Image analysis inventions 07/09

20090190795 - Gauge monitoring methods, devices and systems: A method of reading a gauge may include capturing a digital image of the gauge with a gauge reading device attached to the gauge, the digital image comprising a plurality of pixels; determining an angle of a gauge feature based on positions of predetermined pixels of the digital image; and... Agent: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation

20090190796 - Method of detecting embedded data from image data having a plurality of types of data embedded therein: Data to be embedded is divided and thus embedded in areas internal to a block corresponding to a predetermined region of a scanned image. Of the areas, a defined area has the embedded data's identification information embedded therein. A detection apparatus includes a counter including a region including a region... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20090190799 - Method for characterizing the exhaust gas burn-off quality in combustion systems: A method for characterizing a flue gas burnout quality of a combustion process in a combustion system having a gas burnout zone includes optically detecting in a visible wavelength range, in a flow cross section of the gas burnout zone, low-soot combustion regions, regions without combustion, and sooting regions, so... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090190797 - Recognizing image environment from image and position: A method of recognizing the environment of an image from an image and position information associated with the image includes acquiring the image and its associated position information; using the position information to acquire an aerial image correlated to the position information; identifying the environment of the image from the... Agent: Frank Pincelli, Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20090190798 - System and method for real-time object recognition and pose estimation using in-situ monitoring: Provided are a system and method for real-time object recognition and pose estimation using in-situ monitoring. The method includes the steps of: a) receiving 2D and 3D image information, extracting evidences from the received 2D and 3D image information, recognizing an object by comparing the evidences with model, and expressing... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090190800 - Vehicle environment recognition system: A vehicle environment recognition system includes stereo-image taking means for taking images of an environment around a subject vehicle and for outputting the images as a reference image and a comparative image, first stereo matching means for forming a first distance image on the basis of the reference image and... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20090190801 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: An image processing apparatus includes: a pixel selecting unit that selects pixel values which are provided at each of pixel positions in input images that are arranged in chronological sequence, each of the pixel values being included in a corresponding one of the input images, on the basis of an... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090190802 - Optimized biometric authentication method and system: An efficient exchange of messages in a system for authenticating access to a base device is facilitated through the selection of a particular biometric template from among a plurality of biometric templates. Rather than transmitting the template to a peripheral device, an indication of a location of the particular biometric... Agent: Ridout & Maybee LLP

20090190803 - Detecting facial expressions in digital images: A method and system for detecting facial expressions in digital images and applications therefore are disclosed. Analysis of a digital image determines whether or not a smile and/or blink is present on a person's face. Face recognition, and/or a pose or illumination condition determination, permits application of a specific, relatively... Agent: Tessera/fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20090190804 - Electronic apparatus and image processing method: According to one embodiment, a storage device stores a plurality of reference face images and a plurality of human names corresponding to the reference face images respectively. A face image extraction module extracts a plurality of face images from the moving image data to be processed. A matching processing module... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090190805 - System and method for fingerprint recognition: A fingerprint recognition system for an electronic device includes an input module, a computational module, and a database. The input module receives initial and subsequent fingerprint templates, and a unique character code. The computational module calculates a unique key for the initial fingerprint template on the basis of the character... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick LLC

20090190809 - Method and apparatus for efficient automated re-contouring of four-dimensional medical imagery using surface displacement fields: A technique is disclosed for generating a new contour and/or a 3D surface from contour data using a surface displacement field. The technique is preferably applied to un-contoured target images within a 4D image sequence for which contour data is desired. The technique can be initialized with contour data related... Agent: Thompson Coburn LLP

20090190811 - Method and system for left ventricle endocardium surface segmentation using constrained optimal mesh smoothing: A method and system for left ventricle (LV) endocardium surface segmentation using constrained optimal mesh smoothing is disclosed. The LV endocardium surface in the 3D cardiac volume is initially segmented in a 3D cardiac volume, such as a CT volume, resulting in an LV endocardium surface mesh. A smoothed LV... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090190806 - Method for tracking of contrast enhacement pattern for pharmacokinetic and parametric analysis in fast-enhancing tissues using high -resolution mri: A method for performing a high-resolution pharmacokinetic analysis for calculation of tissue parameters for a fast-enhancing tissue enables medical personnel to accurately determine pharmacokinetic parameters in fast-enhancing tissues. The method includes obtaining mask image data of the tissue when it is in a steady state condition, obtaining a time series... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20090190812 - Pathological tissue image capturing system, pathological tissue image capturing method, and pathological tissue image capturing program: A pathological tissue image capturing system includes a pathological image acquirer 100 for capturing a pathological tissue image and an output device 120 for outputting the pathological tissue image. The pathological tissue image capturing system also includes a weighting device 111 for detecting a ROI from the pathological tissue image... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090190807 - Reconstruction stabilizer and active vision: A method for stabilizing the reconstruction of an imaged volume is presented. The method includes the steps of performing an analysis of the reliability of reconstruction of a radioactive-emission density distribution of the volume from radiation detected over a specified set of views, and defining modifications to the reconstruction process... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20090190810 - Semiautomatic myocardial region of interest definition: A method of identifying a myocardial region of interest in cardiac medical image data is disclosed. The method includes identifying myocardial tissue (200) in first (204) and second (206) views of the medical imaging data and constructing a myocardial surface (502). In one embodiment, the myocardial surface is modeled as... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090190808 - User adjustment measurement scale on video overlay: A method and system for superimposing a ruler on a visual representation of a surgical procedure is presented. The design includes providing a reference object while recording the visual representation of the surgical procedure, scaling the ruler to correspond to the reference object within the visual representation of the surgical... Agent: Abbott Medical Optics, Inc.

20090190813 - Medical image data processing and feature identification system: An anatomical feature boundary identification system for use in processing medical images including X-ray images having a substantial noise content, employs at least one repository. The at least one repository stores data representing multiple different candidate template boundary shapes for individual particular anatomical features of multiple different types of anatomical... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090190815 - Cartilage curvature: A method for the analysis of three dimensional scan data representing an articular cartilage is provided to extract a quantitative parameter indicative of joint pathology. A measure of local curvature of the cartilage is determined within a region of interest. The value of the quantitative parameter of this joint derived... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090190814 - Method and system for image reconstruction: Disclosed is an imaging system including a source generating an x-ray beam, a detector array receiving the x-ray beam and generating projection data, a translatable table configured for disposal of an object thereon and operable to translate in relation to the source and the detector array, the source and the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090190817 - Systems and methods for parametric mapping for correction of noise -based systematic bias of dti metrics, using a dti mapping phantom: A system and method for minimizing, if not completely eliminating, the systematic bias present in an MR system used for DTI is disclosed. A test object or “phantom” of the present invention is scanned with a desired DTI protocol. The eigenvalues measured with the phantom are compared to the actual... Agent: Gardner Groff Greenwald & Villanueva. PC

20090190816 - Systems and methods for rescaling image intensities with diffusion mri to synthesize complex diffusive geometries: A method for scaling MR signal intensity after noise has been removed is disclosed. Because the signal in a DTI series varies with the apparent diffusivity in the direction of an applied gradient, one can multiply image data collected under actual clinical conditions with a spatially-dependent scaling function to synthesize... Agent: Gardner Groff Greenwald & Villanueva. PC

20090190818 - Computer-aided tubing detection: A method for detecting tubing in a radiographic image of a patient, executed at least in part by a control logic processor, obtains a radiographic image data for a patient and detects one or more possible tube segments in the image. At least one tubing candidate is formed by extending... Agent: Carestream Health, Inc.

20090190819 - X-ray acquisition method and device for stereotactic biopsy: In a method and an associated device for generation of digital x-ray image exposures of an examination subject with an x-ray source and a digital x-ray detector for a stereotactic biopsy, wherein, for one or more x-ray image acquisitions of the examination subject with a biopsy device, acquisition and image... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090190820 - Automated laser capture microdissection: Multiple different samples are obtained from a bulk material and are separately stained. The differently stained materials look different with the different stains but also have similar characteristics. A computer is used to reorient the images so that the samples are oriented with one another. The thus oriented samples can... Agent: Fish & Associates, PC Robert D. Fish

20090190821 - Pathological diagnosis support: A pathological diagnosis support apparatus into which a digital color image showing a stained tissue sample is input, the apparatus including: a display that performs a display operation; and an image processor that when the digital color image is input, extracts cell nucleus areas, cytoplasm areas and glandular cavity areas,... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090190822 - Blood and cell analysis using an imaging flow cytometer: Multimodal/multispectral images of a population of cells are simultaneously collected. Photometric and/or morphometric features identifiable in the images are used to separate the population of cells into a plurality of subpopulations. Where the population of cells includes diseased cells and healthy cells, the images can be separated into a healthy... Agent: Law Offices Of Ronald M Anderson

20090190823 - Imaging of financial documents stored in carrier envelopes: In general, this disclosure describes techniques of efficiently generating digital versions of financial documents from physical versions of the financial documents. As described herein, one or more financial documents may be inserted into one or more pockets of an envelope. The envelope is sufficiently transparent to allow both sides the... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20090190824 - Inspection apparatus and inspection method: An inspection apparatus according to the present invention comprises: a one-dimensional imaging unit for imaging a workpiece which is a three-dimensionally shaped test object; a first lens for causing light incident thereon from the test object to emerge as converging light; and a second lens, disposed between the first lens... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090190825 - Performance analyses of micromirror devices: The invention provides a method and apparatus for evaluating the product quality and performances of micromirror array devices through measurements of the electromechanical responses of the individual micromirrors to the driving forces of electric fields. The electromechanical responses of the micromirrors according to the present invention are described in terms... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090190826 - Working apparatus and calibration method thereof: A working apparatus comprises a working unit which executes work on a work subject, and a calibration jig on which a plurality of markers is arranged in a radial pattern from a center point of markers, the plurality of markers being arranged in three dimensions, and the calibration jig being... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090190827 - Environment recognition system: An environment recognition system includes image taking means for taking a pair of images of an object in a surrounding environment with a pair of cameras and outputting the pair of images, stereo matching means for conducting stereo matching on a plurality of pairs of images that are taken by... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20090190829 - Image decoding apparatus and method for handling intra-image predictive decoding with various color spaces and color signal resolutions: The present invention is directed to an image information decoding apparatus adapted for performing intra-image decoding based on resolution of color components and color space of an input image signal. An intra prediction unit serves to adaptively change block size in generating a prediction image based on a chroma format... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090190828 - Method and apparatus for multiple data channel analysis using relative strength histograms: Relative histograms compare occurrences in event channels for a multi-channel data set for determining comparisons therebetween. One or more relative histograms are formed using relating functions applied to channels, preferably including a quotient between a first reference channel and a second channel and between the reference channel and at least... Agent: Sean W. Goodwin

