Image analysis inventions 06/09

20090161907 - Embedded assessment of refuse for activity monitoring: Embodiments of the present invention provide devices and methods for monitoring the waste output of one or more individuals. Embodiments provide a waste receptacle equipped with one or more cameras capable of imaging the contents of the waste receptacle and optionally a scale that is capable of measuring the weight... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090161909 - Method of dynamically showing a water mark: A method of dynamically showing a water mark is applied in an audio/video transmitter. The audio/video transmitter includes a plurality of display contents such as a playback area name, a playback date, a playback time and an identification mark. The audio/video transmitter continues obtaining a plurality of frames from an... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090161908 - Recoverable marks for films: Techniques for making and using recoverable marks for films. The recoverable mark consists of a portion of a film to which a watermark that is imperceptible to viewers of the film has been applied and an original mark that is applied to the portion of the film with the watermark.... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090161910 - Method and device for reading addresses of mail items: In a method of reading addresses of mail items, images of mail item surfaces are recorded, and subjected to video encoding at video encoding stations of a video encoding facility. Distributing corresponding encoding tasks to the video encoding stations occurs in a job distribution facility. A respective encoder generates a... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20090161912 - method for object detection: In one aspect, the present invention is directed to a method for object detection, the method comprising the steps of: dividing a digital image into a plurality of sub-windows of substantially the same dimensions; processing the image of each of the sub-windows by a cascade of homogeneous classifiers (each of... Agent: Michael Ries

20090161911 - Moving object detection apparatus and method: Disclosed is directed to a moving object detection apparatus and method. The apparatus comprises an image capture module, an image alignment module, a temporal differencing module, a distance transform module, and a background subtraction module. The image capture module derives a plurality of images in a time series. The image... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20090161913 - Camera control method for vehicle number plate recognition: This development is about the camera control method for a vehicle license plate recognition system. In detail, it is about the applying variable shutter speed and gain level per image frames that are captured through a CCTV camera of vehicle license plate recognition system. The entire control is done through... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20090161914 - Visibility range estimation method and system: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for estimating a visibility range in a visibility-degraded environment, e.g., fog. The methods and systems involve digital image processing.... Agent: Caterpillar Inc. Intellectual Property Dept.

20090161915 - Multi-person pose recognition system using a zigbee wireless sensor network: In the present invention, a multi-person pose recognition system has been developed. This system includes a body pose detection module, a CC2420DBK board and a multi-person pose monitoring software module. The body pose detection module includes a triaxial accelerometer, a Zigbee chip and an 8-bit microcontroller. Several body pose detection... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090161916 - Map-based aesthetic evaluation of document layouts: A method is disclosed for determining the aesthetic quality of a document page. The method partitions the document page into a plurality of regions according to a predetermined map. Each region is then evaluated to determine whether the region is of acceptable aesthetic quality according to a predetermined profile corresponding... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090161917 - Sheet music processing method and image processing apparatus: A sheet music processing method of processing, by an image processing apparatus, image data of sheet music input by an input device, the method comprising setting, by a user using a designation unit of the image processing apparatus, a unit in which the image data of the sheet music is... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090161921 - Authentication system: On the basis of information regarding zones in which a plurality of registrants are assumed to be currently located, characteristic data of registrants who are assumed to be in the zone corresponding to a terminal apparatus that read the characteristic data of a user being authenticated is compared the characteristic... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090161920 - Biometric information acquisition apparatus, image acquisition apparatus, and electronic equipment: A biometric information acquisition apparatus includes a sensor that includes at least one pixel row formed from a plurality of pixels, and a drive mechanism that moves the sensor in a direction intersecting a pixel arrangement direction of the pixel row.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090161919 - Device detection with secure identity authentication: Systems and methods for providing secure identity authentication amongst devices using identity information contained therein to facilitate data synchronization amongst the user devices, wherein the identity information in the devices are compared for authentication but not actually transmitted or exposed for unauthorized access to such information and to the devices.... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090161918 - Image analysis system for detecting personal protective equipment compliance: Embodiments of the invention relate to an image analysis system for detecting compliance with requirements for using personal protective equipment (PPE). An image capturing device may be used to acquire an image of an individual requesting entry into a restricted area. In turn, a PPE analysis tool may be configured... Agent: Christopher M. Goff (27839) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090161923 - Living eye judging method and living eye judging device: An eye (EY) of a person to be shot is illuminated coaxially with the optical axis of a camera (11), and then, is shot. At this time, a retinal reflex is caused and the luminance in the pupil region becomes high if the eye (EY) is a living eye. A... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20090161922 - Security technique for controlling access to a network by a wireless device: The present invention relates to a method for protecting the security of a computer network which is accessed through the use of wireless devices, among other means. Specifically, the present invention pertains to a method of using user-specific biometric data to identify users of wireless devices such as PDAs and... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20090161924 - One time password generating method and apparatus: The invention relates to a one-time password generating method and an apparatus. The method includes steps of collecting fingerprint images, extracting fingerprint feature data from those fingerprint images, and comparing the fingerprint feature data with one or more pre-stored fingerprint feature templates for authentication. After the authentication is passed, a... Agent: Hammer & Associates, P.C.

20090161929 - Biological specimen observation method: When a biological specimen, such as living cells, biological tissue, or a small animal, is quantitatively observed, the specimen is observed for a long time or over a long period, while maintaining the quantitative properties. Provided is an observation method of observing luminescence or fluorescence emitted from a biological specimen.... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090161927 - Medical image observation assisting system: [Means for Achieving the Object] Medical image observation assisting system 1 including CT-image-data retrieving portion 10, CT-image-data storing portion 11, information extracting portion 12, anatomical information DB 13, point of view/line of view setting portion 14, luminal organ image generating portion 15, anatomical nomenclature information generating portion 16, branch specifying... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090161925 - Method for acquiring the shape of the iris of an eye: e

20090161926 - Semi-automatic segmentation of cardiac ultrasound images using a dynamic model of the left ventricle: A method for segmenting a sequence of images includes developing an autoregressive model using training data including segmented images of a same type as the sequence of images. The sequence of images showing a progression of a subject through a cycle is acquired. At least two images from the sequence... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090161930 - System and method for processing and reading information on a biological specimen slide: A method for processing an image of a biological specimen slide, the image comprising a plurality of characters associated with the biological specimen slide. In one such embodiment, the method includes representing the plurality of characters as respective objects, grouping the objects into a plurality of respective groups of objects... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20090161928 - System and method for unsupervised detection and gleason grading of prostate cancer whole mounts using nir fluorscence: A method for unsupervised classification of histological images of prostatic tissue includes providing histological image data obtained from a slide simultaneously co-stained with NIR fluorescent and Hematoxylin-and-Eosin (H&E) stains, segmenting prostate gland units in the image data, forming feature vectors by computing discriminating attributes of the segmented gland units, and... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090161934 - Automatic generation of protocol for pcmr imaging: Methods and systems are described for optimizing particular protocol parameters used in phase contract magnetic resonance (PCMR) imaging. Optimal settings for PCMR protocol parameters such as coordinates, field of view (FOV), frequency/phase encoding lines, number of excitations (NEX), slice thickness, views per segment (VPS), and coil setting may be determined... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090161931 - Image registration system and method: A method and system for registering two images is described. The method comprises synthesizing projections from two volumetric images to be registered, estimating a plurality of two dimensional (2D) deformable fields from the projections and generating a three dimensional (3D) deformable fields using a plurality of backprojections of the 2D... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20090161933 - Method for dynamic prior image constrained image reconstruction: A method for reconstructing a high quality image from undersampled image data is provided. The image reconstruction method is applicable to a number of different imaging modalities. Specifically, the present invention provides an image reconstruction method that incorporates an appropriate prior image into the image reconstruction process. Thus, one aspect... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20090161935 - Method for improving the quality of computed tomography image series by image processing and ct system comprising a computational unit: A method, a computational unit and a CT system are disclosed for improving the quality of CT image series. In at least one embodiment, the method includes scanning an examination object over a period of time which permits the acquisition of at least two temporally offset projection data records of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090161932 - Method for prior image constrained image reconstruction: A method for reconstructing a high quality image from undersampled image data is provided. The image reconstruction method is applicable to a number of different imaging modalities. Specifically, the present invention provides an image reconstruction method that incorporates an appropriate prior image into the image reconstruction process. Thus, one aspect... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20090161938 - Quantitative real-time 4d stress test analysis: Stress test analysis is facilitated through the acquired and manipulated use of a sequence of volumetric data regarding the heart (and may particularly comprise the left ventricle) for the assessment of the health state of the heart. Several provided and illustrated examples specifically relate to ultrasound volumetric data, but the... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates, LLC National City Bank Building

20090161936 - Rapid mri dynamic imaging using mach: An MRI includes at least a singular imaging channel which uses a smoothly varying sampling pattern to sparsely sample k-space as a series of parallel lines over time to acquire data of an object. The MRI includes a computer in communication with the imaging channel that performs a signal processing... Agent: Ansel M. Schwartz Attonrney At Law

20090161937 - Robust anatomy detection through local voting and prediction: A method for performing a medical imaging study includes acquiring a preliminary scan. A set of local feature candidates is automatically detected from the preliminary scan. The accuracy of each local feature candidate is assessed using multiple combinations of the other local feature candidates and removing a local feature candidate... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090161939 - System and method for extracting features of interest from an image: A technique is provided for extracting one or more features of interest from one or more projection images. The technique includes accessing projection images comprising at least one feature of interest enhanced by a contrast agent, generating a contrast agent null image based on the projection images, generating a bone... Agent: General Electric Company (pcpi) C/o Fletcher Yoder

20090161941 - Mixed injection inspection system: Provided is a system for reducing burden on an inspector by making it possible to evaluate the operation of a mixed injection worker which is difficult to evaluate numerically at a place remote from the mixed injection work place. Provided is a mixed injection inspection system for inspecting a mixed... Agent: Jones Day

20090161940 - System and method for analyzing impurities of an object: A computer-implemented method for analyzing impurities of an object is provided. The method includes selecting a region from an image of the object, pre-treating the region to calculate a threshold, processing the region and deleting the points from an outer layer of the region. The method further includes setting a... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090161942 - Method for inspecting a surface of a wafer with regions of different detection sensitivity: The invention relates to a method for inspecting a surface of a wafer with regions of different detection sensitivity. For this purpose, an image of the selected surface of the wafer is acquired using a detector. At least one region handled with a different detection sensitivity than the rest of... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20090161943 - Inspection apparatus and inspection method: The invention is directed to find a false defect from defect candidates and obtain a threshold with which the false defect can be eliminated by the smallest number of review times. Defect candidates are reviewed and selected as a defect or a false defect. By deleting a defect candidate having... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090161945 - Geometric parameter measurement of an imaging device: Disclosed is a method of determining at least one three-dimensional (3D) geometric parameter of an imaging device. A two-dimensional (2D) target image is provided having a plurality of alignment patterns. The target image is imaged with an imaging device to form a captured image. At least one pattern of the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090161946 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus comprises an inputting section for inputting a plurality of continuous images which were photographed by a photographing section progressively moving relative to a photographed object; an extracting section for extracting characteristic points from images input by the inputting section; a tracking section for tracking the points... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090161944 - Target detecting, editing and rebuilding method and system by 3d image: A method and system for target detecting, editing and rebuilding by 3D image is provided, which comprises an inputting and picking unit, a training and detecting unit, a displaying and editing unit and a rebuilding unit. The inputting and picking unit receives a digital image and a LiDAR data and... Agent: Michael W. Taylor Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A.

