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Image Analysis > Histogram Processing Histogram ProcessingHistogram Processing patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.11/22/07 - 20070269107 - Object recognition device, object recognition method, object recognition program, feature registration device, feature registration method, and feature registration program Disclosed herein is an object recognition device for recognition of an object that exists in an image, the device including: an edge image creator configured to create an edge image from a target image; a local feature extractor configured to extract a feature of each edge point on an edge ... 11/22/07 - 20070269106 - Method for enhanced visualization of medical images A method to process medical images for a desired global and local contrast enhancement. A digital image is accessed and segmented, and a first histogram of the digital image is generated. An overall contrast enhanced histogram is generated using the first histogram. A local contrast enhanced histogram is generated using ... 11/15/07 - 20070263929 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing program There are provided a gradation transformation processing section 162 that performs gradation transformation processing on image data obtained by photographing a subject, based on a gradation transformation characteristic having a predetermined shift amount S and gradient G, a frequency enhancement processing section 163 that performs frequency enhancement processing on the ... 10/25/07 - 20070248265 - Automated histogram characterization of data sets for image visualization using alpha-histograms Methods and apparatus are configured to provide data to generate and/or render (medical) images using medical volumetric data sets by electronically analyzing a medical volume data set associated with a patient that is automatically electronically divided into a plurality of local histograms having intensity value ranges associated therewith and programmatically ... 10/18/07 - 20070242879 - Apparatus and method for adjusting image An image adjusting apparatus is provided, by which detailed and highly precise adjustments is performed on the basis of not only an image being displayed but also characteristics of the image being displayed when adjusting image quality of the image being displayed on a television or the like. The image ... 10/18/07 - 20070242878 - Method and system for separating illumination and reflectance using a log color space In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method for generating an illumination invariant, chromaticity representation of an image is provided. The method of the present invention comprises the steps of providing an image comprising an array of pixels, each pixel having N band color values, ... 08/30/07 - 20070201743 - Methods and systems for identifying characteristics in a digital image Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for identification of characteristics of an image. ... 08/02/07 - 20070177798 - Image selection based on image content An image capture system comprises an image input and processing unit. The image input obtains image information which is then passed to the processing unit. The processing unit is coupled to the image input for determining image metrics on the image information. The processing unit initiates a capture sequence when ... 07/12/07 - 20070160288 - Randomly sub-sampled partition voting (rsvp) algorithm for scene change detection A system and method for scene change detection in a video sequence employing a randomly sub-sampled partition voting (RSPV) algorithm is provided. In the video sequence, a current frame is divided into a number of partitions. Each partition is randomly sub-sampled and a histogram of the pixel intensity values is ... 07/05/07 - 20070154089 - Method and apparatus for calculating image histogram with configurable granularity An apparatus and method for calculating histograms with configurable granularity. Histogram values of a histogram for an M-bit image with different requirements are calculated using a histogram calculation circuit including N cumulative calculation devices with boundary values configurable in one or more iterations, where N is smaller than 2M. In ... 05/17/07 - 20070110306 - Diffusion distance for histogram comparison A new measure to compare histogram-based descriptors, a diffusion distance, is disclosed. The difference between two histograms is defined to be a temperature field. The relationship between histogram similarity and diffusion process is discussed and it is shown how the diffusion handles deformation as well as quantization effects. As a ... 04/12/07 - 20070081722 - Method for determining a p-quantile for the pixel levels, in particular the grayscale levels, of a digital image Frequency distributions are particularly difficult to analyze by means of image processing systems if the digital images to be processed are divided into disjoint image areas and signal processors associated with each image area perform pre-processing of the pixel data. To determine a total frequency distribution, a large number of ... 04/05/07 - 20070076948 - Method and system for optimizing print-scan simulations Systems and methods for utilizing a known histogram of a particular category of images to constrain a probabilistic print-scan model in order to provide a more accurate print-scan model are described. A probability function is defined that given a two-dimensional grayscale bitmap input image provides the probability that a particular ... 03/08/07 - 20070053587 - Techniques to improve contrast enhancement using a luminance histogram An apparatus, system, method, and article for enhancing video sharpness are described. The apparatus may include a media processing node having a contrast enhancement module. The contrast enhancement module may receive an input image having multiple luminance regions, and create an output image using a luminance histogram and a luminance ... 11/02/06 - 20060245647 - Method of controlling digital image processing apparatus to effectively display histogram and digital image processing apparatus using the method Provided is a method of controlling a digital image processing apparatus that displays a histogram showing a number of display cells for each gradation of a displayed image according to the needs of a user. The method includes: displaying a partial area window of a shape selected by a user; ... 10/26/06 - 20060239550 - Method and system for enhancing an image A method for enhancing an image includes generating a luminance histogram for the image; generating a derivative histogram by taking a first derivative of the luminance histogram; searching for a plurality of black peaks and searching for a plurality of white peaks using the derivative histogram; and performing luminance scaling ... 10/19/06 - 20060233440 - Method for quantization of histogram bin value of image A method for quantization of a color histogram bin value of an image or video, and more particularly, a method for non-uniform quantization of a color histogram bin value of an image (or video) according to the frequency of color occurrence is provided. The methods effectively represent the characteristics of ... 10/19/06 - 20060233439 - Method and apparatus for processing a bayer-pattern color digital image signal A method and apparatus for processing a Bayer-pattern color digital image signal are provided. The apparatus includes: a first defect detector generating first defect information of a first pixel to be processed from input image data; a second defect detector generating second defect information and horizontal and vertical gradients of ... 09/14/06 - 20060204090 - Method, program product and apparatus for optimizing illumination for full-chip layer Optimization of illumination for a full-chip layer is disclosed. A pitch frequency of the full-chip layer is determined so as to generate a pitch frequency histogram of the full-chip layer. The pitch frequency indicates how often a given pitch occurs in the full-chip layer. The pitch frequency histogram is equated ... 08/10/06 - 20060177131 - Method of extracting and searching integral histograms of data samples A computer implemented method extracts an integral histogram from sampled data, such as time series data, images, and volumetric data. First, a set of samples is acquired from a real-word signal. The set of samples is scanned in a predetermined order. For each current sample, an integral histogram integrating a ... 07/20/06 - 20060159339 - Method and apparatus as pertains to captured image statistics Captured images are provided (101) and analyzed (102) to generate corresponding image content information. One or more statistics are then generated (103) as a function of that image content information and those statistics transmitted (104) to a remote receiver via a communication link (or links) of choice. That statistical information, ... 07/06/06 - 20060147112 - Method for generating a block-based image histogram A method for generating a block-based image histogram from data compressed by JPEG, MPEG-1, and MPEG-2, or uncompressed image data employing block-based linear quantization to generate histograms that include color, brightness, and edge components. The edge histogram, in particular, includes the global edge features, semi-global edge features, and local edge ... 07/06/06 - 20060147111 - Method for creating a histogram The invention relates to a method for creating a histogram representing the distribution of supplied quantities which are associated with supplied values within a pre-determined value range, said value range being divided into pre-determined partial ranges which are defined by supporting values. For values which lie between a supporting value ... 06/01/06 - 20060115150 - Calculation method of a cumulative histogram The invention relates to a calculation method of a cumulative histogram. Such a method comprises calculation stages in which at least two additions are used in parallel. Each addition permits to calculate an addition result. The additions are made either with two histogram values or with one histogram value and ... 04/13/06 - 20060078199 - Method for collecting data for color measurements from a digital electronic image capturing device or system A method for providing an intensity or brightness measurement using a digital image-capturing device comprising: selecting a target area within a field of view of the image-capturing device, the target area containing pixels; determining the brightness of pixels in the target area; accumulating the brightness values of the pixels in ... 04/06/06 - 20060072816 - Determining statistical descriptors of a signal from a set of its samples An entity is subjected to an interrogating signal, and the reflection from the entity is repeatedly sampled to obtain a first set of values each dependent on the intensity of the reflected signal. A logarithmic transformation is applied to the sample values to obtain a second set of values. A ... 03/02/06 - 20060045334 - Method and apparatus for detecting scene changes in video using a histogram of frame differences The present invention is directed to method of detecting a scene change in video. The method includes a difference being calculated between consecutive frames of the video producing a plurality of difference values. A histogram is taken of the difference values. A scene change is detected if a majority of ... 02/23/06 - 20060039604 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus and storage medium A histogram of density difference between each pixel and an adjacent pixel is prepared from the image data obtained by pre-scanning an original. Then an approximation function for the density difference histogram is generated, and the kind of the original is discriminated as text/photograph/other based on the coefficient of the ... 02/16/06 - 20060034510 - Method for abstracting histogram of hsv color A method for abstracting a HSV histogram from an input image saved YCbCr in a YCbCr model is disclosed, which includes a) forming a LUT divided into a plurality of sections which can print out a quantified index value by receiving an input YCbCr and in which the quantified index ... 01/26/06 - 20060018538 - Histogram generation apparatus and method for operating the same Histogram circuitry is provided to increment a tonal value tally corresponding to received pixel data without immediately writing the incremented tally back to a histogram table within a main memory. Instead, the tonal value and corresponding incremented tonal value tally are stored in a temporary memory of the histogram circuitry. ... 01/26/06 - 20060018537 - Video auto enhancing algorithm A method for enhancing a video includes applying a linear histogram stretch, a gamma correction, and sigma row, column, and temporal filters to the video. ... 01/19/06 - 20060013480 - Moving obstacle detecting device An aspect of the present invention provides a moving obstacle detecting device installed in or on a moving body for detecting moving obstacles in the vicinity of the moving body, the moving obstacle detecting device that includes an image capturing unit configured and arranged to capture an image of the ... 12/22/05 - 20050281460 - System and methods for providing histogram computation in a high precision rasterization data pipeline A system and methods for implementing histogram computation, for example, into the rasterization pipeline of a 3-D graphics system, are provided. With the histogram computation mechanism, statistical histogram data may be generated for input data of any kind or retrieved from any source that may be specified in a 2-D ... 11/10/05 - 20050249411 - Generation of frequency distribution for objects he solution provides a frequency distribution of a dimension of objects projected onto an image, the distribution being generated by measuring the dimension of the objects in a space in which the position of each object is at least partly free, the dimension of each object in the image depending ... 11/10/05 - 20050249410 - High speed and high accuracy image adjusting apparatus and method thereof The invention provides an image adjusting apparatus for receiving a set of input signals transmitted from a video interface, which is used for receiving a plurality of sets of input signals. The image adjusting apparatus is further used for automatically adjusting the set of input signals to generate a set ... 11/10/05 - 20050249409 - Apparatus correcting image by luminance histogram An apparatus and method for selectively increasing contrasts of bright and dark regions and automatically determining an appropriate degree of correction such that the image has a corrected luminance that is closer to an estimated optimal average luminance (EOAL) determined from a quantity of light at pickup. The apparatus for ... 07/28/05 - 20050163371 - Controlled moving window adaptive histogram equalization Methods and systems of processing an image. One embodiment includes applying a controlled, adaptive histogram equalization technique to improve the quality of an image. Another embodiment may include classifying an image. Both embodiments may use a concentration ratio of an image or portions thereof. ... 07/21/05 - 20050157923 - Image processing system and image processing method A PET equipment comprising a detection section, signal processing section, sorter section, N information processors, host computer and switching hub. N is an integer of 2 or more. Each information processor stores the coincidence counting information from the sorter section to produce a histogram. Each information processor performs image processing ... 06/30/05 - 20050141763 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for processing image data An image processing apparatus, method and computer program product, wherein a luminance histogram of input image data is generated by the histogram generating section and a polarization degree of the luminance histogram is evaluated by the polarization degree evaluating section in order to determine whether the input image data is ... 06/16/05 - 20050129310 - Background color estimation for scanned images A background color estimation system and method for estimating a background color of a scanned image. The background color estimation method includes generating a list of candidate background colors present in the image, determining the most common candidate color from the list, and designating the most common candidate background color ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |