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Image Analysis > Pattern Recognition > Feature Extraction Feature ExtractionFeature Extraction 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.11/15/07 - 20070263935 - Image pickup device, automatic focusing method, automatic exposure method, electronic flash control method and computer program An image pickup device includes an image pickup unit configured to convert a subject image to image data and to output the image data and a face image recognition unit configured to recognize a face image from the image data. When the face image is recognized by the face image ... 11/15/07 - 20070263934 - Image pickup device, automatic focusing method, automatic exposure method, electronic flash control method and computer program An image pickup device provided with an automatic exposure function includes an image pickup unit configured to input image data corresponding to a subject, a face detection unit configured to detect a human face from the image data input from the image pickup unit, a photometric unit configured to measure ... 11/15/07 - 20070263933 - Image pickup device, automatic focusing method, automatic exposure method, electronic flash control method and computer program An image pickup device provided with an electronic flash function including an image pickup unit configured to input image data corresponding to a subject, a face detection unit configured to detect a human face from the image data input from the image pickup unit, an electronic flashing unit configured to ... 11/08/07 - 20070258645 - Techniques for enabling or establishing the use of face recognition algorithms Embodiments described herein facilitate or enhance the implementation of image recognition processes which can perform recognition on images to identify objects and/or faces by class or by people. ... 11/01/07 - 20070253622 - Traffic lane marking line recognition system for vehicle A traffic lane marking line recognition system for a vehicle includes an image compositing device which composites images photographed at different time points by a camera to elongate a traffic lane marking line such as a white line in the photographed image, the brightness of the photographed images is detected, ... 10/18/07 - 20070242884 - Method for measuring water depths using visible images of shoaling ocean waves To estimate water depth, photos of shoaling ocean waves are analyzed in view of primary wave frequency and length, mean water level, and known error sources. Primary wave frequency and mean water level are found from independent surface-wave and tide-level hindcasting systems for the time and place of the photos. ... 10/04/07 - 20070230793 - Method and apparatus for pattern matching processing Pattern data constituted by a plurality of elements is extracted from input image data. Template data constituted by a plurality of elements and weight data constituted by a plurality of elements and associated with the template data are read from a memory. A calculation is performed on each element using ... 10/04/07 - 20070230792 - Pedestrian detection A classifier for determining whether an instance belongs to a particular class of instances of a plurality of classes, the classifier comprising: a plurality of first classifiers that operate on an instance to provide an indication as to which class the instance belongs, each of which classifiers is trained on ... 09/20/07 - 20070217685 - Method of describing object region data, apparatus for generating object region data, video processing apparatus and video processing method A region data describing method for describing, over a plurality of frames, region data about the region of an arbitrary object in a video, the method specifying the object region in the video with at least either of an approximate figure approximating the region or characteristic points of the region, ... 09/20/07 - 20070217684 - Method of describing object region data, apparatus for generating object region data, video processing apparatus and video processing method A region data describing method for describing, over a plurality of frames, region data about the region of an arbitrary object in a video, the method specifying the object region in the video with at least either of an approximate figure approximating the region or characteristic points of the region, ... 09/20/07 - 20070217681 - Determining and using geometric feature data The invention concerns a method for determining feature data that represents information about the shape of an object. A partitioning scheme (RP) is determined that defines a plurality of cells (p) in the space in which the object is located such that at least some of the cells (p) each ... 09/20/07 - 20070217680 - Digital image pickup device, display device, rights information server, digital image management system and method using the same A digital image pickup device is provided with an input unit that inputs a photographed digital image, a predetermined information detector that detects predetermined information, a predetermined information embedding unit that embeds the detected predetermined information in the digital image and a browse restriction applying unit that executes a process ... 09/13/07 - 20070211945 - Method of describing object region data, apparatus for generating object region data, video processing apparatus and video processing method A region data describing method for describing, over a plurality of frames, region data about the region of an arbitrary object in a video, the method specifying the object region in the video with at least either of an approximate figure approximating the region or characteristic points of the region, ... 09/13/07 - 20070211944 - Apparatus for detecting feature point and method of detecting feature point An apparatus for detecting a feature point includes an image input unit that inputs an image of the target object; a three-dimensional shape information holding unit that stores three-dimensional shape information including reference feature points of a model relating to the target object; a correspondence relation acquiring unit that acquires ... 09/06/07 - 20070206860 - Method of extracting contour of image, method of extracting object from image, and video transmission system using the same method An object extraction method comprising the steps of comparing each portion of first image data obtained by capturing an extraction object with another portion of the first image data or second image data, thereby generating shape data as an image representing a provisional region of the extraction object in the ... 08/30/07 - 20070201746 - Scene change detector algorithm in image sequence A scene change detector algorithm in image sequence is disclosed, in which a two-stage detecting process is applied to perceive a scene change in a precise and safe way. The algorithm includes classifying images into two different states, a transition state and a stationary state, after determining whether there is ... 08/23/07 - 20070196016 - Calibration system for image capture apparatus and method thereof A calibration system and a method to be used in an image capture apparatus are disclosed. The calibration system includes a calibration appliance, a feature extraction unit and a processor. The calibration appliance has a plurality of mark points. The plurality of mark points is on the same plane to ... 08/02/07 - 20070177805 - Finding images with multiple people or objects A method of searching through a collection of images, includes providing a list of individuals of interest and features associated with such individuals; detecting people in the collection images; determining the likelihood(s) for each listed individual of appearing in each collection image in response to the detected people and the ... 07/12/07 - 20070160294 - Image processing apparatus, method, and program The present invention provides an image processing apparatus, including extraction means, parameter retaining means, context retaining means, and decision means. The extraction means is configured to extract a characteristic amount of a region in which a recognition object may possibly be included from within an image of a processing object. ... 07/05/07 - 20070154096 - Facial feature detection on mobile devices Locating an eye includes generating an intensity response map by applying a 3-rectangle filter and applying K-mean clustering to the map to determine the eye. Locating an eye corner includes applying logarithm transform and grayscale stretching to generate a grayscale eye patch, generating a binary map of the patch by ... 07/05/07 - 20070154095 - Face detection on mobile devices A method for detecting a facial area on a color image includes (a) placing a search window on the color image, (b) determining if a center pixel of the search window is a skin color pixel, indicating that the search window is a possible facial area candidate, (c) applying a ... 06/28/07 - 20070147683 - Method, medium, and system recognizing a face, and method, medium, and system extracting features from a facial image Methods, mediums and systems recognizing a face by extracting features from a facial image. According to the method recognizing the face, multiple subimages of a query facial image and one or more target facial images are generated, Fourier transforms on the multiple subimages are performed, and Fourier features from the ... 06/28/07 - 20070147682 - System and method for feature detection in image sequences A method for processing image data includes inputting image data, determining a plurality of quadrature filter pairs based on filter parameter values to detect features of interest in the image data, applying the quadrature filter pairs to the image data to obtain a set of filter responses, and processing the ... 06/28/07 - 20070147681 - System and method for extracting a face from a camera picture for representation in an electronic system A system and method for representing a person in an electronic system. An image is obtained including an image of a target person. The image or a digital representation thereof, is processed to recognize a facial feature associated with the target person in the image. The target person's facial portion ... 06/21/07 - 20070140563 - Print inspecting apparatus A print inspecting apparatus which can perform print inspection flexibly at high precision at high speed without requiring a character recognizing processing is provided. The print inspecting apparatus 1 has a main unit 10 which reads images on a continuous business form conveyed in one direction, and a processing unit ... 06/14/07 - 20070133879 - Ellipsoid detecting method, figure center detecting method, image recognizing device, and controller based on image A method for detecting an ellipsoid includes: extracting an ellipsoid candidate; extracting an ellipsoid contour; calculating an ellipsoid parameter; calculating an adaptability ratio; and eliminating the ellipsoid candidate. Extracting the ellipsoid candidate includes: inputting an image with figures; selecting the ellipsoid candidate from the figures; and extracting a contour candidate ... 06/14/07 - 20070133878 - Method for constructing covariance matrices from data features A method constructs descriptors for a set of data samples and determines a distance score between pairs of subsets selected from the set of data samples. A d-dimensional feature vector is extracted for each sample in each subset of samples. The feature vector includes indices to the corresponding sample and ... 06/07/07 - 20070127820 - Method for finding representative vectors in a class of vector spaces The present invention provides a technique for retrieving pictures from a large database that is less complex and uses significantly less memory and computational resources than current techniques. This is accomplished by determining representative data vectors based on a tolerance distance that represents data vectors in a given vector space ... 06/07/07 - 20070127819 - Method and apparatus for object detection in sequences A method and apparatus for detecting and locating objects of interest in video sequences is provided. A frame is defined as an image belonging to video sequences. Each frame with the same or different size of original input sequences is searched by the same or different size window efficiently for ... 05/31/07 - 20070122037 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method Of the feature amounts of respective regions on an image, a region having a feature amount which is similar to that of a region of interest on a image is specified (S1307). Of the OCR results of the respective regions on the image, a region having an OCR result which ... 05/31/07 - 20070122036 - Information processing apparatus and control method therefor An information processing apparatus includes an image input unit which inputs image data containing a face, a face position detection unit which detects, from the image data, the position of a specific part of the face, and a facial expression recognition unit which detects a feature point of the face ... 05/24/07 - 20070116365 - Feature extraction using pixel-level and object-level analysis Image processing for extracting features in images. Pixel-level cue algorithms can be performed on raster images. The raster images can be converted to a vector layer. Object-level cue algorithms can be performed on the vector layer. The feature can be detected using a result of the pixel-level cues and using ... 05/24/07 - 20070116364 - Apparatus and method for feature recognition A face recognition system comprising an image sensor (100), the output of which is fed to a detection module (102) and the output of the detection module (102) is fed to a recognition module (104). The detection module (102) can detect and localize an unknown number (if any) of faces. ... 05/10/07 - 20070104374 - Face detecting method, and system and program for the methods An index representing the probability that a fraction image is a face image including a face in an input image is calculated for each of the positions of the face to be detected on the basis of a feature value. When the sum of the indexes of the fraction images ... 05/10/07 - 20070104373 - Method for automatic key posture information abstraction The method for automatic key posture information abstraction of this invention comprises the steps of: Abstracting from a series of continuous digitized images spatial features of objects contained in said images; abstracting shape features of said objects using a method of probability calculation; detecting key posture information contained in said ... 04/19/07 - 20070086655 - Unfolded convolution for fast feature extraction Systems and methods are described that facilitate performing feature extraction across multiple received input features to reduce computational overhead associated with feature processing related to, for instance, optical character recognition. Input feature information can be unfolded and concatenated to generate an aggregated input matrix, which can be convolved with a ... 04/12/07 - 20070081728 - Data input apparatus, medium, and method detecting selective data input A data input apparatus, medium, and method detecting a selected data key input. The data input apparatus may include an image output module, an image input module, and a control module, with the image output module generating an input image having a predetermined number of input keys for the input ... 04/12/07 - 20070081727 - Method of precision measurements of sizes and line width roughness of small objects in accordance with their images obtained in scanning electron microscope A novel method of precision measurements of sizes and line width roughness of small objects in accordance with their images obtained in scanning electron microscope, which is improvement of the existing methods and which realizes the new strategy of the measurements. This method has a higher stability with respect to ... 04/05/07 - 20070076954 - Face orientation identifying method, face determining method, and system and program for the methods An index representing the probability that an input image is a face image including a face oriented in a predetermined orientation is calculated for each of different predetermined orientations on the basis of a feature value of the input image including a face and the orientation of the face included ... 03/29/07 - 20070071323 - Apparatus and method for processing user-specified search image points A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to define an input user interface to receive a group of user-specified search image points within a digital image. An image recognition module compares the user-specified search image points to corresponding image points in digital image data to produce digital image search ... 