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7060436 |
Nucleic acid accessible hybridization sites
The present invention relates to methods and compositions for analyzing nucleic acids, and in particular, methods and compositions for detection and characterization of nucleic acid sequences and...
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7054479 |
Segmenting three-dimensional video images using stereo
The present invention is a method and apparatus to segment a three-dimensional scene having foreground and background regions. Regions in stereo images of the 3-D scene are matched. The stereo...
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7054486 |
Image processing method, system, computer program and data carrier
An image processing system is arranged to process an array of pixels. The array is scanned in a sequential manner, pixel by pixel, each pixel being scanned only once. The resulting scan data is...
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7054036 |
Image processing method and image forming apparatus
A main CPU calculates filter coefficient values corresponding to area discrimination signals on the basis of an input sharpness adjustment value and original mode and a base filter coefficient set...
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7054485 |
Image processing method, apparatus and system
A method for detecting edges in an image is disclosed along with corresponding apparatus and system for accurately extracting edges in the image. The edge detecting apparatus comprises a reading...
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7050644 |
Coding method and apparatus for input image data and a recording medium performing such method
The present invention includes methods and apparatus for attaining high speed coding and decoding. A first method decreases the number of memory access times by performing signal format conversion,...
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7050630 |
System and method of locating a non-textual region of an electronic document or image that matches a user-defined description of the region
A method of locating a non-textual region of an electronic document or image that matches a user-defined description of the region includes comparing non-textual regions of each of a corpus of...
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7050629 |
Methods and systems to index and retrieve pixel data
Methods and systems are provided to index and retrieve pixel data. Pixel data is received, and connected pixel components are identified. The connected pixel components are associated with...
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7046846 |
Document analysis system and method
Disclosed is a document analysis system and method. The document analysis system includes an interim analyzer configured to perform an interim document analysis to identify a number of interim...
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7043290 |
Method and apparatus for segmentation of an object
An object, such as an example blood vessel, in a two or three dimensional image data set is segmented. An adaptable model, such as an example cylinder model, is defined around a starting point in...
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7043077 |
System and method for efficient compression of raster image data
A system and method for compressing raster image data that efficiently processes data that contains the same value for each pixel. Images are compressed according to the Joint Photographic Experts...
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7043084 |
Wheelchair detection using stereo vision
A method classifies an object in a scene as either an ambulatory person or a wheelchair user. Images of the scene are acquired with a set of stereo cameras. Moving objects in the scene are...
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7043063 |
Non-rigid motion image analysis
A method of analysing a sequence of images of a deformable object in non-rigid motion involves modeling the boundary using a non-rigid contour. A representation of movement of the contour through...
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7043058 |
Correcting motion vector maps for image processing
Visibie artifacts in images created using image processing based on motion vector maps may be reduced by providing one or more mechanisms for correcting the vector map. In general, the set of...
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7043080 |
Methods and systems for text detection in mixed-context documents using local geometric signatures
Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and systems for detection and delineation of text characters in images which may contain combinations of text and graphical content....
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7039235 |
Ruled line extracting apparatus for extracting ruled line from normal document image and method thereof
A ruled line extracting apparatus obtains circumscribed rectangles of pixel concatenation regions included in an input pattern, and calculates the most frequent value of their heights....
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7039232 |
Block level analysis of segmentation tags
A method for processing segmentation tags to generate a block level tag representative of a group of segmentation tags includes identifying a block of the segmentation tags; compiling a block...
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7035435 |
Scalable video summarization and navigation system and method
A method and system for automatically summarizing a video document. The video document is decomposed into scenes, shots and frames, and an importance value is assigned to each scene, shot and...
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7031517 |
Method and apparatus for segmenting images
The method discloses a method of segmenting an image. The method firstly ( 304 ) allocates pixels as seeds in areas of an image as a function of the luminance of the pixels and the size of those...
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7031504 |
Image data based retrospective temporal selection of medical images
Systems and methods for deriving a cardiac cycle signal by selecting images of a portion of a cardiovascular system include receiving a plurality of images from a scanner that have been recorded...
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7027647 |
Coder matched layer separation for compression of compound documents
Methods for decomposing compound documents for mixed raster content representation are provided. A method for decomposing an image includes the step of decomposing the image into a plurality of...
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7024027 |
Method and apparatus for three-dimensional filtering of angiographic volume data
A filtering method and apparatus for selectively filtering a gray scale angiographic image volume ( 54 ) that images vascular structures and that also contains extraneous non-vascular contrast is...
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7020330 |
Automatic content-analysis based use of color correction process
The present invention is directed to a method for color correction for images, in particular for digital still camera images, including the following steps: an image is analyzed with respect to...
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7018055 |
Image projecting device and image projecting method
The present invention provides an image projecting device for projecting projecting light corresponding to image information by projecting means. The image projecting device includes at least...
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7016531 |
Process to extract regions of homogeneous color in a digital picture
A method of extracting regions of homogeneous color from a digital picture divides the digital picture into blocks and generates a feature vector for each block as a set of moments of the data for...
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7015907 |
Segmentation of 3D medical structures using robust ray propagation
A method for segmentation of 3D structures in CT and MR images is provided. The method is based on 3D ray propagation by mean-shift analysis with a smoothness constraint. Ray propagation is used to...
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7010164 |
Image segmentation
A method of segmenting a selected region from a multi-dimensional dataset, which method comprises the steps of setting up a shape model representing the general outline of the selected region and...
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7006703 |
Content recognizer via probabilistic mirror distribution
An implementation of a technology, described herein, for facilitating the recognition of content of digital goods. At least one implementation, described herein, derives a probabilistic mirror...
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7003489 |
Methods and apparatus for submitting information to an automated lending system
Methods and apparatus for submitting reports to an automated lending system are described. At a lowest level interface, a user manually submits information via a browser, and at a highest level...
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7001721 |
Nucleic acid sequence identification
Disclosed are methods for determining the presence or absence of a target nucleic acid (e.g. DNA) sequence in a sample nucleic acid, the method comprising: (a) exposing the sample to a detection...
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7002622 |
Area separating apparatus, image processing apparatus employing the same, and area separating method
An area separating apparatus for judging whether or not each object pixel belongs to a photograph image area in an image. The apparatus includes: an average value calculating circuit for...
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7003154 |
Adaptively processing a video based on content characteristics of frames in a video
A system and method for temporally processing an input video including input frames. Each frame has an associated frame play time, and the input video has a total input video play time that is a...
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6998231 |
Typing and diagnosis of spongiform encephalopathy
The present invention relates to a method for typing a sample of a prion or spongiform encephalopathy disease, a kit suitable for use in such a typing method, a method for identifying infection in...
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6999620 |
Segmenting video input using high-level feedback
Systems and methods of segmenting video input are described. These systems and methods use feedback processing that operates on levels of information above the pixel level, such as image regions,...
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6996250 |
Digital watermark embedding processor, digital watermark detecting processor, digital watermark embedding-processing method, digital watermark detecting-processing method, and program storage medium and program used therewith
A digital watermark embedding processor and digital watermark embedding-processing method set the lowest-common-multiple picture size of the sizes of an unconverted picture and a converted picture...
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6996269 |
Image encoding apparatus and image decoding apparatus
In an image encoding apparatus, an image area separating section determines for each pixel whether an input original image is a line image or a plane image and outputs separation information...
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6994960 |
Nucleic acid diagnostics based on mass spectrometry or mass separation and base specific cleavage
A method of detecting a mutation or a difference of one or more nucleotides between a nucleic acid molecule to be tested and a reference nucleic acid molecule, said method comprising subjecting the...
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6996272 |
Apparatus and method for removing background on visual
A background removal apparatus comprises a color normalization module that normalizes an original image, and an image segmentation module that segments the normalized image into several segmented...
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6993174 |
Real time interactive segmentation of pulmonary nodules with control parameters
Segmentation of pulmonary nodules from digital volumetric image includes segmenting, automatically, the pulmonary nodule from attached anatomical structures by analyzing a structure of interest,...
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6993184 |
Object extraction method, and image sensing apparatus using the method
This invention provides an object extraction method for performing processing for extracting and cutting out a specific object from a sensed image at high speed, and an image sensing apparatus...
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6990235 |
Color image processing apparatus and pattern extracting apparatus
A threshold value assigning unit assigns a threshold value corresponding to color information of a considered pixel. A labeling unit compares color information of adjacent pixels and assigns the...
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6987881 |
Automatic visibility improvement method for digital image
An image dividing means 2 analyzes the texture of input image, and on the basis of result of analysis it fully automatically divides the input image into a plurality of division areas. A density...
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6987891 |
Image display device
The image data is divided into groups of a predetermined fixed length, and the divided groups are simultaneously compared to predetermined patters for the entropy encoding to render a display image...
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6987865 |
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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6986985 |
Process for producing multiple nucleic acid copies in vivo using a protein-nucleic acid construct
This invention provides in vitro processes for producing copies of specific nucleic acids using protein-nucleic acid constructs which are part of conjugates which are introduced into cells....
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6987882 |
Separation system for Multiple Raster Content (MRC) representation of documents
A method and a system for separating an image signal into a set of image planes in accordance with a control signal. The system comprises a selector module, an edge processing module and a...
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6987883 |
Video scene background maintenance using statistical pixel modeling
A method for video background scene maintenance uses statistical pixel modeling. A background statistical model is built based on the input video. A background image may be built based on the...
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6987528 |
Image collection apparatus and method
In an image collection apparatus an image acquisition unit acquires an image, an event detection unit detects an event, an event data creation unit creates event data indicative of at least a...
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6985623 |
Scene change detection by segmentation analysis
A process and apparatus for identifying abrupt cuts or scene changes in any ordered sequence of images. In one specific embodiment, two or more consecutive images from a sequence are introduced to...
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6985154 |
Image processing for display of off-screen data
Conventionally, in displaying a document on a display, the document is displayed on the display after an image of the document is drawn off-screen once. Thus, it may take long until the image of...
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