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6783935 Genetic polymorphism of MxA protein and use thereof  
The present invention provides polynucleotides having base sequences of sequence Nos. 1 to 4, as polynucleotides having polymorphism sites capable of being useful indicators for prediction of...
6785415 Image processing method, an image processing apparatus, and a recording media on which an image processing program is recorded  
In an image processing method and in an image processing apparatus, edge and flat zones of an original image are separately recognized, a first nonlinear flattening process effective for the edge...
6785409 Segmentation method and apparatus for medical images using diffusion propagation, pixel classification, and mathematical morphology  
A method of digital imaging includes receiving image data and fitting a curve to boundaries within the image data. The curve is fit to the boundaries within the image data by extracting a region of...
6782140 Image analyzing apparatus defining regions of interest  
An image analyzing apparatus includes an image data memory for two-dimensionally and temporarily storing image data and is adapted for displaying an image on a CRT based on the image data...
6778712 Data sheet identification device  
A data sheet identification device of the invention includes: a character/graphics extracting section, an identical shape deciding section, a graphics collating section, an identification code/data...
6778698 Method and apparatus for digital image segmentation  
An image segmenter uses one or more techniques to accurately segment an image, including the use of a progressive flood fill to fill incompletely bounded segments, the use of a plurality of scaled...
6775399 ROI segmentation image processing system  
An improved ROI segmentation image processing system substantially masks non-ROI image data from a digital image to produce a ROI segmented image for subsequent digital processing. The ROI...
6771819 System and method for dynamic image recognition  
A system and method for object inspection that includes an image recognition program stored on a tangible medium for classifying and subclassifying regions of interest on an image. The image...
6771836 Zero-crossing region filtering for processing scanned documents  
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provides a zero-crossing filtering region process for extracting data and related image elements from an input image. The input image is processed to...
6771803 Method and apparatus for fitting a smooth boundary to segmentation masks  
A method and apparatus is provided for producing a smooth closed curve from a binary mask such as the type produced when segmenting various parts of a human body. Points defining the segmentation...
6771834 Method for segmenting a digital image  
Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a method of segmenting an initial digital image includes the following. The initial digital image is processed to produce a first...
6770443 Method and apparatus for mass spectrometric genotyping  
Methods and equipment are provided for the mass spectrometric measurement of a large number of genotyping profiles, each formed by several tens to several hundreds of SNPs (single nucleotide...
6766043 Pleural nodule detection from CT thoracic images  
An algorithm is disclosed that recovers regions of possible pleural nodules left out of an organ field or otherwise undetected due to the nature of low level image processing in the organ field. A...
6766054 Segmentation of an object from a background in digital photography  
The present invention provides methods and apparatus to distinguish and/or separate an object from a background. The methods use backgrounds of known and/or advantageous texture. In an embodiment,...
6766065 Method of setting an image processing condition of a frame area on a photographic film  
The image processing method sets an image processing condition of an image using either image data of an image clipping area corresponding to the image or extended image data which is image data of...
6766055 Method of extracting image from input image using reference image  
This invention relates to an image processing method for precisely and automatically recognizing a specific image extraction region to be divided from an input image, and extracting the specific...
6760468 Method and system for the detection of lung nodule in radiological images using digital image processing and artificial neural network  
A method and system improve the detection of abnormalities, such as lung nodules, in radiological images using digital image processing and artificial neural network techniques. The detection...
6760119 Relay device  
A relay device for providing communication between a sensing device and a computer system includes first and second communications modules and a processor. The first communications module receives...
6756993 Methods and apparatus for rendering images using 3D warping techniques  
Methods and apparatus for rendering images are presented. The method includes the step of segmenting at least one reference image in a reference image space into a plurality of tiles, each tile...
6757081 Methods and apparatus for analyzing and image and for controlling a scanner  
A method analyzes an image to be scanned and analyzes at least part of the image pixel-by-pixel. During or after a preview scan, a characteristic is assigned to a plurality of pixels in the image...
6757075 Image forming device and recording medium storing program  
The image forming device has a recording unit which records an image data line by line while scanning a recording medium with a laser; a memory circuit for storing the image data corresponding to a...
6757430 Image processing architecture  
A system includes a central processing unit, a bus and circuit. The central processing unit is coupled to the bus and segments an image into at least one text region and at least one graphics...
6757427 Edge enhancement preprocessing with image region determining function  
An image processing apparatus includes an edge processing section, an region data producing section, and a region determining section. The edge processing section enhances an edge portion of a...
6754375 Method and system for interactively developing at least one grid pattern and computer-readable storage medium having a program for executing the method  
Method and system are disclosed for interactively developing at least one grid pattern, such as a microarray pattern, as well as an array set of such patterns, and a computer-readable storage...
6753145 Buffer composition and method for hybridization of microarrays on adsorbed polymer siliceous surfaces  
A buffer composition, method and kit for hybridizing microarrays of nucleic acids bound to an adsorbed polymer surface of a siliceous substrate provide an envelope of conditions to hybridize...
