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7620551 |
Method and apparatus for providing search capability and targeted advertising for audio, image, and video content over the internet
The present invention provides an apparatus and method for extracting the content of a video, image, and/or audio file or podcast, analyzing the content, and then providing a targeted...
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7620264 |
Image-size dependent facial caricaturing
Increased recognizance of caricatured images is provided for the level of caricaturing to be applied to an image to be set in dependence on the intended size of the caricature image. Preferably,...
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7620257 |
Image processor
An image processor includes a JPEG 2000 codec. The JPEG 2000 codec generates a plurality of levels of encoded data, and a checksum circuit integrates the encoded data for each of the levels to...
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7620253 |
Steganographic systems and methods
The present invention relates to steganographic systems and methods. Once claim recites a method including: obtaining video content, wherein the video content comprises a steganographic signal...
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7620249 |
Analysis of patterns
A first pattern (A) is represented by a first ordered set of elements (x i ) each having a value whilst a second pattern (B) is represented by a second ordered set of element (u i ) each having a...
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7620200 |
Authentication of identification documents
The presently claimed invention provides apparatus helpful for authenticating or protecting physical and electronic documents like financial documents and identification documents. One claim...
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7620199 |
Input complexity adaptive quantization watermarking
Systems and methods are described that apply a watermark to data, such as data representing an image. In one implementation, the complexity of the image is measured. A quantization step size is...
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7620198 |
Watermark coding method and recording medium thereof
A watermark coding method and its recording medium utilize image interleaving and wavelet-based transformation to enhance the robustness of the image. The watermark series to be inserted is...
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7617060 |
Extracting higher order information from scene-based Shack-Hartmann wave-front sensing
An adaptive optics system is provided, comprising a deformable mirror configured to receive an input beam with an aberrated wavefront and to reflect the input beam to a Shack-Hartmann wavefront...
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7616778 |
System and method for applying watermarks
A system and method for selectively inserting a digital watermark into a visual rendering by an image processing device. The image processing device receives an image processing request including...
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7616777 |
Digital watermarking methods, systems and apparatus
The presently claimed invention relates generally to signal processing, e.g., image and video signal processing. Once claim recites a method including: capturing imagery data with a group of image...
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7616776 |
Methods and apparatus for enhancing the robustness of watermark extraction from digital host content
Methods and apparatus for enhancing the robustness of watermark extraction from digital host content are provided. Embedded watermarks may be extracted from received digital host content in...
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7613363 |
Image superresolution through edge extraction and contrast enhancement
A technique for generating high-resolution bitmaps from low-resolution bitmaps. A low-resolution bitmap is magnified to form a magnified image. Edge detection is performed on the magnified image to...
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7613360 |
Multi-spectral fusion for video surveillance
A multi-spectral imaging surveillance system and method in which a plurality of imaging cameras is associated with a data-processing apparatus. A module can be provided, which resides in a memory...
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7613350 |
Moving image generation apparatus, moving image playback apparatus, their control method, and storage medium
The invention generates moving image information obtained by compositing a moving image of a user and objects selected by the user, and provides the generated moving image information to the user....
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7613323 |
Method and apparatus for determining camera pose
A method and apparatus for determining camera pose characterized by six degrees of freedom (e.g., for use in computer vision systems) is disclosed. In one embodiment an image captured by the camera...
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7613320 |
Digital watermark embedding apparatus and method, and digital watermark analysis apparatus, method and program
A digital watermark embedding apparatus comprises below units. A first generation unit generates a plurality of symbol sequences each of which includes a plurality of symbols including ranks, each...
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7613319 |
Electronic watermark generating apparatus, method, and program for generating electronic watermark
An electronic watermark generating apparatus color-converts an RGB image, and divides the color-converted image into a plurality of blocks. Then, the apparatus embeds to-be-embedded information as...
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7613318 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and print product
An image processing apparatus determines an embedding method for embedding sub information into a main image to be printed on a recording layer based on the degree of optical shielding of a...
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7613317 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, computer program and computer readable storage medium
There is provided a message processing apparatus including an image inputting unit for inputting a document image, an extracting unit for extracting a character image from the input document image,...
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7613316 |
Methods and apparatus for detecting objects in baggage
A method of detecting a presence or absence of subject matter of interest, for example, sheet explosives and/or other potential threat objects is provided by various local and/or global gradient...
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7613298 |
System and process for adaptive and progressive scrambling of video streams
A process for distributing digital video sequences in accordance with a nominal stream format including a succession of frames, each frame including at least one digital block regrouping a...
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7609897 |
Image coder and image decoder capable of power-saving control in image compression and decompression
An image decoder comprises a code decompression/decoding unit that decodes code data produced through compression and encoding of image data, a power supply state detection unit that detects a...
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7609852 |
Early fire detection method and system based on image processing
Fire detection and smoke detection use an image capturing device to obtain images from a predetermined area and adopt an RGB (red, green, blue) color model based chromatic and disorder measurement...
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7609851 |
Embedding data into document and extracting embedded data from document
An apparatus, method, system, computer program and product, each capable of embedding data into a document or extracting embedded data from document. The data to be embedded may be embedded in the...