20090190830 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing means: An image processing apparatus which extracts, from image data, drawing-photograph pixels forming a drawing or a photograph, the image processing apparatus including a pixel value replacement unit configured to replace pixel values of image data with plural representative pixel values; a candidate region extraction unit configured to extract plural candidate... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20090190831 - System and method for locating a target region in an image: A system and method for locating a target region in an image is disclosed. In one embodiment a method includes automatically locating a signature field in a target region of an image captured by a barcode reader, where the target region includes rectangular boundaries defined by graphical delimiters in the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20090190832 - Image processing device: An inputted image is divided into a plurality of blocks, and an image quality thereof is corrected for each of the divided blocks based on information of image data of the respective blocks. Therefore, even in the case where a region where the dark-area-gradation deterioration is generated and a region... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090190833 - Piecewise smooth mumford-shah on an arbitrary graph: A method for recovering a contour using combinatorial optimization includes receiving an input image, initializing functions for gradient f, smooth background g, and contour r, determining an optimum of the gradient f of a region R in the input image, extending the optimum of the gradient f of region R... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090190834 - Image recognition system and recognition method thereof and program: Input image sub-region extraction means 2 extracts a sub-region of the input image. Inter-pattern distance calculation means 3 calculates an inter-pattern distance between this sub-region and a sub-region of a registration image pre-filed in dictionary filing means 5 for each sub-region. Region distance value integration means 10 integrates the inter-pattern... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090190835 - Method for capturing image to add enlarged image of specific area to captured image, and imaging apparatus applying the same: An image capturing method and an imaging apparatus, the image capturing method including: selecting a face of a person from a captured image; enlarging the selected face; and adding the enlarged selected face to the captured image. Accordingly, it is possible for a user to simultaneously film people and their... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090190836 - Scene switching point detector, scene switching point detecting method, recording apparatus, event generator, event generating method, reproducing apparatus, and computer program: A scene switching point detector includes: a feature-information generating unit that generates feature information indicating a feature of each of target frames; a backward-similarity calculating unit that sets each of the target frames as a similarity calculation frame in order and calculates backward similarity on the basis of the feature... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090190837 - Digital signal pattern detection and classification using kernel fusion: This disclosure describes techniques for determining a shape of a signal. In particular, a kernel is applied to a portion of a signal to compute at least a first, first order derivative of the portion of the signal and a second, first order derivative of the portion of the signal... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090190839 - System and method for handling the confounding effect of document length on vector-based similarity scores: A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product for generating vector-based similarity scores in text document comparisons considering confounding effects of document length. Vector-based methods for comparing the semantic similarity between texts (such as Content Vector Analysis and Random Indexing) have a characteristic which may reduce their usefulness for some... Agent: Mayer Brown LLP

20090190838 - Training a user on an accessiblity device: A user of an accessibility device is taught to properly use the device with a test image such that the accessibility device captures the entirety of or a large portion of a test image. In training the user, the device processes test image's information located within the device's field of... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090190840 - Method and device for the automatic contrast medium phase classification of image data: A method is disclosed for the automatic contrast medium phase classification of at least one image data record, of the interior of an examination object, generated by way of an imaging system. In at least one embodiment of the method, firstly at least one image data record of the examination... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090190841 - Word recognition method and storage medium that stores word recognition program: A recognition process is executed for each character of an input character string corresponding to a word to be recognized, and a probability is determined that the feature appears, which is obtained as a result of character recognition using, as a condition, each character of each word in a word... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090190842 - Data compression using matching pursuits: A method and apparatus for data compression comprises applying a decorrelating transform to multi-dimensional data to be compressed, then using a sequence of one or more one-dimensional matching pursuits algorithms to code the output of the transform. The invention finds particular application in video and still image coders, particularly real-time... Agent: Michael D. Stein Woodcock Washburn LLP

20090190843 - Image encoding apparatus and image decoding apparatus: Provided are an image encoding apparatus and an image decoding apparatus. The image encoding apparatus includes a compression unit compressing a reference image by reducing a resolution of the reference image in a resolution adjustment mode determined from among at least two resolution adjustment modes according to a distribution of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090190844 - Method for scalably encoding and decoding video signal: Disclosed is a method for scalably encoding and decoding a video signal. The video signal is encoded through an inter-layer prediction scheme based on a data stream of a base layer encoded with ×¼ resolution. The inter-layer prediction scheme applied between the enhanced layer and the base layer representing ×4... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090190845 - Motion-compensated residue based temporal search range prediction: Efficient temporal search range predication for motion estimation in video coding is provided where complexity of using multiple reference frames in multiple reference frame motion estimation (MRFME) can be evaluated over a desired performance level. In this regard, a gain can be determined for using regular motion estimation or MRFME,... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090190846 - Scaling an image based on a motion vector: Currently, various television standards use different aspect ratios. For example, a wide screen aspect ratio of 16:9 is gaining popularity over the existing TV broadcasts that use 4:3 aspect ratio. A method of scaling an image horizontally with a uniform or non-uniform scaling ratio is referred to as “panoramic scaling”.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090190847 - Adaptive compression quality: Images are captured and are stored (either in compressed or non-compressed form) in non-volatile storage at a predetermined quality or Q level. When the storage fills to a predetermined threshold, some or all of the images are compressed or recompressed to a lower quality, to make room for additional storage;... Agent: Driggs, Hogg, Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., L.p.a.

20090190848 - Image processing device and method for image processing: An image processing device configured to compress image data to be used for printing with a plurality of compression levels having different compression rates includes a former stage compression unit, a storing unit and a latter stage compression unit. The latter stage compression unit is configured, after the former stage... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090190849 - Encoder and decoder for encoding and decoding pixel data with low amount of transmitting data, encoding method, and decoding method thereof: An encoder encoding an Nth pixel data of 2×M pixel data and a decoder decoding an Nth encoded pixel data of 2×M encoded pixel data are provided. A first to an Mth pixel data are belonged to an (i−1)th data block. An (M+1)th to a (2×M)th pixel data are belonged... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090190850 - Data compression transforms for use in downhole applications: Borehole image data is compressed and transmitted to the surface one or more pixilated traces at a time. The compression methodology typically includes transform, quantization, and entropy encoding steps. The invention advantageously provides an efficient fixed point Karhünen-Loève like transform for compressing sensor data. A significant reduction in latency is... Agent: Smith International, Inc. Patent Services

20090190851 - Blur image adjusting method: A blur image adjusting method includes the following steps. Firstly, a blur image in YCbCr color space is obtained. The Y component of the blur image is extracted so as to obtain a Y component blur image. A blur area is extracted from the Y component blur image by an... Agent: Wpat, PC

20090190852 - Image inpainting method and apparatus based on viewpoint change: Provided is a method and apparatus for inpainting a depth image and a color image seen from one viewpoint by using a depth image and a color image inpainted from another viewpoint. The method includes detecting an edge on the basis of a difference between depth values of pixels in... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090190853 - Image noise reduction apparatus and method, recorded medium recorded the program performing it: An apparatus and a method of reducing a noise component existed in a surrounding part of an image photographed in an image sensor. According to an aspect of the present invention, an apparatus differentially reducing a noise of an image according to an area of the image includes a filter... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090190854 - Method and apparatus for improving brightness uniformity in an image: In a method and apparatus for improving the brightness uniformity in an image, signals are acquired using a radio frequency receiving coil, and noise in the acquired signals is normalized so as to produce an image, then the brightness of various pixels in the image is determined according to the... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090190856 - Distortion correcting apparatus: A distortion correcting apparatus includes a buffer circuit which writes image data having horizontal pixels of a first number and a vertical-distortion different depending on a horizontal pixel position, into an SDRAM. The written image data is read-out for each units of horizontal pixels, which include a reference horizontal pixel... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090190855 - Image processsing method, image processing apparatus, and imaging apparatus: where x and y represents coordinates of a transformation destination with a center of a screen as an origin, X and Y represents coordinates of a transformation source with the center of the screen as an origin, and a and b are coordinate transformation coefficients.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090190857 - Importance guided image transformation: Importance guided image transformation. A subject image is accessed, an importance is assigned respective features of the subject image and a scaling scheme is determined for the subject image based on the importance assigned the respective features of the subject image. A transformed image is generated based on the determined... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090190858 - Representing flat designs to be printed on curves of a 3-dimensional product: A design image is transformed into a projection design image comprising the design image as it will appear when projected onto a physical 3-dimensional (3-D) curved object. In an embodiment, pixels of the design image are mapped into corresponding mapped pixels in a projection design image according to how the... Agent: Vista Print Usa, Inc. Attn: Patent Counsel

20090185713 - Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, computer-readable medium and computer data signal: An information processing apparatus includes an image data generating unit, a document image generating unit, a signature generating unit, a code image generating unit and a print image generating unit. The image data generating unit generates visually confirmable document image data based on an electronic document to be signed. The... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090185714 - Method and apparatus for analysis of particles in a liquid sample: The invention relates to methods for analysis of particles in a liquid sample, the sample being retained in a sample retaining device, the method comprising: acquiring, by means of an image acquiring device, a plurality of images of said sample at different focus planes within the sample retaining device; analysing... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090185712 - Method for real-time visualization of caries condition: A method for displaying live video of a tooth identifies a tooth tissue region in a viewable image frame obtained from a video stream and processes pixel data within the tooth tissue region to identify a suspected caries site. Intensity values for pixels that correspond to the suspected caries site... Agent: Carestream Health, Inc.

20090185716 - Dust detection system and digital camera: A dust detection system, comprising a receiver, a dust extraction block, a memory and an image correction block, is provided. The receiver receives an image signal. The dust extraction block generates a dust image signal on the basis of the image signal. The memory stores an intrinsic-flaw image signal corresponding... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090185717 - Object detection system with improved object detection accuracy: In a system for detecting a target object, a similarity determining unit sets a block in a picked-up image, and compares a part of the picked-up image contained in the block with a pattern image data while changes a location of the block in the picked-up image to determine a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090185715 - System and method for deformable object recognition: The present invention provides a system and method for detecting deformable objects in images even in the presence of partial occlusion, clutter and nonlinear illumination changes. A holistic approach for deformable object detection is disclosed that combines the advantages of a match metric that is based on the normalized gradient... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing - Intellectual Property

20090185718 - Method and device for driver assistance: In a method and a device for driver assistance, traffic elements that point to potential danger zones are detected on the road, using a camera. If such potential danger zones are detected, at least one headlight of the vehicle is controlled in such a way that the potential danger zone... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090185719 - Modeling motion capture volumes with distance fields: A k-covered motion capture volume is modeled. The modeling includes representing the k-covered motion capture volume with a distance field.... Agent: Hugh P. Gortler

20090185720 - Weighted average image blending based on relative pixel position: A method of processing image data is provided. The method includes determining an overlap area based on image data from a first image sensor and image data from a second image sensor; computing a first weight and a second weight based on a relative position of the image data in... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090185721 - Image data processing method and image processing apparatus: An image data processing method for creating a clear blur-compensated image; the method calculates the motion data between a reference image and a target image, calculates difference in pixel value between the reference image and the target image for every block matched by the motion data, calculates, based on the... Agent: Muramatsu & Associates

20090185722 - Biometrics authentication system: A biometrics authentication system includes: a light source applying light to a living body; a detection section on which the living body is to be placed; a microlens array section configured so that a plurality of microlenses each condensing light from the living body are arranged at intervals; a light... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090185723 - Enabling persistent recognition of individuals in images: A method and system for accumulating and using images of individuals, and associated image-derived data, on an continuous basis to create recognition models that facilitate ongoing recognition of individuals in images or photo collections.... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20090185725 - Fingerprint detection: A method of and apparatus (2) for locating and detecting a fingerprint deposited on a surface (10), the method comprising setting up an electric field such that a differential charge density is produced coincident with the location of a fingerprint deposited on the surface. By deploying a conductive powder or... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20090185726 - Imaging apparatus and method for authentication of user: The imaging apparatus for recognizing an image of the present invention determines for recognition a user by imaging a recognition pattern of a palm or a finger. The imaging apparatus for recognizing an image comprising a palm guide unit for guiding an imaging area of a palm, a finger guide... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090185724 - Method for automatically recognizing fingerprints: The present invention relates to a method of automatically recognizing fingerprints, consisting in establishing a database by digitizing images of fingerprints of individuals, by detecting the corresponding minutiae, by selecting the most discriminating minutiae, by storing the characteristic parameters of these minutiae, then, in the step for recognizing prints of... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20090185729 - Medical image processing apparatus and medical image processing method: A medical image processing apparatus includes a selection unit which selects a combination of images acquired in substantially equal time phases in a cycle from a first image group including a plurality of first images acquired at different time points in a first period by imaging an organ whose shape... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090185728 - Method for temporally registering image series datasets: A method for temporally registering two image series datasets, each of which images a preferably periodically moving object and consists of time-resolved single images each composed of pixels or voxels, with a single image, recorded at a first instant, in the first image series dataset being in each case assigned... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090185727 - Photo pod imaging portal: Methods, apparatus, devices and systems of full body imaging of a patient to diagnose and examine all front, sides, and rear surfaces of the patient. A single vertical stack tower of digital cameras located in an enclosed booth/kiosk can selectively take pictures of the front, left side, rear, and right... Agent: Law Offices Of Brian S Steinberger

20090185730 - Automated image data subtraction system suitable for use in angiography: An image data subtraction system suitable for use in Angiography or other medical procedure enhances vessel visualization. An imaging system subtracts data representing a first mask image from data representing temporally sequential individual images of patient vessels to provide first digitally subtracted images. The sequential individual images encompass introduction of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090185731 - Method for lung lesion location identification: A method and a system are disclosed for labeling an anatomical point associated with a lesion in an organ such as a lung. The method includes: a segmentation of a vessel tree anatomical structure starting from an autonomously determined initial image point; labeling the vessel segments of the vessel tree... Agent: Carestream Health, Inc.

