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7623735 Method for differentiating dynamic range of image  
A method for differentiating dynamic range of image is disclosed. The method comprises the following steps. First of all, pixel numbers with the same level value of Density units D n - 1 and D n ...
7616348 Method and apparatus for enhancing scanned documents  
A method, and a system employing the method, of enhancing an intensity of an image of a multi-page or multi-portion document is disclosed. The method includes determining a first background...
7613328 Label detection  
A system and a method to detect a label are described herein. The system and method are to extract a horizontal region of interest based on the image; to extract a vertical region of interest based...
7609894 Adaptive sampling region for a region editing tool  
Properties of pixels in a digital image are sampled within different subdivisions of an editing tool impression to produce different property distributions. The different subdivisions can...
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...
7602972 Method and apparatus for identifying white space tables within a document  
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates detecting white space tables within a document, wherein a white space table is comprised of text arranged in rows and...
7595920 Processing apparatus and processing method of color image information  
An image processing apparatus for color image information inputs a combination of component values of reference colors that constitute a processing color, and converts the combination of component...
7593570 Image processing method and apparatus and storage medium  
Software of a simple configuration checks whether an original image to be corrected is an image picture, and an image correction process based upon a formed histogram of the original image is not...
7590267 Accelerated face detection based on prior probability of a view  
A method and system for detecting faces at different views within images that allocates the computational effort based on a prior probability associated with a view is provided. A face detection...
7589728 Digital oscilloscope display and method for image quality improvement  
A method and apparatus for displaying an acquired signal on an oscilloscope. The method comprises the steps of acquiring an analog signal, digitizing the analog signal and determining a plurality...
7584100 Method and system for clustering using generalized sentence patterns  
A method and system for clustering documents based on generalized sentence patterns of the topics of the documents is provided. A generalized sentence patterns (“GSP”) system identifies a...
7583840 Methods and systems for detection of repeating patterns of features  
Methods and system for automatic identification of repeating patterns of slanted stripe features (marks) on an item.
7583839 Method and mechanism for analyzing the texture of a digital image  
A method and apparatus for comparing content attributes, e.g., texture, of one digital image a second digital image. An image operation is performed on gray scale image data to identify intensity...
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...
7576842 Random-type identifying material, 3-D identifying system and method using the same  
The present invention relates to a random type recognition object for an identification apparatus wherein identification particles are distributed irregularly within a 3D shape and a positional...
7555149 Method and system for segmenting videos using face detection  
A method generates a summary of a video. Faces are detected in a plurality of frames of the video. The frames are classified according to a number of faces detected in each frame and the video is...
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)...
7545978 Methods and apparatus for filtering video packets for large-scale video stream monitoring  
A method of filtering video packets for video stream monitoring is provided. A video packet of a video stream is received. One or more features are extracted from a specified frame of the video...
7545954 System for recognizing events  
A system recognizes events. The system includes a sequence of continuous vectors and a sequence of binarized vectors. The sequence of continuous vectors represents spatial-dynamic relationships of...
7538761 Information processor  
According to the invention, a computer includes an information input section, a search criteria input section, an image characteristic value creating section, an image region-of-interest creating...
7532759 Method, system and computer software product for selecting elements of a digital image  
A method and system for selecting image elements, such as image pixels or vectors, of a digital image provide a set of lexical classifiers, such as a set of color names, which characterize a visual...
7532755 Image classification using concentration ratio  
Methods and systems of classifying an image by use of a concentration ratio that indicates the smoothness of the distribution of a population of elements in the image or portions thereof. Alternate...
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...
7523474 System and method for providing user control over repeating objects embedded in a stream  
Many media streams contain “objects” that repeat. Repeating objects in a media stream are defined as any section of non-negligible duration, i.e., a song, video, advertisement, jingle, etc.,...
7515748 Controlled moving window adaptive histogram equalization  
Methods and systems of processing an image to reduce artifacts caused by image processing are disclosed. One embodiment includes applying a controlled, adaptive histogram equalization technique to...
7512263 Image processing system, image processing method, and medium having an image processing control program recorded thereon  
Heretofore, an operator has been required to judge the type of image on a display and select any of various effect processings manually, thus automation has been impossible. By totaling luminance...
7507204 Apparatus and method for forming 3D ultrasound image  
The present invention relates to a 3D ultrasound diagnostic forming a 3D ultrasound image only with volume data exiting within contour by automatically detecting the contour of a target object,...
