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Image Analysis > Image Transformation Or Preprocessing > Measuring Image Properties (e.g., Length, Width, Or Area) Measuring Image Properties (e.g., Length, Width, Or Area)Measuring Image Properties (e.g., Length, Width, Or Area) 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.10/18/07 - 20070242899 - Position and orientation measurement method and position and orientation measurement apparatus The first values of position and orientation of an image sensing device are obtained by using positions of all indices in a frame image. Indices having the same inherent information between a first index group (FIG) in the frame image and a second index group (SIG) in a preceding frame ... 10/11/07 - 20070237424 - Method and apparatus instrumenting a camera to: measure, model and insert target objects at their right size into pictures Apparatus and methods are provided for measuring a size of an object in a field of view of a captured image. A distance is measured from a focal point of the image to the object. A cursor is fit to the object and the size of the object is estimated ... 10/04/07 - 20070230823 - Image evaluation system and method An image evaluation system and method are provided. The system includes an image register, an evaluation window, an image feature generator, and an evaluation unit. In addition, the image evaluation method includes the steps of in case that the image is a human figure, the image is analyzed based on ... 09/27/07 - 20070223839 - Signal noise estimation Provided are systems, methods and techniques that estimate the noise level in a signal, such as an image, by ordering windows in the signal based on calculated measures of the variability within each window (i.e., ordering from lowest to highest or, alternatively, from highest to lowest). That order information is ... 09/27/07 - 20070223838 - Detecting compositing in a previously compressed image In a method and system for detecting digital image compositing, a first artifact is detected in an uncompressed digital image. The first artifact is characteristic of an earlier compression of the digital image with a predetermined compression algorithm. An interpolation marker in the image is evaluated to provide interpolation results. ... 05/31/07 - 20070122060 - Image registration method improvement A method (200) of determining at least rotation and scale parameters of a transformation relating two images is disclosed. The method (200) starts by forming a spatial domain representation of each of the images that is invariant to translation of the images. A correlation in the log-polar domain is next ... 04/26/07 - 20070092161 - Information processing method and information processing apparatus An information processing method for obtaining placement information of a first position and orientation sensor attached to an object with respect to the object includes an image input step of inputting an image of the object captured by an image capturing device, and a sensor measurement value input step of ... 04/26/07 - 20070092160 - Skin evaluation method and image simulation method A skin beauty evaluation method for imaging an object such as human face to obtain digital image data, extracting data on a mirror reflection light component of each pixel from the digital image data and evaluating the skin sheen and skin beauty by using this. A simulation image obtaining method ... 04/12/07 - 20070081742 - Method of measuring an area of micro-objects of arbitrary shape in scanning electron microscope A method of measuring an area of an micro object has the steps of introducing in a scanning electron microscope an object to be measured, so as to obtain an image of the object; on a print or in a memory; separating a first line from the image; localizing a ... 04/05/07 - 20070076981 - Scalable test target and method for measurement of camera image quality An improved test target pattern that can be used in the testing of image quality for digital images taken with a camera module, the camera module either being a stand-alone product or being incorporated into a device such as a mobile telephone. With the present invention, several different image quality ... 03/22/07 - 20070065042 - Method for measuring dimensions by means of a digital camera The distance between a first detectable point (5) and a second detectable point (6) on an object (2) is measured by means of a digital camera (1) by making a first image (7) comprising said first detectable point (5), then displacing the camera (1), and subsequently making an other image ... 02/15/07 - 20070036465 - Image measuring apparatus and image measuring method An image measuring apparatus comprises an imaging portion with pixels, each pixel being allocated with one color, four pixels constituting one set, one set being allocated with a plurality of colors to express a color, and said sets being arranged in matrix, configured to image a measuring object and output ... 02/15/07 - 20070036464 - Method to determine the optical quality of a glazing A method of determining the optical quality of a glazing which includes at least one area having a reduced light transmission, involves producing a shadowgraph image of the glazing and measuring the illumination of the glazing at a plurality of measurement points arranged in an array extending over the glazing. ... 12/07/06 - 20060274975 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, noise-amount estimate apparatus, noise-amount estimate method, and storage medium An image processing apparatus processes input pixel data and outputs the processed pixel data as output pixel data. The image processing apparatus includes an input reliability calculation section for calculating an input reliability indicating the reliability of the input pixel data, an output reliability calculation section for calculating an output ... 11/30/06 - 20060269162 - Reduced-reference visual communication quality assessment using data hiding A method and system of communicating visual communication quality information, includes extracting reduced-reference (RR) feature data from visual content, embedding the RR feature data in the visual content; and transmitting the visual content with the embedded RR feature data. Visual communication quality is assessed by receiving visual content which includes ... 11/16/06 - 20060257050 - Method and system for image quality calculation An exemplary method for determining quality of an image, includes segmenting the image into sections, generating quality measures for each section, and combining the quality measures of the sections to form a quality measure for the image. An exemplary system for determining quality of an image includes a memory for ... 07/27/06 - 20060165311 - Spatial standard observer The present invention relates to devices and methods for the measurement and/or for the specification of the perceptual intensity of a visual image, or the perceptual distance between a pair of images. Grayscale test and reference images are processed to produce test and reference luminance images. A luminance filter function ... 06/15/06 - 20060126964 - Method of and system for image processing and computer program A skin-colored area is detected in a face. A lateral width of the detected skin-colored area is detected in each of the positions along a direction from the vertex to the chin of the face, and the lateral width in a predetermined position in a range from a first position ... 05/25/06 - 20060110067 - Digital video media duplication or transmission quality measurement A system and method for measuring video quality of a video image, wherein the system comprises a source device comprising an original video image; a receiver comprising a received video image; a storage device adapted to store video images from the source device and the receiver; a decoder connected to ... 