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7613365 |
Video summarization system and the method thereof
The present invention discloses a video summarization system and the method thereof. A similarity computing apparatus computes the similarity between each frame to obtain multiple similarity...
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7573616 |
Enhanced data capture from imaged documents
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for locating an area of interest within a digital image of a form captured by an imaging scanner. Specific examples include methods and apparatus for optical...
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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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7454063 |
Method of optical character recognition using feature recognition and baseline estimation
The present invention is a method of optical character recognition. First, text is received. Next all words in the text are identified and associated with the appropriate line in the document. The...
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7406653 |
Anomaly detection based on directional data
Properly detects an anomaly on the basis of directional data that are obtained in sequence from a monitored object. An anomaly detecting method includes: sequentially generating directional data...
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7400758 |
Abnormal pattern detecting apparatus
Diagnostic assistance to physicians is improved, by increasing detection rates of abnormal pattern candidates having radially extending linear structures, and decreasing false positive detection...
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7388990 |
Local mass distribution partitioning for object recognition
A method for determining a similarity score of a target object with respect to a model object. The target object is in a plane and the model object is represented by a model feature vector. The...
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7346213 |
Method for optically recognizing alpha-numerical characters
A method for optically recognizing alphanumeric characters which involves storing polygonal outer contours and inner contours of reference characters and their relative geometrical positions as...
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7283645 |
Object recognition using binary image quantization and Hough kernels
A system and process for recognizing an object in an input image involving first generating training images depicting the object. A set of prototype edge features is created that collectively...
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7254269 |
Character recognition system
In the prior art, in character recognition of a language having many characters, such as Japanese, a feature vector is extracted from an input pattern, distances between the feature vector and...
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7239751 |
Hypothesis support mechanism for mid-level visual pattern recognition
A method of mid-level pattern recognition provides for a pose invariant Hough Transform by parametrizing pairs of points in a pattern with respect to at least two reference points, thereby...
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7162062 |
Method of processing images
A method of processing images in images comprising curvilinear structures comprises, in parallel, a step of filtering said images and a decision step intended to select the pixels of the images...
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7146057 |
System and method for image analysis using a chaincode
The present invention includes a method for analyzing an image to screen for target candidates wherein an edge-follower detects straight segments within a plurality of longer edges and detects also...
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7127104 |
Vectorized image segmentation via trixel agglomeration
A computer implemented method transforms an image comprised of pixels into a vectorized image specified by a plurality of polygons that can be subsequently used to aid in image processing and...
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7068821 |
Information processing method and apparatus
An input coordinate sequence is acquired by sampling a handwritten input pattern at predetermined intervals, and a pattern expressed by this input coordinate sequence is approximated by coupling a...
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7050653 |
Identification of virtual raster pattern
A method aims to identify a virtual raster pattern in an image of a surface that is provided with a plurality of position-coding marks. Each mark is associated with a respective intersection of...
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7035466 |
Process and device for detection of straight-line segments in a stream of digital data that are representative of an image in which the contour points of said image are identified
A process for detection of straight-line segments in a stream of digital data that are representative of an image (m, n) in which the contour points of said image each defined by the modulus and...
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7016521 |
Image processing method and system, and medical examination apparatus, for extracting a path following a threadlike structure in an image
An image processing method of extracting the points of a path following a threadlike structure in an image (IP) formed by a grid of Potential points. A first processing step ( 4 ) implements a...
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7006694 |
System and method for pattern identification
A system and method for pattern identification are disclosed. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the method for locating a pattern includes the steps of (1) providing a pattern...
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6965694 |
Motion information recognition system
A motion information recognition system takes time-series images of an object in motion and generates image vectors that are analyzed to produce a plurality of eigenvectors that are then stored....
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6958714 |
Encoding method and encoding apparatus, and computer program and computer readable storage medium
This invention re-encodes encoded data (e.g., PackBits encoded data), which is expressed by a data format of a runlength code part indicating the runlength of the same data and a data part...
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6912316 |
Data compression and reconstruction methods and apparatuses for hard copy device
Data compression and reconstruction methods and apparatuses for a hard copy device are provided. The data compression method of compressing source image data, which is used for hard copying a...
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6912309 |
Method and system for identifying objects in an image
Methods and apparatus for identifying objects in an image include processing the image with a gradient operator to produce a gradient magnitude and direction for each pixel. A number of different...
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6792146 |
Method and apparatus for entry of multi-stroke characters
A method or apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention allows for entry of multi-stroke characters via a natural drawing interface and without requiring an expensive stylus-drawing...
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6778704 |
Method and apparatus for pattern recognition using a recognition dictionary partitioned into subcategories
A pattern recognition method that determines the category of an unknown pattern. The category is one of a set of categories corresponding to a set of known patterns. A subcategory-level recognition...
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6778702 |
Method and apparatus for assessing the quality of spectral images
A method is disclosed herein for evaluating quality of an image. The disclosed method contemplates receiving a spectral image and extracting a plurality of pixels therefrom. The plurality of pixels...
