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7620268 Method and apparatus for recognizing text in an image sequence of scene imagery  
An apparatus and a concomitant method for detecting and recognizing text information in a captured imagery. The present method transforms the image of the text to a normalized coordinate system...
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...
7612910 Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information output control method, storage medium and program  
An information processing apparatus accurately and automatically determines whether a page to be printed out or rendered is a color page or a monochrome page. In order to efficiently output the...
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...
7599090 Method and apparatus for automatically segmenting a microarray image  
A microarray image is segmented into discreet segments for respective spots in the microarray image based on locating microarray image rows and columns by maximizing scores associated with vertical...
7596268 Image processing device, method, and program  
An image processing device, method, and a program capable of obtaining processing results which are even more accurate and even more precise as to events in the real world, taking into...
7593856 Brand recognition system  
Computer software for and method of determining livestock ownership comprising inputting an image of a livestock brand whose ownership is to be determined, automatically determining one or more...
7577298 Method and system for response image feature collection and candidate summit, surface, and core estimation  
A method for estimating regions of detected candidates identified in a response image of an object created from a scanned Computerized Tomography image is disclosed. The regions are used to...
7562056 Method and system for learning an attention model for an image  
A system for learning an attention model for an image based on user navigation actions while viewing the image is provided. An attention model learning system generates an initial attention model...
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...
7539326 Method for verifying an intended address by OCR percentage address matching  
An OCR percentage matching algorithm achieves a significant reduction in false mismatches accounting for combinations of unprocessed spaces, missing characters, extra characters and character...
7522779 Image enhancement method and system for fiducial-less tracking of treatment targets  
A method and system are presented for enhancing one or more images of an object, so as to increase the visibility within the images of one or more structures within the object. The object may be an...
7515367 Method of controlling a lighting device  
A digital micromirror device (“DMD”) is used to alter the shape of light that is projected onto a stage. The DMD selectively reflects some light, thereby shaping the light that is projected...
7502685 Vehicle navigation apparatus and method with traveling direction indication at guidance intersection  
A vehicle navigation apparatus is provided which can reliably guide a vehicle along a guidance route when the vehicle approaches an intersection of interest at which it is to make a turn even if...
7485041 Program for projecting an image onto a character in a game, game machine incorporating the program, and storage medium having the program stored thereon  
A program for pasting a predetermined image onto a character of a game in a game machine. The program enables a user to create an image consisting of two-dimensional coordinates and to arrange the...
7483900 Information sharing system and information sharing method  
An information sharing apparatus comprises extracting unit extracting personal information item from acquired information item which includes personal information item, generating unit generating...
7471423 Image processing system and image processing method  
An image processing system comprising: an image acquisition unit for acquiring a scanned image; a non-voltage storage medium that stores correction information corresponding to a known object...
7365862 Methods and apparatus for inspecting an object  
A method for generating a mask for use with a light measurement system that includes a light source for projecting light onto an object, and an imaging sensor for receiving light reflected from the...
7333676 Method and apparatus for recognizing text in an image sequence of scene imagery  
An apparatus and a concomitant method for detecting and recognizing text information in a captured imagery. The present method transforms the image of the text to a normalized coordinate system...
7321687 Apparatus and method for image processing to label an object in a binary image  
This disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus or an image processing method, and takes as its technical problem the fact that conventionally it is difficult to perform a process of...
7317829 Background color estimation for scanned images  
A background color estimation system and method for estimating a background color of a scanned image. The background color estimation method includes generating a list of candidate background...
7305129 Methods and apparatus for populating electronic forms from scanned documents  
A computer-implemented method and apparatus are provided for populating an electronic form from an electronic image. The method and apparatus identify a size, orientation and position of an object...
7302098 Character segmentation method and apparatus  
An electronic device ( 1100 ) and a method for character segmentation ( 100 ) includes an image analyzer ( 1110 ) that generates individual character images. The image analyzer binarizes ( 115 ) a...
7262884 Image processing apparatus and image processing method  
A white background determination section performs a white background determination on the basis of a white threshold calculated by a white threshold calculation section and an area size selected by...
7203363 String extraction method for image based on multiple stroke width patterns matching  
A string extraction method for an image based on multiple stroke width patterns matching is provided. The string extraction method includes matching each possible stroke width pattern with an input...
7187343 Image projection with display-condition compensation  
A method of projecting a compensated principal image may include projecting a principal image onto a surface and projecting an intended calibration image onto a calibration area of the surface. The...
7167738 Method for navigating in the interior of the body using three-dimensionally visualized structures  
A method is described for navigating in the interior of the body using three-dimensionally visualized structures. In a first step of the method, at least two two-dimensional images of the same...
7106898 3D scanning using shadows  
A system and method of determining 3D information about a 3D scene using shadows that are cast on the 3D object.
7013040 3D image acquisition apparatus and 3D image acquisition method  
A 3D image acquisition apparatus comprises a pattern projection section which projects a pattern on an object to be measured, an imaging section which is disposed at a distance from the pattern...
7013035 Image processing method for setting an extraction area, and apparatus and recording medium  
An image processing method for extracting a characteristic amount of a photographed image from the photographed image obtained by photographing an object, comprises a passing through deleting step...
6911995 Computer vision depth segmentation using virtual surface  
The location of an object in a physical scene is identified with a stereo camera. A virtual surface is identified in the physical scene, and an approximate disparity set is constructed for the...
6909805 Detecting and utilizing add-on information from a scanned document image  
A scanned document image, including add-on information such as handwritten annotations in addition to printed text lines, is processed by a handwriting detection method. First, at least one...
6904170 Method and system for document segmentation  
A method of document segmentation. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention discloses a method of document segmentation that performs a plurality of projection profiles of pixel...
6816613 Color image processing apparatus capable of reproducing colors with high-fidelity visually  
A color image processing apparatus extracts foreground image data and background image data from whole image data, and corrects one or more among hue, value and chroma of the foreground image data...
6816603 Method and apparatus for remote medical monitoring incorporating video processing and system of motor tasks  
Video image data is received in the form of a sequence of images representative of a subject performing one or more predetermined tasks within a new environment (FIG. 3 element 31 ). A plurality...
6743645 Method of inspecting process for manufacturing semiconductor device and method of manufacturing semiconductor device  
A method of inspecting a process for manufacturing a semiconductor device, used to determine the status of a processing operation during the manufacturing process, according to the embodiment of...
6714675 Autogrid analysis  
A method and apparatus for identifying the orientation and positions of the elements of a grid in an image. The elements of the grid need not be parallel to the sides of the image, and the image...
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...
6694311 Method and apparatus for fast query approximation using adaptive query vector projection  
Methods and apparatus are provided for querying by similarity in large collections of high-dimensional vectors by adaptively projecting each query vector into a library of projection elements; by...
6671419 Method for reducing shadows and/or noise in a digital image  
Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a method of reducing shadows and/or noise in a digital image includes the following. A noise floor for the digital image is estimated. A...
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...
6633655 Method of and apparatus for detecting a human face and observer tracking display  
A method is provided for detecting a human face in an image, such as a sequence of images supplied by a video camera. The method comprises locating in each image a candidate face region and...
6587115 Method of an apparatus for distinguishing type of pixel  
The types of pixels of an image made up of a plurality of pixels arranged in a main scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction are distinguished. The image is divided into a plurality of...
6556701 Method of and apparatus for extracting dotted line, and storage medium thereof  
Disclosed are a method of and an apparatus for extracting a dotted line from an binary image of a document, and a storage medium thereof. The isolated points are extracted from the binary image....
6542619 Method for analyzing video  
A method and system for recognizing scene changes in digitized video is based on using one-dimensional projections from the recorded video. Wavelet transformation is applied on each projection to...
6532303 Line direction deciding device, image inclination detecting device and image inclination correcting device  
A line-direction deciding device that can decide the direction of lines in an image having a complicated layout of characters as well as line directions other than vertical and horizontal line...
6529645 Recording method and apparatus  
In a method for recording a selected sequence of characters with the aid of a pen, the latter is passed over the sequence of characters and a plurality of images, whose contents partially overlap,...
6512844 3D rendering  
A technique for capturing the surface of three-dimensional (“3D”) objects using structured lighting. The movement of shadow across the 3D objects is optically recorded. Variation in brightness...
6496597 Generating image data  
Image data is generated by a process of radiosity, wherein a plurality of elements are defined in three dimensional space. Selected elements are set as being non-occluding and light emission values...
6477273 Centroid integration  
Patterns in an image or graphical representation of a dataset are identified through centroid integration. The image or graphical representation is digitized. A collapsed image is created by...
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