20090161947 - Image processing device and method, learning device and method, program, and recording medium: An image processing device includes: a smoothing section configured to extract a smoothing tap and smooth a target image on the basis of pixel values within the tap, the smoothing tap being of variable size and including plural pixels centered on each target pixel of the image; a class tap... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090161948 - Coefficient learning apparatus, coefficient learning method, image processing apparatus, image processing method and programs: A coefficient learning apparatus includes: a student-image generation section configured to generate a student image from the teacher image; a class classification section configured to sequentially set each of pixels in the teacher image as a pixel of interest and generate a class for the pixel of interest from the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090161949 - Structural content filtration of hypotheses in a cognitive control framework: Structural content filtration to reduce the number of hypotheses for the location of an active object in a recorded image generated by a graphical user interface (GUI) of an application program may be accomplished by transforming the recorded image and a corresponding playback image, determining a sub-image from the transformed... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090161950 - Image segregation system with method for handling textures: In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of converting a color band representation of the image to a homogeneous representation of spectral and spatial characteristics of... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20090161951 - Method for correcting red-eye: A method for correcting red-eye is described. Through facial features, at least one facial region is obtained in an image, a nose position in each facial region is obtained by using a nose feature, and at least one eye position is obtained based on a relative position relation between the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090161952 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: The image processing apparatus is provided with a scanner unit that reads a document and generates image data; an edge vicinity pixel detection unit that detects pixels in the vicinity of the edge of the document based on luminance values of the image data generated by the scanner unit; a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090161953 - Method of high dynamic range compression with detail preservation and noise constraints: A method for high dynamic range compression uses a modified cumulative histogram as a compression curve. This curve is computed from the cumulative histogram of the image with constraints that the local derivative on the curve does not exceed a certain limit. The limit is fixed along the curve or... Agent: Jonathan O. Owens Haverstock & Owens LLP

20090161954 - Processing method and apparatus: A processing apparatus processes input pixel data by referring to pixel data of peripheral pixels. The processing apparatus divides an input image in a first direction, inputs pixel data of a divided image divided in the first direction in a second direction crossing the first direction at a right angle,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090161955 - Metadata determination method and image forming apparatus: A method for extracting a character string from print data rasterizes the print data into a raster image. Then, the method divides the raster image into a character region and non-character region and determines character data used for metadata based on the raster image of the character region and character... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090161957 - Constellation detection: Disclosed herein is a method for identifying a constellation of alignment marks within an arrangement of computer readable marks in an image (1412), the arrangement of computer readable marks (1412) including alignment marks (1401-1406) and data carrying marks (1407-1410). The alignment marks (1401-1406) define a reference grid within the arrangement... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090161956 - Storage control device and image processing device: A storage control device includes an obtaining unit that obtains data; a recognition unit that recognizes an area among areas in a storage unit, as a recordable area, the area to be recognized being where the data obtained by the obtaining unit is stored and overwriting has been executed a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090161958 - Inline handwriting recognition and correction: As a user writes using a handheld writing device, such as an electronic pen or stylus, handwriting input is received and initially displayed as digital ink. The display of the digital ink is converted to recognized text inline with additional digital ink as the user continues to write. A user... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090161959 - Handwriting templates: Apparatuses, methods, and computer-storage media provide character string templates to facilitate receiving non-prose handwriting input from a user and converting that input to text to create character strings capable of being provided to application and/or displayed to the user. Templates may be provided manually or automatically, and may or may... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090161960 - Information processing apparatus and method, and a recording medium storing a program for implementing the method: A photographing apparatus and method for archiving a plurality of images as a single file, and a recording medium having a computer program for executing the method. The photographing apparatus and method employ a feature subject extracting unit for determining one of the plurality of images as a main image... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090161961 - Apparatus and method for trimming: Apparatuses and methods for processing a digital image are provided. More particularly, apparatuses and methods for trimming an image, whereby a composition of the image is located and trimmed from a displayed image, are provided. The apparatuses may include a digital signal processing unit which retrieves composition information similar to... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090161964 - Detecting objects in an image being acquired by a digital camera or other electronic image acquisition device: The likelihood of a particular type of object, such as a human face, being present within a digital image, and its location in that image, are determined by comparing the image data within defined windows across the image in sequence with two or more sets of data representing features of... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - San Francisco

20090161962 - Grouping images by location: A method of grouping images captured in a common location, including receiving a collection of images; classifying the images into a set of events, where each image in the collection belongs to no more than one event; analyzing background region(s) of images from each event to determine one or more... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20090161965 - Image processing method, image processor, photographic apparatus, image output unit and iris verify unit: An iris region of an eye is detected from an original image (S1) and image conversion is performed to the detected iris region so that feature data unique to the person can not be extracted (S2). For example, the iris region is divided into a plurality of portions and respective... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20090161963 - Method. apparatus and computer program product for utilizing real-world affordances of objects in audio-visual media data to determine interactions with the annotations to the objects: An apparatus for determining interactions with annotations to objects based upon real-world affordances of the objects in audio-visual media data may include a processing element configured to receive image data describing one or more objects having real-world affordances, to identify the one or more objects having real-world affordances, and to... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090161966 - Optimized projection pattern for long-range depth sensing: A system and method are disclosed for generating an optimized projection pattern and for using the optimized projection pattern for depth reconstruction. The system includes a De Bruijn graph generation module, a non-recurring De Bruijn sequence generation module and projection pattern generation module. The De Bruijn graph generation module is... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20090161967 - Method and apparatus for obtaining and processing image features: Machine-readable media, methods, apparatus and system for obtaining and processing image features are described. In some embodiments, a Gabor representation of an image may be obtained by using a Gabor filter. A region may be determined from the Gabor representation, wherein the region comprises a plurality of Gabor pixels of... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090161968 - Invariant visual scene and object recognition: A method for performing image recognition is disclosed. The method includes obtaining a collection of pixels and grouping at least some of the pixels into a set of cluster features based on gradient magnitude. For each cluster feature in the set, statistical variables are generated. The statistical variables represent a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090161971 - Image forming apparatus, computer-readable medium and data processing method: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus to form an image based on an XPS file including, a storage section; and a control section to refer to information concerning usage frequency of each individual file stored in the XPS file to judge whether or not a data decompression on the individual... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090161970 - Image processing device and image reading device: An image processing device includes an input portion for selecting encoding processing for an image to be filed as a monochrome image from first encoding processing according to a first compression method for compressing multilevel image data and second encoding processing according to a second compression method for compressing binary... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090161969 - Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding image, computer-readable program therefore, and information recording medium storing same program: An image encoding apparatus reduces the discontinuation or elimination of thin lines during a transform process including rounding of coefficient data generated by a frequency transform, thereby enabling the ready acquisition of a high-quality reduced image. The image encoding apparatus includes a frequency transform unit configured to frequency-transform an image... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090161972 - Image coding/decoding method, image coding apparatus and image decoding apparatus: An image coding method is provided, in which the method includes the steps of: extracting edge information which represents an edge part of an original image; obtaining density information of an edge smoothed image from the original image by smoothing the edge part; obtaining coded edge information by coding the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090161974 - Variable length coding (vlc) method and device: A method for representing video data related to a macroblock of a video image in a coding procedure wherein certain, video data or combinations of video data is represented in predefined events associated with indexed positions in a Variable Length Code (VLC) table including codes assigned to each indexed position,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090161973 - Variable-length encoding for image data compression: Disclosed is a variable-length image compression arrangement which represents successive distinct image data values (220, 221) of an image using corresponding non-decreasing Palette values (215, 222), and which incorporates (915, 1025) into the encoded data stream information recording the position in the encoded data stream at which each Palette value... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090161975 - Image reducing apparatus and reduced image generating method: In a case where a padded orthogonally transformed block obtained by orthogonally transforming a padded image block of 8×8 pixels to which padding data has been added has been recorded as compressed image data, the padded orthogonally transformed block is subjected to an inverse orthogonal transformation to thereby restore the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090161977 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program and learning apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes: a blur removing processing section configured to carry out a blur removing process for an input image using a plurality of blur removal coefficients for removing blur of a plurality of different blur amounts to produce a plurality of different blur removal result images; a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090161976 - Image processing device, image processing method, program, and learning device: An image processing device for converting an input image into an output image whose blur is reduced more, the image processing device including: first image extracting section configured to extract a plurality of pixels composed of a pixel of the input image which pixel corresponds to a pixel of interest... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090161978 - Halo artifact removal method: A system for performing frame rate conversion of a video signal including a plurality of video frames. The system includes a projection generator adapted and configured to generate a forward projection pixel map from a first video frame and generate a backwards projection pixel map from a second video frame.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090161979 - Image acquiring apparatus and control method thereof: An image acquiring apparatus includes: an image sensor which senses light reflected from an object to be read, and which detects an analog pixel value corresponding to the sensed reflected light; and a compensator which compensates the analog pixel value in its analog form for removing a background of the... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090161980 - Speckle reporting in digital radiographic imaging: A method for reporting image quality obtains a digital radiological image and processes the image to detect at least one speckle. Noise signal magnitude in the digital radiological image is estimated. At least one speckle is identified according to its signal magnitude relative to the noise signal estimate. The at... Agent: Carestream Health, Inc.

20090161984 - Apparatus and method for image processing, and program for use therein, and learning apparatus: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus for converting a first image into a second image having higher image quality than that of the first image, includes: a first pixel value extracting section; an estimate noise amount arithmetically operating section; a processing coefficient generating section; a second pixel value... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090161985 - Image editing apparatus and control method for the same, computer program, storage media: The present invention enables dust removal to be effectively performed even when using the operation history on images containing different pictures. An image editing apparatus includes a storage unit for storing a plurality of image data to be edited and a display unit for displaying the image data to be... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090161983 - Method for automatic detection and correction of halo artifacts in images: A method of automatically detecting and correcting halo artifacts within a processed image is described. The method computes a two-dimensional (2D) gradient field of the original image and a 2D gradient field of the processed image. Each gradient field includes a gradient vector corresponding to each pixel. To detect halo... Agent: Jonathan O. Owens Haverstock & Owens LLP

20090161981 - Method for enhancing ground-based detection of a moving object: A method for enhancing detection of a moving object. The method includes comparing a video image to a historical sequence of images obtained from the same scene or stationary source. The method uses statistical sampling to implement change detection and thresholding operations which extract moving objects from the scene. The... Agent: Navairwd Counsel Group

20090161982 - Restoring images: The specification and drawings present a new method, apparatus and software product for restoring (i.e., de-noising and/or stabilizing) images using similar blocks of pixels of one or more different sizes in one or more available image frames of the same scene for providing, e.g., multi-frame image restoration/de-noising/stabilization.... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090161986 - Digital image converting apparatus with auto-correcting phase and method thereof: A digital image converting apparatus with auto-correcting phase and a method thereof are provided. The digital image converting apparatus includes a phase controller, a delay locked loop (DLL), an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and a position adjuster. The phase controller selects one of preset phases for outputting and continuously changes the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090161987 - Method and apparatus for processing image data: A method and apparatus of processing image data comprises correlating received image data. Image statistics are computed based upon the correlated image and eccentricity is estimated based upon the computed image statistics. An entropy metric of the correlated received image data is determined. An interpretation based upon the image statistics,... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Amd

20090161988 - System and method of image correlation based on image structure: A method and apparatus that augments the traditional Phase Plane Correlation (PPC) approach incorporates image structure into the correlation process. In so doing, the energy in spurious peaks that can occur in the phase plane correlation surface are dramatically reduced.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Amd

20090161989 - Method, medium, and apparatus representing adaptive information of 3d depth image: A method, medium, and apparatus processing depth information of a depth image. The apparatus adaptively presenting information on depth information includes a section determination unit determining which one of plural sections respective depth values for pixels of the 3D image fall within, with the plural sections being defined by a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090161990 - Orientation adapted aliasing cancellation: A method (700) of determining an image value at a sample position of an output image, is disclosed. The method (700) comprises the steps of determining orientation of an isophote (e.g., 1010) passing through the output sample position and determining a period of intensity variation along the isophote (1010). The... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090161991 - Automatic dominant orientation estimation in text images based on steerable filters: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, an image processing system is capable of receiving an image containing text, applying optical character recognition to the image, and then audibly reproducing the text via text-to-speech synthesis. Prior to optical character recognition, an orientation corrector is capable of detecting an amount... Agent: Cool Patent, P.C. C/o Cpa Global