6750014 Reducing background in hybridization reactions  
The invention provides a method for reducing background in hybridization reactions of nucleic acids involving at least two homologous probes, wherein at least one of the probes is non-linear, or...
6751350 Mosaic generation and sprite-based coding with automatic foreground and background separation  
An automatic segmentation system distinguishes foreground and background objects by first encoding and decoding a first image at a first time reference. Macroblocks are extracted from a second...
6750022 Mutation analysis by PCR and mass spectrometry  
The invention concerns mass spectrometric analysis of known mutation sites in the genome, such as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). The invention uses minor amounts of primers with...
6751363 Methods of imaging based on wavelet retrieval of scenes  
Methods of imaging objects based on wavelet retrieval of scenes utilize wavelet transformation of plural defined regions of a query image. By increasing the granularity of the query image to...
6748110 Object and object feature detector system and method  
A system and method for object inspection detects and reports object and/or object feature shapes from an acquired image of an inspected sample-object using both edge-based and grey level-based...
6748112 Method and apparatus for finding shape deformations in objects having smooth surfaces  
The present invention is directed to an imaging apparatus for examining an object having smooth surfaces to determine shape deformations in the surface of object. The imaging apparatus includes an...
6744923 System and method for fast approximate energy minimization via graph cuts  
Many tasks in computer vision involve assigning a label, such as disparity for depth of field data to every pixel. Energy minimization may be used to accomplish this labeling. The present invention...
6744922 Signal processing method and video/voice processing device  
The video signal processor 10 includes a chain detector 16 which uses features extracted from visual and/or audio segments divided from an input stream of video data, and a criterion for...
6738152 Event-based printing  
Methods and apparatus implementing a technique for printing to a selected destination in a computer system. A centralized print manager provides the implementation and control of operation for...
6735326 Method for evaluating the halves of slaughtered animals by optical image processing  
The invention relates to a method for evaluating the halves of slaughtered animals by optical image processing. A simple computerized method for sufficiently reliable evaluation is obtained even...
6731779 Fingerprint certifying device and method of displaying effective data capture state  
A fingerprint certifying device for an effective data capture state when a fingerprint is certified, including: a storage unit for storing a registered fingerprint image; a collating unit for...
6731782 Method and system for automatic identification and quantification of abnormal anatomical structures in medical images  
Abnormal regions in volumetric image sets are detected and delineated through the following technique. Noise is suppressed in the original data. The background is classified into one or more...
6731799 Object segmentation with background extraction and moving boundary techniques  
Image data for an image frame are allocated among three groups. In one group are image data which are part of a derived motion boundary, along with image data which differ by at least a threshold...
6728391 Multi-resolution label locator  
A multi-resolution label locator system divides an input image into a plurality of multi-pixel cells. The multi-resolution label locator system then creates a decimated image or low resolution...
6727066 Genes expressed in treated human C3A liver cell cultures  
The present invention relates to a composition comprising a plurality of cDNAs which are differentially expressed in treated human C3A liver cell cultures and which may be used entirely or in part...
6728425 Image processing device  
An image processing device of the present invention includes a region separating section and a filter processing section. With respect to a picture signal which is read out after resolution thereof...
6728314 Method of using MPEG-7 standard in object segmentation  
The invention relates to a method of using MPEG-7 in object segmentation to extract a desired moving or still image object. The method includes extracting the feature of an existing video object...
6727068 Method for non-redundant library construction  
Provided are novel methods for the production of nucleic acid libraries having reduced redundancy. Also provided are methods for determination of changes in RNA expression associated with...
6728416 Adjusting the contrast of a digital image with an adaptive recursive filter  
A method and structure for adjusting the contrast of a digital image includes inputting an image, dividing the image into a pedestal signal and a texture signal, applying a tone scale function to...
6724933 Media segmentation system and related methods  
A method comprising receiving media content and analyzing one or more attributes of successive shots of the received media. Based, at least in part on the analysis of the one or more attributes,...
6723509 Method for 3′ end-labeling ribonucleic acids  
Methods of end-labeling ribonucleic acids with non-radioactively labeled ribonucleotides, and particularly fluorescently labeled ribonucleotides, are provided. In the subject methods, a ribonucleic...
6723510 Methods for separating particulate substrates from solution while minimizing particle loss  
The present invention provides a method for separation of a particulate matrix from a solution while reducing loss of particles during separation steps. Methods are also disclosed for isolation of...
6721450 Curvature based system for the segmentation and analysis of image data  
A technique for analyzing images for a feature of interest includes generating gradients for a characteristic of an image, such as pixel intensity value, initiating a candidate boundary, and...
6721454 Method for automatic extraction of semantically significant events from video  
Semantically meaningful events are detected in video with a multi-level technique. Video sequences are visually analyzed at the first level of the technique to detect shot boundaries, to measure...
6718066 Method and apparatus for coding an image object of arbitrary shape  
It is known to represent a square block of an image which has a maximum horizontal or vertical extension N as N vectors each representing one column or row, and encode it using an N×N discrete...