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7620234 |
Image processing apparatus and method for generating a three-dimensional model of an object from a collection of images of the object recorded at different viewpoints and segmented using semi-automatic segmentation techniques
In an image processing apparatus 2 , images of a subject object 210 and data defining the positions and orientations at which the images were recorded are processed to generate a...
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7620225 |
Method for simple geometric visualization of tubular anatomical structures
A method is disclosed for visualizing tubular anatomical structures from 3D recorded medical images, in particular coronary vessel structures, in the case of which segmented 3D image data of the...
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7620219 |
Pattern-based interchange format
An approach for the compression of images such as fingerprints may involve a resolution reduction of an image before forming a cellular representation of the resulting resolution-reduced image. A...
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7616813 |
Background area extraction in document layout analysis
An apparatus, method, system, computer program and product, each capable of extracting a background area of a document image. The background area of the document image may be extracted by repeating...
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7616794 |
System and method for automatic bone extraction from a medical image
A system and method for automatic bone extraction from a medical image is provided. A method for automatically extracting a bone from a medical image, comprises: performing a thresholding on the...
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7616348 |
Method and apparatus for enhancing scanned documents
A method, and a system employing the method, of enhancing an intensity of an image of a multi-page or multi-portion document is disclosed. The method includes determining a first background...
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7616216 |
Digital content creation system, program product, and storage medium
There is disclosed a digital content creation system including: a representative color obtaining section that obtains, from a digital content input, a characteristic amount of at least one...
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7613363 |
Image superresolution through edge extraction and contrast enhancement
A technique for generating high-resolution bitmaps from low-resolution bitmaps. A low-resolution bitmap is magnified to form a magnified image. Edge detection is performed on the magnified image to...
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7612909 |
Image processing apparatus and method, and image-capturing apparatus based on the difference between a signal detected by a sensor and the real world
An apparatus for detecting a mixed area in frames. An object extracting unit extracts a foreground object from an input image and generates an area-specified object formed of the foreground object...
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7609888 |
Separating a video object from a background of a video sequence
Video object cutting and pasting is described. In one implementation, pre-segmentation of video frames into regions is performed prior to a 3-D graph cut segmentation. The 3-D graph cut...
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7609887 |
System and method for toboggan-based object segmentation using distance transform
A method of segmenting an object in a digital image comprising providing a digital image comprising a plurality of intensities corresponding to a domain of points in a N-dimensional space,...
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7609881 |
Device and method for image processing as well as image processing computer program
The image processing device is equipped with an image area extracting part for extracting a plurality of image areas from image data, an image positional information recognizing part for...
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7609275 |
System and method for mosaic rendering of three dimensional image
A system and method for a mosaic rendering of a 3D model is provided. Textures are created using polygon information related to a vertex of each face of an inputted 3D model, a normal, and a face...
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7606417 |
Foreground/background segmentation in digital images with differential exposure calculations
A digital segmentation method and apparatus determines foreground and/or background within at least one portion of a captured image. The determining includes comparing a captured image to a...
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7605944 |
Method of creating a plurality of images by single scanning and apparatus using the same
A method and apparatus for creating a plurality of images by a single scanning, the method comprising steps for detecting edge information of at least one image scanned by a scanning process,...
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7604594 |
Method and system of controlling ultrasound systems
A method and system for controlling an ultrasound system are provided. The method includes processing image data received from an ultrasound system to obtain a time gain compensation correction...
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7602970 |
System and method for Kalman filtering in vascular segmentation
A method of segmenting tubular structures in digital images comprises providing a digitized image, selecting a point within an object for segmenting in the image, defining an initial state of the...
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7599557 |
Image segmentation apparatus, image segmentation method, and image segmentation integrated circuit for processing an image
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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7599556 |
Apparatus, system, and method for scanning segmentation
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for identifying content within a scanned document. The apparatus includes a modification module, an identification module, and a segmentation module....
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7599555 |
System and method for image matting
A method compresses a set of correlated signals by first converting each signal to a sequence of integers, which are further organized as a set of bit-planes. An inverse accumulator is applied to...
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7599554 |
Method and apparatus for summarizing a music video using content analysis
A method and apparatus are provided for segmenting and summarizing a music video ( 507 ) in a multimedia stream ( 505 ) using content analysis. A music video ( 507 ) is segmented in a multimedia...
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7598977 |
Spatio-temporal graphical user interface for querying videos
A method summarizes a video acquired of a scene spatially and temporally by specifying a spatial query and a temporal query. Frames of the video are selected according to the spatial query and the...
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7596267 |
Image region segmentation system and method
The invention relates to a method of segmenting an image of a structure stored as a set of spatially related data points representing variations in a predetermined parameter, said method comprising...
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7596265 |
Segmenting pixels in an image based on orientation-dependent adaptive thresholds
Methods, machines, and computer-readable media storing machine-readable instructions for segmenting pixels in an image are described. In one aspect, a region of background pixels is identified in...
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7596245 |
Process of storage of biometric features
The invention discloses a process of recoding biometric features in recordable medium comprising several steps. Raw biometrics feature such as finger prints, palm prints, iris image, retina image...
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7596241 |
System and method for automatic person counting and detection of specific events
A system for detecting and counting individuals in a stationary or moving crowd based on a digital or digitized image captured from a single camera. Initial information is assumed based on a...
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7593961 |
Information processing apparatus for retrieving image data similar to an entered image
More accurate retrieval of original documents is conducted by adaptively evaluating retrieval results, which are obtained by retrieving attributes, in accordance with layout information. To achieve...
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7593602 |
Searching images
A database of visual images includes metadata having, for a particular image, at least one entry specifying: a part of that image, another stored image, and a measure S abi of the degree of...
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7593571 |
Component edge detecting method, computer-readable recording medium and component inspection apparatus
A method for detecting an edge of a component mounted on a substrate, comprising: a first edge detecting step detecting an edge of the component from image data of the component based on a...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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