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7542080 |
Measuring device using image and measurement method using image
The present invention is intended to measure a three-dimensional position of a tracking object snapped by a camera. The invention is based upon a measuring device using an image provided with an...
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7542608 |
Method for automatically cropping image objects
A method for automatically cropping image objects, including: an object contour detecting step, an image dividing step, and an image merging step. The object contour detecting step detects object...
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7539333 |
System and method for processing human body image
Provided is a system and method for semi-automatically processing a human body image. A segmentation unit segments portions having correlations with one another in a human body image using at least...
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7538903 |
Method for scanning by using a virtual frame holder
Embodiments of a scanning method utilizing a virtual frame holder are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes using a computer drive scan program to perform a scanning preview, determining...
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7536050 |
Using graph cuts for editing photographs
An image editing system comprises an input device for inputting an image, a graphical user interface for selecting background and object seeds for the image, and an image processor for editing the...
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7535499 |
Panorama image synthesis method, object detection method, panorama image synthesis system, image shooting apparatus, and panorama image synthesis program
An overlap image group each having a first overlap region is selected (S 11 ). The overlap image group is composed of N images including a second overlap region other than the first overlap region...
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7536041 |
3D image segmentation
A delineation of a structure of interest can be performed by fitting 3D deformable models, for example, represented by polygonal measures, to the boundaries of the structure of interest. The...
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7536048 |
Method and apparatus for automatically determining image foreground color
A foreground color for a digital image is automatically determined by dividing the colors of the pixels of at least a part of the digital image into a number of color clusters in a color space, and...
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7536049 |
Image processing apparatus and method, and image pickup apparatus
An object of the present invention is to enable the detection of a mixture ratio indicating the mixture state of a plurality of objects, such as a background image and a moving object image. A...
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7536056 |
Header-based processing of images compressed using multi-scale transforms
A method and apparatus is described for segmenting an image, for adaptively scaling an image, and for automatically scaling and cropping an image based on codestream headers data. In one...
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7532752 |
Non-photorealistic sketching
A non-photorealistic technique is described for transforming an original image into a sketch image. The technique includes: segmenting the original image into plural regions to produce a segmented...
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7528846 |
Systems and methods to adjust a source image aspect ratio to match a different target display aspect ratio
Systems and methods for adjusting a source image aspect ratio to match a different target display aspect ratio are described. In one aspect, the systems and methods determine that a source image...
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7526127 |
Image segmentation apparatus, image segmentation method, and image segmentation integrated circuit with low power consumption for large-scale images
In a boundary active only scheme proposed by the present invention, only a cell in a boundary of region growth is brought into an active mode, and the other cells are brought into a standby mode....
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7526101 |
Tracking objects in videos with adaptive classifiers
A method locates an object in a sequence of frames of a video. A feature vector is constructed for every pixel in each frame. The feature vector is used to training the weak classifiers. The weak...
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7526725 |
Context aware video conversion method and playback system
A computer implemented method converts and displays a video. An input video acquired of a scene is segmented into shots. Similar shots are combined sequentially into corresponding chains. Each...
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7525674 |
Print control data generating apparatus, print system, printer, and print control data generating method
A print control data generating apparatus includes: a print image generator that generates a first print image having a size not larger than that of a print paper as a print image in a marginless...
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7526115 |
System and method for toboggan based object segmentation using divergent gradient field response in images
A method and device for segmenting one or more candidates in an image having image elements is disclosed. The method includes identifying a location for one of the candidates in the image, where...
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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...
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7522749 |
Simultaneous optical flow estimation and image segmentation
A technique for estimating the optical flow between images of a scene and a segmentation of the images is presented. This involves first establishing an initial segmentation of the images and an...
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7519220 |
GPU accelerated isoperimetric algorithm for image segmentation, digital photo and video editing
A system and method for segmenting an object in an image using an isoperimetric ratio in a graphics processing unit is disclosed. The object is identified by one or more selected pixels located...
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7512272 |
Method for optical recognition of a multi-language set of letters with diacritics
A method and system for recognizing alphabetic characters that contain diacritics is described. An image analysis separates the character into its constituent components. The one or more diacritic...
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7512270 |
Method of image segmentation
An image segmentation method including: selecting a region of interest including an object whose image is to be segmented; detecting the edge of the object; repeatedly performing, until a specified...
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7512258 |
System and method for passive wire detection
Method and system for passively detecting wires from a mobile transport system is provided. The method includes, pre-processing a digital image taken from a digital camera of the transport system,...
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7508983 |
Method and device for dividing target image, device for image recognizing process, program and storage media
According to a region dividing device, a region dividing member generates a plurality of primary region groups, each of which includes a plurality of primary regions. Each of the plurality of...
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7502513 |
Commercial detector with a start of active video detector
A method for classifying a first video type and a second video type in a digital video signal having a series of frames is disclosed. The method generally includes a first step of (A) reading a...