20090185733 - Method and apparatus for processing digital mammographic images: A method and apparatus for processing digital mammographic images. The method and apparatus providing comparable mammographic images regardless of the imaging device generating the raw mammographic images. The processed mammographic images may be displayed with optimal global and local contrast, enhanced sharpness, and without the need to apply window level... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20090185732 - Method for lung lesion location identification: This invention provides a simple user interface and sequencing viewing method for a mammography interpretation workstation. In particular, the invention includes the method and apparatus that moves the source images and the associated data using two-level of pre-fetching and caching mechanism, sequences the reading workflow (including worklist, hanging protocol, viewing... Agent: Three Palm Software LLC

20090185734 - Apparatus and method for analysis of particles in a liquid sample: The invention relates to a measurement apparatus, and method, for analysis of particles in a liquid sample, the apparatus comprising: an image acquiring device, an image analyser, a holder arranged to hold a sample retaining device, and a light refractor positioned between said image acquiring device and said holder; whereby... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090185735 - Discrimination sensor and discrimination machine: A discrimination machine optically senses an object having a surface with a planar structure while scanning the planar structure along the surface. The machine includes a discrimination sensor including optical devices detecting light generated from the planar structure. The optical devices are disposed at an interval in a transverse direction,... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20090185736 - Methods for mobile image capture and processing of documents: The present invention relates to automated document processing and more particularly, to methods and systems for document image capture and processing using mobile devices. In accordance with various embodiments, methods and systems for document image capture on a mobile communication device are provided such that the image is optimized and... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20090185737 - Systems for mobile image capture and processing of checks: The present invention relates to automated document processing and more particularly, to methods and systems for document image capture and processing using mobile devices. In accordance with various embodiments, methods and systems for document image capture on a mobile communication device are provided such that the image is optimized and... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20090185738 - Methods for mobile image capture and processing of checks: The present invention relates to automated document processing and more particularly, to methods and systems for document image capture and processing using mobile devices. In accordance with various embodiments, methods and systems for document image capture on a mobile communication device are provided such that the image is optimized and... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20090185739 - Multi-modal data analysis for defect identification: A technique for identifying a defect in an object produced by a controllable process. A first type of data generated as a result of production of the object by the controllable process is obtained. A second type of data generated as a result of production of the object by the... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090185740 - Calculating image intensity of mask by decomposing manhattan polygon based on parallel edge: A method, system, computer program product and table lookup system for calculating image intensity for a mask used in integrated circuit processing are disclosed. A method may comprise: decomposing a Manhattan polygon of the mask into decomposed areas based on parallel edges of the Manhattan polygon along only one dimension;... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090185741 - Apparatus and method for automatic airborne lidar data processing and mapping using data obtained thereby: Apparatus for processing of a LiDAR point cloud of a ground scan, comprises: a point cloud input for receiving said LiDAR point cloud, a ground filter for filtering out points that belong to the ground from said point cloud, thereby to generate an elevation map showing features extending from the... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20090185742 - Method for image compensation: In an image compensation method, formats of images are identified based on ambient color quantity information. If the image is in text format or of high contrast, over compensation is barred to avoid edge effect. A compensation coefficient is set basing on edge eigenvalue of images. The compensation value is... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20090185743 - Histogram-modeling based algorithm for contrast enhancement: A histogram modeling based technique for image contrast enhancement. In some implementations, a histogram of an image is created and then transformed. Using the physics of sound or heat propagation, the technique may develop a spreaded histogram model that may be transformed. A nonlinear mapping may be created to remap... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090185744 - Image editing apparatus, image editing method, and computer readable medium: An image editing apparatus includes a subject information extracting unit configured to extract subject information of a subject from an image, and a subject frame setting unit configured to set a subject frame based on the subject information extracted by the subject information extracting unit. The image editing apparatus also... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090185745 - Electronic apparatus and image display method: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus comprises an image extraction module, an image list display process module, and a playback module. The image extraction module extracts a plurality of representative images from a sequence of video content data, and outputs time stamp information which is indicative of a time... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090185746 - Image recognition: An image recognition method and system (10) comprises receiving at an input (12) a first image set to be recognized, wherein the image set comprises a 3-D image comprising 3-D cloud-points of an observed surface and a registered 2-D image comprising textured pixels. A gallery of image sets is provided... Agent: Fox Rothschild LLP

20090185747 - Systems and methods for texture synthesis for video coding with side information: A method for texture synthesis for video coding with side information may be implemented by a decoder device. The method may include receiving seed texture at high fidelity. The method may also include receiving remaining portions of synthesized regions at low fidelity. The method may also include receiving marking of... Agent: Austin Rapp & Hardman

20090185748 - Multi-resolution foveation for bandwidth reduction of moving images: A scene of an image sequence is compressed using a number of foveation zones, each foveation zone being weighted based on a probability of a viewer looking at a corresponding portion of the first scene. Another scene of the image sequence is compressed using a different number of foveation zones,... Agent: Joseph F. Hetz Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090185749 - Image encoder, image encoding method, image decoder, and image decoding method: In an image encoder, a first quantization section which is selected when normal image quality is required performs quantization by dividing a wavelet transformation coefficient by a quantization step size and by thereafter rounding down a fraction thereof. On the other side, a second quantization section which is selected when... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090185750 - Method for the image compression of an image comprising 3d graphics information: An embodiment of a method is disclosed for compressing digital images which can be displayed by a graphics card. An embodiment of the method includes providing an image by the graphics card; marking out a foreground region in the image provided on the basis of depth information provided in the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090185751 - Image encoding apparatus and image decoding apparatus: An image encoding apparatus includes a converter 1 for receiving an image signal, and for converting the image signal of individual blocks to DC components and AC components by orthogonal transformation of the individual blocks of an image frame; a predicted reference value generator 2 for receiving the image signal,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090185752 - Method and apparatus for cropping images: The boundaries of a scanned digital document are determined by identifying the largest connected component in the received digital document and assigning the boundaries of the largest connected component as the boundaries of the received digital document or by using a row by row and column by column analysis of... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20090185753 - Image processing method and apparatus: A method of processing an image includes traversing pixels of an image in a single pass over the image. An inverting function is applied to the pixels. A recursive filter is applied to the inverted pixel values. The filter has parameters which are derived from previously traversed pixel values of... Agent: Tessera/fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20090185754 - Image processing circuit and image processing apparatus: There is provided an image processing circuit to which a block image obtained by cutting an area corresponding to a predetermined main scanning width and a predetermined sub-scanning width from an original image is input and which performs filter processing on each of pixels constituting the block image to be... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090185755 - Apparatus and method for removing moire pattern of digital imaging device: An apparatus for and a method of removing a moire pattern of a digital imaging device are provided. It is determined whether or not a moire pattern is created based on an image frequency of a preview image and a spatial frequency of an image sensor, and when it is... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090185756 - Image processing device and image processing method: An image processing device is for generating a smoothed image with an input image blurred. The device includes first low pass filters each set with a different range of level value, using each pixel in the input image or a first input image generated based on the input image as... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090185757 - Apparatus and method for immersion generation: An apparatus and method of generating an immersion is provided. The apparatus for generating the immersion includes: a foreground/background separation unit to separate an input image into a foreground area and a background area using lightness information of the input image; an edge classification unit to classify the foreground area... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090185758 - Method and apparatus for forming a multiple focus stack image: A method of producing a multiple focus stack image of a target, the stack image comprising a plurality of images of the target, each image having a corresponding focal range or position, wherein the method comprises causing relative scanning movement between the target and an array of light detectors, the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090185759 - Method for synthesizing image with multi-view images: A method for synthesizing an image with multi-view images includes inputting multiple images, wherein each of the reference images is corresponding to a reference viewing-angle for photographing; synthesizing an image corresponding to a viewpoint and an intended viewing-angle; segmenting the intended synthesized image to obtain a plurality of meshes and... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090185760 - Image processing device and method, and image sensing apparatus: An image processing device generates a high-resolution image from a plurality of low-resolution images, in which the high-resolution image has a resolution higher than a resolution of the low-resolution images. The image processing device includes a reference image setting portion for selecting a reference image from the plurality of low-resolution... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20090185762 - Data structure for image file: A data structure for an image file includes an image file head, a data area, an index table, and file tail information. The image file head records hardware parameter information of a storage device and partitions the storage device into a plurality of data units. The data units are compressed... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090185761 - Method of generating image file: A method of generating an image file may generate corresponding image files from data units in a first storage device of a source. The method of generating an image file includes generating an image file head according to hardware parameter information of the first storage device; partitioning the first storage... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090185763 - Portable device,photography processing method, and photography processing system having the same: A portable device, a photography processing method, and a photography processing system having the same, the method including capturing a photo image; collecting identification (ID) information from neighboring devices; confirming ID information corresponding to the collected ID information; displaying one or more graphical user interface (GUI) elements corresponding to the... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090180663 - Detection of blobs in images: Blobs are detected in an image using closed curves having a predetermined shape such as a circle. Positions in the image are analysed. The size is determined at which there is a maximum in the differential of the average intensity around a closed curve with respect to the size of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090180664 - Master key identification system: A method of identifying keys is described. The method includes scanning an unidentified master key to create an unidentified image. The unidentified image defines a first set of data having key blank and master key identifying information for the unidentified key. The first set of data is compared to a... Agent: Wiggin And Dana LLP Attention: Patent Docketing

20090180665 - Steganographic encoding: The present invention relates generally to steganographic encoding. Once claim recites a method including: obtaining plural-bit auxiliary data; creating an original carrier signal representing the plural-bit auxiliary data; reducing information content of the original carrier signal so that the carrier still conveys the plural-bit auxiliary data, yielding a reduced carrier... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20090180666 - Constrained-curve correlation model: A method and apparatus to develop an advanced correlation model of movement of a target within a patient, which needs less data points and can adapt to the changes of respiration behavior automatically.... Agent: Daniel E. Ovanezian Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090180669 - Device, system and method for determining compliance with a positioning instruction by a figure in an image: A device, system and method for calculating location coordinates for a figure in an image that is illuminated by visible light, comparing such location coordinates to location coordinates of a figure, and evaluating compliance by such figure to an instruction to assume a defined position.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090180667 - Optical position marker apparatus: An apparatus for marking predetermined known overhead positional locations within a coordinate space, for viewing by an image acquisition system. The apparatus comprises a plurality of marker tags, grouped in one or more rows, each row having an axis, each row being supported by a row support. Each marker tag... Agent: Steven W. Lucas

20090180668 - System and method for cooperative remote vehicle behavior: A method for facilitating cooperation between humans and remote vehicles comprises creating image data, detecting humans within the image data, extracting gesture information from the image data, mapping the gesture information to a remote vehicle behavior, and activating the remote vehicle behavior. Alternatively, voice commands can by used to activate... Agent: O'brien Jones, PLLC (w/irobot Corp.)

