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7620214 |
Human eye detection method, apparatus, system and storage medium
The invention relates to a human eye detection method, apparatus, system and storage medium. According to the invention, candidate eye areas are detected from a given image by: reading in the...
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7609856 |
Smoke detection method based on video processing
The static and dynamic characteristics of smoke are developed for extracting smoke pixels of an image and effective smoke detection. In static characteristic, a chromaticity-based analysis is...
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7580547 |
Electronic traffic monitor
A method of calibrating a video image to the scene imaged is provided for which a vehicle image transit can be associated with the transit of the real-world vehicle. A path is determined by a...
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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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7570794 |
System and method for evaluating a machined surface of a cast metal component
A method and system are provided for non-contact evaluation of a machined surface of a cast-metal part, including a vision-based porosity inspection station. A digital image of the machined surface...
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7570260 |
Tiled view-maps for autostereoscopic interdigitation
A method for creating a reduced sized view-map of an autostereoscopic source image is disclosed. The method comprises creating a mathematical model for mapping the autostereoscopic source image...
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7548648 |
Background maintenance of an image sequence
An image background maintenance 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...
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7542585 |
Fire detection and smoke detection method and system based on image processing
Fire detection and smoke detection use an image capturing device to obtain images from a predetermined area and adopts an RGB (red, green, blue) color model based chromatic and disorder measurement...
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7536268 |
Collecting information to identify defective locations of a display monitor
Indications of user inputs with respect to a diagnostic image displayed on a display monitor are received to identify defective locations of the display monitor. Information is collected based on...
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7519222 |
Print defect detection
Systems, methods, and software to automatically detect print defects in printed matter. Some embodiments include receiving a reference image and a scanned image, wherein the reference image and the...
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7518755 |
Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, method for processing image, computer program, and recording medium
An image processing apparatus includes a document type automatic discrimination section that, based upon input image data read from a document, automatically discriminates a document type of the...
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7505841 |
Vision-based occupant classification method and system for controlling airbag deployment in a vehicle restraint system
A vehicle restraint system has a vision-based occupant classification system for control of airbag deployment during a crash scenario. The classification system utilizes two imaging sensors which...
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7440614 |
Method of extracting contour of image, method of extracting object from image, and video transmission system using the same method
An object extraction method comprising the steps of comparing each portion of first image data obtained by capturing an extraction object with another portion of the first image data or second...
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7419230 |
Test chart geometrical characteristic analysis system geometrical characteristic analysis method printer and ink-jet printer
A format storage unit stores a predetermined geometric property format. A chart data creating unit creates chart data based upon the geometric property format, and a printing unit creates a test...
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7403234 |
Method for detecting bisection pattern in deinterlacing
A method for detecting the Bisection pattern for use in conjunction with the deinterlacing is to improve low angle direction detection capability. A method of Bisection pattern detection operates...
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7397951 |
Image processing device and image processing method
SRAMs A, B, C, and D having pixel data of each small block of each large block, for example a small block A ij for the SRAM A, to simultaneously read out a plurality of pixel data in the small...
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7383156 |
Apparatus for inspecting wafer surface, method for inspecting wafer surface, apparatus for judging defective wafer, method for judging defective wafer, and apparatus for processing information on wafer surface
It is possible to inspect scratches and staining on a wafer surface on the basis of an LPD map obtained from a particle counter 11 , by providing a means 21 for detecting aggregation of...
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7346193 |
Method for detecting object traveling direction
An object of the invention is to provide a target travel direction detecting method capable of detecting the travel direction of efficiently detecting the travel direction of a target by using a...
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7336824 |
Image processing apparatus and image processing method
An image processing apparatus and an image processing method are provided. The image processing apparatus can shorten the verification time when using a plurality of verification use image data...
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7298886 |
Counting biological agents on biological growth plates
The invention is directed to counting techniques for counting biological agents on a biological growth plate or similar medium. In order to automate the counting of biological agents, a biological...
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7295344 |
Image processing method and image processing apparatus, program and recording medium, and image forming apparatus
A parameter representing whether an effective density pixel exists in an objective image is calculated. As to each interest pixel in the objective image having one pixel neighboring a downstream...
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7280253 |
System for identifying low-frequency halftone screens in image data
In a system, such as in a digital copier, for classifying image data derived from an original image, the image data is enhanced before submission to a classification analysis. In the enhancement,...
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7277576 |
Active color correction to compensate for near field color cast
A system includes a video display device and an image capture device, such as a miniature camera. The system corrects a real-time video image of an object within a near field region of the video...
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7262789 |
Method of creating a virtual window
The systems and methods described herein include, among other things, a technique for calibrating the outputs of multiple sensors, such as CCD devices, that have overlapping fields of view and...
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7231098 |
Shading noise filter
A shading correction is employed for a scanner to correct shading distortion. However, an image corrected with the shading corrective curve has shading noise lines due to the effects of various...
