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7251343 Image protection  
A method ( 100 ) of marking an image comprising image data and associated metadata, for modification detection, is disclosed. The method ( 100 ) encodes the image data to produce encoded image data...
7251344 Image forming apparatus  
An image forming apparatus having an operation improved in view of use of normal healthy persons and handicapped persons. The image forming apparatus comprising an operation panel having a display...
7248717 Securing media content with steganographic encoding  
Methods and apparatus to provide security for audio or image content are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving audio or image content and steganographically encoding auxiliary...
7248715 Digitally watermarking physical media  
A digital watermark is embedded through varying pit locations on a data side of a CD, SACD or DVD. In one embodiment, a pattern of pits or data indentations forms a visual design on the data side....
7248716 Imaging system, methodology, and applications employing reciprocal space optical design  
An imaging system, methodology, and various applications are provided to facilitate optical imaging performance. The system includes a sensor having one or more receptors and an image transfer...
7245740 Electronic watermark embedding device, electronic watermark detection device, electronic watermark embedding method, and electronic watermark detection method  
To provide an electronic watermark embedding device for improving accuracy when classified information is being detected. The watermark image forming section 1006 creates a watermark image based...
7242790 Video steganography  
The present invention relates generally to hiding a signal in video. One form of hiding is steganographic encoding. In one implementation a method is provided including: receiving content data...
7242789 Moving-body detecting image sensor  
Two photodetectors output electric signals based on the detection of light at light receiving sections mutually spaced apart. The output signal of one of the photodetectors is delayed and a first...
7239717 Lossless embedding of data in digital objects  
Current methods of embedding hidden data in an image inevitably distort the original image by noise. This distortion cannot generally be removed completely because of quantization, bit-replacement,...
7240210 Hash value computer of content of digital signals  
Described herein is a technology for facilitating the recognition of the content of digital signals. This abstract itself is not intended to limit the scope of this patent. The scope of the present...
7239716 Data insertion device and method of inserting data  
An data insertion device inserts pattern data including information related to digital watermarking into digital image data such as MPEG2 data. First, the MPEG2 data are read picture by picture,...
7236610 Authenticating executable code and executions thereof  
The techniques for authenticating executable code employs keys ( 609 ) to modify the code ( 611 ). In static watermarking, the code is watermarked by using the key to determine positions in the...
7231524 Method for watermarking computer programs  
A method for encoding watermark information into a computer application in which occurrences of at least two non-interfering computer-executable code instructions contained in a block of code of a...
7231061 Adaptive prediction filtering for digital watermarking  
The disclosure describes methods for adaptive prediction filtering for digital watermarking applications. The predictive filter is designed to predict the digital watermark signal. In one...
7231060 Systems and methods of generating control signals  
Separating a source in a stereo signal having a left channel and a right channel includes transforming the signal into a short-time transform domain; computing a short-time similarity measure...
7231062 Image processing apparatus, image processing system, electronic information apparatus, image processing method, control program, and computer-readable recording medium  
The watermark insertion section divides the quantized DCT coefficients into at least two data streams, and modifies values of AC components of the data streams, so as to embed the watermark...
7231059 Image processing apparatus, method and storage medium therefor  
When image information for the purpose of being printed out has been entered, whether or not the image information contains a mark image such as a watermark is determined to such an extent that...
7231070 Fingerprint recognition system  
A method and apparatus for fingerprint recognition is provided. A fingerprint is detected on a sensor. The fingerprint is digitized. A digitized background is subtracted from the fingerprint,...
7230621 Three-dimensional imaging system and methods  
The present invention relates to a system and methods for rendering simulated three-dimensional images on a display device. More particularly, the present invention involves systems and methods for...
7227661 Image generating method, device and program, and illicit copying prevention system  
An added information encoding part repeatedly arranges two kinds of copy inhibition code arrays of the unit two-dimensional arrays to which copy inhibition codes are assigned, and condition code...
7227972 Progressive watermark decoding on a distributed computing platform  
The disclosure describes a method of progressively decoding a digital watermark on a distributed computing platform. A client device equipped with a digital camera, such as a PDA or cell phone,...
7228428 Method and apparatus for embedding encrypted images of signatures and other data on checks  
Apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention provide a check validation scheme wherein a payor's signature is digitized, encrypted and embedded on the front...
7224819 Integrating digital watermarks in multimedia content  
A method for tracking media signals in multimedia content is provided by uniquely identifying the multimedia content with a digital watermark identifier. A video channel is preferably embedded with...
7224995 Data entry method and system  
According to one aspect of the present invention, a wireless telephony device is equipped with an optical image sensor, and a lens for imaging an object onto the sensor. The optical sensor permits...
7224820 Electronic document, genuineness management method for print medium thereof, genuineness management system, program, and program recording medium  
A method for managing genuine characteristics of both an electronic document and a print medium comprising: a step for recognizing image data contained in the electronic document; a step for...
7224851 Method and apparatus for registering modification pattern of transmission image and method and apparatus for reproducing the same  
The registering method and apparatus read out contents associated with a modification pattern modifying a transmission image to be displayed on a second image display unit of a second communication...
7221775 Method and apparatus for computerized image background analysis  
A computerized method of video analysis including receiving image data for a plurality of video frames depicting a scene that includes at least one of a plurality of background features. Each video...
7221774 Local phase filter to assist correlation  
A local phase filter ( 315 ) for pre-processing data ( 310 ) including a watermark ( 320 ) is disclosed. The data ( 310 ) is pre-processed before detecting the watermark by correlation of the data...
7218753 Template for watermark decoder synchronization  
Systems and methods are provided through which a template in the spatial domain is generated and combined with an image. Later, the combined image can be decoded to determine the extent of scaling...
7219062 Speech activity detection using acoustic and facial characteristics in an automatic speech recognition system  
An automatic speech recognizer only responsive to acoustic speech utterances is activated only in response to acoustic energy having a spectrum associated with the speech utterances and at least...
7218751 Generating super resolution digital images  
Slight camera movement between capture of successive images is advantageously utilized to minimize or eliminate the need to interpolate in order to fill in the “holes” in a Bayer pattern. The...
7218750 Image processing device and image input device equipped with a data synthesizing unit  
The object of this invention is to provide an image processing device and image input device which creates strong features, or enhanced pattern which could be recognized when the image was read and...
7218752 Feature based data structure for computer manikin  
This invention proposes a feature based data structure for computer manikin that is constructed from the scanned data of common 3D body scanners. The scanned data is first segmented into six parts...
7218754 Visual copyright protection  
A visual copyright protection system is disclosed, including input content, a disruption processor, and output content. The disruption processor inserts disruptive content to the input content...
7215793 Electronic image-capturing apparatus having function for verifying user  
An electronic image-capturing apparatus includes: an image-capturing element that captures an image of a subject and generates electronic image information; a recording device that records the...
7215792 Systems for spectral multiplexing of source images to provide a composite image with gray component replacement, for rendering the composite image, and for spectral demultiplexing of the composite image  
Methods and apparatus for spectrally-encoding plural source images and for providing the spectrally-encoded plural source images in a composite image, for rendering the composite image in a...
7215803 Method and apparatus for interactive remote viewing and collaboration of dental images  
A method of dental restoration treatment utilizing the electronic delivery of an electronic model image of the dental restoration treatment. The method includes generating an electronic model image...
7212649 Encoder and encoding method for electronic watermark, decoder and decoding method for electronic watermark, encoding and decoding program for electronic watermark, and recording medium for recording such program  
Disclosed is an encoder for forming electronic watermark information which allows detecting tampering of a digital content based on an electronic watermark embedded in the digital content, and...
7209578 Image based medical report system on a network  
A system to create and review reports enables interactive manipulation of the displaying of two-dimensional and three-dimensional images associated with image diagnosis reports, at user terminals...
7209573 Substituting images in copies based on digital watermarks  
Digital watermarking is provided in a printed photograph. The digital watermarking includes an identifier. The printed photograph is scanned and the digital watermark is decoded to obtain the...
7209571 Authenticating metadata and embedding metadata in watermarks of media signals  
A steganographic embedder associates data with a media signal by encoding the data, a link to the data, or a combination of both into the media signal. The embedder may be located in an media...
7209572 Digital watermark embedding apparatus, digital watermark extraction apparatus, and methods thereof  
A document image undergoes document analysis to obtain circumscribing rectangles of characters (S 601 ), and two distances between non-neighboring circumscribing rectangles from the head of the...
7206430 Data processing apparatus and method of processing data  
A watermarking system comprises an encoding data processor operable to generate at least one marked version of an original item of material by introducing one of a predetermined set of code words...
7206804 Methods and systems for transmitting digital images  
Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for communicating a recipient-selected customization of a digital image using an index file. The index file associates a...
7206432 Extracting embedded information from digital image data  
The invention extracts third information, which includes first and second information, from image data. The first information (e.g., copyright information) is embedded in the image data using a...
7203336 Embedding data in material  
A method of embedding data in material comprises the steps of: embedding data in original material to produce data embedded material; removing the watermark from the data embedded material...
7203335 System and method for extracting a watermark signal in a digital image sequence  
A method for extracting a watermark signal contained in a watermarked digital image sequence having two or more frames, including the steps of estimating correspondences between one or more pairs...
7200266 Method and apparatus for automated video activity analysis  
The invention is a new method and apparatus that can be used to detect, recognize, and analyze people or other objects in security checkpoints, public-places, parking lots, or in similar...
7200243 Spectral mixture process conditioned by spatially-smooth partitioning  
A method that facilitates identification of features in a scene enables enhanced detail to be displayed. One embodiment incorporates a multi-grid Gibbs-based algorithm to partition sets of...
7200245 Image processing apparatus and method  
Although a copying machine which has finally output a forged print can be specified by the forgery tracking function, a copying machine which has output an original used for copying or a scanner...