An identification document includes a unique identifier, and a picture of a person. Steganographically embedded in the picture is information corresponding to the identifier, by which the document can be authenticated. A verification apparatus reads the identifier from the document (e.g., by OCR or a machine-readable feature), and collects scan... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20090097703 - Method and system for capturing images moving at high speed: An image of a moving object, such as a postage indicium barcode on a mail piece, is captured with the object in motion (e.g., while being transported through a mailing machine). An array of CMOS picture elements is held in a reset condition. A signal asserted on control pin ends... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20090097711 - Detecting apparatus of human component and method thereof: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method of detecting a human component from an input image. The apparatus includes a training database (DB) to store positive and negative samples of a human component, an image processor to calculate a difference image for the input image, a sub-window processor to extract... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090097708 - Image-processing system and image-processing method: A vehicle-periphery-image-providing system may include an image-capturing unit, a viewpoint-change unit, an image-composition unit, an object-decttion unit, a line-width-setting unit, and a line-selection unit. The image-capturing units, such as cameras, capture images outside a vehicle periphery and generate image-data items. The viewpoint-change unit generates a bird's-eye-view image for each image-data... Agent: Alpine/bhgl

20090097707 - Method of controlling digital image processing apparatus for face detection, and digital image processing apparatus employing the method: Provided is a method of controlling a digital image processing apparatus for detecting a face from continuously input images, the method comprising operations (a) to (c). In (a), if a face is detected, image information of a body area is stored. In (b), if the face is not detected, a... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090097710 - Methods and system for communication and displaying points-of-interest: A method for displaying point-of-interest coordinate locations in perspective images and for coordinate-based information transfer between perspective images on different platforms includes providing a shared reference image of a region overlapping the field of view of the perspective view. The perspective view is then correlated with the shared reference image... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20090097705 - Obtaining information by tracking a user: A device may obtain tracking information of a face or a head of a user, determine a position and orientation of the user, and determine a direction of focus of the user based on the tracking information, the position, and the orientation. In addition, the device may retrieve information associated... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090097704 - On-chip camera system for multiple object tracking and identification: Apparatus and methods provide multiple object identification and tracking using an object recognition system, such as a camera system. One method of tracking multiple objects includes constructing a first set of objects in real time as a camera scans an image of a first frame row by row. A second... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090097709 - Signal processing apparatus: A signal processing apparatus for displaying an input image in the sate in which a part of the image is enlarged, displays an enlarged image obtained by enlarging a part of a designated object in the input image so that the enlarged image is superimposed at a position in accordance... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090097706 - Systems and methods for determining if objects are in a queue: Systems and methods that determine a position value of a first object and a position value of a second object, and compare the position value of the first object with the position value of the second object to determine if the second object is in a queue with the first... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20090097712 - Intelligent display screen which interactively selects content to be displayed based on surroundings: A display screen with a camera senses an image, detects characteristics of the image, and selects an item to be displayed based on the automatically detected characteristics.... Agent: Scott C Harris

20090097713 - Vision-based operating method and system: A vision-based operating system is provided in which a computer-based system accepts visual inputs and takes appropriate actions in a wide variety of environments. One environment is a security environment in which the vision-based operating system acquires an image of a face and determines, with an arbitrarily small probability of... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090097714 - Biometric authentication method, authentication system, corresponding program and terminal: A biometric authentication method if provided for an individual to be authenticated amongst a very large quantity of individuals with an authentication system storing a set of reference information each associated to one of the individuals. The reference information is distributed across a plurality of sub-databases. The method includes a... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090097715 - Procedure for identifying a person by eyelash analysis: A procedure for identifying a person with a data acquisition device (202) that is configured for capturing the image of their eyelashes (102, 104). The captured image is compared with eyelash images in a database.... Agent: Briggs And Morgan P.A.

20090097716 - Camera device and information prompt method: The invention discloses a camera device, comprising: an image capture module for capturing image data including a user; an information processing module for obtaining human face image data from the image data, and obtaining a distance information between a human face corresponding to the human face image data and the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090097717 - Method and apparatus for user authentication using face image: A user authentication method and apparatus using a face image are provided. The method includes transforming a face image in a normalized spatial domain into frequency-domain data, extracting valid transform coefficients from the frequency-domain data based on energy-concentrated region information, extracting a feature vector from the extracted valid transform coefficients,... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090097720 - Biometric identification method: A biometric access control and time and attendance system comprises an integrated network including one or more remote access devices in electronic communication with a computer database. Each remote access device comprises a silicon chip based system and preferably includes a biometric input device, a liquid crystal display (LCD), computer... Agent: Malin Haley And Dimaggio, Pa

20090097718 - Digital camera with fingerprint identification function: A digital camera includes a fingerprint input interface, a fingerprint sensor, a fingerprint information storage unit, and a fingerprint identification module. The fingerprint input interface is for a current user to input the current user's fingerprint. The fingerprint sensor is for reading the current user's fingerprint and getting characteristics of... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090097719 - Secure data storage device and method of storing and retrieving user data: In a portable and secure data storage device 100, access may be gained to a user memory by scanning at least two different fingerprints with a fingerprint scanner 12. In an enrolment mode of the data storage device, at least two different administrator fingerprints from at least one administrator are... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090097725 - Device, system and method for estimating the size of an object in a body lumen: A device and method for capturing in-vivo images allows for size or distance estimations for objects within the images. According to one embodiment of the present invention there may be provided, in an in-vivo device, at least an imager, an illumination source to provide illumination for the imager, an irradiation... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090097723 - Method and system for visualizing registered images: A method for visualizing a registered image is presented. The method includes receiving a first image data set and at least one other image data set. Further, the method includes displaying at least a portion of the first image data set on a first portion of a display. Also, the... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20090097721 - Method of identifying features within a dataset: A method of identifying features within a dataset such as an image comprises applying a multiscale transform such as a dual tree Complex Wavelet Transform to generate a plurality of scale-related transform levels each having a plurality of transform coefficients defining magnitude and phase; determining the phase difference between a... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20090097722 - Method, system and software product for providing efficient registration of volumetric images: The invention relates to a method, system and computer program product for registering 3D image data. It comprises (a) receiving a first 3D image and a second 3D image; (b) determining a rendering transform for applying to each of the first 3D image and the second 3D image; (c) applying... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20090097724 - System and method for the analysis of basic ear canal taxonomy: A method and appertaining system determine and output parameters associated with an ear canal according to a particular taxonomy. The output can then be input to various other systems associated with hearing aid design. An intelligent computational approach is utilized that models the physiology of the human ear canal as... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090097727 - 3d general lesion segmentation in ct: A general purpose method to segment any kind of lesions in 3D images is provided. Based on a click or a stroke inside the lesion from the user, a distribution of intensity level properties is learned. The random walker segmentation method combines multiple 2D segmentation results to produce the final... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090097728 - System and method for detecting tagged material using alpha matting: A method for computer-aided object classification, soft segmentation and layer extraction in computed tomographic colonography includes providing a contrast enhanced computed tomography (CT) digital image of the colon, finding a foreground region of voxels with an intensity higher than a pre-defined foreground threshold, creating a 3D trimap of the colon... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090097726 - Systems, methods and apparatus automatic segmentation of liver in multiphase contrast-enhanced medical images: Systems, method and apparatus in which some embodiments of automatic segmentation of a liver parenchyma from multiphase contrast-enhanced computed-tomography images includes analyzing an intensity change in the images belonging to the different phases in order to determine the region-of-interest of the liver, thereafter segmenting starting from the region-of-interest and incorporating... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20090097730 - Abnormal shadow candidate display method and medical image processing system: In medical image processing system 100, when a medical image is generated, detection processing of abnormal shadow candidate is applied to the medical image in image processing apparatus 2. Next, based on image characteristic amount of the detected abnormal shadow candidate, clearly truly positive or falsely positive abnormal shadow candidate,... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090097731 - Continuous x-ray image screening examination device, program, and recording medium: Using nature that a pixel value in a lung of a chest X-ray moving image varies due to heart beat, the variation information on the pixel value is effectively used for diagnosis such as of a lung embolism or a heart disease, considering the variation information as lung blood flow... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090097729 - Method and system for identifying defects in a radiographic image of a scanned object: A method for processing a radiographic image of a scanned object is provided. The method comprises acquiring radiographic image data corresponding to a scanned object and identifying one or more regions of interest in the radiographic image data corresponding to the scanned object. The method further comprises performing an image-contrast... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20090097732 - Procedures for the presentation of medical images: The invention relates to a method for presentation of medical images by a reproduction facility of a diagnostic device with suppression of the noise with the following steps: one-off calibration of the signal-dependent noise; separation of the signal and noise components in the image; adaptation of the two components according... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090097734 - Cellular thickness measurement method: To enable precise measurement of a cellular thickness distribution regardless of changes in the refractive index of cell(s). Two-dimensional distribution of phase information is obtained, in a state where a first culture solution having a first refractive index is stored so as to completely immerse cells adhered onto a bottom... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090097733 - Method and apparatus for clustering and visualization of multicolor cytometry data: A computer implemented method is provided for clustering and visualization of an n-dimensional space in a Euclidean space. The method includes: collecting a plurality of multi-dimensional data sets; estimating a probability density function from each data set; approximating a dissimilarity between every pair of said probability density functions and recording... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090097736 - Method and apparatus for approving color samples: A color approval system that facilitates the use of electronic color submissions. The electronic color submissions contain reflectance values for a physical color sample to be submitted for approval. The system includes a data storage area accessible by a submitter of the electronic color sample and a reviewer of the... Agent: Clariant Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090097735 - Sample inspection, measuring method and charged particle beam apparatus: An image for measuring a pattern or an image for making positioning for measurement is formed by scanning a sample with a focused electron beam and an estimation value of the image is compared with an image estimation value of a previously gotten reference image, so that focusing of the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090097737 - Visual inspection apparatus: In a visual inspection apparatus according to the present invention, a carrier base 2 supports a substrate 1 and tilts the substrate 1. The light source 3 illuminates light onto the surface of the substrate 1. The image-pickup apparatus 4 upon capturing an image of the substrate 1 produces image... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090097738 - Apparatus for inspecting solder printing: An apparatus for inspecting solder printing includes a memory medium, an ideal solder information generation unit, and an image processing unit. Design data are stored in the memory medium. The ideal solder information generation unit generates “ideal solder position information” and “ideal solder sizes” from the ideal solder regions in... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090097740 - Method and apparatus for automating an inspection procedure: A process for using a hand-held infrared inspection system incorporating on-board training, on-board validation, on-board operator certification, on-board reporting information, or on-board survey instructions. Improved methods for automating area surveys are provided through exception-driven surveillance practices. Imbedded information enables less experienced operators to use more sophisticated devices more effectively. Validation... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.C.