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7609850 |
Data processing apparatus and method
A data processing apparatus includes a registration processor that divides a frame of a water marked image into a plurality of image blocks. For each of the image blocks, an observed probability of...
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7609849 |
Data processing apparatus and method
A method includes generating, for a signal sample, first and second gaussian likelihood functions describing a likelihood of a watermark codeword coefficient value embedded into the signal sample...
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7609848 |
Multi-stage watermarking process and system
A multi-stage watermarking system and process that creates a watermark specification which describes how to generate a watermark, generates a template specification which describes how to merge the...
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7609847 |
Methods and systems for determining object layouts
Systems and methods according to the present invention provide techniques to automatically generate an object layout. Various candidate placement positions are evaluated by computing values...
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7609846 |
Matching of digital images to acquisition devices
In a digital image matching method, reference calibration data associated with one or more reference digital image files is ascertained. The reference digital image files each have reference...
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7606465 |
Recording medium having data structure for managing reproduction of multiple title video data recorded thereon and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses
A navigation area of the recording medium stores navigation management information associated with each title of video data. The navigation management information indicates at least one...
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7606431 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium
An image processing apparatus embeds information into image data without an overhead. The image processing apparatus includes a selection unit for selecting some of the pixels forming the image...
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7606426 |
Image processing apparatus and method and storage medium
In an embedding technique of an invisible or visible digital watermark information, it is a main object to provide a technique which can reconstruct an original image and avoid an increase of the...
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7606390 |
Processing data representing video and audio and methods and apparatus related thereto
The presently claimed invention relates generally to analyzing media content (e.g., video or audio). One claim recites: randomly accessing public internet sites to obtain media content therefrom;...
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7606389 |
Digital watermarking apparatus and computer-readable medium
A digital watermarking apparatus for embedding a data in an index color image data, wherein the data is configured by an arrangement of a first data and a second data, and the apparatus has: an...
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7606388 |
Contents border detection apparatus, monitoring method, and contents location detection method and program and storage medium therefor
A contents border detection apparatus and monitoring method. The apparatus comprises a digital watermark detector for detecting a digital watermark embedded in contents for which a time element is...
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7605930 |
Image processing device
A color blindness dialog box in a Properties window includes a color blindness process mode checkbox enabling a user to select a printing process designed for color blindness. When the color...
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7603208 |
Geospatial image change detecting system with environmental enhancement and associated methods
An image change detecting system may include an image processor cooperating with the database for generating a reference geospatial image corresponding to the collected geospatial image, an image...
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7602977 |
Digital watermarks
The present invention relates generally to digital watermarking, steganographic data hiding, and data compression. One claim recites a method including: obtaining media comprising imagery or audio;...
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7602940 |
Steganographic data hiding using a device clock
The presently claimed invention relates generally to methods and apparatus associated with steganographic encoding (e.g., data hiding). One claim recites a method including: obtaining plural-bit...
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7602939 |
Encoding device, decoding device, encoding method, decoding method, and storage medium storing programs thereof
An encoding device includes a binary image generation unit that generates at least two binary images from a multivalued image by applying different methods, a check image generation unit that...
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7602938 |
Method and apparatus for alignment, comparison & identification of characteristic tool marks, including ballistic signatures
Systematic use of infrared imaging characterizes marks made on items and identifies the particular marking tool with better accuracy than use of visual imaging. Infrared imaging performed in total...
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7602937 |
Image-based visibility measurement
The invention provides an image-based visibility measurement solution in which an image is used to calculate a visibility (visual range). In one embodiment, a lighting condition for the image is...
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7602936 |
Method to make wavelet watermarks resistant to affine transformations
A method and/or apparatus for embedding and detecting watermarks in a set of data frames, where a secondary domain is used for combining the data frame, watermark, and a geometric pattern for...
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7602935 |
Data processing apparatus and associated method of identifying an image data source by detecting variations in strength of different light receiving elements
A data processing apparatus and data processing method enabling a camera generating image data to be identified easily with a high reliability, which identify if a predetermined image generating...
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7602529 |
Method and system for controlling printer text/line art and halftone independently
A method of altering the appearance of an input digital image when printed, the digital image comprised of an array of pixels and wherein each pixel is assigned a digital value representing marking...
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7599558 |
Logo processing methods and circuits
A logo processing method includes: within a plurality of video frames sequentially received from a video source, comparing a base frame with at least a portion of the other video frames to generate...
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7599544 |
Authenticating and authentic article using spectral imaging and analysis
Authenticating an authentic article having an authentication mark. Acquiring a set of spectral images of the authentication mark, for forming a set of single-authentication mark spectral...
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7599518 |
Reversible watermarking using expansion, rate control and iterative embedding
Reversible watermarking methods enable auxiliary data to be embedded in data sets, such as images, audio, video and software. The reversible nature of the method enables the original data set to be...
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7599517 |
Digital watermark detecting device and method thereof
There is provided a digital watermarking detecting device that can accurately detect watermarking information weakened by an attack such as image cut-out, scaling or the like without increasing a...
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