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7590273 |
Estimation of solitary pulmonary nodule diameters with a hybrid segmentation approach
A method for estimating a diameter of an object of interest, includes extracting a sub-volume of voxels around a marker identifying a location of the object of interest, and determining a...
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7590265 |
System and method for extracting reflection and transparency layers from multiple images
The present invention is embodied in a system and method for extracting structure from multiple images of a scene by representing the scene as a group of image layers, including reflection and...
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7586646 |
System for processing and classifying image data using halftone noise energy distribution
A method and system is provided for processing scanned data representative of a document image for classifying portions of the data into contone, low frequency halftone or high frequency halftone...
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7587295 |
Image processing device and method therefor and program codes, storing medium
Firstly, a template image is created (S 501 ). Then, an image I t is photographed (S 502 ). And the sensor output is acquired (S 503 ). A model view matrix M t is calculated on the basis of the...
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7587086 |
Identifying selected pixels in a digital image
The present application provides for accurately identifying a selection of pixels in a digital image. A pixel edgewalk procedure utilizes pixel reference points situated around a pixel, such as at...
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7587088 |
Method and apparatus for image processing
The methods and apparatuses determine contour points from image data and carried out a segmentation process on the basis of the contour points, during which associated contour points are combined...
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7586490 |
Systems and methods for three-dimensional sketching
Systems, methods and computer program code for three-dimensional sketching may comprise, according to some embodiments, receiving input from a computer-augmented surface such as a Liquid Crystal...
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7583831 |
System and method for using learned discriminative models to segment three dimensional colon image data
A system and method for using learned discriminative models to segment a border of an anatomical structure in a three dimensional (3D) image is disclosed. A discriminative probability model is...
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7580556 |
Image region partitioning using pre-labeled regions
A two pass Zone Of Influence (ZOI) creation method creates a Zone Of Influence (ZOI) image. The two pass ZOI creation method performs a first pass scan to create a first pass intermediate distance...
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7580555 |
Using statistical process control (SPC) to demonstrate solution convergence in a technician guided segmentation system
A method and apparatus for generating a computer model from scan data from a patient, comprising:
(1) acquiring the scan data from the patient; (2) selecting a plurality of key frames from...
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7580573 |
Segmentation-based recognition
A method for recognition of a handwritten pattern comprises selecting core points among a sequence of detected points of the handwritten pattern. The core points are selected for use in segmenting...
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7580568 |
Methods and systems for identifying an image as a representative image for an article
Methods and systems that identify a representative image for an article are described. In one aspect of the invention, an article is received, an image data signal is determined for each image...
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7577294 |
Background maintenance of an image sequence
A system and method for maintaining a background model of an image sequence by processing on multiple spatial scales. These multiple spatial scales include a pixel scale, a regional scale and a...
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7574054 |
Using photographer identity to classify images
A method of identifying at least one particular person of interest in a collection of digital images taken over time, includes providing the collection of digital images with each digital image...
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7574029 |
Characteristic path-based colon segmentation
This document discusses, among other things, systems and methods for efficiently calculating a colon segmentation from one or more candidate virtual three-dimensional objects. A sequence of image...
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7574030 |
Automated digitized film slicing and registration tool
Film-based images can be scanned in a conventional manner, then digitally designated and “cut” from the digital file resulting from the scan. These selected images can then be collated and...
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7574485 |
Negotiating an exchange of image processing functionality
Negotiation between first and second devices having a bi-directional communication link, so as to negotiate a low-cost image processing sequence that effects a transfer of image data from a first...
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7574043 |
Method for modeling cast shadows in videos
A method models a scene. A video is acquired of the scene, and for each frame of the video, the method updates a set of background models for each pixel; a set of shadow models for each pixel; a...
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7574069 |
Retargeting images for small displays
A method retargets an image to a different size. An input image is segmented into regions. Selected regions are cut from the input image to construct a background image. The background image is...
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7570403 |
Color image processing apparatus
A color conversion section in an image processing apparatus converts input colors at positions of interest in input color document data to a limited number of colors, on the basis of page layout...
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7570812 |
Super precision for smoothly changing area based on segmentation and low-pass filtering
A super precision image processing system improves the precision of videos and images and eliminates the stage-like artifacts in the smoothly changing areas. In order to obtain higher precision...
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7570811 |
Segmenting an image via a graph
A method is described for segmenting an image of pixels into a number of fields. A graph is constructed for representing the image. First, separating elements are constructed that are oblong areas...
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7567301 |
Flat panel television
According to the invention, performing torn curb correction processing by referring to plural correction tables 113 a to 113 c for plural display areas A, B, C, D, E, and P makes it possible to...
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7565012 |
Method and apparatus for generating electronic document by continuously photographing document in moving picture
A method for generating an electronic document by continuously photographing a document having many pages as a moving picture includes: photographing the document and generating moving picture...
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7565010 |
System and method for image segmentation by a weighted multigrid solver
A method of segmenting a digitized image includes providing a digitized image on a domain of points on an N%N grid, defining a weight between each pair of adjacent points in the image based on the...
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7565000 |
Method and apparatus for semi-automatic segmentation technique for low-contrast tubular shaped objects
A system and method for segmenting and editing anatomical objects from medical images is disclosed. The system may be a medical diagnostic imaging system. A computer unit may execute computer...
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7565011 |
Image processing apparatus including an image processing unit having a plurality of image processing sub-units each adapted to be capable of being changed in circuit configuration and method of controlling the image processing apparatus
An image processing apparatus capable of performing a plurality of types of image processes on image data includes a dividing unit adapted to divide input image data into area images, a data...
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7565019 |
Method of volume-panorama imaging processing
The present invention discloses a method of volume-panorama imaging processing, which generates a volume-panorama image by subsequently splicing respective image frames from an image sequence...
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7565009 |
System and method for dynamic fast tobogganing
A method of identifying an object in a digital image includes finding a point in a digital image that is a concentration location, initializing a cluster with said concentration location, adding...
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7561736 |
Image processing apparatus and method of the same
An image processing apparatus can perform highly efficient coding that generates less visible distortion. The image processing apparatus includes a pre-processing unit configured to reduce the data...
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7559841 |
Pose detection method, video game apparatus, pose detection program, and computer-readable medium containing computer program
A technique is disclosed for detecting a pose of a player in a video game using an input image supplied by a camera. The technique involves calculating a frame difference and/or background...
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7561725 |
Image segmentation in a three-dimensional environment
A method ( 100 ) for image segmentation in a three-dimensional environment includes receiving scan data ( 112 ), selecting a viewing vector relative to the scan data ( 114 ), rendering the scan...
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7561728 |
Detection of intervertebral disk orientation in spine images using curve evolution
A computer-implemented method for vertebrae segmentation includes providing an image of a plurality of vertebrae, and determining a seed in each of at least two adjacent vertebrae in the image. The...
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7562186 |
Efficient data storage using resemblance of data segments
Storage using resemblance of data segments is disclosed. It is determined that a new segment resembles a prior stored segment. The prior stored segment comprises a segment stored previously from...
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7555152 |
System and method for detecting ground glass nodules in medical images
Detecting ground glass nodules in medical images includes calculating a probability distribution function of background lung tissue in a chest image, estimating a variation range of the background...
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7555158 |
Apparatus for recovering background in image sequence and method thereof
Provided is a background recovering apparatus for deleting an object of an arbitrary region and recovering a background covered with the object. The apparatus includes a storing block for storing...
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7555161 |
Image analysis
A method for the automated analysis of digital images, particularly for the purpose of assessing the presence and severity of cancer in breast tissue based on the relative proportions of tubule...
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7555766 |
Audience response determination
An audience response determination apparatus detects the state of an audience and the individual states of the members of the audience to determine the response of the audience to the content of...
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7552037 |
Simulating a sensing system
A simulator for simulating a sensing system includes modules operable to simulate sensors sensing a scene. The modules include: a path modeling module operable to model a path for each sensor; a...
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7551182 |
System and method for processing map data
A system and method is provided for assembling graphics information as a graphics display for presentation on a visual interface, the graphics information including a plurality of image tiles...
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7548648 |
Background maintenance of an image sequence
An image background maintenance system and method for maintaining a background model of an image sequence by processing on multiple spatial scales. These multiple spatial scales include a pixel...
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7548649 |
Multidimensional segmentation based on adaptive bounding box and ellipsoid models
A seed point is selected inside a structure that is to be segmented in image data. An adaptive model is defined around the seed point, and a preprocessing filter is applied only within the bounding...
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7548936 |
Systems and methods to present web image search results for effective image browsing
Systems and methods to present web image search results for effective image browsing are described. In one aspect, task-based attention objects for each of multiple images associated with image...
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7545980 |
Method of and apparatus for classifying an image
A technique is provided for classifying images in a library ( 1 ) for subsequent selective retrieval. Each library image is segmented ( 2 ) into a plurality of coherent regions. Each of the regions...
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7545981 |
Document image re-ordering systems and methods
Embodiments herein acquire an image containing text, identify distinct regions of text within the image (using, for example, a document model), and separate sub-images of the image according to the...
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7545979 |
Method and system for automatically segmenting organs from three dimensional computed tomography images
A method for automatically segmenting image data of an object includes selecting a seed, creating an initial surface around the seed, preprocessing the image data, running a deformable surface...
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7545534 |
Image processing apparatus, method and program binarizing received image data
An image processing apparatus receives and binarizes image data in accordance with first and second algorithms to output first and second binarized data which are in turn compared and in accordance...
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7542604 |
System and method for image segmentation by solving an inhomogenous dirichlet problem
A method of segmenting a digitized image includes marking a subset of pixels in an image, defining edge conductances between each pair of adjacent pixels in the image based on the intensity...
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7542602 |
Digital image processing of medical images
A method is disclosed for processing a digital medical image using a computer with a display for viewing an input digital medical image The method includes steps of: accessing the input digital...
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7542603 |
Process for drafting a curve in a computer-aided design system
A curve is created in a computer-aided design system, based on a set of points inputted by the user. A polyline is computed and the curvature envelope along said polyline is computed to determine...
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