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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...