03/22/07 - 20070065015 - Image processing apparatus and method An object recognition apparatus in an embodiment includes an image input unit, an object detection unit, a diffuse reflection image generation unit, an object model storage unit, a difference image generation unit, a weight calculation unit, a weighted Gaussian filter application unit, a filter processing unit, and an identification unit. ... 03/22/07 - 20070065014 - Method for warped image object recognition A computer vision system includes distorting optics producing distorted or warped input images. The system includes an integral feature object classifier trained using an undistorted image space. Undistorted integral feature values are calculated directly from distorted input images without undistorting or dewarping the distorted input image. ... 03/15/07 - 20070058870 - Reducing false positives for automatic computerized detection of objects A computer-implemented method for identifying an object of interest includes providing input data including an image and a candidate for the object of interest in the image, extracting a boundary of the candidate, and extracting a segment of a region of interest containing the candidate. The method further includes determining ... 03/15/07 - 20070058869 - Image selection device and image selection method When image data are input from a memory card or the like, a printing apparatus detects face region captured in these image data. Where the size and position of a face region fall within permitted ranges therefor set in advance in a permitted range table derived via sense evaluation testing, ... 03/01/07 - 20070047819 - Data organization and access for mixed media document system A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system and associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content and/or web link as a second medium). In one particular ... 03/01/07 - 20070047818 - Embedding hot spots in imaged documents A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system and associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content and/or web link as a second medium). In one particular ... 02/22/07 - 20070041644 - Apparatus and method for estimating a facial pose and a face recognition system using the method An apparatus for estimating a facial pose. The apparatus includes a pre-processing module that provides feature points of a subject's face of a received image, and a pose-estimation module that computes sizes of a left half plane and a right half plane of the face from the provided feature points, ... 02/15/07 - 20070036438 - Methods and systems for identifying red eye pairs Identifying pairs of red eye candidates in a digital image includes determining at least one attribute associated with a first eye candidate, and at least one attribute associated with a second eye candidate. The at least one attribute associated with the first eye candidate is compared to the at least ... 02/08/07 - 20070031041 - Apparatus and method for detecting a face Disclosed is an apparatus and method for detecting a face from an image. The apparatus and method uses color components and enables a Support Vector Machine (SVM) having superior recognition performance to previously learn face and non-face images and determine whether an image is a face image based on a ... 02/01/07 - 20070025619 - Verification An article verification system can comprise a first scanner operable to scan an article to create a signature based upon an intrinsic characteristic of the article and a comparator operable to compare the created signature to a plurality of stored signatures created from previous scans of a plurality of articles. ... 01/25/07 - 20070019863 - Method, apparatus, and program for detecting faces Processing time is reduced and detection is expedited in a face detecting process that detects faces of various sizes included in an image, by detecting faces within images while varying the size of faces to be detected. Faces are detected in order from larger faces to smaller faces. If a ... 01/25/07 - 20070019862 - Object identifying device, mobile phone, object identifying unit, object identifying method, program executable on computer for operating the object identifying device and computer-readable medium including the program An object identifying device has a shooting unit for shooting an object to be shot to identify the object on the basis of elements of the face of the object shot by the shooting unit. The object identifying device includes a camouflage deciding unit for deciding whether or not the ... 01/11/07 - 20070009157 - Image processing apparatus, moving image encoding apparatus, information processing method and information processing program The information processing apparatus comprises: an input unit which inputs moving image data of frames; a reference information acquisition unit which acquires reference information in accordance with the moving image data of one of the frames inputted to the input unit, the reference information forming a reference for identifying a ... 01/11/07 - 20070009156 - Linear correspondence assessment A system and method for feature extraction and evaluation include an extraction system configured to produce extracted features from input images, and an evaluation system configured to find a correspondence between reference features and the extracted features. ... 12/21/06 - 20060285750 - Imaging apparatus, processing method of the apparatus and program making computer execute the method An imaging apparatus includes face detection means for searching image data from at least one direction to detect a face portion in the image data; capture mode search direction instruction means for instructing a search direction of the image data to the face detection means in a capture mode, which ... 12/14/06 - 20060280368 - System and method for discovering and categorizing attributes of a digital image With respect to photography, the present invention includes a physical target device used in conjunction with computer software to ascertain and record such attributes as lighting conditions, perspective, and scale with regard to the assembly of two-dimensional photographic imagery, consisting of background and subject images, into realistic photo composites. ... 12/07/06 - 20060274945 - System and method for automatically extracting a picture of a person from a government issued identification piece for use on a badge A photo ID badge issuing system includes a scanning unit operable to capture an electronic copy of a government issued picture ID or passport of a person. The photo ID badge issuing system then extracts an electronic image of the person from the electronic copy of the government issued picture ... 11/30/06 - 20060269139 - Method and program for finding discountinuities The invention provides a method for finding discontinuities in an image. This method makes it possible to detect discontinuities, i.e. faults, by being based on the heterogeneity of the distribution of the gradients of the points of the image being studied. The heterogeneity of the distribution of the gradients is ... 11/23/06 - 20060262976 - Method and system for multi-tier image matching in a mixed media environment A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system and associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content and/or web link as a second medium). In one particular ... 11/16/06 - 20060257027 - Method of determining alignment of images in high dimensional feature space A method determines alignment of images in high dimensional feature space. The method comprises registering a source image of a reference modality to a target image of a second modality with an algorithm based upon a measure of information affinity present in both of the source and target image to ... 11/16/06 - 20060257026 - Methods and apparatus for efficient, automated red eye detection Various methods and apparatus to detect red eye in a digital image are described. In an embodiment, a method identifies one or more red eye candidate zones within an identified skin region in a digital image. A first red eye candidate zone includes connected regions of pixels of a different ... 