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6718074 |
Method and apparatus for inspection for under-resolved features in digital images
A machine vision inspection system and method that increase the resolution of object image-data without physically manipulating the physical optics of cameras used during inspection. The exemplary...
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6717699 |
Method for hybrid printing
The present invention relates to a system and method for ink-jet printing. More specifically, the present invention is directed to a system and method useful for ink-jet printing onto textiles....
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6714322 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium therefor
ROM stores an 8×8 base matrix of 64 sequential threshold values (1-64), hexadecimal data for a specified pattern to be rendered on an output image, and a threshold address table in which the...
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6707940 |
Method and apparatus for image segmentation
A method and apparatus is described that smoothes images within regions but not across boundaries. In one embodiment, a segmentation map is smoothed. Based on the color difference between pixels in...
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6704448 |
Device and method for extracting specific region from image and computer-readable recording medium storing region extraction program
A region extraction device includes a segmentation unit for dividing an input image into a plurality of regions, a pixel number counting unit for determining the ratio of pixels of a predetermined...
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6704447 |
Method and apparatus for using illumination from a display for computer vision based user interfaces and biometric authentication
Disclosed is a computer-assisted method for analyzing the surroundings of a display device. At least two different patterns are displayed successively on a display device connected to a computer. A...
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6704441 |
Inspection system
An inspection system in which an inspection of a work is conducted by processing image data of the work. The inspection system includes a data processor for storing image data of the work in a...
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6701012 |
Out-of-layer pixel generation for a decomposed-image layer
Images may be decomposed into separate layers each containing a limited number of types of image element (text, line art, or photographic). Each layer can then be compressed separately with a...
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6697523 |
Method for summarizing a video using motion and color descriptors
A method extracts an intensity of motion activity from shots in a compressed video. The method then uses the intensity of motion activity to segment the video into easy and difficult segments to...
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6694046 |
Automated computerized scheme for distinction between benign and malignant solitary pulmonary nodules on chest images
An automated method for analyzing a nodule and a computer storage medium storing computer instructions by which the method can be implemented when the instructions are loaded into a computer to...
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6690492 |
Image processing method and apparatus
According to this invention, in order to efficiently output images, when an image and its attribute are selected, and an extraction output instruction of an image region with the selected attribute...
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6690828 |
Method for representing and comparing digital images
A method of generating a compact representation of a digital image is described. A digital image is converted to a square bitmap and divided into a plurality of cells. Each cell is subdivided into...
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6690823 |
Method and apparatus for partitioning an arbitrarily-shaped area
In accordance with one embodiment, a processing method and apparatus is provided for partitioning exposed areas created by motion compensation. The partitioning creates sub-areas in shapes and...
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6681035 |
Method of unsupervised cell nuclei segmentation
A method of segmentation of cell nuclei is described that uses an active contours approach based on a Viterbi search algorithm. Also disclosed is an initialisation technique that maximises the...
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6681043 |
Interactive video object processing environment which visually distinguishes segmented video object
A video processing environment includes a user interface and processing shell from which various video processing ‘plug-in’ programs are accessed. The shell insulates the plug-ins from the...
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6675714 |
Ink and water supply controller in printing machine, printing system with such controller, and program therefor
A printing machine provided allows even unskilled operators to perform ink and water supply control according to the contents of an image. While a reference image to be printed is segmented into a...
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6674877 |
System and method for visually tracking occluded objects in real time
The present invention is embodied in a system and method for digitally tracking objects in real time. The present invention visually tracks three-dimensional (3-D) objects in dense disparity maps...
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6674889 |
Pattern inspection method and pattern inspection apparatus
The present invention provides a pattern inspection apparatus whereby, even if a large number of defects are detected during inspection it is possible to continue inspection without interruption of...
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6674904 |
Contour tracing and boundary detection for object identification in a digital image
An edge detection algorithm may use contour tracing followed by boundary detection to improve the accuracy of the detected boundaries and to enable the detection of boundaries in cases where the...
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6670963 |
Visual attention model
An improved visual attention model uses a robust adaptive segmentation algorithm to divide a current frame of a video sequence into a plurality of regions based upon both color and luminance, with...
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6668080 |
Automated layer extraction and pixel assignment from image sequences
Automated layer extraction from 2D images making up a 3D scene, and automated image pixel assignment to layers, to provide for scene modeling, is disclosed. In one embodiment, a...
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6668082 |
Image processing apparatus
In an apparatus and method for creating a three-dimensional model of an object, images of the object taken from different, unknown positions are processed to identify the points in the images which...
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6668069 |
Method and system for processing digital objects
Methods and systems of protecting digital objects are described. In one embodiment, a user is presented with a degraded version of a digital object. An exemplary degraded version might be a...
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6665839 |
Method, system, processor and program product for distinguishing between similar forms
A system for identifying distinguishing features between an input new blank form and another blank form. The system includes a processor and memory capable of identifying a property in the input...
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6661930 |
Method for nesting a computer model of a part with a computer model of a fixture
A method of nesting a computer model of a part ( 100 ) into a computer model of a fixture ( 104 ) useful for situations where the original positions of the part and fixture are completely separate...