20090161992 - Image resolution increasing method and apparatus: An image resolution increasing method include setting a first block which is included in a low resolution image and is located at a first position, and a second block which is included in a high resolution image and is located at a second position, and setting, as an increasing resolution... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090161993 - Image processing apparatus, image processing system, image processing method, computer-readable medium and computer data signal: An image processing apparatus includes a storage unit, an image receiving unit, a detection unit and a control unit. The storage unit stores number of a plurality of information images included in a reference image. The information images represent data. The image receiving unit receives an image including one or... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090161994 - Using metadata tags in video recordings produced by portable encoded information reading terminals: A system and method for facilitating the video information search and users' navigation through multiple video image or video stream files, as well as reducing the amount of data transferred between a video content management server and a video playback client, by employing metadata tags inserted into the video recordings... Agent: Marjama Muldoon Blasiak & Sullivan LLP

20090154764 - Drug vial detection in an automated drug preparation system: In accordance with the present invention, a method for determining an orientation of a drug vial in an automated drug preparation system that includes a number of stations includes the steps of: (a) identifying the drug vial using identification information that is associated with the drug vial; (b) obtaining a... Agent: Leason Ellis LLP

20090154761 - Image display method and image display system using the same: An image display method and an image display system using the method. In the method, location information is extracted from each of a plurality of image files, and map information corresponding to the location information is extracted. Then, images contained in the image files and the map information are displayed.... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090154760 - Image maze generating system and method thereof: The present invention discloses an image maze generating system. The system is suitable for use with a digital camera to generate a maze of photographs. The system specially includes an image processing module and an image maze generating module. The image processing module assigns numbers to the photographs. And then... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090154763 - Image processing method for generating easily readable image: A character area is detected in a reduced layout and a character is detected in the character area, and a character size is compared to a predetermined size readable by a user when characters are printed. A detected character size determined to be smaller than the predetermined size is enlarged.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090154765 - Information display device and information display method: In order to prevent interception of information through leakage electromagnetic waves when transmitting the information using an image display unit, an image converter generates plural converted images, stores the generated converted images in an image storage, an image output unit reads out the converted images from the image storage and... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090154762 - Method and system for 2d image transformation with various artistic effects: Disclosed is an image transforming method. A 2D image photographed by a digital camera is transformed into an artistic image through image transformation performed by a computer so that a natural image such as an oil painting, a pen illustration, a cartoon, a dual picture, and a template mosaic as... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090154759 - Method, user interface, apparatus and computer program product for providing a graphical code pattern: A method for generating a graphical code pattern from a multimedia content, the method including receiving one or more input and in response editing the multimedia content, encoding the multimedia content into a graphical code pattern, displaying the generated graphical code pattern, and concurrently with the editing, encoding the multimedia... Agent: Perman & Green

20090154758 - Universal reader: A computer implemented method and computer usable program product for embedding rich content of a document in an image. In one embodiment, a static image of the document is generated. If the amount of memory associated with the rich content does not exceed a threshold amount, the rich content is... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090154767 - Image comparing method, apparatus and program: Disclosed is an image comparing method for comparing plural first images and a second image, includes: converting the second image to generate a second numerical data; dividing each of plural first numerical data corresponding to the plural first images into plural parts, and dividing the second numerical data into plural... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090154766 - Method and apparatus for detecting malfunctioning print elements in postage meter indicia printer: In a mailing machine, an image element included in a postage meter indicium printed on a mail piece is transported past a linear image capture device. The image capture device is operated to produce a smeared image of the image element. The smeared image is then automatically analyzed to detect... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20090154768 - Method of motion detection and autonomous motion tracking using dynamic sensitivity masks in a pan-tilt camera: A method of identifying motion within a field of view includes capturing at least two sequential images within the field of view. Each of the images includes a respective array of pixel values. An array of difference values between corresponding ones of the pixel values in the sequential images is... Agent: Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP

20090154770 - Moving amount calculation system and obstacle detection system: An arithmetic device (400) calculates a moving amount based on an image sensed before movement and an image sensed after movement. The arithmetic device (400) generates a difference image with minimum noise using the calculated moving amount. The arithmetic device (400) removes noise from the difference image by performing image... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090154769 - Moving robot and moving object detecting method and medium thereof: A moving robot and moving object detecting method and medium thereof is disclosed. The moving object detecting method includes transforming an omni-directional image captured in the moving robot to a panoramic image, comparing the panoramic image with a previous panoramic image and estimating a movement region of the moving object... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090154771 - Automated determination of cross-stream wind velocity from an image series: Systems and methods are provided for determining the cross-stream component of wind velocity near a target location. A modal-decomposition of a first series of images is conducted to obtain a plurality of contribution functions representing the first set of images. A second series of images is mapped to a selected... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20090154773 - Method and system for reducing the cost of sampling a moving image: An energy-efficient and cost-reducing method and system to enable the successful sampling of a moving image are disclosed. The method and system use movement detection and analysis within a feedback loop to control subsequent sensor movement/lighting/radiation for control of future sampling of the image.... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090154772 - System and method of producing locomotion animation by using riding motion: A method of producing a locomotion animation includes calculating movement information of the objects on the basis of surrounding information of the objects and motion capture data for the subjects, and measuring a collision between the objects or between an object and an obstacle on the basis of the movement... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090154775 - Fitting doublers using gap mapping: A method and apparatus are used to fit a metallic or composite doubler on an uneven surface. A three dimensional digital map of the gap between the doubler and the uneven surface is generated by digitally scanning the uneven surface. The digital map is then used to fabricate a stack... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20090154774 - Systems and methods for characterizing wood furnish: A system for determining at least one characteristic of wood furnish from an upstream source. The system includes: an inclined panel comprising a transparent window having a top surface for the wood furnish to slide down; a lighting means adjacent the transparent window for lighting the wood furnish visible through... Agent: Oyen, Wiggs, Green & Mutala LLP 480 - The Station

20090154776 - Optical imaging clinical sampler: A clinical sampling system including a reader capable of optically imaging a test cartridge presented thereto and then automatically determining the presence and concentration of a target compound in a liquid sample placed on the test cartridge. The reader includes an optical imaging unit for illuminating, imaging, and interpreting the... Agent: Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20090154777 - Camouflage patterns, arrangements and methods for making the same: A site-specific photographic camouflage arrangement and method for making the same are provided. The site-specific photographic camouflage arrangement includes a digital photographic image and distorting disruptive patterns placed on the digital photographic image to create visual confusion to disguise the recognizable form of a camouflaged object by breaking up its... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20090154778 - Identification and verification of an unknown document according to an eigen image process: Techniques are described for identifying and validating security documents according to an Eigen image process method. For example, a security document authentication device selects one or more reference documents of different document types, calculates, from the reference documents, one or more Eigen images and Eigen values for the plurality of... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20090154779 - System and method to remove artifacts from fingerprint sensor scans: A method and device for removing common artifacts, such as stiction, from fingerprint scans created by partial fingerprint scanners. The partial fingerprint scanner data is assessed to determine if successive partial fingerprint images are overly similar to each other, which can occur during stiction. If this similarity exceeds a preset... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20090154780 - Security system and method for security certification thereof, method of generating relative character information, terminal system, and smart card: A security system is provided. The security system includes a terminal system and a smart card. The terminal system generates relative fingerprint information of a user from absolute fingerprint information of the user, determines a similarity between the generated relative feature information of the user and registered relative fingerprint information... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090154781 - Characterizing a texture of an image: Among other things, a texture of an image is characterized by deriving lacunarity measures from the image based on a wavelet analysis.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090154782 - Dual-magnify-glass visualization for soft-copy mammography viewing: This invention provides a dual-magnify-glass viewing method for a mammography workstation. In particular, the invention includes a method that registers regions of interest on a pair of mammography images and provides a user interface to visualize the paired full resolution or magnified images in a synchronized style. The paired images... Agent: Three Palm Software LLC

20090154783 - Apparatus and method for planning magnetic resonance imaging: A diagnostic imaging system includes a magnetic resonance imaging scanner (10) for imaging an organ of interest, a reformatting processor (70) for constructing reformatted images corresponding to a scout image in different coordinate systems, and a graphical user interface (62) for displaying acquired images and reformatted images to an associated... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090154784 - Biological observation apparatus and method for obtaining information indicative of internal state of an object using sound wave and light: A biological observation apparatus comprises a sound wave radiating unit that radiates a sound wave into an object, a control unit that controls radiation of the sound wave, a light radiating unit that radiates light into the object while successively changing a wavelength thereof, a light receiving unit that receives... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090154785 - Method and system for dynamic pulmonary trunk modeling in computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging: A method and system for modeling the pulmonary trunk in 4D image data, such as 4D CT and MRI data, is disclosed. Bounding boxes are detected in frames of the 4D image data. Anatomic landmarks are detected in the frames of the 4D image data based on the bounding boxes.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090154786 - Virtual bone biopsy (vbb) system: The present invention comprises a system and method for analyzing trabecular bone structure. A means for scanning the trabecular bone using a magnetic resonance image (MRI) scanner generates bone image data, which is then processed including correcting, deshading and reducing noise in the image data.... Agent: Montgomery, Mccracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP

20090154787 - Image reconstruction device and method: The present invention relates to an image reconstruction device and a corresponding method for reconstructing a 3D image of an object (7) from projection data of said object (7). In order to obtain 3D images having sharp high-contrast structures and almost no image blur, and in which streak artifacts (and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090154788 - Automatic system for judging quality of cell: An automatic culture device 1 having an automatic quality determination system is equipped with an analysis program 12. The analysis program 12 extracts cell characteristics from a captured image of a cell by driving a characteristic quantity extraction program 13, which is an image processing program for extracting characteristics (characteristic... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090154789 - System and method for detecting optical defects: A system and method for detecting optical defects on a surface of a transparent or semi-transparent structure, tube or article is provided. Defects are identified and analyzed by using a digital camera to capture an image of a target having a pattern of light and dark areas through a portion... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20090154790 - Wiring pattern inspection method and inspection apparatus for flexible printed wiring board: In a method for inspecting a wiring pattern on a flexible printed wiring board, light is illuminated from a front surface side of the TAB tape T while a drum is provided on the rear surface side of the TAB tape T such that a reflection method becomes main and... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090154791 - Simultaneous localization and map building method and medium for moving robot: A simultaneous localization and map building (SLAM) method and medium for a moving robot is disclosed. The SLAM method includes extracting a horizontal line from an omni-directional image photographed at every position where the mobile robot reaches during a movement of the mobile robot, correcting the extracted horizontal line, to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090154793 - Digital photogrammetric method and apparatus using intergrated modeling of different types of sensors: Disclosed is a digital photogrammetric method and apparatus using the integrated modeling of different types of sensors. A unified triangulation method is provided for an overlapping area between an aerial image and a satellite image that are captured by a frame camera and a line camera equipped with different types... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090154792 - Linear feature detection method and apparatus: A method of extracting linear features from an image, the method including the steps of: (a) applying a non maximum suppression filter to the image for different angles of response to produce a series o filtered image responses; (b) combining the filtered image responses into a combined image having extracted... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090154794 - Method and apparatus for reconstructing 3d shape model of object by using multi-view image information: A method for reconstructing a 3D shape model of an object by using multi-view image information, includes: inputting multi-view images obtained by photographing the object from multiple viewpoints in a voxel space, and extracting silhouette information and color information of the multi-view images; reconstructing visual hulls by silhouette intersection using... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090154795 - Interactive concept learning in image search: An interactive concept learning image search technique that allows end-users to quickly create their own rules for re-ranking images based on the image characteristics of the images. The image characteristics can include visual characteristics as well as semantic features or characteristics, or may include a combination of both. End-users can... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090154796 - Systems and methods for human body pose estimation: Systems and computer-implemented methods for use in body pose estimation are provided. Training data is obtained, where the training data includes observation vector data and corresponding pose vector data for a plurality of images. The observation vector data is representative of the images in observation space. The pose vector data... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP. (pa)