20090097739 - People detection in video and image data: A process identifies a person in image data. The process first executes a training phase, and thereafter a detection phase. The training phase learns body parts using body part detectors, generates classifiers, and determines a spatial distribution and a set of probabilities. The execution phase applies the body part detector... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090097741 - Smote algorithm with locally linear embedding: A data classification method. The method includes: providing data mapped in a first space; mapping the data into a second space using locally linear embedding to generate mapped data; applying a synthetic minority over-sampling technique (SMOTE) to the mapped data to generate new data; and mapping the new data into... Agent: Carestream Health, Inc.

20090097742 - Method for color interpolation: In a method for color interpolation between two colors, each interpolated color between a first color having at least two color components and a second color having at least two color components, is defined by copying at least one color component from a corresponding color component of a neighboring color... Agent: Matthias Scholl

20090097743 - Method and apparatus providing hardware-efficient demosaicing of image data: A method and apparatus for determining missing color pixel values in image data (i.e., for demosaicing image data) using a small number of lines in a buffer memory. Pixel values are interpolated in a horizontal or a vertical direction based on gradient scores. Interpolation direction selection can be refined based... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090097745 - Method of performing robust auto white balance: Disclosed herein is a method of performing robust white balance. The method includes a first process of dividing an input image into blocks, a second process of selecting blocks having higher color errors, and calculating average RGB values of the selected blocks, a third process of selecting a specific top... Agent: Adam K. Sacharoff Much Shelist Denenberg Ament & Rubenstein

20090097744 - System and process for color-balancing a series of oblique images: An automated process for color-balancing a series of oblique images captured from one or more positions and from one or more orientations. The automated process includes the step of selecting a series of color-balanced images to use as reference images. Then, on an oblique image by image basis (1) a... Agent: Dunlap Codding, P.C.

20090097746 - Color classification method, color recognition method, color classification apparatus, color recognition apparatus, color recognition system, computer program, and recording medium: A color classification method including: determining a plurality of predetermined process target regions from a plurality of pickup images taken by an imaging device; calculating a plurality of color distributions of pixels contained in the respective determined process target regions; and forming a plurality of clusters by executing a clustering... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090097747 - Method of image processing and device thereof: A method of image processing and a device thereof are provided in the present invention. First, an image having a plurality of regions is received, wherein each region comprises a plurality of pixels. A contrast process is performed on each region and a respective local curve of each region is... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20090097748 - Image display apparatus and method: Provided are an image display apparatus and method which enables a user to quickly and easily obtain information related to an image currently being reproduced. The image display apparatus includes: a setting module setting a plurality of sub regions into which a predetermined image frame of an image being played... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090097749 - Systems and methods for interactive definition of regions and volumes of interest: The definition of regions or volumes of interest and the delineation of objects of interest are important and frequently performed tasks in clinical imaging. However, today's solutions for this task are often time-consuming and cumbersome for the clinician. The present invention provides an alternative approach that is intuitive and works... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090097750 - Image processing apparatus: An information embedding apparatus (100) which embeds information by changing the character spacing in a document image includes a discrimination unit (101) which discriminates a text area in the document image, a circumscribed rectangle extraction unit (102) which extracts the circumscribed rectangle of each character in the text area, a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090097752 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, computer program for realizing functions thereof, and recording medium having the computer program recorded thereon: An image processing apparatus determines whether a reference image and an image of interest are different or the same. A determination unit determines whether a comparative image formed by a part or entirety of the image of interest and an image corresponding to the comparative image in the reference image... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20090097751 - Remote user interface raster segment motion detection and encoding: Raster segment commands are generated by a delta encoder and are encoded for raster segments detected to have moved in the current frame with respect to a location of the raster segment in a previous frame. Raster segment motion commands are stored in a queue and, when written, copy a... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20090097753 - System for a text speller: An apparatus may generate a text entry with a user interface. The apparatus may include a display, a user input device, a memory and a processor. The apparatus may display single character user input controls and multi-character user input controls on the display. Each of the single character user input... Agent: Indianapolis Office 27879 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090097755 - Information processing apparatus, remote indication system, and computer readable recording medium: An information processing apparatus includes an acquiring portion, a deciding portion, a controlling portion, a determining portion, and a transmitting portion. The acquiring portion acquires attribute information of an object. The deciding portion decides identification information of a user accessible to the object, based on a database associated with attribute... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090097756 - Similar image search apparatus and computer readable medium: A similar image search apparatus includes a storage unit, a search unit, a text feature selection unit, an image feature transformation unit and a similar image search unit. The storage unit stores images and pieces of text information associated with the respective images. The search unit retrieves candidate images. Each... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090097757 - System and method for teaching social skills, social thinking, and social awareness: A system for improving social skills and feature recognition including a user interface displaying an electronic image, the image including two or more features, software for visually amplifying a first portion of the image, software for visually partitioning the image into two or more second portions, software for visually quantifying... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20090097754 - Video communication device and image processing system and method of the same: A video communication device includes an image capturing module for capturing a video image, and an image processing system. The image processing system includes a face detection module, and a processing module. The face detection module detects a face region and a head region corresponding to the face region in... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090097758 - Optical wavefront control pattern generating apparatus and optical wavefront control pattern generating method: An optical wavefront control pattern generating apparatus includes: a reconstructed image detector unit configured to detect a reconstructed image displayed on the reconstructed image display unit; and an optimizer unit configured to evaluate the reconstructed image detected by the reconstructed image detector unit, and to generate the optimum optical wavefront... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090097759 - Image processing device and method for compressing and decompressing images: The disclosed image processing device receiving image data comprises a first encoder, a second encoder and an encoding switch. The first encoder generates first data by encoding the image data according to a predetermined method. The second encoder generates second data by encoding the image data according to an encoding... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090097760 - Representation and quantization of digital images and evaluation of color differences: Digital image data are coded in a color coordinate system bef where b=0.3·ln B and B, e, and f are Bef coordinates. This coding has high perceptual uniformity with respect to coding errors. A color difference formula is provided, with the color difference defined as 100 √{square root over (Δb2+Δe2+Δf2)}.... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20090097761 - Method for processing a digital image and image representation format: An image representation format for representing a digital image comprises: image information stored as a bitstream representing sequential image blocks, each block comprising one or more components, each component comprising one or more data units and each data unit being represented as a Huffman-coded stream of coefficients of basis functions,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090097762 - Method for processing a digital image and image representation format: An image representation format for representing a digital image comprises: image information stored as a bitstream representing sequential image blocks, each block comprising one or more components, each component comprising one or more data units and each data unit being represented as a Huffman-coded stream of coefficients of basis functions,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090097763 - Converting video and image signal bit depths: A technique includes converting a first value for a pixel that is associated with a lower bit depth into a second value for the pixel, which is associated with a higher bit depth based at least in part on a neighborhood of the pixel.... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20090097764 - Method and apparatus of temporary image frame compression: An image compression method and fast storage device accessing and pixel decompression is achieved by applying variable bit rate to reduce the data amount of each image frame. Several thresholds are predetermined depending on the availability of the bandwidth of the storage device and the image resolution to decide the... Agent: Chih-ta Star Sung

