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6222938 Compensating pixel records of related images for detecting images disparity, apparatus and method  
Compensation data 10 distilled from image sample population volume 12 compensates pixel records 25R and 25L of related images 26R and 26L. Each pixel address stores a parameter code defining a...
6219382 Method and apparatus for locating a caption-added frame in a moving picture signal  
Every frame represented by a moving picture signal is divided into blocks. Calculation is made as to a number of pixels forming portions of a caption in each of the blocks. The calculated number of...
6188790 Method and apparatus for pre-recognition character processing  
An apparatus for recognizing characters read by a reading unit. A circumscribing rectangle of a read character is formed, and the degree of narrowness of that circumscribing rectangle is acquired....
6181437 Image processing apparatus capable of producing images without jaggies at edges  
Image data for continuous three pixels delayed by one pixel from each other is input in row and column directions from an image input portion into a scanning window. A predetermined image pattern...
6175664 Optical character reader with tangent detection for detecting tilt of image data  
A character reader for optically reading and entering characters. The character reader including: an input apparatus for photoelectrically reading characters as an image, creating image data formed...
6173083 Method and apparatus for analyzing image structures  
Structures are identified in pixel data representative of a discrete pixel image and are differentiated from non-structures. The structures are identified by comparing gradient magnitudes with a...
6163624 Image processing circuit  
An image processing circuit of the present invention includes a succession calculating circuit. In the succession calculating circuit, an average value calculating circuit determines an average...
6154565 Automatic retrieval process for machine-printed or handwritten text on a background, in a multilevel digital image  
Systems and methods for frequency acquisition and channel tracking in a direct sequence code division multiple access system are described. Frequency estimates are prepared and refined, which...
6111984 Method for matching input image with reference image, apparatus for the same, and storage medium storing program for implementing the method  
Matching between a reference image and an input image is performed without relying on specific elements such as line segments or tables. An edge image is generated from the reference image and...
6088039 Compression of grey scale images of text  
An image stored in a memory of a computer as pixels, each pixel including a bit pattern to indicate a grey-scale level. The image is compressed by grouping the pixels of the image into a plurality...
6081620 System and method for pattern recognition  
A method for recognizing patterns comprising extracting features from a digital image, generating a numerical representation of each feature, indexing into a look-up table using the numerical...
6061475 Video compression apparatus and method  
The invention provides a method, and related apparatus, for improved compression of video images by determining optimum compression points using pixel-to-pixel slope comparison techniques and...
6055334 Image processing device and method for detecting the location of the feature of interest in an object image  
An image and method for determining the location of known pattern of data in a captured object image wherein a feature analysis is performed upon a representative plurality of pixel locations to...
6026183 Content-based video compression  
A video compression method and system including object-oriented compression with object boundaries described by maps of 2×2 (or larger) blocks of pixels in which at least a fraction of the pixels...
5999647 Character extraction apparatus for extracting character data from a text image  
A character extraction apparatus is provided for extracting character data for each character from a text image which is represented by first pixels corresponding to character images and second...
5987136 Image authentication patterning  
Apparatus for producing a self-authenticating visual image of a selected view, using a digital image forming means, such as a digital camera, together with a position determining system that...
5963655 System for storing and outputting figure data  
A figure, including characters, is developed into a plurality of figure patterns of figure shapes, and the plurality of developed figure patterns are registered, and a figure is drawn based on the...
5956422 Processor based method for extracting tablets from printed documents  
A processor based method for recognizing, capturing and storing tabular data receives digital-computer data representing a document either as a pixel-format document-image, or as formatted text....
5946416 Image processing device and method for detecting and removing fine lines in an image pattern  
It is an object of this invention to provide an image processing device which would be able to extract a specified pattern accurately even if there are fine lines in its periphery. The invention is...
5933529 Method of tracing a contour of an object based on background information of the object  
A method for tracing a contour of an object in an image of a video signal, the image including object pixels and background pixels, indexes each of the background pixels; detects contour pixels;...
5915037 Method and device for the binarization of pixel data  
The invention concerns a method and device for binarization of pixel data in which a number of black-and-white binary images each having binarization characteristics of different degrees of...
5905579 Image processing method and apparatus which separates an input image into character and non-character areas  
An image processor accurately executes area separation using small block size image data. The image processor includes a wavelet transforming circuit which converts input image data into a...
5891619 System and method for mapping the distribution of normal and abnormal cells in sections of tissue  
A system and method is described for permitting the simultaneous automated collection of data with regard to the presence of diseased cells, in particular neo-plastic, dysplastic or cancerous...
5862218 Method and apparatus for in-camera image marking and authentication  
A camera with a built in microprocessor system programmed to receive an input password and indicium from a host computer. The camera is configured to use the indicium in combination with a...
5832118 Texture classification apparatus employing coarsensess and directivity of patterns  
An apparatus for classifying a textured image based on pattern coarseness and directivity comprises: a quantizer for obtaining a quantized image from the textured image, the quantized image...
5812695 Automatic typing of raster images using density slicing  
A system for determining the type of graphical data within a scanned image. The system scans an image to obtain grayscale image data, and then performs a density slice operation on the grayscale...
5799115 Image filing apparatus and method  
In an image filing apparatus, the registered format similar to an input format is correctly retrieved from a plurality of the registered formats in a format registration section. The image data of...
5789242 Method and device for determining toxicity as well as the use thereof  
The invention concerns a method for determining the toxicity of water-soluble substances or of substances which can be mixed with water and thus obtaining quantitative information concerning the...
5787196 Method and apparatus for splitting connected characters into component characters  
Image processing apparatus is disclosed for splitting, for subsequent storage or processing by OCR apparatus, character images in digital form comprising connected characters, the image processing...
5787200 Character recognition coprocessor  
A SLAVE coprocessor connectable to a MASTER processor and cooperating with at least one external memory. The coprocessor presents an internal memory communicating with an internal data line...
5787199 Apparatus for detecting a foreground region for use in a low bit-rate image signal encoder  
An apparatus, for use in a low bit-rate image signal encoder, for detecting a foreground region in an image signal, wherein the image signal has a number of objects therein and the foreground...
5781659 OCR classification based on transition ground data  
An OCR system 10 classifies an input image vector of an unclassified symbol with respect to a library 14T of template image vectors of pre-classified characters. Each template vector is in the form...
5774596 Adaptive contour coding method for encoding a contour image in a video signal  
A contour coding method adaptively encodes a contour image in a video frame based on the size and complexity of the contour image in order to improve the quality of a reconstructed contour image....
5774584 Method and apparatus for identifying table areas in documents  
Image processing method and apparatus are provided. A histogram of image information is obtained. A peak position is detected from the histogram obtained. A small area is decided by using the...
5771176 Process and apparatus for enhancement for security in a mechanical lock environment (DPN-1)  
This invention in its preferred embodiment comprises an apparatus and process (including a computer program) for controlling unmarked lock-opening keys in a security systems, whereby the...
5754688 Method and apparatus for stereologic analysis of two-dimensional images  
A method and apparatus for analyzing two-dimensional structures to obtain three-dimensional quantitative information therefrom includes a video camera, a digitizing board for transforming video...
5751855 Method and apparatus for detecting whether an electronic image has been faxed  
A method of recognizing the effects of coarse pixel quantization on text represented via raster signals to enable automatic selection between fax and normal modes of optical character recognition....
5751850 Method for image segmentation and classification of image elements for documents processing  
A method to segment, classify and clean an image is presented. It may be used in applications which have image data as their input that contains different classes of elements. The method will find,...
5745260 Coarse/fine fonts  
A method and apparatus for generating fonts that can be used for digital halftoning comprising: providing a computational element capable of performing digital halftoning algorithms; inputting a...
5737442 Processor based method for extracting tables from printed documents  
A processor based method for recognizing, capturing and storing tabular data receives digital-computer data representing a document either as a pixel-format document-image, or as formatted text....
5729621 Method and apparatus for magnetic ink character recognition using a magneto-resistive read head  
A signal extraction and character recognition system is provided for an MICR system using E13B font characters and a magneto-resistive read head. Each character is treated as defining a block...
5708731 Pattern matching method with pixel vectors  
Each of a certain number of sequences of binary pixels chosen according to some prescribed rules from m×n matrix of pixcels is referred to vector v i . A standard character k is represented with...
5694478 Method and apparatus for detecting and identifying microbial colonies  
A method and system for detecting and identifying microbial colonies in an inoculated growth medium first acquires a first image of the inoculated growth medium. After a selected incubation time...
5655031 Method for determining attributes using neural network and fuzzy logic  
An attribute decision method includes steps of making a comparison between one feature value, selected from seven feature values, of an input pattern contained in an input image and membership...
5617485 Image region segmentation system  
An image region segmentation system includes a first detection part for detecting a candidate region for a text region within an image, a second detection part for detecting a white region within...
5483604 Monitoring changes in image characteristics  
Changes in characteristics of an image are monitored at a predetermined position or zone (12, 13) of the image. The image is corrected to allow for changes in the monitored position or zone (12,...
5450503 Image recognition method  
An image recognition method is conducted by extracting characteristic points of the pattern of an image formed by video signals from an image pickup device, within the whole or a limited area of a...
5331442 Identification of graphic and character areas in color image processor  
A block judgment section judges whether a subject block including a plurality of subject pixels is a white block, a black character block or a graphic/color block, on the basis of the frequency of...
5317417 Image processing apparatus with improved image reduction  
An image reducing apparatus includes a black-pixel counting section for counting a number of black pixels in an N×M-pixel area in an original image represented by white and black levels, where N...
5111411 Object sorting system  
Object sorting systems are known which use a vision based system programmed by an operator who selects those features of the object which will be used in the sorting test. In the invention,...
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