Image analysis inventions 09/09

20090238402 - Device and method for visualizing positions on a surface: A device and a method are disclosed for visualizing positions on a surface by means of a marking which is produced by an optically detectable radiation. In order to permit a residue-free marking which can be observed with a camera from partly extremely oblique observation directions, the device has an... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090238403 - Systems and methods using identifying data derived or extracted from video, audio or images: The presently claimed invention relates to deriving or extracting information from audio, images and video. One claim recites a method of operating a network filter. The network includes a plurality of network nodes, the network filter is for filtering video or audio. The method includes: monitoring video or audio traffic... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20090238406 - Dynamic state estimation: According to an implementation, a set of particles is provided for use in estimating a location of a state of a dynamic system. A local-mode seeking mechanism is applied to move one or more particles in the set of particles, and the number of particles in the set of particles... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090238410 - Face recognition with combined pca-based datasets: A face recognition method for working with two or more collections of facial images is provided. A representation framework is determined for a first collection of facial images including at least principle component analysis (PCA) features. A representation of said first collection is stored using the representation framework. A modified... Agent: Tessera/fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20090238408 - Image-signal processor, image-signal processing method, and program: An image-signal processing apparatus configured to track an object moving in an image includes a setting unit configured to set an eliminating area in an image constituting a moving image; a motion-vector detecting unit configured to detect an object in the image constituting a moving image and detect a motion... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090238405 - Method and system for enabling a user to play a large screen game by means of a mobile device: The present invention relates to a system and method for determining and tracking one or more objects, or one or more image sections within each image of a video stream to be displayed on user's mobile device, comprising: (a) one or more video streams to be run on a streaming... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090238409 - Method for testing a motion vector: A method for testing a motion vector is described, which has: provision of at least one item of motion information assigned to the image sequence; storing a first image section of the first image in a first buffer memory and storing a second image section of the second image in... Agent: Duane Morris LLP - Princeton

20090238404 - Methods for using deformable models for tracking structures in volumetric data: A computerized method for tracking of a 3D structure in a 3D image including a plurality of sequential image frames, one of which is a current image frame, includes representing the 3D structure being tracked with a parametric model with parameters for local shape deformations. A predicted state vector is... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20090238407 - Object detecting apparatus and method for detecting an object: An apparatus for detecting an object, includes: a candidate point detection unit detecting a candidate point between the ground and an object from an image; a tracking unit calculating positions of the candidate point at a first time and a second time; a difference calculation unit calculating a difference between... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090238411 - Estimating motion of an event captured using a digital video camera: An event aware video system (EAVS) is to capture video frames during a first time period and process events in the video frames before transferring the processed data to a central computing system. The EAVS may establish a no-event frame by marking a last frame as the no-event frame if... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090238412 - Local motion compensated reconstruction of stenosis: The analysis of a stenosis of a coronary vessel in three dimensions requires a motion compensated reconstruction. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an examination apparatus for local motion compensated reconstruction data set is provided, wherein the local motion compensated reconstruction vectors relating to a start point... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090238413 - Method for quantifying metal colloid: A method for quantifying metal colloidal particles carrying to-be-detected analytes, includes producing an inspection sample by developing solution containing the metal colloidal particles on a substrate, generating a plurality of image data about an identical visual field by enlarging and capturing the sample, removing a signal component derived from an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090238414 - Virtual white lines for delimiting planned excavation sites: A method may include sending an aerial image to a user via a network; receiving a marked-up version of the aerial image from the user via the network that includes one or more virtual white lines added to the aerial image that delimit a dig area in which excavation is... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090238415 - Virtual white lines for delimiting planned excavation sites: Methods and apparatus for facilitating detection of a presence or an absence of at least one underground facility within a dig area. A digital image of a geographic area including the dig area is electronically received at a first user location remote from the dig area, and at least a... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090238416 - Virtual white lines for delimiting planned excavation sites: Method and apparatus for facilitating detection of a presence or an absence of at least one underground facility within a dig area. At least one marked-up digital image of a geographic area including the dig area, the image including at least one indicator to delimit the dig area, is electronically... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090238417 - Virtual white lines for indicating planned excavation sites on electronic images: Methods and apparatus for facilitating detection of a presence or an absence of at least one underground facility within a dig area. Source data representing one or more input images of a geographic area including the dig area is electronically received at a first user location, which may be remote... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090238418 - Authentication apparatus and authentication system: An authentication apparatus includes: an acquiring section that acquires a piece of biometric authentication information; a controlling section that causes the acquiring section to acquire plural pieces of biometric authentication information and causes to execute a biometric authentication based on the plural pieces of biometric authentication information; a storing section... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090238419 - Face recognition training method and apparatus: A device is trained for face recognition. A first acquired digital image of a scene includes a face. Face image data is extracted and stored in a face image library along with an unique identifier. A second acquired digital image may or may not include the face of the same... Agent: Tessera/fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20090238425 - Diagnostic imaging support processing apparatus and diagnostic imaging support processing program product: A diagnostic imaging support processing apparatus includes a nodular region determination unit which determines a nodular region included in an image showing the inside of a subject, a polygonal line approximation processing unit which obtains a plurality of nodes constituting a polygonal line that approximates a contour of the nodular... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090238421 - Image normalization for computer-aided detection, review and diagnosis: A method and apparatus for processing medical images from one of a plurality of digital acquisition modalities or manufacturers with different imaging condition is proposed for creating consistent appearance of the images. The method comprises (1) tissue segmentation to isolate the region of interest; (2) dynamic extraction of the optimal... Agent: Three Palm Software LLC

20090238424 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: A storage unit stores data of a first image associated with a contrast-enhanced cardiac region. A specification unit specifies a specific region included in the cardiac region on the basis of a distribution of pixel values of the data of the first image. A setting unit contracts the specified specific... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090238423 - Mobile device for particle analysis by image correlation: The present invention refers to a mobile device for measuring dynamic parameters of particles, e.g. spermatozoa, such as the translation speed and the rotational speed of particles.... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20090238420 - System and method for predicting physical properties of an aneurysm from a three-dimensional model thereof: A three-dimensional rotational angiography (3DRA) system, in which a finite element method (FEM) package is incorporated which can read in surface meshes (20b) of a reconstructed 3DRA image of an aneurysm to generate FEM meshes (20a) which are closely approximated to the observed aneurysm (20b) in an iterative process by... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090238426 - System and methods for identifying an object within a complex environment: A signal processing technique includes extracting object features, an object response classification, and a reconstruction of the object estimate. In selected embodiments, an optional step that improves the estimate of the object response is included in the signal processing technique. In one implementation of the signal processing technique, reflections from... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20090238422 - Communicative cad system for assisting breast imaging diagnosis: This invention provides a computational intelligence method and system that can be used interactively by a radiologist in a “concurrent read” model to aid diagnosis from medical images. In particular, the invention operates more like a very patient, indefatigable knowledge accumulating and communicating companion for the radiologist, rather than a... Agent: Three Palm Software LLC

20090238431 - Characteristic path-based colon segmentation: This document discusses, among other things, systems and methods for efficiently calculating a colon segmentation from one or more candidate virtual three-dimensional objects. A sequence of image scans are analyzed and candidate segments are identified. Landmark segments are identified from the candidate segments. A characteristic path is generated for each... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090238428 - Efficient estimator of pharmacokinetic parameters in breast mri: A method for performing pharmacokinetic analysis in magnetic resonance (MR) images includes administering a dose of contrast agent (CA) into a subject. A sequence of medical images is acquired of the subject at set temporal intervals. The time-based behavior of concentrations of CA is described within the subject for each... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090238429 - Magnetic resonance tomography method and apparatus for correcting drift of the b0 field in a temperature map: In a method and device for correction of a B0 field drift in a temperature map acquisition by magnetic resonance tomography, a fluctuation measurement is calculated per pixel from a number of magnetic resonance tomography phase images of an examination subject or from temperature maps derived therefrom. Using this fluctuation... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090238427 - Method and apparatus for correcting multi-modality imaging data: A method for correcting Positron Emission Tomography (PET) data includes adjusting a tube current generated by the CT imaging system to a second tube current value that is less than a first tube current value used to generate diagnostic quality CT images, and imaging the patient with the CT imaging... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20090238430 - Mri acquisition using sense and highly undersampled fourier space sampling: An MRI system produces a three-dimensional image by acquiring NMR signals that fully sample a central region of k-space and partially sample peripheral region of k-space. Specifically, k-space is arranged as a three-dimensional (3D) Cartesian grid of points that is divided into a central region of k-space and a peripheral... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20090238433 - Method and device for automatically detecting collimation edges: A method for automatically detecting a collimation edge or region includes reading an image captured by an X-ray imaging system, detecting intersection points between a foreground and a background and between a foreground and a tissue on the X-ray image, and performing a Hough transform or Radon transform on the... Agent: Mindray C/o Stoel Rives LLP

20090238432 - Method and system for identifying defects in radiographic image data corresponding to a scanned object: A method for identifying defects in radiographic image data corresponding to a scanned object is provided. The method includes acquiring radiographic image data corresponding to a scanned object. In one embodiment, the radiographic image data includes an inspection test image and a reference image corresponding to the scanned object. The... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20090238434 - Method for reproducing the spatial orientation of an immobilized subject in a multi-modal imaging system: Methods are disclosed for (A) adjusting the physical, spatial orientation of an immobilized subject in a multi-modal imaging system so as substantially to reproduce or match the physical, spatial orientation of a reference subject, wherein the reference subject is either (a) the same or (b) a different subject, either (1)... Agent: Carestream Health, Inc.

20090238436 - Composition for imaging reagent: The invention provides a composition comprising a buffer and an aminoluciferase bioluminescent imaging reagent. More specifically, the invention relates to a formulation for use with an aminoluciferase bioluminescent imaging reagent. The invention also provides a method for evaluating the efficacy of an anti-apoptotic agent over multiple time points comprising the... Agent: Paul D. Yasger Abbott Laboratories

20090238435 - Multi-exposure imaging for automated fluorescent microscope slide scanning: The present invention provides methods and systems that acquire digital images of a microscope slide having a large variation in pixel value brightness, like, for instance, fluorescent microscope slides. The methods and the systems generate a well contrasted composite image with preserved areas of low and high fluorescent intensity from... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090238439 - Method and apparatus for detecting and counting platelets individually and in aggregate clumps: A method for enumerating platelets within a blood sample is provided. The method includes the steps of: 1) depositing the sample into an analysis chamber adapted to quiescently hold the sample for analysis, the chamber defined by a first panel and a second panel, both of which panels are transparent;... Agent: O''shea Getz P.C.

20090238438 - Method and apparatus for determining red blood cell indices of a blood sample utilizing the intrinsic pigmentation of hemoglobin contained within the red blood cells: A method for the determination of the red blood cell indices including the volume, and hemoglobin content and concentration for individual red blood cells, as well as red blood cell population statistics, including total number of red blood cells present in the sample, and mean values for each of the... Agent: O''shea Getz P.C.

