Image analysis inventions

20090262975 - Deriving or calculating identifiers from video signals: The present invention relates generally to processing video signals. One claim recites a method including: utilizing a multi-purpose electronic processor programmed for analyzing a video signal to derive or calculate an identifier from data representing picture elements of the video signal or from data representing audio accompanying the video signal;... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20090262973 - System and method for estimating interest level: The interest level estimation system of the present invention includes a gaze measurement unit that measures a person's gaze velocity and a skin potential level measurement unit that measures a person's skin potential level. The interest level estimation system also includes an interest level estimation unit. In the interest level... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090262974 - System and method for obtaining georeferenced mapping data: A system and method for acquiring spatial mapping information of surface data points defining a region unable to receive effective GPS signals, such as the interior of a building, includes an IMU for dynamically determining geographical positions relative to at least one fixed reference point, a LIDAR or camera for... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20090262978 - Automatic detection of fires on earth's surface and of atmospheric phenomena such as clouds, veils, fog or the like, using a satellite system: A method for automatically detecting fires on Earth's surface using a satellite system is provided. The method includes acquiring multi-spectral images of the Earth at different times, using a multi-spectral satellite sensor, each multi-spectral image being a collection of single-spectral images each associated with a respective wavelength (λ), and each... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090262982 - Determining a location of a member: An volume of a patient can be mapped with a system operable to identify a plurality of locations and save a plurality of locations of a mapping instrument. The mapping instrument can include one or more electrodes that can sense a voltage that can be correlated to a three dimensional... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090262979 - Determining a material flow characteristic in a structure: An volume of a patient can be mapped with a system operable to identify a plurality of locations and save a plurality of locations of a mapping instrument. The mapping instrument can include one or more electrodes that can sense a voltage that can be correlated to a three dimensional... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090262981 - Image processing apparatus and method thereof: An image processing apparatus estimates an estimated object region including an object on an input image on the basis of a stored object data, obtains a similarity distribution of the estimated object region and peripheral regions thereof by at least one classifier, and obtains an object region coordinate and a... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090262983 - Image processing based on object information: A CPU divides an image into plural regions and for each of the regions, generates a histogram and calculates an average brightness Y ave. The CPU determines a focus location on the image by using focus location information, sets a region at the determined location as an emphasis region, and... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20090262980 - Method and apparatus for determining tracking a virtual point defined relative to a tracked member: An volume of a patient can be mapped with a system operable to identify a plurality of locations and save a plurality of locations of a mapping instrument. The mapping instrument can include one or more electrodes that can sense a voltage that can be correlated to a three dimensional... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090262984 - Multiple camera control system: A multiple camera tracking system for interfacing with an application program running on a computer is provided. The tracking system includes two or more video cameras arranged to provide different viewpoints of a region of interest, and are operable to produce a series of video images. A processor is operable... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090262976 - Position-determining system and method: A position-determining system for determining position and orientation of an object on a work surface parallel to an X-Y plane of a Cartesian coordinate system includes an image-capturing device, a processor and a recognition assistant. The image-capturing device is directed towards the work surface for capturing images of the object... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090262977 - Visual tracking system and method thereof: The present invention provides a visual tracking system and its method comprising: a sensor unit, for capturing monitored scenes continuously; an image processor unit, for detecting when a target enters into a monitored scene, and extracting its characteristics to establish at least one model, and calculating the matching scores of... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090262986 - Gesture recognition from co-ordinate data: A method for gesture recognition may comprise: a) receiving a first plurality of coordinates defining a first position of a limb from an image capture device; b) mapping at least one of the first plurality of coordinates to a cell; c) generating a first list of cells including cells to... Agent: Ibm Corporation (accsp) C/o Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20090262985 - Vibration measuring system, vibration measuring method, and computer program: There is provided a non-contact vibration measurement technique for a structure by continuously imaging the structure from a far distance using a PIV system and measuring vibration through image analysis. A vibration measurement method includes an imaging step for imaging an object separated by a long distance at a minute... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090262987 - Automatic face detection and identity masking in images, and applications thereof: A method and system of identity masking to obscure identities corresponding to face regions in an image is disclosed. A face detector is applied to detect a set of possible face regions in the image. Then an identity masker is used to process the detected face regions by identity masking... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20090262989 - Image processing apparatus and method: An image processing apparatus includes an image input unit, a feature point extraction unit which extracts a plurality of feature points from an input image, a three-dimensional model storage unit which stores a three-dimensional model and reference feature point coordinates on the three-dimensional model, a target area setting unit which... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090262988 - What you will look like in 10 years: The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that create virtual images that predict the physical appearance of an individual. The system can include mechanisms that develop a virtual image based on a health record, input received from sensors or images supplied by the individual. The system thereafter progressively modifies... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090262990 - Apparatus and method for polynomial reconstruction in fuzzy vault system: Provided is a method for polynomial reconstruction in a fuzzy vault system, which includes receiving a set of matching minutiae to select a minutiae combination to be used for the polynomial reconstruction; generating a simultaneous equation using the selected minutiae combination; determining whether a root of the simultaneous equation exists;... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090262992 - Method and apparatus for mapping a structure: An area of a patient can be mapped with a system operable to identify a plurality of locations and save a plurality of locations of a mapping instrument. The mapping instrument can include one or more electrodes that can sense a voltage that can be correlated to a three dimensional... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090262994 - Model-based fusion of scanning probe microscopic images for detection and identification of molecular structures: In certain embodiments of the invention, a plurality of images of one or more subjects may be captured using different imaging techniques, such as different modalities of scanning probe microscopy. Parameters may be estimated from the plurality of images, using one or more models of known molecular structures to provide... Agent: Client 21058 C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090262993 - Pathological tissue mapping: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to quantitative analysis of tissues enabling the measurement of objects and parameters of objects found in images of tissues including perimeter, area, and other metrics of such objects. Measurement results may be input into a relational database where they can be statistically analyzed... Agent: Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo

20090262991 - Streaming repetition coded compression: A method for transmitting a compressed image via a network, the method comprising: converting (11) the compressed image into a plurality of images, each of the plurality of images having a predetermined resolution level which is less than the original resolution of the image; transforming (12) each of the plurality... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090262995 - System for assisting preparation of medical-image reading reports: A report-data collecting unit retrieves and collects a character string in accordance with the prescribed character-string retrieval condition and the character string of annotation data. An image data display unit displays the character string and a list showing a medical image referred to while the object is being photographed. When... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090262996 - Method for image reconstruction employing sparsity-constrained iterative correction: An image reconstruction method applicable to a number of different imaging modalities including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), x-ray computed tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET), and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is disclosed. A sparsifying image is reconstructed from a series of acquired undersampled data to provide a priori... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20090262999 - Efficient features for computer-aided detection: Described herein is a technology for facilitating computer-aided detection (CAD). In one implementation, the CAD technology includes receiving an enhancement pattern (602) generated from image data. The enhancement pattern is pre-processed to produce an alert level (604, 606, 608). Computationally-intensive analysis may be performed on a region of interest if... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090262998 - Image display apparatus, image display control method, and computer readable medium having an image display control program recorded therein: Specification is received regarding which structure identifying information, each corresponding to an anatomical structure, is specified as display target structure identifying information to be displayed with a display target image when displaying the display target image, in which the positions of each pixel correspond to positions within an original image.... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090263000 - Iterative segmentation of images for computer-aided detection: Described herein is a method and system for facilitating computer-aided detection (CAD). In one implementation, image data is received (302) and iterations of an iterative segmentation process is performed on the image data. Each iterative segmentation process may include ascertaining whether a segment is normal (304), removing the segment from... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090262997 - Method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for pre-reconstruction decomposition and calibration in dual energy computed tomography: A method of obtaining a computed tomography image of an object includes determining linear terms and non-linear beam hardening terms in a pair of line integral equations for dual-energy projection data from inserting average and difference from average attenuation terms, obtaining an initial solution of the line integral equation by... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090263001 - System and method for improved real-time cine imaging: A cine imaging filter and method of use that includes a denoising image-filter based on the Karhunen-Loeve transform along the temporal direction to take advantage of the high temporal correlation among images. The cine imaging filter may further include the application of a simple formula describing the quantitative noise reduction... Agent: Standley Law Group LLP