05/11/06 - 20060098896 - Apparatus and method for scanning an object A scanner has a plurality of cameras positioned around an object to be scanned. The object is illuminated by unstructured light and the object is covered by a textured surface. The cameras can be arranged as pairs and each camera pair is supported on a single support. The scanned object ... 04/13/06 - 20060078225 - 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; measuring the intensity or brightness of pixels in a target area; accumulating the intensity or brightness values ... 03/16/06 - 20060056733 - Image comparing method, computer program product, and image comparing apparatus In an image processing apparatus, on a display screen, a plurality of images can be displayed in parallel in an image display area, and, for example, a focus evaluation value for comparing focus states of the images can be displayed on a comparison result display area. As the focus evaluation ... 03/16/06 - 20060056732 - Determining sharpness predictors for a digital image A method for image recognition of a material object that utilizes graphical modeling of the corner points of a vertex which includes projecting a point on a digital display to an inward depth, a one half pixel distance in the plane of the display, with a conic to a digital ... 03/16/06 - 20060056731 - Determining sharpness predictors for a digital image A method for determining a sharpness predictor for an input digital image includes determining one or more image metrics by analyzing the input digital image; and determining the sharpness predictor from the one or more image metrics. ... 02/16/06 - 20060034544 - Distinctness of image processing A distinctness of image processing system comprising a portable unit having an imaging portion and a processing portion means associated with said imaging portion for projecting a edge upon to an image surface located substantially on a bottom plane of said unit and further including means for sensing said image ... 01/05/06 - 20060002628 - Methods and systems for complexity-based process blending Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for image complexity estimation and selective complexity-based image processing. ... 01/05/06 - 20060002627 - Methods and systems for complexity estimation and complexity-based selection Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for image complexity estimation and complexity-based image processing. ... 12/29/05 - 20050286802 - Method for detecting and selecting good quality image frames from video A method of determining a quality value for an image frame is disclosed. The method comprises dividing (in a step 202) the frame into a plurality of tiles (906) and determining attributes (in a step 206) of each said tile based upon pixel values of the tile, and pixel values ... 12/29/05 - 20050286801 - Generation of quality field information in the context of image processing A computer-implemented method is provided for generating a quality field representation of a collection of image data. The method includes receiving the collection of image data and identifying a target point along a ridge in the collection of image data. A directional field representation is estimated by assigning an angle ... 12/15/05 - 20050276515 - System for manipulating noise in digital images An apparatus for analyzing the broadband noise content of a digital image comprising the following: a means of automatically identifying regions of originally constant color in the image by analysis of the variance of pixel values of regions of the image; a means of automatically detecting and discarding regions deemed ... 12/15/05 - 20050276514 - Image monitoring method and system A system for verifying the accuracy of an image generated by a display processor and rendering engine is disclosed. The system includes a correlator circuit. The correlator circuit is operable to capture image data produced by a rendering engine from a set of input data and determine a correlation value ... 12/15/05 - 20050276513 - Method for characterizing a digital imaging system A method for use in characterizing a digital imaging system (53) having an array of imaging elements (35), and in particular for measuring the modulation transfer function (sometimes called the spatial frequency response) even in directions (33) at large angles to both horizontal rows and vertical columns of the array ... 12/08/05 - 20050271298 - Noise measurement apparatus for image signal and method thereof A noise measurement apparatus and a method thereof capable of reducing an error in measuring a noise of incoming image signals. A picture of an incoming image signal is broken into at least two blocks and an average brightness value with respect to each block is calculated in a sequence. ... 11/17/05 - 20050254727 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for determining image quality A method and computer program product are provided for evaluating quality of an image. In accordance with the method a digital image is obtained and the digital image is analyzed using a first mental representation based upon a first level of human visual processing of an image to obtain a ... 10/13/05 - 20050226532 - System and method for determining the size of an object In one aspect of the invention, a system and method are provided for associating multi-media data with an electronic document. A first document editing software application opens a second multi-media capture application. The first application provides the second application with file names and a file system location at which to ... 10/06/05 - 20050220362 - Method of precision calibration of a microscope and the like A method of precision calibration of a microscope magnification with calculating a magnification scale as a quotient obtained when an image size of a test object viewed or collected with the microscope is divided by a true test object size, the methods comprising the steps of obtaining a magnification reference ... 09/22/05 - 20050207673 - Method for measuring line and space pattern using scanning electron microscope The present invention is relates to a method for measuring average line width of line and space patterns in a simplified manner and at high speed without measuring at many positions. An average line width, an average space width, and an average pitch width are calculated from peak intervals of ... 09/15/05 - 20050201638 - Method and system for measuring an object in digital image A method and a system of measuring an object in a two-dimensional digital image are provided. The object is moved to cover the portion that is outside a viewing window, and a first image of the object, which is captured before the object is moved, and a second image of ... 07/07/05 - 20050147323 - Method for detecting image interpolation A method for analyzing a digital image channel comprising the steps of providing a digital image channel, extracting a signal from the digital image channel, and using the extracted signal to determine whether the digital image channel is an interpolated digital image channel or a non-interpolated digital image channel. More ... 06/30/05 - 20050141783 - Method for detecting resolution and device for the same The invention discloses a method for detecting resolution and a device for the same. Resolution data entries corresponding to a display device are classified into a plurality of first and second counting groups according to first and second timing counts respectively. Image signals from a video source are detected, acquiring ... 06/23/05 - 20050135706 - System and method for shadow imaging A system for shadow imaging a sample comprises a heat source configured for heating a sample, at least one light source configured for casting light on the sample and at least one screen configured for receiving at least one shadow image. The system further comprises at least one imaging device ... ### FreshPatents.com Support - Terms & Conditions |