20090180670 - Blocker image identification apparatus and method: Frequency analysis is performed on an image signal on a pixel by pixel basis or on a block by block basis, each block including a plurality of pixels, for each frame of the image signal. Then, a motion level or blur level is calculated on a pixel by pixel basis... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090180672 - Collation apparatus and collation method: A 2D model fitting means 1201 estimates values of parameters optimum to generate a probe model image similar to a probe image and a gallery model image similar to a gallery image with an image variation model 1204. At that time, among a plurality of parameters of the image variation... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090180673 - Method and apparatus for enhancing face recognition abilities in a user: A method for enhancing face recognition abilities in a user. The method in one embodiment includes the steps of generating a first plurality of faces, each face differing from other faces in at least one aspect; displaying each of the faces to the user; and perceptually discriminating by the user,... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090180671 - Multi-view face recognition method and system: A multi-view face recognition method and system are provided. In the multi-view face recognition method, two images to be recognized are input, a linear projection matrix is calculated based on grouped images in a training set, two feature vectors corresponding to the two input images are extracted based on the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090180674 - Microcalcification detection in mammography cad using a classifier: A system is disclosed that is configured for microcalcifications (mcc) detecting by forming a plurality of true mcc clusters and a plurality of normal clusters, gathering spot and cluster features from said clusters, extracting linear structure features, and using said spot, cluster and linear structure features in mcc detector algorithm... Agent: Carestream Health, Inc.

20090180676 - Method for creating image recordings relating to the blood vessel system of a patient using a variable-position detector of a digital subtraction angiography facility and associated facility: Method for creating image recordings of blood vessel system of a patient, comprising: after administering contrast agent an image recording is created in a first image recording region of a first position of a detector, the diffusion of the contrast agent is observed to determine a current diffusion position; the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090180675 - System and method for image based multiple-modality cardiac image alignment: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for temporally aligning a plurality of cardiac image sequences. The method includes performing a locally linear embedding algorithm on a first set of cardiac image sequences and on a second set of cardiac image sequences. A graphical representation is... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090180677 - Method, apparatus, and program for measuring sizes of tumor regions: A tumor region is determined within a three dimensional medical image. A long axis and a short axis of the determined tumor region are designated. The lengths of the designated long axis and the designated short axis are measured. The measured lengths of the long axis and the short axis... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090180678 - Use of a single x-ray image in a stereo imaging pair for quality assurance of tracking: A method and system for aligning a volume of interest in a three-dimensional treatment coordinate system with a reference position using stereoscopic imaging data and for monitoring and correcting alignment of the volume of interest in the three-dimensional treatment coordinate system using monoscopic imaging data.... Agent: Accuray/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090180679 - Method and apparatus for parts manipulation, inspection, and replacement: Improved method and apparatus for machine vision. One embodiment provides automated imaging and analysis, optionally including Scheimpflug's condition on the pattern projector, telecentric imaging and projecting, an IR filter, a mask to constrain observed illumination, and/or a sine-wave projection pattern for more accurate results. Another embodiment provides circuitry for a... Agent: Lemaire Patent Law Firm, P.l.l.c.

20090180680 - Pattern defect analysis equipment, pattern defect analysis method and pattern defect analysis program: A data processing unit acquires a review image including a pattern defect on a substrate, compares the review image with a reference image thereby to extract a defect image, the reference image including no pattern defect, and performs an alignment between the review image and a self-layer design pattern image... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090180681 - Image bearing structure and method to detect a defect in the image bearing structure: An image bearing structure includes an image drum including at least one slot, a plurality of ring electrodes formed on an outer circumference of the image drum, and a control board positioned within the slot of the image drum, and connected to the plurality of ring electrodes, to detect a... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090180682 - System and method for measuring image quality: The present invention provides an improved system and method for measuring quality of both single and stereo video images. The embodiments of the present invention include frequency content measure for a single image or region-of-interest thereof and disparity measure for stereo images or region-of-interest thereof.... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler P.C.

20090180683 - Method and sytem for container identification: A method and system for container identification are disclosed. The method comprises obtaining a plurality of digital images of a character sequence on the container, extracting the character sequences from the images, combining the character sequences into at least one identification code candidate, and selecting one of the candidates as... Agent: EagleIPLimited

20090180684 - Image processing apparatus and computer program product: An image processing apparatus includes an image acquiring unit that acquires image data about a plurality of subject images of a subject picked up under a plurality of exposure conditions different from each other; a pixel value acquiring unit that acquires, as a pixel value of a pixel position to... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090180689 - Color reproduction device, color reproduction method, and computer-readable recording medium recorded with color reproduction program: A color conversion signal, which is determined on the basis of an image signal of the object, color reproduction characteristic information, which is information obtained at the time of image capture of the object, and a spectrum of the observation illumination light is converted into an image signal reflecting a... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090180688 - Image processing device, image processing method and recording medium: The present invention is to provide an image processing device and an image processing method which can perform correction so as to suppress variation in color in consideration of color rendering properties of a light source when preparing data for image formation. In an image processing device according to one... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090180686 - Method for chromatic adaptation of images: A method for a chromatic adaptation transformation of images using temperature and tint space comprises the steps of: acquiring a red, green, blue (RGB) image using a camera (11); providing neutral RGB values for camera specific, and at least one of a selected highlight and shadow values, to produce a... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20090180687 - Method for realizing color interpolation of value correction of exceptional points: A method for realizing color interpolation of the value correction of exceptional points is disclosed. The method includes the following steps: the certain point in the BAYER matrix is set as the center to establish a 5×5 interpolation matrix, in which each point is represented by one known color and... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090180685 - Simplified color workflow: A method for predicting a color response of a device comprises: operating the device with image information wherein operating includes utilizing a first correction transform for modifying device color values; determining a first device response based on a device output associated with a device input wherein the device response includes... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20090180690 - Image searching apparatus and image searching method: When the gray processing section converts input image data into gray image data, the histogram generating section generates a histogram that represents the distribution of the number of pixels of the gray image data. Then, based on the gray level of a target pixel and the gray levels of a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090180691 - Image processing method and apparatus: In a preferred embodiment, an image-combining apparatus 212 includes a photographing unit 201, a composition unit 202, an input unit 204, a creation unit 206, an adjustment end instruction unit 208, and a display 211. An image of an object is photographed at S1010; a previously determined information-provision graphic is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090180692 - Method and system for interactive region segmentation: A method and computer graphics program executed by a processor for interactively subdividing a region in a computer controlled graphics display system is described. The user directly manipulates a control object (or “handle”) using a pointing device such as a computer mouse with the result that the region exposing the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090180693 - Systems and methods for analyzing image data using adaptive neighborhooding: The invention relates to methods and systems for extracting information about a scene from a set of image data by interdependently smoothing the data, segmenting the imaged scene into coherent elements by determining edges, and estimating attributes present within the scene. These methods and systems include attribute estimation, adaptive neighborhood... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20090180694 - Method and apparatus for determining an orientation of a document including korean characters: A method and apparatus for determining an orientation of a document including Korean text are presented. A binarized pixel image is created from the document image. Contiguous pixels are grouped and labeled using a bounding box. A spanning stroke may be detected from a group of the contiguous pixels. The... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20090180695 - Asymmetric score normalization for handwritten word spotting system: A method begins by receiving an image of a handwritten item. The method performs a word segmentation process on the image to produce a sub-image and extracts a set of feature vectors from the sub-image. Then, the method performs an asymmetric approach that computes a first log-likelihood score of the... Agent: Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20090180696 - Object determining device and imaging apparatus: Face detection is executed only on an image imaged based on an arbitrary (predetermined) focal point information defined in advance. In face detection, the face of a person is detected based on a relative value of statistics in a plurality of characteristic regions produced by contour or parts of the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090180697 - Techniques for using an image for the retrieval of television program information: A method for determining a video file such as a television program file is provided. The method comprises receiving information identifying an input image; comparing the input image with a plurality of video files to determine a video file that includes information that is considered to match the input image;... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090180698 - Document verification method and system: A method of and system for verifying a document, the method comprising generating verification information for the document, comparing the verification information with authentic verification information, and identifying differences between the document and an authentic document.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090180699 - Jpeg 2000-like access using the jpm compound document file format: Compound document images are usually high resolution and high quality images that include color, graphics, and images in addition to text. The need for good compression is important for storage and transmission. Due to the large size, even compressed, it is often difficult to access document images quickly and efficiently... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090180700 - De-blocking filter and method for de-blocking filtering of video data: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for de-blocking filtering of video data. The method includes performing Integer Transform (IT) of an input data block, scaling the data block, which has been IT-ed and indicates a frequency domain, by applying a modified scaling matrix in which a high frequency area is... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090180701 - Video data encoding system: A video data encoding system for video data having a plurality of video frames, predetermined number of which are provided per unit time, is provided. The system includes an encoder that processes the video frames. Each of the video frames comprises one I-subframe and one P-subframe. The I-subframes in a... Agent: Park Law Firm

20090180702 - Method and device for coding a video content comprising a sequence of pictures and a logo: The invention relates to a method for coding a video content comprising a sequence of pictures and at least one logo. It comprises the following steps: —coding the sequence of pictures by a first coding method, this step generating coded data relating to the sequence of pictures; —coding the logo... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090180704 - Method and system for processing low-illuminance image: Provided are a method and system for processing a low-illuminance image. The system includes an image acquisition unit to acquire two images having different levels of illuminance and sensitivity as first and second images; a motion vector estimation unit to extract a motion vector of the second image based on... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090180703 - Method of obtaining variance data or standard deviation data for reducing noise, and digital photographing apparatus including recording medium storing variance data or standard deviation data for reducing noise: A method of obtaining variance data or standard deviation data for efficiently reducing noise in an image is provided. The method includes (a) dividing an image into a plurality of clusters; (b) checking frequency data of data values of pixels included in each cluster; (c) obtaining a weighted average of... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090180707 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus and an image processing method. The image processing apparatus includes a first convolution unit, a weight generator, a second convolution unit, an arithmetic unit and an outputting unit. The first convolution unit performs a convolution to output edge strength according to an original image signal and... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090180705 - Method and system for image restoration using frequency-based image model: A method and system of restoring an image using a frequency-based image model is provided. A method of restoring an image using a frequency-based image model, the method including: transforming an original image into a frequency domain and generating a transformation image; copying the transformation image in any one domain... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090180706 - System for applying multi-direction and multi-slope region detection to image edge enhancement: A system for applying multi-direction and multi-slope region detection to image edge enhancement is provided to perform the image edge enhancement on an image. For pixel (i) indicating i-th pixel of line of the image, a line buffer temporarily stores the pixel (i) and its neighboring pixels. A region classification... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090180708 - Illumination light quantity setting method in image measuring instrument: An image measuring instrument includes a camera that images a plurality of measured points based on a preset measuring procedure, and an illumination unit that irradiates the measured points. The image measuring instrument measures a dimension and a shape of a to-be-measured object while the illumination unit irradiates light having... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090180710 - Image correction method, apparatus, article and image: An image correction method able to avoid error image. According to opposite properties of black and white, only the last few bits of the scanned digital signal are extracted for black correction, while only the first few bits of the scanned digital signal are extracted for white correction. Further, the... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20090180709 - Providing a digital copy of a source image: The present invention relates to a method for an automatic alignment of digital image layers, implemented in specific software on a computing device (e.g. a personal computer (1)) which drives an image scanner (3) and aligns the multiple scanned image layers (25) in such a way, that of these layers... Agent: J Georg Seka Townsend And Townsend And Crew