20090263003 - Method for investigating digital images for cancer based on parameters using samples in images: A method for dividing value space of parameters into ranges using samples wherein these ranges are used for detection of cancer in a region or segment in a digital image. A method for assisting the investigation in detection of cancer in a region in a first digital image of a... Agent: George Madathilparambil George

20090263002 - Wave field microscope with sub-wavelength resolution and methods for processing microscopic images to detect objects with sub-wavelength dimensions: The invention relates to a computer implemented method for processing of microscopic images to detect objects of interest. The method includes subjecting the microscopic image to a bandpass filtering to obtain a filtered image, wherein the bandpass filtering is such as to suppress the noise and any objects which are... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090263004 - Prioritized exception processing system and method with in a check processing system and method: A system and method of processing paper checks that divides into two independent paths the processing of a data file representing a check and the digital image of the check. The data files and image files are separated both in time and in space, with the data files being used... Agent: Beck And Tysver P.l.l.c.

20090263005 - Impurity measuring method and device: An impurity measuring device includes a table (T) on which a sample (S) is to be placed with its fracture surface (h) facing up, an illuminating means (7) for irradiating the fracture surface (h) with light (L) from a plurality of directions, an image sensing means for sensing an image... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090263006 - Biochip inspecting device and biochip inspecting method: There is provided a biochip inspecting device capable of showing a manifestation state as a graphical display that can be intuitively grasped. Reading means optically reads respective sites over a biochip, on the basis of an imaging signal from an optical reader. Digitizing means digitizes manifestation states in respective sites... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090263009 - Method and system for real-time visual odometry: A method for real-time visual odometry comprises capturing a first three-dimensional image of a location at a first time, capturing a second three-dimensional image of the location at a second time that is later than the first time, and extracting one or more features and their descriptors from each of... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090263008 - Method for recognizing dice dots: A method recognizing dice dots comprises the steps: projecting at least one dice with a plurality of different angle light sources; capturing a plurality of images of the dice according to the projecting times of the light sources on the dice; and recognizing dice dots based on the images through... Agent: Frenkel & Associates

20090263007 - Stereoscopic image recording device and program: If horizontal viewpoint quantity information Nx and vertical viewpoint quantity information Ny are predetermined quantities, a value of the aspect ratio of the output image data to be finally output satisfies a predetermined condition, and a 3D identification mark is contained in the output image data, then an image recording... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090263010 - Adapting a parameterized classifier to an environment: A classifier is trained on a first set of examples, and the trained classifier is adapted to perform on a second set of examples. The classifier implements a parameterized labeling function. Initial training of the classifier optimizes the labeling function's parameters to minimize a cost function. The classifier and its... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090263011 - Detection technique for digitally altered images: Techniques are generally described to determine whether a JPEG image has undergone two compressions. Probabilities can be computed for the first digits of quantized DCT (discrete cosine transform) coefficients from a set of AC (alternate current) modes to detect or determine whether the JPEG image has undergone two compressions. The... Agent: John Whitaker Whitaker Law Group

20090263012 - Offloading processing of images from a portable digital camera: Images are offloaded from a portable camera automatically to a network server at the time the images are taken, transparently to a user of the camera. The server executes processing functions on the images and returns the output of the processing over the network to the camera and/or other user-defined... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20090263013 - Apparatus, system, and method for skin tone detection in a cmos image sensor: An image sensing system provide feature tone detection. A feature tone detection module receives illumination compensated pixel data. To perform feature tone identification the illumination compensated pixel data is transformed to a color space having hue and saturation and then compared against pre-selected ranges of hue and saturation. Noise filtering... Agent: Curtis A. Vock Lathrop & Gage LLP

20090263014 - Content fingerprinting for video and/or image: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to generating a fingerprint for identifying electronic video files based at least in part on color correlograms.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group LLP

20090263016 - Automatic color contrast analyzer: A computerized method and apparatus to analyze color contrast are provided. In an example embodiment, a computer readable storage medium is provided that comprises executable instructions. When executed, the instructions access data associated with a visual representation including text and perform optical character recognition on the visual representation to identify... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/sap

20090263018 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method for reducing color blur: The image processing apparatus includes a first reducing part configured to reduce a component of chromatic aberration of magnification which is included in the image, and a second reducing part configured to reduce a component of longitudinal chromatic aberration which is included in the image in which the component of... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090263015 - Method and apparatus for correcting underexposed digital images: A method of correcting an underexposed digital image comprises determining the stop of underexposure at which the digital image was captured, correcting for one integer stop of underexposure iteratively until the amount of underexposure correction is equal to the integer component of the determined stop of underexposure and correcting for... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20090263017 - Method for reconstruction of pixel color values: A method of color reconstruction includes a first process for a first pixel and a second process for the first pixel. The first process includes extracting a first kernel from a multi-color matrix, generating first variance weights from the first kernel, and generating a first color based on the first... Agent: Fisher Technology Law

20090263019 - Ocr of books by word recognition: Disclosed embodiments of the invention provide automated global optimization methods and systems of OCR, tailored to each document being digitized. A document-specific database is created from an OCR scan of a document of interest, which contains an exhaustive listing of words in the document. Images of each word, taken from... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090263021 - Monitoring system, monitoring method and program: In order to appropriately detect abnormalities for the purpose of surveillance with it being possible to prevent an unnecessary increase in data amount of the monitoring images, a monitoring system includes an image capturing section that captures a moving image of a monitored area, a variation reduced image generating section... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090263020 - Paper sheet identification device and paper sheet identification method: A paper sheet identification device that detects a stain on a paper sheet and identifies the stained condition of the paper sheet includes an area memory (12) that stores therein in advance an area where a stain is to be detected on the paper sheet as a target detection area,... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090263022 - Real-time face tracking in a digital image acquisition device: An image processing apparatus for tracking faces in an image stream iteratively receives an acquired image from the image stream including one or more face regions. The acquired image is sub-sampled at a specified resolution to provide a sub-sampled image. An integral image is then calculated for a least a... Agent: Tessera/fotonation Patent Legal Dept.

20090263024 - Apparatus for data analysis: Edge points are extracted by specifying a height (values indicating a distance from a substrate) on a pattern when edges of the pattern are extracted from a CD-SEM image. Further, LER values obtained by the extraction or a Fourier spectrum of the LER are obtained. When the same sample is... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090263023 - Video special effect detection device, video special effect detection method, video special effect detection program, and video replay device: An image boundary line candidate pixel detection section detects image boundary line candidate pixels as candidates for pixels specifying an image boundary line from each frame of video and outputs, for each frame, image boundary line candidate pixel information as information indentifying the image boundary line candidate pixels. A line... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090263025 - Image determination apparatus, image search apparatus and computer readable recording medium storing an image search program: A preprocessing section binarizes input image data and calculates a total black pixel ratio. A feature extracting section detects connected components contained in the binarized image data and detects circumscribing bounding boxes that circumscribe these connected components, respectively. Based on sizes of the circumscribing bounding boxes detected and numbers of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090263026 - Content item placement: A content item, e.g., an icon or advertisement logo, is placed in a display environment (e.g., on a map) so that the content item does not intersect a feature, e.g., a street name or graphical representation of a landmark. The placement of the content item is facilitated at a variety... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090263027 - Image processing method: In an image processing method, extraction points are set inside the draw line as the region with less luminance change relative to the periphery, and extraction points are set on the background outside the draw line in a sample image such as a letter and a number. Pixel data of... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20090263028 - Selecting best image: Techniques, apparatus and systems are described for selecting the recommended image among sequentially captured images. In aspect, a method of selecting the recommended image includes measuring a brightness value and a sharpness value for each of sequentially captured images. The measured brightness and sharpness values are combined for each image... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20090263029 - Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding 3d mesh information: A method and apparatus for encoding and decoding three-dimensional mesh information are provided. The method and apparatus separately encode/decode order information of elements, such as vertices and faces, of a three-dimensional mesh model (original model) in consideration of a change in an element order during encoding three-dimensional mesh information for... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090263030 - Methods and apparatuses for compressing digital image data: Methods and apparatuses for compressing digital image data are described herein. In one embodiment, a wavelet transform is performed on each pixel of a frame to generate multiple wavelet coefficients representing each pixel in a frequency domain. The wavelet coefficients of a sub-band of the frame are iteratively encoded into... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20090263031 - Pixel input-output method, image compressing method, pixel input-output apparatus, image compressing apparatus, image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, computer program and recording medium: When inputted pixels from an input DMA unit, a packing unit outputs data package. One data package consists of a inputted pixels. A memory control unit writes, on a write line memory at a write interval, the data package that is outputted by the packing unit. The write interval is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090263032 - Image processing apparatus, method, and program: The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus, method, and program that are capable of improving image quality. A deblocking filter 113 adjusts the value of disable_deblocking_filter_idc, slice_alpha_c0_offset_div2, or slice_beta_offset_div2 on the basis of Activity of an image calculated by an activity calculation section 141, the total sum of... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090263033 - Method and apparatus for interpolating an image: This invention concerns the interpolation of new intermediate images within an existing set of related images, for example views of a scene captured at different times, such as a sequence of film frames or video fields, or views of a scene captured from different camera positions, either simultaneously or in... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20090263034 - System and method for signal processing using fractal dimension analysis: A system and method of signal processing using linear or non-linear signal transformation and fractal dimension based analysis. Using a transform process (i.e. wavelet transform, Fourier transform, ICA transform, etc.), a signal is decomposed into a series of coefficients or components. Within this transform domain, fractal dimensions of the components... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090263035 - Image noise level estimation from jpeg data: A system for estimating noise levels in a data stream includes a calculator for determining DC and AC values of DCT coefficients in coded data blocks, where the coded data blocks are within a strip of an image divided into multiple strips. A classifier is included for forming a plurality... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090263036 - Encoding device and encoding method: An encoding device 100 includes a quantization parameter generating circuit 111 that generates a provisional quantization parameter, a quantizing circuit 121 that generates quantized data by quantizing a signal to be quantized on the basis of the provisional quantization parameter, a binarizing circuit 131 that binarizes the quantized data to... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090263037 - Method and apparatus for enhancing the dynamic range of an image: A method of converting an image signal from an original dynamic range to a target dynamic range includes dividing the original dynamic range and the target dynamic range in to a plurality of corresponding sub-ranges and mapping each original sub-range to its corresponding target sub-range. One of the dynamic ranges... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20090263039 - Method and system for improving visual quality of an image signal: The present invention relates to an image processing system where processing modules are used for processing an incoming image-in signal (101) in at least a first layer and a second layer, wherein the processing results in at least first and second processed image signals. A signal analyzer (111) determines one... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090263038 - Method for creating photo cutouts and collages: A method for automatically producing a new digital image from a first digital image that includes regions of interest, includes obtaining a main subject belief map including an array of belief values indicating the location and relative importance of subject matter in the first digital image; producing a mask for... Agent: J. Lanny Tucker Patent Legal Staff

20090263040 - Systems and methods for performing gabor-domain optical coherence microscopy: In one embodiment, imaging a medium under evaluation includes generating acquired images of the medium, each acquired image comprising a cross-sectional image along a lateral and a depth direction of the medium that results from scanning the medium at a different depths, filtering each acquired image to remove out-of-focus portions... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090263041 - Block based image processing: Block based image processing techniques are described in which one or more processing filters are applied to an image block by block. One or more filters are identified to process an image. Attributes are obtained that describe the one or more filters. Image data is loaded into multiple input blocks... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090263042 - Line drawing processor, line drawing processing method, and program therefor: Based on an input operation by an operator, a line drawing processor sets a designated region and sets identification points in the designated region to generate first and second identification data, each data representing a colored pixel cluster linked to each of the identification points. The line drawing processor further... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090263043 - Blind deconvolution and super-resolution method for sequences and sets of images and applications thereof: The present invention relates to the image achieved by any conventional method of capture and their subsequent computer processing. The process of the invention presented is based on the simultaneous processing of the input images and their restoration (deconvolution) pixel by pixel by means of a new mathematical method. Furthermore,... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090263044 - Image generation apparatus and image generation method: An image generation apparatus generates a new video sequence with a high S/N ratio and suppressed motion blurs, from an original video sequence and a still image which are generated by capturing the same dark, moving object. The image generation apparatus includes: a capture condition decision unit (105) which decides,... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090263045 - Image blending using multi-splines: Multi-spline image blending technique embodiments are presented which generally employ a separate low-resolution offset field for every image region being blended, rather than a single (piecewise smooth) offset field for all the regions to produce a visually consistent blended image. Each of the individual offset fields is smoothly varying, and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090263046 - Determination of portrait against back light: A CPU 200 compares a luminance distribution characteristic of image data with a reference luminance distribution characteristic, and then confirms that the image data GD is a backlit portrait image data if similarity degree Sv between the luminance distribution characteristic of image data and the reference luminance distribution characteristic is... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20090263047 - Converting bayer pattern rgb images to full resolution rgb images via intermediate hue, saturation and intensity (hsi) conversion: In one embodiment, R and B values for each G pixel element are interpolated and the RGB values are converted to HSI values. The converted HSI values are interpolated to determine interpolated HSI values for the R and B pixel elements and then the interpolated HSI values are converted to... Agent: Law Office Of Charles E. Krueger

20090257618 - Data processing apparatus and method: A data processing apparatus registers an image encoded with a two-dimensional water mark pattern. The water mark includes for each image frame a water mark frame pattern of water mark blocks. The water mark pattern includes plural regions each including one water mark block selected from a predetermined set of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090257619 - Method for extracting random signatures from a material element and method for generating a decomposition base to implement the extraction method: d

20090257620 - Methods and apparatus for auditing signage: Example methods and apparatus for auditing signage are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves directing an operator to a signage location and capturing an image of a signage at the signage location. The example method also includes detecting an actual characteristic of the signage based on the image and comparing... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20090257622 - method for remote spectral analysis of gas plumes: A method for reducing the effects of background radiation introduced into gaseous plume spectral data obtained by an aerial imaging sensor, includes capturing spectral data of a gaseous plume with its obscured background along a first line of observation and capturing a second image of the previously obscured background along... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20090257621 - Method and system for dynamic feature detection: Disclosed are methods and systems for dynamic feature detection of physical features of objects in the field of view of a sensor. Dynamic feature detection substantially reduces the effects of accidental alignment of physical features with the pixel grid of a digital image by using the relative motion of objects... Agent: Cognex Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090257623 - Generating effects in a webcam application: A system and a method for generating effects in a webcam application are provided. The method includes identifying a first object and a second object in a video image. The method also includes adding a first user-created object to the video image to create an altered video image and adding... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090257624 - Flow line analysis apparatus and program recording medium: A control section edits a complete flow line as an entire trajectory in a sales area for each customer, based on data for a flow line generated from a camera image obtained by shooting the sales area. The complete flow line is reproduced as trajectories of customers by a display... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090257625 - Methods involving face model fitting: A method for face model fitting comprising, receiving a first observed image, receiving a second observed image, and fitting an active appearance model of a third image to the second observed image and the first observed image with an algorithm that includes a first function of a mean-square-error between a... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20090257626 - Thinned finger sensor and associated methods: An electronic device may include a housing with a connector member opening therein, electronic circuitry within the housing, and a finger sensor assembly carried by the housing. The finger assembly may include a thinned finger sensing integrated circuit (IC) secured to the housing that has a thickness less than 200... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20090257629 - Artifact suppression in multi-coil mri: A magnetic resonance imaging system (1), comprising a plurality of receiving units (4.1-4.4) for receiving magnetic resonance signals from an object (2), and an image reconstruction device (8), said image reconstruction device being adapted to receive magnetic resonance signals of said object (2) from said plurality of receiving units (4.1-4.4)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090257632 - Method for measuring the area of a sample disposed within an analysis chamber: A method for determining the area of an analysis chamber covered by a biologic fluid sample quiescently residing within the chamber is provided. The chamber has a first panel with an interior surface, and a second panel with an interior surface, both of which panels are transparent. The method includes... Agent: O''shea Getz P.C.

20090257628 - Standardized normal database having anatomical phase information: A method for detecting a disease state is presented. In accordance with aspects of the present technique, a method for detecting a disease state is presented. The method includes creating a normal standardized data repository, where the normal standardized data repository includes one or more normal reference surface projections, where... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20090257630 - System and method for interactive liver lobe segmentation: Methods and systems for separating a 3D liver object are disclosed. A 3D liver object and selected associated vascular and other anatomic structures are displayed in a 3D space which is rendered on a 2D display screen. One or more 3D separating surfaces are placed in the 3D space based... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090257631 - System for generation of a composite medical image of vessel structure: A system reduces artifacts introduced by patient or table motion during generation of a composite image visualizing contrast agent flow. A system for generation of a composite medical image of vessel structure, includes an imaging device for acquiring multiple sequential images of vessel structure of a portion of patient anatomy... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090257627 - Systems, methods and apparatus for detection of organ wall thickness and cross-section color-coding: Systems, method and apparatus in which some implementations of respiratory structure imaging includes tracking a portion in a organ, determining wall contours in the portion and color-coding confidence in the wall contours. Some implementations of the color-coding includes selecting a cross section of a portion, determining average intensity of a... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20090257633 - Method and system for compressing data: A method for compressing imaging data includes acquiring a stream of imaging data, and dividing the stream of imaging data into a plurality of interstices, each interstice including a plurality of detected events. The also includes classifying the detected events within each interstice based on a probability of occurrence of... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20090257636 - Method of eye registration for optical coherence tomography: A method is disclosed for use in eye registrations and examinations, some embodiments of the method including acquiring scan pattern scans; forming images from the scans; registering the images; generating a feature map from the scan pattern scans; identifying features on the feature map; and recording positional information of features.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090257634 - Rf pulse distortion correction: This document discloses, among other things, a method for removing a bullseye artifact from a radial image generated using magnetic resonance and using a swept frequency pulse.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090257635 - System for defining volumes of interest with reference to anatomical features: In a system and method for dividing a medical scan into regions to which features of interest may be assigned, region boundaries are defined with reference to anatomical landmarks and are presented to the physician along with the scan so that it is immediately apparent in which region a feature... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090257638 - Method and facility for visualizing an overlaid presentation of x-ray images: The invention relates to a method for visualizing an overlaid presentation of x-ray images. A first two-dimensional fluoroscopy image of an object of interest is provided. A second two-dimensional x-ray image of the object is intra-operatively recorded. A color is selected to a part of the first fluoroscopy image reproducing... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090257637 - Method for providing variously processed image data and x-ray image system: Modern image processing systems for the postprocessing of X-ray images require a large number of input parameters and take a great deal of time. So that calculations do not need to be made sequentially for different sets of input parameters, parallel processors are used, in which the same image processing... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090257639 - Method of tracking eyeball in eyeball tumor treatment: Disclosed herein is a method of tracking the movement of an eyeball in eyeball tumor treatment. The method includes a calibration step of storing an actual length for each pixel of an image in a storage unit, a template image generation step of storing a patient's eyeball image as a... Agent: Casimir Jones, S.c.

20090257640 - Classification of samples: Methods disclosed herein include: (a) determining positions of a plurality of cells based on one or more images of the cells; (b) for at least some of the plurality of cells, generating a matrix that includes two-dimensional information about positions of neighboring cells, and determining one or more numerical features... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090257641 - Method for detecting monetary banknote and performing currency type analysis operation: A method for detecting an image corresponding to at least a monetary banknote is provided. The method includes selecting a detection procedure from a plurality of different detection procedures, and verifying the image according to the selected detection procedure. A method for performing a currency type analysis operation on an... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090257642 - Coin authenticity judging method and device: With a coin authenticity judging method according to an embodiment of the present invention, image data of an incuse/relief portion 14, formed on a surface of a medal 13, are acquired by capturing an image of the incuse/relief portion 14 by means of an image sensor 23, disposed so as... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20090257643 - Method and system for remote rework imaging for part inconsistencies: A system and method for remote rework imaging a part for an inconsistency is provided. The part is scanned with a nondestructive inspection device. An image of a part inconsistency is communicated from the nondestructive inspection device to a programmable device. The image of the part inconsistency is viewed with... Agent: Hayes Soloway P.C.

20090257644 - Method and system for evaluating an object: A method, system aid a computer program product for evaluating a object; the method includes: (i) obtaining an image of an area of the object; wherein the area comprises multiple arrays of repetitive structural elements that are at least partially surrounded by at least one group of non-repetitive regions; wherein... Agent: Applied Materials, Inc. C/o Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090257645 - Methods and systems for determining a defect criticality index for defects on wafers: Various methods and systems for determining a defect criticality index (DCI) for defects on wafers are provided. One computer-implemented method includes determining critical area information for a portion of a design for a wafer surrounding a defect detected on the wafer by an inspection system based on a location of... Agent: Entropy Matters LLC

20090257646 - Apparatus and method for detecting defects in wafer using line sensor camera: An apparatus and method for detecting defects in a wafer are provided. An optical part is disposed under an inspection stage and radiates infrared light onto the wafer disposed on an inspection region formed of a transmissive material on the inspection stage. An image obtaining part detects the infrared light... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090257647 - Method and apparatus for inspecting defects: A two-dimensional sensor is installed inclining at a predetermined angle to a moving direction of a stage on which an object to be inspected is mounted and, in synchronism with the movement of the stage, a picked up image is rearranged so that there can be obtained an image in... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090257648 - Method and apparatus for providing improved human observer xyz functions and calculations for cielab: A method for determining color-matching functions includes obtaining spectral data originating from metameric pairs and generating new color matching functions by modifying original color matching functions. The new color matching functions are constrained to be similar to the original color matching functions while reducing calculated perceptual error between the metameric... Agent: Amelia A. Buharin Patent Legal Staff

20090257650 - Image processing method and medium to extract a building region from an image: Provided is a method of performing an image segmentation so as to extract a building region from an input color image. The method includes extracting a plurality of straight lines that pass through a vanishing point and determining the building region in the image based on color values around the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090257649 - Video scene classification device and video scene classification method: A picture classifying unit (104) in a video scene classifying device (100) classifies obtained plural pictures into plural clusters based on a classification index which indicates a feature of the pictures. A cluster selecting unit (106) selects at least one cluster among the classified clusters. An index generating unit (108)... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090257651 - Compression/decompression of digital images: A method of compressing at least a part of a digital image comprises the steps of: dividing said digital image into groups of pixels; assigning a first information to each group of pixels wherein said first information indicates at least two reference colors selected for said group of pixels and,... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090257652 - Automatic image color tone correction: A method of image color tone correction is disclosed, which may include the steps of (a) providing a reference image and one or more source images, wherein all images are comprised of pixels of a scene; (b) correcting a designated portion of one of the source images based on the... Agent: O'banion & Ritchey LLP/ Sony Electronics, Inc.

20090257653 - Image processor and computer readable medium: An image processor includes a partial image extracting unit, a sequencing unit and a difference extracting unit. The partial image extracting unit extracts first partial images from a first image, and extracts second partial images from a second image. The sequencing unit determines an order of the extracted first partial... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090257656 - Detecting double jpeg compression in images: Techniques are generally described for detecting double JPEG compression in images. Example detection techniques of double JPEG compression may include receiving JPEG images for analysis and extracting 2-dimensional (2-D) arrays of JPEG coefficients from the images. 2-D difference arrays may be generated from the array of JPEG coefficients, with the... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, LLC

20090257654 - System and method for determining an objective measure of human beauty: An objective measure of human beauty is determined by a beauty quantification system. The beauty quantification system comprises a beauty quantification processor, a beauty measure datastore, a beauty score datastore, a user computing device, and a network. The beauty measure datastore comprises quantifiable measures of beauty of a body region.... Agent: The Marbury Law Group, PLLC

20090257655 - System and method for visual recognition: A method for visual recognition of an object in an electronic image includes extracting unique points of an object to be learned and/or a target object. The unique points are obtained by cross-correlating the image with a structure. Generally, the structure and/or the size of the structure may vary to... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090257657 - Method and device for processing and presenting medical images: The present invention relates to a method for processing and presenting at least a first image (102) and a second image (103), these images being digital medical images. A first step in the method is performing image registration between the first image (102) and the second image (103) to generate... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090257658 - Image extracting apparatus, image extracting method and computer readable medium: An image extracting method includes: acquiring a scan image; generating a binary image of the acquired scan image and detects connected pixels in the generated binary image; setting up a circumscribed rectangle for the detected connected pixels; performing, in each side of a circumscribed rectangle, scan in a direction perpendicular... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090257659 - Vehicle circumferential image providing device and vehicle circumferential image providing method: In a vehicle circumferential image providing device 1, an image converting unit 53 generates an overhead image 205 from images picked up with plural camera modules 10. An image detecting unit 54 performs edge detection in an overhead image 205. Further, the image detecting unit 54 determines continuity of edge... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090257660 - Shape determination of objects with surface matching: A method for inspecting component surfaces by a scanning test system, with the activation of the test system taking place such that, based on a known region of the component surface, an estimation of the component shape is performed, the estimation at the edge of the known region is drawn... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20090257661 - Information processing apparatus and method, and program: An information processing apparatus includes a first classification unit configured to set each of pixels forming a first image as a pixel of interest and classify the pixels of interest into one of a plurality of provided classes of a first type in accordance with a predetermined rule; a feature... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090257662 - System and method for image and video search, indexing and object classification: Indexing regions of changed pixels (ROCHs) in a collection of images by receiving a collection of images. Estimate and/or validate a background among the collection of images. Detect the changes between images in the collection. Associate the detected changes between the images and classifying the associated changes. This image processing... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20090257663 - Image classification using capture-location-sequence information: Classification of a group of temporally related images is disclosed, wherein a capture-location sequence is identified from the group of temporally related images. The capture-location-sequence information, which is associated collectively with the capture-location sequence, is compared with each of a plurality of sets of predetermined capture-location-sequence characteristics. Each set is... Agent: J. Lanny Tucker, Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20090257664 - Methods and apparatus for in -loop de-artifact filtering: There are provided methods and apparatus for in-loop artifact filtering. An apparatus includes an encoder for encoding an image region. The encoder has at least two filters for successively performing in-loop filtering to respectively reduce at least a first and a second type of quantization artifact.... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090257665 - Dynamic image encoding device, dynamic image decoding device, dynamic image encoding method, dynamic image decoding method, dynamic image encoding program, and dynamic image decoding program: An image encoding device including an input section inputting an input image constituting an encoding target; a reference image accumulation section accumulating a reference image; a reference image accompanying information accumulation section accumulating reference image accompanying information that accompanies the reference image; an encoding section modifying the reference image and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090257667 - Image decoding apparatus and control method: The invention enables effectively executing decoding processing in units of blocks based on encoded image data that has been variable-length encoded in units of blocks and furthermore has marker code inserted therein. An identification unit generates information indicating the position of an emulation prevention byte and deletes the emulation prevention... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090257666 - Image decoding device, image decoding method, image decoding system, and system lsi: Whether or not underflow is being occurred or underflow is highly likely to occur is judged based on an image encoded data amount in a reception buffer at a time of the judgment or a change in the image encoded data amount with time. When the judgment is affirmative, a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090257668 - Prediction techniques for interpolation in video coding: This disclosure describes filtering techniques applied by an encoder and a decoder during the prediction stage of a video encoding and/or decoding process. The filtering techniques may enhance the accuracy of predictive data used during fractional interpolation, and may improve predictive data of integer blocks of pixels. There are several... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090257669 - Local illumination and color compensation without explicit signaling: There are provided method and apparatus for local illumination and color compensation without explicit signaling. An apparatus includes an encoder for encoding a picture by enabling at least one of color compensation and illumination compensation of at least one color component of a prediction for an image block of the... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090257670 - In-loop adaptive wiener filter for video coding and decoding: A video encoder may use an adaptive Wiener filter inside the core video encoding loop to improve coding efficiency. In one embodiment, the Wiener filter may be on the input to a motion estimation unit and, in another embodiment, it may be on the output of a motion compensation unit.... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20090257671 - Method and apparatus for identifying an imaging device: A new technique for identifying from images a camera, or other imaging device such as a scanner, is based on the device's reference noise pattern, a unique stochastic characteristic of all common digital imaging sensors, including CCD, CMOS (Foveon™ X3), and JFET. First, one determines from images the sensor's reference... Agent: Milde & Hoffberg, LLP

20090257672 - Noise filter: Provided is a system and method for processing data and images including, but not limited to separating data into a plurality of data planes; performing noise analysis to determine an average noise amplitude and noise distribution for each data plane via a gradient calculation; applying an edge mask to weaken... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC Margaret Anderson

20090257673 - Method and system for noise level detection in image data: A system determines the noise level of image data by high pass filtering image data. Absolutes values of the high pass filtered image data are determined. Thereafter, multiple mean values for absolute values less than a predetermined number of threshold values are determined. Based upon the determined mean values, a... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20090257674 - Method and system for noise level detection in image data: A system determines the noise level of image data by high pass filtering image data. Absolutes values of the high pass filtered image data are determined. Thereafter, multiple mean values for absolute values less than a predetermined number of threshold values are determined. Based upon the determined mean values, a... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20090257675 - Method and system for noise level detection in image data: A system determines the noise level of image data by high pass filtering image data. Absolutes values of the high pass filtered image data are determined. Thereafter, multiple mean values for absolute values less than a predetermined number of threshold values are determined. Based upon the determined mean values, a... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20090257676 - Systems and methods for picture edge enhancement: Systems and methods for effectively and naturally enhancing the relative contrast between an image object and the surrounding background image in television pictures. In one embodiment, a television system preferably comprises a central processing unit (CPU) coupled to an audio-video output unit. The CPU preferably comprises non-volatile memory coupled to... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20090257678 - Image processing circuit and method thereof for enhancing text displaying: An image processing circuit and method thereof for enhancing text displaying of an image are provided. The image processing circuit performs the method. Firstly, at least a first illumination area and at least a second illumination, which is located adjacent to the first illumination area in the image are defined... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090257677 - Per-channel image intensity correction: Techniques for per-channel image intensity correction includes linear interpolation of each channel of spectral data to generate corrected spectral data.... Agent: Nvidia C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20090257679 - Scene based non-uniformity correction systems and methods: Systems and methods provide scene-based non-uniformity correction for infrared images, in accordance with one or more embodiments. For example in one embodiment, a method of processing infrared images includes storing a template frame comprising a first plurality of pixel data of an infrared image; receiving an input frame comprising a... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090257681 - Image processing system, image processing method, and storage medium: An image processing system includes a plurality of clients, a plurality of servers, and a computer. The computer includes a user application and a multi-target controller. The user application interactively operates with a user. The multi-target controller causes the plurality of clients to synchronously access the plurality of servers in... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090257680 - Method and device for video stitching: A method and device for video stitching is presented. The invention determines one or more motion vectors indicative of changes in two consecutive images of a (video) sequence of images. It further determines a spatial correlation function by examining two images from two different videos obtained from adjacently placed cameras... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20090257682 - System and method for automatic digital image orientation detection: Described is a system for automatic digital photo orientation detection. We leverage online public photos with great content variation to extract effective features with layout information. Classification proceeds using an approximate nearest neighbors approach which scales well to massive training sets, hardly compromising efficiency. We have tested the method successfully... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090257684 - Method and apparatus for suppressing ringing artifacts within super-resolution image processing: Apparatus and methods for reducing ringing artifacts when generating super-resolution pictures and/or videos and for controlling the balance between sharpness and introduction of artifacts. After motion estimation and motion masking for all input frames, the method enters a frame loop within which high frequency information is extracted from the input... Agent: O'banion & Ritchey LLP/ Sony Electronics, Inc.

20090257683 - Method and system for enhancing short wave infrared images using super resolution (sr) and local area processing (lap) techniques: A high resolution image of a scene or object is generated by collecting a plurality of images, enhancing the plurality of images to produce a sequence of enhanced images, registering the sequence of enhanced images, accumulating the intensities of the registered sequence of enhanced images to produce a composite image,... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090252371 - Mobile device with color detection capabilities: A mobile device comprising a camera and color detection software stored in memory of the mobile device, wherein the color detection application analyzes and displays component colors in a captured image and compares component colors in two such captured images. The color detection application displays component colors in a specific... Agent: Bindu Rama Rao

20090252372 - Terrain correction systems: Methods, apparatus and computer program code for terrain correction for geophysical surveys, in particular potential field surveys. A method of terrain correction for a geophysical survey involves capturing a multi- or hyperspectral image of a region to be surveyed; determining a surface geological composition of the surveyed region using the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090252370 - Video watermark detection: A method and system for detecting watermarks in video images including preparing a signal, extracting and calculating property values, detecting bit values and decoding a payload, where the payload is a bit sequence generated and embedded by enforcing relationships between property values in a volume of video are described.... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090252374 - Image signal processing apparatus, image signal processing method, and program: An image signal processing apparatus includes a detecting unit configured to detect a motion vector of a tracking point provided in an object in a moving image, a computing unit configured to compute a reliability parameter representing the reliability of the detected motion vector, a determining unit configured to determine... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090252373 - Method and system for detecting polygon boundaries of structures in images as particle tracks through fields of corners and pixel gradients: A stochastic method and system for detecting polygon structures in images, by detecting a set of best matching corners of predetermined acuteness α of a polygon model from a set of similarity scores based on GDM features of corners, and tracking polygon boundaries as particle tracks using a sequential Monte... Agent: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC

20090252375 - Position detection system, position detection method, program, object determination system and object determination method: There is provided a position detection system including an imaging unit to capture an image of a projection plane of an electromagnetic wave, an electromagnetic wave emission unit to emit the electromagnetic wave to the projection plane, a control unit to control emission of the electromagnetic wave by the electromagnetic... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090252376 - System for road sign sheeting classification: A system for classifying different types of sheeting materials of road signs depicted in a videostream compares estimated retroreflectivity values against known minimum retroreflectivity values for each of a plurality of colors. Once a road sign has been identified in the videostream, the frames associated with that road sign are... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090252377 - Mobile object recognizing device, mobile object recognizing method, and computer program thereof: A mobile object recognizing device comprises a camera (2) for taking time-series images, a feature point extracting unit (23) for extracting the feature points of the individual time-series images taken by the camera (2), an optical flow creating unit (24) for comparing the feature points of the time-series images between... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090252379 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and recording medium: An information processing apparatus includes a feature value detecting section, an image processing section, and an audio processing section. The feature value detecting section determines, when a first image and a second image that are captured at different positions include a specific subject, a feature value of the subject included... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090252380 - Moving object trajectory estimating device: A moving object trajectory estimating device has: a surrounding information acquisition part that acquires information on surroundings of a moving object; a trajectory estimating part that specifies another moving object around the moving object based on the acquired surrounding information and estimates a trajectory of the specified moving object; and... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20090252378 - Operating method for an imaging system for the time-resolved mapping of an iteratively moving examination object: The invention relates to an operating method for an imaging system for the time-resolved mapping of an iteratively moving examination object. First recordings of the object are generated by the imaging system from various angles while simultaneously recording a phase signal. Multiple static 3D-image data sets corresponding to a sequence... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090252381 - Paper-sheet stain detecting apparatus and method: In an apparatus for detecting a stain on a paper-sheet, a type and a transportation direction of the paper sheet are identified, and the information on whether each extraction target area of a read image corresponds to a white portion or a patterned portion of the paper sheet are stored.... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090252382 - Segmentation of iris images using active contour processing: Aspects of the present invention are generally directed to processing of an obtained iris image. An iris is image is segmented for use in a biometric recognition scheme.... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090252383 - Method and apparatus to incorporate automatic face recognition in digital image collections: A method and apparatus for creating and updating a facial image database from a collection of digital images is disclosed. A set of detected faces from a digital image collection is stored in a facial image database, along with data pertaining to them. At least one facial recognition template for... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20090252385 - Apparatus and method for reducing noise in fingerprint sensing circuits: An apparatus for reducing noise in fingerprint sensing circuits is disclosed in one embodiment of the invention as including a fingerprint sensing area onto which a user can apply a fingerprint. An analog front end is coupled to the fingerprint sensing area and is configured to generate an analog response... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20090252386 - Apparatus and method for reducing parasitic capacitive coupling and noise in fingerprint sensing circuits: A fingerprint sensing circuit for reducing noise and parasitic capacitive coupling is disclosed in one embodiment of the invention as including a plurality of transmitting elements to sequentially emit a probing signal. A digital ground is provided to ground digital components in the fingerprint sensing circuit. A quiet ground, separate... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20090252388 - Finger identification apparatus: An identification apparatus that keeps the conditions for imaging uniform among successive identifications and requires a user to perform only a series of simple maneuvers. An identification apparatus comprising a guide member, a light source, and an imaging unit. The guide member includes a pattern or a structure that inspires... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20090252384 - Fingerprint sensing circuit having programmable sensing patterns: A fingerprint sensor with programmable sensing patterns is disclosed in one embodiment of the invention as including a fingerprint sensing circuit having multiple I/O interconnects. The I/O interconnects are configured to sequentially drive a plurality of fingerprint sensing elements. A memory device may be operably coupled to the fingerprint sensing... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20090252387 - Imaging apparatus and method for authentication of user: The imaging apparatus for authenticating a user can quickly perform matching step of the inputted biometric data. This apparatus for authenticating the user includes an imaging unit for imaging a guided finger and a guided palm, a matching data storing unit for storing the determined finger image and the determined... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090252390 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus for extracting images from a continuous image sequence includes a storage unit that stores image information about images constituting the image sequence; an image reading unit that reads the image information from the storage unit; and an image change amount calculating unit that calculates a predetermined... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090252389 - Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method and computer readable medium: A signal processing apparatus includes an optical intensity detecting section that detects an intensity of light from a subject at a first wavelength and a second wavelength, where the first wavelength is different from the second wavelength, a pigment component identifying section that identifies a pigment component in the light... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090252394 - Computer aided detection of pulmonary embolism with local characteristic features in ct angiography: A method for computer aided detection of pulmonary emboli includes acquiring medical image data. A pulmonary embolism candidate comprising a cluster of voxels is identified. It is determined whether the candidate is a true pulmonary embolism or a false positive based on a spatial distribution of intensity values for the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090252391 - Method for assisting in diagnosis of cerebral diseases and apparatus thereof: Input MRI brain images are positioned so as to correct a spatial deviation, gray matter tissues are extracted from these images to effect a first image smoothing, the thus-obtained images are subjected to anatomical standardization, a second image smoothing is effected, the gray level is corrected, brain images after correction... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090252393 - Process and system for automatically recognising preneoplastic abnormalities in anatomical structures, and corresponding computer program: p

20090252392 - System and method for analyzing medical images: A system and method are provided for analyzing medical images and monitoring pregnancies for a plurality of animal patients. Medical images obtained from medical imaging devices are scanned, and extracted data are stored in a database. A color histogram is generating characterizing the image based on placental blood flow.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090252395 - System and method of identifying a potential lung nodule: A computer assisted method of detecting and classifying lung nodules within a set of CT images to identify the regions of the CT images in which to search for potential lung nodules. The lungs are processed to identify a subregion of a lung on a CT image. The computer defines... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090252396 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method, and recording medium: An image processing apparatus includes: an image obtaining device which obtains a breast image obtained by radiography of a breast; a mammary gland region extracting device which extracts a mammary gland region from the breast image; a local region setting device which sets a plurality of local regions around pixels... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090252397 - Imaging system and image defect correcting method: An imaging system comprises: an imaging unit for producing an image within a given field of view; an image defect detector for detecting a defective area from a first image that is produced by the imaging unit without a subject in the given field of view; a size enlarging unit... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090252398 - Method and system for creating a three-dimensionally-perceived image of a biological sample: A method and system are provided for enhancing a two-dimensional digital image to render the image as a three-dimensionally perceived image, which is apparent with both monocular and binocular vision. The method, as applied to images of samples captured in a laser-based imaging system (such as a laser scanning cytometry... Agent: Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP

20090252399 - Self-calibrating gradient dilution in a constituent assay and gradient dilution apparatus performed in a thin film sample: A method and apparatus for measuring antibody titers in a thin film sample in an automated system which does not require multiple dilutions. The system provides a simple method for creating an in-situ dilution within a sample analysis chamber without the use of any precision fluid-handling components, and further, to... Agent: O''shea Getz P.C.

20090252400 - Method for mounting electronic component: In order to recognize grid-like reference marks on a jig plate positioned in a mounting area by means of a substrate recognizing camera respectively, to obtain a positional shift amount of a mounting head with respect to XY coordinates on an apparatus of each of the reference marks, and to... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20090252401 - Methods, objects and apparatus employing machine readable data: The present invention relates generally to steganography and data hiding. One claim recites an object including: electronic processing circuitry having an operating or performance metric associated therewith; and steganographic indicia carried by the object, the steganographic indicia is usable as an index to verify the operating or performance metric. Another... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20090252402 - Pattern inspection apparatus, pattern inspection method, and manufacturing method of semiconductor device: A pattern inspection method includes: acquiring an image of a pattern; performing matching of CAD data for the pattern and the image; extracting coordinates of a plurality of points on a line segment constituting a polygon figure in the CAD data, to be defined as a first coordinate group; specifying... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090252403 - Method and its apparatus for reviewing defects: A method for reviewing a defect on a sample involves the steps of imaging a defect image containing the defect in first magnification by using an image acquisition unit, synthesizing a reference image not containing the defect from the defect image, comparing the defect image acquired with the reference image... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090252404 - Model uncertainty visualization for active learning: An active learning system and method are disclosed for generating a visual representation of a set of unlabeled elements to be labeled according to class. The representation shows the unlabeled elements as data points in a space and each class as a class point in the space. The position of... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090252405 - Method and apparatus for dictionary-based image processing: A method and system for processing a digitized image including multiple pixels is provided. Image processing involves determining a characteristic value for a set of image pixels, determining a classification for the set of pixels based on the characteristic value, accessing a dictionary including transforms, and retrieving transforms for the... Agent: Myers Andras Sherman LLP

20090252407 - Image detecting device and method: An image detecting device receives a video signal stream including at least one frame. Each frame includes rows of data, and each row of data has a plurality of pixels. The frame has an image portion and a blank portion. The image detecting device includes a characterizing unit and a... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090252406 - Spectral characteristic calculating device and method: A spectral characteristic calculation device stores a plurality of conversion matrices used to calculate the spectral characteristic values based on brightness values of a digital color image, and a plurality of pieces of brightness value information respectively corresponding to a plurality of sample groups. The plurality of conversion matrices are... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090252408 - Apparatus and method for pattern interpolation: Apparatus and method for pattern interpolation are disclosed. Horizontally interpolated green, red and blue pixel values, and vertically interpolated green, red and blue pixel values are generated according to the pixels received from a pattern color filter. Subsequently, a direction is selected for the green value interpolation according to the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090252409 - Image forming apparatus, image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image forming apparatus of the invention includes a CPU, a RAM, a ROM, a HDD, a network connection unit, an operation panel, a JOB execution unit, a surrounding color correction coefficient storage unit, an area correction function storage unit and a database. The CPU functions as an image processing... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090252412 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: When the range of luminance values that can be expressed by an image is divided into a plurality of levels, a histogram measurement unit generates histogram data indicating the numbers of pixels for respective levels by calculating, for respective levels, total of the number of pixels in the image, which... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090252411 - Interpolation system and method: Interpolations systems and methods are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a system is disclosed that includes an input to receive image data. The system also includes an image processing system responsive to the image data and including a demosaicing module. The demosaicing module is configured to use adaptive bi-cubic spline... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090252410 - Saturation adjustment method and related color adjustment system: A saturation adjustment method is disclosed for compensating over-saturation adjustment. The saturation adjustment method includes: adjusting a first full-scale saturation corresponding to a hue of a color wheel to become a second full-scale saturation wherein the second full-scale saturation is greater than the first full-scale saturation; setting a critical saturation... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090252414 - Fluorescent signal analyzing apparatus and fluorescent signal analyzing method: A fluorescent signal analyzing apparatus includes an image input unit, a storage unit, an extracting unit, and an analyzing unit. At least one fluorescent image of a sample is input to the input unit. The storage unit stores data on the at least one fluorescent image input to the image... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090252413 - Image classification: Images are classified as photos (e.g., natural photographs) or graphics (e.g., cartoons, synthetically generated images), such that when searched (online) with a filter, an image database returns images corresponding to the filter criteria (e.g., either photos or graphics will be returned). A set of image statistics pertaining to various visual... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090252415 - Method for retrieving text blocks in documents: To classify text blocks in printed material which is part of bulk postal items structure-related characteristics of one of the text blocks of a postal item are extracted, wherein the characteristics are characterized by graphical properties of the overall text block. The extracted structure-related characteristics are assigned to a characteristic... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20090252416 - System and method for optimizing single and dynamic markov random fields with primal dual strategies: A method for determining an optimal labeling of pixels in computer vision includes modeling an image by a graph having interior nodes and edges where each image point p is associated with a graph node, each pair of nearest neighbor points p, q is connected by a graph edge, each... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090252417 - Unsupervised writer style adaptation for handwritten word spotting: A word spotting system includes a semi-continuous hidden Markov model configured to model a handwritten word of interest. A writing segments extractor is configured to extract writing segments generally comprising images of handwritten character strings from a received document image. A word model adaptation processor is configured to adjust a... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090252418 - Detection of edges in an image: A system locates an edge of an object in a two- or three dimensional image, in particular a medical image. Through an input (310) a set of data elements is received representing values of elements of the image. The data set is stored in a storage (320). A processor (340)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090252419 - Detecting a border region in an image: Systems and methods for detecting a border region in an image. A blank border in a video picture is determined by summing luminance or other pixel measures in a direction parallel to the border and looking for the maximum gradient of those summed measures in a direction perpendicular to the... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20090252420 - Recognition system, recognition method, and recognition program: A recognition system of this invention has feature point detection means (120), Hough transform means (130), and specific pattern output means (140). In the Hough transform means (130), a Hough space is designed so that a magnitude relation of a distance between points in the Hough space is equivalent to... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090252423 - Controlled human pose estimation from depth image streams: A system, method, and computer program product for estimating human body pose are described. According to one aspect, anatomical features are detected in a depth image of a human actor. The method detects a head, neck, and trunk (H-N-T) template in the depth image, and detects limbs in the depth... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20090252422 - Exposure method and exposure device: An exposure method capable of performing accurate exposure without using a large photomask. The exposure method performs exposure while relatively moving a photomask above a substrate and includes a step of performing position correction of the photomask by performing, on a front side of the photomask relatively moved in a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090252421 - Image analysis: An image, represented by an ordered set of elements (xi) each having a value is analysed in order to detect vanishing points. The method comprises, for each of a plurality of root positions (x0), repeatedly performing the steps of: (i) selecting a first plurality of elements (xi) from the ordered... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090252424 - Computer-aided image interpretation method and device: A computer-aided image interpretation method and a device thereof to easily obtain an accurate image interpretation result are provided. An automatic classification means of the image interpretation device performs automatic classification by one of spectral characteristics, radiometric characteristics, diffuse characteristics, textures and shapes, or combinations thereof and accumulates data to... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090252425 - Scalable picture encoding: An encoding device (1) for encoding a picture signal (VS) comprises downsampling means (11) for converting the original picture signal into a downsampled picture signal, first encoding means (14) coupled to the downsampling means (11) for encoding the downsampled picture signal so as to provide a first encoded picture signal... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090252426 - Linear temporal reference scheme having non-reference predictive frames: The method, system, and apparatus of linear temporal reference scheme having non-reference predictive frames is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of a temporal reference scheme includes creating a non-reference predictive frame and a reference predictive frame from a reference frame, increasing a quantization factor of the non- and reference... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090252427 - Image encoding apparatus and control method thereof: This invention enables to generate encoded data without noticeable image quality degradation when reproducing an image at a lower resolution not to mention the original resolution. To accomplish this, when setting is done to transmit an image captured by a digital camera to a network, code stream forming information CF... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090252428 - Image descriptor quantization: Image descriptor quantization technique embodiments are presented which quantize an image descriptor defined by a vector of number elements. This is generally accomplished by lowering the number of bits per number element to a prescribed degree. The resulting quantized image descriptor exhibits minimal loss of matching reliability while at the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090252430 - Automated underwater image restoration via denoised deconvolution: A method for simultaneously optimizing a digital image taken in or through a scattering medium and obtaining information regarding optical properties of the scattering medium is provided. Data of the digital image is received by a computer. The digital image is evaluated according to an objective image quality metric and... Agent: Naval Research Laboratory Associate Counsel (patents)

20090252429 - System and method for displaying results of an image processing system that has multiple results to allow selection for subsequent image processing: Systems and methods for processing an initial digital image that comprises a foreground object and a background are provided in which the initial image is displayed on a display. A plurality of instances of an image segmentation technique are performed to the initial image, where the segmentation technique differentiates between... Agent: Jones Day

20090252431 - Image resizing for web-based image search: Image resizing for web-based searching is described. In one implementation, a system resizes a user-selected thumbnail image into a larger version of the image that emulates the quality of a large, original image, but without downloading the original image. First, the system extracts resizing parameters when each thumbnail image is... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090252432 - Apparatus and method for contrast enhancement: Apparatus and method for contrast enhancement are disclosed. An adjustable blending unit is utilized for adjustably blending a linear contrast function with a nonlinear contrast function, thereby resulting in an adjustable contrast curve. The nonlinear contrast function is adjustable by a blending parameter such that distance of the contrast curve... Agent: Stout, Uxa, Buyan & Mullins LLP

20090252433 - Method and apparatus for providing an indication of a level of distortion created by blocking artifacts: A method and apparatus are disclosed for providing an indication of a level of distortion created by blocking artifacts in an image comprising a plurality of pixels, the method comprising for each pixel in a first given direction, determining a corresponding gradient between the pixel and a neighboring pixel, for... Agent: Fasken Martineau Dumoulin, LLP

20090252434 - Thresholding gray-scale images to produce bitonal images: Thresholding gray-scale images to produce bitonal images. In one example embodiment, a method for thresholding a gray-scale image to produce a bitonal image includes several acts. First, a first portion of gray-scale pixels of the gray-scale image are thresholded based on a global threshold and edge strength information. Next, a... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20090252435 - Cartoon personalization: Embodiments that provide cartoon personalization are disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment, cartoon personalization includes selecting a face image having a pose orientation that substantially matches an original pose orientation of a character in a cartoon image. The method also includes replacing a face of the character in the cartoon... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090252436 - Method for visualization of multidimensional data: The method provides a visualization technique for rendering multidimensional data points as 2D curves on a 3D plot with the third dimension representing their order in the multidimensional data set. The technique uses colour palettes to render individual data curves, which enables visual analysis of the entire dataset based on... Agent: Novospark Corporation

20090252437 - Image skew detection apparatus and methods: Methods and apparatus for detecting skew in a document image, such as a check image, to produce a de-skewed image are described. One example method includes detecting one or more lines in the image and determining whether the one or more lines are reliable. Reliability of a line may be... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20090252438 - Method and device for image interpolation characteristic processing device and image interpolation device using the same: An image interpolation processing device is provided for interpolating at least one line between two adjacent lines. A prefetch unit is to prefetch pixel data of the two adjacent lines with a predetermined pixel length, so as to obtain a plurality of basic characteristics that are then stored in a... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090252439 - Method and system for straightening out distorted text-lines on images: In one embodiment, a method for correcting distortions in a scanned image of a page is disclosed. The method comprises identifying at least one set of collinear elements in the scanned image; and generating a corrected image based on the scanned image including for at least some of the collinear... Agent: Hahn And Moodley, LLP