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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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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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