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7620239 Color determination device and color determination method  
A color determination device sections a hue plane, in which unit data constituting determining image data is mapped, into partial regions by a color determination boundary, and carries out a color...
7616699 Method of soft bit metric calculation with direct matrix inversion MIMO detection  
A telecommunication MIMO receiver implements soft bit metric calculation with direct matrix inversion MIMO detection. The receiver has a detector that detects data symbols in a received signal by...
7616344 Image processing apparatus and method for printing and plate making, and recording medium having image processing program recorded therein for printing and plate making  
For page data containing shadow-casting objects, trap graphics are generated according to the following procedure. First, an ID drawing process is performed for all objects within a page, and based...
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...
7609881 Device and method for image processing as well as image processing computer program  
The image processing device is equipped with an image area extracting part for extracting a plurality of image areas from image data, an image positional information recognizing part for...
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...
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...
7609260 Image generation program product and image processing device  
This program product causes a computer to function as a unit for setting spectator information including the number of spectators belonging respectively to first and second spectator types, a unit...
7606393 Image selection based on image content  
An image capture system comprises an image input and processing unit. The image input obtains image information which is then passed to the processing unit. The processing unit is coupled to the...
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...
7602402 Method of displaying colors of graphic objects on screen control display  
A method of displaying color objects for the screen control display is provided. First, a plurality of elements and son elements on a screen control display respectively to a first level list and a...
7599552 Image processing apparatus, and color correction method and lookup table  
In a color conversion method of inputting at least two color difference values and obtaining a corresponding saturation value, a main lookup table which stores the saturation value for the color...
7595878 Spectroscopic methods for component particle analysis  
The invention relates to methods of assessing one or more geometric properties of a particle of a substance using an infrared spectroscopic property of the substance. The method is useful, for...
7593577 Method and apparatus for representing and searching for an object in an image  
A method representing an object appearing in still or video image for use in searching, wherein the object appears in the image with a first two-dimensional outline, by processing signals...
7593542 Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer product  
An image processing apparatus includes an extracting unit to extract watermark data from image data of an image; a generating unit to generate a watermark image based on the watermark data; and a...
7589739 Color evaluating method of image display device  
There is provided a color evaluating method of an image display device, which evaluates colors displayed by the image display device, including: displaying an image evaluation image, in which a...
7587085 Method and apparatus for red-eye detection in an acquired digital image  
A method for red-eye detection in an acquired digital image comprises acquiring a first image and analyzing the first acquired image to provide a plurality of characteristics indicative of image...
7586524 Apparatus, method, and program for editing images  
When a photo album for an event such as a wedding ceremony is generated, images to be inserted in image insertion areas in a template can be selected easily. A professional photographer photographs...
7583859 Method, computer readable medium and apparatus for converting color image resolution  
A method, computer readable medium and apparatus for converting color image resolution include inputting an image enlarging ratio, inputting target pixel data of an image in a first color space to...
7580563 Detection of objects in an image using color analysis  
According to some embodiments, a method, an apparatus and a system perform object detection in an image. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving an image. The method also includes...
7580562 Image processing method, image processing device, and image processing program  
When making judgments of image type, image data is input, and a judgment is made as to whether the type of image indicated by the image data is a first type; for image data judged as being of the...
7580549 Method and system for vehicular guidance using a crop image  
The method and system for vehicular guidance comprises an imaging device for collecting color image data. A definer defines a series of scan line segments generally perpendicular to a transverse...
7580158 Image processing apparatus, method and program  
An image analysis unit analyzes an image on which AE processing has been performed and obtains a coefficient for obtaining a gradient of a compression table for compressing a dynamic range of the...
7577289 Color processing apparatus and method  
Color data which is obtained by capturing an image of a color chart by an image capturing apparatus under a first light source, and depends on the first light source is acquired. Target data which...
7577280 Measurement of mitotic activity  
A method of measurement of mitotic activity from histopathological specimen images initially identifies image pixels with luminances corresponding to mitotic figures and selects from them a...
7577271 Image processing apparatus for embedding digital watermark  
An image processing apparatus corrects color-difference amounts of main image information by a plurality of color-difference amount correction processes and performs a plurality of color-difference...
7576845 Three-dimensional color and shape measuring device  
A three-dimensional color and shape measuring device is provided which measures a color and a three-dimensional shape of an object based on an image signal acquired by picking up an image of the...
7574049 Method, apparatus, computer program, computer system and computer-readable storage for representing and searching for an object in an image  
A method of representing an object appearing in a still or video image, by processing signals corresponding to the image, comprises deriving a curvature scale space (CSS) representation of the...
7574039 Video based fire detection system  
A fire detection system has a video sensor, a processor, and a database. The database has a statistical model representing the characteristics of a fire. The video sensor captures images, and sends...
7570260 Tiled view-maps for autostereoscopic interdigitation  
A method for creating a reduced sized view-map of an autostereoscopic source image is disclosed. The method comprises creating a mathematical model for mapping the autostereoscopic source image...
7567707 Red eye detection and correction  
A system suited to correction of red eyes in images includes a detection module which, for a plurality of pixels in a digital image, assigns a probability that a pixel is within a red eye. The...
7567704 Method and apparatus for identifying physical features in video  
An image is processed by a sensed-feature-based classifier to generate a list of objects assigned to classes. The most prominent objects (those objects whose classification is most likely reliable)...
7565008 Data capture and identification system and process  
An identification method and process for objects from digitally captured images thereof that uses data characteristics to identify an object from a plurality of objects in a database. The data is...
7565007 Image processing method, image processing program, and image processing apparatus  
An image processing method for converting a first image that is expressed in a colorimetric system made up of a plurality of color components and comprises a plurality of pixels each having color...
7564463 Apparatus and method for changing colors of data and a background in a portable terminal  
Apparatus and method for displaying input data in various colors on a display in a portable terminal is provided. If a user selects a data color change, data is displayed in a random color. If the...
7555165 Method for semantic scene classification using camera metadata and content-based cues  
A method for scene classification of a digital image includes extracting pre-determined camera metadata tags from the digital image. The method also includes obtaining estimates of image class...
7554696 Dot-gain reduction method for multi-level halftoning  
A method for minimizing color-image halftone dot-gain in the output of a multi-level halftone color-imaging output device. The method includes characterizing that device's halftone output, on a...
7552120 Method for indexing and identifying multimedia documents  
The method of indexing multimedia documents comprises the following steps: a) for each document identifying and extracting terms t i constituted by vectors characterizing properties of the; b)...
7551774 Image processing apparatus, and image processing method  
An image processing apparatus for correcting a hue and a saturation in an input video signal of a moving picture in real time is disclosed wherein the image processing apparatus includes an...
7548646 Method for adjusting saturation  
A method for adjusting saturation by distinguishing a plurality of color systems and color system zones corresponding to the color systems from a C b -C r coordinate, and finding the corresponding...
7545977 Image processing apparatus for analysis of pattern matching failure  
Information indicating the reason for a failure of template matching is provided. Difference information between a first image, which is referred to as a template, and a third image that is...
7539327 System and process for bootstrap initialization of nonparametric color models  
A system and process for automatically learning a reliable color-based tracking system is presented. The tracking system is learned by using information produced by an initial object model in...
7536036 Method and apparatus for red-eye detection in an acquired digital image  
A method for red-eye detection in an acquired digital image comprises acquiring a first image and analyzing the first acquired image to provide characteristics indicative of image quality. The...
7532753 Method and system for specifying color of a fill area  
A method and system for generating an image display plan is provided. In one embodiment, a planning system allows a user to create a display plan that specifies a sequence of images that are to be...
7532743 Object detector, object detecting method and robot  
An object detector, an object detecting method and a robot can reduce diction errors of detecting wrong objects without increasing the volume of the computational operation to be performed to...
7528989 Image processing apparatus and image processing method  
An image processing apparatus and an image processing method which perform image processing for drawing information which includes image information and color correction information are provided....
7526123 Estimating facial pose from a sparse representation  
A method for accurately estimating a pose of the human head in natural scenes utilizing positions of the prominent facial features relative to the position of the head. A high-dimensional, randomly...
7522766 Picture reading method, program and device, principal color extracting method, program and device, and image dividing method, program and device  
A method for reading a picture is provided which is capable of removing adverse effects caused by lighting conditions or a like. A principal color extracting section extracts principal colors from...
7519218 Marker detection method and apparatus, and position and orientation estimation method  
A marker detection method includes the steps of acquiring a captured image, detecting a marker from the captured image, and determining whether or not a surrounding region of the detected marker...
7515952 System for characterization and mapping of tissue lesions  
The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for the in vivo, non-invasive, early detection of alterations and mapping of the grade of these alterations, caused in the biochemical...