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Image Analysis > Image Transformation Or Preprocessing > Image Storage Or Retrieval Image Storage Or RetrievalImage Storage Or Retrieval 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 - 20070269139 - Automated techniques for comparing contents of images Automated techniques for comparing contents of images. For a given image (referred to as an “input image”), a set of images (referred to as “a set of candidate images”) are processed to determine if the set of candidate images comprises an image whose contents or portions thereof match contents included ... 11/15/07 - 20070263945 - Data processing apparatus, image processing apparatus, and method therefor There are provided a data processing apparatus which makes an I/F for data processing modules (processors) versatile to facilitate addition/modification on a data processing module basis in accordance with processing contents, an image processing apparatus, and a method for the apparatuses. A data processing module (3) includes a read address ... 11/01/07 - 20070253644 - Image displaying apparatus and program product for displaying image To enable a necessary image data to be easily found out based on image sizes of a plurality of index images displayed in a list format and to enable contents of original images displayed as index images to be easily understood, in the case of generating an index image of ... 11/01/07 - 20070253642 - Method and apparatus for indexing, storing and retrieving raster (grid) data in a combined raster vector system The invention relates to a method and apparatus that uses an R-tree's vector data as a mechanism for query and retrieval of raster data in conjunction with or instead of the vector data. The invention relates to a method of storing, indexing and retrieving raster data comprising: storing raster data, ... 10/25/07 - 20070248289 - Method and apparatus for rfid mapping to a digital camera and digital picture delivery system This disclosure is a method and system for the linking of digital images to RFID devices. The method includes providing at least one radio frequency identification device, each radio frequency identification device having a electronic product code; linking one or more of the electronic product codes to a digital image ... 10/11/07 - 20070237426 - Generating search results based on duplicate image detection A method and system for searching for content relating to a target or query image by identifying duplicate images with associated content is provided. An image search system identifies visual parts of objects within the target image based on analysis of two or more versions of the target image. The ... 09/20/07 - 20070217716 - Image scaling arrangement Methods and system for transferring images between devices is disclosed. For example, differently scaled images by a host device may automatically and/or selectively be transferred to a media player for display. In turn, appropriately scaled images may be transferred automatically and/or selectively to another display device for example a TV, ... 09/20/07 - 20070217715 - Property record document data validation systems and methods A method of extracting data from a document image includes selecting a document classification for the document image that includes text. The classification is selected from a plurality of predetermined document classifications based on recognized text. The method also includes selecting rules from a database of rules based on the ... 09/13/07 - 20070211964 - Image-based indexing and classification in image databases The invention enables the digital management of large scale image databases, to efficiently classify and index image data independent of language. Complex processing requirements are required only on reduced and operably small subsets of the entire collection, thereby effectively scaling large document collections. Embodiments of the present invention provide image-based ... 08/23/07 - 20070196033 - Searching and indexing of photos based on ink annotations New ways to organize and search for digital photos are described. Electronic ink may be written on a photo and associated with the photo or only a portion of the photo. The written ink is recognized and stored as photo file metadata. Once photos and/or photo portions have been annotated ... 08/23/07 - 20070196032 - Compressible earth mover's distance A Compressible Earth Mover's Distance (CEMD) better matches how humans perceive distance between distributions. Earth and holes are able to be compressed when moving from the earth to the holes thus minimizing the distance and improving the quality of image comparison. CEMD is utilized in a number of implementations, for ... 08/09/07 - 20070183688 - Data management system and method A method includes: acquiring at least one digital image; acquiring a first data identifier associated with each digital image; receiving a scan of a paper including at least one scan of handwritten information and a second data identifier associated with each handwritten information; and associating each digital image with a ... 08/02/07 - 20070177822 - Removable medium device, medium for controlling removable medium device, and medium for controlling network device A removable medium device, configured to transmit information stored in a removable medium via a network based on a predetermined communication protocol, includes a reduced image generating system that reduces each of a plurality of original images in the removable medium and generate a reduced screen image in which the ... 07/26/07 - 20070172155 - Photo automatic linking system and method for accessing, linking, and visualizing key-face and/or multiple similar facial images along with associated electronic data via a facial image recognition search engine The present invention provides a system and method for input of images containing faces for accessing, linking, and or visualizing multiple similar facial images and associated electronic data for innovative new on-line commercialization, medical and training uses. The system uses various image capturing devices and communication devices to capture images ... 07/26/07 - 20070172154 - Data medium discrimination information database creating apparatus, data medium discrimination information database managing apparatus, computer readable recording medium recorded thereon data medium discrimination information database creating program, a An apparatus has a temporary registration unit which extracts candidate information, which can be data medium discrimination information, about a data medium from image data, relates it to the data medium, and register them in a registration candidate database when the data medium discrimination information about the data medium is ... 07/05/07 - 20070154115 - Apparatus and method for managing images of mobile terminal An apparatus for managing images of a mobile terminal includes: a storage unit for storing a plurality of images; and a control unit for creating a script for a particular image according to a user instruction, and linking a second image stored in the storage unit or in an external ... 06/21/07 - 20070140594 - Digitized bank checks validated by digital signatures A system for handling files containing digitized images, such as digitized bank checks. Four digitized image-files are obtained for each check: front and back at the beginning of a process, and front and back at the end of the process. Four digital signatures are generated, one for each image-file. The ... 06/14/07 - 20070133907 - Image processing apparatus Image data is displayed on an image display unit. An information input unit specifies a characteristic extracting range corresponding to the image data. An image-characteristic extracting unit extracts a representative characteristic from the specified range within the image data. The extracted representative characteristic are associated with the image data and ... 06/14/07 - 20070133906 - Information processing apparatus, data analyzing method and information recording medium The image displaying apparatus includes: an image feature quantity calculating section 26 for calculating image feature quantities of a plurality of types for each of the images acquired by an image acquiring section 24; a first image position coordinate calculating section 28 for calculating the position coordinate of each of ... 06/07/07 - 20070127848 - Apparatus, system and method for mapping information An apparatus, system and method for mapping information. The apparatus for mapping information includes an information input unit providing image information and position-view information in a specified area, a three-dimensional model database storing three-dimensional model data of a structure within the specified area and generating a two-dimensional image from the ... 05/31/07 - 20070122063 - Method and apparatus for retrieving pattern, and computer product A pattern retrieving unit includes an acquiring unit that acquires a representative pattern image; a setting unit that sets a use condition of a type of shape feature of the representative pattern image; a receiving unit that receives a query pattern image used as a query; a determining unit that ... 05/31/07 - 20070122062 - Method and system for processing employment related images A method and computer program enable the electronic capture and archiving of portions of printed publications for electronic searching and retrieval via a computer network. Employment-related sections of a plurality of printed publications are scanned to create a master digital image for each publication. Each master image is surveyed by ... 05/17/07 - 20070110338 - Navigating images using image based geometric alignment and object based controls Over the past few years there has been a dramatic proliferation of digital cameras, and it has become increasingly easy to share large numbers of photographs with many other people. These trends have contributed to the availability of large databases of photographs. Effectively organizing, browsing, and visualizing such .seas. of ... 05/03/07 - 20070098303 - Determining a particular person from a collection A method of identifying a particular person in a digital image collection, wherein at least one of the images in the digital image collection contains more than one person, includes providing at least one first label for a first image in the digital image collection containing a particular person and ... 04/12/07 - 20070081744 - System and method for use of images with recognition analysis An index is provided that holds information about each image content item in a collection of items, For each image content item, a first information item identifying the image content item and its location on a network, and at least one of (i) a second information item identifying a signature ... 04/05/07 - 20070076984 - Electronic document creating apparatus An electronic document creating apparatus includes a document information obtaining device that obtains and inputs document identification information put on a sheet document. The document identification information specifies an electronic document stored in a folder. The electronic document serves as an output source of the sheet document. An electronic document ... 03/22/07 - 20070065045 - Information management apparatus, information management method, and computer program product A feature-amount extracting unit extracts a first feature amount of information to be registered, from the information. A searching unit searches for a second feature amount of information from a feature-amount storing unit. A similarity calculating unit calculates a similarity between the first feature amount and the second feature amount. ... 03/22/07 - 20070065044 - Method, medium, and system with a combinational photograph thumbnail A system, medium, and method providing a thumbnail visualizing a plurality of features representing an event to facilitate a search of images. In the system, medium, and method, photographs may be classified into groups based on metadata, e.g., embedded in a photograph file, and a thumbnail may be generated by ... 03/01/07 - 20070047845 - Contents providing system and information recording system A contents providing system includes a communication unit, a print control unit, an expendable amount deriving unit and an expendable amount storing control unit. The communication unit communicates with a contents server having contents data. The print control unit controls a printer to print the contents data and output a ... 03/01/07 - 20070047844 - Image processing apparatus and program product An image processing apparatus transmits data via a network to a server equipped with a function for distributing an image received from a terminal apparatus over the network to another terminal apparatus over the network and a function for transmitting a track back notification with respect to a track back ... 03/01/07 - 20070047843 - Image storage device and method An image storage device according to an example of the invention comprising a first storage unit which stores first image, a second storage unit which stores second image to be determined whether the second image includes detection target data which is the similar to data included in the first image, ... 03/01/07 - 20070047842 - Interactive photo system An interactive photo system that provides an interesting and entertaining way to link photos from the digital and analog domains. The system enables easy conversion of a paper-based photo into digital form. The conversion process generally involves a user holding up a paper-based photo image in front of a camera ... 02/22/07 - 20070041667 - Using features extracted from an audio and/or video work to obtain information about the work Information about an audio or video file played on a device is provided by (a) extracting features from the audio or video file, (b) communicating the features to a database, and (c) receiving the information about the audio or video file from the database. The information might include a song ... 02/22/07 - 20070041666 - Information processing system and information processing method An information processing system includes a memory portion that stores image information of a space in association with a document, the image information being captured by an image capturing portion, the document being used while the space being captured, a receiving portion that receives information that specifies the document as ... 02/15/07 - 20070036469 - Method and system for providing image-related information to user, and mobile terminal therefor Disclosed is a mobile terminal (MT) for acquiring information related to an image photographed through the MT's camera module. The MT captures a desired image in the photographed image, and either internally searches for information related to the captured image or transmits an information request to an information server via ... 02/15/07 - 20070036468 - Image processing apparatus for image retrieval and control method therefor Even if a margin area, which did not exist in an original image, is present around a document area in a document acquired by printing the original image, an accurate layout comparison between the scanned image of the printed document and the original image can be performed as follows. An ... 02/08/07 - 20070031066 - Device and method for image searching, and recording medium in which image searching program is recorded There is disclosed, in an image searching device, a technology in which a person's facial portion is extracted from an original image, and an index image including this facial portion is produced and displayed. In consequence, the person's facial portion in the image can easily be distinguished. Furthermore, as an ... 01/25/07 - 20070019889 - Object selection using hit test tracks A method for labeling the pixels within a selected visual area of at least one image frame containing that visual area from a sequence of image frames stored in memory and operative to be displayed on an interactive display so that a user may subsequently select the selected visual area ... 12/21/06 - 20060285772 - System and methods for creation and use of 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 ... 12/14/06 - 20060280381 - Image information detecting apparatus An image information detecting apparatus with an image information detecting unit that receives recording light representing image information, and records the image information by storing electric charges generated in the unit by the recording light. The apparatus further includes a wireless communication means operable for transmission to an external device; ... 12/07/06 - 20060274978 - Image processing apparatus and method, and program An image processing apparatus includes detecting means for detecting the number of face image elements, which are one or more image elements of faces, included in an image, and associating means for associating the image with the detected number of face image elements. ... 11/30/06 - 20060269167 - Image comparison by metric embeddings Systems and methods are presented for image comparison by metric embeddings. In one implementation, a graph is created from each image to be compared. Graph metrics are then embedded in families of trees for each image. Minimum differences between the respective families of trees for different images are compiled into ... 11/16/06 - 20060257053 - Segmentation and data mining for gel electrophoresis images A segmentation method is provided for the automated segmentation of spot-light structures into D images allowing precise quantification and classification of said structures and said images, based on a plurality of criteria, and further allowing the automated identification of multi-spot based patterns present in one or a plurality of images. ... 11/09/06 - 20060251339 - System and method for enabling the use of captured images through recognition An embodiment provides for enabling retrieval of a collection of captured images that form at least a portion of a library of images. For each image in the collection, a captured image may be analyzed to recognize information from image data contained in the captured image, and an index may ... 11/09/06 - 20060251338 - System and method for providing objectified image renderings using recognition information from images An embodiment provides for enabling retrieval of a collection of captured images that form at least a portion of a library of images. For each image in the collection, a captured image may be analyzed to recognize information from image data contained in the captured image, and an index may ... 10/26/06 - 20060239592 - Method and apparatus for processing image data A method of processing image data representing a plurality of images, the method includes processing the image data for respective ones of the images in order to generate allocation data for each image, and on the basis of the allocation data, allocating an image a position in a template, the ... 10/26/06 - 20060239591 - Method and system for albuming multimedia using albuming hints A method and apparatus album multimedia using media albuming hints. The multimedia albuming method includes: extracting albuming hints from multimedia contents; describing the extracted albuming hint information in a predetermined description structure; generating a media descriptor by using the described albuming hint information; and albuming multimedia contents by using the ... 10/26/06 - 20060239590 - Image frame abstraction model for image codecs A method and architecture for obtaining a desired frame and identifying a selected frame in an image container. A request for a frame of an image is received. The request may include an identifier that identifies a type of frame. In response thereto, a frame is located corresponding to the ... 09/21/06 - 20060210196 - Method and system using non-uniform image blocks for rapid interactive viewing of digital image over a network Apparatus and method for rapid interactive viewing of a digital image over a network. A client computer displays a view of an image. The image is originally resident on a server computer. The client computer maintains a cache, initially empty, of image blocks already obtained from the server. When the ... 09/14/06 - 20060204144 - Image processing apparatus After images are read, a user designates an image data for identifying a file, stores and registers the designated image data as a representative image data associating with the file. When a print request is made, the representative image data is displayed on the image processing apparatus. The representative image ... 09/14/06 - 20060204143 - Electronic album editing system, electronic album editing method, and electronic album editing program An electronic album editing system for editing an electronic album in consideration of categories into which images are classifies is provided. The electronic album editing system includes: a first storage section for classifying a plurality of images included in a first electronic album into a plurality of categories and storing ... 09/14/06 - 20060204142 - Ranking of images in the results of a search A method is provided for determining a ranking score for an image or group of related images among a plurality of images accessible by a search engine, such that the ranking score is usable to determine the order in which the images are presented in the results of a search ... 09/14/06 - 20060204141 - Method and system of converting film images to digital format for viewing One example embodiment provides a method and system converting image files from a roll scanner into a file format suitable for viewing the images in a roll format. The image processor receives the output files from the roll scanner. The image processor determines the orientation of the output images in ... 09/14/06 - 20060204140 - Program with copy function and information recording medium recording the program thereon User 2 can obtain first information recording medium 10 in which a copying program is recorded, whereby the copying program copies image data specified by signals from specified image data copy signals, and an image data display program and setting information to display the image data by a predetermined method, ... 09/07/06 - 20060198559 - Method for automatically organizing a digitized hardcopy media collection A method, system and software program for automatically organizing digital images obtained from a plurality of hardcopy media. A plurality of hardcopy media are scanned so as to obtain both the image side and non-image side the of hardcopy media including capturing any watermark present on non-image side. The watermark ... 08/31/06 - 20060193538 - Graphical user interface system and process for navigating a set of images A system and process for navigating unstructured or loosely structured image sets on a display screen is presented. These image sets are navigated by grouping each image thereof into clusters and arranging the clusters in a left-to-right or up-and-down manner. A set number of the clusters are displayed to a ... 08/17/06 - 20060182368 - Efficient and robust algorithm for video sequence matching A two-step matching technique is embodied in a video-copy-detection algorithm that detects copies of video sequences. The two-step matching technique uses ordinal signatures of frame partitions and their differences from partition mean values. The algorithm of this invention is not only robust to intensity/color variations it can also effectively handle ... 08/10/06 - 20060177153 - Digital photo album producing apparatus The present application relates to a digital photo album producing apparatus which can produce the digital photo album file so that reproducing of the image starts with the reproducing of the background music without complicated process for synchronizing the reproducing of the background music and the images. ... 07/20/06 - 20060159370 - Video retrieval system and video retrieval method A video retrieval apparatus and a video retrieval method capable of executing appropriately a video retrieval and executing an effective retrieval by easily designating a retrieved object are provided. A video retrieval apparatus, includes a moving region extracting portion 102 that extracts a stored object moving region in a video, ... 06/29/06 - 20060140513 - Dynamic image production method and system A system for dynamic generation of images intended to be transmitted to at least one remote terminal, comprising a server. The server includes source images and a processor for generating from the source images of said images intended for the at least one remote terminal into a format that is ... 06/22/06 - 20060133699 - Cognitive memory and auto-associative neural network based search engine for computer and network located images and photographs Designs for cognitive memory systems storing input data, images, or patterns, and retrieving it without knowledge of where stored when cognitive memory is prompted by query pattern that is related to sought stored pattern. Retrieval system of cognitive memory uses autoassociative neural networks and techniques for pre-processing query pattern to ... 06/08/06 - 20060120627 - Image search apparatus, image search method, program, and storage medium This invention realizes, with low cost, an image search apparatus which can quickly obtain adequate search results upon searching for document images which are identical or similar to a predetermined document image. To this end, an image search apparatus of this invention has the following arrangement. That is, an image ... 06/01/06 - 20060115185 - Editing condition setting device and program for photo movie When a zoom effect or a panning effect is selected for an editing condition of a photo movie, a cutout area for cutting out a still image is set. When a face image of a person is detected in the cutout area designated by a user, the cutout area is ... 05/25/06 - 20060110073 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program, and storage medium This invention has as its object to allow high-precision and high-speed retrieval in consideration of position information of image feature amounts upon retrieving similar images based on image feature amounts, even when the position information includes some differences. To achieve such object, an image processing apparatus according to this invention ... 05/11/06 - 20060098900 - Secure data gathering from rendered documents A facility for securing text captured from a rendered document is described. The facility receives data including an encryption of text captured from a rendered document. The facility decrypts the captured text included in the received data. ... 05/11/06 - 20060098899 - Handheld device for capturing text from both a document printed on paper and a document displayed on a dynamic display device A device for capturing rendered text is described. The device incorporates one or more visual sensors that receive visual information as a part of capturing rendered text. The visual sensors are collectively capable of capturing both text that is permanently printed on a page, and text that is displayed transitorily ... 04/27/06 - 20060088228 - Image scaling arrangement Methods and system for transferring images between devices is disclosed. For example, differently scaled images by a host device may automatically and/or selectively be transferred to a media player for display. In turn, appropriately scaled images may be transferred automatically and/or selectively to another display device for example a TV, ... 04/27/06 - 20060088227 - Time-lapsing data methods and systems Time-lapsing mirror methods and related systems. ... 04/20/06 - 20060083443 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method Distances between a query image and registered images are calculated for respective feature amounts, and weight values for the calculated distances are calculated on the basis of statistical amount of the feature amounts of the query image (S507). Similarities between the registered images and query image are calculated on the ... 04/20/06 - 20060083442 - Image archiving system and method An image archiving system includes imaging modalities, an acquisition workstation and a number of PACS networks. Each PACS network includes storage access points that access and provide medical image meta-data from a clinical database and image data files from temporary and permanent storage areas and to a plurality of clients. ... 03/23/06 - 20060062492 - Document processing device, document processing method, and storage medium recording program therefor The invention provides a document processing device including: a memory that stores syntax data expressing syntax of character strings whose probability of being a title of a document is high or-character strings whose probability of being a title of a document is low; an input unit that inputs document data ... 03/16/06 - 20060056737 - Electronic album display system, an image grouping apparatus, an electronic album display method, an image grouping method, and a machine readable medium storing thereon a computer program It is an object to improve convenience of browse and search of a plurality of images. an electronic album display system for displaying a plurality of images included in an electronic album is provided, wherein the system includes: an image storing unit in which the plurality of images are stored; ... 03/09/06 - 20060050994 - Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus including an image storage for storing image data is disclosed. A first managing section generates first management information for managing the image data, which are to be stored in the image storage, on a single unit image basis. A second managing section generates second management data ... 03/09/06 - 20060050993 - Searching images A database of visual images includes metadata having, for a particular image, at least one entry specifying: a part of that image, another stored image, and a measure Sabi of the degree of similarity between that specified part and the specified other image. The searching method comprises displaying one or ... 03/09/06 - 20060050992 - Image processing device and image processing method A process for trimming out a part of an image in a rectangular shape and transferring the trimming image is performed at higher speed than before. When a rectangular area is trimmed from image data stored in a memory 32, a DMA controlling circuit 40 sets information that represents the ... 03/02/06 - 20060045387 - Method and apparatus for preserving binary data A method and apparatus are provided for preserving binary data on an analog archival medium, such as microfilm, in which the binary data is encoded, such as in a barcode symbol, in accordance with a predefined encoding specification. The predefined encoding specification may be stored along with the binary data ... 03/02/06 - 20060045386 - Image processing method, system, program, program storage medium and information processing apparatus This invention provides the following environment. That is, an original document file corresponding to a document to be copied is specified from image data of that document to be copied, and a print process is made based on the specified file so as to prevent deterioration of image quality. Also, ... 01/12/06 - 20060008181 - Image management device and method for managing plurality of images The present invention provides an image management device and an image management method, both capable of easily performing comparison and reference of images in which taken images and processed images generated from the taken images are intermingled. For that purpose, based on the discrimination results of the attributes of the ... 01/05/06 - 20060002636 - Data structure of an image storage and retrieval system Disclosed is an imaging system that stores and retrieves very large scanned digital images, as in applications that automatically scan biological samples using a computer-controlled digital camera microscope. Slide data is entered, zelle data is captured and compressed and a zelle database file is loaded. Furthermore, an image database file ... 12/29/05 - 20050286806 - Image retrieval system, image retrieval program and storage medium and image retrieval method An image retrieval system including: a retrieval subject image storing unit storing images corresponding to first and second characteristic information among semantic characteristic information, physical characteristic information and prominence characteristic information; a retrieval key inputting unit inputting the first and second characteristic information as the retrieval key; a characteristic information ... 12/29/05 - 20050286805 - Image processing apparatus, control method therefor, and program Vector data conversion is executed at once for all the block images of blocks having a predetermined attribute in a plurality of read document images. A series of obtained vector data is output by a designated output method. ... 12/15/05 - 20050276519 - Image processing apparatus, control method therefor, and program Input raster image data is divided into objects of each attribute. The division results, and charge information representing a consideration accrued from a vectorized process for the division results are displayed. It is designated whether to execute the vectorized process for the displayed division results. The vectorized process of converting ... 12/08/05 - 20050271304 - Methods and apparatus for automated true object-based image analysis and retrieval The present invention is an automated and extensible system for the analysis and retrieval of images based on region-of-interest (ROI) analysis of one or more true objects depicted by an image. The system uses a Regions Of Interest (ROI) database that is a relational or analytical database containing searchable vectors ... 12/08/05 - 20050271303 - System and method for managing stereoscopic viewing Methods and systems that help control when and how stereoscopic content should be viewed, based on both geometry of the viewing system and the geometry used to generate the content are shown. One example embodiment utilizes the specifications of the system used to capture the image data to determine the ... 12/01/05 - 20050265635 - Method and system for searching for images based on color and shape of a selected image A method and system that allows a user to find images using a query by example is disclosed. Images similar to the selected image are retrieved based on color or shape. Each clip in a clip catalog is assigned a color metric and a wavelet, i.e., shape, metric. The selected ... 12/01/05 - 20050265634 - Image transmission apparatus, image processing apparatus, image processing system, and image transmission program storage medium An image transmission apparatus comprises: a transmission section that transmits images to an image processing apparatus for applying an image processing to the images upon a decision of processing contents; an image selection section that select an image from among the images transmitted from the transmission section in accordance with ... 11/17/05 - 20050254729 - Reporting system in a networked environment A system is provided wherein data processing devices are connected to a high-speed picture archiving and communications system (PACS) server network that archives and transmits medical image data. As part of a diagnostic process, medical images are processed at the data processing devices and image processing parameter (IPP) sets are ... 11/03/05 - 20050244082 - Image database system It is an object of the present invention to provide a highly reliable image database system capable of accessing image data at high speed regardless of the increase of the image data and capable of controlling the image data as a whole. A storage unit 1, a control unit 2, ... 10/27/05 - 20050238257 - Form search apparatus and method Forms such as business forms used in banks and post offices are automatically classified using a form search apparatus and method. The method of classifying forms comprises extracting features from the image data of the input form and comparing the extracted features with stored features of a set of template ... 10/27/05 - 20050238256 - Method, apparatus, computer program, computer system, and computer-readable storage medium for representing and searching for an object in an image A method of representing an object appearing in a still or video image, by processing signals corresponding to the image, comprises deriving a plurality of numerical values associated with features appearing on the outline of an object starting from an arbitrary point on the outline and applying a predetermined ordering ... 10/27/05 - 20050238255 - Image storage and display system, maintenance system therefor, and image storage and display method The invention provides an image storage and display system including: an image storage server that includes an image file storing unit for storing image data; and image display terminals that are connected to the image storage server via a network and display an image sent from the image storage server. ... 10/06/05 - 20050220366 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and storage medium A cell type page which displays a fixed number of images at fixed positions with fixed size on a screen and a free type page which displays equal to or more than one image at arbitrary positions with arbitrary size on the screen are provided. In response to an image ... 09/22/05 - 20050207677 - Information processing device, data communication system and information processing method An information processing device to generate data pertaining to a document from electronic paper which has a display section to display and retain the document, and a memory to store document identification data, includes a document data storage unit which stores document electronic data, a communication unit which acquires document ... 09/08/05 - 20050196074 - Method and system for searching form features for form identification A method of and system for identifying a target form for increased efficiency in an automated data capture process is described. Forms are scanned and stored as digitized images. Regions are defined on the form relative to corresponding reference points between the form and the digitized image. The regions are ... 09/01/05 - 20050190994 - Image processing apparatus and program storage medium An image processing apparatus deals with a plurality of objects each having a pair of image data representative of an image and image attribute information representative of an attribute of the image, wherein the plurality of objects are linked in form of a hierarchy structure including a parentage. The image ... 08/25/05 - 20050185862 - Digital pictorial book system, a pictorial book searching method, and a machine readable medium storing thereon a pictorial book searching program A digital pictorial book system for searching for and providing a user with an explanation 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 ... 08/25/05 - 20050185861 - 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 providing to a user with an explanation of an object captured by an image capturing module includes an image capturing module for taking an image; a main object selecting module for selecting a main object out of the image; a feature ... 08/25/05 - 20050185860 - System and method for generating usable images The present invention includes systems, methods, and computer readable media for locating, sorting, and modifying images for future use. A conversion engine submits search requests to an image search engine and accepts the received results. The conversion engine arranges the search results according to selected visual characteristics of the image. ... 08/11/05 - 20050175259 - Image processing device, image processing method and image processing program MFP 100 obtains document image data by reading an image of an IC-tagged document by means of image scanning unit 150, and writes it into the IC tag of the document as archive information of the document image by means of IC-tagged reading/writing unit 140. It also writes the differential ... 08/04/05 - 20050169558 - Method and apparatus for automatically combining a digital image with text data A digital image is automatically combined with text data by automatically classifying the image according to a predetermined set of categories, and automatically selecting text data from a repository, wherein the selected text data match the category of the image according to a predetermined criterion. ... 07/21/05 - 20050157952 - Image retrieval apparatus and method, and image display apparatus and method thereof Image data containing the face image of a person is retrieved from a plurality of images, the retrieved image data is displayed, face image data, which is for image retrieval, is extracted from the displayed image data, and the extracted face image data is registered as reference face image data. ... 06/16/05 - 20050129334 - Event photo retrieval system and method An event-photo-retrieval system and method has at least one event camera (1), a central database (3), an event-photograph selector (5) and a purchase terminal (6) which are programmed electronically. The event camera includes a digital camera which, for each event attendee (15), quantizes gestalt individual features for programmed face recognition ... 06/02/05 - 20050117816 - Virtual microscope-device and method The invention relates to a virtual microscope system consisting of digital image data (31) of a preparation which is scanned image capture system with predefined magnification and a predefined detail or otherwise imported; a server system (2) with software (231) for generating a virtual profile (212) of the preparation from ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |