Image analysis inventions

20080101650 - Device, method, and recording medium for embedding/detecting a digital watermark: Even in the case where a positional misalignment occurs to an embedded digital watermark, accurate detection of watermark information is provided. A digital watermark embedding device includes: a block dividing section (101) for dividing digital data into a plurality of blocks each having a predetermined size; a block selecting section... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080101651 - Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus and computer readable medium: An image processing apparatus includes a background image generation section and a combining section. The background image generation section generates a background image, which represents (i) background information containing copy prohibition information indicating copy is prohibited and (ii) copy prohibition release information indicating a condition to release copy prohibition, by... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080101654 - Information displaying method and information display terminal device: States of respective targets such as persons, buildings, and the like are expressed, on the basis of information such as various sensor data obtained from the targets, in analog quantities such as the size, color, color depth, and the like of geometric figures, and are displayed in a terminal or... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080101652 - Method and apparatus for tracking objects over a wide area using a network of stereo sensors: A method and/or system for tracking objects, such as humans, over a wide area (that is, over an area that is delineated by a large spatial domain and/or a long-duration temporal domain) is provided. Such tracking is facilitated by processing, in real-time, near real-time or otherwise contemporaneous with receiving, images... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler P.C.

20080101653 - Method and system for object detection in an image plane: Disclosed is an object detection method and system in an image plane. A Hidden Markov Model (HMM) is employed and its associated parameters are initialized for an image plane. Updating HMM parameters is accomplished by referring to the previous estimated object mask in a spatial domain. With the updated HMM... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080101655 - Photographing apparatus and method for controlling target tracking: A photographing apparatus and a method for controlling target tracking are provided. The photographing apparatus includes a target extractor for extracting target information in a present frame based on the difference between a pixel value of one pixel among previous pixels constituting the target of the previous frame in an... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080101656 - Method and apparatus for managing parking lots: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for tracking vehicles in a parking facility using optics. The process receives a series of two-dimensional images of a vehicle in a parking facility from a camera. The process generates an object representing the vehicle based on the series of... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080101657 - Method and apparatus for performing qualitative and quantitative analysis of produce (fruit, vegetables) using spatially structured illumination: A method and an apparatus for noninvasively and quantitatively determining spatially resolved absorption and reduced scattering coefficients over a wide field-of-view of a food object, including fruit or produce, uses spatial-frequency-domain imaging (SFDI). A single modulated imaging platform is employed. It includes a broadband light source, a digital micromirror optically... Agent: Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080101658 - Biometric authentication system: A biometric authentication engine includes components which are configured to authenticate a user based on one or more presented biometrics. The system makes use of multiple threshold parameters or scores so that the authentication process is better tailored to match the specifics of the authentication request... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20080101659 - Eye closure recognition system and method: A system and method are provided for determining eye closure state of the eye of a subject. The system includes a video imaging camera oriented to generate images of an eye of a subject and a video processor for processing the images generated with the video imaging camera. The video... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080101660 - Method and apparatus for generating meta data of content: A method and apparatus are provided for generating emotional information including a user's impressions in relation to multimedia content or meta data regarding the emotional information, and a computer readable recording medium storing the method. The meta data generating method includes receiving emotional information in relation to the content from... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080101661 - Method and apparatus for offender supervision using digital encoding of images of skin-covered body parts: Apparatus that includes a communication interface capable of communication with a management entity over a network; a biometric module adapted to acquire an image of a skin-covered body part submitted thereto; an output device; and a processing unit. The processing unit is adapted for releasing a prompting signal via the... Agent: Fetherstonhaugh - Smart & Biggar

20080101663 - Methods for gray-level ridge feature extraction and associated print matching: A method for level three feature extraction from a print image extracts features associated with a selected ridge segment using a gray-level image under the guidance of at least one binary image. The level three features are a sequence of vectors each corresponding to a different level three characteristic and... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080101662 - Print matching method and apparatus using pseudo-ridges: A method for comparing a search print image comprising a first plurality of minutiae to a file print image comprising a second plurality of minutiae and the apparatus implementing the method is provided. The method includes the steps of: aligning the search and file print images; obtaining the first and... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080101664 - Non-contact optical means and method for 3d fingerprint recognition: The present invention discloses a method of recognizing 3D fingerprints by contact-less optical means. The novel method comprising inter alia the following steps of obtaining an optical contact-less means for capturing fingerprints, such that 3D optical images, selected from a group comprising minutia, forks, endings or any combination thereof are... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080101666 - Automated imaging system with slide marking: An automated slide imaging system includes an imager for acquiring images of a specimen slide mounted on a slide stage movable relative to the imager; and an image processing system configured to process the acquired images and identify objects of interest on the slide. The image processing system is configured... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20080101668 - Distorting feature compensating: Certain aspects can relate to obtaining at least one image information that can be distorted at least partially resulting from an at least a portion of at least one distorting feature. Certain aspects can relate to determining the at least one relative orientation of the at least the portion of... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080101671 - Image generator for medical treatment and its method: An image generator for medical use includes a shape information acquiring unit acquiring shape information of a subject, a functional information acquiring unit acquiring a functional value of the subject, a polyhedron generating unit generating a polyhedron so as to have a clearance within a virtual display space on the... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080101672 - Image processing method: The present invention provides an image processing method capable of acquiring any image analysis processing result desired by the user in a short time. First, volume data is analyzed and a finite number of input candidates are created (step S11) and image analysis processing is performed using the input candidates... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080101667 - Method and system for the presentation of blood vessel structures and identified pathologies: A method of presenting information associated with a blood vessel to a user for assessment of the blood vessel is provided. A two-dimensional slice of three-dimensional imaging data of a blood vessel is presented to a user in a first user interface. A blood vessel selection is received from the... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080101669 - Systems and methods for calibrating alignment devices: A calibration device includes a structure, and a target object that is moveably coupled to the structure, the target object being a physical target towards which an alignment device can be aimed. A calibration device includes a block having a first opening, and a target object that is viewable through... Agent: Varian Medical Systems Technologies, Inc. C/o Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080101665 - Systems and methods of clinical state prediction utilizing medical image data: There is provided a method for predicting a clinical state of a subject based on image data obtained from a Volume Of Interest in the subject. The method comprise the establishment of a predictive model that relates image features and the future evolution of a clinical state.... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080101670 - Systems and methods of subtraction angiography utilizing motion prediction: A system and method for calculating a pixel-shift vector that predicts the motion in dynamic image data and can be used to shift reference image data in order to generate a subtracted image with reduced motion artifacts. The pixel-shift vector is calculated based on displacement vectors that have been calculated... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080101673 - Fiducial-less tracking with non-rigid image registration: A method and system is presented for tracking patient motion in image guided surgery, using skeletal reference structures instead of fiducial markers.... Agent: Daniel E. Ovanezian Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080101674 - Method and system for automatic analysis of blood vessel structures and pathologies: A method of defining a heart region from imaging data is provided. Received imaging data is projected into a first plane. A first threshold is applied to the first plane of data to eliminate data associated with air. A largest first connected component is identified from the first threshold applied... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080101677 - Apparatus for generating sectional images of tissue: A generation of sectional images of tissue is provided. In this arrangement a first light-conducting fiber of a device for generating sectional tissue images according to the optical coherence tomography principle, which light-conducting fiber is rotatably accommodated within a catheter tube, is additionally connected to a device for generating light... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080101675 - System and method for automated detection of mucus plugs within bronchial tree in msct images: A method for detecting and localizing mucus plugs in digitized lung images, includes providing a digitized lung image volume comprising a plurality of intensities corresponding to a 3-dimensional grid of points, extracting a bronchial tree from said lung image, said bronchial tree comprising a plurality of branching airways terminating at... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080101676 - System and method for segmenting chambers of a heart in a three dimensional image: A system and method for segmenting chambers of a heart in three dimensional images is disclosed. A set of three dimensional images of a heart is received. The shape of the heart in the three dimensional images is localized. Boundaries of the chambers of the heart in the localized shape... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080101678 - Method for segmenting digital medical image: A Markov Random Field (MRF)-based technique is described for performing clustering of images characterized by poor or limited data. The proposed method is a statistical classification model that labels the image pixels based on the description of their statistical and contextual information. Apart from evaluating the pixel statistics that originate... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20080101679 - Method for checking an imprint and imprint checking device: A method for checking an imprint reads an imprint, forms a data code from the imprint, and compares the data code with a predetermined number of check data codes of a stored data set. During a search for the data code in the data set, the method decides whether the... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20080101680 - Safty device for a motor vehicle including a front-end structure: A method and system for enhanced check image privacy are disclosed. Embodiments of the present invention provide a way to automatically link the results from quality assurance software to a check image archive to appropriately mark images as unretrievable by customers. Images are interrogated with a data matching algorithm to... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Bofa