10/19/06 - 20060233442 - Method for generating a quality oriented significance map for assessing the quality of an image or video A method for generating a quality oriented significance camp for assessing the quality of an image or video, comprising the steps of extracting features of the image or video, determining a perceptual quality requirement of at least one extracted feature and integrating the extracted features and the perceptual quality requirement ... 09/28/06 - 20060215911 - Image reading device The invention provides an image reading device comprising: an image reading section that reads an image from an input document and creates input image data; a specifying section that extracts a specific character string or a specific image from the input image data created by the image reading section; a ... 09/21/06 - 20060210167 - Display device, control method thereof, electronic device including display device, display device control program, and recording medium on which display device control program is recorded An ATM has a display section of a touch panel and a security camera that takes an image of at least an area from which display information on the display section is viewable. After a predetermined waiting time, the security camera takes an image. From the taken image, human faces ... 09/21/06 - 20060210166 - Image extracting apparatus, image extracting method, and image extracting program An album creating apparatus according to the present invention includes an object extracting section that extracts an object from a moving image, an object acceleration computing section that computes acceleration of the object extracted from the object extracting section to a background based on a change of position in a ... 09/21/06 - 20060210165 - Image extracting apparatus, image extracting method, and image extracting program The image extracting apparatus according to the present invention includes: a candidate image extracting section for extracting a moving image component including the facial image of a predetermined person from a moving image; and a representative image extracting section for extracting the moving image component including the facial image of ... 09/21/06 - 20060210164 - Image processing device The present invention provides an image processing apparatus capable of counting objects to be counted with high accuracy. In the image processing apparatus of the present invention, a feature image generating unit (2) provided upstream of a binarizing unit (3) applies spatial filtering to a monochrome picture for emphasizing a ... 09/14/06 - 20060204103 - Object detection apparatus, learning apparatus, object detection system, object detection method and object detection program Object detection apparatus includes storage unit storing learned information learned previously with respect to sample image extracted from an input image and including first information and second information, first information indicating at least one combination of given number of feature-area/feature-value groups selected from plurality of feature-area/feature-value groups each including one ... 09/14/06 - 20060204102 - Image processing device, image forming device, image processing method and program An image processing device has a division determination unit. The division determination unit determines the partition number of an image in input image data. The division determination unit calculates the image features of the image in the image data, the features existing in reference areas, and, on the basis of ... 08/31/06 - 20060193521 - Method and apparatus for making and displaying measurements based upon multiple 3d rangefinder data sets A method, computer program product, and apparatus for making and displaying measurements based upon multiple 3D range data sets obtained using a 3D rangefinder device. At least a first and a second 3D range data sets are provided. A 3D transformation is computed therebetween. The first 3D range data set ... 08/31/06 - 20060193520 - Object detection apparatus, learning apparatus, object detection system, object detection method and object detection program Object detection apparatus includes storing unit storing learned information learned previously with respect to sample image extracted from an input image and including first information and second information, first information indicating at least one combination of given number of feature-region/feature-value groups selected from plurality of feature-region/feature-value groups each including one ... 08/24/06 - 20060188160 - Device, method, and computer-readable medium for detecting changes in objects in images and their features A feature pattern (e.g., contours of an object) of an input image to be processed is extracted. A feature pattern (e.g., contours of an object) of a reference image corresponding to the input image is extracted. A comparison is made between the extracted feature patterns of the input and reference ... 08/24/06 - 20060188159 - Image processing apparatus, method therefor, and program An image processing apparatus which decides a comparison position for performing similarity comparison between a comparison source image and a comparison destination image. A comparison source image and comparison destination image are divided into a plurality of blocks. Feature amounts of the images are calculated for each divided block. The ... 08/17/06 - 20060182347 - Image retrieval method and apparatus independent of illumination change An image retrieval method and apparatus independent of an illumination change are provided. The image retrieval method involves: inputting a query image; detecting an illumination color from the query image and converting the illumination color into a standard illumination color; extracting color information of the query image by using color ... 08/17/06 - 20060182346 - Interface apparatus An interface is provided that corresponds to an individual person without being restricted to a particular place within a room, by performing gesture recognition while identifying an individual person. A stereo camera (1) picks up an image of a user (4), and based on the image pickup output, an image ... 08/03/06 - 20060171591 - System and method for efficient feature estimation for medical images A method for estimating feature values from a digitized image includes calculating a gradient of an image, defining a filter weighting function, convolving the gradient with the filter weighting function, integrating over a subdomain of the convolved gradient to calculate components of a cost matrix Φ, wherein the cost matrix ... 08/03/06 - 20060171590 - Automated landmark extraction from three-dimensional whole body scanned data A method for automated landmark extraction from three-dimensional whole body scanned data extracts feature points as landmarks from a plurality of point clouds obtained from a three-dimensional whole body scanner, without pre-making the landmarks on a human body before scanning. The system includes: (1) Silhouette analysis, which projects three-dimensional body ... 07/27/06 - 20060165291 - Picture editing A method of inserting an object into an image, the method comprising the steps of assessing the homogeneity of the image; identifying one or more areas of the image having similar homogeneity according to the assessed homogeneity; and selecting a homogeneous area in which to insert the object. ... 07/13/06 - 20060153457 - Information processing apparatus and method, and program The present invention is intended to provide quick search of a plurality if any of sets subject to search for desired members. A common representative point setting block sets a common representative point common to sets on the basis of a feature vector stored in a vector information storage block ... 07/13/06 - 20060153456 - System and method for detecting and ranking images in order of usefulness based on vignette score A system and method for detecting useful images and for ranking images in order of usefulness based on a vignette score describing how closely each one resembles a “vignette,” or a central object or image surrounded by a featureless or deemphasized background. Several methods for determining an image's vignette score ... 06/29/06 - 20060140481 - Target detecting system and method A target detecting system and method for detecting a target from an input image is provided. According to the target detecting system and method, when a target is detected from an input image and there are moving areas in the input image, camera movement parameters are obtained, image frames are ... 06/22/06 - 20060133672 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and computer readable medium, in which an image processing program is recorded A plurality of landmarks, which are employed in statistical models, such as an ASM, that is, a plurality of landmarks that represent the shape and the like of a predetermined subject, such as a face, within an image, are detected. Discrimination regarding whether each pixel within the image is a ... 06/15/06 - 20060126942 - Method of and apparatus for retrieving movie image The movie image retrieving apparatus includes an image input device 13 to which the movie images are inputted in a time-series manner, a feature value calculation device 14 which includes a feature value deriving section 16 for deriving the feature value and a quantization section 17 which quantizes the feature ... 06/15/06 - 20060126941 - Face region estimating device, face region estimating method, and face region estimating program The invention provides a face region estimating device capable of extracting a person's face region even when an illumination environment, for example, is changed and persons with different skin colors are contained in a picked-up image taken by a camera. The face region estimating device includes: a mobile body detecting ... 06/15/06 - 20060126940 - Apparatus and method for detecting eye position A method of detecting an eye position in a face image, and an apparatus to use the method, the method including detecting eye candidates in eye regions normalized to a predetermined size from the face image; detecting an eye pair candidate from the detected eye candidates; and determining the eye ... 06/15/06 - 20060126939 - Apparatus and method for recognizing an image Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for recognizing a specific subject from a still image or a moving image at a high speed. An object of the apparatus and the method is to reduce the amount of information required for image recognition. One feature vector value is extracted by ... 06/15/06 - 20060126938 - Apparatus, method, and medium for detecting face in image using boost algorithm An apparatus, method, and medium for detecting a face in an image using classifiers generated by a boost algorithm are provided. The apparatus may include an image dividing unit dividing a black and white image into sub-windows; a sub-window detection unit detecting a sub-window corresponding to a face image in ... 06/08/06 - 20060120606 - Image processing device An image processing device comprises an image acquisition apparatus configured to acquire an image of an object, a feature extraction unit configured to extract a feature portion from a visual field of the image acquired by the image acquisition apparatus, a weighting section configured to calculate a weight in accordance ... 06/01/06 - 20060115157 - Image processing device, image device, image processing method An image including a face is input (S201), a plurality of local features are detected from the input image, a region of a face in the image is specified using the plurality of detected local features (S202), and an expression of the face is determined on the basis of differences ... 06/01/06 - 20060115156 - Image recognizing system, an image recognizing method, a machine readable medium storing thereon, and a computer program for recognizing images An image recognizing system for recognizing an object included in an image is provided, wherein the image recognizing system includes: a feature amount database for storing a feature amount representing a feature of each of a plurality of objects in a corresponding manner; an object recognizing unit for recognizing an ... 05/18/06 - 20060104515 - Automatic modification of web pages A system for interactive paper is described. Data fragments are captured at locations in a rendered document. A digital version of the document is optionally located. Markup data applied to the capture creates a rich set of interactions for the user. New models for publishing documents and new document-related services ... 05/18/06 - 20060104514 - Image system According to an image description system, a feature extracting unit extracts a layout feature from each of frames of an image sequence. A representative feature calculating unit calculates a layout feature representative of the image sequence from a group of the layout features extracted by the feature extracting unit. ... 05/11/06 - 20060098875 - Image search apparatus for images to be detected, and method of controlling same If a target-image portion to be detected is detected anew, an evaluation value of this target-image portion is calculated. If the target-image portion is detected anew, it is determined whether the number of target-image portions has exceeded n owing to such detection. If, in a case where n has been ... 05/04/06 - 20060093220 - Data verification using text messaging A method for computerized processing of paper forms includes receiving an electronic image of a paper form containing text information from a client having a telephone. The text information is extracted from the form using an optical character recognition (OCR) process. A field of the extracted text information that is ... 04/06/06 - 20060072827 - Apparatus, method, and computer program for processing information An information processing apparatus includes a selecting unit for selecting extraction information concerning contents to be extracted from among a plurality of contents organized in time sequence, the extraction information prepared on a per content basis for the contents to be extracted and including a feature contained in the content ... 04/06/06 - 20060072826 - Image reading apparatus reading an original while transporting the same An image reading apparatus includes: three line sensors mutually spaced in a sub scanning,direction; a platen arranged between the original and the three line sensors; a mover moving the platen relative to the three line sensors at a rate relative to the three line sensors, the rate being different from ... 03/30/06 - 20060067579 - Control of monitored zone The invention relates to a method for the control of a monitored zone, in particular at transport devices for objects, wherein the monitored zone is scanned by means of at least one spatially resolving sensor, in particular a laser scanner and/or a camera system, the positions of object points in ... 03/30/06 - 20060067578 - Slide contents processor, slide contents processing method, and storage medium storing program A slide contents processor has a computer, a percentage computer and a categorizing unit. The computer computes a deviation of explanation time of each slide to total explanation time of slides. The percentage computer computes a percentage of objects in the slide based on the number of the objects by ... 03/23/06 - 20060062474 - Methods of representing and analysing images A method of representing and analysing images comprises producing a plurality of descriptors of an image at one or more scales and for one ore more colour channels, said descriptors capturing colour content and interrelation information within the regions, and associating the descriptors in a plurality of ways based on ... 03/23/06 - 20060062473 - Image reading apparatus, image processing apparatus and image forming apparatus An image reading apparatus comprises a reading section to read an original document having plural pages, and generate plural page data corresponding to the pages, a judging section to determine whether the page data includes at least one of a predetermined character, a predetermined symbol or predetermined attribution information, and ... 03/23/06 - 20060062472 - Method for detecting a person in a space Proposed is a method for detecting a person in a space; at least one depth sensor producing spatial data about the space to be monitored; at least one sub-model which is subdividable into further sub-models being used for at least one selected body part of a human; the spatial data ... 03/16/06 - 20060056700 - Biological information detecting device When an image representing biological information is input from a biological information input unit 10, such as a fingerprint sensor or the like, for obtaining an image representing biological information, such as a fingerprint or the like, statistical quantities, such as the mean value and standard deviation of the pixel ... 03/16/06 - 20060056699 - Image recording apparatus, and abnormal recording element determination method The image recording apparatus comprises: a recording device having a plurality of recording elements which record an image onto a recording medium; an extraction device which extracts a region satisfying a prescribed extraction condition according to information of the image recorded on the recording medium by the recording device; a ... 03/16/06 - 20060056698 - System and method for extracting an object of interest from an image using a robust active shape model A system and method for extracting an object of interest from an image using a robust active shape model are provided. A method for extracting an object of interest from an image comprises: generating an active shape model of the object; extracting feature points from the image; and determining an ... 03/09/06 - 20060050964 - Identifying image content Identifying content and authorizing sharing thereof based at least in part on extracting feature data from content to be shared and comparing this extracted feature data against a database of extracted feature data for various reference content. When the content to be shared is matched to reference content in the ... 03/09/06 - 20060050963 - Image data area extracting system and image data area extracting method An image data area extracting system includes: a threshold value setting unit configured to set a threshold value for three dimensional image data of an object; an area managing unit configured to extract a threshold value area from the three dimensional image data based at least in part on the ... 03/02/06 - 20060045349 - Object detection method and a video data retrieval method A video data description method. Both feature data of predetermined object and feature data of background area are extracted from a frame of input video. The feature data of predetermined object and the feature data of background area are described as a descriptor of the frame. ... 03/02/06 - 20060045348 - Method and apparatus for automated cellular bioinformatics An automated system that conducts, monitors, and validates a cell-line-based biological experiment including one or more treatment compounds or other external stimuli. In one preferred embodiment, the system comprises two principal subsystems, and optionally accessory subsystems. A first principal subsystem is an automated laboratory experiment manager for designing the biological ... 03/02/06 - 20060045347 - System and method for registration and modeling of deformable shapes by direct factorization where Φ stands for {(i, j)|i=1, . . . , K; j=1, . . . , N, iγk}, which represents an ambiguity matrix transforming the proposed scaled rotation matrix and the proposed basis matrix into a true scaled rotation matrix and a true basis matrix; decomposing the matrix Qk into ... 03/02/06 - 20060045346 - Method and apparatus for locating and extracting captions in a digital image A method of locating captions in a digital image comprises detecting edge information in the digital image to generate an edge image and performing erosion and dilation operations on the edge image to identify one or more candidate caption containing regions in the edge image. For at least one detected ... 02/23/06 - 20060039610 - System and method for automating document search and report generation A method for processing a customer request comprises receiving a request, sending the requests to a data provider; receiving a document image from the data provider, performing pattern data extraction on the document image, and preparing a customized report. Additionally, a system for processing customer requests comprises a receiving module ... 02/23/06 - 20060039609 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method for confirming electronic data character quality, and computer program therefor According to the present invention, an image processing apparatus comprises scanning unit that converts a original image into image data; extraction unit that extracts an area that contains characters of every character size from the image data scanned by the scanning unit; and display unit that displays images of the ... 02/23/06 - 20060039608 - Background area extraction in document layout analysis An apparatus, method, system, computer program and product, each capable of extracting a background area of a document image. The background area of the document image may be extracted by repeating recursively the acts of: extracting a set of white rectangles from a processed area of the document image; dividing ... 02/23/06 - 20060039607 - Method and apparatus for extracting feature information, and computer product An apparatus for extracting feature information from each of a plurality of electronic documents that constitutes a group of documents, for each of a plurality of viewpoints includes an extracting unit that extracts feature information from each of the electronic documents for each of the viewpoints, a calculating unit that ... 02/16/06 - 20060034517 - Method and apparatus for face description and recognition A face recognition method, apparatus and system uses an architecture comprising multiple dual Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) transformations applied to coefficients of a frequency-based transformation applied to the facial image and its components. This new method significantly reduces extraction complexity compared to prior art and also offers increased robustness to ... 02/02/06 - 20060023947 - Use of hausdorff distances in the earth mover linear program A method and apparatus for comparing data is described. In one embodiment, an exemplary method includes receiving a first set of data pertaining a first object and a second set of data pertaining to a second object, and comparing the first object with the second object using an earth mover's ... 02/02/06 - 20060023946 - Image description system and method thereof In a picture description system, a memory unit stores description schemes defined for every category of picture. When a picture is specified, a control unit specifies features extractable from the specified picture with reference to a description scheme in the memory unit associated with category of the specified picture. A ... 01/26/06 - 20060018549 - System and method for object characterization of toboggan-based clusters A method for characterizing an object in a digitized image includes providing a digitized volumetric image comprising a plurality of intensities corresponding to a domain of points in an N-dimensional space, forming a toboggan cluster from a subset of contiguous points in said image, said toboggan cluster including a concentration ... 01/26/06 - 20060018548 - Method, system, and computer software product for automated identification of temporal patterns with high initial enhancement in dynamic magnetic resonance breast imaging A method, system, and computer software product for analyzing medical images, including obtaining image data representative of a plurality of medical images of the abnormality, each medical image corresponding to an image of the abnormality acquired at a different time relative to a time of administration of a contrast medium, ... 01/26/06 - 20060018547 - Image processing device and a method for the same An image processing device identifies the plurality of subject images which are overlapped partially, by recognizing a relative positional relationship of the plurality of subject images. The device separates into one or more blocks to segment the same area for each of the overlapped subject images the overlapping part of ... 01/12/06 - 20060008152 - Method and apparatus for enhancing and indexing video and audio signals A method and apparatus for processing a video sequence is disclosed. The apparatus may include a video processor for detecting and tracking at least one identifiable face in a video sequence. The method may include performing face detection of at least one identifiable face, selecting a face template including face ... 01/12/06 - 20060008151 - Shape feature extraction and classification System and method for analyzing an image. A received image, comprising an object or objects, is optionally preprocessed. Invariant shape features of the object(s) are extracted using a generalized invariant feature descriptor. The generalized invariant feature descriptor may comprise a generalized invariant feature vector comprising components corresponding to attributes of ... 01/12/06 - 20060008150 - Apparatus for and method of feature extraction for image recognition An apparatus for and method of performing a most informative feature extraction (MIFE) method in which a facial image is separated into sub-regions, and each sub-region makes individual contribution for performing facial recognition. Specifically, each sub-region is subjected to a sub-region based adaptive gamma (SadaGamma) correction or sub-region based histogram ... 01/12/06 - 20060008149 - Method of performing shape localization A method for performing shape localization in an image includes deriving a model shape from a database of a plurality of sample shapes. The model shape is defined by a set of landmarks. The method further includes deriving a texture likelihood model of present sub-patches of the set of landmarks ... 12/29/05 - 20050286769 - Specific point detecting method and device A template image creation module generates in predetermined timing a template image corresponding to a landmark existing in a real space from a fixed viewpoint image obtained from a fixed camera, and provides the template image to a landmark detection module, thereby updating a template image for use in template ... 12/29/05 - 20050286768 - Automatic detection of regions (such as, e.g., renal regions, including, e.g., kidney regions) in dynamic imaging studies In some preferred embodiments, a system for the automatic identification of cortical and/or medulla regions of the kidneys in renal dynamic studies is provided that includes: a computer module configured to perform principal component analysis on a dynamic sequence corresponding to only one of the kidneys based on a linear ... 12/29/05 - 20050286767 - System and method for 3d object recognition using range and intensity A system and method for performing object and class recognition that allows for wide changes of viewpoint and distance of objects is disclosed. The invention provides for choosing pose-invariant interest points of a three-dimensional (3D) image, and for computing pose-invariant feature descriptors of the image. The system and method also ... 12/29/05 - 20050286766 - Red eye reduction technique A red-eye reduction technique includes converting a multi-channel image to a hue, saturation, value color space. The hue channel, the saturation channel, and the value channel are processed to identify the location of the red-eye within the image, if any. ... 12/15/05 - 20050276481 - Particular-region detection method and apparatus, and program therefor The method and apparatus for detecting particular regions detect one or more particular region candidates in a first image, perform face detection in a region including at least one of the thus detected particular region candidates by using a second image having a scene as same as the first image ... 12/01/05 - 20050265603 - Image processing An image processing method for selecting a subset of n (where n is two or more) images representative of a test set of images comprises the step of: detecting a degree of similarity between images in the test set of images, so that the subset of images comprises those n ... 11/17/05 - 20050254710 - Method and apparatus for analyzing biological tissue specimens The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for processing images of irregularly shaped objects, such as biological specimens, in particular of human or animal origin, or images thereof. The metric quantification of a biological body part or tissue or of an abnormal material spot or aggregate contained ... 10/20/05 - 20050232490 - Red-eye detection device, red-eye detection method, and red-eye detection program A red-eye detection device includes a red-eye candidate detection section, a red-eye pair specification section, and an isolated red-eye candidate check section. The red-eye candidate detection section detects a red-eye candidate that can be estimated to be a red-eye, by identifying a feature of the pupil that has a region ... 10/20/05 - 20050232489 - Generation of digested image data This invention provides a method of extracting at least a portion of moving image data from supplied moving image data. The method comprises: (a) a moving image evaluation step of generating moving image evaluation data by evaluating the supplied moving image data, the evaluation being chronologically performed based on a ... 10/20/05 - 20050232488 - Analysis of patterns among objects of a plurality of classes A method for the detection and analysis of patterns receives an image containing object labels and performs relational feature development using the input image to create at least one pattern map. It then performs relational feature analysis using the at least one pattern map to create a relational feature analysis ... 10/13/05 - 20050226509 - Efficient classification of three dimensional face models for human identification and other applications Three dimensional face recognition via vectorizing samples that are in an enrollment data base. The vectors are formed by comparing faces in the enrollment database with reference faces, and determining differences between the actual faces and the reference faces. Those differences are then formed into an N dimensional vector representing ... 10/13/05 - 20050226508 - Image recognition system, image recognition method, and machine readable medium storing thereon an image recognition program There is provided an image recognition system which recognizes a subject, which is moving with respect to an image capturing unit, included in an image captured by the image capturing unit, comprising: the image capturing unit; a first recognition unit which recognizes a candidate of the subject included in the ... 10/06/05 - 20050220347 - Particular-region detection method and apparatus, and program therefor In the invention, a particular-region such as red-eye region of a photographed image is detected, the image including a person as an object. At first a particular region candidate satisfying detection conditions for the particular region candidate is detected from the image. Then, a face region of the person satisfying ... 10/06/05 - 20050220346 - Red eye detection device, red eye detection method, and recording medium with red eye detection program A red eye detection device detects, from an image that contains the pupil of an eye having a red eye region, the red eye region. One or more red eye candidate regions that can be estimated to be the red eye region are first detected by identifying at least one ... 10/06/05 - 20050220345 - Generating a highly condensed visual summary In one embodiment, the present invention extracts video regions of interest from one or more videos and generates a highly condensed visual summary of the videos. The video regions of interest are extracted based on to energy, movement, face or other object detection methods, associated data or external input, or ... 09/29/05 - 20050213820 - Rapid computer modeling of faces for animation Described herein is a technique for creating a 3D face model using images obtained from an inexpensive camera associated with a general-purpose computer. Two still images of the user are captured, and two video sequences. The user is asked to identify five facial features, which are used to calculate a ... 09/29/05 - 20050213819 - Form recognition system, method, program, and storage medium The similarity between a search form and a registered form is calculated on a page-by-page basis in a predetermined order. Every time the page similarity is calculated, it is determined whether or not a value representing the similarity is smaller than a predetermined threshold value. If it is determined that ... 09/29/05 - 20050213818 - Image recognition device and method, and robot device In an image recognition apparatus (1), feature point extraction sections (10a) and (10b) extract feature points from a model image and an object image. Feature quantity retention sections (11a) and (11b) extract a feature quantity for each of the feature points and retain them along with positional information of the ... 09/22/05 - 20050207650 - Method for automatically defining regions of interest for matching and visualizing forensic images A method and apparatus for an automated system to extract a high quality signature from an image having areas not relevant for specific identification purposes which can lead to misleading image signatures, the method comprising: identifying at least one region of interest within the image by determining local orientation information ... 09/22/05 - 20050207649 - Particular-region detection method and apparatus, and program therefor A particular-region such as red-eye region of a person in an image is detected at a high speed by a particular-region detection apparatus, as follows. At first, a region of the image satisfying detection conditions for particular region candidates is detected as a particular region candidate. Next, a face region ... 09/22/05 - 20050207648 - Image processing system An image processing system, including: a first detecting system for detecting lateral angle points of both eyes in a facial image; a second detecting section for detecting oral angle points; and a constructing section for constructing a rectangle which is formed of a line segment made by a side that ... 09/08/05 - 20050196044 - Method of extracting candidate human region within image, system for extracting candidate human region, program for extracting candidate human region, method of discerning top and bottom of human image, system for discerning top and bottom, and program fo A method is provided for extracting a candidate human image region from within a picture image. The top-bottom direction of a picture image containing a human image is discerned. Based on the result of the discernment, the human image is modified to the actual top-bottom direction. Then, the variance values ... 08/25/05 - 20050185844 - Digital pictorial book sytstem, pictorial book searching method, and machine readable medium storing thereon pictorial book searching method A digital pictorial book system includes an image capturing module for capturing an image; a main object selecting module for selecting a main object out of the image; an inclination measuring module for measuring inclination of the image capturing module in a vertical direction; and a name searching module for ... 08/25/05 - 20050185843 - Digital pictorial book system, pictorial book searching method, and machine readable medium storing thereon pictorial book searching program A digital pictorial book system for searching for and explaining a name of an object captured by an image capturing module includes an image capturing module for capturing an image; a main object selecting module for selecting a main object out of the image; a feature extracting module for extracting ... 08/04/05 - 20050169530 - Obstacle detection device and method therefor Provided is a technology for helping safe driving and realizing automatic driving of vehicles, or for counting the number of passing vehicles on the road or monitoring those passing vehicles for their driving. Using a plurality of cameras mounted in a vehicle or provided above a road, even if the ... 08/04/05 - 20050169529 - Active learning system for object fingerprinting Described is an active learning system for fingerprinting an object identified in an image frame. The active learning system comprises a flow-based object segmentation module for segmenting a potential object candidate from a video sequence, a fixed-basis function decomposition module using Haar wavelets to extract a relevant feature set from ... 07/28/05 - 20050163379 - Use of multimedia data for emoticons in instant messaging The present invention provides a method, and corresponding apparatus, for use of emoticons in IM applications by using sensory information captured by a device. Such information can include video, still image, and/or audio information. In one embodiment, based on a trigger to the system, multimedia input is captured, and relevant ... 07/28/05 - 20050163378 - Exif-based imaged feature set for content engine An improved feature set and accompanying image-content-based management/search method/algorithm enable fast and effective searching of a collection of digital color images to identify a particular image or group of images. The feature set, which is designed for EXIF formatted thumbnail color images, is derived from select transform (e.g., DCT) coefficients ... 07/21/05 - 20050157931 - Method and apparatus for developing synthetic three-dimensional models from imagery A method and apparatus for modeling an object in software are disclosed. The method includes generating a three-dimensional geometry of the object from a plurality of points obtained from a plurality of images of the object, the images having been acquired from a plurality of perspectives; and generating a three-dimensional ... 07/14/05 - 20050152603 - Visual object detection A method of representing an image comprises processing the image to produce a second image highlighting edges in the image (eg a intensity gradient image) and deriving a descriptor based on spatially integrated or rotationally invariant representations of regions of the second image. ... 07/07/05 - 20050147304 - Head-top detecting method, head-top detecting system and a head-top detecting program for a human face A head-top detecting method is provided for detecting a head-top of a human face from an image with the human face included therein. After detecting a human face and setting a head-top detecting window at an upper part of the image, an image feature quantity within the head-top detecting window ... 07/07/05 - 20050147303 - System and method for detecting and matching anatomical stuctures using appearance and shape A detection framework that matches anatomical structures using appearance and shape is disclosed. A training set of images are used in which object shapes or structures are annotated in the images. A second training set of images represents negative examples for such shapes and structures, i.e., images containing no such ... 07/07/05 - 20050147302 - Methods and apparatus for object recognition using textons Methods and an apparatuses for automatically recognizing and/or verifying objects in a digital image are presented. In one example, a method automatically recognizes objects in digital image data by detecting an object of interest in input digital image data, obtaining a normalized object of interest, assigning texton representations of the ... 06/30/05 - 20050141767 - Apparatus and method of pattern recognition In one embodiment of the invention, a pattern recognition apparatus comprises a unit for inputting a pattern of a to-be recognized category; and a processor with a memory for: generating input subspace; calculating and storing reference subspaces; storing constraint subspaces for extracting features; projecting the input subspace and the reference ... 06/30/05 - 20050141766 - Method, system and program for searching area considered to be face image A sample image is filtered through a circumferential filter 28, an image feature amount is learned in a discrimination section 30, an image G to be searched is filtered through the circumferential filter 28 to detect a rotation invariant image feature amount for each filtered area, and each detected image ... 06/23/05 - 20050135679 - Face detecting system and method using symmetric axis A face detecting system using a symmetric axis, the system including: an image inputting unit for inputting a still image thereto; an image converting unit for reducing the inputted image to a first certain size of image for a real-time process by using a pyramidal resolution reduction way; a scanning ... 06/02/05 - 20050117803 - Document recognition device, document recognition method and program, and storage medium In document recognition processing for accurately recognition a document image at high speed, a shape feature is extracted from a component included in an input document image, and the degree of similarity of shape between the document image and the registered document is calculated based on the extracted shape feature. ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |