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7623722 |
Animated display for image manipulation and correction of digital image
A method for selectively optimizing a plurality of image characteristics for captured images, that includes modifying two or more one-dimensional image characteristic controls using a single loop...
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7623725 |
Method and system for denoising pairs of mutually interfering signals
In various embodiments of the present invention, a number n of mutually interfering signals are denoised by selecting a discrete universal denoiser method that denoises n mutually interfering...
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7605951 |
Image reader, image forming and reproducing apparatus, and image reading method
An image reader comprises an image sensor configured to receive a light beam reflected from an original to be read and output an analog pixel signal corresponding to a light quantity of the...
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7567254 |
Parallel texture synthesis having controllable jitter
A method and system for synthesizing texture using upsampled pixel coordinates and a multi-resolution approach. The parallel texture synthesis technique, while based on a neighborhood matching...
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7502144 |
Method of preparing bit map
A method of generating a second bit map, improved in first-direction resolution, from a first bit map having a plurality of image-forming pixels arranged two-dimensionally, the method comprising a...
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7499599 |
Method of real-time correction of non-functioning pixels in digital radiography
A method and program product for real-time correction of non-functioning pixels in digital radiography, where the method comprises: receiving a list of non-functioning pixels; determining which...
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7474799 |
System and method for electronic correction of optical anomalies
An electronic correction system and method for correcting optical anomalies, namely distortions, color non-convergence (excluding axial chromatic aberration) and luminance (or chrominance)...
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7428077 |
Electronic device controller, and method for controlling electronic device
An electronic device controller includes an image sensor controller that controls an image sensor having an effective pixel region and a dummy pixel region, and a servo controller that performs...
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7379210 |
Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image processing method
It is intended to provide an image processing apparatus capable of precisely discriminating a halftone dot region and a figure such as a character arranged on the halftone dot region and applying...
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7349128 |
Image scanner and peak detecting processing method of image scanner
A sheet image scanner of the present invention has plural image sensors to output electric signals by detecting optical image data that are obtained by applying a light from a light source to...
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7321699 |
Signal intensity range transformation apparatus and method
A system and method for manipulating image data is disclosed. Generally, the system and method identifies useful grey-levels within an input image. The image is then scaled based upon the...
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7239431 |
System and method for recovering primary channel operation in a facsimile receiver and facsimile machine incorporating the same
A system for, and method of recovering primary channel operation in a facsimile (fax) receiver and a fax machine that incorporates the system, the method or both. In one embodiment, the system...
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7236643 |
System and method for filtering and binarization of images in the presence of specular noise
In order to render information contained in images more detectable in the presence of noise, the present invention discloses a system and method to binarize the images in the presence of noise. The...
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7218791 |
Image processing device and method, and imaging device
The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus for generating an image having a high density in the direction of time and having a natural-looking motion blur. The correlation...
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7173741 |
System and method for handling bad pixels in image sensors
A method and apparatus for handling bad pixels in an image sensor array includes processing data values associated with the pixels of the image sensor. Processing the data values is performed by at...
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7098964 |
Apparatus and method for slope-enhancement of signal transitions in television pictures
A time-discrete picture signal is formed from an analog picture signal, such as a luminance signal or a chrominance signal. Corresponding to the time-discrete picture signal, a time-discrete filter...
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7092119 |
Method, system, and program for managing calibration files in a printing system
Disclosed is a method, system, and program for managing calibration files in a printing system. Patches are printed using a screening algorithm and incorporating at least one output appearance...
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7064874 |
Both-side document reading apparatus and both-side document reading method
First and second scanning and reading systems are arranged on the both sides of the document transport path. The image reading region by the first scanning and reading system is positioned on an...
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7042602 |
Image correction apparatus and recording medium having image correction program
An image correction apparatus includes: an image obtaining unit that obtains image data from outside constituted of a plurality of pixels each having a value in a color component among a plurality...
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7034966 |
System and method for performing intermediate image processing
An image processing system includes: a scanner for inputting an original image on an input recording media after reading the original image, or a digital camera inputting an image of a subject...
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6980332 |
System and method of automated scan workflow assignment
A system and method that provided for preview scanning a document and generating a preview scan image, determining a document type based on the preview scan image, mapping the document type to a...
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6975433 |
Method and apparatus for reading image information
An image information reading apparatus that can obtain high quality images without an effect of noise and a photographing condition or the like is realized even in the case where a low-bit A/D...
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6970258 |
Non-printing patterns for improving font print quality
Utilization of non-printing high-spatial-frequency auxiliary pixels are introduced into the bitmap of a font to obtain local control of the text image development by modification of local average...
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RE38890 |
Device for converting data using look-up tables
A data converting device for converting data by employing a plurality of LUTs stored in a single memory device. The device generates, with reference to two or more LUTs sequentially, a converted...
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6927874 |
Image processing method, apparatus and storage medium therefor
An image processing method and apparatus for forming a mosaic image by combining a plurality of material images, dividing a first image that is the basis of the mosaic image into a plurality of...
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6904165 |
Color image processing apparatus and method for color enhancement
An apparatus and method for pixel color enhancement are provided. The preferred embodiment includes a first circuitry, a second circuitry, a third circuitry, a fourth circuitry. In a preferred...
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6867875 |
Method and apparatus for simplifying fax transmissions using user-circled region detection
The user circles the fax number or name of the receiving party and the system then uses the circled number or name to dial the receiving party's fax machine to initiate the transmission. The system...
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6856704 |
Method for enhancing a digital image based upon pixel color
A method is described for enhancing a color digital image by first identifying a local neighborhood of pixels including a pixel of interest and then using the color values of one or more of the...
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6822766 |
Correction for debris and low output photosensors in scroll fed scanner using stored initial calibration data
A circuit connected to a linear array of photosensors generates image data representative of information printed on a document and adjusts the gains applied to the outputs of selected ones of the...
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6807313 |
Method of adaptively enhancing a digital image
The present invention relates to a method of adaptively enhancing a digital image based on image content. An accurate determination of image type permits implementation of an image enhancement...
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6775410 |
Image processing method for sharpening corners of text and line art
A method for sharpening the corners of digital image data to overcome corner rounding when displayed or printed. The method comprises stepping a window across the image data and comparing that...
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6766068 |
Interpolating operation method and apparatus for image signals
An original image signal, which represents an original image and are composed of original image signal components representing a plurality of sampling points, that are arrayed at predetermined...
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6731822 |
Method and apparatus for filtering images having insufficient tonal precision
An array of n-bit words representing an image is filtered to produce a corresponding array of higher precision m-bit words representing the image. During the filtering, upper and lower bounds for...
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6724942 |
Image processing method and system
An original image signal made up of a plurality of image signal components each representing a pixel of an original image is processed to suppress the granularity of the original image and enhance...
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6687414 |
Method and system for normalizing a plurality of signals having a shared component
One aspect of the invention is a method for normalizing a plurality of signals wherein the plurality of signals have a shared component and wherein at least one of the signals has been distorted in...
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6633415 |
Image input apparatus and method for controlling the same
An image input apparatus for reading an original image by moving an optical unit with a motor used as a drive source is arranged such that, in repeatedly reading the original image from one and the...
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6628436 |
Image scanning apparatus
The invention is adapted to output readings from the image board within a scanner to an operating panel. This allows the adjustment of the optical axis of the scanner to be made independently while...
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6624912 |
Method for correcting vertical alignment error in shuttle scanner
The reproduced image quality of a shuttle scanner is enhanced by automatically compensating for the scanner's assembly tolerances, using a method for correcting vertical alignment error in a...
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6618173 |
Method for automatic prevention of vertical streaks by selectively applying gains to the output signals of optical sensor elements
A method for automatic prevention of vertical streaks involves processing output signals from a plurality of photosites to determine what gain is appropriate for each output signal. An exemplary...
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6600518 |
Adaptive clipping prevention for picture sharpness enhancement
A contrast control and clipping device is configured to determine a maximum range of enhancement that may be applied to each pixel for picture sharpness enhancement. This maximum range is used to...
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6583897 |
Non-local approach to resolution enhancement
A method of smoothing edges of an input image is provided for use in connection with an image rendering engine that supports two opposing intensity levels and a range of intermediate intensity...
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6507677 |
Image data adjusting device and method
An image data adjusting method for increasing/decreasing the number of pixels of input image data in a given direction with a desired magnification to obtain output image data. The method includes...
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6466695 |
Procedure for automatic analysis of images and image sequences based on two-dimensional shape primitives
The invention provides an apparatus, and related method, for providing a procedure to analyze images based on two-dimensional shape primitives. In the procedure, an object representation is created...
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6445831 |
Image processing method and apparatus
Graininess suppression image processing is carried out on an original image signal, and a graininess suppression processing image signal is obtained from the graininess suppression image...
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6411399 |
System for resolution enhancement, such as in a multi-pass ink-jet printer
In a digital printing apparatus such as an ink-jet printer, a resolution enhancement technique is used to increase the output resolution. Each print-black pixel in the original image is assigned to...
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6377359 |
Information processing apparatus
Provided is an information processing apparatus which stores and manages image data and is able to output image data in a size equal to the size in the data reading stage independently of the...
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6373992 |
Method and apparatus for image processing
There is provided a method for processing a digital image for noise suppression and sharpness enhancement, comprising the steps of performing a sharpness enhancing process on original image data to...
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6370278 |
Image processing method and apparatus
A color-to-monochrome image conversion technique is disclosed. After the color image is converted to a monochrome input image and a plurality of primary-color input images, boundary information is...
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6347159 |
Method and system for processing image information using screening and error diffusion
A method and system implements screening and a high addressability characteristic into an error diffusion process. A grey level value representing a pixel is received. The grey level value has a...
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6323933 |
Image reading device and method
It is an exemplified object of the present invention is to provide an image reading device and method that would realize a high-resolution image reading. The present invention connects to a movable...
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