20080101682 - Arc tool user interface: A combination of arc tool user interface features and operations are provided for efficiently defining an arc tool region of interest in a machine vision inspection system. Multiple distinct types of parameter control features are provide in an arc tool GUI. The distinct types of parameter control features may be... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080101681 - Methods for determining a position and shape of a bag placed in a baggage handling container using x-ray image analysis: An improved explosive detection system is configured to determine bag contour data from a pre-scan x-ray “ground truth” image of a bag that rests within a container. The bag contour data may be used to restrict a subsequent main x-ray scan to the bag and its contents. The bag contour... Agent: General Electric Co. Global Patent Operation

20080101683 - System and method of evaluating uncoated turbine engine components: Aspects of the invention are directed to a visual-based system and method for non-destructively evaluating an uncoated turbine engine component. Aspects of the invention are well suited for high speed, high temperature components. Radiant energy emitted from an uncoated turbine engine component can be captured remotely and converted into a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080101684 - Systems and methods for lithographic reticle inspection: Systems and methods for inspection of lithographic reticles are provided. The method begins with the generation of a topographical map for a reticle surface with the reticle being in a load-free state. The reticle is then loaded onto a reticle chuck in a lithographic apparatus. A topographical map is then... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080101686 - Defect detection through image comparison using relative measures: Inspection of objects such as semiconductor wafers can include comparisons of shapes between inspection and reference images. As part of the inspection process, relative values may be assigned to pixels within each image based on comparison of such pixels to neighboring pixels. For instance, the pixels may be ranked by... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20080101685 - Defect inspection method and apparatus: A method of inspecting patterns to detect a defect of the patterns by using information of a scattered diagram of brightness of said first and second images.... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080101687 - Method and device for machine-cutting a plate-shaped workpiece: In a known method for machine-cutting a plate-shaped workpiece, position and/or geometry and/or dimensions of the workpiece are detected without contact by means of a camera and the corresponding data are subjected to an evaluation by means of image processing. Starting from this, to permit a precise and reproducible detection... Agent: Tiajoloff & Kelly

20080101688 - 3d photogrammetry using projected patterns: A structured light pattern digitizing method is combined with photogrammetry to determine a 3D model of an object. The structured light digitizing operation generates a 3D model of the object being scanned, and this model is then used to compute a higher accuracy model using photogrammetry.... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20080101689 - Classification using feature scaling: Provided are systems, methods and techniques for machine-learning classification. In one representative embodiment, an item having values for a plurality of different features in a feature set is obtained, together with scores for the different features. The score for a given feature is a measure of prediction ability for that... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080101690 - Automatic white balance statistics collection: Automatic white balance of captured images can be performed based on a gray world assumption. One aspect relates to an apparatus comprising a collection module and a processor. The collection module is configured to accumulate (a) red/green and blue/green color ratio values of a plurality of pixels in a captured... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080101692 - Image data conversion device and image display device: An image data conversion device includes an image data input unit to which image data formed of a plurality of first pixel data, each including values of three basic colors of red, green and blue, is inputted; and a color converter configured to convert first pixel data into second pixel... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20080101691 - Transparency and/or color processing: A system or method of automated image processing that can automatically determine a color and transparency for a pixel with an observed color when given the pixel and a background reference color. A point in a color space can be automatically found by extrapolating in the color space based on... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080101693 - Video image based tracking system for identifying and tracking encoded color surface: A video image based tracking method and apparatus for identifying and tracking encoded color surface. Encoded color patterns are integrated with tangible objects such as tangible toys or tangible input objects so that they can be used as a tangible input device for a computing system to control virtual multimedia... Agent: Roger Pitt Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20080101695 - Color reproduction correction circuit and correction method: The invention discloses a color reproduction correction circuit and correction method, it comprises: a reverse gamma correction section for receiving at the reception side the video signal, which has been gamma corrected at the transmission side, and the video signal is corrected by the reverse gamma correction to become linear... Agent: Nields & Lemack

20080101694 - Auto color control circuit and video signal processing circuit: An auto color control circuit comprises an auto color control wave detecting unit configured to detect the amplitude of a burst signal contained in a carrier chrominance signal and to output the amplitude as an auto color control wave detection signal; a hysteresis signal generating unit configured to output a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080101696 - Histogram generating device: A histogram generating device is disclosed. An embodiment has a brightness signal generating module generating a brightness signal by use of RGB component data of an input frame, an image component data selecting module outputting a single component frame consisting of image component data, which is one of the RGB... Agent: Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080101697 - Image processing method, medium, and system: An image processing method, medium, and system. The image processing method includes classifying an input image into predetermined image categories based on a feature of a brightness histogram of the input image, and adjusting a brightness of the input image based on grayscale functions corresponding to the image categories and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080101698 - Area testing method, area testing device, image processing apparatus, and recording medium: A method for deciding correctly a type of a specific area of an image having inclination includes the steps of generating an edge image based on a target image to be a target of image processing, generating a first histogram indicating the number of edge pixels existing in the lateral... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080101699 - Image generation apparatus and recording medium: An image generation apparatus includes an information acquisition section and an image generation section. The information acquisition section acquires record information to be recorded on a recording medium. The image generation section generates an image including code pattern images and a latent image for checking paper being copied. The code... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080101700 - Image generation apparatus, computer readable medium, computer data signal, information generation method, information reading system, electronic pen and recording medium: An image generation apparatus includes an additional image information generation section and a superposition information generation section. The additional image information generation section generates additional image information in which control information, which controls operation of a machine for reading information recorded on a recording medium, is placed as second image... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080101701 - Communication terminal: It is shown how to select and insert a non-textual, e.g. a smiley, into an application such as a chat application in a communication terminal. A smiley insertion area in the form of a hand writing input area is displayed under the control of a user interface application. After recording... Agent: Perman & Green

20080101702 - Image generation apparatus, image processing apparatus, computer readable medium and computer data signal: An image generation apparatus includes an acquisition unit and a generation unit. The acquisition unit acquires information to be embedded in each of a plurality of partitions on a recording medium. The generation unit generates an image in which first pattern images representing the information and a second pattern image... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080101703 - Systems and methods for recognizing shapes in an image: Methods and systems for recognizing shapes in an image.... Agent: Burns & Levinson, LLP

20080101704 - 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

20080101705 - System for pattern recognition with q-metrics: A pattern recognition system (100, 900, 1202, 1300) includes a configurable distance metric evaluator (112, 600, 1204). The configurable distance metric evaluator (112, 600, 1204) is adaptable, via a configuration parameter to better match distributions of feature vectors within classifications and clusters and moreover to better match boundaries between feature... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080101706 - Image data processing apparatus, image forming apparatus provided with the same, image data processing program, and image data processing method: An image data processing apparatus including: a compression processing section that divides image data into a plurality of partial data in a prescribed size, generates link information showing a mutual arrangement of each of the divided partial data, and generates compressed partial data by compressing each of the divided partial... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080101707 - Method for decomposing a video sequence frame: In a method for decomposing a block of a video sequence frame, it is determined as to whether either or both of the dimensions of the block equals a predetermined minimum dimension. In response to either or both of the dimensions equaling the predetermined minimum dimension, a motion vector for... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080101708 - Method, device and software for improving the quility of a video recording: The invention relates to improving the image quality of a video recording made in particular at a low bitrate. In a method according to the invention, motion of a video camera is observed during a recording process, and any such detected video camera motion that weakens the image quality of... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080101710 - Image processing device and imaging device: An image processing device according to the present invention comprises a motion detection processor for detecting a motion vector of image data, a particular region detection processor for detecting a particular region in the image data based on an imaging cycle of the image data and generating particular region position... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080101709 - Spatial sparsity induced temporal prediction for video compression: A method and apparatus are disclosed herein for spatial sparsity induced temporal prediction. In one embodiment, the method comprises: performing motion compensation to generate a first motion compensated prediction using a first block from a previously coded frame; generating a second motion compensated prediction for a second block to be... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080101711 - Rendering engine for forming an unwarped reproduction of stored content from warped content: A rendering engine including a first component configured to render warped content that is generated remotely from the rendering engine by applying a warping transformation to stored content according to warping information and a second component configured to inversely warp the rendered warped content according to inverse warping information that... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080101712 - Modulation transfer function of an image: The border of object in an image is blurred and so the modulation transfer function (MTF) of an image is reduced due to the blurred border. This present invention provides a deductive method for determining a border of an object in an image. Then the border of the object therein... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080101714 - Filter circuit, image processing circuit, and filtering method: A filter circuit includes: an adder/subtractor that performs at least addition; and a shifter that performs multiplication/division by a power of two through a shift operation. The adder/subtractors and the shifter are configured to obtain a first calculation result representing a pixel value of a target pixel included in image... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080101713 - System and method of fisheye image planar projection: Various embodiments of a system and method of fisheye lens image planar projection are disclosed. In general, an image created by a camera with a fisheye lens is mapped to an output image in such a way as to greatly reduce perceived distortions of people and other subjects in the... Agent: Image Trends, Inc. Suite 450

20080101715 - Method of point identification and tracking in a digital video environment: A computer implemented method, apparatus, data processing system, and computer usable program code are provided for identifying interest points. A set of digital images and a set of threshold values are received, where the set of digital images includes a set of digital frames. A set of directional values are... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080101717 - Image edge enhancing apparatus and method: An image edge enhancing method adjusts a luminance of a target pixel of a digital image. The target pixel has an original luminance. The method includes the steps of: performing an edge boosting operation on the target pixel to obtain an edge enhanced luminance; performing an edge detection on the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080101716 - Image sharpening apparatus and method thereof: An image sharpening apparatus for sharpening an original image is disclosed. The image sharpening apparatus includes a low-pass filter, a high-pass filter, an edge detector, a sharpening parameter generating unit and an operating unit. The low-pass filter, the high-pass filter and the edge detector receive the original image and respectively... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080101718 - Apparatus and method for deblock filtering: A method of processing a frame including a plurality of macro-blocks is provided. Each of the macro-blocks respectively includes M pixels. A local buffer is previously provided. The capacity of the local buffer is equal to the size of N pixels. M and N are both positive integers. N is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080101719 - Image enhancement method and system: An image enhancement method and system are provided. The image enhancement method and system are capable of improving image quality by performing gamma corrections on global and local illuminations and reflectance estimated from an input image, in consideration of dynamic range and contrast of the image, respectively. Particularly, in a... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080101721 - Device and method for image correction, and image shooting apparatus: The correcting device includes a flicker correction circuit installed in an image shooting apparatus, which is configured to employ a complementary metal oxide semiconductor image sensor for shooting an image in a rolling shutter mode. An image is divided into M pieces in a vertical direction and N pieces in... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20080101720 - Method and architecture for temporal-spatial deblocking and deflickering with expanded frequency filtering in compressed domain: A deblocking/deflickering filter decreases artifacts produced in a block-based image compression system, wherein a plurality of transform coefficients are produced respectively indicative of different frequencies in input signal values. The filter includes a first filter portion for deblocking filtering a first low frequency one of the transform coefficients and a... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP Patent Department

20080101722 - Correlation peak finding method for image correlation displacement sensing: A correlation function peak finding method for an image correlation displacement sensing system is provided. The method may include capturing a reference image and a displaced image, and searching for an initial peak correlation function value point (CFVP) with pixel-level resolution based on correlating the reference image and displaced images... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080101724 - Constructing arbitrary-plane and multi-arbitrary-plane mosaic composite images from a multi-imager: A method for constructing arbitrary-plane and multi-arbitrary-plane mosaic composite images from a multi-imager is disclosed. A first homography set is generated for a multi-imager based on a first reference plane. A second homography set is then generated for the multi-imager based on a second reference plane, where the second reference... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080101723 - Coverage-based image relevance ranking: Implementations of coverage-based image relevance ranking are described. In one implementation, an acquired image is ranked relative to a set of previously stored images based upon the conditional entropy of the acquired image. The conditional entropy may be computed after first removing overlapping pixels that are present in both the... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080101725 - Image display system configured to update correspondences using arbitrary features: A method performed by an image display system is provided. The method includes identifying a first arbitrary feature that is inherent in a first image frame and suitable for use as a first fiducial mark when the first image frame is displayed on a display surface by a display device... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080101726 - Method and apparatus for recognizing text in an image sequence of scene imagery: An apparatus and a concomitant method for detecting and recognizing text information in a captured imagery. The present method transforms the image of the text to a normalized coordinate system before performing OCR, thereby yielding more robust recognition performance. The present invention also combines OCR results from multiple frames, in... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080101727 - Programmable architecture for flexible camera image pipe processing: This invention is a programmable image pipe processing architecture that offers full software flexibility to implement latest and greatest algorithms at fully hardwired performance levels. This invention achieves hardwired image pipe processing performance but offers full flexibility and programmability of software achieving the best of both hardwired and software image... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080101728 - Image creation with software controllable depth of field: A method of controlling depth of field of an image by a computer after the image has been taken based on the data acquired while taking the images including, acquiring multiple images from the same perspective with different focal points, selecting parameters for preparing a displayable image, constructing an image... Agent: Gibbons P.C.

20080095397 - Digital watermarks: The present invention relates generally to steganography and digital watermarking. One method recites: encoding content with a plural-bit digital watermark in accordance with initial encoding parameters; determining an assessment of the encoded plural-bit digital watermark in each of two or more portions of the content; for each of the two... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080095396 - User interface for contraband detection system: An improved user interface for use with systems that display images. The interface allows easy control over the appearance of images. The user interface allows motion of a single input device to control at least two parameters of an image mapping. The controls impact the appearance of the image in... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080095399 - Device and method for detecting occlusion area: A device and method are provided for detecting an occlusion area in stages, which conducts a first stage of detection by detecting the occlusion type of the block based on a determination that the block is a covered area block or an uncovered area block, and conducts a second stage... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080095398 - Object detection method: An object detection method which rapidly detects one or more objects existing in an image includes: a primary search step which judges whether an object exists at a predetermined interval by using a simple judgment device requiring a small number of calculation amounts; a range estimation step which estimates a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080095401 - Ultrasonic camera tracking system and associated methods: A camera tracking system includes a controllable camera, an array of microphones, and a controller. The microphones are positioned adjacent the controllable camera and are at least responsive to ultrasound emitted from a source. The microphones may additionally be capable of responding to sound in the audible spectrum. The controller... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20080095402 - Device and method for position measurement: A position measurement device is provided that can precisely measure the photographing position or posture of a photographing device or the coordinates of an object based on sequentially changing photographed images. A position measuring device 100 of the invention comprises: an image acquisition section 2 for acquiring a series of... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080095400 - Image processing device, image processing method and image processing program: A shooting-information-detecting section (31) detects shooting information from an image pick-up section (10). A motion-detecting section (33) detects a motion direction of an image on an overall screen based on a motion direction of the image pick-up section contained in the shooting information. A processing-region-setting section (36) sets a processing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080095403 - Electronic traffic monitor: A method of calibrating a video image to the scene imaged is provided for which a vehicle image transit can be associated with the transit of the real-world vehicle. A path is determined by a tracking point for at least one vehicle image. A measuring vehicle image is selected, wherein... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080095404 - Method and system for determining a volume of an object from two-dimensional images: The invention provides a method and a computer program stored in a tangible medium for automatically determining a volume of three-dimensional objects represented in two-dimensional images, by acquiring at two least two-dimensional digitized images, by analyzing the two-dimensional images to identify reference points and geometric patterns, by determining distances between... Agent: Quarles & Brady

20080095405 - Method and apparatus of automated optical container code recognition with positional identification for a transfer container crane: A method and system providing a transfer container crane with container code recognition of a container identified by a container code to a container inventory management system is disclosed. The system and method are capable of performing these tasks without the use of non-standard container tagging.... Agent: Gregory Smith & Associates

20080095406 - Vehicle registration plate archive system and method of operating the same: A vehicle registration plate archive system is provided with an exit-side vehicle registration plate imaging device obtaining an exit-side vehicle registration plate image; an exit monitoring apparatus monitoring and controlling the exit-side vehicle registration plate imaging device; an entrance-side vehicle registration plate imaging device obtaining an entrance-side vehicle registration plate... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20080095408 - Imaging apparatus and method thereof: There is provided an imaging apparatus and an imaging method capable of matching coordinate positions of a plurality of images to be synthesized with each other when generating an image having a wide dynamic range by synthesizing the plurality of images each having a different exposure condition. When a luminance... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20080095407 - Method and system for offset estimation and alignment: A method for determining an offset vector. The method includes obtaining an image of a first feature. An image of a second feature is also obtained. Also, a combination image of the first feature and the second feature is obtained. A plurality of composite images is utilized to determine an... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080095409 - Apparatus, methods and computer program products for biometric confirmation of location-based tracking: Embodiments of the present invention provide apparatus, methods and/or systems for providing location based tracking with biometric confirmation. Some embodiments can include, a location identifier configured to determine the geographical location of the device and a biometric identifier configured to determine an identity of a proximate person who is proximate... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080095410 - Biometric systems: A system for providing global biometric identification services to a plurality of remote parties, the system comprising: a template receiver, which comprises: a registration input configured to receive from at least one remote registering party at least one registration template of a biometric sample of an end user of the... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080095411 - Iris recognition method: The present invention disclose an iris recognition method, which utilizes a matching pursuit algorithm to simplify the extraction and reconstruction of iris features and reduce the memory space required by each iris feature vector without the penalty of recognition accuracy. The iris recognition method of the present invention comprises an... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080095412 - Method and system for extracting liveliness information from fingertip: The present invention intends to provide a method for liveliness detection and fitness measurement using information optically extracted from a fingertip. For liveliness detection, the present method examines the change in a color index of a finger at its touching portion measured while the finger is being pressed onto an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080095413 - Fingerprint recognition system: A method of analyzing and recognizing fingerprint images that utilizes vector processing of a vector field that is defined as the tangential vector of the fingerprint ridge curves is disclosed. The raw fingerprint image is divided into blocks, filtered to remove noise, and the orientation direction of each block is... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080095414 - Correction of functional nuclear imaging data for motion artifacts using anatomical data: A method and system for detecting the presence of motion in functional medical imaging data by comparison with anatomical medical imaging data derived from reconstructed anatomical images. Detected motion in the functional data is then estimated and corrected. In accordance with an example embodiment, CT object templates are produced from... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080095416 - Marker system and method of using the same: A marker system includes a marker, and a positioner coupled to the marker, the positioner configured to position the marker from a first predetermined position to a second predetermined position. A method of providing a marker system includes obtaining a first data representative of a first predetermined position, obtaining a... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080095417 - Method for registering images of a sequence of images, particularly ultrasound diagnostic images: A method for registering images of a sequence of images, particularly ultrasound diagnostic images and especially ultrasound diagnostic images of the heart. The method comprises the steps of: providing at least a first and a second digital or digitalized image or set of cross-sectional images of the same object; defining... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20080095415 - Ultrasonic myocardial tagging: The present invention relates to an ultrasonic myocardial tagging and imaging system (30), in which an ultrasonic contrast agent, e.g. microbubbles, is introduced to the myocardial area and allowed to circulate. a high-MI pressure field is applied to selectively destroy regions of the contrast agent in a known geometry so... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080095418 - System, method, and program for medical image interpretation support: The number of similar case images to be displayed is changed according to the number of times and progress of imaging diagnosis. First examination judgment means is added to a medical image interpretation support system comprising storage means for storing image data sets obtained by imaging subjects, similar case image... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080095420 - X-ray diagnostic apparatus, image processing apparatus, and method of calculating filter coefficients used for image formation processing in x-ray diagnostic apparatus and the like: A tomosynthesis image is generated by applying preprocessing to each image obtained by capturing a plurality of X-ray images at a plurality of X-ray tube positions and then performing filtering processing and backprojection. At this time, a proper filter coefficient used filtering is determined for each scan track, each image... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080095422 - Alignment method for registering medical images: Systems and method are provided for registering medical images to reduce movement between the images. In one arrangement, a hierarchical image registration is performed where regions of the largest differences between images are identified and utilized to drive the deformation of one of the images. Such regions are identified in... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20080095423 - Analysis method for data of an examination object, featuring correlation of a volume data record with a number of projection images: Data of an examination object comprises a volume-data record and a plurality of two-dimensional projection images. The volume-data record includes voxels where each voxel is assigned to a location in three-dimensional space. Each projection image includes pixels where each pixel is assigned to a location in a two-dimensional-projection plane and... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080095419 - Method and apparatus for determining asymmetry in an image: A method for determining asymmetry in an image such as an MR image of a brain comprises determining a symmetry plane to divide the image into a first part and a second part representative of, for example, the hemispheres of the brain. The probability distributions of voxels against intensities are... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080095421 - Registering 2d and 3d data using 3d ultrasound data: A fluoroscopy image is registered with data representing a volume, identifying a catheter position relative to a volume represented by preoperative volume data. The catheter position relative to a patient volume represented by data acquired without scanning the catheter is displayed. For example, a 2D fluoroscopy image is registered with... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080095424 - Microscope system and image processing method: An object of the present invention is to provide a microscope system and an image processing method which are practical and capable of imaging a specimen efficiently in a short period of time and also ensuring reduction of the data amount of a generated image. Accordingly, the microscope system includes... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080095425 - Digitized bank checks validated by digital signatures: A modified multi-page TIFF file. A Tagged Image Format File (TIFF) conforms to a published standard. The TIFF file contains an initial header, which contains a pointer to another header, which points both to (1) the first graphical image and (2) a second header. The second header points to both... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20080095426 - Image forming apparatus and image forming system: An image forming apparatus providing services for general users, capable of getting rid of trouble to collect use charges. The image forming apparatus has: a connector to which a portable communication terminal is connected; a communication section for controlling the portable communication terminal connected to the connector, and controlling communication... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080095427 - Machine for inspecting glass containers: A machine for inspecting the finish of a glass container rotating at an inspection station. A pair of light sources, which are repeatedly turned on and off, have horizontal light axes which are orthogonally related and intersect the container axis. The light sources illuminate the container finish to identify checks.... Agent: Emhart Glass Research, Inc.

20080095428 - Method for training of supervised prototype neural gas networks and their use in mass spectrometry: A Neural Gas network used for pattern recognition, sequence and image processing is extended to a supervised classifier with labeled prototypes by extending a cost function of the Neural Gas network with additive terms, each of which increases with a difference between elements of the class labels of a prototype... Agent: Law Offices Of Paul E. Kudirka

20080095429 - Identifying intrinsic pixel colors in a region of uncertain pixels: A digital image that includes first and second regions is processed. An intrinsic color of a given pixel located in an area of interest that is adjacent to at least one of the first and second regions is estimated by extrapolating from colors of multiple pixels in one of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080095430 - Maintenance of color maximum values in a color saturation controlled color image: Conventional color saturation control CSC in a non-linear signal domain may result in exaggerated and unnatural looking colors. The invention proposes an image signal processing method (30A, 30B) of a color saturation control (17) which applies a gain value (27) to the saturation controlled image signal (Y′, satx(R′-Y′), satx(B′-Y′)) in... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080095431 - Image processing method: An image processing method includes: inputting color image data obtained by capturing an image at a given imaging sensitivity level; and converting the color image data to a specific uniform color space determined in correspondence to the imaging sensitivity level.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080095432 - Polymeric foam with irrecgular surfaces nad preparation thereof: Methodologies and systems to compare images with different levels of contrast are provided. Contrast is normalized between the images with different contrast levels and brightness is set. When normalizing contrast a derivative of gray level is determined for a first digital image having a first contrast level, and a derivative... Agent: The Dow Chemical Company

20080095433 - Signal intensity range transformation apparatus and method: A system and method for manipulating image data is disclosed. Generally, the system and method identifies useful grey-levels within an input image. The image is then scaled based upon the identified useful grey-levels.... Agent: Factor & Lake, Ltd

20080095434 - Imaging system, imaging condition setting method, terminal and server used for the same: An imaging unit (1) images an object to be imaged and acquires image data. On the other hand, an imaging information acquisition unit (2) acquires imaging information as information during imaging. A storage unit (3) contains optimal imaging condition information induced from the imaging information. An imaging information analysis unit... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080095436 - Image analysis method, medium and apparatus and moving image segmentation system: An image analysis method, medium and apparatus for segmentation of a moving image, and a moving image segmentation system. The image analysis method includes receiving an image signal representing an image, detecting features of the image by calculating a difference between the current frame of the image signal and its... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080095437 - Method, device and computer program product for demultiplexing of video images: A method for demultiplexing time-division multiplexed digital video data which originates from multiple sources in which the time-division multiplexed images are not indexed nor is there identification information provided to differentiate sources. The sources are generally cameras which may be stationary cameras or moving cameras that rotate as are commonly... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080095435 - Video segmentation using statistical pixel modeling: A method for segmenting video data into foreground and background portions utilizes statistical modeling of the pixels. A statistical model of the background is built for each pixel, and each pixel in an incoming video frame is compared with the background statistical model for that pixel. Pixels are determined to... Agent: Venable LLP

20080095438 - Method for calculating and adjusting photo and text separation performance: This invention relates to a method for calculating and adjusting photo and text separation performance. The method for calculating photo and text separation performance comprises a step of generating a standard block attribute file and a step of comparing a photo and text separation result with the standard block attribute... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080095439 - Image processing device, image processing method, information recording medium, and program: To give an effect for imparting an air of speed to an image, a dividing unit (202) of an image processing device (201) divides an original image into a plurality of regions based on an aggregate of pixels, an acquiring unit (203) acquires a representative value of each of the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080095440 - Image processing apparatus, computer readable medium and computer data signal: An image processing apparatus includes an image acquisition section, a combination detection section and an angle detection section. The image acquisition section acquires a code pattern image from a surface of a recording medium on which the code pattern is formed. In the code pattern, N unit images are selectively... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080095441 - Service plan product and associated system and method: A service plan product providing a tangible representation of a service plan includes a support backer and a tag removably coupled with the backer. The tag includes service plan account identification means corresponding to a service plan account stored in a database and plan administrator contact indicia. The tag is... Agent: Target Brands, Inc.

20080095442 - Detection and modification of text in a image: The method of the invention comprises two steps of adapting an image: identifying a text in the image and modifying a typographical aspect of the text. The electronic device of the invention is operative to perform the method of the invention. The invention also relates to control software for making... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080095444 - Information recognition device operating with low power consumption: A character recognition device recognizing characters with low power consumption includes a data input unit for entering handwriting data representing a character to be recognized, a character recognition dictionary storing character recognition information required for character recognition as well as operating frequency information concerning the operating frequency of the character... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080095443 - Mechanism for storing authenticity information about a written or printed document: A mechanism for storing authenticity information about a written or printed document. This authenticity information may be stored in a publicly-accessible database. When a document patterned with electronic ink is to be verified, the verifier examines the electronic ink under magnification. The verifier locates start and end pattern markers within... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080095445 - Locating a feature in a digital image: Methods, systems, and computer program products used to locate a feature in an image, including identifying one or more candidate features in an image, where each candidate feature is a group of pixels in the image that satisfies a pattern-matching criterion. A best candidate feature is selected from the one... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080095446 - Method and system for performing image processing in a computer apparatus: A method and system for performing image processing in a computer apparatus. The system has an image driver unit to receive a video stream output by an image capture device and perform a pre-processing on the video stream to thereby obtain a color video stream, and an image processing module... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080095447 - Retrieval system and retrieval method: On the basis of image data obtained by image acquisition, a plurality of image data are retrieved from a database (20), which constitutes a total feature value DB, by template matching using an outline template (21). A single or a plurality of images are retrieved from the retrieved plurality of... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080095448 - Search system and search method: Based on an image input by an image input section (11), a mobile application (13) and a matching process section (21) use templates managed in a hierarchical manner to search a TP data management DB (22) for an image. At this time, the mobile application (13) and matching process section... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080095449 - Imaging device: An imaging device comprises a storage section for storing therein keywords and a detecting method of detecting an object corresponding to each keyword, an imaging section for imaging the field repetitively and creating a moving picture composed of images of frames, a detecting section for detecting an object from the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080095450 - Method of spatial and snr picture compression: The versatile method of spatial and SNR scalable picture compression comprises: high resolution encoding (202a) an input picture (vi) yielding high resolution encoded data (coIIR,LQ), being the base data; deriving a first down-scaled representative picture (p1) on the basis of the high resolution encoded data (coHR,LQ); deriving a second down-scaled... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080095451 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program: A target image of coding is separated into sequences of a plurality of frames, that is, shots, and differences between the shots and shots similar to the shots are coded (reference frames for each frame in the target shot of coding are frames corresponding thereto in a shot similar to... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080095452 - Header-based processing of image compressed using multi-scale transforms: A method and apparatus is described for segmenting an image, for adaptively scaling an image, and for automatically scaling and cropping an image based on codestream headers data. In one embodiment, a file that can provide a header that contains multi-scale entropy distribution information on blocks of an image is... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080095454 - Image encoding/decoding device and method thereof: The invention provides an image encoding/decoding device and method. An encoding/decoding architecture of the invention includes: encoders for encoding image data into data blocks; a reordering multiplexer for receiving the data blocks and determining an order by which the data blocks are written into a memory according to an order... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080095453 - Method and apparatus for lossless data transformation with preprocessing by adaptive compression, multidimensional prediction, multi-symbol decoding enhancement enhancements: A process for improved, lossless data transformation with options for adaptive compression, multidimensional prediction, multi-symbol decoding.... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080095455 - Image encoding apparatus and control method thereof: When encoding into block units an image in which halftone images and character/line images are mixed, a substitution value substituting for pixels in which pixels of a character/line image exist is made a value whereby occurrence of quantization errors of direct current components after frequency conversion is substantially zero, and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080095456 - Adaptive classification system and method for mixed graphic and video sequences: A system, method and program product for classifying mixed graphic and video signals. A system is provided comprising: a system for receiving blocks of pixel data; and a classification system for evaluating an inputted block of pixel data to determine if the inputted block is a pure graphic block, a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080095457 - Image vibration detection methods and systems: Image vibration detection methods and systems for use in a digital camera. First, a photographing process is performed to sense images. At least one first window value of a first sensed image corresponding to an absolute region is calculated, and at least one second window value of a second sensed... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080095458 - Method and apparatus for generating outphased signals: A method, apparatus, and electronic device for generating outphased signals are disclosed. The method may include determining bitmap representations of two binary circles, storing the bitmap representations of the two binary circles, generating two constant-amplitude signals from an original signal using bitmap overlapping of the stored bitmap representations where the... Agent: Mr. Ronald E. Prass, Jr., Irving, Prass & Stelacone, LLP

20080095459 - Real time video stabilizer: A method of correcting a current image taken by a capturing device, the current image captured after a previous image, the method comprising the steps of: determining a noticeable pixel group, such as an edge of an object in the previous image; locating the noticeable pixel groups in the current... Agent: Gibbons P.C.

20080095460 - Method of detecting low luminance noise and image compression apparatus using the same: In a photograph and image compression system equipped with a camera, a low luminance noise cancellation algorithm is selectively applied to photographs and video images including a low luminance noise, by determining whether the low luminance noise is included in a portion of an input image, and if it is... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080095461 - Apparatus and method for determining filter condition area in deblocking filter: An apparatus for calculating a boundary strength on a macroblock basis to determine a filter condition area in a deblocking filter includes a memory unit for storing a table containing a filter condition area value for a boundary strength calculation, which correspond to each of a type value of a... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080095462 - Methods and apparatus for noise estimation: The method includes estimating a noise level in a reconstructed image using a total attenuation of the reconstructed image.... Agent: Thomas M. Fisher Fisher Patent Group LLC

20080095463 - Image processing apparatus, image acquisition method and program: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus which acquires an image of quality desired for an object located in a biological body; sets up exposure values of a plurality of stages for an image pickup means; extracts the contour of an object in image signals output from the image... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080095464 - System and method for representing motion imagery data: A method and system for representing stereoscopic motion imagery data having a right eye spatial data set and a left eye spatial data set. Each member of the left eye data set has a corresponding member in the right eye data set. The method determines correlated data and uncorrelated data... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080095465 - Image registration system and method: A moving image is aligned with a fixed image by an initial gross alignment, followed by identification of particular regions or blobs in the moving image. The blobs may be selected based upon particular features in regions of the image, such as anatomical features in a medical image. Blob matching... Agent: General Electric Company (pcpi) C/o Fletcher Yoder

20080095466 - Processing of mosaic images: Imaging apparatus includes a mosaic image sensor, which is configured to generate a stream of input pixel values belonging to a plurality of input sub-images, each sub-image responsive to light of a different, respective color that is incident on the mosaic image sensor. An image restoration engine (IRE) is coupled... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080095467 - Large-area imaging by concatenation with array microscope: An imaging apparatus consists of multiple miniaturized microscopes arranged into an array capable of simultaneously imaging respective portions of an object. A continuous linear translation approach is followed to scan the object and generate multiple image swaths of the object. In order to improve the quality of the composite image... Agent: Antonio R. Durando

20080095468 - Method and device for representing a digital image on a surface which is non-trivial in terms of its geometry and photometry: The invention relates to a method and a device for representing a two-dimensional digital image on a projection surface, whereby at least one projector projects the content of an image buffer onto the projection surface. The aim of the invention is to provide a method and a device which allow... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20080095469 - Combined rotation and scaling: A method for rotating and scaling at least a portion of an image is provided. The method consists of determining symbolically an inverse matrix of a rotation and scaling matrix, using one or more entries in the inverse matrix as variables in a scaling and rotation routine, evaluating the variables... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20080095470 - Digital image auto-resizing: A method for auto-resizing an original digital image from an original image to a resized image. The method comprises separating the foreground elements from the background elements, determining an original aspect ratio of the foreground elements and creating resized foreground elements by scaling the foreground elements while maintaining the original... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080095471 - Method and apparatus for interpolating chroma signal to minimize operation overhead: Disclosed is a method for interpolating chroma signals while minimizing the calculation overhead. To this end, multiplication requiring a large operation is removed when obtaining a fractional-pel value through chroma interpolation, and a simple linear interpolation method is used in order to reduce the number of operations including addition, subtraction,... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080095472 - Pick packet for web browser display: A method of generating a pick packet for use by a web browser. The pick packet has secondary string buffer that assigns a unique token to each unique object or unique combination of objects and a primary string buffer that associates a token with each pixel in the source image.... Agent: Bohan, Mathers & Associates, LLC

20080095473 - Wavelet transformation-based image encoder, decoder and method for generating thumbnail image: Disclosed are a wavelet transformation-based image encoder, decoder and method for generating a thumbnail image. In the present invention, an original image is tiled according to a preset tiling scheme, and wavelet transformation is performed for each tiled image. An LL image is extracted from the tiled image and range... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080089553 - Content search method and apparatus: This invention is to enable retrieving of a content the searcher imagines in mind. The search method includes: obtaining a query brain image representing a brain activity state of a searcher when perceiving or imagining the content to be retrieved; identifying the content corresponding to the query brain image by... Agent: Patrick G. Burns Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd

20080089550 - Digital watermarked imagery, video, maps and signs: Imagery, video, maps or signs are embedded with plural-bit data in the form of digital watermarking. In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining a media signal representing an image or video; introducing digital watermarking into the media signal, the digital watermarking slightly altering samples of the media signal; and the... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080089551 - Interactive tv data track synchronization system and method: The present invention provides a system and method to allow product placement, i.e. showcasing products broadcast over TV, cable or similar media and to enable viewers to view, bookmark and purchase products placed within the program as they appear on the TV screen at a particular time. The present invention... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080089554 - Device and method for digitally watermarking an image with data: A method for digitally watermarking an image or video by replacing the least significant bit of each pixel of the image with data so that an image or video can be authenticated by removing the least significant bits, reassembling the bits into a data stream and decoding the data stream.... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080089552 - Digital watermark padding method, digital watermark padding device, digital watermark detecting method, digital watermark detecting device, and program: A digital watermark embedding method of the present invention includes: a step of sequentially obtaining each frame image of the moving image data and frame display time; a step of generating a watermark pattern using watermark information, the frame display time and watermark pattern switching information; a step of superimposing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080089555 - Film marking detection system: A method and a system accomplish inspection of a mark in a frame of a film print. The system can include a frame imager which automatically selects at least one frame in the film print having an FMS mark and automatically captures an image of the frame. The image can... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080089556 - Moving target detection in the presence of parallax: A method for detecting a moving target is disclosed that receives a plurality of images from at least one camera; receives a measurement of scale from one of a measurement device and a second camera; calculates the pose of the at least one camera over time based on the plurality... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler P.C.

20080089557 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product: An image processing apparatus include an imaging unit that picks up a predetermined view to create an image; a processing region setting unit that sets a region to be processed in the image created by the imaging unit; and a processing calculating unit that performs a predetermined processing calculation on... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080089558 - Method for processing images using automatic georeferencing of images derived from a pair of images captured in the same focal plane: An image processing system in which the georeferencing of at least one digital image is achieved by means of at least one picture model of the said digital image and of a digital reference relief form. The digital image is obtained from a pair of digital images acquired in the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080089559 - Eye condition detection apparatus and method for installing same: A driver's eye condition detection is conducted by an eye condition detection apparatus including a right/left near-infrared light sources, a camera and an ECU installed therein. The right side near-infrared light source is positioned on a right side relative to the camera in a driver's view, and a light axis... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080089561 - Face-based image clustering: Face-based image clustering systems and methods are described. In one aspect, face regions are detected in images. At least one respective parameter value is extracted from each of the face regions. Ones of the face regions associated with parameter values satisfying a cluster seed predicate are classified as cluster seed... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080089560 - Known face guided imaging method: A known face guided imaging method applied for an electronic imaging device uses the scale of a known face sensed in a previous frame to define a scale range of a searching window, which adds a scale constraint into the searching window so as to search a current frame horizontally... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080089563 - Information processing apparatus having image comparing function: An element determining unit detects an element that should be excluded from an object of comparison, of an image. Using the image with the detected element removed, comparing process is performed. Specifically, a feature value calculating unit calculates, in correspondence to each of a plurality of partial images in the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080089564 - Input device, information device, and control information generation method: An input device which generates control information by moving an object to be detected, having an image capture section which captures an image of the object to be detected, a feature point extraction section which extracts a feature point of the image captured by the image capture section, a difference... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080089562 - Threshold determining device, method and program, and personal authentication system: Provided is a threshold determining device for determining a threshold, at which the false matching rate of each data to become less than a required value becomes a required assurance value or more. The threshold determining device comprises an individual threshold evaluation unit, an individual threshold distribution evaluation unit, and... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080089565 - Pattern matching: Matching of a scanned fingerprint (F) with a reference, master pattern involves running-filter de-convolution (10) of image edge-response functions (ERF) of the scanned pattern to determine from the mid-point of the full-width-half-maximum (FWHM) of the derived line spread function (LSF) the true location (11) in the image domain of the... Agent: Davis Bujold & Daniels, P.l.l.c.

20080089567 - Artifact reduction in an x-ray imaging system: A scanning X-ray system minimizes frequency artifacts by capturing a first and a second image that are offset in at least one direction.... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080089568 - Method and system for dynamic, automated detection of outlying feature and feature background regions during processing of data scanned from a chemical array: A method and system for employing signal-intensity data contained within areas of a scanned image of a chemical array corresponding to features and feature backgrounds in order to determine whether or not the features or feature backgrounds have non-uniform signal intensities and are thus outlier features and outlier feature backgrounds.... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080089566 - Systems and methods for implant virtual review: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for virtual implant review. Certain embodiments provide a method for virtual implant review. The method includes registering a two-dimensional image and a three-dimensional image. The method includes detecting an implant or instrument in the two-dimensional image. The method also includes... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080089569 - Selective fold removal in medical images: A method of selectively removing folds in a medical image is provided. With this method, a medical image is deformed to straighten and flatten folds but not polyps, thus allowing polyps to be identified. In a first step, a 3-dimensional deformable model of the medical image is constructed. This model... Agent: Miriam Kaplan Lumen Ips

20080089571 - Ultrasonic imaging apparatus and a method of obtaining ultrasonic images: An ultrasonic probe and a transmitter/receiver scan a 3D region using ultrasonic beams by raising the scanning line density of the transmission of ultrasonic beams for a region of interest compared to the scanning line density of the transmission of ultrasonic beams for regions other than the region of interest... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080089572 - Image display method and image display apparatus: There is described an image display apparatus that includes an image data processing section to convert (n+m)-bit monochromatic image data to a n-bit color display image-data group, based on a predetermined correlation, and a color image display section to display a color image on it, based on the n-bit color... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080089570 - Method for reconstructing image from echo planar imaging sequence: In a method for reconstructing an image from an echo planar imaging sequence, the echo planar imaging sequence is used to obtain multi-line k-space data from a subject and the multi-line k-space data are divided into odd line data and even line data. Fourier transform is performed on the odd... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080089573 - Bill discriminating apparatus: A technology that increases bill discrimination precision, wherein a bill discriminating apparatus detects the thickness distribution of a bill P that is subject to discrimination, and by comparing this thickness distribution data and the reference thickness distribution data that shows the thickness distribution of an authentic note held in advance,... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080089574 - Data flow management in generating different signal formats used in optical metrology: To manage data flow in generating different signal formats for use in optical metrology, a project data object is created. A first option data object is created. The first option data object has a set of signal parameters. Different settings of the set of signal parameters correspond to different signal... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080089575 - Alternating phase shift mask inspection using biased inspection data: An inspection system uses inspection data biased to compensate for mismatches that occur as a result of using an optical lithography system to print an alternating phase shift mask that operates at a wavelength of light that is different from the wavelength of light that an inspection system uses to... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080089577 - Feature extraction from stereo imagery: This application relates to generating a three-dimensional vector object, representing a feature within a scene, by analyzing two-dimensional vector objects representing the feature in a stereo pair. The two-dimensional vecto