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7457434 |
Adaptively focusing extra-ocular vision prostheses
A vision prosthesis includes an actuator in communication with an extra-ocular lens. The actuator providing a focusing stimulus to vary a focal length of the lens. A rangefinder estimates a range...
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7457436 |
Real-time crowd density estimation from video
A system and method for automated and/or semi-automated analysis of video for discerning patterns of interest in video streams. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention is directed to...
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7453497 |
Object trackability via parametric camera tuning
A method and apparatus are described for improving object trackability via parametric camera tuning. In one embodiment, a determination is made as to whether the camera settings loaded cause...
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7454037 |
System, method and computer program product for adaptive video processing
A method for adaptive video processing includes identifying an object in a frame of video data, determining an object confidence value associated with the identified object, and determining if the...
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7454072 |
Image recording and compression based on sound detection and image change
Disclosed is an input image data compressor which comprises an image recording controller for generating image information on respective input objects from the input image data, generating image...
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7450761 |
Spectral geographic information system
A system for the conversion, analysis and display of geographic imaging data is provided which allows for the efficient location of various targets based on user selectable search criteria. The...
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7450735 |
Tracking across multiple cameras with disjoint views
Tracking and surveillance methods and systems for monitoring objects passing in front of non-overlapping cameras. Invention finds corresponding tracks from different cameras and works out which...
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7450736 |
Monocular tracking of 3D human motion with a coordinated mixture of factor analyzers
Disclosed is a method and system for efficiently and accurately tracking three-dimensional (3D) human motion from a two-dimensional (2D) video sequence, even when self-occlusion, motion blur and...
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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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7450758 |
Stylization of video
The techniques and mechanisms described herein are directed to a system for stylizing video, such as interactively transforming video to a cartoon-like style. Briefly stated, the techniques include...
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7447331 |
System and method for generating a viewable video index for low bandwidth applications
A system and method for generating a viewable video index for low bandwidth applications are provided. The exemplary aspects of the present invention solve the problems with the prior art systems...
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7446797 |
User assisted customization of automated video surveillance systems
A surveillance system allows a user to characterize the user's environment and/or the user's surveillance application, via a selection from among a variety of predefined environments and/or...
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7447332 |
Image distribution system of surveillance camera with privacy protection
It is desirable to distribute a most recently inputted image of merchandise in a shop without showing customers visiting a shop, or to distribute an image showing how crowded a shop is without...
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7447334 |
Motion recognition system
The present invention relates to a motion recognition system for distinguishing motion between two different entity forms, such as distinguishing human motion from animal motion. The motion...
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7447333 |
Video and audio monitoring for syndromic surveillance for infectious diseases
We present, in exemplary embodiments of the present invention, novel systems and methods for syndromic surveillance that can automatically monitor symptoms that may be associated with the early...
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7447335 |
Apparatus for detection of objects
The present invention relates to an apparatus for locating objects (such as exploded or unexploded ordnance). The embodiments take advantage of spectroscopic features of an object's paint or...
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7446891 |
Fragile watermark for detecting printed image copies
The present invention is concerned with inclusion of a “fragile watermark” in an original printed document to aid in a determination whether a document under examination is an original or a...
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7446863 |
Automatic collimation device for surveying apparatus
A surveying apparatus that is capable of automatic collimation based on an image obtained from an imaging device, which enables carrying out automatic collimation without using angle detectors,...
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7444003 |
Method and apparatus for identifying objects depicted in a videostream
The present invention relates to an apparatus for rapidly analyzing frame(s) of digitized video data which may include objects of interest randomly distributed throughout the video data and wherein...
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7444002 |
Vehicular target acquisition and tracking using a generalized hough transform for missile guidance
A generalized Hough transform is used to acquire and track vehicular targets for missile guidance. This is accomplished by recognizing that most vehicles have silhouettes that may be described as a...
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7444178 |
Positional marker system with point light sources
A positional marker system is disclosed. The positional marker system includes at least one light-emitting or light-reflecting marker that can be positionally detected by an optical tracking...
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7440620 |
Infrared safety systems and methods
The present invention relates to an automated safety system having at least one projector to direct electromagnetic energy into a region of space associated with a security, warning, or safety...
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7440588 |
Method of describing object region data, apparatus for generating object region data, video processing apparatus and video processing method
A region data describing method for describing, over a plurality of frames, region data about the region of an arbitrary object in a video, the method specifying the object region in the video with...
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7440586 |
Object classification using image segmentation
A method represents a class of objects by first acquiring a set of positive training images of the class of objects. A matrix A is constructed from the set of positive training images. Each row in...
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7440587 |
Method and apparatus for calibrating sampling operations for an object detection process
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that detects an object in an image. During operation, the system determines a relationship between sampling parameters and a detection rate...
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7440585 |
Autonomous vehicle and motion control therefor
There are provided an autonomous vehicle, and an apparatus and method for estimating the motion of the autonomous vehicle and detecting three-dimensional (3D) information of an object appearing in...
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7440593 |
Method of improving orientation and color balance of digital images using face detection information
A method of generating one or more new spatial and chromatic variation digital images uses an original digitally-acquired image which including a face or portions of a face. A group of pixels that...
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7436980 |
Graphical object models for detection and tracking
A computer implemented method for object detection includes providing a spatio-temporal model for an object to be detected, providing a video including a plurality of images including the object,...
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7433807 |
Facial image processing
In the described embodiment, methods and systems for processing facial image data for use in animation are described. In one embodiment, a system is provided that illuminates a face with...
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7433495 |
Automatic detection and tracking of multiple individuals using multiple cues
Automatic detection and tracking of multiple individuals includes receiving a frame of video and/or audio content and identifying a candidate area for a new face region in the frame. One or more...
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7432848 |
Inter-vehicle distance detecting device and inter-vehicle distance detecting method
There are provided an inter-vehicle distance detecting device and an inter-vehicle distance detecting method which can precisely measure an inter-vehicle distance from a user's own vehicle to a...
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7433496 |
In-vehicle image correcting device and night driving view field supporting device
An in-vehicle image correcting device for correcting an image picked up by a near-infrared camera ahead of one's own vehicle in which an obstacle is difficult for a driver to visually recognize...
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7433494 |
Moving body detecting apparatus
Provided is a moving body detecting apparatus capable of detecting only a body to be notified without detecting a body similar in feature to the body to be notified. To confirm whether a break-in...
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7433493 |
Abnormal behavior detector
A technique for detecting an abnormal behavior by monitoring moving objects such as human being and a car. The place where the abnormal behavior of the moving objects occurs is deduced from the...
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7429108 |
Gaze-responsive interface to enhance on-screen user reading tasks
A system, method, and computer program product for automatically providing reading place-markers to a user reading a textual document upon an electronic display. A gaze-tracking element monitors a...
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7430303 |
Target detection method and system
A method and system detects candidate targets or objects from a viewed scene by simplifying the data, converting the data to gradient magnitude and direction data which is thresholded to simplify...
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7430305 |
Image velocity computer and method for computing image velocity
An image velocity computing device having a camera, a microcomputer, and a camera control is provided. The camera has a controllable exposure time, and is capable of capturing a plurality of images...
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7428314 |
Monitoring an environment
An environment is monitored by capturing image data depicting the environment and analysing the image data to identify moving foreground objects. Upon identifying an object, the movement of said...
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7425693 |
Spectral tracking
A method of tracking a target. The method includes the steps of acquiring a first spectral image of a scene that includes the target, designating a spectral reference window, in the first spectral...
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7423540 |
Method of detecting vehicle-operator state
A method of detecting the state of an operator of a vehicle utilizes a low-cost operator state detection system having no more than one camera located preferably in the vehicle and directed toward...
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7421101 |
System and method for local deformable motion analysis
A system and method for local deformable motion analysis accurately tracks the motion of an object such that local motion of an object is isolated from global motion of an object. The object is...
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7421090 |
Target detection system using trained and untrained detection and methods therefor
A target detection system and method is disclosed that uses a trained detection component and an untrained detection component that enhances image data for candidate target detection. The trained...
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7421092 |
Method and apparatus for situation recognition using optical information
A situation recognition apparatus includes: an optical information acquisition unit configured to acquire optical information; a storage configured to store a plurality of pieces of optical...
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7421091 |
Image-capturing apparatus
Outputs of pixels present around a given pixel at an image-capturing unit having a plurality of pixels disposed two-dimensionally are added to the output of the given pixel. During this process,...
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7418112 |
Pedestrian detection apparatus
A pedestrian detection apparatus of the present invention extracts a whole-body region and a prospective head region based on a pattern matching between an input image picked up by an infrared...
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7418113 |
Tracking objects in low frame rate videos
A method tracks a moving object in a video acquired of a scene with a camera. A background model is maintained for each frame, and moving objects are detected according to changes in the background...
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7418152 |
Method and device of image correction
An Image correction device for detecting an image area having movement according to an image signal, and providing the image signal with image correction and switching correction methods according...
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7415212 |
Data communication system, data transmitter and data receiver
A transmitter formed of two or more light-emitting sections such as LEDs, which are physically arranged in a predetermined manner, is disposed in the real world object, and each light-emitting...
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7415164 |
Modeling scenes in videos using spectral similarity
A computer implemented method models a scene in a video acquired by a camera. For each pixel in each frame of the video, a time series of intensities of the pixel is acquired. A harmonic series is...
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7414706 |
Method and apparatus for imaging a target using cloud obscuration prediction and detection
A method is provided for imaging targets using an unmanned air vehicle. The method comprises the steps of making a determination of cloud obscuration of a target, selecting an imaging sensor based...
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