20090097765 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, computer-readable medium and computer data signal: An image processing apparatus includes an image extracting unit, a vector information generating unit and a color information adding unit. The image extracting unit extracts an image to be vectorized from a multilevel image as a binary image. The vector information generating unit vectorizes the binary image extracted by the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090097766 - Apparatus of compressing image data and a method thereof: An apparatus for compressing an image data with an array of pixels comprising a data length is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a rearranging unit, a transformation operator, a quantizer and a coding operator. The rearranging unit is configured to transform the array to form a rearranged block with a mark... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090097767 - Method for processing a digital image and image representation format: An image representation format for representing a digital image comprises: image information stored as a bitstream representing sequential image blocks, each block comprising one or more components, each component comprising one or more data units and each data unit being represented as a Huffman-coded stream of coefficients of basis functions,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090097768 - Method and apparatus for encoding image by exponential golomb binarization using optimal threshold, and method and apparatus for decoding image by exponential golomb binarization using optimal threshold: A method and apparatus for coding an image by using exponential Golomb binarization are provided. The method comprises: performing entropy coding on an input image by performing exponential Golomb binarization using a plurality of predetermined thresholds; measuring a bit rate of a bit stream which is generated by performing the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090097769 - Systems and methods for securely processing form data: A form image may be split into a plurality of image fragments. Each image fragment may correspond to a field of the form. Each form fragment may be deidentified to prevent unauthorized reconstruction of the form image from its respective image fragments. An index to associate each image fragment to... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Slc

20090097770 - Representing high-resolution media content in a lower resolution system: Representing high-resolution media content in a lower resolution system is disclosed. For a first portion of a high-resolution media content which is associated with a content boundary that does not align with an interval boundary of the lower resolution system, a new media content file that includes at least said... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Apple Computer, Inc.

20090097771 - In-place averaging of packed pixel data: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for averaging data in packed format are provided. The data may be image data, such as data words containing color-specific data portions representative of pixels of a captured image. A first data word containing first image data is received. A second data word containing second image... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Cpa Global

20090097772 - Laplacian principal components analysis (lpca): Systems and methods perform Laplacian Principal Components Analysis (LPCA). In one implementation, an exemplary system receives multidimensional data and reduces dimensionality of the data by locally optimizing a scatter of each local sample of the data. The optimization includes summing weighted distances between low dimensional representations of the data and... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090097773 - Image processing device and method and program: An image processing device to process a moving image, which is shot by a video shooting device, in increments of access units, includes: a correcting unit to correct the access unit to be processed by changing the properties of a low-pass filter which indicates imaging blur according to parameter values... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090097774 - Aspect ratio enhancement: An adaptive compensation system for aspect ratio conversion. Video information, intended for her first aspect ratio display, e.g. the standard NTSC aspect ratio, is processed to determine additional information that can enable that video to be displayed and fill a wider aspect ratio screen. The processing can be a calculation... Agent: Scott C Harris

20090097775 - Visual processing device, visual processing method, program, display device, and integrated circuit: It is possible to inhibit artifacts, even when a special image has been input. The visual processing device of the invention is provided with a spatial processing portion (10) that extracts surrounding image information US from an image signal IS that is input, a special image detection portion (40) that... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090097776 - Image processing apparatus and control method therefor: This invention obtains a high-quality output image in which a jaggy or a disconnection of a thin line hardly stands out. An edge detection unit detects whether the pixel of interest is an edge pixel or a non-edge pixel. A screen processing unit performs screen processing for the pixel of... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090097777 - Digital image tone remapping method and apparatus: A digital image tone remapping method is disclosed. The method includes computing an average luminance value of a digital image; generating a preliminary tone mapping function according to the average luminance value; generating a luminance statistic of the digital image; determining new remapped values for a plurality of skeleton luminance... Agent: Stout, Uxa, Buyan & Mullins LLP

20090097778 - Enhanced system and method for volume based registration: A method for volume based registration of images is presented. The method includes receiving a first image data set and at least one other image data set. Further the method includes identifying a first image slice in the at least one other image data set corresponding to the first image... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20090092278 - Endoscope apparatus and program: An endoscope apparatus includes an electronic endoscope that picks up a measurement object and produces a picked-up-image signal; an image-processing unit that produces a image signal based on the picked-up-image signal; and an measurement processing unit that undertakes measurement processing to the measurement object based on the image signal. The... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090092277 - Geo-relevance for images: Images may be sorted and categorized by defining a frustum for each image and overlaying the frustums in two, three, or four dimensions to create a density map and identify points of interest. Images that contain a point of interest may be grouped, sorted, and categorized to determine representative images... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090092279 - Image processing apparatus and verification system: There is provided an image processing apparatus including: an image information acquisition unit that acquires image information representing an image obtained by reading a recording medium containing one or a plurality of detectable substances; an extraction unit that extracts an image corresponding to the detectable substances from the image information... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090092280 - Image processing method and image processing apparatus: In an image processing apparatus for creating synthetic image information by embedding sub-information in an invisible state in main image information in a visible state, attention pixels in the main image information are set, a specific pixel block is created by assigning a first specific pixel to the attention pixel... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090092281 - Method for improved forensic analysis: A method for improved forensic analysis using multi-view digital imaging of forensic specimens at a plurality of reflected, scattered, emitted, transmitted or absorbed wavelengths to provide new detailed information to distinguish and differentiate forensic materials and samples.... Agent: Mark C. Comtois Duane Morris LLP

20090092286 - Image generating apparatus, image generating program, image generating program recording medium and image generating method: When an obstacle does not exist in a horizontal direction in a direction of a virtual camera, a PC coordinate is set as a point of gaze. When the player character comes close to a high wall while the procedure of S1-S2-S3-S4-S5-S1 is being executed repeatedly, a first virtual straight... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090092284 - Light modulation techniques for imaging objects in or around a vehicle: Method and system for obtaining information about an object in a compartment in a vehicle includes directing illumination into the compartment, spatial or temporally modulating the illumination, receiving light reflected from an object in the compartment, and analyzing the reflected light to obtain information about the object. The compartment may... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20090092285 - Method of local tracing of connectivity and schematic representations produced therefrom: A schematic diagram detailing a circuit that was reverse engineered from a plurality of images taken of the circuit is provided. The schematic diagram includes at least one circuit element that was represented as an object in at least one of the plurality of images, such that signal continuity information... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090092287 - Mixed media reality recognition with image tracking: An MMR system integrating image tracking and recognition 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 gateway and sends it to... Agent: Ricoh/fenwick

20090092283 - Surveillance and monitoring system: A system having one or more devices for detection, surveillance and monitoring. Video images of scenes with persons from the devices may be processed and provided to a biometrics component for standoff biometric acquisition and matching. Various remote and internal databases may be resorted to for biometric matching. Matching results... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090092282 - System and method for tracking objects with a synthetic aperture: A computer implemented method tracks 3D positions of an object moving in a scene. A sequence of images is acquired of the scene with a set of cameras such that each time instant a set of images are acquired of the scene, in which each image includes pixels. Each set... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090092288 - Image position measuring apparatus and exposure apparatus: An image position measuring apparatus is provided with a photographing unit including an image pickup device and/or a lens to measure a position of a reference mark formed on a work and a correcting unit for correcting distortion(s) of the image pickup device and/or the lens. An exposure apparatus is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090092289 - Method for generating 3d building models from a set of floor plans: A method and system of generating 3D models from a set of 2D floor plans using an algorithm to classify pixels from each floor plan as outside or inside. Inside pixels are drawn as horizontal rectangles and walls are drawn as vertical rectangles. When a floor is compared to the... Agent: Kris T. Frederick, Esq. Patent Services