20090238437 - Method and apparatus for determining the hematocrit of a blood sample utilizing the intrinsic pigmentation of hemoglobin contained within the red blood cells: A method for determining the hematocrit of a blood sample is provided that includes the steps of: 1) depositing the sample into an analysis chamber adapted to quiescently hold the sample for analysis, the chamber defined by the interior surfaces of first and second panels and a height extending there... Agent: O''shea Getz P.C.

20090238440 - Method, system and computer program product for edge detection: A method for edge detection, the method includes: obtaining an image of an area of a lithographic mask; wherein the image is generated by an optical system that is partially coherent; calculating a gradient of the image and a second derivative of the image in a direction of the gradient... Agent: Applied Materials, Inc. C/o Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090238441 - Pattern inspection apparatus, pattern inspection method, and computer-readable recording medium storing a program: A pattern inspection apparatus includes a magnification conversion unit configured to input first sample optical image data, and to convert the first sample optical image data to second sample optical image data which has a resolution N times that of the first sample optical image data, a low-pass filter configured... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090238442 - Machine vision system for three-dimensional metrology and inspection in the semiconductor industry: The system 10 of the preferred embodiment includes a structural subsystem 20 to provide both a stable platform and vibration isolation, a camera subsystem 30 to capture the image of a moving object when the object moves into a viewing area, a lighting subsystem 50 to illuminate a moving object,... Agent: Schox PLC

20090238443 - Pattern measurement methods and pattern measurement equipment: An object of the present invention is to provide methods and equipment capable of providing highly accurate matching using a template including multiple patterns even when the shapes of some patterns of the template are different from corresponding ones of a SEM image, and when the template and the SEM... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090238445 - Method of detecting a defect on an object: In a method of detecting a defect on an object, a preliminary reference image can be obtained from a plurality of comparison regions defined on the object. The preliminary reference image is divided into reference zones by a similar brightness. Each of the reference zones is provided with substantially the... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20090238444 - Optical imaging apparatus and method for inspecting solar cells: An optical imaging apparatus for inspecting a solar cell includes a power supply configured to apply a reverse biased voltage to the solar cell such that shunt defects in the solar cell will generate heat, a thermal imaging device configured to obtain the thermal image of the solar cell, a... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20090238446 - Ultrafine lithography pattern inspection using multi-stage tdi image sensors with false image removability: A workpiece inspection apparatus includes a measured image generator unit configured to measure a pattern of a workpiece and generate a measured image; and a comparator unit configured to compare the measured image to a fiducial image, wherein said measured image generator unit includes a light-receiving device having an interconnection... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090238447 - Image processor: An image processor includes a frequency transform unit performing frequency transform independently on a luminance signal and plural chrominance signals and outputting an item of frequency data of the luminance signal and plural items of frequency data of the chrominance signals, and a quantization unit performing quantization independently on plural... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090238448 - System and method for local value adjustment: In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a system and method for local value adjustment are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes identifying a hue, saturation, and brightness value for each pixel of an image, determining whether the hue and saturation for each pixel fall within a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090238451 - Image processing apparatus and image processing system: An image processing apparatus includes a reading unit, a color value calculation unit, a reading period measurement unit, a color value storage unit, a color value creation unit and a color value output unit. The reading unit reads a color of each of plural objects. The color value calculation unit... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090238449 - Method and apparatus for absolute-coordinate three-dimensional surface imaging: A method and associated apparatus for capturing an image of a 3D object (100) which encodes the surface geometry of at least a portion of the object, comprising: 1. projecting (304) a plurality of fringe patterns (312A, 314A) onto the object; 2. capturing (306) phase alterations in reflections of the... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090238450 - Object monitoring method, object monitoring apparatus, and object monitoring program storage medium: A method includes a pixel-value correction step that causes an average and variance of pixel values in a second subregion inclusive of a first subregion inclusive of being formed of only one pixel in a comparison image resolved into pixels to match with an average and variance of pixel values... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090238452 - Region detection: Disclosed herein are systems methods and devices related to region detection of an image. Detected regions include pixels of a particular one or more colors without requiring faces within the image to be previously detected. Region detection may include receiving information that a flash was used to capture the image... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090238453 - Method of compressing a block-based binary image: A method of compressing a 2×2 block based binary image is provided. The method includes: determining whether pixels included in a block are included in existing patterns; generating the number N of the pixels included in the existing patterns (N is a natural number); when N is more than a... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20090238456 - Image data analysis apparatus, image data analysis method, and program: An image data analysis apparatus adapted to receive color image data having three components for every pixel, detect a color gamut as a range of colors the color image data represents in a predetermined color space, and determine a plurality of apexes defining the color gamut in the color space... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090238454 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program: An image processing apparatus includes a red eye candidate detecting section, a gold eye candidate detecting section, and a red eye-gold eye-correcting section. Herein, the red eye candidate detecting section detects a red eye candidate, which is an area of a color included in a color range of a predetermined... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090238455 - Imaging apparatus: A disclosed imaging apparatus includes a wide-angle optical system having at least chromatic aberration of magnification; an imaging device including color filters and configured to receive an optical image from the optical system via the color filters and to convert the optical image into image data; and a chromatic aberration... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090238457 - Methods and systems for automated segmentation of dense cell populations: Systems and methods for segmenting images comprising cells, wherein the images comprise a plurality of pixels; one or more three dimensional (3D) clusters of cells are identified in the images; and the 3D clusters of cells are automatically segmented into individual cells using one or more models.... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20090238458 - Method and system for line segment extraction: A method for extracting line segments from an edge image comprises receiving a digital image comprising a plurality of edge pixels, and processing the plurality of edge pixels using a breadth first search to determine a plurality of breadth first search pixels in a breadth first search order for a... Agent: Setter Roche LLP

20090238459 - Method of image analysis using sparse hough transform: A digital image includes a plurality of pixels arranged in an array. In a method of analyzing the image, some of the pixels are purposefully not processed. In particular, only those pixels in a particular subgroup are processed according to a Hough or similar transform. The number of pixels in... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20090238460 - Robust interest point detector and descriptor: Methods and apparatus for operating on images are described, in particular methods and apparatus for interest point detection and/or description working under different scales and with different rotations, e.g. for scale-invariant and rotation-invariant interest point detection and/or description. The present invention can provide improved or alternative apparatus and methods for... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090238461 - System for line extraction in digital ink: A system is provided having a database storing annotation digital ink representing handwritten annotations on a printed document and a processor configured to segment the annotation digital ink into lines by obtaining a stroke sequence comprised of a sequence of strokes, removing small strokes less than a threshold length, segmenting... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090238462 - Detection of abandoned and removed objects in a video stream: A method for processing a time-ordered sequence of video frames. The method is implemented by execution of program code on a processor of a computer system. Each frame includes a two-dimensional array of pixels and a frame-dependent color intensity at each pixel. A current frame and at least one frame... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090238464 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus and storage medium: An image processing apparatus includes: a feature point extracting section for extracting feature points (first feature points) of first document image data and feature points (second feature points) of second document image data, a features calculating section for calculating features (first features) of the first feature points and features (second... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090238463 - Method for detecting image edge and image interpolation using the same: A method for detecting an image edge is provided. Pixel data of neighbor lines of an image are read to generate a first and a second inclined edge areas between two neighbor lines. The incline edge areas are determined by detecting whether a difference of two corresponding pixel data exceeds... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090238465 - Apparatus and method for extracting features of video, and system and method for identifying videos using same: An apparatus for extracting features from a video includes a frame rate converter for performing a frame rate conversion on the video to a preset frame rate, a gray scale converter for performing a grey scale conversion on the frame rate-converted video, a frame size normalizer for performing a frame... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090238466 - Method and system for edge detection: A method executed by a computer system for detecting edges comprises receiving an image comprising a plurality of pixels, determining a phase congruency value for a pixel, where the phase congruency value comprises a plurality of phase congruency components, and determining if the phase congruency value satisfies a phase congruency... Agent: Stephen S. Roche Setter Roche LLP

20090238467 - Method and apparatus for detecting non-uniform fracturing of a photomask shape: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that detects an occurrence of a given shape which has been fractured into a configuration of primitive shapes which is different from a desired configuration. The system selects a fractured-shape instantiation of the given shape, to which other fractured-shape instantiations for... Agent: Pvf -- Synopsys, Inc C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090238468 - 2-d encoded symbol quality assessment: An 2-D symbol orientation guide with parallel and spaced right angle guidelines with chevron-like spaces provided therebetween is selectively displayed in plural selected dispositions on a monitor screen as an overlay for the display on the same monitor screen of a 2-D Data Matrix symbol. Manual rotation of the symbol... Agent: Morris I. Pollack

20090238469 - Graphical rating conversion: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to the processing of graphical rating images.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group LLP

20090238470 - Adaptive membrane shape deformation system: A system and method determines the shape of a surface that preferably is a deployed space-based adaptive flexible membrane antenna, using patterned projections, image capturing, and membrane shape processing for producing membrane shape data describing the contour of the surface of the membrane with the membrane shape data then preferably... Agent: Carole A. Mulchinski, M1/040 The Aerospace Corporation

20090238471 - Flexible cadence follower for film in video: A system for cadence break detection is provided. The system includes a field system receiving a plurality of fields of image data. A threshold system generates a cadence break signal if a difference in two fields exceeds a predetermined threshold. A sequence system generates the cadence break signal if a... Agent: Jackson Walker (conexant)

20090238472 - Image recognition device, image recognition method, and image scanning apparatus having image recognition device: An image recognition device has a first resolution converter 202 that lowers resolution of an input image, an area reader 203 that reads out a processing area from an output of the first resolution converter 202, a second resolution converter 204 that lowers the resolution of the processing area sliced... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090238473 - Construction of evidence grid from multiple sensor measurements: A system includes at least one sensor device configured to transmit a first detection signal over a first spatial region and a second detection signal over a second spatial region. The second region has a first sub-region in common with the first region. The system further includes a processing device... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090238474 - String searching facility: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for scanning a data set for the presence of a target string. The data set may be received at a computing facility and cause a scanning program to execute. A first character pair in the data set may be identified... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20090238475 - Distributing limited storage among a collection of media objects: A quality level determining the extent to which each image file is compressed is automatically computed for each image file in a set to ensure that the total size of the compressed image files does not exceed a predefined limit. The compressed size of each image file is initially determined... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090238478 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus enables efficient access to image information and increases processing speed. A reading unit generates addresses of a plurality of pixels in a rectangular region of an image stored in an external storage unit with reference to an arbitrary pixel in the rectangular region based on the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090238477 - Image processor: An image processor includes an encoder and a decoder. The encoder includes a frequency transform unit, a pre-filter, and a color conversion unit that converts a pixel signal of a first color space inputted from outside into a pixel signal of a second color space including a luminance signal and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090238476 - Spectral information recovery for compressed image restoration: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to image restoration for compressed images. In aspects, image restoration is accomplished by recovering spectral information from data corresponding to a compressed image. The spectral information is recovered using an algorithm to search through a solution space of possible solutions while constraints... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090238479 - Flexible frame based energy efficient multimedia processor architecture and method: A codec system is provided which includes encoding and decoding functions in a plurality of application environments. The codec subsystem encodes raw uncompressed HD-SDI video signals from a camera's optical subsystem into an MPEG-2 transport stream which is stored in onboard media. The subsystem may be programmed to encode or... Agent: George R. Schultz Schultz & Associates, P.C.

20090238482 - Method and apparatus for field picture coding and decoding: A field picture coding/decoding apparatus and method is provided. The field picture coding method includes selecting a reference field with respect to an input image, generating a predictive image by deinterlacing with respect to the selected reference field, and performing predictive coding with respect to the input image using the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090238481 - Method and apparatus for generating coded block pattern for highpass coefficients: A method and an apparatus for generating a coded block pattern for highpass coefficients are provided. The method includes receiving a quantized highpass coefficient (HP), wherein the HP includes a macroblock data; dividing the macroblock into a plurality of blocks; performing lapped transform (LT) operations of two stages on the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090238480 - Recording medium having recorded thereon coded information using plus and/or minus rounding of images: A recording medium having recorded thereon information related to coded data of an image sequence; wherein the information related to coded data of an image sequence is a set of coded frame information of a plurality of frames of an image sequence; wherein the coded frame information includes: information related... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090238483 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product: A determining unit determines whether a background pixel value of image data matches a predetermined comparison value. A replacing unit replaces, when the determining unit determines that the background pixel value does not match the comparison value, a pixel value of a pixel of the image data with a replacing... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090238484 - Lifting-based directional lapped transforms: A “directional lapped transform coder” (“DLT Coder”) provides various techniques for designing directional lapped transforms. In general, lapped transforms are factorized into lifting steps. A “directional operator” is then introduced into each lifting step in order to construct the directional lapped transform by selecting data elements from a data signal... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090238485 - Photographic document imaging system: An apparatus and method for processing a captured image and, more particularly, for processing a captured image comprising a document. In one embodiment, an apparatus comprising a camera to capture documents is described. In another embodiment, a method for processing a captured image that includes a document comprises the steps... Agent: Jones Day

20090238486 - Image processing system, method and computer program for contrast enhancement of images: The present invention relates to an image processing system, method and computer program for contrast enhancement of images, and more specifically to an improvement of multi-scale adaptive gain control of images. An image processing system (1) for contrast enhancement of an input image is proposed comprising an input module (2)... Agent: Michael J. Striker

20090238487 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes an image acquisition section acquiring a multiple overlapping image in which a subject image is multiplexed, a filtering section filtering the multiple overlapping image acquired by the image acquisition section, a similarity calculation section calculating similarity between overlapping images contained... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090238488 - Apparatus and method for image interpolation based on low pass filtering: An apparatus and method for image interpolation based on low pass filtering are provided. The apparatus includes an edge direction detector detecting an edge direction for a pixel nearest to a to-be-interpolated pixel among pixels and determining the edge direction of the to-be-interpolated pixel as the detected edge direction, a... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20090238489 - Edge transition detection in a high-addressable error diffusion environment: What is disclosed is a novel system and method for edge transition detection when improve print quality when rendering via high-addressable vector error diffusion in an image processing environment. In order to detect an “ideal” edge and compensate for the adverse effects described in the background hereof, local pixels are... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090238490 - Projector, electronic apparatus, and method of controlling projector: A projector adapted to correct a keystone distortion of an image, includes a frame memory adapted to store a pre-correction image, a block data storage memory adapted to store the precorrection image by block data that composed of M pixels in a first direction and N pixels in a second... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090238491 - Image processing device and computer-accessible recording medium containing program therefor: An image processing device changes a size of original image represented by an original image data to create size-changed image data representing a size-changed image and outputs the size-changed image data to an output device. The image processing device has an image size determination unit determines a target image size... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090238492 - System, method and computer program product for providing a high resolution texture within an image: A system and method for providing a high resolution texture within an image, comprising means to receive texture information contained within a low resolution image and to generate at least a first and a second signal based on the received texture information, wherein the first signal comprises high frequency parts... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090238493 - System and method to adjust medical imaging equipment: A system and method for automatically adjusting parameters of an imaging machine are disclosed. The system comprises at least one sensor device to capture sensed characteristic information of a next person to be medically imaged. The system also includes a computer to receive the sensed characteristic information from the at... Agent: Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP

20090238494 - System for character recognition: A system for character recognition from a sheet bearing a plurality of characters, has a base for supporting the sheet, an image input device for taking an image of each of the characters on the sheet, a handle for supporting and manipulating the image input device, an axis, a sphere... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090232351 - Authentication method, authentication device, and recording medium: An authentication method performed by an authentication device to authenticate a user includes an authentication-use image generating step of generating an authentication-use image including authentication-use information corresponding to an image expressing one or more characters and/or symbols which is provided on a background, wherein an edge formed by a difference... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090232350 - Encoding and decoding auxiliary signals: This disclosure describes methods and systems for encoding and decoding signals from a host signal such as audio, video or imagery. One claim recites a method comprising: receiving a host signal carrying an auxiliary signal; extracting data representing at least some features of the host signal, said extracting utilizes one... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20090232349 - High volume earth observation image processing: The present invention is related to the processing of data, and more particularly to a method of and system for processing large volumes of Earth observation imagery data. A system for processing a large volume of Earth observation imaging data is described, comprising a computer including a visual display and... Agent: Hayes Soloway P.C.

20090232348 - Image object separation: Techniques and systems for segmenting one or more objects in a subject image resulting from subjecting one or more objects to imaging using an imaging apparatus are disclosed, such that limitations of image noise, object proximity, image intensity variations, shape complexity, and/or computational resources may be mitigated. Merely border edges... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates, LLC National City Bank Building

20090232347 - Method and system for inserting software processing in a hardware image sensor pipeline: Image data may be processed via one or more stages by a hardware image sensor pipeline (ISP) wherein one or more software processing steps may be inserted at any point within the hardware ISP. Output from any stage of the hardware ISP may be stored in memory. Stored hardware ISP... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090232346 - Method for capturing text data and/or image data for producing identification documents: The method according to the invention is for capturing text data and/or image data for use in the production of identification documents for an applicant, e.g., a passport. The method involves recording electronic image data of the applicant by means of a suitable recording method, such as a digital camera.... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090232352 - Steganographic encoding methods and apparatus: The presently claimed invention relates generally to steganographic encoding. One claim recites a method including: obtaining data representing a first graphic; utilizing a multi-purpose computer processor configured for steganographically data hiding to hide a signal in the data representing the first graphic; obtaining a copy of the first graphic including... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20090232354 - Advertisement insertion systems and methods for digital cameras based on object recognition: Digital cameras include an image capture system, an object recognition system and an advertisement insertion system. The image capture system captures a visible image as a digital image. The object recognition system recognizes visible objects in the digital image. The advertisement insertion system inserts an advertising-related image into the digital... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20090232357 - Detecting behavioral deviations by measuring eye movements: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program product is provided for detecting behavioral deviations in members of a cohort group. A member of a cohort group is identified. Each member of the cohort group shares a common characteristic. Ocular metadata... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090232358 - Method and apparatus for processing an image: There is provided an efficient, fast image processing apparatus with low error probability for rapidly scrutinizing a digitized video image frame and processing said image frame to detect and characterize features of interest while ignoring other features of said image frame. There is further provided an efficient fast image processing... Agent: Milan M. Popovich Creative Physics Ltd.

20090232353 - Method and system for markerless motion capture using multiple cameras: Completely automated end-to-end method and system for markerless motion capture performs segmentation of articulating objects in Laplacian Eigenspace and is applicable to handling of the poses of some complexity. 3D voxel representation of acquired images are mapped to a higher dimensional space (k), where k depends on the number of... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090232355 - Registration of 3d point cloud data using eigenanalysis: Method (300) for registration of n frames 3D point cloud data. Frame pairs (200i, 200j) are selected from among the n frames and sub-volumes (702) within each frame are defined. Qualifying sub-volumes are identified in which the 3D point cloud data has a blob-like structure. A location of a centroid... Agent: Harris Corporation C/o Darby & Darby PC

20090232356 - Tracking system and method for tracking objects: Disclosed are tracking system and a method for locating a plurality of objects. The tracking system includes an identification module, a receiver, a processing module, and a transmitter. The identification module is configured to obtain unit identification information associated with the one or more traceable units. The receiver is configured... Agent: Jay M. Schloff Intellipex PLLC

20090232359 - Method for determining distance between reference member and melt surface, method for controlling location of melt surface using the same, and apparatus for producing silicon single crystal: The present invention is a method for determining a relative distance between a reference member placed above a melt surface and the melt surface upon pulling a silicon single crystal out of a raw material melt in a crucible by a CZ method characterized by at least: pulling the silicon... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090232360 - Pre-print distortion: A thermoformed article carries an image. Using a first sheet carrying a grid image and a mold having at least two cavities, a forming carrying a grid distortion pattern for each cavity is made. An initial image is computed for each cavity based on the corresponding grid distortion pattern and... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Global Legal Department - Ip

20090232362 - Biometric information acquisition apparatus and biometric authentication apparatus: A biometric information acquisition apparatus includes a light illuminator to illuminate a subject with light at least over a range corresponding to a pixel arrangement region where a plurality of pixels to receive light from the subject are arranged, and an imager placed on the same plane as the light... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090232361 - Systems and methods of identification based on biometric parameters: Systems and methods for authenticating a user are disclosed. In some embodiments, information regarding multiple biometric parameters is gathered from a test subject and compared with a validation template. The validation template can be augmented with some or all of the information if the user is successfully authenticated.... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Slc

20090232363 - Information processing apparatus, method, and program: An information processing apparatus includes: face detecting means for detecting the orientation of a face in a face image; weight distribution generating means for generating a weight distribution based on a statistical distribution of the position of a predetermined feature of the face in the face image according to the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090232365 - Method and device for face recognition: A method, apparatus and computer readable medium for automatically recognizing a human face, which are adapted to: retrieve an image of the face; extract a number of feature patches from the image of the face; calculate a feature value for each feature patch, as a function of an image-derivate of... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20090232364 - Priority target determining device, electronic equipment, priority target determining method, program, and recording medium: A priority target determining device for determining a preferential face image from a plurality of face images contained in a plurality of original images has a face detecting portion for detecting a face image and positional information from the plurality of original images, a face checking portion for checking a... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090232366 - System and method for factory work logging: Provided is an information processing system which has a plurality of tags, a tag reader, a digital-pen, and a server. The plurality of tags each hold a tag identifier. The tag reader reads the tag identifier held in each of the plurality of tags. The digital-pen reads location information, which... Agent: Juan Carlos A. Marquez C/o Stites & Harbison PLLC

20090232368 - Authentication apparatus: An authentication apparatus is provided. A forgery determination threshold is determined on the basis of two types of parameters, a forgery similarity and a forgery difficulty. If a calculated value for an object under test is lower than or equal to the forgery determination threshold, then, it is determined that... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090232367 - Identifying device by biometrics information: In an identifying device for performing personal identification using biometrics information such as an iris, face, blood vessel pattern, auricle, fingerprint, palm print, hand print or the like, in order to surely discriminate a living body from a non-living body and to surely preclude illegal use by impersonation using a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090232371 - Automatic recovery of the left ventricular blood pool in cardiac cine magnetic resonance images: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a method of detecting a left ventricle blood pool. The method includes: localizing a region of interest (ROI) in a three-dimensional temporal (3D+T) image based on motion information of each slice of the 3D image over time, thresholding the ROI to determine... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090232370 - Method of, and apparatus and computer software for, imaging biological objects: A method of imaging one or more biological objects using imaging apparatus capable of capturing an image across an imaging area. The method includes: placing the one or more biological objects (236) in an environment; providing in the environment, outside of the one or more biological objects, a contrast enhancing... Agent: Ge Healthcare Bio-sciences Corp. Patent Department

20090232369 - Method, a system and a computer program for integration of medical diagnostic information and a geometric model of a movable body: The system 10 comprises an input 2 for accessing the suitable input data. The core of the system 10 is formed by a processor 4 which is arranged to operate the components of the system 10, it being the input 2, a computing unit 5, a working memory 6. The... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090232372 - Adaptive overlapping of cardiac weighting vectors in cardiac ct: A device (118) for analyzing multi-cycle cardiac computer tomography data detected by attenuating X-rays by a heart (130), comprising a first determining unit adapted to determine, based on the detected computer tomography data, a cardiac weighting function (302) for a reconstruction of an image of the heart (130), and a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090232376 - Breast tissue density measure: A method of processing a mammogram image to derive a value for a parameter useful in detecting differences in breast tissue in subsequent images of the same breast or relative to a control group of such images, said derived parameter being an aggregate probability score reflecting the probability of the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090232374 - Diffusion tensor imaging confidence analysis: A system and method can increase confidence or other factors of a tract identified in a selected image data. The system can use various confidence determining factors to identify confidence in the identified tract. The identified tract can be used for various purposes, such as diagnosis or treatment.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090232378 - Image analysis apparatus, image analysis method, and computer-readable recording medium storing image analysis program: Positional relationships are automatically determined with higher accuracy in a predetermined direction between three-dimensional images representing a subject including a periodic structure having periodicity in the predetermined direction, with respect to the periodic structure. A positional correspondence is provisionally determined in a predetermined direction between two three-dimensional images including a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090232377 - Iterative methods for dose reduction and image enhancement in tomography: A system and method for creating a three dimensional cross sectional image of an object by the reconstruction of its projections that have been iteratively refined through modification in object space and Fourier space is disclosed. The invention provides systems and methods for use with any tomographic imaging system that... Agent: John P. O'banion O'banion & Ritchey LLP

20090232375 - Iterative reconstruction with enhanced noise control filtering: An imaging system (10) comprises at least one radiation detector (20) disposed adjacent a subject receiving aperture (18) to detect radiation from a subject, receive the radiation and generate measured data. An image processor (38) iteratively reconstructs the detected radiation into image representations, in each reconstruction iteration the image processor... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090232373 - Methods and apparatus for reducing noise in images: A method for enhancing images of an object includes registering a fixed image with cine images of the same object. Next, the fixed image and the cine images are transformed into frequency space representations thereof. A central portion of the frequency space cine images are merged with a peripheral portion... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20090232379 - Reconstruction of an image of a moving object from volumetric data: In the CT imaging of non-homogeneously moving objects such as the heart or the coronary vessel tree, there is a problem that different parts of the objects are at rest at different points in time. Thus, a gated reconstruction with a globally selected time point does not yield a sharp... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090232380 - Apparatus and method for image processing and storage medium: An image processing apparatus and method including executing high-pass filtering in a column direction on the pixel values of original image data read from a flat panel detector to obtain first image data, and subtracting a value obtained by converting each of the pixel values of the first image data... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090232382 - \"in vitro\" diagnostic method for diseases affecting human or animal tissues: The present invention relates to an “in vitro” diagnostic method for diseases affecting human or animal tissues, in particular for the diagnosis of diseases involving inflammation and fibrosis in human or animals, more particularly for liver diseases. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for diagnosing “in vitro”... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090232381 - Method for monitoring cells, system for cell-based assay, and program for cell-based assay: e

20090232383 - Method and device for inspecting a traveling wire cable: In a first embodiment, a picture is taken of the traveling wire cable in a stationary position at intervals that are equal to the ratio produced from the lay length or a multiple of the lay length and the travel speed of the wire cable, at least op one lay... Agent: Friedrich Kueffner

20090232384 - Mask making decision for manufacturing (dfm) on mask quality control: The present disclosure provide a method for making a mask. The method includes assigning a plurality of pattern features to different data types; writing the plurality of pattern features on a mask; inspecting the plurality of pattern features with different inspection sensitivities according to assigned data types; and repairing the... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090232385 - Pattern measuring method and pattern measuring device: An object of the present invention is to provide a sample measuring method and a sample measuring device suitable for evaluation of inclination of a pattern edge. To achieve the object, a method and a device for forming a plurality of contours of a pattern edge and evaluating the dimension... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090232386 - Pattern matching processing system and computer readable medium: The pattern matching processing system includes: a recognition pattern-storage unit which stores a first image data obtained by picking up an image of at least a portion of a lead frame or a substrate of a first object and the second image data obtained by picking up an image of... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090232389 - Image processing method and apparatus, image reproducing method and apparatus, and recording medium: Provided are an image processing method and apparatus, and an image reproducing method and apparatus. The image processing method includes receiving three-dimensional (3D) image data; generating additional information about the 3D image data; and inserting the additional information in a blanking interval of the 3D image data.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090232387 - Multi parallax exploitation for omni-directional imaging electronic eye: Techniques and systems are disclosed for electronic target recognition. In particular, techniques and systems are disclosed for performing electronic surveillance and target recognition using a multiple parallax exploitation (MPEX) electronic eye platform. Among other things, a MPEX system can include an imaging unit that includes multiple image capture devices spaced... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20090232388 - Registration of 3d point cloud data by creation of filtered density images: Method (300) for registration of two or more of frames of three dimensional (3D) point cloud data (200-i, 200-j). A density image for each of the first frame (frame i) and the second frame (frame j) is used to obtain the translation between the images and thus image-to-image point correspondence.... Agent: Harris Corporation C/o Darby & Darby PC

20090232390 - Image processing device, image processing method, learning device, learning method, and program: An image processing device, to convert a first image data into a second image data having a higher image quality, includes: a predicted tap extracting unit to extract multiple pixels as a predicted tap for prediction computing; a level limit class tap extracting unit to extract multiple pixels as a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090232391 - Identifying image type in a capture system: Visual objects can be classified according to image type. In one embodiment, the present invention includes capturing a visual object, and decompressing the visual object to a colorspace representation exposing each pixel. The contribution of each pixel to a plurality of image types can then be determined. Then, the contributions... Agent: Patent Capital Group

20090232393 - Image processor: In a first input step from outside to an image processor, a signal input unit inputs to a pre-filter a first part of first luminance signals inputted from outside, which is a part to be processed by the pre-filter in the first input step, and stores a remaining second part... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090232394 - Method, system and software product for color image encoding: The present invention relates to the compression of color image data. A combination of hard decision pixel mapping and soft decision pixel mapping is used to jointly address both quantization distortion and compression rate while maintaining low computational complexity and compatibility with standard decoders, such as, for example, the GIF/PNG... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20090232392 - Two-dimensional code publishing program and two-dimensional code decoding program: In a display of cells having a color with a low visibility against the blank area surrounding the two-dimensional code, a contrast is set between the gradation of the color component having a gradation close to that of the blank area and/or in a display of cells having a color... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090232395 - Image processing device: An image signal inputted from an image signal input unit (10) is passed through LPFs (14 and 16) having different frequency response characteristics to remove a color signal component. A feature value calculator (20) calculates an edge value, saturation, and hue from pixels surrounding a target pixel, and a weighting... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090232396 - Method for correcting chromatic aberration: The invention relates to a method for correcting chromatic aberration in an image capture device like a camera. It comprises the steps of determining, in the image, an analyzing area around the current pixel, comparing, for the current pixel, a first color component data of a first block of pixels... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Patent Operations

20090232397 - Apparatus and method for processing image: An image processing apparatus includes a data storage section configured to store an image data of a streaked pattern image as a gray-scale image and a direction distribution data indicating a direction distribution of a streaked pattern noise in a first area of the streaked pattern image; and a first... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090232398 - Paper interface to an electronic record system: After markings have been placed on a pre-printed form by a user who interacted with an entity, the form is scanned to produce a scan file. The scan file is analyzed to identify whether user added markings are present on machine readable selection items. The method can take a number... Agent: Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20090232399 - Apparatus and method for pattern recognition: A pattern recognition method comprises steps of inputting a pattern of a recognition object performing feature extraction from the input pattern to generate a feature vector, increasing the number of quantization in an order from quantization number 1 or quantization number 2 to calculate a quantization threshold of each of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090232400 - Image evaluation apparatus, method, and program: An image evaluation apparatus including a face detection unit for detecting, from an image including at least one face, each of the at least one face; a characteristic information obtaining unit for obtaining a plurality of characteristic information representing characteristics of each face; an expression level calculation unit for calculating... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090232401 - Visual processing apparatus, display apparatus, visual processing method, program, and integrated circuit: A visual processing device, display device, visual processing method, program, and integrated circuit with which it is possible to inhibit side effect even if an image that has sharp edge regions or a special image has been input, and with a simple configuration it is possible to change the strength... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090232402 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program for image processing: An image processing apparatus. A facial area detecting unit detects a facial area containing an image of at least a part of a face of a person in a target image. A size calculating unit calculates a size reference value correlated with an actual size of the face by using... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090232403 - Object detecting apparatus and learning apparatus for the same: An object detecting apparatus capable of suppressing an increase of processing loads with high accuracy and a learning apparatus for the same are provided. An object detecting apparatus includes an image window extracting portion (210) for extracting an image window as a partial area of an image in plural from... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090232404 - System and method for optical mark recognition: A method for creating a page template corresponding to a form for use in a mark recognition system includes identifying at least one path of traversal across a form, detecting edge transitions along each such path, and creating page template using the detected edge transitions.... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20090232405 - Method and apparatus for computing degree of matching: A matching degree computing apparatus is provided for comparing an input image and an object template image and computing a matching degree between an input image and an object template image based on the compared result. The computing apparatus includes a transforming unit for transforming the input image so as... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090232407 - Image processing device, method, and program: An image processing device includes: a step calculator configured to calculate, as a step, a difference in pixel values of pixels in a neighborhood with respect to each pixel in an image; a classifier configured to classify the pixels into classes for areas of the steps; a boundary ratio calculator... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090232406 - Reducing false alarms in identifying whether a candidate image is from an object class: In another aspect, a method to reduce false alarms in identifying whether a candidate mine image is from a mine class includes projecting the candidate mine image onto a mine subspace and projecting the candidate mine image onto a non-mine subspace. The method also includes determining whether the candidate mine... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20090232408 - Error-resilient entropy coding for partial embedding and fine grain scalability: Methods, apparatus and computer program products are provided that generate a plurality of code words representative of data to be encoded. The code words may be generated to have first and second portions with each first portion including information that is representative of a predetermined characteristic of an associated second... Agent: Alston & Bird, LLP

20090232409 - Automatic generation of a photo guide: An apparatus, method and an image quality guide document are disclosed. The method includes, for at least one image in a set of images undergoing image enhancement, identifying image quality-related features for the image based on enhancements being applied to the image, identifying image content-related features based on content of... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090232410 - Mr method for spatially-resolved determination of relaxation parameters: The invention relates to an MR method for spatially resolved determination of relaxation parameters in an examination zone, comprising the steps: a. acquisition, by means of a first sequence, of MR data sets for a plurality of MR images having different echo times, b. acquisition, by means of a second... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090232411 - Method for enhancing perceptibility of image: A method for enhancing a perceptibility of an image, includes the steps of: processing the image in accordance with a first luminance characteristic and a second luminance characteristic of the image, wherein a plurality of pixels with the first luminance characteristic are brighter than a plurality of pixels with the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090232412 - System and method for comparing images with different contrast levels: Systems and methods of automatically adjusting brightness of a digital image are provided. A particular method includes accessing data including a first digital image and identifying text and background in the first digital image. The method also includes calculating an average pixel value exclusive of the text and the background... Agent: Boeing (tlg) C/o Toler Law Group

20090232413 - Scanning images for pornography: A computer system scans image files for pornographic image content by pre-filtering image files to detect the presence in copyright data fields of stored items of copyright information deemed to indicate that the image file is one of acceptable or unacceptable. On detecting such items of copyright information, a signal... Agent: Gunnison, Mckay & Hodgson, L.L.P.

20090232414 - Identifying patterns in data: An image feature within image data may be identified and located from the maximum values in a Hough voting table. The Hough voting table may be generated by converting edge pixels identified with an image data into an array. The array may be read in row order with theta on... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20090232415 - Platform for the production of seamless orthographic imagery: Systems and methods are provided for the production of seamless, geo-referenced orthographic images that can comprise a composite of two or more underlying images. Illustratively, an exemplary image processing environment comprises an image processing engine and an instruction set comprising at least one instruction to instruct the image processing engine... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090232416 - Image processing device: Adaptive image processing device performs image processing with a simple configuration on a composite image including areas having different characteristics by changing a process depending on the number of combined images in each area of the composite image configured by combining a plurality of images. The image processing device acquires... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090232417 - Method and apparatus of annotating digital images with data: A device is configured to capture a digital image, and to analyze the image to identify objects in the image. Metadata used to identify the objects may be generated when the digital image is captured and to annotate the digital image. The device may also save the metadata with the... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20090232418 - Method and apparatus for providing strobed image capture: A method and apparatus for strobed image capture includes stroboscopic illumination synchronized with one or more cameras to improve a signal to noise ratio, reduce motion blur and avoid object damage in sensor systems used to analyze illumination sensitive objects.... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr. MoserIPLaw Group

20090232419 - System for detecting markings: A marking detection system detects markings on a printed medium, such as pencil markings in bubbles on the printed medium. The marking detection system includes a circuit board with a plurality of components thereon, including an optical subsystem and an electronic subsystem including circuitry. The marking detection system further includes... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090226030 - Coefficient modification for video watermarking: A method and system for watermarking video images including generating a payload, selecting sets of coefficients, modifying coefficients and embedding said watermark by enforcing relationships between property values of selected sets of coefficients with a volume of video are described. The modified coefficients replace the selected sets of coefficients.... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090226029 - Image synthesizing device, image collation device using the same, image synthesizing method and program: An image synthesizing device for synthesizing a second image of an object in a predetermined illumination condition from a first image of the object includes an illumination condition estimation section for estimating an illumination condition from a luminance value of the first image, a normal information estimation section for estimating... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090226031 - Particle analyzer, method for analyzing particles, and computer program product: Concretely, a particle analyzer comprising a controller, including a memory under control of a processor, the memory storing instructions enabling the processor to carry out operations, comprising: acquiring extraction parameters for each particle based on each image of a particles; extracting particle images from each image of a particles based... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090226038 - Image display apparatus and control method thereof: When an area in a first image is specified, an amounts of characteristics of image data included in the area and a neighboring area are detected and it is determined based on the amount of the characteristics whether or not a notification display indicating that the area is likely not... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090226039 - Information processing device and method, and program: An information processing device for tracking the image of a tracking point within a moving image wherein contents, of multiple images which are continuous temporally, are discontinuous temporally, includes: a block-matching unit for performing block matching within the moving image, wherein a processed image and an image prior to the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090226033 - Method of object recognition in image data using combined edge magnitude and edge direction analysis techniques: Methods for detecting areas of interest in an image using combined edge magnitude and edge direction analysis techniques are presented. One embodiment features using thermal imaging data to detect hotspots in maritime settings that may be potential targets for tracking or weapons systems. The edge magnitude and edge direction data... Agent: Michael R. Cammarata Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20090226037 - Online articulate object tracking with appearance and shape: A visual tracker tracks an object in a sequence of input images. A tracking module detects a location of the object based on a set of weighted blocks representing the object's shape. The tracking module then refines a segmentation of the object from the background image at the detected location.... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20090226036 - Setup for constructing a weed map: The present invention relates to a setup (100) for constructing a weed map. The setup (100) comprises an image recording unit (110; 110′) having a video camera (112) and a relief-tracking laser camera (114), an image processing and evaluating unit (120), a data storage unit (130) connected to the latter,... Agent: Hahn & Voight PLLC

20090226034 - Spatial motion calculation apparatus and method for the same: A spatial motion calculation apparatus includes an image position relation calculation unit that calculates first similarities based on an image position relation between an inputted groups of feature points 1 and 2, a spatial position relation calculation unit that calculates second similarities based on an spatial position relation between said... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090226040 - System and method for detecting and matching anatomical structures using appearance and shape: A detection framework that matches anatomical structures using appearance and shape is disclosed. A training set of images are used in which object shapes or structures are annotated in the images. A second training set of images represents negative examples for such shapes and structures, i.e., images containing no such... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090226032 - Systems and methods for reducing false alarms in detection systems: Systems and methods for classifying targets within a container are provided. In one aspect, a method for resolving an alarm raised by an imaging system that includes a component for detecting contraband objects in a container is provided. The method includes receiving a plurality of images from the imaging system,... Agent: General Electric Company Ge Global Patent Operation

20090226035 - Three-dimensional object detecting device: A three-dimensional-object can be effectively detected. A pair of image capture devices capture a three-dimensional-object and calculate disparity component data of subdivided-image regions, respectively. On a basis of the disparity component data, gray scale values indicative of distances from the image capture device are calculated and a gray scale image... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20090226041 - Method and apparatus for object localization from multiple bearing lines: A method of determining the location of an object uses data representing the bearing of the object from a plurality of observation locations. The method comprises (a) deriving, for each bearing, the coordinates of a point, the coordinates comprising a first value p representing the signed distance between a predetermined... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090226042 - Method and apparatus to determine the start of flowering in plants: The present invention relates generally to the field of plant breeding and concerns a method for determining the point at which a plant starts to flower. More specifically, the invention concerns a method for determining the start of flowering on an individual plant basis by measuring the reproductive structures of... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20090226043 - Detecting behavioral deviations by measuring respiratory patterns in cohort groups: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for detecting behavioral deviations in members of a cohort group. In one embodiment, a member of a cohort group is identified. Each member of the cohort group shares a common characteristic. Respiratory metadata associated with the member of the cohort... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090226044 - Real-time body segmentation system: In a human feature recognition system that is intended to provide substantially real-time recognition of body segments, various methods and structures are provided to facilitate real-time recognition with reduced computation requirements, including a face detection module employing an active boosting procedure and a lazy boosting procedure on a hybrid cascade... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090226047 - Apparatus and method of processing image and human face detection system using the smae: An image processing apparatus includes a first register, a second register and an adder. The second register reads a number of pixels from a sub-window image in turn. The adder adds the pixels in the second register and stored values in the first register to output a number of adding... Agent: Hdls Patent & Trademark Services

20090226048 - Biometric authentication apparatus: A disclosed biometric authentication apparatus includes an authentication data input unit configured to acquire a piece of authentication data from a biological object; an authentication data process unit configured to accumulate one or more pieces of authentication data acquired from the start to end of authentication; a matching unit configured... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090226046 - Characterizing or recommending a program: A method of characterizing a program includes defining a scene as a portrayal of an emotion of a first character and identifying each scene within a first program to apportion the first program into a series of scenes. An emotional profile of the first program is built according to the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090226045 - Method and apparatus for repeatable facial distortion: In one embodiment, the invention is a method and apparatus for repeatable facial distortion. One embodiment of a method for generating a secure facial image from an original facial image includes receiving the original facial image and a key, the key being associated with a subject depicted in the original... Agent: Wall & Tong, LLP IBM Corporation

20090226049 - Practical modeling and acquisition of layered facial reflectance: Techniques are described for modeling layered facial reflectance consisting of specular reflectance, single scattering, and shallow and deep subsurface scattering. Parameters of appropriate reflectance models can be estimated for each of these layers, e.g., from just 20 photographs recorded in a few seconds from a single view-point. Spatially-varying specular reflectance... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090226051 - Cleaning device for fingerprint authentication apparatus, cleaning method, and fingerprint authentication system using the same: A cleaning device for a fingerprint authentication apparatus, include a shutter which is opened or closed in order to expose or cover a surface of a scan plate for carrying out a finger authentication by said fingerprint authentication apparatus; a cleaner which cleans said surface of said scan plate, while... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090226050 - System and apparatus for securing an item using a biometric lock: A system and apparatus for securing an item using a biometric lock where a matching fingerprint allows a user access to the item secured. In one embodiment, the item is a container with an aperture. More specifically, the container is a handbag, luggage, briefcase, computer bag, storage container, shipping container... Agent: Michael Hughes

20090226053 - Biometric information registration apparatus, biometric information verification apparatus, biometric information registration/verification system, and biometric information registration program: In relation to a system which effects one-to-many authentication using biometric information; e.g., a fingerprint, an iris, voice, a facial image, a vascular pattern, a dynamic signature, or a keystroke, in order to significantly shorten the time required to verify registered feature information against input feature information, there is performed... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090226052 - Method and apparatus for processing biometric images: A method and apparatus for applying gradient edge detection to detect features in a biometric, such as a fingerprint, based on data representing an image of at least a portion of the biometric. The image is modeled as a function of the features. Data representing an image of the biometric... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090226054 - Fingerprint acquisition system: An acquisition system for obtaining images of a fingerprint from a finger, or marks of another kind of target. The system may have two or more cameras positioned at different directions towards the target. Each camera may have a light source for illuminating the target from a direction different than... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090226064 - Factor analysis in medical imaging: A method for estimating kinetic parameters from image data includes using a processor to execute instructions for providing a model of kinetic contributions from first and second physiological regions; grouping voxels of the image data into first and second groups; determining an average value of the factors associated with the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090226063 - Image enhancement and application functionality for medical and other uses: The disclosure herein provides beneficial systems, methods, devices, and apparatuses that enhance and/or analyze images, and that can be configured to provide users an assessment and/or recommendation based on the enhanced and/or analyzed images. In an embodiment related to medicine, the assessment and/or recommendation is based on a patient situation,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090226061 - Image processing device, image processing program, and observation system: It is a proposition to reduce user's burden when performing tracking observation of a specimen. Therefore, an image processing apparatus includes a storage unit which takes in a plurality of slice images acquired from a specific area of a specimen by each of Z-stack shootings performed at different time point,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090226062 - Image processing system and image processing method: In a system where an image processing device applies image processing to medical images obtained from an image storage device, the load of communication and image processing are reduced, thereby improving the processing efficiency of the entire system. A controlling unit determines whether it is possible to determine a image... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090226058 - Method and apparatus for tissue border detection using ultrasonic diagnostic images: A method and apparatus for tissue border detection using ultrasonic diagnostic images includes searching an initial central point of a target region in an ultrasonic diagnostic image of a detected target and determining an initial region border based on the initial central point and with the initial central point being... Agent: Mindray C/o Stoel Rives LLP

20090226060 - Method and system for improved image segmentation: A system and method of identifying anatomical structures in a patient. The method includes the acts of acquiring an image of the patient, the image including a set of image elements; segmenting the image to categorize each image elements according to its substance; computing the probability that the categorization of... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20090226057 - Segmentation device and method: There is provided a method of medical imaging of a structure that includes creating a three dimensional image of the structure and processing the image to enhance image quality such that images with an attenuation value below a threshold value result in recognizable image, thereby identifying the structure.... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20090226056 - Systems and methods for metadata embedding in streaming medical data: Systems and methods for embedding metadata such as personal patient information within actual medical data signals obtained from a patient are provided wherein two watermarks, a robust watermark and a fragile watermark are embedded in a given medical data signal. The robust watermark includes a binary coded representation of the... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law, LLC

20090226055 - Systems and methods for multi-dimensional characterization and classification of spinal shape: Systems and methods are disclosed for three-dimensional (3-D) characterization and clinical classification of spinal deformity. By choosing three points on frontal and sagittal 2-D images, a 3-D segmented reconstruction of a spine is made available. Two additional bendAg images provide further information for a Lenke classification of the spine under... Agent: Latimer, Mayberry & MatthewsIPLaw, LLP

20090226059 - Tissue processing and assessment: Disclosed are methods and systems that include: (a) fixing a tissue sample in a bath of fixing solution by directing ultrasonic waves to be incident on the tissue sample; (b) sectioning the tissue sample to produce a tissue section; (c) applying one or more stains to the tissue section; and... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090226068 - Implants for altering wear patterns of articular surfaces: Methods and devices for correcting wear pattern defects in joints. The methods and devices described herein allow for the restoration of correcting abnormal biomechanical loading conditions in a joint brought on by wear pattern defects, and also can, in embodiments, permit correction of proper kinematic movement.... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20090226066 - Method and apparatus for aligning a multi-modality imaging system: A method of determining component misalignment in a multi-modality imaging system includes imaging a plurality of target objects with a first modality unit to generate a tomographic image data set and imaging the plurality of targets with a second modality unit to generate an emission image data set. The method... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20090226067 - Method for enhanced voxel resolution in mri image: A method for providing an enhanced 3-D image for a volume imaging apparatus obtains 3-D volume images of an object at a first resolution and forms a 3-D matrix of voxels at a second, higher resolution. Two or more 3-D volume images that have different spatial orientations and that intersect... Agent: Carestream Health, Inc.

20090226065 - Sampling medical images for virtual histology: A system (300, 400, 800) and method (100, 200) are provided for building a digital sample library of lesions or cancers from medical images, the system (300) including an image scanner (310), image visualization or reviewing equipment (320) in signal communication with the image scanner, a digital sample library database... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090226069 - Systems and methods for displaying guidance data based on updated deformable imaging data: Presented herein are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium for presenting imaging data related to an anatomical site. These include obtaining a first set of imaging data related to the anatomical site and tracking units at the anatomical site and, thereafter, optionally, obtaining a second set of imaging data related to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090226070 - Calibrating a c-arm x-ray apparatus: e

20090226071 - Method and apparatus to facilitate using visible light images to determine a heart rate: An apparatus (400) can receive (101) a plurality of visible light images as correspond to a subject's skin (403) proximal to a blood-transporting capillary (404) and then process (102) that plurality of visible light images to thereby determine a heart rate for the subject. These teachings will accommodate both light-transmissive... Agent: Motorola/fetf

20090226072 - Operator methods for a centralized keying and balancing site and a number of remote image-based check processing sites: A method is provided of an operator at one of a plurality of remote image capture sites which provide units of work to be processed by an operator at a centralized keying and balancing site which is remote image capture site image capture site. The method of the operator at... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20090226073 - Method of creating master data used for inspecting concave-convex figure: In the present invention, an image of respective figures is cut out by selecting a figure from tire CAD drawings, and an arranging position of the figure is set in accordance with a distance in a radial direction form a tire center and a deformed angle in a circumferential direction... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090226074 - Surface area estimation of a coating defect: A device for estimating a surface area of a defect in a coating on a gas turbine engine component comprises a thin transparent sheet and at least one template included on the sheet and having a known surface area. The device is configured such that the template can be positioned... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20090226077 - Defect inspection method and computer-readable storage medium: The present invention includes an illuminance adjustment step of setting an optimum illuminance of the illumination; and a defect inspection step of picking up the image of the substrate illuminated with the illumination at the optimum illuminance, wherein the illuminance adjustment step has: a first step of applying illuminations at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090226075 - Inspection apparatus and an inspection method for inspecting a circuit pattern: In order to achieve the above object, the present invention includes the steps of: on the basis of the repeatability of a circuit pattern of a die formed on a semiconductor wafer, distributing data of an image to a plurality of image memories and storing the data therein; comparing the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090226076 - 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

20090226078 - Method and apparatus for aligning a substrate and for inspecting a pattern on a substrate: In a method and apparatus of aligning a substrate, a mark image may be generated from an alignment mark on the substrate. The mark image may be generated after a given process for manufacturing a semiconductor device including the substrate has been performed. The mark image may be compared with... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090226080 - Dynamic viewing of a three dimensional space: Some embodiments provide a three dimensional (3D) media-editing application for dynamically presenting different views of a 3D project that includes one or more objects disbursed throughout a 3D space. A dynamic display provides the dynamic views upon the occurrence of specified triggering events. In some embodiments, the dynamic display appears... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20090226079 - Identification of objects in a 3d video using non/over reflective clothing: A method includes generating a depth map from at least one image, detecting objects in the depth map, and identifying anomalies in the objects from the depth map. Another method includes identifying at least one anomaly in an object in a depth map, and using the anomaly to identify future... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20090226081 - System and method for detecting and matching anatomical structures using appearance and shape: A detection framework that matches anatomical structures using appearance and shape is disclosed. A training set of images are used in which object shapes or structures are annotated in the images. A second training set of images represents negative examples for such shapes and structures, i.e., images containing no such... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090226082 - Neutral pixel detection in an image path: What is disclosed is a novel system and method for pixel and object level neutral detection. In one embodiment, an image is scanned into a plurality of pixels. A local pixel of interest is identified along with a neighborhood of pixels around the local pixel. The chroma value of the... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090226083 - 2d image segmentation apparatus and method, and apparatus and method for removing red-eye in the image: A Two-Dimensional (2D) image segmentation apparatus for segmenting pixels of a progressive input 2D image includes a group information storing unit storing information of pixel groups including a plurality of adjacent pixels; a pixel determining unit determining coordinates of an input pixel, and determining whether the input pixel is an... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090226084 - Adaptive lossless data compression method for compression of color image data: An adaptive lossless data compression method for compression of color image data in a data processing system. The method includes comparing a plurality of components of a plurality of adjacent pixels in a digital image, calculating spatial differences between the plurality of adjacent pixels, encoding the spatial differences and recording... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Burlington

20090226085 - Apparatus, method, and program product for image processing: From the target image data, a luminance component, a first color difference component, and a second color difference component which represent color of respective pixels are acquired; and a maximum magnitude smoothing process is carried out on the first color difference component.... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090226086 - Image processing apparatus and method: An image processing method of processing an image obtained by using an optical system having a wide field angle and a large magnification chromatic aberration includes the steps of applying magnification chromatic aberration correction processing to the image, applying separation processing to the image after the step of applying the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090226087 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable storage medium storing image processing program: An image processing apparatus that corrects an image signal constituted by a plurality of color signals, includes a separation unit that separates the image signal into two or more subband signals; a selection unit that selects a correction processing subject color signal from the plurality of color signals; an S/N... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090226088 - Multi-image file editing apparatus and multi-image file editing method: A multi-image file includes one representative main image data and one or more sub-image data other than the main image data in one file. Each of the image data is provided with a header area. When dividing the multi-image file into individual image files, related information indicative of a relationship... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20090226089 - Storage medium storing document recognition program, document recognition apparatus and method thereof: A program causes a computer to function as a document recognition apparatus, having an extraction unit for extracting connected components of pixels from an input image, a generation unit for generating a reference element that is connected components of pixels extracted by the extraction unit and combined elements obtained by... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090226090 - Information processing system, information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium: A disclosed information processing system includes an input unit configured to input a file or an image of a form; an entry field obtaining unit configured to extract entry fields of the form from the input file or image; a label name obtaining unit configured to obtain label names of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090226091 - Handwriting recognition interface on a device: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for inputting text. A handwriting area is presented on a touch-sensitive display of a device. A handwritten input is received in the handwriting area. One or more candidates are identified for the handwritten input and presented. An input selecting one of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090226093 - Apparatus and method for detecting specific object pattern from image: A face area is detected from an image captured by an image pickup device, pixel values of the image are adjusted based on information concerning the detected face area, a person area is detected from the adjusted image, and the detected face area is integrated with the detected person area.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090226094 - Image correcting device and method, and computer program: An image correcting device (1) is include of a feature point detecting element (3, 4 and 5) for detecting sets of feature points (QA0, QA1, . . . ) from a plurality of images (2) picked up at a plurality of places (a, b) by a pickup element, a change... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090226092 - Object detection device, and object detection device for elevator: In an object detecting apparatus for detecting whether or not a detection object is present in a monitoring area by comparing a present image with a background image photographed when the detection target is not present in the monitoring area, a background contour line information extracting means extracts contour line... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090226095 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program for processing images: An image processing apparatus includes a face direction estimating section that estimates a direction and a degree of swing of a face in a target image including a face image when a front direction of the face is used as a reference, and an image correcting section that transforms a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090226096 - Edge detection technique and charged particle radiation equipment: An object of the present invention is to provide an edge detection technique and equipment which are capable of stably detecting an edge by suppressing the influence of noise even in the case where the image is obtained by charged particle radiation equipment, such as a scanning electron microscope and... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090226097 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus for converting a low-resolution image into a high-resolution image. When a target pixel is located in an edge region, evaluation values relating to similarity between the target pixel and candidate pixels along a proximate line adjacent to the target pixel are calculated. A distribution of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090226098 - Character string updated degree evaluation program: There is provided a character string updated degree evaluation program that enables quantitative grasping of an amount of intellectual work through editing and updating of character strings. A text subjected to comparison is divided into common part character strings each having a length greater than or equal to a threshold... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090226099 - Method and apparatus for auditing transaction activity in retail and other environments using visual recognition: A system detects a transaction outcome by obtaining video data associated with a transaction area and by obtaining transaction data concerning at least one transaction that occurs at the transaction area. The system correlates the video data associated with the transaction area to the transaction data to identify specific video... Agent: Barry W. Chapin. Esq. Chapin & Huang, L.L.C.

20090226100 - Automatic design of morphological algorithms for machine vision: The present invention provides a technique for automated selection of a parameterized operator sequence to achieve a pattern classification task. A collection of labeled data patterns is input and statistical descriptions of the inputted labeled data patterns are then derived. Classifier performance for each of a plurality of candidate operator/parameter... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090226101 - System, devices, method, computer program product: A system for transferring data displayed on a display of a provider device to a requester device. The requester device comprises a camera to capture data displayed on at least part of the display and a transmitter that is arranged to transmit a trigger signal to the provider device to... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090226102 - Image capturing system and method thereof: An image capturing system comprises a storage device and a transcoder module coupled to the storage device. The storage device stores image data of a captured still image compressed by a first coding format configured. The transcoder module transcodes the image data compressed by the first coding format into output... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090226103 - Image encoding apparatus and image decoding apparatus: Provided are an image encoding apparatus and an image decoding apparatus. The image encoding apparatus includes a prediction encoding unit to perform prediction encoding on an input image so as to generate a residual image, a transform unit to transform the residual image in transform block units so as to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090226104 - Image processing device and image processing method: An image processing device includes: a first expansion unit which expands a part of first compression image data in a first predetermined area compressed as unit of compression to produce first expansion part data; a second expansion unit which expands a part of second compression image data in a second... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090226105 - Adaptive motion estimation coding: A method for encoding a video signal comprising a plurality of reference frames and non-reference frames includes: for a non-reference frame to be encoded, determining if at least a portion of a reference frame that is a backward reference frame of the non-reference frame has no scene change; and when... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090226106 - Apparatus for encoding image and apparatus for decoding image: Provided are an apparatus for encoding an image and an apparatus for decoding an image. The apparatus for encoding the image includes a grouping unit to group transform coefficients according to layers and generate groups, a pattern encoding unit to generate and encode the pattern information of each group by... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090226107 - Encoding and decoding method, encoder, and decoder: A encoding method includes: encoding an I-frame to obtain a first reconstructed image; encoding a reference image between the I-frame and a recovery point to obtain a second reconstructed image; refreshing the second reconstructed image to obtain a first refreshed image; using at least one of the first reconstructed image... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090226108 - Multi-pass algorithm to reduce ringing artifacts in noise removal and deblur effects: A multi-pass algorithm to reduce ringing artifacts in image processing, e.g. from noise removal and deblur effects, is described. One embodiment includes processes: forming a matte of areas in an original image around strong edges to produce an edgeMatte image, e.g. by using an edge detection algorithm to find edges... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090226109 - Low cost threat detection sensor: The invention consists of a portable, optical sensor that has a 360-degree horizontal field of view and a selectable vertical field of view that can cover up to 90 degrees. An embodiment of the invention is meant for use and transport by an individual or group of individuals, and does... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090226110 - Image processing system and method for liquid crystal display: In an image processing system for a liquid crystal display a frame converter receives an original frame signal and produces a double frequency frame signal. A high pass filter performs a high pass filtering on the double frequency frame signal and produces a high pass double frequency frame signal. A... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090226111 - Image processing apparatus and method thereof: An image processing apparatus sets respective pixel values of a template block which includes a pixel to be determined for each pixel to be determined set in sequence in an image, arranges a plurality of reference blocks so as to surround the template block, obtains respective block matching errors between... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090226112 - Method and apparatus for bit resolution enhancement and edge enhancement in an electronic device: A method and apparatus for bit resolution enhancement and edge enhancement in an electronic device are provided. The method includes determining a Contour Counter (CC) and determining a type of each region of the input image, determining a Bit Resolution Enhancement (BRE) parameter and an edge enhancement parameter of each... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090226113 - Environment map generating apparatus, environment map generating method, and environment map generating program: An environment map generating apparatus is provided. The environment map generating apparatus includes: a storage unit, a cross-sectional image generating unit, a model processing unit, an obtaining unit and an environment map generating unit. The storage unit stores a model of an obstacle. The cross-sectional image generating unit generates a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090226114 - Satellite image fusion method and system: Satellite image fusion method and system are provided. The satellite image fusion method includes matching sizes of a panchromatic image and a multispectral image captured from a satellite image; dividing the panchromatic image and the multispectral image into a plurality of blocks; calculating coefficients to acquire Intensity (I) component image... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090226115 - Image adapter with tilewise image processing, and method using such an adapter: An image adapter transforms an input image into an output image by successively processing tiles and by changing numbers of columns and of rows of image points. The image adapter includes queue memories connected in series so as to receive values associated with the points of a tile of the... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20090220121 - Arrangement of objects in images or graphics to convey a machine-readable signal: The present invention provides methods and systems related to arranging objects (e.g., circles, dots and other shapes) in images and graphics to convey a machine-readable signal. One claim recites a method including: integrating a plurality of objects in an image or graphic, the objects being arranged in a pattern that... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20090220120 - System and method for artistic scene image detection: The subject application is directed to a system and method for artistic scene image detection. First, image data is received that is encoded in a multi-dimensional color space. From the received image data, histogram data is then calculated. Dominant spike regions in the calculated histogram data are then identified. An... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090220123 - Apparatus and method for counting number of objects: An image processing apparatus includes a first detecting unit configured to detect an object based on an upper body of a person and a second detecting unit configured to detect an object based on a face of a person. The image processing apparatus determines a level of congestion of objects... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090220124 - Automated scoring system for athletics: Disclosed are methods and systems for utilizing motion capture techniques, for example, video based motion capture techniques, for capturing and modeling the captured 3D movement of an athlete through a defined space. The model is then compared with an intended motion pattern in order to identify deviations and/or form breaks... Agent: Capitol City Techlaw, PLLC

20090220125 - Image reconstruction by position and motion tracking: A system, method, and apparatus provide the ability to reconstruct an image from an object. A hand-held image acquisition device is configured to acquire local image information from a physical object. A tracking system obtains displacement information for the hand-held acquisition device while the device is acquiring the local image... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP Howard Hughes Center

20090220122 - Tracking system for orthognathic surgery: Systems and methods are provided for measuring relative movement between two portions of the facial skeleton. A target (4) is fixed in position relative t a one of the portions of the facial skeleton, the target comprising three or more light sources having a known geometric relationship with one another.... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20090220126 - Processing an image of an eye: An image of an eye is first captured and stored, as a 256 grey level image or as a colour image, and is then evaluated to determine thresholds between the values of pixels representing different parts of the eye. The thresholds are used to determine the boundary between the pupil... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20090220128 - Authentication device, authentication method and authentication program: An authentication apparatus for authenticating an authentication target of a user's face includes: a display configured to display an image to authentication target; a camera arranged in the vicinity of the display to take an image of the authentication target; an assist unit configured to output a guide image instructing... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090220127 - Covariance based face association: A system and method are provided for associating faces to determine whether the faces are similar. For example a captured face may be associated with known faces to determine which known face the captured most closely resembles. The system and method incorporate the use of Gabor filters applied to masked... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090220131 - Automatic detection of a surgical tool on an image provided by a medical imaging system: A device for detecting a surgical tool in an image, the surgical tool going through an incision made in a patient's skin or one of his organs, the device including: means for storing shape parameters of the surgical tool, means for determining the position of the projection of the incision... Agent: HowardIPLaw Group

20090220133 - Medical image processing apparatus and medical image processing method: A medical image processing apparatus of the present invention includes: a three-dimensional model estimating section for estimating a three-dimensional model of an object based on a two-dimensional image of an image of the object which is inputted from a medical image pickup apparatus; an image dividing section for dividing the... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090220130 - Method for localizing labels in a sample: m

20090220132 - Method for processing images of interventional radiology: An image processing method for interventional imaging in which a region of interest of a patient is viewed. The method comprises acquiring a succession of images of a region of interest of the patient. The method also comprises detecting and tracking, on the successive images, at least one surgical instrument... Agent: General Electric Company Ge Global Patent Operation

20090220134 - Method of merging anatomical data and surface data of a patient's dentition: A method of obtaining and merging volumetric data and surface data of a patient's dentition for use in designing and/or manufacturing a prosthodontic component, such as a drill guide, an implant, or other prosthodontic appliance, for example. A plurality of radio-opaque markers are temporarily secured directly to a patient's dentition.... Agent: Zimmer Technology - Baker & Daniels

20090220129 - System for image reconstruction: A method for imaging, including counting quanta of energy emitted into a range of angles from particles of an energy emitter distributed over a volume (32) in a body (30), thereby generating a set of counts. The method further includes defining a probability distribution expression that specifies a local concentration... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090220135 - System, server, method and program for image transfer: When an image group to be displayed and compared is transferred to a terminal during viewing and processing of an image in an image group on the terminal that enables viewing of a plurality of image groups, an image corresponding to the currently displayed image is promptly transferred and displayed.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090220137 - Automatic multi-label segmentation of abdominal images using non-rigid registration: A method for segmenting an anatomical image, including: receiving a patient anatomical image; receiving a baseline anatomical image having pre-segmented labels, wherein the pre-segmented labels identify regions of interest in the baseline anatomical image; aligning the patient anatomical image with the baseline anatomical image to produce a transformation that when... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090220136 - Image guidance system for deep brain stimulation: This invention provides computerized image guidance systems for deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery and related methods that improve accuracy of positioning of electrodes in the brains of subjects. Image guidance systems in accordance with the present invention incorporate advanced features such as capability of displaying, in any desired plane of... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090220139 - Device and method for the computer-assisted analysis of mammograms: A device for the computer-assisted analysis of mammograms. Said device comprises means for detecting a contour line that surrounds an object area of the mammogram, which is defined by an object. The device also comprises a means for positioning and scaling the mammogram. The device is configured to determine the... Agent: General Electric Company Ge Global Patent Operation

20090220140 - Image processing method and apparatus, and radiation image photographing/processing method and apparatus: Acquiring radiation image data representing a radiation image of a subject photographed using a radiation exposure field aperture, acquiring information of a radiation exposure field area determined by the exposure field aperture and relating it to the radiation image data based on the information, sequentially detecting pixel data of pixels... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090220138 - Fast preprocessing algorithms for digital mammography cad and workstation: A method and apparatus are disclosed for an image preprocessing device that automatically detects chestwall laterality; removes border artifacts; and segments breast tissue and pectoral muscle from digital mammograms. The algorithms in the preprocessing device utilize the computer cache, a vertical Sobel filter and a probabilistic Hough transform to detect... Agent: Three Palm Software LLC

20090220141 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program: A blood vessel imaging device obtains peak height information of a differential function F′(x) from an adjustment dial. The blood vessel imaging device, based on the peak height information and peak position information of the differential function F′(x), then defines the differential function F′(x). Subsequently, the blood vessel imaging device... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090220142 - Linear pattern detection method and apparatus: The present invention provides a linear pattern detection method which can extract and detect linear patterns distinguished by a microscopic defect distribution profile even if skipped measurements are taken. The linear pattern detection method acquires a defect map created based on results of defect inspection of a wafer; divides the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090220143 - Method for measuring a shape anomaly on an aircraft structural panel and system therefor: The disclosed embodiments concern a method for measuring a shape anomaly on an aircraft structural panel, including the following operations: projecting a target pattern at the site of the anomaly on the panel; producing at least two images of the projected pattern; processing the two images by stereocorrelation to obtain... Agent: Perman & Green

20090220144 - Stereo photogrammetry from a single station using a surveying instrument with an eccentric camera: A method for determining, in relation to a surveying instrument, target coordinates of a point of interest, or target, identified in two images captured by a camera in the surveying instrument. The method comprises determining coordinates of the surveying instrument, capturing a first image using the camera in the first... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090220145 - Target and three-dimensional-shape measurement device using the same: A target set in a to-be-measured object and used for acquiring a reference value of point-cloud data, the target includes a small circle surrounded by a frame and having the center of the target, a large circle surrounded by the frame and disposed concentrically with the small circle so as... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090220146 - Method and apparatus for characterizing the formation of paper: A method for characterizing the formation of paper in which patterns and/or structures existing in the paper are automatically characterized and classified. The automatic characterization and classification includes creating a collection of paper specimens, creating a digital image of each individual specimen, digital pre-processing of the digital image where necessary,... Agent: Taylor & Aust, P.C.

20090220147 - Method and device for processing of images using a digital filter: A system, device and a method to perform bilateral filtering using linear convolution by way of an FFT or a recursive sequence method. Proper selection of functions for the photometric and spatial components of a bilateral filter may reduce the computational cost of the bilateral filter while preserving the bilateral... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090220148 - Automatic red eye artifact reduction for images: Systems and methods are provided for reducing eye coloration artifacts in an image. In the system and method, an eye is detected in the image and a pupil color for the eye in the image and a skin color of skin in the image associated with the eye are determined.... Agent: Zoran Corporation C/o Darby & Darby PC

20090220149 - Method, a system, and a computer program product for processing images: A method for processing an image of a person, the method including: (i) defining a first search area in response to a value of a metric parameter and to a location of an element of interest within the image; (ii) generating an edge detection data structure, wherein some of the... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090220151 - Device for adjusting image color difference value and adjusting method thereof: A three-dimensional color difference value adjusting method for adjusting a selected region of an image is provided. The method includes the following steps. First, a plurality of color difference adjusting values corresponding to a plurality of reference brightness values are received. Next, target color difference adjusting value corresponding to brightness... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090220150 - Method and system for automatic correction of flesh-tones (skin-tones): Flesh-tones corrections may be performed to correct color shifts that may occur in transmitted video frames wherein chroma information corresponding to flesh-tone video pixels may be distorted. A target region may be determined based on a determined flesh-tones region within a spatial representation of chroma in video color space, such... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090220152 - Method and system to detect and quantify blockiness in video files: A method and system for detecting and quantifying blockiness in a video file is disclosed. The video file is a file that has been decompressed by using standard DCT algorithms. The method includes segmenting each frame of the video file into multiple blocks. The method also involves comparing the intensity... Agent: Lester H. Birnbaum

20090220153 - Pattern classification system and method for collective learning: A method for configuring a pattern recognition system begins by receiving object recognition data from at least one first local image processing system. The object recognition data is stored in at least one global database. Configuration data is determined for a second local image processing system based at least in... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20090220154 - Image processing apparatus, image reading apparatus, image data output processing apparatus, and image processing method: A ruled-line extraction section can be performed with high precision by providing a main-scanning ruled-line extraction section for determining whether a target pixel of binary image data of a document image is a black pixel or a white pixel, for counting the number of black pixels connected one after another... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090220155 - Image processing method, pattern detection method, pattern recognition method, and image processing device: An image processing device clips a plurality of partial images from an image, and calculates difference values of pixel values between a target pixel and surrounding pixels surrounding the target pixel in the partial images. Then, the image processing device decides parameter values corresponding to respective surrounding pixels based on... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090220157 - Feature point location determination method and apparatus: A method for determining feature point locations in an image performs a first search in a predetermined first search area to search for locations of plural feature points in the image, corrects the locations of the plural feature points based on a geometric layout relationship among the plural feature points... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090220158 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, computer program: An image processing apparatus 100 according to embodiments of the present invention has an image input section 110 into which an image is input, and a feature point detecting section 120 which detects a feature point on the input image. The feature point detecting section 120 of the image processing... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20090220156 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program, and storage medium: A large number of stable local regions can be set with low calculation cost. In a face recognition apparatus which discriminates similar face images using feature amounts extracted from local regions included in an image to be discriminated, a moving destination of a feature point extracted from the image to... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090220159 - Image output method, image output device, and image output program: Provided is an image output method of outputting predetermined image data from plural pieces of image data, the method including: acquiring a group including plural pieces of image data which are similar to each other; detecting a face turning angle with respect to a face image plane included in an... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090220160 - Imaging apparatus and recording medium: In a digital camera 1, when the shutter button is half-depressed (Y at S2), face detection processing is performed on periodically imaged frame images until it is fully depressed (N at S6), and face detection results are cyclically stored in a detection result storage area. When it is fully depressed... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090220161 - Image compression apparatus and image expansion apparatus: An image compression apparatus includes: a dividing section for dividing an image to be compressed into blocks, each of which has a predetermined number of pixels having respective gradation values; a determining section for determining whether the block is a first kind block, in which a number of kinds of... Agent: Cameron Kerrigan Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090220162 - System, computer software product and method for transmitting and processing handwritten data: A system, computer program product and method are provided that smooth handwritten information following the transmission of handwritten data to a second computing device, thereby reducing the memory, processing and communications bandwidth requirements of a first computing device that captured the handwritten information. A system, computer program product and method... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20090220164 - Image processing apparatus and computer readable medium: An image processing apparatus includes: an image accepting unit that accepts an image; a pixel addition unit that specifies a reference pixel for reference based a demarcation, with each area of object within the image accepted by the image accepting unit or each sub-area into which the area is divided... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090220163 - Method and system for decoding encoded images and reducing the size of said images: A method and system for reducing the number of mathematical operations required in the JPEG decoding process without substantially impacting the quality of the image displayed is disclosed. Embodiments provide an efficient JPEG decoding process for the purposes of displaying an image on a display smaller than the source image,... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20090220165 - Efficient image displaying: Efficient image display on a display screen (e.g., in terms of number, space, resolution, and/or distortion) is facilitated by implementing one or more specialized select and pack routines for images. That is, representative images are selected from an image database, based on desired resolution and distortion, then resized and packed... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090220167 - Computed tomography reconstruction from truncated scans: A system is provided for reconstructing image data having truncated scans. The system includes a padding section for providing non-zero padding to truncated portions of the image data, a pre-weighting section for pre-weighting the image data including both the non-truncated portions and the non-zero padded portions, a filter section for... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090220166 - Filter for blocking image-based spam: A network device and method are directed towards detecting and blocking image spam within a message by employing a weighted min-hash to perform a near duplicate detection (NDD) of determined features within an image as compared to known spam images. The weighting for the min-hash is determined based on employing... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090220168 - Signal processing apparatus and method, and program: A signal processing apparatus for performing a filtering process on an input image using a plurality of filters to generate an output image includes the following elements. A region variance value calculating unit calculates a region variance value for a region around a predetermined pixel used as a pixel of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090220169 - Image enhancement: A bilateral filter is implemented to allow a digital image to be enhanced while mitigating the formation of ringing artifacts or halos within the image. The bilateral filter allows the digital image to be decomposed into a detail feature image and a large-scale feature image, where the image's textures are... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090220170 - Three-dimensional image spreading apparatus: A three-dimensional image spreading apparatus to transform a three-dimensional image of an object to a planar image includes an incident element and an emitting element. The incident element has a first reflective portion formed with a closed circumferential surface, an image inlet and an image outlet that incorporate with the... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090220171 - Method and apparatus for registration of an atlas to an image: A method (100) and an apparatus (200) are disclosed for registering an input image and an atlas. The atlas is warped (130) using non-rigid registration. In particular, boundary displacements of structures in the atlas are calculated (132) which register those structures with equivalent structures in the input image. The boundaries... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20090220173 - Image processing method and system: In an image processing method a sequence of at least two image frames is provided and a motion vector representing relative movement of at least a part of said image frames is calculated. At least said part in the image frames is repositioned in accordance with the calculated motion vector,... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20090220172 - Method of forming a combined image based on a plurality of image frames: A method of forming a combined image based on a plurality of image frames includes obtaining a sequence (22, -33) of arrays of intensity values for representing respective ones of a sequence of image frames depicting substantially the same scene. The combined image is represented by a final array (27,... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20090220174 - Chest image rotation apparatus, method and recording-medium stored therein program: A chest image rotation apparatus includes a chest image input unit that is used to input a chest image, a vertebral-body region extraction unit that extracts a vertebral-body region from the input chest image, a vertebral-body direction calculation unit that calculates, based on the extracted vertebral-body region, the direction of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090220175 - Adaptive ocr for books: A system is presented for scanning entire books or document all at once using an adaptive process where the book or document has known fonts and unknown fonts. The known fonts are processed through a verification system where sure words and error words are determined. Both the sure words and... Agent: The Law Firm Of Andrea Hence Evans, LLC