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7502502 |
System and method for PDE-based multiphase segmentation
A method for segmenting a digitized medical image including providing a digitized image comprising a plurality of intensities corresponding to a domain of points on a n-dimensional grid, modeling...
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7499588 |
Low resolution OCR for camera acquired documents
A global optimization framework for optical character recognition (OCR) of low-resolution photographed documents that combines a binarization-type process, segmentation, and recognition into a...
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7496229 |
System and method for visual echo cancellation in a projector-camera-whiteboard system
A system and method for transmitting a clear image of a whiteboard work surface for remote collaboration. The image is separated into two portions; the projected image of the work surface, and the...
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7496218 |
System and method for identifying objects of interest in image data
A system and method for identifying objects of interest in image data is provided. The present invention utilizes principles of dynamic discontinuity in which objects in images, when subjected to...
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7496220 |
Spectroscopic microscopy with image-driven analysis
In a spectroscopic microscope, a video image of a specimen is analyzed to identify regions having different appearances, and thus presumptively different properties. The sizes and locations of the...
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7492944 |
Extraction and tracking of image regions arranged in time series
Methods and apparatus for effectively identifying the occlusion of objects, such as persons, having a high degree of freedom. In an example embodiment, after initialization, an image is input, and...
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7493340 |
Image retrieval based on relevance feedback
An improved image retrieval process based on relevance feedback uses a hierarchical (per-feature) approach in comparing images. Multiple query vectors are generated for an initial image by...
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7486820 |
System and method for multilabel random walker segmentation using prior models
A method of segmenting a digitized image includes providing a digitized image comprising a plurality of intensities corresponding to a domain of nodes on an N-dimensional grid, providing prior...
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7486821 |
Method for recognizing characters in a portable terminal having an image input unit
A method of segmenting a digitized image includes providing a digitized image comprising a plurality of intensities corresponding to a domain of nodes on an N-dimensional grid, providing prior...
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7486414 |
Image forming device, pattern formation method and storage medium storing its program
An image forming device for implementing satisfactory color calibration includes a color calibration pattern generating unit that generates a color calibration pattern in a form according to an...
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7483023 |
Model based adaptive multi-elliptical approach: a one click 3D segmentation approach
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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7480407 |
Surface region identification by image area segmentation
The present invention provides a technique to identify layout of surface regions of an object by image area segmentation. A plurality of images is acquired by imaging an object under a plurality of...
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7480413 |
Image processing device
An image processing device is structured such that an appropriate judgement of an image, at which blurring or disappearance or the like will occur, is possible. When pixels, which form a line image...
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7477783 |
Image processing terminal apparatus, system and method
An image processing terminal apparatus includes an image capture device configured to optically scan an intended area on a document by moving the terminal apparatus over the document and to capture...
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7474846 |
Method and apparatus of determining the best focus position of a lens
A method and apparatus for accurately auto focusing a lens of an imaging device. An imaged scene is split into an array of zones. The minimum and maximum sharpness score for each zone is determined...
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7474775 |
Automatic detection of red lesions in digital color fundus photographs
Disclosed is an automated method which can detect images containing red lesions. First, each image is preprocessed; next, candidate objects that may represent red-lesions are extracted; and in the...
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7471829 |
System and method providing subpixel-edge-offset-based determination of opacity
A system is provided for selecting a foreground region of an image, given a set of pixels defining the boundary of the foreground region of the image. The system includes a component to determine a...
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7471828 |
Adaptive digitizer for optical reader
The present invention is an optical reader configured to adaptively digitize a set of image data in a manner that depends of characteristics of the image data. According to the invention, an...
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7471827 |
Automatic browsing path generation to present image areas with high attention value as a function of space and time
Systems and methods for automatic generation of a browsing path across image content to present areas with high attention value are described. In particular, an image is modeled via multiple visual...
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7469060 |
Infrared face detection and recognition system
A face detection and recognition system having several arrays imaging a scene at different bands of the infrared spectrum. The system may use weighted subtracting and thresholding to distinguish...
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7466848 |
Method and apparatus for automatically detecting breast lesions and tumors in images
A method and apparatus for automatically detecting breast tumors and lesions in images, including ultrasound, digital and analog mammograms, and MRI images, is provided. An image of a breast is...
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7463389 |
Image processing method, image processing device and program
A copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image can be enlarged or reduced. More specifically, the shapes of a latent image portion and a background portion are changed according to a certain magnification...
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7460699 |
System and method for a semi-automatic quantification of delayed enchancement images
A method and device for image processing to determine image characteristics includes operations of segmenting of first images to create segmentation contours corresponding to the first images; and...
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7457469 |
Lossless variable-bit signature compression
Apparatus and methods for compressing data points. The invention compresses the representation of a sequence of points in a space by, for example, dividing the sequence of points into segments of...
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7456982 |
Segmentation method and system for multiple raster content (MRC) representation of documents
A method and a system for dynamically thresholding an image signal. The system comprises a computing block. The computing block receives the image signal and a minimum and a maximum within each of...
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