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6763136 |
Method and apparatus for determining spectral similarity
A method is disclosed herein for measuring similarity between a first vector and a second vector wherein (i) each element of the first vector represents a first reflectance associated with a...
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6757421 |
Method and apparatus for detecting defects
A method and apparatus for determining defects in a circuit pattern. An image including a circuit pattern is acquired. An outline of the circuit pattern is extracted and a contour image is...
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6741752 |
Method of removing block boundary noise components in block-coded images
An improved block noise elimination method is provided, which uses one-dimensional pixel vectors made of pixel rows or columns across two neighboring blocks to analyze blocky noise residing across...
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6721452 |
System and method of handwritten character recognition
An “activity”-based system and method for on-line character recognition that requires reduced amounts of memory for code or data, is alphabet-independent, and can be trained by entering the...
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6694049 |
Multimode invariant processor
A multimode invariant processor is provided to simultaneously classify one or more patterns in multidimensional or in two dimensional “real world” images. The classification is invariant to a...
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6643401 |
Apparatus and method for recognizing character
A character pattern is extracted from image data read from a document, listing, etc., and discriminated between a hand-written character and a typed character by a hand-written/typed character...
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6636618 |
Method for detecting geological discontinuity in an environment using an optical flow
The invention concerns a method for detecting geological discontinuity in an environment using an optical flow. The method includes the steps of selecting in the seismic block a section containing...
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6628834 |
Template matching system for images
This disclosure provides a system for classifying images, used in image detection, image recognition, or other computer vision. The system processes directory images to obtain eigenvectors and...
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6574367 |
Method and apparatus for pattern matching encoding
An apparatus for pattern matching encoding includes a pattern extracting unit for extracting patterns in input binary or multi-level image data, an accumulating/match-checking unit for accumulating...
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6529202 |
Color adviser
A method of determining image representative colors for an image comprising a plurality of image elements having color information associated therewith. Initially, the image elements are grouped...
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6501857 |
Method and system for detecting and classifying objects in an image
This disclosure provides a system for classifying images, used in image detection, image recognition, or other computer vision. The system processes directory images to obtain eigenvectors and...
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6501856 |
Scheme for extraction and recognition of telop characters from video data
A scheme for detecting telop character displaying frames in video image which is capable of suppressing erroneous detection of frames without telop characters due to instability of image features...
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6430315 |
Image processing method including a chaining step, and medical imaging apparatus including means for carrying out this method
An image processing method which includes the acquisition ( 10 ) of an intensity image (J) formed by a matrix of points (A) having non-binary intensity values and representing filiform objects, and...
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6404925 |
Methods and apparatuses for segmenting an audio-visual recording using image similarity searching and audio speaker recognition
Methods for segmenting audio-video recording of meetings containing slide presentations by one or more speakers are described. These segments serve as indexes into the recorded meeting. If an...
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6404921 |
Contour extracting method and apparatus
In a contour extraction apparatus and method, states of target pixels and pixels adjacent to the respective target pixels in image data are stored, the target pixel is extracted in the sequence of...
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6377705 |
Image processing apparatus and method and computer-readable memory
An image processing apparatus with capabilities for determining the direction of image on an original document when said document is read by a reader. The direction of the image is automatically...
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6356657 |
Image processing method and apparatus for discriminating an input image area or an attribute of image information in the discriminated area
An image block is detected by raster scanning an input image and chasing surrounding black pixels around a detected black pixel as the start point in sequence. Further, by judging the feature of...
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6356656 |
Contour-information extraction apparatus and method
A contour-information extraction system which includes performing raster scanning of a document, detemining a position of an interpixel grid of image data in the document, detecting contour vectors...
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6353676 |
Analyzing an acquired arrangement of object locations
An acquired arrangement of object locations is analyzed. The acquired arrangement imperfectly conforms to an ideal arrangement of points. Sets of vectors are found in the acquired arrangement. A...
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6332040 |
Method and apparatus for sorting and comparing linear configurations
A computing device to classify, manipulate, store, search, and selectively retrieve items from image databases, using a method & apparatus including a computer processor to analyze the configured...
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6298156 |
Image processing apparatus and method
An edge vector extraction unit (122) extracts edge vectors from an input image, and a variable-magnification processing unit (123) performs smoothing/variable-magnification processing of the edge...
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6289136 |
Image processing method and apparatus
In magnifying a multivalued image, binary images are generated by using the respective density levels of the multivalued image as thresholds. The contour of each binary image is equivalent to an...
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6289124 |
Method and system of handwritten-character recognition
In accordance with the present character recognition method, an imaginary stroke is used to link from the ending point of each actual stroke of an input handwritten character to the starting point...
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6263091 |
System and method for identifying foreground and background portions of digitized images
Disclosed in a system and method for segmenting foreground pixel from background pixels in a digital image, specifically a fingerprint image. First the image is divided into blocks of optimal size....
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