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7092554 |
Method for detecting eye and mouth positions in a digital image
A digital image processing method for locating eyes and mouth in a digital face image. The method includes the steps of detecting iris colored pixels in the digital face image; grouping the iris...
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7084906 |
Reducing computation time in removing color aliasing artifacts from color digital images
A method of reducing color aliasing artifacts from a color digital image having color pixels including providing luminance and chrominance signals from the color digital image; downsampling the...
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RE39214 |
Blending text and graphics for display
Text and graphics elements may be alpha blended in a way to reduce flicker when the text or graphics are display by a processor-based television receiver. The alpha values are used to intelligently...
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7068723 |
Method for automatically producing optimal summaries of linear media
Optimal summaries of a linear media source are automatically produced by parameterizing a linear media source. The parameterized linear media source is used to create a similarity array in which...
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7064861 |
Method for recording a digital image and information pertaining to such image on an oriented polymer medium
A method for representing an extended color gamut digital image on a hard-copy output medium having a limited color gamut comprising the steps of adjusting the color values of the extended color...
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7065241 |
Method for monitoring a detection region of a working element
The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for monitoring a detection region of a working element ( 100 ). The apparatus has at least one camera for continuously monitoring the detection...
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7065248 |
Content-based multimedia searching system using color distortion data
Methods are provided for extracting color distortion data from multimedia data in a content-based multimedia search and for searching multimedia data based on the extracted color distortion data. A...
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7062083 |
Image retrieval method based on combination of color and texture features
An image retrieval method with improved performance in which a data image similar to a query image is retrieved by appropriately combining color and texture features. The method for retrieving a...
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7062085 |
Method for detecting subject matter regions in images
Disclosed is a method for detecting subject matter regions in a digital color image having pixels of (red, green, blue) values, comprising the steps of: assigning to each pixel a belief value as...
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7062086 |
Red-eye detection based on red region detection with eye confirmation
Red-eye detection based on red region detection with eye confirmation initially identifies pixels that correspond to the color of red-eye within an image. A determination is then made as to whether...
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7062084 |
Method for image description using color and local spatial information
A technique for describing an image where a number of test areas are located on the image.
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7058226 |
Make-up color image classification system and make-up color image map
The present invention comprehensively acquires a make-up color image and provides a make-up color image classification method and make-up color image map that enables make-up to be applied...
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7054388 |
Signal detection method and apparatus, relevant program, and storage medium storing the program
Signal detection having superior resistance with respect to feature distortions is realized. Reference and input feature time-series signals, each consisting of feature vectors, are respectively...
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7054481 |
Automatic person meta-data labeller
A method 214 of identifying an object in a target image is disclosed, the method comprising steps of selecting 400 a part of the object having a distinctive color, searching 702 the target...
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7046842 |
System and method for color characterization using fuzzy pixel classification with application in color matching and color match location
A system and method for measuring the similarity of multiple-color images and for locating regions of a target image having color information that matches, at least to a degree, the color...
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7047014 |
Raster-to-vector conversion operations adapted to modeling of RF propagation
Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to optimizing vector models for use in modeling RF propagation in desired physical environments. In one embodiment, the present invention can operate on...
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7046865 |
Determination of similarity using weighting value depending on the type of characteristic
A similarity determining apparatus is disclosed which determines whether a query signal and a search signal are similar to each other or not. The similarity determining apparatus determines...
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7042601 |
Image scanning module in modulized configuration
The present invention provides an image scanning module including a first unit, a second unit, and a third unit. The first unit having a light source is used for retrieving a first image. The...
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7038811 |
Standardized device characterization
The present invention comprises a method of integrating characterization information associated with a target image for use with a color reproduction device wherein a measurement store is obtained...
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7039228 |
System and method for three-dimensional surface inspection
An optical inspection system and method for inspecting a component on a printed circuit board (PCB) which determines three-dimensional information in a single scan. A first visual light source...
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7039229 |
Locating regions in a target image using color match, luminance pattern match and hill-climbing techniques
A system and method for locating regions in a target image matching a template image with respect to color and pattern information. The template image is characterized with regard to pattern and...
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7030885 |
Method and apparatus for measuring color-texture distance, and method and apparatus for sectioning image into plurality of regions using measured color-texture distance
A method and apparatus for measuring a color-texture distance and a method and apparatus for sectioning an image into a plurality of regions using the measured color-texture distance are provided....
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7027653 |
Variation detecting apparatus, variation detecting method, and storage medium and system for storing program involved in the method
In the case where variations in ground objects in one and the same area are detected between a line drawing map describing profile lines of the ground objects or a reference line drawing/image...
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7027182 |
Printing a true-ink reference, and refining gray accuracy, for optimum color calibration in incremental printing
Ramps are printed with ink of a particular color, and also nominally in that color but by inks of other colors. A measured actual-ink ramp is a standard to fix the other-colors ramp, and correct...
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7027644 |
Multilevel image grid data structure and image search method using the same
The present invention relates to an image search method capable of expressing one color feature related to a spatial color feature of a still image based on a multilevel image grid and...
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7024037 |
Cross-polarized imaging method for measuring skin ashing
A process for measuring skin ashing is provided. The process comprises selecting a desired skin testing area and acguiring an image of the area using x-polarization technique. The image is analyzed...
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7020309 |
Method of recognizing fingerprints by coloring and computer system for implementing the said method
The method of recognizing fingerprints comprises an analysis step ( 21 ) in which an expert analyses characteristic points of a fingerprint image so as to be able to differentiate the fingerprint...
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7020330 |
Automatic content-analysis based use of color correction process
The present invention is directed to a method for color correction for images, in particular for digital still camera images, including the following steps: an image is analyzed with respect to...
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7016532 |
Image capture and identification system and process
An identification method and process for objects from digitally captured images thereof that uses image characteristics to identify an object from a plurality of objects in a database. The image is...
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7015931 |
Method and apparatus for representing and searching for color images
A method of representing a color image comprises selecting a region of the image, selecting one or more colors as representative colors for the region and, for a region having two or more...
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7010167 |
Method of geometric linear discriminant analysis pattern recognition
Feature attributes are extracted from an observation space to create feature vectors for each class to be identified. A linear transformation matrix is used to reduce the dimension of the feature...
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7006685 |
Method for conducting analysis of two-dimensional images
A method of enhancing a source image for analysis. The method comprises the steps of digitizing the source image to obtain pixel data comprising location data and density data, generating a...
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7006689 |
Image search system and image search method thereof
An image search system for determining a similarity of an image whose feature are represented by either one of image features amounts, a color distribution features or a frequency distribution...
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7006688 |
Histogram adjustment features for use in imaging technologies
A computer with a monitor viewable program executes to display a histogram of image data on the monitor. The monitor contemporaneously displays a screen image viewed on a monitor of the histogram,...
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6999621 |
Text discrimination method and related apparatus
A text discrimination method includes scanning a line of an electronically generated image; estimating the background segment of the scanned image line, and analyzing the difference between an...
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7000192 |
Method of producing a matted image usable in a scrapbook
A method of producing a matted image which is usable in a scrapbook. The method comprises the steps of displaying a digital image having a mat area; displaying a plurality of color selections from...
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6999616 |
Interpretation of colored documents
Automatic interpretation processing operations, such as character recognition, require a binary image of information-bearing image elements and a background. Digital image data produced by scanning...
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6993180 |
Method and system for automated grouping of images
A method of automated content-based grouping of digital images without using auxiliary metadata and training data set, comprises the steps of computing a color correlogram from image pixel values...
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6990235 |
Color image processing apparatus and pattern extracting apparatus
A threshold value assigning unit assigns a threshold value corresponding to color information of a considered pixel. A labeling unit compares color information of adjacent pixels and assigns the...
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6987879 |
Method and system for extracting information from images in similar surrounding color
Characters or image portions are extracted from a background whose color is similar to that of the characters or the image portions. In order to chromatically isolate the characters and the image...
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6987880 |
Efficient document boundary determination
An imaging system includes an imaging sensing device sensing an object having a first background color and a backing in opposing relationship with the object having a second background color which...
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6985622 |
System and method for color correcting electronically captured images by determining input media types using color correlation matrix
A system and method for color correcting electronically captured input images utilizes a correlation between the input images and a set of reference images of different media types to determine the...
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6985628 |
Image type classification using edge features
A method and system for classifying images between natural pictures and synthetic graphics is provided. In embodiments of the invention, a picture/graphic classification method and system...
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6980691 |
Correction of “red-eye” effects in images
After identification of an image or image area where correction is to be effected for red-eye defects, and identification of eye regions within the image or the image area, color data from the area...
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6978042 |
Color image segmentation method
A color image segmentation method is provided. The color image segmentation method includes the steps of: (a) calculating a first value representing the degree of difference between a pixel and the...
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6975763 |
Shade component removing apparatus and shade component removing method for removing shade in image
An apparatus for removing a shade from an image includes a principle component analyzing unit performing principle component analysis on a set of face images having various types of shades to...
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6975758 |
Image processing apparatus for and method of improving an image and an image display apparatus comprising the image processing apparatus
An image processing apparatus ( 100 ) for improving images comprising a classification unit ( 102 ) for setting classification values to various regions of the images, and an improvement unit ( 104...
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6973453 |
Image collection enhancement method and apparatus
An apparatus and method for enhancing an image collection. The invention is preferably embodied in computer readable program code. Program code may be provided for receiving image data for at least...
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6972869 |
Mapping color to colorant amounts when colorants have similar hue
A method for mapping a color specification to colorant amounts when a first and a second colorant have a similar hue involves the division of portions of color space into regions. Colors of the...
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6970269 |
Patch image preparation method and recording medium therefor
The invention is to relax the influence of noise with patch images of a number as small as possible, in consideration of the correlation of noise. For attaining this objective, in the preparation...
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