20090180711 - Rendering a mask using coarse mask representation: A method, system and computer program product for rendering a mask are disclosed. A method of rendering a mask may comprise: providing an initial mask design for a photolithographic process, the initial mask design including polygons; initially rendering the initial mask design as a coarse mask representation in a pixel... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090180712 - Reproducible three dimensional vacuum forming technique: A method of reproducing a three dimensional (3D) image by counter-distorting a two dimensional (2D) image prior to vacuum forming. A captured or obtained image of a subject is digitalized into 3D and 2D formats and used to create a 3D surface using a CNC machine. A standardized grid pattern... Agent: John Alumit

20090180713 - Method and system of adaptive reformatting of digital image: Method and system of adaptive reformatting of digital photos and document image. The method includes selecting a rule of calculation of function of value for a pixel depending on results of analyzing an image, generating a map of value and a map of history, changing a size of the image... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090180714 - Apparatus and method for image processing and computer-readable storage medium: An input pixel value setting circuit sets at least two different input pixel values in a subject area of an input image. A dynamic range transforming circuit performs a process for transforming pixel values of the input image using a dynamic range transformation function in which output pixel values corresponding... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090175489 - Automatically generating precipitation proximity notifications: A method and system for automatically generating a notification of a status of precipitation being received by a user-defined detection zone within a geographic area. An image of the geographic area is received. The image includes pixels associated with the detection zone. Each pixel is associated with a sub-area of... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090175491 - Device and method for interaction with a user: m

20090175493 - Image processing apparatus and method of controlling the same: To accurately extract embedded information from a document image using line spacing watermark, an image processing apparatus for extracting watermark information includes an input unit which inputs a document image as image data, an image reduction unit which generates, from the image data, reduced image data reduced in the first... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090175495 - Image processing device and method, and program for the same: The image processing device includes: a detection unit that detects embedded additional data; an extraction unit that extracts additional information; a storage unit that stores the data of the document and the detailed information; a search unit that acquires a stored document and detailed information thereof; a generation unit that... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090175492 - Image synthesis system for a vehicle and the manufacturing method thereof: The present invention discloses an image synthesis system for a vehicle to provide the driver with a downward-facing image of the car's 360° surrounding view. The system includes: a first camera, which is used to shoot a first image of the periphery of the vehicle; a second camera, which is... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20090175494 - Method and an apparatus for marking image sequences, a support comprising such marks, and a method and an apparatus for identifying such marks: A method for marking a series of images such as a film for identification. A copy of the film is associated with a series of pseudorandom values that correspond to fields of a virtual grid covering an image. A visible mark is put into the field corresponding to the first... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090175490 - Watermark display controller and method: A method and device for displaying a watermark on a display 15 of material has been deleted by fast forwarding or reversing during recording of audio/video content. The device includes a watermark controller 12 which detects when material sought to be watermarked is present and provides a watermark to display... Agent: Henneman & Associates, PLC

20090175496 - Image processing device and method, recording medium, and program: The present invention relates to image processing apparatus and method, a recording medium, and a program for providing reliable tracking of a tracking point. When a right eye 502 of a human face 504 serving as a tracking point is tracked in a frame n−1 and when a tracking point... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090175501 - Imaging control apparatus and imaging control method: An imaging control apparatus includes preset information management means for holding and managing unit preset information including positional information indicative of the position of an imaging field changing mechanism that changes the imaging field of view of an imaging unit, and reference image data, the preset information management means, as... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090175497 - Location measuring device and method: With apparatus and method for measuring in three dimensions by applying an estimating process to points corresponding to feature points in a plurality of motion image frames, high speed and high accuracy are realized. The apparatus comprises: a first track determining section (4B) that determines corresponding points of feature points... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090175498 - Location measuring device and method: To realize high speed and high precision with device and method of three-dimensional measurement by applying estimating process to points corresponding to feature points in a plurality of motion frame images. With the device and method of calculating location information through processes of choosing a stereo pair, relative orientation, and... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090175502 - Methods for discriminating moving objects in motion image sequences: In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for classifying pixel values in a motion sequence of images. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of determining spectral information relevant to the sequence of images, and utilizing the... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20090175500 - Object tracking apparatus: An object tracking apparatus tracks an object on image data captured continuously. The object tracking apparatus includes an object color adjusting unit and a particle filter processing unit. The object color adjusting unit calculates tendency of color change in regions on image data and adjusts a color of the object... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20090175499 - Systems and methods for identifying objects and providing information related to identified objects: Systems and methods for identifying an object and presenting additional information about the identified object are provided. The techniques of the present invention can allow the user to specify modes to help with identifying objects. Furthermore, the additional information can be provided with different levels of detail depending on user... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

20090175503 - Surface position measuring method and apparatus: A measuring apparatus for measuring a position of a surface of an object while the object is scanned in a scanning direction in an X-Y plane. A detecting unit detects the position of the surface of the object in a Z direction perpendicular to the X-Y plane, a stage scans... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090175504 - Image processing system: An image processing system capable of checking whether or not an image is correctly read, and of easily correcting an image which is not correctly read is provided. The image processing system includes: an image processing apparatus A which has a reading section 105, an image processing section 110 for... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090175505 - Authentication apparatus, authentication method, registration apparatus and registration method: An authentication apparatus includes: a vein data extracting unit that extracts vein data representing veins, from an image including the veins existing in a finger; an extracting unit that extracts position data representing the position which the contour of the finger has at an intermediate stage of extracting the vein... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090175506 - Recoverable biometric identity system and method: A method for identifying persons based on biometric data achieves enhanced security and increased accuracy compared with other systems by distorting one or more biometrics prior to detection and recognition. The method includes detecting a distorted biometric for input into an identification system, comparing the distorted biometric to one or... Agent: Doster Greene, LLC

20090175507 - Mobile issuance of official documents with biometric information encoded thereon: A system for automatically obtaining a printable photographic image of an object for a document, particularly adaptable to police traffic-ticket dispensing situations is described. A tablet computer with a stylus input display device has a video camera device associated with it that points at the object of the document, in... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20090175510 - Digital life recorder implementing enhanced facial recognition subsystem for acquiring a face glossary data: A method and apparatus for updating a face glossary repository with face glossary data. The process identifies a source of the face glossary data in response to detecting an acquisition condition. The source may comprise a raw data queue, a first glossary from a peer digital life recorder, or a... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090175511 - Digital photographing apparatus and method of controlling the same: A digital photographing apparatus is provided which can recognize a face even in a dark place, such as under a backlight condition, or in too bright a place, and also provided is a method of controlling the same. According to the method, when a face is not recognized, an exposure... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090175512 - Face collation apparatus: A face collation apparatus has a storage that stores a feature quantity of at least one registrant, the feature quantity being extracted from a registration image of the registrant, a feature quantity extractor that extracts a feature quantity from a collation image of a collation object person, a score calculator... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090175508 - Methods and apparatus for generation of cancelable face template: Techniques for generating a distorted template for a given facial image are provided. First, at least one facial feature point from a given facial image is selected. The selected facial feature has location information associated therewith. A representation of a region proximate to the selected facial feature point is then... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090175509 - Personal computing device control using face detection and recognition: Systems and methods are provided for control of a personal computing device based on user face detection and recognition techniques.... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

20090175513 - Methods and apparatus for generation of cancelable fingerprint template: Techniques for generating a distorted fingerprint representation for a given fingerprint image are provided. First, at least one fingerprint feature point from a given fingerprint image is selected. At least one representation of a region proximate to the selected fingerprint feature point is then generated. Next, the representation of the... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090175517 - Anatomical recognition and dimensional analysis of breast measurements to assist breast surgery: Various methods, techniques or modules are provided to allow for the automated analysis of the 3-D representation of the upper front torso (i) to recognize 3-D anatomical features, (ii) to orient the subject with reference to their anatomy or a display, (iii) to determine dimensional analysis including direct point-to-point lines,... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm

20090175516 - Computer analysis of a breast shape to assist breast surgery: Various methods, techniques or modules are provided to allow for the automated analysis of the 3-D representation of the upper front torso (i) to recognize 3-D anatomical features, (ii) to orient the subject with reference to their anatomy or a display, (iii) to determine dimensional analysis including direct point-to-point lines,... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm

20090175519 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program storage medium: An image processing apparatus has an obtaining unit configured to obtain a region from a medical image, and a generating unit configured to generate a display image by superimposing, on the basis of a position being in a schema image and corresponding to the region, an image of the region... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090175518 - Medical system and method for generating medical guide image: A medical system includes: an image signal acquiring portion for acquiring a signal to generate an image corresponding to a picture of a subject; an image generating portion for generating a real-time image of an inside of the test subject based on the acquired signal; a detecting portion for outputting... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090175515 - Method, device, and computer programme for evaluating images of a cavity: The invention relates to a device, a method and a computer programme for evaluating images of the heart that have been captured by means of a medical imaging method. According to said method, at least two data records containing functional values, which describe the ventricular wall activity, are produced in... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090175514 - Stratification method for overcoming unbalanced case numbers in computer-aided lung nodule false positive reduction: A method for computer aided detection (CAD) and classification of regions of interest detected within HRCT medical image data. The method 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... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090175520 - Method and apparatus for matching of bracketed patterns in test strings: Disclose are a method of and system for matching input character sequences in a set of input patterns. The method comprises the steps of analyzing the set of input patterns, creating a pattern cluster look-up table (PCLT) based on said input patterns, and defining an offset value k. The PCLT... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090175521 - Method and system for creating and embedding information in digital representations of a subject: Provided herein is a method for creating an adaptable digital representation of a subject, comprising: inputting into a computer system information sufficient to form a digital representation of the subject; deriving a digital representation of the subject based on the information; assigning traits to the digital representation; encoding the representation... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20090175523 - Method for image reconstruction using sparsity-constrained correction: An image reconstruction method applicable to a number of different imaging modalities including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), x-ray computed tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET), and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is disclosed. A sparsifying image is reconstructed from a series of acquired undersampled data to provide a priori... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20090175522 - System and method for image registration: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide for a system and method for performing medical image registration. Pixel and voxel correspondences are formulated as energy minimization problems and are optimized with graph cuts. The method includes processing a first set of data and a second set of data using a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090175524 - Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and scanning-condition setting method: In a console device that controls an Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) apparatus, a preset-information storage unit stores preset information including information about a plurality of scanning parameters that are grouped based on an instruction from an operator, and a scanning-condition setting unit sets scanning conditions based on parameter values of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090175525 - Systems and methods for measuring surface shape: A system for determining a surface shape of a test object includes a pattern having a plurality of first elements dispose about a central axis and defining an aperture containing the central axis. The first elements includes a plurality of common elements having a common form and a reference element... Agent: Abbott Medical Optics, Inc.

20090175528 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program: An image processing apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a setting unit configured to set a radiation exposure condition; a radiation generation unit configured to generate a radiation beam according to the radiation exposure condition; a two-dimensional radiation sensor configured to transform the reached radiation beam into a radiation image... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090175527 - Method and system for automatic recognition of preneoplastic anomalies in anatomic structures based on an improved region-growing segmentation, and computer program therefor: the region growth step comprising a first volume growth stage in which the growth is carried out on the basis of a predetermined global criterion of similarity between voxels in each direction of growth, and a second fine growth stage for the definition of a boundary of the region of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090175526 - Method of creating a divergence transform for identifying a feature of interest in hyperspectral data: A system and method for identifying objects of interest in image data is provided. The present invention utilizes principles of Iterative Transformational Divergence in which objects in images, when subjected to special transformations, will exhibit radically different responses based on the physical, chemical, or numerical properties of the object or... Agent: Rene A. Vazquez

20090175529 - Method and apparatus for selectively targeting specific cells within a cell population: This invention provides a method and apparatus for selectively identifying, and targeting with an energy beam, specific cells within a cell population, for the purpose of inducing a response in the targeted cells. Using the present invention, every detectable cell in a population can be identified and affected, without substantially... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090175530 - Methods and apparatuses for detecting pattern errors: Methods and apparatuses for quality control and detecting errors related to the manufacturing and production of more accurate patterns and resultant devices are provided. The patterns or devices may include patterns used in display applications such as TFT-LCD, OLED, SED, PDP, FED, LTPS-LCD and similar display technologies using at least... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090175533 - Information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program: In an information processing apparatus, such as a robot that discriminates human faces, nodes are hierarchically arranged in a tree structure. Each of the nodes has a number of weak classifiers. Each terminal node learns face images associated with one label. An upper node learns learning samples of all labels... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090175532 - Method and system for creating flexible structure descriptions: In one embodiment, the invention provides a method, comprising detecting data fields on a scanned image; generating a flexible document description based on the detected data fields, including creating a set of search elements for each data field, each search element having associated search criteria; and training the flexible document... Agent: Hahn And Moodley, LLP

20090175531 - System and method for false positive reduction in computer-aided detection (cad) using a support vector macnine (svm): A method for computer aided detection (CAD) and classification of regions of interest detected within HRCT medical image data includes post-processing machine learning to maximize specificity and sensitivity of the classification to realize a reduction in number of false positive detections reported. The method includes training a classifier on a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090175534 - Binarizing device and computer readable medium: A binarizing device includes: a difference vector calculation unit that calculates a difference vector between an average color in a peripheral pixel region and a current color of a current pixel; a selection unit that selects one of the average color and the current color as a significant color; and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090175535 - Improved processing of multi-color images for detection and classification: The premise of this invention is that detection or classification of objects in a multi-color image depends on both the resolution and the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the intensity of objects in the image, and can be aided significantly by reliable observation of the general coloring of the objects. The... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090175536 - Ambient light derived from video content by mapping transformations through unrendered color space: Extracting and processing video content encoded in a rendered color space to be emulated by an ambient light source, comprising extracting color information from a video signal and transforming the color information through unrendered color space using tristprimary matrices to form a second rendered color space to drive the ambient... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090175538 - Methods and systems for representation and matching of video content: The described methods and systems provide for the representation and matching of video content, including spatio-temporal matching of different video sequences. A particular method of determining temporal correspondence between different sets of video data inputs the sets of video data and represents the video data as ordered sequences of visual... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20090175537 - Photo-document segmentation method and system: The present application provides an improved segmentation method and system for processing digital images that include an imaged document and surrounding image. A plurality of edge detection techniques are used to determine the edges of the imaged document and then segment the imaged document from the surrounding image.... Agent: Jones Day

20090175539 - Method and system for swipe sensor image alignment using fourier phase analysis: Provided is a method for analyzing image slices. The method includes transforming a first slice and a second slice to frequency domain and determining shift data between the first slice and the second slice from only the phase component of the transformed first and second slices.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090175540 - Controlled human pose estimation from depth image streams: A system, method, and computer program product for estimating upper body human pose are described. According to one aspect, a plurality of anatomical features are detected in a depth image of the human actor. The method detects a head, neck, and torso (H-N-T) template in the depth image, and detects... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20090175541 - Feature adapted beamlet transform apparatus and associated methodology of detecting curvilinear objects of an image: A method of detecting a curvilinear object of a noisy image. The method includes filtering the noisy image in accordance with a two dimensional line profile. The line profile is selected within a class of steerable filters. A beamlet coefficient is calculated in accordance with the filtering, wherein a coefficient... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090175542 - Line shape processing device, line shape processing method, information recording medium, and program: To detect the characteristic of the end portion of a line shape, in a line shape processing device (201), a coordinate storing unit (203) stores a first coordinate value of a point on a line in association with a second coordinate value, in regard to the shape of that line... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090175543 - Information processing device and information processing method, image processing device and image processing method, and computer program: An image processing device 10 includes an image information input unit 1 for inputting three-dimensional image information to be processed in the format of an incidence graph, an incidence graph evaluation unit 2 for evaluating and sorting the edges of the input incidence graph, an image region mesh growing unit... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090175544 - Finding structures in multi-dimensional spaces using image-guided clustering: A data processing system is provided that comprises a processor, a random access memory for storing data and programs for execution by the processor, and computer readable instructions stored in the random access memory for execution by the processor to perform a method for clustering data points in a multidimensional... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20090175545 - Method for computing similarity between text spans using factored word sequence kernels: A computer implemented method and an apparatus for comparing spans of text are disclosed. The method includes computing a similarity measure between a first sequence of symbols representing a first text span and a second sequence of symbols representing a second text span as a function of the occurrences of... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090175546 - Method and apparatus for dynamic compression in images or signal series: In a method and apparatus for dynamics compression in images or signal series represented by individual amplitude values, input amplitude values EA of the images or signal series are subjected to a local spatial amplitude averaging, to generate locally spatially averaged input amplitude values <EA>. Differential function values are then... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090175547 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: In an image processing apparatus according to the present invention, an area dividing unit divides still image data into plural areas in two directions orthogonal to each other, an image-data arranging unit arranges, continuously in time series, plural image data corresponding to the plural areas included in the still image... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090175548 - Information processing device and method: The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and method which make it possible to transmit image data with high quality and low delay. A wavelet transform unit 101 applies wavelet transform to image data using a reversible filter that performs data transform with a reversible method that completely... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090175549 - Method of selecting a reference picture: In one embodiment, the method includes obtaining a reference picture list including multiple reference pictures, obtaining a field reference picture index associated with the current field macroblock, and determining a frame reference picture index based on the field reference picture index. A field reference picture having a parity different from... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090175550 - Successively refinable lattice vector quantization: A vector quantizer includes a lattice quantizer (10) approximating a vector x by a lattice vector belonging to a lattice Λ0. A lattice vector decomposer (14) connected to the lattice quantizer successively decomposes the lattice vector into a sequence of quotient vectors y, and a sequence of remainder vectors ri... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090175553 - Image processing apparatus and imaging apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes: a storage unit that records position information for a defective pixel; a setting unit that sets the defective pixel as an interpolation subject pixel, on the basis of the recorded position information; a selection unit that selects an optimum calculation equation for interpolated value from... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090175551 - Intelligent image enhancement: A device receives an image, and measures at least one of location information, direction information, time information, or distance information associated with the device or the image. The device also provides the image and the at least one of location information, direction information, time information, or distance information to an... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090175552 - Method and apparatus for enhancing signals with multiscale grouping bandelets: A method and apparatus for enhancing a d-dimensional digital signal by taking advantage of regular geometrical structures. The invention comprises a multiscale redundant grouping lifting (102), which iteratively computes grouping arrays and bandelet signals with a redundant grouping lifting. A second step makes an enhancement (103) of bandelet signals. A... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20090175554 - Display apparatus and display method: A display apparatus able to perform appropriate and accurate focusing. An image displayed on a display unit is stored in a first storage unit, a focus position of the image is moved by a movement unit, and the image obtained after the focus position movement is stored in a second... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090175555 - Illumination systems and methods for computer imagers: The present invention can provide solutions to many common imaging problems, such as, for example, unevenly distributed illumination, shadows, white balance adjustment, colored ambient light and high dynamic range imaging. Imaging systems and methods can be provided through a computer (e.g., laptop or desktop) such that the system or method... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

20090175556 - Methods, apparatuses and systems providing pixel value adjustment for images produced by a camera having multiple optical states: Methods, apparatuses and systems for storing approximations of multiple spatial pixel value adjustment surfaces for use in pixel value correction. The adjustment surfaces may be used for positional gain adjustment. A representation of the multiple adjustment surfaces is stored as coefficients representing a multi-dimensional solid of two-dimensional adjustment surfaces. The... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090175557 - System and method for reduction of speckle noise in an image: The present invention includes methods for the reduction of speckle noise in an image and methods for segmenting an image. Each of the methods disclosed herein includes steps for analyzing the uniformity of a pixel within a plurality of pixels forming a portion of the image and, based on the... Agent: Kennedy, Ltd.

20090175558 - Image processor and method therefor, and image display device: An image processor is provided with the high-frequency component detecting unit that calculates a convolution for each of regions of interest in part of an image region of input image data, to output the high-frequency component detection result for each pixel of interest; the smoothing unit that smoothes the image... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090175560 - Enlarging a digital image: Enlarging a digital image. In one example embodiment, a method for enlarging a digital image includes various acts. First, an enlargement factor λ is selected for an input image. Next, a pixel in the input image is selected. Then, a supporting window is placed over the input image. Next, a... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20090175559 - Modifying spaces in virtual universes: Methods arid arrangements of modifying spaces in virtual universes are discussed. Embodiments include transformations, code, state machines or other logic to receive data from a software agent in a virtual universe, directly or indirectly. The data may be based upon information automatically gathered from data stores outside the virtual universe,... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20090175561 - Method and system for retrieving and displaying images of devices connected to a computing device: A method for retrieving and displaying a photorealistic image of a device that is connected to a computing device or available for connection comprises the steps of: using the computing device to receive data from the device; using the computing device to retrieve identifying information from the device; using the... Agent: Stites & Harbison, PLLC

20090175562 - Imaging system: A method and apparatus for reconstruction of a region of interest for an object is provided. The reconstruction of the object may be based on chords which may fill a part, all, or more than all of the region of interest. Using chords for reconstruction may allow for reducing data... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090169050 - Method for characterization of objects: P

20090169051 - System and method for detecting items of interest through mass estimation: A system and method for identifying an object based on its estimated mass. In one aspect, a method for estimating a mass of an object is provided. The method includes acquiring image data including a plurality of image elements, calculating a histogram based on the image data, calculating a computed... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (22697) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090169053 - Collaborative tracking: Disclosed is a system (200) and method (101) for collaborative tracking of an object, the method comprising updating (105) the track with an object measurement using a camera tracking module (230), determining (110) a track quality measure for the updated track, based on the track quality measure, determining (120) whether... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090169054 - Method of adjusting selected window size of image object: A method of adjusting selected window size of an image object is applicable for tracking a target object in a video. The video includes a plurality of frames, and the target object has a display range changing with the playback of each frame. According to a variation trend of the... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090169052 - Object detector: An object position area (82a) is calculated according to a position in the space of a detected truck (70). A template (80a) corresponding to the object position area (82a) recorded at the previous time is then called. The template (80a) is moved to a position on a reference image Ib... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20090169055 - Feature information collecting apparatus and feature information collecting program, and own vehicle position recognition apparatus and navigation apparatus: A feature information collecting device includes: a feature image recognizing unit that performs image recognition processing of a feature included in image information in a surrounding area of a vehicle; a construction information obtaining unit that obtains construction information including information of a construction section; a construction information storage unit... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090169058 - Method and device for adjusting output frame: A method and a device for adjusting an output frame are provided. The present disclosure is suitable for an electronic device with a display. In the present disclosure, a relative position between a user and the display is obtained first. Then, an output frame which will be outputted by the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090169057 - Method for producing image with depth by using 2d images: A method for producing an image with depth by using 2D image includes obtaining a set of internal parameters of a camera. The camera takes at least a first and a second 2D images with a small shift. The first 2D image has N depths, and N≧2. Several sets of... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090169056 - System and method for determining cumulative tow gap width: A system for determining cumulative tow gap width includes an in-process vision system having at least one camera adapted to record images of a composite material and a data analysis computer communicating with and adapted to receive image data from the in-process vision system. The data analysis computer may be... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20090169059 - Motion analysis in digital image sequences: The invention relates to methods for determining a motion vector in a predetermined area of a sequence of digital images by comparing a current image to a preceding image. The current image and the preceding image are prepared by the same filter for image adaptation. Distance vectors between a pixel... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090169060 - Method and apparatus for spatial display and selection: A method of displaying map information includes providing an electronic two-dimensional map of points of interest. A section of the map is displayed on a screen such that at least one of the points of interest has a map location lying outside of the displayed section. An indication is provided... Agent: Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP

20090169061 - Reading device with hierarchal navigation: In some embodiments, disclosed is reading device that comprises a camera, at least one processor, and a user interface. The camera scans at least a portion of a document having text to generate a raster file. The processor processes the raster file to identify text blocks. The user interface allows... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090169062 - Personals ad profile secret photo verification process: Managing verification of a submitted digital image of a person based on a comparison of another digital image of the person, where the person in the second image is illustrated in a specified pose, and/or is holding a specified object. The person provides the first digital image of themselves for... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090169063 - Fingerprinting means and fingerprinting system: A fingerprinting technique of taking a left fingerprint, storing the taken fingerprint, and physically recording/storing information collected when the fingerprint is taken so as to add a physical evidence adoption capability. Fingerprinting means comprises a fingerprinting section (11) adapted for taking a fingerprint and composed of an adhesive layer or... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090169064 - Multi-scale variable domain decomposition method and system for iris identification: The present invention provides an iris identification method including iris code registration and iris code authentication, the iris code registration including the steps of acquiring iris images by capturing iris using cameras or receiving image files, generating iris codes from the acquired iris images, and storing the generated iris codes... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Group LLP

20090169065 - Detecting and indexing characters of videos by ncuts and page ranking: Apparatuses, systems, and computer program products that detect and/or index characters of videos are disclosed. One or more embodiments comprise an apparatus an apparatus having a feature extraction module and a cast indexing module. The feature extraction module may extract features of a scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) for face... Agent: Schubert, Osterrieder & Nickelson, PLLC C/o Cpa Global

20090169068 - Detecting device, method, program and system: In a detecting device for detecting a fake test of Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) that another testee different from an actual driver takes on behalf of the actual driver of a vehicle using an alcohol measurement device, the face image of the testee taking the BAC test is shot during... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090169067 - Face detection and tracking method: Face detection and tracking method is executed by a computer or a microprocessor with computing capability for identifying human faces and positions thereof in image frames. First, face detection is performed to detect human faces in a plurality of frames. Then, face tracking is performed on each of the frames... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090169066 - Multidirectonal face detection method: A multidirectional face detection method is used to detect a face in a picture under detection at different positions. The face detection method includes the steps. A selecting window sets to sequentially select different sub-image patterns from the picture under detection. A facial weight calculates and it is calculated according... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090169069 - Apparatus for inputting optical data using optical fiber: Disclosed herein is an apparatus for inputting optical data. The optical data input apparatus includes an image sensor, a bundle of optical fibers, and a light emission device. One end surface of the bundle of optical fibers is arranged close to the image sensor, and the other end surface of... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Group LLP

20090169070 - Control of electronic device by using a person's fingerprints: The present invention can include systems and methods for controlling an electronic device by detecting and using a person's fingerprints. A device can store user input signatures, including fingerprint signatures. The user input signatures can, in turn, be associated with user-selectable commands. When a user provides user input (including fingerprints)... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

20090169071 - Pseudo-translucent integrated circuit package: An integrated circuit (IC) package includes at least one light source disposed together with an IC structure within an encapsulation structure. The material forming the encapsulation structure is generally opaque. Accordingly, the light source and at least a portion of the IC are not visible to the unaided human eye.... Agent: JasIPConsulting

20090169072 - Method and system for comparing prints using a reconstructed direction image: A system constructs a block direction for a first print and compares the block direction image to a direction image for a second print to determine a similarity measure between the first and second prints. Constructing the block direction image includes: receiving a plurality of minutiae for the first print,... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090169077 - Apparatus and method for labeling rows and columns in an irregular array: The apparatus and method of the invention provide for assigning coordinates to samples in an array. The method is based on a hierarchical pattern matching to a local lattice structure that is used as a template. Starting from the best local match, the pattern is expanded hierarchically to encompass the... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20090169073 - Computer implemented method and system for processing images: A computer implemented method and system modifying image processing parameters based on user feedback are disclosed herein. The method comprises: obtaining user preferences on a set of displayed images, based on user feedback on a plurality of queries related to at least one domain-specific descriptor and a plurality of corresponding... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20090169075 - Image processing method and image processing apparatus: The value of the pixel at the same position of each of the training input image as well as a plurality of training feature images is inputted into the discrimination device, which learns in such a way as to reduce the error between the output value obtained from the discrimination... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090169076 - Method and device for relating medical 3d data image viewing planes to each other: A method of relating medical data image viewing planes to each other is provided. The method comprises defining at least two non-orthogonal two-dimensional (2D) image viewing planes in at least one three-dimensional (3D) medical image data set, and linking said 2D image viewing planes with a fixed relation to each... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090169078 - Noninvasive living body measuring device and a noninvasive living body measuring method: The image pick-up section 6 for imaging a living body is received in the receiving section 5 and is configured so as to be rotated by the image pick-up section rotating section. The receiving section 5 is connected via an image pick-up section position adjusting section 7 to the device... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090169074 - System and method for computer assisted analysis of medical image: In one embodiment, a computer assisted method for displaying a medical image is provided. The method comprises steps of determining authorization status of a user accessing an image database, suppressing the information content in a first image, commensurate with the authorization status, to obtain a second image and displaying the... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20090169081 - Image based computed tomography number and volume corrections for thin objects in computed tomography systems: Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media are provided for image based CT Number and volume corrections for thin objects in computed tomography systems. For example, in one embodiment a method is provide which computes an average computed tomography (“CT”) value and volume of voxels that are part of an object. Thereafter,... Agent: General Electric Company Ge Global Patent Operation

20090169079 - Image based density and volume corrections for thin objects in computed tomography systems: Image-based density and volume corrections for thin objects in computed tomography systems are provided. For example, in one embodiment a method is provide which computes an average computed tomography (“CT”) value and volume of voxels that are part of an object. Thereafter, a surface area and a surface density, a... Agent: General Electric Company Ge Global Patent Operation

20090169084 - Method and apparatus for correcting distortion during magnetic resonance imaging: In a method and apparatus for correcting distortion during magnetic resonance imaging k space data in a number of readout encoding directions, wherein the sampling points on the phase encoding lines are concentrated in low frequency regions and their number is less than that of full sampling points. A view... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090169085 - Method and apparatus for image reconstruction using data decomposition for all or portions of the processing flow: A method and apparatus for processing raw image data to create processed images. Raw image data is acquired. The raw image data is decomposed by a data decomposer into N subsets of raw image data. The number N is based on a number of available image generation processors. The N... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20090169083 - Method and device for distortion correction in magnetic resonance imaging: In a method and device for correcting distortion in MRI, k-space data are acquired in a number of data readout directions, the data are converted into a number of images, and a corresponding pixel shift map is generated for each image. The geometric distortion in the corresponding image is corrected... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090169082 - Nuclear medicine diagnosis device, form tomography diagnosis device, nuclear medicine data arithmetic processing method, and form tomogram arithmetic processing method: In a state in which a subject is absent, blank data is collected by a self-radioactivity element typified by Lu-176 (S1). In a state in which the subject is present, transmission data is collected by the self-radioactivity element (S2). Emission data is collected by γ rays emitted from the subject... Agent: Cheng Law Group, PLLC

20090169080 - System and method for spatially enhancing structures in noisy images with blind de-convolution: A method for enhancing objects of interest in a sequence of noisy images (11), the method comprising: acquiring the sequence of images (11); extracting features (61), (62), (71), (72) related to an object of interest on a background in images of the sequence (11) having an image reference; computing a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090169086 - Method and device for improving perceptibility different structures on radiographs: The invention relates to a method for improving the perceptibility of different structures on radiographs by means of an image processing device consisting a) in storing a radiograph in electronic form as a local space-intensity distribution, b) in carrying out a Fourier transformation for determining a frequency-intensity distribution, c) in... Agent: Factor & Lake, Ltd

20090169087 - Method for detection of vertebral fractures on lateral chest radiographs: A method, system, and computer program product for detecting vertebral fractures, including steps of (1) obtaining a medical image including a plurality of vertebrae; (2) detecting, corresponding edges of the plurality of vertebra using line enhancement and feature analysis; (3) determining the vertebral height of each vertebra based on a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090169088 - Method for operating an x-ray diagnostic apparatus for determining quality values: A method for checking an x-ray diagnostic apparatus is provided. Fluoroscopic series of x-ray images of a technical phantom are digitally acquired and stored. Difference between a dynamic image and a background image is calculated. A measuring field is predicted. Priori information about the shape of a clinically relevant object... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090169089 - Cell analysis: A system for performing cell population classification in respect of a biological sample. An image is captured in respect of an optical conduit array containing a plurality of cells and signals received therefrom are used to derive a classification scheme defining classes of cells. This scheme is then applied to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090169090 - Targeted edge detection method and apparatus for cytological image processing applications: Edges in cytological image data are identified by obtaining a digital image of a specimen and computing a gradient image from the obtained digital image. A scaling function is applied to the grayscale image to identify regions of interest (e.g., edges of cell nuclei) in the digital image. Edges of... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20090169091 - Method for performing a quality control on the processing of products and device applied thereby: Method for performing a quality control of a processed product, characterised in that it mainly consists in first storing images of a product (3) in a memory (11) during and/or after its desired and correct processing; in recording images of a product (3) to be checked during and/or after its... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090169093 - Pattern inspection method and its apparatus: In a pattern inspection apparatus for comparing images of corresponding areas of two patterns, which are formed so as to be identical, so as to judge that a non-coincident part of the images is a defect, the influence of unevenness in brightness of patterns caused by a difference of thickness... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090169092 - Quality validation method: A quality validation method to improve inspection and validation processes by increasing their quality, efficiency, and positive impact. This method automatically prompts operators at one or more validation stations to follow a validation path comprising one or more validation items configurable by part number. It allows for automatic or manual... Agent: Ryan Mccleary

20090169094 - System and method for inspecting chips in a tray: A system for inspecting chips in a tray comprises a three-dimensional sensor, a focus computing unit, an image sensor and a focusing device. The three-dimensional sensor is used to obtain the height signals of surfaces of the chips. The focus computing unit calculates the focusing positions of chips. The surface... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20090169096 - Image processing methods and apparatus: We describe methods of characterising a set of images to determine their respective illumination, for example for recovering the 3D shape of an illuminated object. The method comprises: inputting a first set of images of the object captured from different positions; determining frontier point data from the images, this defining... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20090169095 - System and method for generating structured light for 3-dimensional image rendering: A system and method for illuminating an object in preparation for three-dimensional rendering includes a projection device configured to project at least three two-dimensional structured light patterns onto a 3-dimensional object. At least two cameras detect light reflected by the object in response to the at least three structured light... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20090169098 - Image quality estimation device and method: The present invention relates to an image quality evaluating device for using a color appearance model to evaluate image quality of a color area, and a method thereof. The image quality evaluating device realizes a color space corresponding to a color area by using information on color appearance, calculating a... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090169097 - Markov stationary color descriptor: A method for generating a Markov stationary color (MSC) descriptor is disclosed. The MSC descriptor may be used for image/video content representation, which characterizes both intra-color and inter-color spatial relationships in images. The MSC descriptor has a low storage requirement, relative to some other color descriptors.... Agent: Carrie A. Boone, P.C.

20090169099 - Method of and apparatus for detecting and adjusting colour values of skin tone pixels: A method of detecting skin tone pixels in an input image and adjusting colour values thereof for an output image is disclosed. The method comprises determining for each of a plurality of pixels in an input image whether initial chromaticity values of each of said pixels lie within a skin... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20090169100 - Motion-oriented image compensating method: A motion-oriented image compensating method is disclosed. The method uses the pixel luminance of a present image data and a last image data to judge the minimum motion vector in X-axis and the minimum motion vector in Y-axis of the present image data, following by conducting luminance compensation of the... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20090169101 - Image processing method and apparatus, image sensing apparatus, and program: An eye region is extracted from an input image. A poor pupil hue quality region is extracted from the eye region. A high brightness region is extracted from the poor pupil hue quality region. A region obtained by excluding the high brightness region from the poor pupil hue quality region... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090169103 - Method of correcting false-color pixel in digital image: A method of correcting a false-color pixel in a digital image is used to correct a false-color pixel generated after being processed by a color correction matrix (CCM). The method includes the following steps. Obtaining a raw image, for being processed by the CCM operation to generate a processed image;... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090169102 - Multi-scale multi-camera adaptive fusion with contrast normalization: A computer implemented method for fusing images taken by a plurality of cameras is disclosed, comprising the steps of: receiving a plurality of images of the same scene taken by the plurality of cameras; generating Laplacian pyramid images for each source image of the plurality of images; applying contrast normalization... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler P.C.

20090169104 - Methods and systems for identifying a thin object: A method for identifying an object within a container is provided. The method includes acquiring image data representing an image, applying a morphological operator to the acquired image data to generate morphed image data, calculating a histogram based on the morphed image data, and classifying the image using the calculated... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (22697) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090169105 - Vehicle headlight detecting method and apparatus, and region-of-interest segmenting method and apparatus: A method and apparatus for detecting vehicle headlights and a region-of-interest (ROI) segmenting method and apparatus are disclosed. The ROI segmenting method includes: performing an edge extracting operation on a captured image to obtain edges of the captured image; selecting edges meeting predetermined criteria from the obtained edges, the predetermined... Agent: Alpine/bhgl

20090169106 - Method and computer program product for recognition error correction data: A method for altering a recognition error correction data structure, the method includes: altering at least one key out of a set of semantically similar keys in response to text appearance probabilities of keys of the set of semantically similar keys to provide an at least one altered key; and... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090169107 - Apparatus and method of recognizing image feature pixel point: An apparatus and a method of recognizing image feature pixels is related to the recognizing method including receiving an image having a plurality of pixels; subsequent filtering the pixels at least once by detecting the edge pixels of objects in the received image based on pixel values of the pixels,... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090169108 - System and method for recognizing smiling faces captured by a mobile electronic device: A method for recognizing smiling faces captured by a camera of a mobile electronic device is provided. The method includes capturing an actual facial image of a user using the camera, and storing the actual facial image into a memory system of the mobile electronic device. The method further includes... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090169109 - Device and process for recognizing an object in an image: The present invention refers to a process and a device for recognizing one or more objects in an image composed by a plurality of pixels. The recognizing of an object in an image comprises at least three phases. In a first phase, a plurality of possible configurations of pixels different... Agent: Loginov & Associates, PLLC

20090169110 - Index term extraction device and document characteristic analysis device for document to be surveyed: A device comprises first frequency calculating means (142) for calculating a function value IDF(P) of the frequency of an index word in a document (d) to be examined in a group of documents (P) to be compared, second frequency calculating means (171) for calculating a function value IDF(S) of the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090169112 - Image processing device and method, and program: An image processing device includes a detecting unit configured to detect an external light reflection region from an input image, and a determining unit configured to determine the glossiness of said external light reflection region, and determines whether or not the reflection of the external reflection region is specular reflection,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090169111 - System and method for finding edge points of an object: A method for finding edge points of an object is disclosed. The method includes receiving an electronic image of an object, selecting one or more edge points in the image of the object, creating an image template for each edge point in the object image. The method further includes receiving... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090169113 - Automatic and semi-automatic detection of planar shapes from 2d images: A method is disclosed to digitize and recognize planar shapes that are present in images and are desired to be recognized and extracted. These planar shapes can represent maps in cartography, they can represent patterns from garment styles, they can represent projections of real objects into a 2D picture. The... Agent: Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP Susan Formicola

20090169115 - Brand image detection: A method comprises segmenting a foreground and a background of an image; and extracting one or more features from the foreground and the background to recognize a brand image. The features comprises one or more from a group comprising a foreground area, coordinates of a foreground centeroid, a foreground symmetry,... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090169114 - Interpolation of irregular data in a finite-dimensional metric space in lithographic simulation: A method, system, and computer program product for preprocessing a pattern in a library of patterns and querying a preprocessed library of patterns are disclosed. Embodiments for querying a preprocessed library of patterns are disclosed for determining a distance between the representation for the first pattern and the representation for... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20090169116 - Comparison method, comparison system, computer, and program: A comparison apparatus 2 designates first registration information RT1 inherent to a first parameter obtained by applying generalized Hough transform processing to a registered image AIM based on the set first parameter as the registration information RT1 used for the comparison and, designating second registration information RT1 obtained by applying... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090169117 - Image analyzing method: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method of operating an apparatus having a display device for analyzing a plurality of images each representing a similar item, includes the steps of: displaying the plurality of the images in parallel by the display device; enabling a user to select partial... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090169118 - Systems and methods for image pattern recognition: Systems and methods for image pattern recognition comprise digital image capture and encoding using vector quantization (“VQ”) of the image. A vocabulary of vectors is built by segmenting images into kernels and creating vectors corresponding to each kernel. Images are encoded by creating a vector index file having indices that... Agent: Pattric J. Rawlins Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch, LLP

20090169119 - Compression and decompression of computed tomography data: A compression method and subsystem for a CT scanner compresses projection data from the data acquisition system. The projection data are classified into subsets of more significant samples and subsets of less significant samples. The subsets are compressed in accordance with compression control parameters so that the less significant samples... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20090169120 - Method and apparatus for encoding video data, method and apparatus for decoding video data, and program recording medium: A method and apparatus for encoding video data, a method and apparatus for decoding video data, and a program recording medium are provided. The apparatus for encoding video data includes an encoding processor generating encoded raw image data by encoding raw image data that is output from an image pickup... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090169121 - Static image compression method and computer readable data structure and computer readable storage medium: A static image compression method, a computer readable data structure, and a computer readable storage medium are described. Firstly, an image is segmented into a plurality of sub-images. Then, each sub-image is sequentially compressed into a sub-data frame having a start character, so as to generate a compressed data with... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090169122 - Method and apparatus for focusing on objects at different distances for one image: A method (300) and apparatus (200) for focusing on images at different distances is disclosed. The method may include focusing on a first object at a first distance, capturing (320) a first image based on focusing on the first object at the first distance, focusing on a second object at... Agent: Prass LLP

20090169123 - Method and apparatus to encode and decode halftone image: A method to encode and decode a halftone image such that the halftone image is efficiently compressed and decoded by using pattern characteristics of the halftone image includes determining different template shapes according to characteristics of the halftone image, compressing the halftone image based on determined template shape information, compressing... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090169124 - Video coding system providing separate coding chains for dynamically selected small-size or full-size playback: Embodiments of the present invention provide a coding system that codes data according to a pair of coding chains. A first coding chain generates coded video data that can be decoded by itself to represent a source video sequence of a small size, such as a size sufficient to support... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090169125 - Method for locally adjusting a quantization step and coding device implementing said method: in each image of the sequence, assigning to the potential masking region the first quantization step and if the sum of the n first differences of bits is higher than the sum of the n second differences of bits, assigning said second quantization step to said region of interest and... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090169127 - Anti-vibration system for the display screen of an image display device: An anti-vibration system and a method thereof keep images to be displayed on a fixed location of a display screen while the display screen moves. The system includes: a three-dimensional phase detector for detecting the three-dimensional displacement of the display screen, an image control unit for recording the initial location... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090169126 - Optical low pass filter and imaging device using the same: An optical low pass filter (2) is formed, for example, by a birefringent plate so as to control the light beam separation width, thereby changing the cut-off frequency according to an imaging mode. The number of pixels of an imaging element (5) is set greater than the number of pixels... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090169128 - Method for up-scaling an input image and an up-scaling system: The invention relates to techniques of up-scaling an input image represented by an input video signal in an image up-scaling system, especially to a method and an image up-scaling system for up-scaling an input image represented by an input video signal, the method comprising steps of receiving and processing the... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090169129 - Method for automatically transforming color space and prospect of an imaging device: A method for automatically transforming color space and prospects of an imaging device is disclosed. The method at least includes: selecting a source image and a target image; transforming color space automatically wherein the color spaces of the two images are respectively transformed into another color space; matching levels, wherein... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090169130 - Accelerating the hough transform: The present disclosure describes a method and apparatus for accelerating computation of a Hough transform of a plurality of digital images of known width and height dimensions. The method includes determining a plurality of Hough values for each pixel location based on the width and height dimensions. The method further... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC C/o Cpa Global

20090169131 - Ocr multi-resolution method and apparatus: In some embodiments, provided are procedures for processing images that may have different font sizes. In some embodiments, it involves OCR'ing with multiple passes at different resolutions.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090169132 - Image processing apparatus and method thereof: A method of controlling an image processing apparatus, the method includes inputting a plurality of images; acquiring additional information added to each of the plurality of images; setting control information used to control a layout of the plurality of images in accordance with the additional information; and generating an output... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090169133 - Image processing device, image processing system, image processing method and image processing program: [MEANS FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEMS] An image processing system includes a conversion parameter calculation unit 101, an initial image generation unit 102, a high resolution image generation unit 103, and an input image and conversion parameter storage unit 110, and converts the high resolution image generated at the previous frame... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC