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7480412 |
Toboggan-based shape characterization
A method and apparatus for characterizing an image. The method selects one or more toboggan potentials from the image, or a portion thereof, to be tobogganed. It toboggans the selected toboggan...
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7460733 |
System and method for registration and modeling of deformable shapes by direct factorization
A method of registering and modeling a deformable shape in a digitized image is provided, comprising the steps of providing a measurement matrix W of N measurements of P points of a D-dimensional...
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7450763 |
Reshaping freehand drawn lines and shapes in an electronic document
The invention improves the appearance of freehand drawn lines and shapes in an electronic document by first recognizing freehand drawn lines and shapes and generating a line made up of sequential...
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7450758 |
Stylization of video
The techniques and mechanisms described herein are directed to a system for stylizing video, such as interactively transforming video to a cartoon-like style. Briefly stated, the techniques include...
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7440616 |
System and method for recognition of a hand-drawn chart in ink input
A system and method for recognition of hand-drawn charts in ink input is provided. A chart recognizer may be provided that may recognize a hand-drawn diagram or chart in ink input. The chart...
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7430322 |
Particle shape characterization from 2D images
The size distributions corresponding to the three-dimensional (3D) shapes of particles are estimated from a 3D-to-2D projection matrix and a two-dimensional (2D) image of the particles that is...
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7426500 |
Parallel computer architecture of a cellular type, modifiable and expandable
This processing is distributed among number of simple hexagonal units distributed in a honeycomb layer, consisting of a central hexagram surrounded by six receiving cells, each representing an...
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7426302 |
System and method for digitizing a pattern
The present invention provides a novel system and method for digitizing garment patterns. In a system embodiment, there are imaging devices supported above a garment pattern-making table. The...
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7421098 |
Facial recognition and the open mouth problem
A method, for electronic face recognition using geodesic representations, of processing such a geodesic representation of a face having a mouth and being able to adopt open-mouthed or closed mouth...
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7421112 |
Cargo sensing system
A cargo sensing system is configured to determine if cargo is present within a container. In one implementation, the cargo sensing system senses lines within an image of a cargo space. The lines...
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7418120 |
Method and system for structuring dynamic data
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for structuring dynamic data from a plurality of images. Certain embodiments include accessing an image data set including...
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7418112 |
Pedestrian detection apparatus
A pedestrian detection apparatus of the present invention extracts a whole-body region and a prospective head region based on a pattern matching between an input image picked up by an infrared...
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7415156 |
Parametric shape grammar interpreter
Parametric shape recognition is achieved through a decomposition of shapes into a hierarchy of subshapes ordered by their decreasing restrictions. Instances of each of the subshapes are...
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7412084 |
Method of analysis of local patterns of curvature distributions
A method of detecting lesions and polyps in a digital image, wherein said image comprises a plurality of 3D volume points, is provided. The method includes identifying a surface in the image, and...
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7411592 |
Graphical processing of object perimeter information
A technique for graphically processing perimeter information includes determining a polar representation of the perimeter of an object to define polar perimeter information, storing the polar...
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7412097 |
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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7400771 |
System and method for connected container recognition of a hand-drawn chart in ink input
A system and method for recognition of hand-drawn charts in ink input is provided. A chart recognizer may be provided that may recognize a hand-drawn diagram or chart in ink input. The chart...
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7400767 |
System and method for graph cuts image segmentation using a shape prior
A system and method for graph cut image segmentation using a shape prior is provided. In this method, an initial shape is applied to a portion of an image to be segmented. A narrowband is formed...
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7397956 |
Pattern matching method selection
A system and method for performing pattern matching to locate zero or more instances of a template image in a target image. An image is received by a computer from an image source, e.g., a camera....
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7397575 |
Communication apparatus and method having electronic mail communication function, and program
There are provided a communication apparatus and method that enables the retransmission of an electronic mail if an error occurs in the transmission of the electronic mail due to its excessive data...
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7391882 |
Prior knowledge, level set representations and visual grouping
A method for detecting an object in an image includes determining a shape model from aligned training examples, and implementing the shape model as a prior within a level set framework for...
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7388986 |
Method and apparatus for representing and searching for an object in an image
A method representing an object appearing in still or video image for use in searching, wherein the object appears in the image with a first two-dimensional outline, by processing signals...
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7379591 |
Method and device for extracting specified image subject
Method and device for extracting a specified image subject including an extracting condition of an extracting algorithm of a subsequent stage so as to be adapted to an extraction result by the...
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7379072 |
Method for determining weighting factors for the color calculation of a color value of texels for a footprint
In a method for determining weighting factors for the color calculation of a color value of texels for a footprint covering a plurality of texels in a texel grid, in a graphic system, form...
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7372994 |
Image processing device for recognizing outline of moving target and method therefor
An image processing device is provided, which has the capability of accurately recognizing the outline of a moving target from at least four still images taken in times series without using a...
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7372995 |
Analysis apparatus
An analysis apparatus includes an information acquisition part for acquiring shape information about an analysis target object, an additional information extraction part for extracting additional...
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7372996 |
Method and apparatus for determining the position of a vehicle seat
Systems and methods are provided for editing an image of a vehicle interior to isolate the occupant of a vehicle seat. An image generator ( 102 ) generates an image of a vehicle interior. A contour...
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7365301 |
Three-dimensional shape detecting device, image capturing device, and three-dimensional shape detecting program
A three-dimensional shape detecting device comprising projection means which projects pattern light, image capturing means which captures a pattern light projection image of a subject on which the...
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7362885 |
Object tracking and eye state identification method
An object tracking method tracks a target object between successively generated infrared video images using a grey-scale hat filter to extract the target object from the background. The filtered...
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7352900 |
Apparatus and method for processing particle images and program product for same
A method for processing particle images are described that include: receiving image information obtained by capturing an image of a particle; determining the circumferential length and number of...
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7343042 |
Method and system for identifying a paper form using a digital pen
The present application describes systems and methods for composing documents using a digital pointing instrument. In further configurations, a user utilizes a pen to trace a form serial number...
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7340077 |
Gesture recognition system using depth perceptive sensors
Three-dimensional position information is used to identify the gesture created by a body part of interest. At one or more instances of an interval, the posture of a body part is recognized, based...
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7340092 |
Image processing device, image processing method, program for executing image processing, and computer readable recording medium on which the program is stored
An image processing device extracts graphic areas, for example, firstly from image data received, and then extracts other remaining areas, i.e., photographic and character areas. The areas that are...
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7339701 |
Method for darkness correction of trapped pixels
A method for correcting for edge defects caused by print characteristics of a print engine includes printing a set of actual color patches corresponding to a desired set of colors; defining an edge...
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7340089 |
Geometric pattern matching using dynamic feature combinations
A geometric pattern matching method to locate instances of a template image in a target image using a plurality of models with different feature combinations. A learning phase involves learning...
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7336373 |
Surface shape measuring apparatus and surface shape measuring method
In order to provide a surface shape measuring apparatus and a surface shape measuring method capable of detecting a distortion on the curved surface of a work precisely, a laser displacement meter ...
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7324691 |
System and method for shape recognition of hand-drawn objects
A system and method for shape recognition of hand-drawn objects is provided. A shape recognizer may recognize a drawing such as a diagram or chart from ink input by recognizing closed containers...
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7324693 |
Method of human figure contour outlining in images
A digital image processing method for automatically outlining a contour of a figure in a digital image, including: testing parameters of a region within the digital image according to a plurality...
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7317836 |
Pose estimation based on critical point analysis
Methods and systems for estimating a pose of a subject. The subject can be a human, an animal, a robot, or the like. A camera receives depth information associated with a subject, a pose estimation...
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7315644 |
Investigation of destroyed assemblies and identification of components thereof
A method is disclosed for providing a means for identifying recovered component parts of a destroyed assembly quickly and relatively easily using digital or electronic scanning techniques and...
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7310431 |
Optical methods for remotely measuring objects
A class of measurement devices can be made available using a family of projection patterns and image processing and computer vision algorithms. The proposed system involves a camera system, one or...
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7310446 |
Recognition device and method
A recognition device which judges whether a target is identical with a predetermined reference, comprising: a holding unit which holds the target; multiple deformation units which deform the target...
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7305116 |
Extracting method of pattern contour, image processing method, searching method of pattern edge, scanning method of probe, manufacturing method of semiconductor device, pattern inspection apparatus, and program
An extracting method of a pattern contour, includes acquiring an image of a pattern to be inspected, calculating a schematic edge position of the pattern from the image, preparing an approximate...
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7302081 |
Method for detecting new objects in an illuminated scene
A method for detecting new objects in a scene illuminated by lights not necessarily constrained. The method detects and produces, in particular with a video camera, in the form of electric signals,...
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7295707 |
Method for aligning gesture features of image
A method for aligning gesture features of image is disclosed. An input gesture image is captured, and then a closed curve formed by a binary contour image of the gesture image is determined by...
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7286698 |
Calibration pattern unit
A calibration pattern unit which obtains correction information of an imaging system by imaging at the imaging system comprises a calibration pattern which has a known geometric pattern formed on a...
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7286718 |
Method and apparatus for determination of text orientation
The present invention relates to a method for determining the orientation of text, so that the text can be correctly read. In one embodiment, the method analyzes the “open” portions of text...
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7284864 |
Projector type display apparatus
There is provided a safe image display apparatus for projecting an image on a screen that can minimize a stimulus to eyes, retinae and optic nerves from projected light entering into the eyes...
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7283672 |
Image compression by object segregation
A system of analyzing and processing images. The image is processed using machine vision techniques to find shapes and objects in the image. In one embodiment, the system finds geometric shapes and...
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7277583 |
Game software and game machine
A first image producing program perspectively transforms each polygon in a virtual space onto a plane on the basis of a view position in order to produce a first image, and a second image producing...
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