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7620266 |
Robust and efficient foreground analysis for real-time video surveillance
Systems and methods for foreground analysis in real-time video include background subtraction and foreground detection, shadow removal, quick lighting change adaptation, static foreground region...
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7609327 |
Polarization difference matting using a screen configured to reflect polarized light
A method for extracting an alpha matte from images of a scene illuminated by unpolarized light is presented. A first pair of images is acquired with a foreground object placed in front of a...
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7589789 |
Video converting device and method for digital TV
A video converting device and method for a digital TV is disclosed. The present invention is capable of detecting whether a conversion is being processed and displaying a previous video or a...
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7567260 |
Grouping layers in composited image manipulation
A method of compositing a plurality of ordered image layers which include a group of consecutive layers. The group has a shape effect and a composition effect. Any image layers under the group are...
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7536049 |
Image processing apparatus and method, and image pickup apparatus
An object of the present invention is to enable the detection of a mixture ratio indicating the mixture state of a plurality of objects, such as a background image and a moving object image. A...
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7515827 |
Photographing apparatus and method for taking a picture
A photographing apparatus includes a storage device for storing a silhouette image; an image sensor for capturing a first image of an object, the first image including a first object image and a...
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7512274 |
Block retouching
A system and method facilitating image retouching is provided. The invention includes an image retoucher having a boundary detector and an image extender. The invention provides for the image...
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7499108 |
Image synthesis apparatus, electrical apparatus, image synthesis method, control program and computer-readable recording medium
The image synthesis apparatus 10 includes an anti-aliasing processing circuit 11 for generating a foreground image having a reduced aliasing by blending the color information and blending the...
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7495709 |
Image display apparatus and image display method
An image display apparatus includes a background image selection unit for providing image data corresponding to a background image, a synthesis-target-image selection unit for providing image data...
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7492414 |
Method of and apparatus for maintaining smooth video transition between distinct applications
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for maintaining smooth video transition between distinct applications. Preferably, the apparatus implementing the present...
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7453522 |
Video data processing apparatus
When one video image (e.g., second video image) is blended or synthesized to video image (e.g., main video image), time base correction is made between both video data. A video data processing...
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7450737 |
Head detecting apparatus, head detecting method, and head detecting program
A head detecting apparatus, including a foreground extraction section for extracting a foreground region in which a person is captured from an input image; a first main axis computing section which...
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7408591 |
System and method for defocus difference matting
A method extracts an alpha matte from a video acquired of a scene. A set of pinhole or narrow aperture images I P is acquired of the scene with a camera aperture set to a relatively large...
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7400361 |
Method and device for generating a video effect
A method for generating a video effect using a video signal processing device. The method comprises generating horizontal and vertical gating base signals. The horizontal gating base signal is...
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7397952 |
“Don't care” pixel interpolation
A system and method facilitating image smoothing is provided. The invention includes an image processor having an image receptor and an image smoother. The invention provides for the image smoother...
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7391444 |
Image pickup apparatus capable of selecting output according to time measured by timer
In an image pickup apparatus, timer 2 starts a time measuring operation when a shutter button is pressed. When a time T 1 is measured by timer 2 , the image from CCD 1 is output as a...
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7362918 |
System and method for de-noising multiple copies of a signal
A “composite signal generator” automatically combines two or more copies of a signal to produce a composite that is better than the individual copies. For example, given two or more input...
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7359552 |
Foreground detection using intrinsic images
A temporal sequence of images is acquired of a dynamic scene. Spatial gradients are determined using filters. By taking advantage of the sparseness of outputs of the filters, an intrinsic...
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7330600 |
Image processing device estimating black character color and ground color according to character-area pixels classified into two classes
A character area is extracted from an original image, which is a digital image, according to a feature value calculated with respect to the original image. Pixels belonging to the extracted...
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7324166 |
Live actor integration in pre-recorded well known video
The apparatus inserts a participant realistically into familiar background media to provide similar results to a completely original movie with multi-camera studio production and editing. An...
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7319493 |
Apparatus and program for setting video processing parameters
A video signal processing apparatus 1 and a video processing parameter setting apparatus 2 comprise a video processing apparatus (visual mixer). A parameter value collectively specifying...
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7302094 |
Transparency and/or color processing
A system or method of automated image processing that can automatically determine a color and transparency for a pixel with an observed color when given the pixel and a background reference color....
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7280158 |
Video synthesizing apparatus
A data amount of a still image to be synthesized is reduced to shorten a transmission time and to reduce a memory utilization spent by the image. The display position of the still image to be...
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7268834 |
Method and apparatus for combining video signals to one comprehensive video signal
Method and apparatus for combining a first video signal and a second video signal. The method comprising the act of replacing data in the second video signal with corresponding, in respect of a...
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7254268 |
Object extraction
A video sequence is processed to extract one or more objects. The extracted objects are used to create a new video sequence. In particular, a user is able to select a background and/or an audio...
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7251357 |
Method, apparatus and recording medium for setting background image
When a photograph album is generated by laying out images, a background image is set in accordance with the images. Image data sets representing the images are input to background setting means and...
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7231651 |
System and method for insertion and modification of advertisements
Advertisements or commercials are integrated into an entertainment program or display by designating locations or fields in the entertainment program or display into which targeted advertisements...
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7230653 |
Method and apparatus for real time insertion of images into video
The present invention comprises a real time image insertion system for video utilizes a three-dimensional model of at least one target area within a site for identifying the target area within an...
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7209181 |
System and method for compositing of two or more real images in a cinematographic puppetry production
An improved cinematographic system and method for multiple compositing, within a virtual studio, of an image frame or image sequence of a real/action image of an action sequence of a puppet, with...
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7206434 |
Method and system for measurement of the duration an area is included in an image stream
A system and method for calculation of the duration a target area included within an image stream utilizes a three-dimensional model of at least one target area within a site. A counter is...
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7194703 |
System and method for creating screen saver
A system for creating screen savers based on video images is provided. An object image that may move around in a video image is separated from backgrounds. An MPEG-4 file of the video image is...
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7174049 |
Image upscaling by joint optimization of low and mid-level image variables
An image upscaling algorithm jointly optimizes estimating pixel color, classifying it into one of multiple regions, and estimating region boundaries subject to region continuity and...
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7173672 |
System and method for transitioning between real images and virtual images
The invention illustrates a system and method of blending a virtual scene and a real scene comprising: capturing a real image of a real event from a real camera; receiving an instrumentation data...
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7164441 |
Video image producing method and apparatus
Projectors display a movie of a tourist resort, which is a background image, on screens, and video cameras take video by overlapping a subject walking on a treadmill with the background image....
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7154541 |
Image processing device
In accordance with the present invention, a mixture ratio indicating the state of mixture of a plurality of objects such as a background image and the image of an object is detected. A pixel value...
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7130464 |
Image processing device
The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus in which a mixture ratio indicating the mixture state of a plurality of objects can be detected. A normal-equation adder 441 ...
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7095450 |
Method and apparatus for generating a display signal
Apparatus for interactively generating a display signal. The apparatus comprises: a receiver ( 2 ) for receiving a broadcast signal ( 15 ), the broadcast signal comprising a plurality of...
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7088870 |
Image region filling by example-based tiling
An example-based filling system identifies appropriate filling material to replace a destination region in an image and fills the destination region using this material, thereby alleviating or...
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7079279 |
Methods and apparatus for producing a lenticular novelty item at a point of purchase
A composite image generator for producing a lenticular novelty item at a point of purchase is disclosed. The composite image generator receives a theme selection and a captured digital image....
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7056119 |
Periscopic optical training system for operators of vehicles
A periscopic optical training system for displaying simulation and real images includes a microprocessor for generating at least one simulation image, at least one display for displaying the...
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7054479 |
Segmenting three-dimensional video images using stereo
The present invention is a method and apparatus to segment a three-dimensional scene having foreground and background regions. Regions in stereo images of the 3-D scene are matched. The stereo...
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7053913 |
System and method for run-time integration of an inset geometry into a background geometry
The invention provides a method for integrating an inset geometry within a background geometry. The method comprises the step of identifying a perimeter of the inset geometry. A further step is...
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7050095 |
Method and apparatus for image processing using a template image
A digital camera includes a memory card. The memory card is previously recorded with template image data that has been subjected to conversion of Y-data effective range and JPEG compressing. A CPU...
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7024054 |
Method and system for generating a foreground mask for a composite image
A technique for producing a foreground mask from a digital image is based on receiving two digital images, wherein a first digital image is derived from a first original scene image including a...
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7015978 |
System and method for real time insertion into video with occlusion on areas containing multiple colors
A system, method and computer program product for real-time insertion of indicia (e.g., an advertisement) into a live (or taped) broadcast. Typically, the invention allow insertion with occlusion...
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6999093 |
Dynamic time-of-day sky box lighting
A background (sky box) in a video game or other virtual reality environment dynamically changes as a function of a parameter, producing a more realistic display. Luminance-only texture and color...
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6987535 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium
A user photographs an image including an object to be extracted, uses an instruction selection unit or the like to designate an extraction range, and an object extraction circuit performs...
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6950130 |
Method of image background replacement
A method for background replacement. The method takes an input image of one or more frames of video, or a still image, and performs an initial classification of the pixels ( 14 ) as foreground or...
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6927803 |
Video mixing apparatus and method of mixing video
A video mixing apparatus carries out a chromakey process producing less degradation of picture quality by generating a key signal which separates a foreground object component from a screen...
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6924846 |
Information processing apparatus, graphic processing unit, graphic processing method, storage medium, and computer program
An information processing apparatus obtains a first image and display timing information of the first image via a first channel, and a second image via a second channel different from the first...
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