20090092290 - Multispectral imaging biometrics: Methods and systems are provided for performing a biometric measurement on an individual. A purported skin site of the individual is illuminated under a plurality of distinct optical conditions during a single illumination session. Light scattered beneath a surface of the purported skin site is received separately for each of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090092291 - Personal authentication apparatus and method: There is provided a finger-vein authentication apparatus including a light source for illuminating one surface of both side-surfaces of a fingertip of a finger with light, and an image sensor for imaging the other surface of the fingertip, the light source and the image sensor being positioned at both sides... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090092292 - Eye scanner with integrated focus distance determination mechanism: A hand-held iris scanner, used for identifying individuals, has a visor mechanism connected to the main body of the scanner via a hinged attachment. The visor mechanism can be folded and locked into an extended position, wherein the free-floating end of the visor (that is, the non-hinged end) provides a... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090092294 - Face authenticating apparatus, face authenticating method, and program: A presentation pattern display unit 5 that is provided at a different position from a key input unit displays an instruction for a user to input a key pattern during face authentication, and a built-in camera 1 captures a face of the user and/or a movement of a portion of... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090092293 - Method for determining power-save mode of multimedia application: A method for determining a power-save mode of multimedia application, when a user operates a computer system through a peripheral input device, an image sensor retrieves a first image data corresponding to the user's facial feature. Next, the first image data is stored into the computer system. Then, the computer... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20090092295 - Person image retrieval apparatus: According to the present invention, face parts to be compared are set by the comparison target setting section based on the number of images of a group of search target images. Then, a retrieval target image and each image of the group of search target images is compared by the... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090092296 - Finger vein image inputting device and apparatus using the same: There is a need for providing a finger vein image inputting device that can miniaturize and thin a finger vein authentication apparatus and provide high authentication accuracy. The finger vein image inputting device according to the present invention includes a body, a band pass filter for transmitting only light of... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090092297 - Image processing apparatus, image processing system and image processing program: An image processor performing image processing for reproducing the skin color of an object easily on a screen without being affected by variation in surrounding environment. The image processor (3) comprises a living body color information acquiring section (9) for acquiring color data in the white region of a living... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090092298 - Method for fusing images acquired from a plurality of different image acquiring modalities: A method for fusing a plurality of images. The method includes: acquiring the plurality of images from a plurality of different modalities, each one of the images having a different reference space; and fusing the plurality of images into a common reference space, such common reference space being different from... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090092299 - System and method for joint classification using feature space cluster labels: A method for training a classifier for use in a computer aided detection system includes providing a training set of images acquired from a plurality of patients, each said image including one or more candidate regions that have been identified as suspicious by a candidate generation step of a computer... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090092300 - System and method for lesion detection using locally adjustable priors: According to an aspect of the invention, a method for training a classifier for classifying candidate regions in computer aided diagnosis of digital medical images includes providing a training set of annotated images, each image including one or more candidate regions that have been identified as suspicious, deriving a set... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090092301 - System and method for organ segmentation using surface patch classification in 2d and 3d images: A method for segmenting organs in digitized medical images includes providing a set of segmented training images of an organ, computing a surface mesh having a plurality of mesh cells that approximates a border of the organ, extracting positive examples of all mesh cells and negative examples in the neighborhood... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090092302 - System and method for robust segmentation of pulmonary nodules of various densities: A method for differentiating pulmonary nodules in digitized medical images includes identifying an object of interest from a digital image of the lungs, computing a first distance map of each point of the object of interest, determining a seed point from the first distance map, starting from the seed point,... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090092304 - Apparatus and method for remotely controlling in real time measurement parameters of a magnetic resonance (mr) scanner: Apparatus for remotely controlling parameters of an image scanning apparatus includes a software interface for translating commands from an external application for providing scanner control commands to a scanner control machine for control of the parameters; and the software interface includes syntax software for translating the commands from the external... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090092306 - Apparatus for two-dimensional transducers used in three-dimensional ultrasonic imaging: A single chip transducer apparatus that includes on-chip electronic circuitry which, when connected properly to a two-dimensional matrix of ultrasonic transducer elements, provides enough information to an external imaging system to form three-dimensional images of the subject of interest. In a preferred embodiment, the circuitry provides an amplifier for each... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090092303 - Dynamic parallel magnetic resonance imaging(dpmri) with sparse data: Example methods, apparatus, and systems associated with dynamic parallel magnetic resonance imaging (DpMRI) are presented. One example system facilitates separating data associated with a dynamic portion of a dynamic magnetic resonance image from data associated with a static portion of the dynamic magnetic resonance image. The system computes reconstruction parameters... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay

20090092305 - Method for detecting movements and correcting movements in tomographic and projective image series and tomography or projection system for implementing this method: A method is disclosed for detecting movements and correcting movements in tomographic and projective image series. Further, a tomography or projection system is further disclosed for implementing this method. In at least one embodiment, the temporal changes in an image series with a multiplicity of temporally subsequent image data records... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090092307 - Slit collimator scatter correction: A technique is presented for establishing a patient's BMD using a dual-energy X-ray imaging system. In the technique, the dual-energy X-ray imaging system utilizes a slit collimator to expose a series of portions of a region of interest within a patient with X-rays of two different energies. A flat-panel digital... Agent: Ge Healthcare C/o Fletcher Yoder, PC

20090092308 - System and method of automatic estimation of arterial input function for evaluation of blood flow: A system and method of determining hemodynamic parameters of a patient is described. A background image data set is obtained prior to the administration of a contrast agent. A series of image data sets is obtained during the first passage of the bolus through a parenchymal volume. The pre-contrast-agent image... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090092309 - Ensuring image integrity using document characteristics: Image integrity in an archive can be verified using document characteristics. Embodiments of the invention provide a way to verify the integrity of a stored document image by determining document characteristics, which can also be embedded in the image file. Before allowing access to the image file by an application,... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Bofa

20090092310 - System and method for precision fit artificial fingernails: A system and method for creating precision fit artificial fingernails is disclosed. Specifically, a system is disclosed that utilizes a scanned and digitized nail surface to form a precision fit three dimensional digitized artificial nail object that can be used to direct a machining device that either creates an artificial... Agent: Grant R Clayton Clayton Howarth & Cannon, PC

20090092311 - Method and apparatus for receiving multiview camera parameters for stereoscopic image, and method and apparatus for transmitting multiview camera parameters for stereoscopic image: Provided is a method of receiving multiview camera parameters for a stereoscopic image. The method includes: extracting multiview camera parameter information for a predetermined data section from a received stereoscopic image data stream; extracting matrix information including at least one of translation matrix information and rotation matrix information for the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090092312 - Identifying method and storage medium having program stored thereon: An identification processing that matches a preference of a user is carried out. An identifying method according to the present invention is an identifying method, in which learning is carried out using a learning sample and, based on a learning result, identification is performed as to whether or not a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090092313 - Information processing apparatus and method, program, and recording medium: An information processing apparatus includes a statistical analysis processing device configured to perform statistical analysis processing, an acquisition device configured to acquire samples to be processed by the statistical analysis processing device, a classification device configured to classify the samples acquired by the acquisition device, and a selection device configured... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090092314 - Method, system and apparatus for determining and modifying saliency of a visual medium: A method, system and apparatus for determining and modifying saliency of a visual medium are provided. The method, system and apparatus may obtain saliency values for a visual medium based on a plurality of visual channels. The saliency values may be obtained based on at least one of computer-generated modeling,... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090092315 - High quality image processing: In a high quality image-encoding scheme an input image is decomposed into several image blocks comprising multiple image elements. The image blocks are encoded into encoded block representations. Such a block representation comprises two color codewords, a color modifying codeword and optionally a sequence of color indices and color modifier... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090092316 - Image processing apparatus and method: An image processing system and method include allowing an output device to output patch-data items of plural multi-order colors represented by a first color space, measuring the color values, in an absolute color space, of the output patch-data items, calculating reference values by converting the plural multi-order colors represented by... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090092317 - Automated method and system for naming documents from a scanned source based on manually marked text: A method for associating text with image data of documents is herein described. The method includes receiving image data of a document with manually marked text and recognizing the manually marked text. The image data is then annotated (e.g., tagged) using the manually marked text and the image data of... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Xerox Corporation

20090092318 - One-screen reconciliation of business document image data, optical character recognition extracted data, and enterprise resource planning data: Systems and methods of reconciling data from an imaged document. In one embodiment, a business document is scanned to create a business document image. A set of extracted data is extracted from the business document image via optical character recognition (OCR). The set of OCR extracted data is then compared... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20090092319 - Phase-information extraction method: Only phase information of a measurement object is extracted with superior precision from a phase-information image in which background phase information is superimposed on phase information of the measurement object. A method of extracting phase information of a measurement object includes a region-specifying step of specifying a region in which... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090092320 - Document recognition using static and variable strings to create a document signature: Systems and methods of recognizing a business document and creating a document signature. In one embodiment, a business document is scanned and a business document image is created. The business document image is compared to a template database. If a matching template is found, document fields are defined and extracted.... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20090092321 - Real-time pixel substitution for thermal imaging systems: A non-uniformity correction (NUC) process for imaging engines is augmented with real-time pixel substitution capability. This feature checks for pixels that have significantly degraded from their factory performance. Degraded pixels found are then substituted in real time. This process eliminates distractions to the camera system operator and prevents these degraded... Agent: Shinshung International Patent & Law Firm

20090092322 - Semantic classification and enhancement processing of images for printing applications: A printing system enables the printing of enhanced documents using a semantic classification scheme. A printing system receives an image to be printed. The system classifies the image according to the semantic classification scheme and, based on this classification, performs enhancement processing on the image. Depending on the desired application,... Agent: Ricoh/fenwick

20090092323 - Systems and methods for character correction in communication devices: A system and method for character error correction is provided, useful for a user of mobile appliances to produce written text with reduced errors. The system includes an interface, a word prediction engine, a statistical engine, an editing distance calculator, and a selector. A string of characters, known as the... Agent: Kang Lim

20090092324 - Apparatus, method, and medium encoding/decoding images through application of psycho-visual characteristics: A method, medium, and apparatus encoding and/or decoding an image according to human psycho-visual characteristics. According to a method, medium, and apparatus, error values corresponding to a range in which error values can be recognized because of the human psycho-visual characteristic are selectively encoded.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090092325 - Systems and methods for selective handling of out-of-gamut color conversions: Displays systems and methods for selectively reducing or compressing image data values within an image are recited. Display systems transform input image data from one input gamut hull or space to another target gamut hull or space that is substantially defined by different subpixel repeating groups comprising the display. Display... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20090092326 - Encoding device, encoding method, encoding program, decoding device, decoding method, and decoding program: The present invention relates to an encoding apparatus, an encoding method, an encoding program, a decoding apparatus, a decoding method and a decoding program for encoding and decoding efficiently a video signal in interlace scanning. An adder 12 and a subtractor 13 respectively perform addition and subtraction operations on an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090092329 - Image processing apparatus and image display system: An image processing apparatus is provided. The image processing apparatus comprises a storage module, a processing module and an output module. The storage module is used for storing an image file. The processing module is coupled to the storage module for performing a coordinate conversion on the image file based... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20090092327 - Image processing methods and image processing apparatus utilizing the same: An image processing method applied in an image processor for processing an image including first pixels each having a pixel value, a first reference pixel value representing a mean value of the pixel values of the first pixels, the pixel values of the first pixels being distributed within a first... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090092328 - Method for motion compensation: A method for use in video compression is disclosed. In particular, the claimed invention relates to a method of more efficient fractional-pixel interpolation in two steps by a fixed filter (240) and an adaptive filter (250) for fractional-pixel motion compensation.... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20090092331 - Compression method, extension method and image processing apparatus: In a compression method of quantizing and compressing image data of an image, the method comprises the steps of: determining a method of quantization for each pixel; quantizing the image data in pixel unit according to the determined quantization method; storing the quantized image data in a same region of... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090092330 - Method and apparatus for correcting quantized coefficients in decoder: Provided are a method and apparatus for correcting quantized coefficients. In the method, statistical values of coefficients and quantized coefficients are extracted from a received video data stream, coefficient correction values for each pixel position in blocks are determined by using the statistical distribution of the coefficients depending on the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090092332 - Apparatus and method for creating effects in video: Creating a blur in a digital image by receiving original pixel values in a frame of image data, and for each pixel position in the digital image being blurred, calculating a blurred pixel value by applying a box filter having a plurality of elements with unity multiplier values to original... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090092333 - Digital signal processing with improved mapping: A method of performing a signal enhancement operation on a digital input signal is described. The method produces a best estimate of a true signal which the digital input signal is assumed to represent. The method involves deriving a plurality of candidate mappings, each defining a mapping between the signal... Agent: Pyle & Piontek Attn: Thomas R. Vigil

20090092334 - Birds eye view virtual imaging for real time composited wide field of view: A live image and a previously acquired or generated image are superimposed or composited to represented a virtual vantage point for flying, driving or navigating a plane, vehicle or vessel.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090092335 - Method and apparatus for receiving and generating image data stream including parameters for displaying local three dimensional image: Provided are a method and apparatus for receiving and generating an image data stream including a three dimensional (3D) image. The method of receiving an image data stream includes receiving an image data stream including at least one of two dimensional (2D) and 3D image data periods; extracting local 3D... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090092336 - Image processing device and image processing method, and program: An image processing device for recognizing an object corresponding to a registered image registered beforehand from an imaged image, comprising: an obtaining unit configured to obtain the imaged image; a recognizing unit configured to recognize an object corresponding to the registered image from the imaged image; and a detecting unit... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090092337 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program: An image processing apparatus includes an image correction processing unit configured to correct an input image so as to generate a corrected image and a super-resolution processing unit configured to receive the corrected image generated by the image correction processing unit and increase a resolution of the corrected image through... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090092338 - Method and apparatus for determining the direction of color dependency interpolating in order to generate missing colors in a color filter array: A method of determining an interpolation direction used to generate missing colors in a color filter array comprising red, green and blue photosites, comprises for each red and each blue photosite, examining adjacent photosites in each of a plurality of directions and generating for each direction a score representing the... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20090092339 - Viewing and scanning of microfilm using a self-contained digital device without a personal computer: Apparatus for, and methods of, capturing and storing images in a self-contained digital microfilm scanning system without requiring a personal computer or software. A digital microfilm scanner captures an image from microfilm and sends the captured image directly from the digital scanner to a viewing device for displaying the captured... Agent: Cook Alex Ltd

20090092340 - Natural language assistance for digital image indexing: A processing device and method may provide natural language assistance for digital image indexing. Candidate keywords may be generated based on an entered keyword for a digital image file. The candidate keywords may be synonyms of the entered keyword, or otherwise related to the entered keyword. The candidate keywords may... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090087016 - Content based adjustment of an image: A video input signal is analyzed to detect image content and image properties, wherein detecting the image content includes automatically deriving image features. A content group is determined for the video input signal based on the detected image content, the content group including predefined image properties. The image properties of... Agent: Sheryl Sue Holloway Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090087021 - Covert and robust mark for media identification: Systems and methods are described for repeatedly embedding information in media that is recoverable by emphasizing subtle variations between the media. In many embodiments perceptual models are used to identify portions of the media in which the embedded information is unlikely to be apparent to a human observer. One embodiment... Agent: Kauth , Pomeroy , Peck & Bailey ,llp

20090087017 - Handwritten information management system, handwritten information management method and recording medium storing handwritten information management program: A handwritten information management system, which includes a paper sheet document generation section that generates a paper sheet document in which plurality pieces of coded information including coordinate information indicating a position on a paper sheet and document identification information of the paper sheet document formed on the paper sheet... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090087020 - Image processing method and image processing device: An electronic watermarking embedding-processing section acquires layout information which specifies an embedding area of first sub information and an embedding area of second sub information in main image information. The electronic watermarking embedding-processing section performs overlapping processing for invisibly embedding the first sub information in the embedding area of the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090087019 - Method fo rthe simultaneous deposition of a set of patterns on a substrate by a macrostamp: A stamp for depositing materials in the form of imprints on a surface of a substrate. The stamp includes a template and pins joined at one end to a first face of the template. The pins are arranged on the first face of the template so that the faces of... Agent: Perman & Green

20090087015 - Parental monitoring method using periodic image sampling: There is provided a system and/or method of monitoring media content. More specifically, in one embodiment, there is provided a method of monitoring operation of an electronic device having a plurality of signal inputs, the method comprising periodically collecting images from each of the plurality of signal inputs, storing the... Agent: Fletcher Yoder P.C.

20090087018 - Perceptability model applied to watermark signals: This document relates generally to digital watermarking. One claim recites a method including: obtaining data representing visual media; determining a model through iteratively embedding a digital watermark signal in the data; and embedding the digital watermark signal in the data according to the model. The model maximizes robustness of the... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20090087013 - Ray mapping: The application discloses the use of light rays from a region and based on those light rays generates a map of the region.... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20090087014 - Skew/doublefeed detection in scanned images: A system and method for identifying a status such as, for example, skew and/or double feed, of a scanned image.... Agent: Burns & Levinson, LLP

20090087022 - Stain detection system: An image pickup unit that does not have a movable system and is fixed at one point picks up an image. A subject region extraction unit detects a subject in the image, extracts a region of the subject, and generates a region extraction image. A region extraction image storage unit... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090087012 - Systems and methods for identifying similarities among alarms: Systems and methods for classifying targets within a container are provided. In one aspect, a method for resolving an alarm raised by an imaging system is provided, the imaging system alarm triggered by an alarm target including a plurality of objects. The method includes receiving a plurality of images from... Agent: General Electric Company Ge Global Patent Operation

20090087029 - 4d gis based virtual reality for moving target prediction: The technology of the 4D-GIS system deploys a GIS-based algorithm used to determine the location of a moving target through registering the terrain image obtained from a Moving Target Indication (MTI) sensor or small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) camera with the digital map from GIS. For motion prediction the target... Agent: David And Raymond Patent Firm

20090087024 - Context processor for video analysis system: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a system for mapping a scene depicted in an acquired stream of video frames that may be used by a machine-learning behavior-recognition system. A background image of the scene is segmented into plurality of regions representing various objects of the background... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090087030 - Digital image processing using face detection information: A method of processing a digital image using face detection within the image achieves one or more desired image processing parameters. A group of pixels is identified that correspond to an image of a face within the digital image. Default values are determined of one or more parameters of at... Agent: Tessera/fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20090087027 - Estimator identifier component for behavioral recognition system: An estimator/identifier component for a computer vision engine of a machine-learning based behavior-recognition system is disclosed. The estimator/identifier component may be configured to classify an object being one of two or more classification types, e.g., as being a vehicle or a person. Once classified, the estimator/identifier may evaluate the object... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090087028 - Hand washing monitoring system: A hand washing monitoring system (1) comprising a camera (2), a processor (4), the processor being adapted to receive from the camera images of hand washing activity. The processor analyses mutual motion of hands to determine if the hands mutually move in desired poses, and if so, the durations of... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20090087023 - Method and system for detecting and tracking objects in images: Invention describes a method and system for detecting and tracking an object in a sequence of images. For each image the invention determines an object descriptor from a tracking region in a current image in a sequence of images, in which the tracking region corresponds to a location of an... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090087026 - Method and system of material identification using binocular steroscopic and multi-energy transmission images: The present invention provides a method and system of material identification using binocular steroscopic and multi-energy transmission image. With the method, any obstacle that dominates the ray absorption can be peeled off from the objects that overlap in the direction of a ray beam. The object that is unobvious due... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090087025 - Shadow and highlight detection system and method of the same in surveillance camera and recording medium thereof: A method and system for detecting a shadow region and a highlight region from a foreground region in a surveillance system, and a recording medium thereof, are provided. The system includes an image capturing unit to capture a new image, a background model unit to receive the new image and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090087031 - Three-dimensional measurement instrument, image pick-up apparatus and adjusting method for such an image pickup apparatus: An image pickup apparatus is provided with cameras and string-shaped members. The user is allowed to know working distances based upon the lengths of the string-shaped members. The optical axis direction of the camera is adjusted so that the leading edge of the string-shaped member is included in the viewing... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090087032 - Method and system for video interaction based on motion swarms: A system and method for generating a video display suitable for interaction with a public audience or group. The system comprises one or more video capture devices for capturing a scene, a module configured to extract one or parameters that describe a field of motion in the scene, and a... Agent: Bennett Jones LLP

20090087033 - Method and system for wholesomeness inspection of freshly slaughtered chickens on a processing line: An imaging system containing an electron-multiplying charge-coupled device detector and line-scan spectrograph is used for identifying wholesome and unwholesome freshly slaughtered chicken carcasses on high-speed commercial chicken processing lines. Multispectral imaging algorithms allow for real-time online identification of wholesome and unwholesome chicken carcasses.... Agent: Usda, Ars, Ott

20090087034 - Static and dynamic contours: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for a static and dynamic contours. A method includes rendering a contour map including static contours and dynamic contours, and displaying the contour map on a device to a user. A Global Positioning System (GPS) device includes a processor coupled with an input... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv3)

20090087035 - Cartoon face generation: A face cartooning system is described. In one implementation, the system generates an attractive cartoon face or graphic of a user's facial image. The system extracts facial features separately and applies pixel-based techniques customized to each facial feature. The style of cartoon face achieved resembles the likeness of the user... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090087042 - Digital image processing using face detection information: A method of processing a digital image using face detection within the image achieves one or more desired image processing parameters. A group of pixels is identified that correspond to an image of a face within the digital image. Default values are determined of one or more parameters of at... Agent: Tessera/fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20090087037 - Electronic device and facial image display apparatus: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a storage device which stores face thumbnail indexing information including face images and time stamp information, extracting module configure to assign time zones to a video content data and to extract face images belonging to each time zone based on a time... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090087038 - Image processing apparatus, image pickup apparatus, processing method for the apparatuses, and program for the apparatuses: An image processing apparatus includes an object-feature-information storage unit configured to store feature information of a predetermined object; an image inputting unit configured to input an image; an object detecting unit configured to detect an object contained in the input image; an attribute determining unit configured to determine an attribute... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090087039 - Image taking apparatus and image taking method: In an automatic shooting mode, a CPU of a digital camera displays on an LCD a number setting display for setting the number of people to be taken. After the number of people to be taken is set, a through image taken by the CCD is stored in a frame... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090087040 - Method, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium for pattern recognition: A pattern recognition method, applicable to input information including a plurality of regions, includes obtaining a certainty at which each region of the input information includes a pattern, selecting one or more regions having a relatively high-level certainty among the plurality of regions, and performing pattern detection processing on the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090087036 - Pattern matching method, pattern matching system, and pattern matching program: A variation image generation means generates a plurality of variation images having different postures, facial positions, and sizes with respect to a normalized image. A characteristic extraction means extracts a frequency characteristic from the plurality of variation images. A discriminant space projection means projects the frequency characteristic on a discriminant... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090087041 - Person authentication apparatus and person authentication method: A face authentication apparatus includes a high tone image acquiring section, a tone converting section, a face characteristic extracting section and a face collation section. The high tone image acquiring section acquires a high tone image containing the face of a walker. The tone converting section converts the acquired high... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090087044 - Finger contact detecting apparatus, finger contact detecting method, fingerprint reading apparatus and fingerprint reading method: A finger contact detecting apparatus, which detects a finger being swept on a fingerprint sensor of the finger contact detecting apparatus, the finger contact detecting apparatus including, a pixel data averaging unit calculating an average value of pixel data collected by the fingerprint sensor; a deviation adding unit calculating, based... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20090087043 - Image reading apparatus and image reading method: An image reading apparatus is disclosed that includes a light emitting unit that illuminates light on an object; an image capturing device that receives incident light from the object and generates an electrical signal according to the intensity of the received incident light; an object detecting unit that detects the... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20090087045 - Cancer detection, diagnosis, staging, treatment planning, delivery, and monitoring using x-ray attenuation coefficient distributions: A method of analyzing a volumetric data set obtained by an imaging system from an object is provided includes defining a first region of interest comprising a population of voxels of a first tissue part of the object to obtain a first distribution of radiation attenuation coefficient values, defining a... Agent: Houst Consulting (varian)

20090087052 - Construction of a non-imaged view of an object using acquired images: There is described a method and a system for generating a non-imaged plane view of an anatomical part for assisting a surgery. A model of the anatomical part is provided, comprising features and dimension parameters. A first plane view of the anatomical part is obtained. Features are identified in the... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20090087050 - Device for determining the 3d coordinates of an object, in particular of a tooth: A scanner is used for scanning an object (3, 4, 5), in particular a tooth or a plurality of teeth or a dental cast. The scanner (1) comprises a projector (2) for projecting a pattern (7) onto the object (3, 4, 5) and a camera which comprises a recording optics... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20090087046 - Digital blink comparator apparatus and software and methods for operation: New techniques, imaging software, and related imaging systems for visualizing and comparing medical images are disclosed. The apparatus of this invention generally comprises a digital imaging system including a visual display device in combination with software adapted so as to enable two or more digital images to be rapidly alternately... Agent: David Silverstein AndoverIPLaw

20090087047 - Image display device and image display program storage medium: An image display device has a point setting section for setting a point for each of multiple medical images representing a subject; a size determining section that determines a common size that fits for each image shown at the point set by the point setting section in each of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090087051 - Image quality for diagnostic resolution digital slide images: An improved diagnostic resolution of digital slide images is obtained by scanning a first digital slide image at diagnostic resolution that is then deconvolved into separate images with one stain per image. The single stain images are then enhanced with image adjustments and/or processed with image analysis algorithms. The resulting... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090087048 - Medical report system, and medical report making apparatus and method: On a report making screen, medical images taken from a patient are displayed in a viewer. When an area of concern, such as an abnormal shadow, is designated in any of the displayed medical images, the medical images containing the area of concern are chosen. By drag-and-dropping one of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090087049 - Medical reporting system, apparatus and method: A medical reporting system includes a display panel for displaying plural CT images. A ROI setting unit designates a region of interest in the CT images. A group setting unit sets a group of specific CT images having the region of interest among the CT images, to generate group information... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090087065 - Accounting for foreign objects when creating ct-based attenuation maps: In a method for generating an attenuation map (30), image elements of a reconstructed tomographic image (24) are segmented into at least first, second, and third classes (50, 52, 54). Each image element of the first class (50) is transformed using a first image element value-dependent attenuation transform (60). Each... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090087058 - Image analysis apparatus, image processing apparatus, image analysis program storage medium, image processing program storage medium, image analysis method and image processing method: Plural sectional images are acquired at a plurality of slice positions arranged in a predetermined direction in a subject. Each of the plural sectional images acquired by the image acquisition section is binarized based on a predetermined reference image density. Each image included in the sectional images binarized by the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090087059 - Image display apparatus and computer-readable image display program storage medium: An image display apparatus and an image display program includes image acquiring section which acquires cross-section image groups which include cross-section images on cut positions arranged in a predetermined direction of a subject, a place setting section which sets places on the cross-section images in the cross-section image groups, an... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090087060 - Image processing method and image processing apparatus, and program: An image processing method includes identifying a body region in a tomographic image based on pixel values within the tomographic image, extracting a bone muscle region corresponding to essential parts of bones and muscles based on bone muscle pixels having pixel values corresponding to the bones or muscles in the... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (20459) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090087061 - Intrinsic co-registration for modular multimodality medical imaging systems: A method and device are provided for matching a patient coordinate system (PCS) of a nuclear medical imaging scanner with a coordinate system of a CT scanner in a multimodality modular imaging system, based on a predefined relationship between a vertical position of a patient bed during the NM scan;... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090087054 - Method and computer-readable code for characterizing a three-dimensional space: In one embodiment, a three-dimensional space is characterized by identifying sets of corresponding pixels in a plurality of radiation images. Different ones of the plurality of radiation images correspond to different slices of the three-dimensional space, and each of the sets of corresponding pixels corresponds to a different one of... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20090087055 - Method and system for computed tomographic imaging: A system for computed tomography imaging may comprise: a) an x-ray source; b) an x-ray detector; and c) a processing unit, wherein the processing unit is configured to carry out the steps: i) obtaining CT projections of an object, the projections comprising at least one truncated projection; ii) calculating material-equivalent... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090087057 - Method and system for motion correction in imaging systems: A method, a system, and a computer-readable medium are provided which perform motion correction of image data. A first set of data and a second set of data of k-space data of an object to be imaged are received. The first set of data and the second set of data... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090087066 - Method and system for vessel enhancement and artifact reduction in tof mr angiography of brain: A method and system for vessel enhancement and artifact reduction in a 3D time-of-flight (TOF) magnetic resonance (MR) angiography brain image. An intensity-based threshold is used to extract structures of interest in the brain image. Vessels are isolated in the structures of interest by filtering the structures based on a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090087063 - Method for registering two-dimensional image data, computer program product, navigation method for navigating a treatment apparatus in the medical field, and computational device for registering two-dimensional image data: m

20090087062 - Reconstruction support regions for improving the performance of iterative spect reconstruction techniques: A method for iterative reconstruction of tomographic images of an object of interest includes obtaining data corresponding to a field of view of a detector, processing the data to prepare a reconstruction support region corresponding to a region within the field of view encompassing the object, and reconstructing a tomographic... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090087056 - Scan conversion method and device for color ultrasonic imaging: A scan conversion method and device for color ultrasonic imaging that uses conditional interpolation of neighboring points is disclosed.... Agent: Mindray C/o Stoel Rives LLP

20090087053 - Systems and methods for image processing of 2d medical images: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system for image processing including a database, an image processor, and a display. The database includes a plurality of image slices. Each image slice in the plurality of image slices is based at least in part on an object. The image processor... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090087064 - Tomographic imaging with a stripe-like shaped sensor: Tomographic imaging using an imaging sensor that has a stripe-like shape is disclosed where a stripe sensor is mechanically scanned over a sample at different angles. For a single stripe detector imaging, linear motion and angular rotation are required. Single stripe sensor imaging may be performed using an elongated inductive... Agent: Canady & Lortz LLP

20090087069 - Apparatus and method for processing radiation image: A radiation image processing apparatus includes a radiation source for irradiating the subject with the radiation, the subject being applied with a fixation material, a radiation source controller for controlling the radiation source in accordance with different image capturing conditions, a radiation converting panel for converting the radiation into one... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090087067 - Displaying breast tomosynthesis computer-aided detection results: Methods, systems, and related computer program products for processing and displaying computer-aided detection (CAD) results in conjunction with breast x-ray tomosynthesis data are described. For one preferred embodiment, as a user pages through a notional stack of tomosynthesis reconstructed slice images (Tr images), including a detection-containing Tr image on which... Agent: Hologic Patent Department Attn Darry Pattinson

20090087068 - Image processing apparatus and x-ray diagnostic apparatus: In an X-ray diagnostic apparatus, a volume 3D image in which a desired blood vessel center line has been extracted is stored in a CT 3D image storage unit, and an X-ray two-dimensional image updated in real time is stored in an X-ray 2D image storage unit. The three-dimensional image... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090087070 - Method and system for bone suppression based on a single x-ray image: A method and system for suppressing bone structures based on a single x-ray image is disclosed. The bone structure suppressing method predicts a soft-tissue image without bone structures from an input x-ray image. A set of features is extracted for each pixel of the input x-ray image. A soft-tissue image... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090087072 - Method and system for diaphragm segmentation in chest x-ray radiographs: A method and system for segmenting diaphragm regions in a chest X-ray radiograph is disclosed. The diaphragm regions are segmented based on left and right lung lobe regions and a heart region in the chest X-ray radiograph. A right diaphragm region is segmented in the chest X-ray radiograph based a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090087071 - Method and system for scale-based vessel enhancement in x-ray angiography: A method and system for scale-based vessel enhancement in x-ray angiography images is disclosed. An input x-ray image is denoised. A lighting field is estimated in the denoised image. Vessels are extracted from the denoised image by dividing the denoised image by the estimated lighting field. Vessels are enhanced in... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090087073 - Radiation imaging apparatus: A radiation imaging apparatus reads out image signals from a radiation detecting section that detects radiation which has passed through a subject, and outputs the read out image signals as wireless signals. The signal strength of communications of a cassette transmitter/receiver is set to be lower during readout of the... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090087074 - Methods and systems for processing biological specimens utilizing multiple wavelengths: Methods, systems and computer readable media for processing one or more biological specimens carried by specimen slides. Images of objects in a specimen are acquired and objects of interest in the acquired images are identified. Additional images of identified objects of interest may be acquired at multiple wavelengths. Cellular features... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20090087075 - Observation device: An observation device that observes a test specimen such as cultured cells or the like includes: an illumination device that illuminates the test specimen; an image-capturing device that acquires an image of the test specimen illuminated by the illumination device; a storage unit that stores correlation data manifesting a correlation... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090087077 - Bank note authenticating method and bank note authenticating device: A method and apparatus authenticating a bill. The method irradiates infrared light having a predetermined wavelength onto a print area of a genuine bill from a light emitting unit, stores transmitted light data of light transmitted through the genuine bill as reference data, irradiates infrared light having the predetermined wavelength... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090087076 - System and method for processing currency bills and tickets: A method of processing documents includes receiving a stack of documents including currency bills and substitute currency media. Each substitute currency medium has at least one barcode. The method further includes transporting the stack of documents via a transport mechanism, one document at a time, along a transport path and... Agent: Cummins-allison Corp. C/o Nixon Peabody LLP

20090087079 - Defect detecting apparatus and method: A front side surface of a cover glass of a solid state imaging device is focused, and a front side image is captured. Next, a rear side surface of the cover glass is focused, and a rear side image is captured. The front side image and the rear side image... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090087078 - Display testing apparatus and method: A display testing method applied on an apparatus is provided, the apparatus being connected with an image capturing device. The method includes: controlling the image capturing device to capture and store images of displays to be tested; determining a first vertex of a test area on the captured image, determining... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090087080 - Vision inspection system and method for inspecting workpiece using the same: A vision inspection system and a workpiece inspection method are used in inspecting a workpiece. The vision inspection system includes a level block having an upper surface whose opposite end regions are defined as a first position and a second position. A first transfer device has a table for supporting... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090087081 - Method of manufacturing photo mask, mask pattern shape evaluation apparatus, method of judging photo mask defect corrected portion, photo mask defect corrected portion judgment apparatus, and method of manufacturing a semiconductor device: According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a method comprising detecting a defect of a pattern formed on the photo mask, acquiring a pattern image of a first region on the photo mask, extracting a pattern contour from the pattern image to acquire pattern contour extracted data,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090087082 - Pattern inspection apparatus and method: A pattern inspection apparatus includes a stage configured to mount a target workpiece to be inspected thereon, a sensor configured to include a plurality of light receiving elements arrayed in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction which moves relatively to the stage, and to capture optical images of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090087083 - Infra-red thermal imaging of laser welded battery module enclosure components: A thermal imaging system for a battery module enclosure that includes first and second battery module enclosure components between which a weld is formed includes a thermal imaging camera that focuses on the first and second battery module enclosure components within a predetermined amount of time after the weld is... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090087084 - Method and apparatus for pattern recognition: Methods and apparatuses for pattern recognition involve quantum-mechanical calculations. Pattern recognition can be achieved by considering a quantum system and its Hamiltonian dynamics. The dynamics are calculated on the basis of an initial Hamiltonian indicating an initial quantum state and on the basis of a final Hamiltonian. The final Hamiltonian... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090087085 - Tracker component for behavioral recognition system: A tracker component for a computer vision engine of a machine-learning based behavior-recognition system is disclosed. The behavior-recognition system may be configured to learn, identify, and recognize patterns of behavior by observing a video stream (i.e., a sequence of individual video frames). The tracker component may be configured to track... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090087086 - Identifying stale background pixels in a video analysis system: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a module for identifying a background of a scene depicted in an acquired stream of video frames that may be used by a video-analysis system. For each pixel or block of pixels in an acquired video frame a comparison measure is... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090087089 - Chin position calculating apparatus, image processing apparatus that employs the chin position calculating apparatus, chin position calculating method and recording medium having a chin position calculating program recorded therein: Automatic detection of chin positions is enabled from within digital images regardless of the facing directions of the faces. Faces having skin color are detected from input color images. Reference lines from center positions between eyes and center positions of mouths, which are included in faces are calculated, based on... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090087088 - Image forming system, apparatus and method of discriminative color features extraction thereof: Provided are an apparatus and method of extracting a discriminative color feature, and an image forming system including: a photographing device to photograph an image of an object; a color feature extracting device receiving the image from the photographing device, extracting a discriminative color feature from the image, generating a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090087087 - Pattern conversion for interpolation: A method of processing a digital image having a predetermined color pattern, includes converting the predetermined color pattern of the digital image into a converted digital image having a different desired color pattern; and using algorithms adapted for use with the desired color pattern for processing the converted digital image.... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20090087091 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: When converting image data constituted by a plurality of objects to data for an output device, color appearances of object images specified as a same output color are set so as to not vary even when their respective background colors vary. A color appearance model forward conversion section uses forward... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090087090 - Methods and apparatus for assessing and monitoring the capability and quality of a color reproduction system: A color reproduction system comprises a color imaging output device (e.g., monitor, printer, etc.) and its device characterization (e.g., ICC profile, device link, etc.). A method for assessing the capability and accuracy of a color reproduction system is presented. This method may be used to assess the fit between a... Agent: Exxonmobil Chemical Company

20090087092 - Histogram stretching apparatus and histogram stretching method for enhancing contrast of image: A histogram stretching apparatus and a histogram stretching method are disclosed to enhance image contrast by stretching a histogram of an input image within a range of a preset maximum expansion level and a preset minimum expansion level. The histogram stretching apparatus performs proper stretching suitable for a characteristic of... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090087093 - Dark scene compensation in a background-foreground module of a video analysis system: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a module for identifying a background of a scene depicted in an acquired stream of video frames that may be used by a video-analysis system. For each pixel or block of pixels in an acquired video frame a comparison measure is... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090087094 - Model-based method of document logical structure recognition in ocr systems: In one embodiment, the invention provides a method for determining a logical structure of a document. The method comprises generating at least one document hypothesis for the whole document; for each document hypothesis, verifying said document hypothesis including (a) generating at least one block hypothesis for each block in the... Agent: Hahn And Moodley, LLP

20090087095 - Method and system for handwriting recognition with scrolling input history and in-place editing: A computer implemented method for a touch screen user interface for a computer system. A first touchscreen area is provided for accepting text input strokes. A second touchscreen area is provided for displaying recognized text from the text input strokes. The text input strokes are displayed in the first touchscreen... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20090087096 - Background-foreground module for video analysis system: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a module for identifying a background of a scene depicted in an acquired stream of video frames that may be used by a video-analysis system. For each pixel or block of pixels in an acquired video frame a comparison measure is... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090087097 - Image display device, image display method and storage medium storing image display program: An image display device that includes an extraction component, a calculation component, an image processing component and a display component is provided. The extraction component extracts from photographic images a photographic image in which a face has been photographed. The calculation component calculates a position of an eye in the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090087101 - Image processing apparatus and apparatus for searching operator: An image processing apparatus includes an extraction unit configured to extract a feature amount from information recorded on a recording medium, an acquisition unit configured to acquire an identification image identifying an operator of the recording apparatus, a storage unit configured to store the feature amount and the identification image,... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090087099 - Image processing apparatus, image capturing apparatus, image processing method and recording medium: Frame images captured in a continuous manner are acquired, and temporarily stored. Characteristic points of faces in the acquired frame images are extracted. A sum (expression change amount) of distances between characteristic points of the face (face parts) in a current frame and the characteristic points of a preceding frame... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090087098 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image reading apparatus and memory product: In storing of a document page index of a reference image in association with each hash value calculated for each reference image by the features calculating section, a storage processing section determines whether the number of document page indexes, which have already been stored in association with each hash value,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090087100 - Top of head position calculating apparatus, image processing apparatus that employs the top of head position calculating apparatus, top of head position calculating method and recording medium having a top of head position calculating program recorded the: Automatic detection of top of head positions of humans is enabled from within digital images even in cases that backgrounds are not monotonous. Face regions are detected from within input images. Detection ranges, within which tops of heads are searched for, are set based on the detected face regions. Hair... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090087102 - Method and apparatus for registering image in telephone directory of portable terminal: A method and an apparatus for registering an image in a telephone directory of a portable terminal are provided. The method includes identifying at least one face area in an image displayed on a screen, selecting a face area to be registered in the telephone directory from the at least... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090087103 - Inspection apparatus and method: There is provided an inspection apparatus and method that output an accurate matching position even if a search image contains a pattern similar to a template. An image search unit includes a relative position comparing unit which compares the relative position of a template in a template selection image with... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090087105 - Apparatus and method for labeling a video, for modifying a video, and for video processing: An apparatus and method for labeling a video, an apparatus and method for modifying a video, a video searching method and an advertising method. The method for labeling a video includes labeling at least one object with its properties. The method for modifying a video includes replacing at least one... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090087104 - Apparatus for and method of processing image information and recording medium storing image processing program: An apparatus for processing image information regarding image data pieces each having retrievable information including shooting time and a shooting interval includes a grouping unit configured to group the image data pieces, which are arranged in order of the shooting time, by sequentially carrying out grouping steps that each divide... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20090087106 - Management device, and method and computer readable medium therefor: A management device, configured to be connectable with a storage device configured to store therein image data, includes a determining unit configured to determine whether the image data stored in the storage device satisfies a predetermined condition, and a size reducing unit configured to reduce a size of the image... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090087107 - Compression method and apparatus for response time compensation: An apparatus for response time compensation includes a compression module, a decompression module, a display element response time compensation module, and a bypass control module. The compression module compresses a current frame to produce a compressed previous frame of image information. The decompression module decompresses the compressed previous frame of... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price P.C.

20090087108 - Intra motion prediction for response time compensation: An apparatus for a response time compensation system includes a plurality of complexity modules and a motion vector module. The complexity modules determine a plurality of complexity values based on current image information and prior image information. The motion vector module determines a desired complexity value based on a lowest... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price P.C.

20090087111 - Image encoding apparatus and method for the same and image decoding apparatus and method for the same: An image encoding apparatus includes a pixel bit depth increase converter to convert bit depth of each pixel of an input image to output a converted input image and output bit conversion information indicating the number of bits changed by conversion, an image encoder to encode the input converted input... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090087110 - Multimedia coding and decoding with additional information capability: A multimedia coding and decoding system and method is presented that uses the specific prediction mode to signal supplemental information, e.g., metadata, while considering and providing trade offs between coding performance and metadata capacity. The prediction mode can be encoded according to a mode table that relates mode to bits... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20090087109 - Reduced code table size in joint amplitude and position coding of coefficients for video compression: A coding method, apparatus, and medium with software encoded thereon to implement a coding method. The coding method includes jointly encoding joint events that each are defined by a cluster of consecutive non-zero-valued coefficients, each joint event defined by three parameters: the number of zero-valued coefficients preceding the cluster, the... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20090087112 - Enhanced method of multilayer compression of pdf (image) files using ocr systems: In one embodiment, the invention discloses, a method for processing a document image. The method comprises segmenting the document image into a picture component and a non-picture component; compressing the non-picture component; and saving the uncompressed picture component and the compressed non-picture component in memory so that the document image... Agent: Hahn And Moodley, LLP

20090087113 - Variable length coding of coefficient clusters for image and video compression: A coding method, apparatus, and medium with software encoded thereon to implement a coding method. The coding method includes encoding cluster of consecutive non-zero-valued coefficients, the encoding of a cluster including jointly encoding joint events that each are defined by at least two parameters: the number of zero-valued coefficients preceding... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20090087114 - Response time compression using a complexity value of image information: An apparatus includes a control module and an activity module. The control module provides error control information based on a target number of bits and an actual number of bits required to pack at least one compressed block of image information. The activity module provides a quantization factor based on... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price P.C.

20090087115 - Correction for geometric distortion in images in pipelined hardware: In one embodiment, method for correcting geometric distortion in an image is provided. The method comprises operating at least first and second buffers upstream of a pixel processing block in pipelined hardware to each read M×N pixels of an input image to be corrected for geometric distortion; selectively connecting one... Agent: Hahn And Moodley, LLP

20090087117 - Filtering circuit, filter processing method, image pickup element circuit and camera: A filtering circuit which filters an image picked up by an image pickup element arranged in a two dimensional array. The filtering circuit includes a plurality of filtering units and a selecting unit. The plurality of filtering units locally filter a plurality of pixels forming the image, and the selecting... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090087118 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: In order to reduce wasteful operation processes by operation units, a data supply unit reads out a plurality of pieces of pixel data from an image memory and temporarily stores the pixel data in registers, and outputs the pixel data while shifting the pixel data in one direction; product-sum operators... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090087116 - Image processing filter, image processing method of image processing filter, and image processing circuit of image processing apparatus having image processing filter: An image processing filter for correcting a pixel value of an image includes a flatness calculation unit 40 for calculating a flatness of distribution of pixel values of surrounding pixels positioned on the periphery of a target pixel to be filtered, and a pixel value composition unit 50 for blending... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090087119 - Method and apparatus for arbitrary ratio image reduction: Disclosed is a method for re-sampling an input image comprising input samples to produce an output image comprising output samples. The method includes the following steps. A set of kernel values (130) is determined (110) based on a position (120) of an input sample (100), each kernel value in the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090087120 - Apparatus and method for generating a detail-enhanced upscaled image: An upscaler is disclosed that upscales each of a maximum value map, a minimum value map and an average value map to a destination resolution. A blending module generates a detail-enhanced upscaled image of the source image having the destination resolution by blending corresponding pixel values from an upscaled image... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price P.C.

20090087121 - Method and apparatus for enhancing detail based on noise elimination, and method and apparatus for calculating noise weight: A method to enhance detail of an image based on noise elimination includes calculating a noise weight corresponding to a probability that a center pixel, located in a block of pixels of a region of the image, is noise by using a difference between the center pixel and a surrounding... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090087122 - Video abstraction: A method for processing video data defining a series of images, comprising the steps of: defining a first series of nodes in a first multidimensional space, each of the first series of nodes corresponding to an image of the series of images and its location in the first space being... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090087123 - Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, and image processing method: m

20090087124 - Radiation systems and methods using deformable image registration: A method includes obtaining a first image, obtaining a second image, determining a deformation field using the first and second images, and determining a transformation matrix using the deformation field. A computer product having a set of instruction, an execution of which causes a process to be performed, the process... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group (varian)

20090087125 - Image processing device, method and program: An image processing device may include detection means for detecting a motion vector of an input image signal which is an input time-series image signal; interpolation means for interpolating, based on the motion vector, a signal between input image signals which is an image signal at an arbitrary time between... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik