Image analysis inventions 10/09

20090245568 - Method and system for control of a device: The invention describes a method for control of a device (1a, 1b, 1c). The method comprises visually presenting a number of user options for the device to be controlled (1a, 1b, 1c), aiming a pointing device (2) comprising a camera (3) at the visual presentation (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d, 4e)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090245569 - Optical imaging based computer pointing: Methods and systems for optical imaging based computer pointing, including optical imaging based pointing motion and button functionality. Optical image motion information is translated to a computer pointing device data format, and one or more patterns, sequences, or combinations of optical image information are translated to one or more corresponding... Agent: Garrett Ip, Llc

20090245572 - Control apparatus and method: The invention discloses a control apparatus for a user to control an electronic apparatus. The control apparatus of the invention includes a monitoring module, a sensing module, a first processing module, and a first transmitting module. The monitoring module is used to monitor the user's eyeball(s), and generates related eyeball-movement... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20090245571 - Digital video target moving object segmentation method and system: A digital video target moving object segmentation method and system is designed for processing a digital video stream for segmentation of every target moving object that appears in the video content. The proposed method and system is characterized by the operations of a multiple background imagery extraction process and a... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090245570 - Method and system for object detection in images utilizing adaptive scanning: An object detection method and system for detecting an object in an image utilizing an adaptive image scanning strategy is disclosed herein. An initial rough shift can be determined based on the size of a scanning window and the image can be scanned continuously for several detections of similar sizes... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090245578 - Method of detecting predetermined object from image and apparatus therefor: In an object detecting method, an imaging condition of an image pickup unit is determined, a detecting method is selected based on the determined imaging condition, and at least one predetermined object is detected from an image picked up through the image pickup unit according to the selected detecting method.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090245575 - Method, apparatus, and program storage medium for detecting object: In an object detecting method according to an aspect of the invention, a specific kind of object such as a human head can be detected with high accuracy even if the detecting target object appears in various shapes. The object detecting method includes a primary evaluated value computing step of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20090245576 - Method, apparatus, and program storage medium for detecting object: The invention relates to an object detecting method for detecting a specific kind of object such as a human head and a human face from an image expressed by two-dimensionally arrayed pixels, the object detecting method including an image group producing step of producing an image group including an original... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20090245580 - Modifying parameters of an object detector based on detection information: Embodiments of an object detection unit configured to modify parameters for one or more object detectors based on detection information are provided.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090245573 - Object matching for tracking, indexing, and search: A camera system comprises an image capturing device, object detection module, object tracking module, and match classifier. The object detection module receives image data and detects objects appearing in one or more of the images. The object tracking module temporally associates instances of a first object detected in a first... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Pdx

20090245574 - Optical pointing device and method of detecting click event in optical pointing device: A method of detecting a click event for sensing a motion of a finger corresponding to a click on a sensing area of an optical pointing device, the method including: obtaining an image of the finger from the sensing area; sensing a change in the image of the finger; analyzing... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090245579 - Probability distribution constructing method, probability distribution constructing apparatus, storage medium of probability distribution constructing program, subject detecting method, subject detecting apparatus, and storage medium of subject detecting: A probability distribution constructing method extracts a subject shape similar to a subject of a specific type repeatedly appearing in various sizes in plural images obtained by repeatedly photographing a field using a fixedly disposed camera, from plurality images, in accordance with a size of the similar subject shape and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20090245577 - Tracking processing apparatus, tracking processing method, and computer program: A tracking processing apparatus includes: first state-variable-sample-candidate generating means for generating state variable sample candidates at first present time; plural detecting means each for performing detection concerning a predetermined detection target related to a tracking target; sub-information generating means for generating sub-state variable probability distribution information at present time; second... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090245581 - Airborne terrain acquisition and processing system with fluid detection: An airborne digital image capture and assessment system for fluid transmission lines having integrated location and event tracking. The system combines a fixed wing aircraft aerial platform, real-time surveying with target fluid detection and real-time threat assessment review by independent reviewing stations. The continuous digital video image capture provides a... Agent: Harpman & Harpman

20090245582 - Lane recognition apparatus for vehicle, vehicle thereof, and lane recognition program for vehicle: A lane recognition apparatus for the vehicle includes: a lane mark detection image acquisition device which acquires an image divided into a first image region composed of pixels having pixel values supposed to be image portions of a lane mark defining the lane and a second image region composed of... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20090245583 - Road shape estimating device, road shape estimating method and program: A road shape estimating device has a data obtaining processing unit for obtaining interpolation point data for a plurality of shape interpolation points which represent a shape of a road, a radius calculation processing unit for calculating a radius of curvature at each of shape interpolation points based on the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20090245584 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: In an image processing apparatus that generates a stereo image data set by calculating a distance to a subject according to a pair of image data sets each comprising grayscale images of a plurality of colors obtained by photographing the subject from two viewpoints, the pair of image data sets... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090245585 - Body part guidance control method for non-contact biometrics authentication device and non-contact biometrics authentication device: A body part guidance control is performed in a non-contact biometrics authentication device which performs individual authentication utilizing characteristics of a body part which is a portion of a human body, for guiding the body part so as to capture images without contact. The future position at the time of... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090245586 - Image processing apparatus and method for real-time motion detection: An image processing apparatus and method for real time motion detection is provided. In the apparatus, a sub-sampling module receives and sub-samples a current image and a plurality of previous images and a census transform module performs census transform on each of the sub-sampled images to obtain a census vector.... Agent: Lexyoume Ip Group, Llc

20090245587 - Classifying and controlling encoding quality for textured, dark smooth and smooth video content: Techniques and tools for content classification and adaptive quantization are described. In an example implementation, a video encoding tool classifies blocks as textured, dark smooth or other smooth. The tool classifies a block as textured or non-textured by comparing the energy of AC coefficients for the block to a texture... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20090245588 - Method and apparatus for determining particle parameter and processor performance in a coal and mineral processing system: An image (100) of particulate material, such as an X-ray image of coal, is captured and processed to determine a parameter of the material, such as particle density or particle size distribution. The performance or efficiency of a processing system, such as a dense medium separator, can be evaluated by... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090245589 - Image inspecting apparatus: An image inspecting apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive the sheet from the image forming section; a reading unit configured to read the image formed on the sheet received by the receiving unit; an inspection unit configured to inspect the image read by the reading unit; and a... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090245590 - Method for identifying soiling and/or colour fading in the region of colour transitions on documents of value, and means for carrying out the method: In a method for detecting color transitions caused by soiling and/or color wear in at least one portion of a document of value (12) of a predetermined type of document of value on the basis of processing data reproducing color coordinate values of image elements in the color space in... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20090245591 - Contactless multispectral biometric capture: A number of biometric systems and methods are disclosed. A system according to one embodiment includes an illumination subsystem, an imaging subsystem, and an analyzer. The illumination subsystem is disposed to illuminate a target space. The imaging subsystem is configured to image the target space under distinct optical conditions. The... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090245593 - Pattern aligning method, verifying method, and verifying device: A pattern alignment method performs alignment of the comparison source pattern or the comparison target pattern that has been subjected to the angle-scale conversion with the comparison source pattern. Angular deviations and scale factors between the comparison source pattern and the comparison target pattern are computed separately, after angle and... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090245592 - Registration device, correlation device, extraction method, and program: To provide a registration apparatus, a collation apparatus, an extraction method and an extraction program capable of improving authentication accuracy. An image signal obtained by imaging a biometric subject in a predetermined biological position is subjected to predetermined processing so as to extract a feature portion of the biometric subject... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090245594 - Iris imaging and iris-based identification: An iris of an individual is imaged while illuminated with electromagnetic radiation having an illumination spectrum that is selected based on a color of the iris. The illumination spectrum/spectra is/are selected so that the resulting image will have a sufficient amount of detail of the iris as required for the... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20090245595 - Systems and methods for detecting red-eye artifacts: Systems and methods for detecting red-eye artifacts in a digital image are provided. In this regard, a representative system, among others, includes a processing device that facilitates execution of programs stored in the image processing device and memory that is electrically coupled to the processing device. The memory is configured... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090245596 - Authentication apparatus and authentication method: The present invention relates to authentication information using bio information such as fingerprints. Identification accuracy whether a living body or a forgery (non living body) is improved to prevent an authentication error The present invention particularly relates to an authentication apparatus (a fingerprint authentication apparatus), an authentication method, an authentication... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090245597 - Ridge region extraction: This invention includes a ridge region extractor which identifies a ridge region in a digital image based on a correlation value indicating the degree of similarity between each of a plurality of regions of the digital image and each of a plurality of ridge template images associated with a ridge... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090245600 - Automated panning and digital zooming for robotic surgical systems: In one embodiment of the invention, a digital zoom and panning system for digital video is disclosed including an image acquisition device to capture digital video images; an image buffer to store one or more frames of digital video images as source pixels; a display device having first pixels to... Agent: Intellectual Property Dept. Intutive Surgical, Inc.

20090245602 - Device and method for recording and documenting three-dimensional images of the ocular fundus: The present invention is directed to a solution for ophthalmologic diagnostics in which stereo images of the human fundus are evaluated. The device according to the invention comprises a plane-parallel plate of known thickness which is arranged in front of the front objective of an ophthalmologic device, an adjusting mechanism,... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20090245601 - Locating blood vessels: Several systems and methods for locating blood vessels are described in the present disclosure. One of the implementations of a blood vessel locating system comprises an image capture device and processing circuitry. The image capture device is configured to capture a first image of a region of the skin of... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, Pllc

20090245599 - Method for creating a pixel image from sampled data of a scanned beam imager: A method for creating a pixel image in a two-dimensional display coordinate system from sampled data derived from a collector of a scanned beam imager adapted to transmit a beam of radiation which traces a trajectory in a two-dimensional acquisition coordinate system. The trajectory contains datum locations in the acquisition... Agent: Thompson Hine L.l.p. Intellectual Property Group

20090245598 - Methods for assessing molecular expression of subcellular molecules: The present techniques provide fully automated methods for quantifying the location, strength and percent of expressed target molecules or other biological markers in immunohistochemically stained biological samples. The samples may be automatically segmented, for example into subcellular compartments, from images of compartmental markers. Then, the distribution of a target molecule... Agent: General Electric Company (pcpi) C/o Fletcher Yoder

20090245604 - Nucleic acid analyzing apparatus: The present invention provides a nucleic acid analyzing apparatus which achieves highly accurate analytical ability even in single molecule DNA analysis. The nucleic acid analyzing apparatus detects locations of fluorescent bright spots in image information about light emission, deletes defective bright spots, and thereby creates intensity trace data about proper... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090245605 - Spectral imaging of biological samples: The invention features a method including: (i) providing spectrally resolved information about light coming from different spatial locations in a sample comprising deep tissue in response to an illumination of the sample, wherein the light includes contributions from different components in the sample; (ii) decomposing the spectrally resolved information for... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20090245603 - System and method for analysis of light-matter interaction based on spectral convolution: In embodiments of the present invention, systems and methods of a method and algorithm for creating a unique spectral fingerprint are based on the convolution of RGB color channel spectral plots generated from digital images that have captured single and/or multi-wavelength light-matter interaction.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20090245606 - System and method for generating composite substraction images for magnetic resonance imaging: In time-resolved contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography, a measure quantifying image quality provides a basis for generating a linear filtered composite image by facilitating selection of a mask and an arterial phase image for subtraction. Filtering of individual pixels of a temporal series of images provides enhanced contrast in a single... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20090245609 - Anatomical illustration selecting method, anatomical illustration selecting device, and medical network system: An image server has a medical image DB for storing plural medical images, an anatomical illustration DB for storing plural anatomical illustrations that are used for comparison with the medical images, and an attribute information DB. In the attribute information DB, a file name of each anatomical illustration and a... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090245608 - Bone number determination apparatus and recording medium having stored therein program: A body-of-sternum area representing the body of sternum of a subject is extracted from a three-dimensional image obtained by imaging the subject. Further, at least one rib area is extracted from the three-dimensional image. The rib number of each of the at least one rib area is determined based on... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090245607 - Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and scanning-condition setting method: According to a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) apparatus, a scanning-parameter limit calculating unit creates examination information that represents scanning conditions for collection of magnetic resonance signal data based on scanning parameters set by an operator; a scanning-condition edit/scan positioning unit creates a time chart that indicates the type and a... Agent: Knoble, Yoshida & Dunleavy

20090245612 - Automated image analysis: One automated imaging process, as described herein, includes: a) obtaining digital images of objects in a biological sample; b) selecting a plurality of objects of interest from the digital images; c) obtaining multiple images of the selected objects of interest at a plurality of different wavelengths; d) combining one of... Agent: Vista Ip Law Group LLP

20090245610 - Method and apparatus for detecting irregularities in tissue microarrays: The present techniques provide systems and methods for registering images of tissue spots on a tissue microarray (TMA). In studies involving multiple biomarkers being studied on the same TMA, the TMA slide is removed from the microscope, stained, and then imaged, often multiple times. The present techniques relate to validation... Agent: General Electric Company (pcpi) C/o Fletcher Yoder

20090245611 - Method and apparatus for removing tissue autofluorescence: Techniques for removing image autoflourescence from fluorescently stained biological images are provided herein. The techniques utilize non-negative matrix factorization that may constrain mixing coefficients to be non-negative. The probability of convergence to local minima is reduced by using smoothness constraints. The non-negative matrix factorization algorithm provides the advantage of removing... Agent: General Electric Company (pcpi) C/o Fletcher Yoder

20090245613 - Method and system for producing digital electronic document security graphics files: The present disclosure relates to electronic digital files with document security features to prevent duplication of documents. The method may include selecting a source image previously designed, where a specified tone is used to indicate a background area and another specified tone(s) is/are used to indicate at least one security... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, Pllc

20090245614 - Method and apparatus for detecting defects using structured light: An improved method and apparatus for detecting problems with fit and finish of manufactured articles is presented which uses structured light. Two or more structured light images acquired from opposing directions is used to measure the fit of mating surfaces while avoiding false positives caused by small defects near the... Agent: Electro Scientific Industries/stoel Rives, LLP

20090245617 - System and method for processing image data: Embodiments of the present invention recite a system for providing product consulting using a transmitted image. In one embodiment, the present invention comprises an image capture device for capturing an image of a user and a reference color set. In embodiments of the present invention, the image capture device does... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090245615 - Visual inspection system: This solution relates to machine vision computing environments, and more specifically relates to a system and method for selectively accelerating the execution of image processing applications using a cell computing system. The invention provides a high performance machine vision system over the prior art and provides a method for executing... Agent: Hoffman Warnick Llc

20090245616 - Visual inspection system: A method and an apparatus for grouping individual products such as industrially baked products that travel past a visiometry station into lots for counting them. In a viewing zone of a conveyor belt, a laser triangulation visiometry system is used. The method and apparatus also uses a signal processor associated... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20090245619 - Image density-adapted automatic mode switchable pattern correction scheme for workpiece inspection: An image correction device for use in a pattern inspection apparatus is disclosed, which has automatic adaptability to variations in density of a pattern image of a workpiece being tested. The device is operable to identify a two-dimensional (2D) linear predictive model parameters from the pattern image of interest and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090245618 - Performing opc on hardware or software platforms with gpu: Optical proximity correction techniques performed on one or more graphics processors improve the masks used for the printing of microelectronic circuit designs. Execution of OPC techniques on hardware or software platforms utilizing graphics processing units. GPUs may share the computation load with the system CPUs to efficiently and effectively execute... Agent: Aka Chan LLP

20090245620 - Inspecting method by using mark partitioning: The present invention relates to a mark partitioning inspection method. A reference image and an inspection image are respectively acquired, and a correlation in a character unit for the reference image and the inspection image is obtained, and then the correlation value is compared with a first threshold value that... Agent: Royal W. Craig, Esq. Ober/kaler

20090245621 - System and method of providing mask defect printability analysis: A simulated wafer image of a physical mask and a defect-free reference image are used to generate a severity score for each defect, thereby giving a customer meaningful information to accurately assess the consequences of using a mask or repairing that mask. The defect severity score is calculated based on... Agent: Bever Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20090245622 - Method and arrangement for detecting surface and structural defects of a long moving product: A method for detecting defects of a material moving in a rolling mill generally comprises illuminating product, obtaining (ACQ) image thereof in at least one spectral band, in pre-processing the formed image, in detecting and extracting (DTEXTR) eventually suspected areas of the pre-processed image, and in classifying (CLASS) the suspected... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090245624 - Image matching system using three-dimensional object model, image matching method, and image matching program: Even when only a small number of reference images are available for each object, it is possible to search at high speed a reference image stored in a database from an input image of an object imaged with a different pose and a different illumination condition. A reference image matching... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20090245623 - Systems and methods for gemstone identification and analysis: Images of items of jewelry having gemstones embedded therein are imaged and analyzed to determine the weights associated with the gemstones and, separately the precious metal in which the gemstones are encased without having to remove the gemstones from the jewelry.... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20090245625 - Image trimming device and program: An image trimming device involves: extracting a region of interest from an original image; detecting a set of features for each region of interest; determining whether each region of interest should be placed inside or outside a trimming frame based on the set of features and setting the trimming frame... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20090245626 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and image processing program: A region of interest extracting section automatically extracts regions of interest from within original images by obtaining the degree by which the features of portions within the original images differ from the features of surrounding portions, based on the colors of the original images, brightnesses of the original images, and... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090245627 - Character recognition device: The present invention firstly roughly classifies an analysis range specified by the operator in the color image data of a form into background, a character frame and a character, precisely specifies a character frame on the basis of the classification result, eliminates the character from the color image data from... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090245631 - Image encoding device, image decoding device, and integrated circuit: An image encoding device that receives a plurality of component values of a color input signal inputted to an object pixel, vector quantizes, and encodes each of the plurality of component values includes: a difference vector quantization unit that vector quantizes and encodes each difference value obtained by subtracting prediction... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20090245629 - Systems and methods for color data compression: Systems and methods are provided for reducing data size of at least one bitmap image, wherein the bitmap image comprises a plurality of image components, wherein each image component is associated with a distinct color plane. The plurality of color planes may be ranked using a dominance rank, wherein the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090245630 - Systems and methods for color data compression: Systems and methods are provided for reducing data size of at least one bitmap image comprising at least one block, wherein the block comprises a plurality of image components, each image component being associated with a distinct color plane. The method may include compressing the plurality of image components of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090245628 - Systems and methods for data compression: Systems and methods are provided for demoting color data associated with at least one entity, wherein the entity comprises at least one sub-entity. The at least one sub-entity may be marked as demotable, if the color data associated with the at least one sub-entity is demotable. The at least one... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090245634 - Detection of face area in image: An image processing apparatus. An application identification information acquisition unit acquires application identification information that identifies an application of detection results of a face area corresponding to the image of a face in a target image. A condition setting unit sets a condition, relating to an angle of the face... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20090245632 - Method and apparatus for image signal color correction with reduced noise: A method and apparatus for applying color correction to image signals provides different color corrections depending on a characterization associated with a pixel signal being processed or the gain applied to the pixel signal such as a value of a pixel signal being processed. The color corrections may be configured... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090245633 - Method, a device, a module and a computer program product for determining the quality of an image: The invention relates to a method, a device, an image quality evaluation module and a computer program product for determining the quality of an image. In an input image, at least one color component is iteratively restored with a deblur parameter, which deblur parameter is increased at each iteration. The... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090245635 - System and method for spam detection in image data: A method of detecting and processing messages that include SPAM images by comparing a concentration of grayscale frequencies in a subject image to known concentration of grayscale frequencies in other SPAM messages. The image may be further evaluated for classification as SPAM by evaluating a measure of randomness of pixels... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090245636 - System and method for brightness adjustment for electronic images: The subject application is directed to a system and method for brightness adjustment of electronic images. Image data including a plurality of pixels is first received, with each pixel having an associated image value. Histogram data corresponding to a histogram of at least one component value corresponding to each of... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090245639 - Apparatus and method for reducing motion blur in a video signal: e

20090245637 - Efficient selection and application of regions of interest in digital imaging: An imaging device has a plurality of predefined regions of interest. The predefined regions of interest may be selected or deselected. Image data from selected regions of interest is transmitted to a host. In some embodiments the regions of interest comprise tiles. A set of selected tiles may be identified... Agent: Oyen, Wiggs, Green & Mutala LLP 480 - The Station

20090245638 - Method and apparatus for region-based segmentation image processing using region mapping: Object detection in an image using an image processing approach in which the image is updated based on an energy function. In one aspect, the exemplary image update process attempts to homogenize each region by associating each pixel with a particular region such that the total level of energy for... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090245640 - Image determination apparatus, image search apparatus and a recording medium on which an image search program is recorded: A preprocessing section binarizes input image data and calculates a total black pixel ratio. A feature extracting section detects connected components included in the binary image data and detects circumscribing bounding boxes of the connected components. Predetermined connected components are removed from all of the connected components based on the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090245641 - Document processing apparatus and program: A document processing apparatus includes a region extracting unit that extracts a plurality of regions in a document image, a recognition unit that recognizes a character string, a conversion unit that converts the recognized character string, a setting unit that sets first boundary lines that surrounds the document image and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20090245643 - Image processor: An image processor includes a storing unit, an image determining unit, and an output unit. The storing unit stores a selecting condition. The image determining unit determines whether the image corresponding to the set of the image data satisfies the selecting condition. The output unit outputs an image list including... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090245642 - Image selecting apparatus and image selecting method: The image selecting apparatus includes plural operation indicating units that indicate arrangement places of images on an electronic album, an operator recognizing unit that acquires identification information of the plural operation indicating units, an image selecting unit that automatically selects, based on the identification information, as an image of an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20090245644 - Optical character readers for reading characters printed on wires or wire sleeves: A scanning system for scanning a wire to determine the characters provided on the wire.... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20090245645 - Method and tool for recognizing a hand-drawn table: A computerized method of recognizing an input hand-drawn table formed by freeform line objects comprises transforming each freeform line object of the table into one of a vertical line segment and a horizontal line segment, generating a grid system based on the vertical and horizontal line segments and converting the... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (c/o Patent Administrator)

20090245646 - Online handwriting expression recognition: One way of recognizing online handwritten mathematical expressions is to use a one-pass dynamic programming based symbol decoding generation algorithm. This method embeds segmentation into symbol identification to form a unified framework for symbol recognition. Along with decoding, a symbol graph is produced. Besides accurately recognizing handwritten mathematical expressions, this... Agent: Lee & Hayes, Pllc

20090245647 - Optical character readers for reading characters printed on wires or wire sleeves: A scanning system for scanning a wire to determine the characters provided on the wire.... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20090245650 - Image processing device, image processing method and image processing program: An image processing device includes a face region extracting unit that extracts a face region of a person included in an image to be corrected. A correction region specifying unit specifies a region including the extracted face region as a reduction region and specifies a region excluding the reduction region... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20090245649 - Method, program and apparatus for detecting object, computer readable recording medium storing object detection program, and printing apparatus: An object detection method for detecting a predetermined object image from a target image. A target image is contracted to generate a contracted image, and partitioned to generate a partitioned image. The predetermined object image is detected from the image using the image and a detection frame. The detection frame... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20090245648 - Ridge direction extracting device, ridge direction extracting program, and ridge direction extracting method: To extract the ridge directivities properly and precisely by suppressing a bad influence of noises having a periodicity. A ridge directivity is assumed along some direction codes set in advance, and the reliability indicating the probability of the assumed direction code being consistent with a valley is obtained for each... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090245651 - System and method for identifying complex tokens in an image: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the step of performing a filter response technique to identify patches of uniform reflectance within the image. In a further... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, Llc

20090245652 - Automatic forms identification systems and methods: Systems and methods automatically generate a model of a form or other document and identify the form or other document. In one aspect, a system and method normalize an image of a document and identify the relative positions of the vertical and horizontal lines in the normalized image. The relative... Agent: Polsinelli Shughart Pc

20090245655 - Detection of face area and organ area in image: An image processing apparatus includes: a face area detecting unit detects a face area corresponding to a face image in a target image; an image generating unit that generates an organ detecting image including the face image which is inclined in a predetermined angular range in an image plane on... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20090245653 - Image measurement apparatus: A measurement processing block obtains a plurality of first images of the object to be measured, taken with very small movements in the imaging area. A feature extraction processing block extracts an approximate feature portion of the object from the first images obtained by the measurement processing block. A partial-image... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090245654 - Method and tool for recognizing a hand-drawn table: A computerized method of recognizing an input hand-drawn table formed by freeform line objects comprises transforming each freeform line object of the table into one of a vertical line segment and a horizontal line segment, generating a grid system based on the vertical and horizontal line segments and converting the... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (c/o Patent Administrator)

20090245656 - Similar semicircle detecting apparatus and computer-readable storage medium storing similar semicircle detecting program: The present invention performs a process of integrating plural pixel evaluation values corresponding to plural evaluation pixels on a circular arc overlapping a circle using a predetermined pixel in interest as its center and calculating an integrated evaluation value to evaluate whether the circular arc is a circular arc corresponding... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20090245657 - Image search apparatus and image processing apparatus: Provided is an image search apparatus for searching for a search-target image corresponding to an input image from among a plurality of search-target images. This image search apparatus includes: a characteristic partial image detection unit for detecting a characteristic partial image of each search-target image based on a dissimilarity level... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090245658 - Computer-readable recording medium having character recognition program recorded thereon, character recognition device, and character recognition method: A character recognition method and device including extracting a character pattern based on information of an input character image and information about a structure of a character category and comparing the extracted character pattern with the character category corresponding to the character pattern to calculate the similarity, where the character... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090245659 - Fast key-in for machine-printed ocr-based systems: A method for correcting results of OCR or other scanned symbols that initially scans a document, performs OCR classification on the scanned document. Clustering of characters/symbols classifications that results from the OCR based on shapes is followed by the creation of super-symbols based on at least first differences in the... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090245660 - Method and device for classifying samples representing a digital image signal: In order to classify samples representing a digital image signal, for at least one sample the output values of a predetermined set of filters applied to that sample are determined. The sample is then classified in a first region or in a second region according to a measurement representing the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090245662 - Data processing device, image encoding/decoding device and data processing system: To reduce a processing load of an external CPU, when a large amount of data is initially set frequently to an image coding/decoding device. The image encoding/decoding device (data processing device) includes a first circuit and a second circuit for providing initial setting to a plurality of image processing modules... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge Pc

20090245663 - Image data decoding apparatus and method for decoding image data: An image decoding apparatus includes a memory, a detecting part which receives data of a plurality of macroblocks included in an image and detects whether or not a first macroblock included in the plurality of macroblocks has an intra-block, and a control part which writes a DCT coefficient of the... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090245661 - Mixed content image compression with two edge data representations: A method (200, 400) of compressing an input image (201) is described. The method (200, 400) starts by extracting image gradient data representing pixel differences along contours of the image. Next, the method forms an edge based image from the image gradient data and a low resolution image derived from... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090245664 - Image encoding device: The present invention provides an image encoding device which does not necessitate reference of a quantization parameter between consecutive macroblocks across a parallel processing area boundary without forming slices. The image encoding device encodes a macroblock of an encoding target image by parallel processing sequentially from the top of a... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge Pc

20090245666 - Image file editing apparatus and method, and program: An image file editing method includes an analysis step of analyzing a compression format of each of a plurality of images included in a plurality of image files, a display step of displaying analysis results together with thumbnail images each of which corresponds to one of the plurality of images,... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090245665 - Systems and methods for resolution switching: Systems and methods are provided for switching a resolution of an image, wherein the image includes at least one block. In some embodiments, the image is compressed. At least one compressed block in the compressed image is tagged, if the data size of the compressed block exceeds a threshold. A... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090245669 - Image processor: An image processor includes an encoding unit encoding inputted data. The encoding unit includes a first processing unit splitting the data into a first partial data in a first digit range on an upper side and a second partial data in a second digit range on a lower side, a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090245668 - Picture encoding apparatus and method, program and recording medium: An apparatus and a method for compressing a picture by wavelet transform and entropy coding, in which the processing load of arithmetic coding may be relieved and rate control may be carried out effectively, while still maintaining the picture quality. An encoding object prediction unit predicts bitplanes to be encoded... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090245667 - Reduced calculations in determining intra-prediction type method and system: The method, system, and apparatus of source statistics based intra prediction type is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes classifying a four-pixel square block in ad edge class (e.g., may include a DC edge class, a vertical edge class, a horizontal edge class, a diagonal edge class, and/or a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090245670 - Apparatus for processing a data stream having a hierarchical layer structure and including encoded data sets and raw data sets and method thereof: An apparatus for processing a data stream having a hierarchical layer structure and including encoded data sets and raw data sets is provided. The apparatus includes a first processing circuit for generating an enable signal corresponding to a predetermined layer of the hierarchical layer structure when detecting that a data... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090245671 - Resolution conversion upon hierarchical coding and decoding: In a decoding method of decoding encoded image data which has been hierarchically encoded in advance, a size of an image to be outputted is determined, and then the encoded image data is decoded up to a layer of hierarchy which is at least one layer more than a minimum... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090245672 - Entropy encoding circuit and encoding method thereof: An entropy encoding circuit having two entropy encoders is provided. A first encoding procedure performs an adaptive scan on the encoding coefficient, and the second encoding procedure performs a fixed scan on the encoding coefficient. One of the entropy encoders receives a first encoding coefficient and performs the first encoding... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090245673 - Shared error resiliency path through coefficient reordering: The method, system, and apparatus of a shared error resiliency path through coefficient reordering is disclosed. In on embodiment, determining that an input data is data-partitioned, performing a discrete cosine transform and a quantization of the input data to form a quantized data, separating a first coefficient representing a DC... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090245674 - Image processor: An image processor includes a quantization unit receiving first data before quantization and outputting second data after quantization, a prediction unit obtaining a difference value between the second data and third data being prediction data and outputting the difference value as fourth data, and an encoding unit encoding the fourth... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090245676 - Contour enhancment unit and method to enhance the contours of an image: An image enhancement unit and method for enhancing the image quality of a video stream is presented. The image enhancement unit combines a contour enhancement unit, a luminance contrast stretching unit, a color transient improvement unit, and a color saturation control unit to enhance both the luminance and chrominance values... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Group LLP

20090245675 - Image processing device and method and program: An information processing device includes: a block level information obtaining unit to detect a block level from the difference in pixel values between each pixel of an image and nearby pixels and to obtain distribution information wherein the block levels are accumulated for each position in a predetermined direction; a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090245677 - Focus assist system and method: The invention relates to image focus. In particular, it relates to a focus assist system that conveys focus level data to a user. There are a wide variety of different display methods, including, but not limited to, graphs, highlights, symbols, and varied levels of brightness or color.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090245678 - Method for generating a high quality scanned image of a document: An improved image processing method for generating an image from a hard copy document includes the following steps: scanning the hard copy document multiple times using a scanner to generate a plurality of images; performing deskewing for each image; performing translational compensation for each image; selecting two images (first and... Agent: Ying Chen Chen Yoshimura LLP

20090245679 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus calculates an absolute difference in pixel values between each pixel (target pixel) of the image and each of neighboring pixels of the target pixel, and a sum of the absolute differences with respect to the target pixel, calculates a threshold using the sum of the absolute... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090245680 - System and method for illumination invariant image segmentation: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing an image file, identifying a boundary in the image, calculating a representation of the boundary extending... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, Llc

20090245683 - Defective pixel correction device: First pixel data of a pixel of interest is output from a first shift register, while second and third pixel data of neighboring pixels indicative of the same color are output from second and third shift registers, respectively. Differential data between estimated pixel data calculated from the second and third... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090245681 - Information processing method and information processing apparatus: Markers are laid out to express a predetermined code string by a plurality of continuous markers. The markers which form a marker string include at least two types of markers having different features which can be identified by image processing. Markers detected in the captured image are converted into numerical... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn: Ip Docketing

20090245682 - Method for correcting distortion of image projected by projector, and projector: A method for correcting distortion of an image projected by a projector includes: a first detection image data producing step which produces first detection image data containing marker images; a first detection image displaying step which displays a first detection image; a first image comparing step which compares the first... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20090245684 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: An image processing apparatus includes a pre-combination processing unit configured to perform a pre-combination process so that a plurality of frames of image data having continuity in time are used as combination-use image data to be combined, an operation detection unit configured to detect operation input information used for a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090245685 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: An image processing apparatus includes a pre-combination processing unit configured to perform a pre-combination process so that a plurality of frames of image data having continuity in time are used as combination-use image data to be combined, an operation detection unit configured to detect operation input information used for a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090245686 - Video bandwidth resoluation in dft-based spectrum analysis: A method and apparatus for improved video bandwidth resolution in DFT-based spectrum analysis is disclosed. A first embodiment comprises an emulation of a continuous range of video bandwidths in DFT-based spectrum analysis using overlapping resolution bandwidth frames. A second embodiment utilizes frame weighting to reduce the standard deviation in the... Agent: Matthew D. Rabdau Tektronix, Inc.

20090245687 - Image processing method and apparatus for detecting lines of images and start and end points of lines: Disclosed herein is an image processing method and apparatus for detecting the lines of images and the start and end points of the lines. The image processing apparatus includes an edge creation unit, a Hough transform unit, and an effective parameter detection unit. The edge creation unit creates an edge... Agent: Lexyoume Ip Group, Llc

20090245688 - Adaptive image acquisition for multiframe reconstruction: Multiframe reconstruction combines a set of acquired images into a reconstructed image. Here, which images to acquire are selected based at least in part on the content of previously acquired images. In one approach, a set of at least three images of an object are acquired at different acquisition settings.... Agent: Ricoh/fenwick

20090245689 - Methods and apparatus for visual sub-band decomposition of signals: Methods and apparatus for image processing include performing visual sub-band decomposition of an image using human visual system characteristics to generate a plurality of sub-band decomposed images, independently processing the plurality of sub-band decomposed images with at least one application, and fusing the independently processed sub-band decomposed images to reconstruct... Agent: Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20090245690 - Auto-calibration method for a projector-camera system: A method for self-recalibration of a structured light vision system including a camera and a projector. A camera plane and a projector plane are defined, a Homography matrix between the camera plane and the projector plane is computed, and a translation vector and a rotation matrix are determined from Homography-based... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti Pc

20090245691 - Estimating pose of photographic images in 3d earth model using human assistance: The pose of a photographic image of a portion of Earth may be estimated using human assistance. A 3D graphics engine may render a virtual image of Earth from a controllable viewpoint based on 3D data that is representative of a 3D model of at least a portion of Earth.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090245692 - Image registration method: An image registration method for conducting a high-precision image registration between a reference image in an image sequence capturing an object and an image of interest in said image sequence, the method characterized in that a predetermined region on the reference image is set as a region of interest, when... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20090245693 - Detecting orientation of digital images using face detection information: A method of automatically establishing the correct orientation of an image using facial information. This method is based on the exploitation of the inherent property of image recognition algorithms in general and face detection in particular, where the recognition is based on criteria that is highly orientation sensitive. By applying... Agent: Tessera/fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20090245694 - Motion compensated temporal interpolation for frame rate conversion of video signals: The present invention relates to a method for interpolating a subpixel at an interpolation position, which is situated in the chronological order between two source frames. Thereby the calculation of the interpolated subpixel's value is based on the value of the pixels of the two source frames and additional weighting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090245695 - Device with automatic image capture: In some embodiments, provided are methods and reading devices with image capture capabilities for efficiently capturing multiple images.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090245696 - Method and apparatus for building compound-eye seeing displays: A display includes an integrated imaging sensor and a plurality of pixels. The imaging sensor integrated within the display includes a plurality of individual sensors each of which provides an output. The output of each of the individual sensors is processed to generate an image. The resulting image has a... Agent: Kevin L. Russell Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel LLP