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7203358 |
Method and device for measuring similarity between images
A method is disclosed for measuring similarity between images, comprising the performance of the following steps for each of the images: segmentation of the image into segments, classification of...
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7180625 |
Printer controller, image forming apparatus and storage medium
A printer controller generates pattern data to be printed by a printer engine for use in carrying out a tone adjusting process. The printer controller includes a memory which stores reference tone...
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7164430 |
Anti-aliasing line pixel coverage calculation using programmable shader
A system and method for rendering a non-zero thickness line on a pixel-limited output device such that aliasing of the line is reduced. The edges defining a line segment are expanded to insure that...
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7136525 |
System and method for background maintenance of an image sequence
The present invention is embodied in 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...
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7119807 |
Image processing apparatus and image processing method
The present invention concerns an image processing apparatus and an image processing method, in which an edge coordinates extraction circuit is used to extract edge coordinates information for an...
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7099045 |
Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image processing method for judging pixels in edge area of character in halftone-dot area
Disclosed are an image processing apparatus and an image processing method that can decrease image quality deterioration caused by unsuitable image correction processing performed on a pixel in a...
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7092124 |
Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image processing method with judging pixels in halftone-dot areas based on isolated pixel counts
Disclosed are an image processing apparatus that can decrease image quality deterioration caused by misjudgment of a halftone-dot area when its resolution is beyond an appropriate range etc., in...
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7085417 |
Method of efficiently converting-to-array and compressing data in a process for converting mask patterns of a LSI
In the method of converting-to-array according to the present invention, array configuration data is created by classifying the patterns congruent with a master pattern, which is a reference...
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7072514 |
Method of distinguishing handwritten and machine-printed images
The present invention is a method of categorizing an image as handwritten, machine-printed, and unknown. First, the image is received. Next, connected components are identified. Next, a bounding...
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7064865 |
Image processing method and apparatus for detecting characteristic points
An image processing method and device includes the steps of detecting a crossing point that has a largest density value among pixels aligned in one direction and a smallest density value among...
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7030885 |
Method and apparatus for measuring color-texture distance, and method and apparatus for sectioning image into plurality of regions using measured color-texture distance
A method and apparatus for measuring a color-texture distance and a method and apparatus for sectioning an image into a plurality of regions using the measured color-texture distance are provided....
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7020334 |
Circuit for extracting connected component features from an image
A circuit for extracting a connected component feature from an input image includes an input stage, a counting stage, a bit-preparing stage, and a bit-output stage. The input stage receives a bit...
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7019773 |
Video mosaic
The present invention is directed to a system and method for building a video mosaic from a sequence of video images. Advantageously, the present invention can quickly and easily align each image...
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7019761 |
Methods for auto-separation of texts and graphics
The present invention is directed to a method of discriminating between textual content and graphical content. The method includes the steps of receiving a plurality of pixel values for a pixel...
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7010174 |
System and process for generating high dynamic range video
A system and process for generating High Dynamic Range (HDR) video is presented which involves first capturing a video image sequence while varying the exposure so as to alternate between frames...
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7003159 |
Document frame recognition system and method
Frames such as boxes or rectangles are recognized in image document data. A first determination process initially screens frames by applying a first set of criteria to select frame candidates. The...
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7002595 |
Processing of color graphics data
A method is provided of processing data representing pixel color having a luminance component and color difference components. The data is divided into first and second data portions, the first...
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6993170 |
Method for quantitative analysis of blood vessel structure
We disclose quantitative geometrical analysis enabling the measurement of several features of images of tissues including perimeter, area, and other metrics. Automation of feature extraction...
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6985627 |
LED bar array high addressable imaging in 2-dimensions
An imaging apparatus includes an input that receives a stream of image pixels such as high addressable bits, multiple bits per pixel or binary image bits representing an input image and a processor...
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6985270 |
Method and photographic element for calibrating digital images
A method of calibrating digital images having pixels with pixel values includes the steps of: exposing a photographic element to form a latent image of a reference calibration target including a...
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6973259 |
Method for extracting feature of binary image
Feature quantities such as an area, a circumferential length, end points, the center of gravity, and a moment are extracted for each image area. When one of the pixel immediately preceding the...
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6963666 |
Matching device
A matching device comprises a monitor screen on which first and second images containing a common object are indicated. First, an arbitrary pixel, contained in the first image, is designated as a...
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6907146 |
Methods, systems and computer software for detecting pixel stutter
Embodiments of the invention provide methods, computer software products and systems for detecting pixel stutter of a scanner. In one embodiment, a numeric count of stuttered pixels in both the x...
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6897968 |
Apparatus and method for counting pixels in print data
An independent hardware pixel counter counts bits of print data in regions of interest. The independent pixel counter can be an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), and is separate from...
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6870958 |
Image processor for detecting specified pattern
An image processor detects a specified pattern defined by arrangement of three or more elements. Positions of a plurality of element candidates are detected based on input image data, and n pairs...
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