20090154797 - Apparatus and method for steganalysis: An apparatus and method for steganalysis that enhances the ability to detect distortion introduced by data hiding. In embodiments of the invention, a pixel grayscale value in an image is predicted by using its neighboring grayscale values of neighboring pixels. Further, a prediction-error image is produced by subtracting the image... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090154798 - Information processing device and method, program, and information processing system: An information processing device, configured to perform color gamut conversion for compressing or enlarging the color gamut of image data, includes: a selecting unit configured to select a generating method of table information for specifying a non-mapping boundary which is a boundary between a region where the coordinate movement of... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090154800 - Image processing device, image forming apparatus, image processing method, and program: An image processing device that processes input image data includes: an image dividing unit that divides the input image data into a plurality of blocks; an image type determining unit that determines the type of the input image data for every block on the basis of the number of edge... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090154799 - Image processor and image processing method: An image processor according to the present invention is configured to generate a plurality of multiresolution images of different resolutions from an input image (S16), to set a correlation evaluation function for each multiresolution image, calculate a correlation value between the correlation evaluation function and each pixel in the multiresolution... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20090154801 - System and method for automatically adjusting a display panel: A system for adjusting position of a display panel is provided. The system captures a reference facial image and a present facial image of a user at different time frames, and calculates adjustment parameters according to the reference facial image and the present facial image. The display panel is then... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090154803 - Information processing device and method, program, and information processing system: An information processing device, configured to perform color gamut conversion for compressing or enlarging the color gamut of image data, includes: a selecting unit configured to select a plurality of coordinate movement directions to be synthesized for determining the coordinate movement destination of a pixel to be processed during the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090154802 - Method and apparatus for image compression and decompression: A method of image compressing is provided. During compressing, color intensity of the image is considered. When the color intensity of the image is relatively high, lower bits used for representing the image are dropped. When the color intensity of the image is relatively low, upper bits used for representing... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090154804 - Digital correction for alignment of a plurality of color channels of a color image forming device: A system and method are provided for digital correction of a plurality of color channels and color image data. In color reproduction, a color image may be composed of a plurality of superimposed color channels in a color space hi order to assure the proper alignment of color channels and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20090154805 - Method for converting an input color signal: A white light-emitting microcavity light-emitting diode device, comprising a method for converting a red, green, and blue (RGB) input signal to a converted signal having RGB color signals and an additional saturated color signal, by calculating saturation of the additional saturated color in the RGB input signal to determine the... Agent: David Novais Patent Legal Staff

20090154807 - Edge comparison in segmentation of video sequences: A method of image processing, includes: receiving at least one video frame of a video sequence, the at least one video frame including at least one foreground subject and a background; and processing the at least one video frame so as to separate the at least one foreground subject from... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090154808 - Method and apparatus for segmenting an object region of interest from an image: A method for segmenting an object region of interest from an image includes detecting each corner in a captured image; acquiring edges of the object from the captured image based on the detected corners; clustering the detected corners based on corners on the acquired edges; and segmenting the image region... Agent: Alpine/bhgl

20090154806 - Temporal segment based extraction and robust matching of video fingerprints: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product code for temporal, event-based video fingerprinting. In one embodiment, events in video content are detected. The video content comprises a plurality of video frames. An event represents discrete points of interest in the video content. A set of temporal, event-based segments... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090154809 - Method and apparatus for identifying an imaging device: A new technique for identifying whether images are derived from a common imager, e.g., a camera, or other imaging device such as a scanner, based on the device's measured or inferred reference noise pattern, a unique stochastic characteristic of all common digital imaging sensors, including CCD, CMOS (Foveon™ X3), and... Agent: Milde & Hoffberg, LLP

20090154810 - Image processing device, image processing method, and program and recording medium thereof: In an electronic document of drawing descriptions of a page image and a character, it is desired that although a font data necessary for drawing the character is held in the electronic document, the size of the electronic document is minimized. Furthermore, it is desired to ensure visibility at the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090154811 - Image processing apparatus and computer readable medium: An image processing apparatus includes: a region extracting unit extracts a character region on an image; a character recognizing unit that recognizes characters in the character region extracted by the region extracting unit; a translating unit that translates a recognition result obtained by the character recognizing unit; and a changing... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090154812 - Method for identifying objects and object identification system: A method for identifying objects using an object identification system, wherein a respective pattern of an object to be identified is taught to the object processing system in the form of a pattern edge image formed from edge points, wherein at least one image which is recorded using an image... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090154813 - Method and apparatus for validating holograms: A method and apparatus that validates a hologram by scanning the hologram at multiple angles is disclosed. The method may include scanning a document containing the hologram at a first angle to create a first image, scanning the document containing the hologram at a second angle to create a second... Agent: Prass LLP

20090154814 - Classifying objects using partitions and machine vision techniques: A method for classifying objects according to a predefined classification of sample objects. This is achieved by classifying first a plurality of sample object images and determining an image partition for each and every class. The sample classes and their corresponding partitions are used to build a classifying function. The... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20090154815 - Document information processing apparatus and document information processing program: A document information processing apparatus is obtained in which there is no need to provide the consistency of management between the instances of documents and their metadata, that is, there is no fear that inconsistency in management might be caused, thereby eliminating the possibility of loading the system, which would... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090154816 - Adaptive group of pictures (agop) structure determination: This disclosure is directed to techniques for determining a picture type for each of a plurality of frames included in a video sequence based on cross-correlations between the frames. The cross-correlations include first order cross-correlations between image information within pairs of frames included in the video sequence and second order... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090154817 - Image data compressor and image data decompressor: In a data decompressor, a variable length decoding unit extracts a variable length code from compressed image data, performs variable length decoding of the extracted variable length code, and restores quantized data before the variable length encoding was applied. An inverse quantization unit performs inverse quantization on the restored quantized... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090154818 - Lossless compressor for image data values: Disclosed is method of encoding a set of data values (205-245). Each data value corresponds to a pixel position (205,210, 220,225) within an image (100). The method operates on a current (230) said data value at a current pixel position. The method creates (605) a context set (215,225) for the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090154819 - Circuit and method for adaptive, lossless compression of successive digital data: An image compression and decompression method compresses data based upon the data states, and decompresses the compressed data based upon the codes generated during the compression.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090154820 - Context adaptive hybrid variable length coding: A coding method for an ordered series of quantized transform coefficients of a block of image data, including a context adaptive position coding process to encode the position of clusters of non-zero-valued coefficients, e.g., a multidimensional position coder that uses one of a plurality of code mappings selected according to... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20090154821 - Method and an apparatus for creating a combined image: A method for generating a combined image that comprises, during capturing a sequence comprising a plurality of initial images, detecting a subset of the plurality of images having no substantial motion thereamong, combining data from the subset to produce a combined image, and outputting the combined image.... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20090154822 - Image distortion correction: Methods and systems for reducing or eliminating distortion in an image are described. The approach generally involves determining the distortion introduced by a lens, and modifying a captured image to reduce that distortion. In one embodiment, the distortion information associated with a lens is determined. The distortion information is stored.... Agent: Murabito Hao & Barnes LLP

20090154823 - Systems and method for de-blurring motion blurred images: Systems and methods for providing a substantially de-blurred image of a scene from a motion blurred image of the scene are disclosed. An exemplary system includes a primary detector for sensing the motion blurred image and generating primary image information representing the blurred image, a secondary detector for sensing two... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090154824 - Efficient filtering of image data: Systems and methods for efficiently applying a filter to image data are disclosed. For efficiently applying the filter, a filter type including coefficient values for each pixel in the image data is identified. A sub-matrix corresponding to the size of the filter is selected in the image data. The sub-matrix... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20090154827 - Image processing apparatus and method: This invention is to easily generate a normal map at a low cost. Hence, image data representing the characteristic of the surface of paper is inputted using an image input device. The type of finish of the paper is determined. Filtering processing corresponding to the type of finish is performed... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090154826 - Method and apparatus for eliminating defective pixels and noise: A method and apparatus for eliminating defective pixels and noise in which each pixel value of an image is extracted using a color filter. A mean value of the extracted image is calculated A noise variance, a first threshold for determining whether a pixel is defective, and a second threshold... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090154825 - Reduction filter based on smart neighbor selection and weighting (nrf-snsw): The present disclosure describes a method and apparatus for filtering noise in a video image, comprising receiving a first video image, a second video image and motion information wherein the first image may be an image to be filtered and the second image may be a filtered image wherein the... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC C/o Cpa Global

20090154828 - Method for adaptive image enhancement: A filtering system and method are disclosed, to perform simultaneous, de-noising, and details enhancement tasks of a video image. The efficient filtering system includes multiple filters, which operate on a portion of the video image that has been partitioned into multiple rings. Using the filtering system, complex mathematical operations are... Agent: Carrie A. Boone, P.C.

20090154830 - Image interpolation apparatus and method: The present invention is an interpolation device and method. According to the present invention, a plurality of pixels close to a pixel to be interpolated are sequentially set to a central pixel. When a pixel difference closest to a threshold value among pixel differences between the central pixel and a... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20090154829 - Method and apparatus for edge enhancement considering singular points: A method of and apparatus for edge enhancement considering singular points are provided. The method of edge enhancement includes: determining a first gain from the input image; detecting a singular point distinguishable from an edge from among pixels of the input image; based on the detection result of singular points,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090154831 - Method and apparatus for dithering a pixel value in image: Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for dithering a pixel value in a image. The method includes checking a difference in chrominance signals between a particular pixel and a pixel adjacent to the particular pixel, in an input image, designating the particular pixel as being in a flat or... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090154832 - Alpha-masked rst image registration: A method (500) of determining rotation and scale transformation parameters is disclosed. The method (500) determines a plurality of weight values associated with one or more parts of at least one of a first and second image (e.g., 154. 155). A representation of each of the first and second images... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090154833 - Image file reproduction apparatus and image data reproduction apparatus: An image file reproduction apparatus includes a reproduction unit that reads an image file from a storage medium storing image files capable of storing plural pieces of image data and reproduces the read image file, a first operation unit that receives a command for selecting any one of image files... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090154834 - Rendering system and data processing method for the same: The rendering system for rendering input image data to composite an image includes an image input unit, an image rendering unit, an image compositing unit. The image input unit subdivides input image data into data segments of a size corresponding to the memory capacity of the rendering system to load... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090154835 - Method for rotating an image and digital cameras using the same: A method for rotating an image and digital cameras using the same are disclosed. The method comprises: determining whether to auto-rotate an original image according to a rotate initial instruction; if yes, calculating a slope angle of the original image to rotate a first specific angle, wherein the slope angle... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20090154836 - Image downsampling during processing: A method of preparing a document for printing may include determining a preferred image resolution for an image on a document. An electronic file may be received. The electronic file may comprise data representing a first embedded image having a nominal resolution. A job may be received. The job may... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20090154837 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus for processing and outputting image data includes a image processing content storage unit for storing contents of an image processing; a thumbnail reduction ratio determining unit for determining a reduction ratio of a thumbnail image according to the contents of the image processing thus stored; a... Agent: Kubotera & Associates, LLC Suite 202