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6661919 |
Method and apparatus for producing a hybrid data structure for displaying a raster image
A system for producing a raster image derived from coded and non-coded portions of a hybrid data structure from an input bitmap including (1) a data processing apparatus, (2) a recognizer which...
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6654507 |
Automatically producing an image of a portion of a photographic image
A method of producing an image of at least a portion of a digital image that includes pixels includes computing a belief map of the digital image, by using the pixels of the digital image to...
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6654106 |
Methods and apparatus for determining blur of an optical system
Methods are disclosed for quantifying blur, of a beam of an optical medium, exhibited by an optical system through which the beam of the optical medium passes. An embodiment of the method includes...
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6654506 |
Method for automatically creating cropped and zoomed versions of photographic images
A method and computer program/system for cropping a digital image includes inputting a belief map of a photographic image, (a belief value at a location in the belief map indicates an importance of...
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6650775 |
Method and apparatus for implementing a streaming two-dimensional digital image segmentation
A method and apparatus for implementing a streaming two-dimensional digital image segmentation is provided. The image segmentation method is compatible with architectures for scan-line processing...
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6650439 |
Segmentation tag cleanup system
A system and method for method of cleaning segmentation tags is disclosed. A method in accordance with the present invention comprises receiving a plurality of segmentation tags; generating block...
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6650924 |
Method and apparatus for the automatic recognition of pneumothorax
In an apparatus for the recognition of pneumothorax using thorax MR exposures, an evaluation device segments the image of the rib cage, including its surroundings, and characterizes a zone detected...
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6650791 |
Simultaneous registration of multiple image fragments
Method and apparatus for aligning more than two fragments of an image to assemble the image while providing high alignment quality between each pair of overlapping image fragments. Image...
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6647144 |
Detection and verification of scanning attributes
A method for scanning a document includes: acquiring scanned image data from a first region of the document; determining an initial estimate of a document attribute using pixels in the first...
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6643387 |
Apparatus and method for context-based indexing and retrieval of image sequences
An apparatus and method for implementing object motion segmentation and object trajectory segmentation for an image sequence. Specifically, block-based motion vectors for a pair of adjacent frames...
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6639692 |
Pixel level segmentation tag cleanup
A system and method of processing segmentation tags is disclosed. In accordance with the present invention, a method for processing segmentation tags that receives blocks of segmentation tags each...
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6636630 |
Image-processing apparatus
An area-separation processing section, installed in an image-processing apparatus of the present invention, is provided with a block memory A for storing image signals, a maximum/minimum pixel...
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6636331 |
Segmentation tag cleanup based on connected components
A method of cleaning segmentation tags is disclosed. A method in accordance with the present invention receives a set of segmentation tags and identifies a connected component within the received...
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6636634 |
Systems and methods for locating a pattern in an image
In one aspect the invention provides processes for locating a pattern within an image that can comprise the acts of providing a template representative of the pattern to be located within an image....
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6633411 |
Method and apparatus for repurposing binary images
A method, computer program product, and a program storage device readable by machine, for repurposing images includes classifying the pixels of a binary image as being either halftone image pixels...
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6633670 |
Mask generation for multi-layer image decomposition
To improve compression efficiency and decompressed image quality, images are decomposed into separate layers each containing a limited number of image element types (text, line art, or...
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6631206 |
Image filtering in HSI color space
A method for filtering an angular signal which avoids errors in averaging and differencing operations. Components of a hue signal are separated into groups based upon the sign of a corresponding...
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6628832 |
Table recognition method and apparatus, and storage medium
The area and position of each cell in a table are analyzed on the basis of the layout state of ruled lines and character strings contained in the image of the table to obtain a table structure. The...
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6625309 |
Image partitioning to avoid overlap transmission
Image partitioning methods, which may be implemented by software or hardware on a computer, partition a set of multiple overlapping images to be transmitted so that only the visible portions of the...
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6625311 |
Methodology for data structure characterization, indexing, storage and retrieval
Disclosed is a method for enabling easy characterization, storage and retrieval of multi-dimensional data structures involving use of a translation, rotation and scaling invariant index which...
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6625323 |
Method for compressing and decompressing digital having text
A method for compressing a digital image having both saturated text and/or line art and pictorial imagery, the method comprises the steps of: receiving the digital image as blocks of pixels;...
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6625333 |
Method for temporal interpolation of an image sequence using object-based image analysis
A method for temporal interpolation of an image sequence using object-based image analysis is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of image segmentation for partitioning a known image into...
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6625319 |
Image compression using content-based image similarity
A method for compressing a set of images that includes the steps of grouping the images into at least two clusters based on color content similarity, identifying at least one representative image...
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6621927 |
Apparatus for detecting position of featuring region of picture, such as subtitle or imageless part
A boundary position detection apparatus in which the position of an imageless part (containing no meaningful image information) lying at the upper part or/and the lower part of a picture is...
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6614930 |
Video stream classifiable symbol isolation method and system
An image processing device and method for classifying symbols relies on a connected-component technique for isolating symbol regions. The device and method form connected components from an image...
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