7496228 Method and system for detecting and classifying objects in images, such as insects and other arthropods  
A color-based imaging system and method for the detection and classification of insects and other arthropods are described, including devices for counting arthropods and providing taxonomic...
7487438 Method and apparatus for recognizing a digitized form, extracting information from a filled-in form, and generating a corrected filled-in form  
Methods and apparatus for comparing blank forms represented in a digital format to digitized filled-in forms are described. Different errors are attributed different weights when attempting to...
7483619 System for authoring and viewing detail on demand video  
A method and system provide additional detail to a video sequence in response to user input. The system allows a user to generate a link from an anchor point in a source video sequence to a target...
7480414 Method and apparatus for object normalization using object classification  
Methods and apparatus are provided for normalizing objects across a plurality of image viewpoints. A set of classification results are obtained for a given object class across a sequence of images...
7474803 System and method of three-dimensional image capture and modeling  
System and method for constructing a 3D model of an object based on a series of silhouette and texture map images. In the exemplary embodiment an object is placed on a rotating turntable and a...
7466858 Methods for slide image classification  
A method of classifying images as slide images or non-slide images can be done by capturing a video stream, analyzing an image of the video stream and determining whether the image is a slide...
7463771 Method for retrieving original intact characteristics of heavily polluted images and its image processing  
A method for retrieving original intact characteristics of images heavily polluted by Gaussian impulse noises is based on the fuzzy automata theory retrieves the characteristics of images heavily...
7463770 Methods and systems for detection of repeating patterns of features  
Methods and system for automatic identification of repeating patterns of slanted stripe features (marks) on an item.
7463768 Graphic storing and reconstructing method for graphical user interface and apparatus therefor  
There are provided a method and apparatus for storing and reconstructing a graphic for graphic user interface (GUI), capable of reducing a storage amount of a graphic and a loading time of a...
7460716 Systems and methods for producing a dynamic classified image  
The systems and methods can apply a plurality of different classifiers to a given input image instead of a single classifier. The plurality of classifiers produce a plurality of classified images...
7457460 Picture retrieving apparatus and method which converts orthogonal transform coefficients into color histogram data  
The picture retrieving apparatus includes: an orthogonal conversion coefficient memory 13 of a retrieval target picture storing an orthogonal conversion coefficient of a picture targeted for a...
7454059 Image processing method and apparatus and storage medium  
Software of a simple configuration checks whether an original image to be corrected is an image picture, and an image correction process based upon a formed histogram of the original image is not...
7453468 Intelligent color to texture converter  
A method for preserving color information in a black and white version of a color image includes the analysis of the color image. The analysis comprises a search for conflicting colors. Conflicting...
7444018 Method and apparatus for shot detection  
A system identifies an abrupt transition in content between two frames, and determines whether the abrupt transition was caused by a shot boundary between the two frames or by a flashlight event....
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...
7439989 Detecting doctored JPEG images  
Systems and methods for detecting doctored JPEG images are described. In one aspect, a JPEG image is evaluated to determine if the JPEG image comprises double quantization effects of double...
7436999 Data analysis device and data recognition device  
The data analysis device 100 includes: difference calculation means (S 2 ) for, with respect to an image, carrying out a calculation of calculating a difference between intensity values at an...
7426486 Multi-party reporting system and method  
One or more parameters such as time is reported to a center using a form. The center then automatically extracts data from the form and converts it for storage and subsequent processing or review....
7421114 Accelerating the boosting approach to training classifiers  
Systems, methods, and computer program products implementing techniques for training classifiers. The techniques include receiving a training set that includes positive images and negative images,...
7412097 Process and device for detection of straight-line segments in a stream of digital data that are representative of an image in which the contour points of said image are identified  
A process for detection of straight-line segments in a stream of digital data that are representative of an image (m, n) in which the contour points of said image each defined by the modulus and...
7406201 Correcting segmentation errors in OCR  
A method for encoding characters includes identifying one or more sequences of the character codes that are likely to be generated due a segmentation error in application of a pattern recognition...
7397953 Image block classification based on entropy of differences  
Edges in a block of a digital image are detected by determining an entropy of a histogram of the block.
7391934 Method of creating a substitute check using check image data from a remote check image capture device and an apparatus therefor  
A method is provided of an institution creating a substitute check using check image data from a remote check image capture device. The method comprises receiving from the remote check image...
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