20090154838 - Image downsampling for print job processing: A system for preparing documents for printing includes a stored object corresponding to an image having an effective resolution, as well as a computing device. The computing device is configured to receive an electronic file comprising data representing a plurality of embedded images wherein each embedded image has an effective... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20090154840 - Image processing system and method: An image processing system includes a first memory for storing a first image data, the first image data having a plurality of pixels; a second memory for storing at least one mapping table, the mapping table recording the mapped positions of at least a portion of pixels; a direct memory... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090154839 - Image processing system having a rapid image processing apparatus and method for image processing: The invention relates to an image processing system having an image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus comprises at least two image processing units to receive a temporal sequence of image data records forming a common data stream and to generate output image data records from the image data records... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090154841 - Apparatus and method for transforming image in mobile device: An apparatus for transforming an image in a mobile device is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a pen style transformation unit for transforming an original image to a pen style image using a separated Gaussian filter and outputting pen style image, a cartoon style transformation unit for transforming the original image... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090147985 - method and system for secure watermark embedding and extraction data flow architecture: Methods and systems for secure watermark embedding and extraction data flow architecture are disclosed and may include embedding a watermark in a video signal utilizing an embedded CPU. The embedded CPU may be controlled utilizing a security processor via a secure bus. The watermark may be embedded in a compressed... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090147989 - Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and computer-readable recording medium storing image processing program: A picture image extracting section extracts a picture image from an image shown by image data stored in an image memory. A document image creating section executes a processing of superimposing a special dot pattern and a pattern image onto the image from which the picture image is extracted. After... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090147988 - Image transfer with secure quality assessment: A method for producing an assured image from image data that is transferred from a first entity to a second entity acquires image data, transfers the acquired image data from the first entity to the second entity, forms secure assurance data according to image quality measurements obtained from the acquired... Agent: Louis S. Horvath

20090147986 - Method and system of immersive sensation enhancement for video sequence displaying: An immersive sensation enhancement method and system for video sequence displaying is provided. An immersive sensation enhancement system, the system including: a foreground image identification unit to identify a foreground image for each frame of an input image; a foreground image characteristic extraction unit to extract a characteristic of the... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090147990 - System and method of generic symbol recognition and user authentication using a communication device with imaging capabilities: A system and method for recognizing symbols and identifying users or services, including the displaying of an image or video clip on a display device in which identification information is embedded in the image or video clip, the capturing the image or video clip on an imaging device, the transmitting... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090147987 - X-ray inspection apparatus: An x-ray inspection apparatus includes a sample image obtaining unit, an ideal curve generating unit, a curve adjustment unit, and a mass estimation unit as a function block generated by a control computer. The sample image obtaining unit obtains 10 x-ray transmission images of sample inspected products each of whose... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20090147993 - Head-tracking system: A head-tracking system and a method for operating a head-tracking system in which a stationary reference point is detected are provided. A detector for detecting the position of a head is calibrated based on the detected stationary reference point. In one example implementation, the detection of the stationary reference point... Agent: The Eclipse Group LLP

20090147995 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method, and computer program: An information processing apparatus includes information input units which inputs observation information in a real space; an event detection unit which generates event information including estimated position and identification information on users existing in the actual space through analysis of the input information; and an information integration processing unit which... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090147991 - Method, system, and computer program for detecting and characterizing motion: A method for motion detection/characterization is provided including the steps of (a) capturing a series of time lapsed images of the target, wherein the target moves between at least two of such images; (b) generating a motion distribution in relation to the target across the series of images; and (c)... Agent: Miller Thompson, LLP

20090147992 - Three-level scheme for efficient ball tracking: A three-level ball detection and tracking method is disclosed. The ball detection and tracking method employs three levels to generate multiple ball candidates rather than a single one. The ball detection and tracking method constructs multiple trajectories using candidate linking, then uses optimization criteria to determine the best ball trajectory.... Agent: Carrie A. Boone, P.C.

20090147994 - Toro: tracking and observing robot: The present invention provides a method for tracking entities, such as people, in an environment over long time periods. A region-based model is generated to model beliefs about entity locations. Each region corresponds to a discrete area representing a location where an entity is likely to be found. Each region... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20090147998 - Image processing system, image processing method, and computer readable medium: There is provided an image processing system configured to correct an image of an object inside a physical body. The image processing system includes an object image obtaining section that obtains an object image formed by light from the object, a depth identifying section that identifies a depth from a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090147999 - Image processing system, image processing method, and computer readable medium: Provided is an image processing system, including a depth calculating section that calculates a depth of an object from a surface of a body, the object existing inside the body; a light receiving section that receives light from the object; and a substance amount calculating section that calculates an amount... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090147997 - Method and system for correcting distance using linear regression and smoothing in ambient intelligence display: The invention provides a method of correcting a distance between an ambient intelligence display and a user using a linear regression and a smoothing, by which distance information of a user who approaches to the display can be accurately output even in an unanticipated condition using a passive infrared (PIR)... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090147996 - Safe following distance warning system and method for a vehicle: A safe following distance warning system for a vehicle includes a forward-looking image capturing unit, a speed sensor, a processor, and a warning output device. The forward-looking image capturing unit is for capturing images forward of the vehicle. The forward-looking image capturing unit includes a taking lens, an image sensor... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090148001 - Method for multivariate analysis of confocal temporal image sequences for velocity estimation: A method of determining individual velocity associated with one or more molecular species moving through a fluid medium involves obtaining multiple temporal images of the one or more species moving through the medium, analyzing the temporal images using multivariate image analysis to obtain temporal profiles of principal components, and determining... Agent: Mr. Edward J. Timmer

20090148000 - System and method for motion capture: A system and method for measuring, animating, and analyzing motion in real-time is provided which operates with or without markers. System variables are used with a motion model to restrict the number of possible locations of a subject. The system variables are based on known or detected relationships between the... Agent: King & Spalding

20090148003 - Block-based noise detection and reduction method with pixel level classification granularity: A method of detecting noise in an image (1900, 2000) of a compound document is disclosed. The image comprising pixels representing at least text data (1910,1930, 2010) and image data (1920, 2020) used to form the compound document. The noise comprises at least one of halftone, bleeding and texture noise.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090148002 - Camera based ink application verification: The present application relates to a method, apparatus and programmable product for verifying print quality of a document assembled on a document manufacturing device. In particular, a system and related method for performing print quality assessment of the document in real-time during manufacture of the document are provided. The present... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090148004 - Image forming apparatus and method thereof: Prior to image output of output information, printing information is analyzed and an important inspection processing item regarding inspection to be performed on the image output, and an inspection point, are selected. Inspection instruction information including the important inspection processing item and the inspection point that have been selected is... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090148005 - 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

20090148006 - Control device, image forming apparatus, method of controlling image forming apparatus, and recording medium: A control device of the present invention includes: a face position detecting section for detecting a position of a user's face in an image captured by a capturing device; a face recognition processing section for checking a partial image against reference face images, the partial image being at the position... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090148012 - Anatomical modeling from a 3-d image and a surface mapping: A method of medical imaging includes creating an anatomical map of an inner wall of a cavity in a body of a subject by inserting a probe into the body and collecting data using the probe. A three dimensional (3-D) contour is delineated in a 3-D image of the cavity... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20090148010 - False positive reduction in computer-assisted detection (cad) with new 3d features: A method for computer aided detection (CAD) and classification of regions of interest detected within HRCT medical image data includes post-CAD machine learning techniques applied to maximize specificity and sensitivity of identification of a region/volume as being a nodule or non-nodule. The regions are identified by a CAD process, and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090148014 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program product: An image processing apparatus includes an edge intensity calculator which calculates an edge intensity of a pixel in an image; and a correlation value calculator which calculates a correlation value between the calculated edge intensity and a bubble model set in advance based on characteristics of a bubble image. The... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090148009 - Image processing system and method for displaying images during interventional procedures: To reduce the contrast fluid and X-ray load on patients during interventional procedures, a real-time visualisation architecture is proposed to combine 2D live images with 3D reconstructed volume information. In general, 2D X-ray images arc recorded from below (Posterior Anterior) and presented head up (Anterior Posterior) by applying a mirroring... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090148011 - In-situ data collection architecture for computer-aided diagnosis: Automated diagnostic decision support (104) in the imaging of potentially malignant lesions is distributed and streamlined to protect patient confidentiality and to lower bandwidth and transaction costs. At a client hospital site (108a, 108b), a software agent (132) monitors a database and responsively accesses an image of a lesion and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090148017 - Medical image processing apparatus and medical image processing method: Main parts of an endoscope system of the present invention include a medical observation apparatus, a medical image processing apparatus, and a monitor. A CPU of the medical image processing apparatus is constituted by function units including a three-dimensional model estimating unit, a detection target area setting unit, a shape... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090148015 - Method and device for noise suppression in medical images: The invention relates to a method for noise suppression in medical images comprising steps of measuring the gradient field strength of an image pixel and selecting a suitable filter mask for noise suppression as a function of the gradient field strength, with the value of the gradient field strength being... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090148016 - Method and system for second bend plane detection of ear canal surfaces: A method and system for detecting the second bend plane of an ear canal surface is disclosed. A region of interest of the ear canal is defined between the first bend plane and the ear canal tip. A set of curves is defined in the region of interest and a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090148008 - Planar angular visualization of the bronchial tree: A system (20) an image aquisition device, an image workstation, computer-readable medium and method for visualizing an anatomical tree structure is disclosed. The anatomical tree structure is segmented from a three-dimensional image set of at least a portion of a body. A planar angular visualization of the anatomical tree structure... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090148007 - System and method for automated detection and segmentation of tumor boundaries within medical imaging data: A method for segmenting regions within a medical image includes evaluating a set of candidate segmentations generated from an initial segmentation. Based on distance calculations for each candidate using derivative segmentations, the best candidate is recommended to clinician if it is better than the initial segmentation. This recommender realizes a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090148013 - System and methods for generating three-dimensional images from two-dimensional bioluminescence images and visualizing tumor shapes and locations: A system and methods for generating 3D images (24) from 2D bioluminescent images (22) and visualizing tumor locations are provided. A plurality of 2D bioluminescent images of a subject are acquired during a complete revolution of an imaging system about a subject, using any suitable bioluminescent imaging system. After imaging,... Agent: Mccarter & English, LLP Newark

20090148020 - Image display apparatus and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus: An image display apparatus includes a storage unit that stores a plurality of image data with respect to a scan area of a subject; an analysis processing unit that obtains a plurality of analysis results by performing a predetermined analysis processing on a plurality of image data stored in the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090148019 - Image processing method, image processing program, and image processing device: An image processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention includes (a) a voxel normalization step of equalizing voxel sizes and numbers of voxels in respective effective fields of view of a first 3D image based on a plurality of first tomographic images obtained from an arbitrary part... Agent: Greenlee Winner And Sullivan P C

20090148018 - Image segmentation technique for displaying myocardial perfusion that does not show the microbubbles in the cardiac chambers: A method and a device for conducting perfusion studies on myocardial tissues with contrast agents is provided. In accordance with the method, ultrasound pulses are transmitted (111) into a patient, and ultrasound echoes of the pulses are received (113) which correspond to both myocardial tissue blood and chamber blood within... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090148021 - Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and magnetic resonance imaging method: A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a data acquisition unit, a correction unit, a sorting unit and n image reconstruction unit. The data acquires data for imaging and projection data. The correction unit performs motion correction of the data using the breath levels obtained based on the projection data. The... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090148022 - Method and system for extracting distal radius metaphysis: Provided is a method and an apparatus for extracting an edge of a distal radius metaphysis. The method includes: setting a region of interest including a distal radius in an X-ray image; setting a potential energy distribution of the region of interest by using a gradient of gray levels; setting... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090148023 - System for adaptively processing medical image data: A system locally allocates relatively higher and lower spatial resolution areas of a medical X-ray image in response to image spatial resolution requirements of individual sections of a partitioned image. A system processes image data by adaptively varying pixel resolution within a 2D (two Dimensional) X-ray medical image. The system... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090148024 - System and method for blood vessel bifurcation detection in thoracic ct scans: A method for detecting blood vessel bifurcations in digital medical images includes inflating a sphere from a first center point inside a segmented blood vessel until a surface of the sphere intersects a surface of the blood vessel, searching within the inflated sphere for a second center point that has... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090148026 - Currency recognition apparatus and information updating method thereof: The invention discloses a currency recognition apparatus and an information updating method thereof. The currency recognition apparatus according to the invention includes a transmitting module and an updatable memory. The transmitting module receives or transmits the updated information related to the currency recognition apparatus through a network. The updatable memory... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090148025 - Enhanced note processing: Techniques and systems are disclosed to perform, in some examples, the steps of receiving a note or an image of a note, imaging at least a portion of the note, determining a value of at least one field indicated by a predetermined identifier of the note through character and mark... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007131

20090148027 - System and method for intelligent currency validation: Currency is validated by comparing identifying information extracted from the currency, such as a serial number associated with the currency, to identifying information in a list corresponding to invalid currency, such as counterfeit currency. If the extracted identifying information matches identifying information on the list, the currency is deemed invalid.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090148028 - Bi-directional magnetic character reader: A manually operated document scanner and methods of operation and use are disclosed. The document scanner includes a document bed having a document positioning surface. The document scanner also includes a scanner module slidably attached to the document bed. The scanner module has a magnetic character reader, a first magnet... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20090148029 - Magnetic ink character recognition ('micr') signal generation for a micr: Methods, systems, and apparatus are disclosed for Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (‘MICR’) signal generation for a MICR character configured on a medium that include: exposing, by an emitter, an electromagnetic signal to the MICR character, the MICR character absorbing a portion of the electromagnetic signal; detecting, by a receiver, a... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20090148032 - Alignment using moire patterns: Methods of determining relative spatial parameters between two substrates in a process of alignment are described. Generally, multiple alignment data may be collected from phase information using a pair of alignment marks.... Agent: Molecular Imprints

20090148030 - Method and system for determining cumulative foreign object characteristics of a composite structure: Method and system for determining cumulative foreign object characteristics during fabrication of a composite structure. Images of sequential segments of a composite structure may be recorded during placement of the composite structure. The recorded images may be analyzed for detecting foreign objects on the composite structure. Cumulative foreign object characteristics... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090148031 - Surface inspection apparatus: A surface inspection apparatus, which includes a detecting device of scanning a surface of an inspection object with an inspection light and outputting a signal corresponding to a light amount of refection light from the surface, generates a two-dimensional image of the surface of the inspection object on the basis... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090148033 - Optical inspection apparatus for substrate defect detection: A method and apparatus for inspecting the surface of articles, such as chips and wafers, for defects, includes a first phase of optically examining the complete surface of the article inspected at a relatively high speed and with a relatively low spatial resolution, and a second phase of optically examining... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP - - Appm/tx

20090148035 - Controller of mobile robot: A controller of a mobile robot that moves an object such that the position of a representative point of the object and the posture of the object follow a desired position and posture trajectory is provided. The desired posture trajectory of the object includes the desired value of the angular... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20090148034 - Mobile robot: There is disclosed a mobile robot including an image processor that generates recognition information regarding a target object included in a taken image, and a main controller integrally controlling the robot based on this recognition information. The image processor executes steps of: generating a low-resolution image and at least one... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20090148037 - Color-coded target, color code extracting device, and three-dimensional measuring system: To provide a color-coded target having a color code of colors chosen not to cause code reading errors and technique for automatically detecting and processing the targets. The color-coded target CT1 of this invention includes, on its surface: a position detecting pattern P1 indicating a position to be measured; a... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090148038 - Distance image processing apparatus and method: A distance image processing apparatus including a distance image obtaining unit for obtaining distance values that include depth information and position information, and represent a three-dimensional shape of a subject obtained by photographing the subject, a conversion unit for converting the depth information with a quantization number such that the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090148036 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image processing program and position detecting apparatus as well as mobile object having the same: There is provided an image processing apparatus capable of reducing a memory amount to be used and a processing time in processing images captured stereoscopically in wide-angle. In order to find pixel positions of an object as information for use in detecting position of the object from images captured by... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090148039 - Colour document layout analysis with multi-level decomposition: Disclosed is a method of classifying segmented contents of a scanned image of a document. The method comprise partitioning the scanned image into colour segmented tiles at pixel level. The method then generates superpositioned segmented contents, each segmented content representing related colour segments in at least one colour segmented tile.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090148040 - Spectral gamut mapping based on a colorimetric gamut mapping: Mapping spectral colors in an Interim Connection Space (ICS) of a full spectral space based on a colorimetric gamut map in a color space is provided. A spectral color value in the ICS is accessed, and the spectral color value is transformed into a calorimetric color value in the color... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090148041 - Systems and methods for unsupervised local boundary or region refinement of figure masks using over and under segmentation of regions: An initial figure mask estimation of an image is generated using a figure ground segmentation system, thereby initially assigning each pixel in the image with a first attribute value or a second attribute value. A JigCut region segmentation of the image is generated. The figure mask estimation is processed with... Agent: Jones Day

20090148043 - Method for extracting text from a compound digital image: Text is extracted from a grayscale or color compound digital image. Kernels of text in the compound digital image are found using a stroke operator. The kernels of text are segmented into text blocks based on image space, color space, and intensity space. Each text block is segmented into text... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Europe

20090148042 - Text representation method and apparatus: A text-like data representation technique and a text-like data representation apparatus are disclosed that my acquire image data from a scanned image; segment text regions from the image data; further extract each connected component in the text regions; form clusters based on the connected components; group each connected component in... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20090148044 - Device and method for virtualizing an image sensor: A method virtualizes an image sensor. The method comprises selecting one of at least two portions of a filter to use as a function of a mode of operation. The method comprises capturing an image using the selected one of the at least two portions. The method comprises executing a... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP/ Motorola

20090148045 - Applying image-based contextual advertisements to images: Systems, methods, computer-readable media, and graphical user interfaces for applying image-based contextual advertisements to images are provided. An image analyzing module and advertisement analyzing module analyze images and advertisements to identify image attributes and advertisement attributes. Upon identifying image attributes and advertisement attributes, advertisements deemed contextually relevant to an image... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090148046 - Error propogation and variable-bandwidth mean shift for feature space analysis: The present invention comprises using error propagation for building feature spaces with variable uncertainty and using variable-bandwidth mean shift for the analysis of such spaces, to provide peak detection and space partitioning. The invention applies these techniques to construct and analyze Hough spaces for line and geometrical shape detection, as... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090148048 - Information classification device, information classification method, and information classification program: A table record estimation device includes: a table element string extraction unit having a function of extracting text data from input data and acquiring a series of keywords as an element of a table (table data) from the extracted text data; a table element labeling unit having a function of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090148047 - Video data indexing system, video data indexing method and program: [Solving Means] A video indexing system has an index generating unit which generate an index, an index accumulating unit which accumulates the index together with attached information such as an index position, an image feature generating unit which generates an image feature, an image feature accumulating unit which accumulates the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090148049 - Recording medium for recording logical structure model creation assistance program, logical structure model creation assistance device and logical structure model creation assistance method: A method for assisting in the creation of a logical structure model, which stores, from an image in which character strings associated respectively with a plurality of logical elements constituting a logical structure are described, the logical elements, character strings associated with the logical elements, and the logical structure, wherein... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090148051 - Correlatability analysis for sparse alignment: Disclosed herein is a method of estimating a geometrical relationship between a first image (101) and a second image (102), wherein the second image (102) includes a noise component. The method determines a location and size of each one of a plurality of image patches (201), based on the noise... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090148050 - Methods and apparatuses for comparing cad drawings: Methods, apparatuses/systems, and software for comparing two drawings to create a compare drawing that includes options for highlighting added and deleted graphic objects, as well as unchanged graphic objects, and comparing one drawing to many or many drawings to many drawings, whether or not the drawings are similar. The invention... Agent: Silversky Group LLC

20090148052 - Image categorization based on comparisons between images: In an example embodiment, a method is provided for image categorization. Here, images are displayed. In turn, a user input that describes a characteristic shared between the images from a comparison between the images is received. The user input may then be classified into categorization data.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090148053 - Method for transmitting image bit stream and image encoder: The invention discloses a method for transmitting image bit stream and an image encoder utilizing the method. The image format comprises a start of image (SOI) marker, a start of scan (SOS) marker and a primary compressed data. First, the invention generates redundant data according to a first start address... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20090148054 - Method, medium and apparatus encoding/decoding image hierarchically: A method, medium, and apparatus hierarchically encoding or decoding an image format. In this method, a basic image is generated by down-sampling an original image. A basic layer bitstream is generated by encoding the basic image. A restoration image of the basic image is generated and up-sampled. Enhancement layer bitstreams... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090148055 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus for correcting a dislocation of image, pixels being arranged in a first and second directions perpendicular to each other, including: a section which breaks down a correction amount of the image of each pixel in the second direction into a first shift amount with a unit... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, P.C.

20090148056 - Video processing with tiered interdependencies of pictures: Systems and methods that receive a video stream comprising a sequence of plural compressed pictures, wherein the plural compressed pictures comprises a plurality of sets of compressed pictures, wherein each set in the plurality of sets has a respective picture interdependency characteristic, wherein the compressed pictures in the first set... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company

20090148057 - Systems and methods for randomly accessing compressed images: An embodiment of a method for encoding a source image comprising multiple data units, performed by an image encoding unit, comprises the following steps. A quantized DC coefficient and multiple AC coefficients of a data unit are generated. A value at the (0,0) element of the first data unit is... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090148059 - Image processing apparatus, image display apparatus, image forming apparatus, image processing method and storage medium: With the use of a vector quantization technique, an index image, which is obtained by replacing an image on a block-by-block basis, each block consisting of a predetermined number of pixels, with any of a plurality of different pixel patterns and representing the pixel patterns by index values of the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090148058 - Reference selection for video interpolation or extrapolation: This disclosure describes selection of reference video units to be used for interpolation or extrapolation of a video unit, such as a video frame. A decoder may apply a quality-focused mode to select a reference frame based on quality criteria. The quality criteria may indicate a level of quality likely... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090148060 - Image processing apparatus and method thereof: An image processing apparatus applies a separability filter to respective positions of an inputted image including a linear object, calculates separability of the respective positions, generates a separability map as a set of the separability of the respective positions, applies distance transform or thinning process to the separability map to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090148061 - Method and system for imaging with a zoom: An imaging system and method are presented for use in imaging with zoom. The system comprises a pixel detector array (PDA), an optical focusing arrangement, and a spatial filter configured and operable to selectively switch between at least two transmitting states. Distributions of an optical resolution of the optical focusing... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20090148063 - Edge generation method, edge generation device, medium recording edge generation program, and image processing method: A direction of an intended edge is determined, and a position of the intended edge is corrected to a position that brings a direction that connects a position of the intended edge and a position of an adjacent edge closer to the determined direction of the intended edge, and edge... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20090148062 - System and method for detecting edges in a video signal: A system and method for processing a digital video signal corresponding to an image are provided. A plurality of independent edge detecting processes or edge detector modules detect a set of edges and at least one additional edge that is not included in the set of edges. An edge map... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP Z2002

20090148064 - Collage display of image projects: Techniques are described for displaying projects of images as “collages”. Collages differ from conventional thumbnail displays of projects in that collages display an entire project as if the project were a single image. Consequently, collages better convey the characteristics of projects as a whole, while de-emphasizing the distinctiveness of individual... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/apple Inc.

20090148065 - Real-time summation of images from a plurality of sources: A method of producing an image depicting an object from a plurality of images. In an exemplary method, images of an object gathered by a plurality of image acquisition devices are combined to produce a final image. Low quality image rejection, enhancement, co-registration, and other functions may be performed. An... Agent: Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP

20090148066 - Method and apparatus for video upscaling: Upscaling video data for presentation on a relatively high resolution display device is described. Supplemental video data corresponding to video data is accessed and acquired in response to a request to upscale the video data. The video data and the supplemental video data are combined to produce a combined video... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090148067 - Image processing method and related apparatus for performing image processing operation according to image blocks in horizontal direction: An image processing method includes generating a block matching result by performing a block matching operation according to a plurality of image blocks in the horizontal direction without referring to an image block in the vertical or other directions and performing an image processing operation according to the block matching... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090148068 - Image classification and search: An electronic image classification and search system and method are provided. Images are processed to determine a plurality of simple feature descriptors based upon characteristics of the image itself. The simple feature descriptors are grouped into complex features based upon the orientation of the simple feature descriptors. End-stopped complex feature... Agent: Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, PA C/o Peter Nieves

20090148069 - Image-data recording and reproducing apparatus: An image data recording apparatus includes a menu picture data managing section and a recording section. The menu picture data managing section operates for managing first menu picture data containing control information designed to allow switching from reproduction of first image data pieces to reproduction of second image data pieces... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20090148070 - System and method for generating and reproducing image file including 2d image and 3d stereoscopic image: An apparatus includes a storage unit to receive and store an image file, a processor to parse a media data field of the image file including one or more image data samples and to parse a media header field including an image type data field indicating whether each of the... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090148071 - Information processing apparatus, method, and program: An information processing apparatus displays, for each group, images that are divided into groups so that each group contains at least one of the images. The apparatus includes an image-data storing unit that stores image data of the images, a group-attribute-information storing unit that stores attribute information of the groups,... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090148072 - Method and apparatus for touching-up images: A method and camera apparatus touches up a source image to produce a target image. The source image is partitioned into non-overlapping tiles of pixels. Each tile is labeled. A probability distribution of the labels is inferred, in which the probability distribution is a conditional random field. Weights are determined... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090148073 - Allowing users to automatically change typographical letter case using application independent functionality: The present invention discloses a solution for allowing users to manipulate typographical letter case. In the solution, functionality can be implemented that allows users to quickly select a set of letters and to manipulate letter case of the selected text in a variety of ways. For example, an existing case... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090148074 - Method for automatically performing an image processing function on an electronic device: A method (400) for automatically performing a plurality of image processing functions on an electronic device (100) by providing a plurality of image processing option keys (405) including a first image processing option key and a second image processing option key. The first image processing option key is associated with... Agent: Motorola Inc

20090148075 - Method for automated quality control: A computer-implemented method and system for ensuring quality control over a group of test reports comprising identifying a plurality of areas within a test report that contain data elements, performing optical character recognition on the plurality of areas for each test report in the group of test reports to generate... Agent: Mayer Brown LLP

20090141931 - Digital watermarking cmos sensor: The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, an imaging system including an active pixel sensor imaging array configured to capture an image, said imaging array being in electronic communication with a watermark embedder.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090141930 - Image forming method and count control method: An image forming apparatus which copies on a recording sheet an original document carrying a watermark, where a watermark comprising a specific character or a pattern is embedded inconspicuously into an image of the original document, the image forming apparatus including: a discrimination section which discriminates a color mode of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090141933 - Image processing apparatus and method: A method of matching a pose of a synthesised representation of a human or animal body to a captured image of that human or animal body is provided, which can be used to generate a graphical model of the body when disposed on a plane, such as a synthesised model... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090141932 - Method for image quality assessment using quality vectors: A method for assessing the image quality of image data acquires image data, segments the image data into at least one spatial region, obtains a plurality of image quality measures for the at least one spatial region, and forms at least one quality vector that has two or more quality... Agent: Louis S. Horvath

20090141929 - Selecting bit positions for storing a digital watermark: A method comprises selecting bit positions for storing a digital watermark in digital audio data in time domain by choosing a spread function characterising the plurality of the selected bit positions, wherein the spread function comprises at least one Gaussian curve.... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20090141928 - Systems and methods for witness card analysis: A system for and method of assessing fluid spray using image processing techniques of a calibration and one or more as-sprayed witness cards. Calibration and as-sprayed witness cards are exposed to a backlight sufficient to make a plurality of stains thereon electronically visible. At the same time an image of... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20090141927 - Watermark generating circuit and related method thereof: A watermark generating circuit includes: a first computing circuit, for generating a second reference signal according to a computing parameter, an input data and a first reference signal; a second computing circuit, coupled to the first computing circuit, for generating at least one selecting signal to determine an embedding location... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090141934 - Method of processing postal items using a separator representing a region of interest (roi): The method of processing postal items comprises the following steps: causing the postal items to advance in series past a camera (120) for the purpose of generating an image (1) of one face of each postal item, which face bears postal address information; filtering the image of a current postal... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20090141941 - Image processing apparatus and method for estimating orientation: Using the estimate of the orientation of each object, a three dimensional model can be generated which can, as far as possible, represent the scene of the objects on the plane. For example, the scene may be that of a sporting event such as a football match, the objects being... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090141940 - Integrated systems and methods for video-based object modeling, recognition, and tracking: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for modeling, recognizing, and tracking object images in video files. In one embodiment, a video file, which includes a plurality of frames, is received. An image of an object is extracted from a particular frame in the video file, and a subsequent... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20090141935 - Motion compensated ct reconstruction of high contrast objects: Cardiac CT imaging using gated reconstruction is currently limited in its temporal and spatial resolution. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an examination apparatus is provided in which an identification of a high contrast object is performed. This high contrast object is then followed through the phases,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090141936 - Object-tracking computer program product, object-tracking device, and camera: A computer performs following steps according to a program for tracking an object. Template matching of each frame of an input image to a plurality of template images is performed, a template image having a highest similarity with an image within a predetermined region of the input image is selected... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090141938 - Robot vision system and detection method: A robot vision system for outputting a disparity map includes a stereo camera for receiving left and right images and outputting a disparity map between the two images; an encoder for encoding either the left image or the right image into a motion compensation-based video bit-stream; and a decoder for... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090141937 - Subject extracting method, subject tracking method, image synthesizing method, computer program for extracting subject, computer program for tracking subject, computer program for synthesizing images, subject extracting device, subject tracking device, an: A binary mask image for extracting subject is generated by binarizing an image after image-processing (processed image) with a predefined threshold value. Based on an image before image-processing (pre-processing image) and the binary mask image for extracting image, a subject image in which only a subject included in the pre-processing... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090141939 - Systems and methods for analysis of video content, event notification, and video content provision: A method for remote event notification over a data network is disclosed. The method includes receiving video data from any source, analyzing the video data with reference to a profile to select a segment of interest associated with an event of significance, encoding the segment of interest, and sending to... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20090141942 - Non-contact passive ranging system: A non-contact passive ranging system wherein a first imager on a platform is focused on a first object and a second imager on the platform is also focused on the first object. The optical path from the first object to the first imager is configured to be shorter than the... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska

20090141943 - Analyzing borehole by automatically evaluating predicted borehole failure image: A method, system and computer program product for analyzing a borehole drilled in a reservoir are disclosed. A method may include: providing a real borehole image; providing a predicted borehole failure image generated based on an earth formation model; edge detecting the real borehole image to generate an edge detected... Agent: Schlumberger Information Solutions

20090141944 - Authentication apparatus and authentication method: An authentication apparatus includes: a first determination section that determines whether a condition for determining that there is a possibility of an erroneous determination is satisfied based on information indicating the similarity between the shape of a biological part included in a biological image to be authenticated and the shape... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090141945 - Integrated portable identification and verification device: An portable integrated identification and verification system is disclosed. The station includes multiple devices integrated for identifying or verifying the identity of a person. The multiple devices, which may include a camera, a document scanner, and a fingerprint scanner, are mounted in a housing along with a computing device.... Agent: 24ip Law Group Usa, PLLC

20090141946 - Image processing method, image processor, photographic apparatus, image output unit and iris verify unit: An iris region of an eye is detected from an original image (S1) and image conversion is performed to the detected iris region so that feature data unique to the person can not be extracted (S2). For example, the iris region is divided into a plurality of portions and respective... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20090141949 - Method and apparatus for recognizing a plural number of faces, and method and apparatus for registering face, and an image capturing method and system: Provided are a method and apparatus for recognizing a plurality of faces. In the method, a plurality of faces are detected from received video frames, the detected faces are sequentially recognized in predetermined frames that fall within a predetermined recognition period from among the detected frames, and then, the recognized... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090141947 - Method and system of person identification by facial image: A method to recognize a facial image is described. An input facial image is normalized by scaling and rotation angle using methods of eye pupil centers detection. The input facial image is further normalized by lighting intensity. Template images are obtained either by the processing of certain images taken from... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090141950 - Method, system, and computer-readable recording medium for recognizing face of person included in digital data by using feature data: A face recognition method includes the step of: receiving feature data acquired by detecting each part of a face of a person included in digital data from a terminal at a server; comparing the feature data received from the terminal with those of persons determined as accessible among all feature... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090141948 - Portable information terminal device: If a matching degree between characteristic information extracted from a photographed image by a characteristic extraction part 402A and registered characteristic information is determined to be smaller than an authentication threshold value by a matching degree determination part, 402C, an error history information management part 404 causes an error history... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090141952 - Electronic seal apparatus, electronic seal system, and method for controlling the electronic seal apparatus: An electronic seal apparatus causes an image displaying/reading apparatus to display an electronic document. The electronic seal apparatus includes (i) a storage section for storing first identification information to be used for identifying a first digit of a user of the image displaying/reading apparatus and a first seal image of... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090141951 - Processing apparatus with touch panel: When a user operates a processing apparatus through a touch panel, a fingerprint processing unit reads fingerprint information of the user's finger. Each time when the fingerprint processing unit reads fingerprint information, a CPU judges whether the read fingerprint information is identical to a fingerprint information of authenticated user. If... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090141955 - Image processing apparatus and program for the same: Improving diagnosis performance by matching the appearances of images while maintaining difference arising from the difference in tissue structure without being influenced by a non-interest region. Two medical images are divided into a plurality of tissue regions, each with each tissue imaged therein, and a similarity level is calculated for... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090141953 - Imaging system: The present invention relates to an imaging system for displaying image data representative of a structure. The imaging system comprises display rendering means for processing data representative of the configuration of the structure and rendering a display representative of the configuration of the structure. The display comprises image view panes... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090141954 - Peak reassembly: In differential and non-differential analyses, composite images derived from replicates of liquid-chromatography/mass-spectrometry processes can provide scientists with a better signal-to-noise ratio in discovering biological features of interest. Certain distinct peaks in composite images point to distinct biological features but some distinct peaks in composite images may also point to biological... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090141956 - Systems and methods for analyzing skin conditions of people using digital images: Systems and methods are provided for analyzing skin conditions using digital images. The method comprises acquiring a white-light image and an ultraviolet (“UV”) image of at least a portion of a body surface, such as a person's face, each of the white-light and UV images including a plurality of pixels... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP

20090141957 - Sidelobe suppression in ultrasound imaging using dual apodization with cross-correlation: Sidelobe and clutter suppression techniques in ultrasound imaging are described and referred to as Dual Apodization with Cross-correlation or “DAX”. DAX dramatically improves the contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) allowing for easier visualization of anechoic cysts and blood vessels. These techniques use dual apodization or weighting strategies that are effective in removing... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090141958 - Imaging system and method for preparing x-ray images and optical images: In an imaging system and method for preparing x-ray images and optical images, at least two x-ray images of an examination subject are acquired by emitting x-rays from at least two different x-ray image acquisition points in space. At least two optical exposures are acquired from the examination subject at... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090141960 - Image processing apparatus and computer program product: An image processing apparatus includes a recognition unit that recognizes each cell area corresponding to a living cell from a series of observation images captured at observation time points; a measurement unit that measures cell characteristic amounts of each cell; a tracking unit that determines whether a cell area captured... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090141959 - Methods and systems for removing autofluorescence from images: Method and systems for removing any inherent autofluorescence associated with a biological material, comprising: acquiring a first reference image of the biological material; acquiring a first set of one or more images of the biological material using one or more filters corresponding to one or more information dyes; applying the... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20090141961 - Authenticatable mark, systems for preparing and authenticating the mark: Systems for preparation of a mark and authentication of a mark vis-a-vis a counterfeit mark. Emission spectra comprising intensity versus wavelength distributions are collected from a series of taggants. One or more taggants is selected from the collected emission data such that the spectra of the selected taggants are distinguishable.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090141962 - Remote deposit capture for the gaming industry: A remote deposit capture system for distributed processing of check presentation can sense, or be instructed to differentiate, between deposit document types, including checks, cash withdrawals, and casino markets. Thereby, automated recognition and correction features can be selectively applied to an imaged deposit document. Thereby deposit documents that tend to... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090141964 - Appearance inspection apparatus, appearance inspection system, and appearance inspection appearance: An appearance inspection apparatus, wherein an image inspection result based on a result of image-taking and image-analyzing a product to be inspected can be displayed with superposed on a visual field of an inspector inspecting the product to be inspected with an eye and in a position corresponding to an... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090141963 - Method and apparatus for measuring deposition of particulate contaminants in pulp and paper slurries: A method and an apparatus for measuring the depositability of particulate contaminants present in a pulp or paper mill fluid stream and evaluating interactions of such particulate contaminants with other contaminants collects the particulate contaminants on a suitable substrate, such as a plastic film coated with an adhesive or coated... Agent: Hercules Incorporated

20090141965 - Method and device for displaying and monitoring the profile of a weld bead inside a groove provided between two metal workpieces: The invention relates to a method of displaying and monitoring the profile of a weld bead (4), in which, placed inside the groove, there is an assembly (10) comprising, facing one another, an image acquisition means (11), a light source (12), the beam of which is directed towards said image... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090141968 - Coronary reconstruction from rotational x-ray projection sequence: A method for three-dimensional reconstruction of a branched object from a rotational sequence of images of the branched object includes segmenting the branched object from each image of the sequence, extracting centerlines of the branched object, performing symbolic reconstruction via a stereo correspondence matching between the centerlines from different views... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090141967 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: A disparity function setting unit configured to set a plurality of disparity relationships expressing disparities as functions of an image position; a data term calculating unit configured to calculate the similarity of corresponding areas between images specified by the preset disparity functions; a smoothing term calculating unit configured to calculate... Agent: Gregory Turocy Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090141966 - Interactive geo-positioning of imagery: An interactive user-friendly incremental calibration technique that provides immediate feedback to the user when aligning a point on a 3D model to a point on a 2D image. A can drag-and-drop points on a 3D model to points on a 2D image. As the user drags the correspondences, the application... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090141969 - Transfer learning methods and systems for feed-forward visual recognition systems: A method and system for training a neural network of a visual recognition computer system, extracts at least one feature of an image or video frame with a feature extractor; approximates the at least one feature of the image or video frame with an auxiliary output provided in the neural... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090141970 - Generating a transformed interim connection space for spectral data: Generation of a transformed Interim Connection Space for spectral data is provided. A first Interim Connection Space for spectral data in a full spectral space is accessed. A first map, which characterizes a linear transformation from the full spectral space to a first color space, is accessed. A second map,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090141971 - Systems and methods for skin-color-cognizant color mapping: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for adjusting image color values to accommodate a different color gamut. In some embodiments, colors within a skin-color region are preserved while colors outside the skin-color region are stretched to fill the new color gamut.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20090141972 - Method, computer program, computer and printing system for trapping image data: In a method or computer program product for trapping of image data, the image data in an output image per image point is prepared as color separation data, and the image data is processed.... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090141974 - Image processing apparatus and method, and program: An image processing apparatus includes a feature extracting unit configured to extract a feature in each local area from an image including a plurality of colors in bands of visible radiation and non-visible radiation, the feature having elements representing ratios between a reference color and individual colors; and a discriminating... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090141973 - Method of pattern location using color image data: Machine vision tools are applied to color images using methods that that utilize an optimized spectrum of the color information. Such methods include full color normalized correlation techniques and methods to convert color images to greyscale using weighting factors that maximize color contrast in a corresponding greyscale image.... Agent: Cognex Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090141976 - Color correction method and color correction apparatus: A color correction method in which an input image is corrected to generate an output image with an illumination condition different from that in the input image includes: detecting a region of a particular subject from the input image to extract color information on the region; restoring a spectral distribution... Agent: Martin J. Moran

20090141978 - Image noise correction: An image noise correction method is provided. For at least one target pixel having a determined pixel value, for each pixel in a window of pixels surrounding the target pixel, a weighting factor for the pixel is estimated based on the value of the target pixel and at least one... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090141979 - Image processing device and recording medium storing 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

20090141975 - Image sensor apparatus and method for scene illuminant estimation: An image sensor apparatus is disclosed. The image sensor apparatus includes an image sensor for generating pixel data corresponding to a scene under a scene illuminant and a processor. The processor includes an illuminant estimation module for receiving a subset of the pixel data associated with a subset of a... Agent: Curtis A. Vock Lathrop & Gage LLP

20090141977 - Texture reproduction system and method and chroma correction system and method for presence enhancement: A texture reproduction system and method and a chroma correction system and method for presence enhancement are provided. The texture reproduction system including: a texture analysis unit to classify a pixel included in an input image using Red Green Blue (RGB) values of the pixel; a chroma correction unit to... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090141982 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, computer program, and recording medium: An information processing apparatus includes a storing unit that stores information concerning model feature points and model feature quantities at the model feature points, a first acquiring unit that acquires an input moving image, a first feature-point extracting unit that extracts input feature points for recognizing an action from the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090141981 - Method and apparatus for image capturing: An image capturing method is provided, especially adaptable in a camera. First, a composition profile for a picture to be taken, is configured. The composition profile defines the number of objects to be included in the picture, and positions and sizes of each object. Thereafter, a sensor in the camera... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090141980 - System and method for reducing motion artifacts by displaying partial-resolution images: A method for reducing motion artifacts and the systems for implementing the same are provided. The method includes receiving a full-resolution image at a first time point; extracting a first partial-resolution image from the full-resolution image; and calculating a second partial-resolution image for a second time point after the first... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090141983 - Image enhancement system and method using automatic emotion detection: An image enhancement system and method using automatic emotion detection, the image enhancement system including: an emotional scale detection unit to analyze a pixel value of one or more frames of an input image in order to automatically detect an emotional scale of the input image; and an image enhancement... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090141984 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, image identifying apparatus, image identifying method, and program: An information processing apparatus includes a model image obtaining unit configured to obtain a plurality of model images; a model image feature quantity extracting unit configured to extract feature quantities of the model images obtained by the model image obtaining unit; a matching unit configured to perform matching on the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090141985 - Detection of spam images: A method, system, and computer program product for analyzing image attachments to email messages and reliably determines whether the image includes spam, so that the message can be blocked. A method for processing email messages comprises processing an image included in or attached to an email message to determine whether... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20090141986 - Image capture and identification system and process: A digital image of the object (16) is captured and the object is recognized from plurality of objects in a database (20). An information address corresponding to the object is then used to access information and initiate communication pertinent to the object.... Agent: Fish & Associates, PC Robert D. Fish

20090141987 - Vision sensors, systems, and methods: A single chip vision sensor of an embodiment includes a pixel array and one or more circuits. The one or more circuits are configured to search an image for one or more features using a model of the one or more features. A method of an embodiment in a single... Agent: Cognex Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090141988 - System and method of object recognition and database population for video indexing: A method for processing digital media is described. The method, in one example embodiment, includes identification of objects in a video stream by detecting, for each video frame, an object in the video frame and selectively associating the object with an object cluster. The method may further include comparing the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090141989 - Image processing device: In this image processing device, an image processing portion 102 performs a predetermined pre-processing on first image data and outputs it as second image data. A judging portion 104 that judges the degree of importance of the first image data on the basis of the characteristics of a subject that... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090141991 - System and article of manufacture for using a reentry data stet to decode compressed data: Provided are a method, system, and program for decoding compressed data. Compressed data is received and decoded. An error is detected while decoding a first location in the compressed data. A reentry data set is accessed having a pointer to a second location in the compressed data following the first... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20090141990 - System and method for quality-aware selection of parameters in transcoding of digital images: Several quality-aware transcoding systems and methods are described, in which the impact of both quality factor (QF) and scaling parameter choices on the quality of transcoded images are considered in combination. A basic transcoding system is enhanced by the addition of a quality prediction look-up table, and a method of... Agent: Victoria Donnelly

20090141992 - Method and system for generating a quality prediction table for quality-aware transcoding of digital images: Several quality-aware transcoding systems and methods are described, in which the impact of both quality factor (QF) and scaling parameter choices on the quality of transcoded images are considered in combination. A basic transcoding system is enhanced by the addition of a quality prediction look-up table, and a method of... Agent: Victoria Donnelly

20090141993 - System for finding archived objects in video data: A system includes a motion detection processor, a motion tracking processor, a people detection processor, a controller, a fusion processor, an appearance model generator processor, a database, a fast search processor, and a matching processor. The motion detection processor, the motion tracking processor, the controller, the people detection processor, the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090141994 - Systems and methods for image data encoding and decoding: Image processing systems and methods are presented for encoding 8-bit color image data to 4-bit data using an encoding table by assigning a pixel type value to each 8-bit pixel according to a 9×3 tiling pattern with 9 unique pixel type values in each 3×3 window of the 9×3 tiling... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090141995 - System and method for fixed point continuation for total variation based compressed sensing imaging: a

20090141996 - Comparator based acceleration for media quantization: A method for comparator based quantization acceleration for an encoding process. The method includes computing coefficients for a discrete cosine transform encoding operation and determining a quantization step for use with a quantization operation for each of the coefficients. The method further includes determining each of the coefficients that are... Agent: Murabito Hao & Barnes LLP

20090141997 - Reducing noise in images acquired with a scanning beam device: Methods and apparatus for reducing noise in images acquired with a scanning beam device are disclosed. A representative method may include scanning a beam of light over a surface in a scan with a variable velocity. Light backscattered from the surface may be detected at different points in time during... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090141998 - Image processing device, image display device, and image processing method therefor: The image processing device and the image display device are provided including a threshold-value control unit 29 that obtains a threshold value depending on a tone in image data; a smoothing filter unit 60 that applies a smoothing process to a predetermined tone in the image data while preserving, depending... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090141999 - Method of image edge enhancement: A method of image edge enhancement comprises: determining the edge trend for an image in accordance with the second order gradient value of a center pixel in different directions; performing interpolation operation with the center pixel; calculating absent color component of pixels; performing edge enhancement for the image in the... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP. (pa)

20090142000 - Image processing apparatus and method, program, and recording medium: An image processing apparatus includes a computation unit that determines an interpolation process starting point and gradient on the basis of a change point at which a difference between pixel values of adjacent pixels of an image signal is greater than zero and is less than or equal to a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090142001 - Image composing apparatus: An image composing apparatus includes a flash memory and an I/F for accessing a recording medium. A plurality of template images are contained in the flash memory, and a photographed image is contained in the recording medium via the I/F. An attribute (attribute: center coordinates and a size) of a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090142003 - Image processing apparatus and method thereof: A plurality of images are input, specific regions are set for each of the inputted plurality of images, a typical size of the specific regions of each of the plurality of images is determined, and the ratio of the typical size to the size of the entire image is calculated... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090142002 - Polygon and polyline measuring tool for gis applications: Methods and systems for aggregating points into segments to facilitate measurements relating to GIS polylines and/or polygons are provided. According to one embodiment, a request for information is received regarding a shape representing a geographic feature displayed within a geographic information system (GIS) application. One or more measurement segments are... Agent: Michael A Desanctis Hamilton Desanctis & Cha LLP

20090142004 - Sub-raster registration using non-redundant overwriting: Sub-raster registration errors are compensated for through non-redundant overwriting. Data from adjacent rasters is written to a particular output raster so that the adjacent rasters share an influence at a point actually written to by a rendering device, thereby compensating for a sub-raster component of a registration error associated with... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090142005 - Image display method, program, and image display apparatus: A table is allocated indexes corresponding to display positions on a monitor screen, respectively, and data indicating an unexposed part at each of the display positions is stored in each index of the table. Focal position information is acquired from Exif header information on image data of an image, and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto