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7272243 |
Machine vision system and method for estimating and tracking facial pose
The present invention includes in a system and method for estimating and tracking an orientation of a user's face by combining head tracking and face detection techniques. The orientation of the...
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7269286 |
Discrete curve symmetry detection
System and method for detecting symmetries of discrete curves. A mapping operator is applied to a first discrete curve to amplify its features, generating a first mapped discrete curve. A...
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7257256 |
Method and system for recognizing date
A method and system for recognizing date. An embodiment of a method for recognizing a date includes receiving a set of coordinates from a capture device, the set of coordinates indicating where on...
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7236255 |
Method and instrument for measuring bead cutting shape of electric welded tube
To precisely measure bead cutting shapes of electric resistance welded pipes without being affected by difference in luminance level between cut and uncut portions in optical cutting images, an...
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7233699 |
Pattern matching using multiple techniques
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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7227977 |
Lighting correction for the outdoor environment with extension to the self adjusting algorithm for general lighting conditions
Systems and methods for identifying an object, such as a human face, are described. The systems and methods obtain parameters indicative of direct light and disperse light illuminating the object....
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7221786 |
Method for automatic construction of 2D statistical shape model for the lung regions
A method for automatic construction of 2D statistical shape models for the lung regions in chest radiographic images comprising: providing a radiographic image of the chest region of an individual;...
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7221787 |
Method for automated analysis of digital chest radiographs
A method for automatically segmenting lung regions in a chest radiographic image comprising; providing an input digital chest radiograph image; preprocessing the input digital radiographic image;...
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7218779 |
Ink divider and associated application program interface
Methods for communicating between an application and an ink divider object (which stores ink strokes to be divided into groups) may include: (a) issuing a divide request to the ink divider object,...
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7218759 |
Face detection in digital images
A method and apparatus for the detection of faces in a digital image captured under a variety of lighting conditions are provided. Rather than subjecting an entire image to computationally...
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7212673 |
Rotational symmetry detection for configurations of discrete curves
System and method for characterizing configurations of discrete curves based on detected symmetries in the configuration. A configuration of discrete closed curves is received. A plurality of...
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7212330 |
Three-dimensional imaging system for pattern recognition
The present invention provides a real-time three-dimensional pattern recognition imaging system having a variable focal length, a wide depth of field, a high depth resolution, a fast acquisition...
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7177471 |
Shape priors for level set representations
This invention relates to shape priors for level set representations. An embodiment of the invention comprises a first stage and a second stage. In the first stage, a shape model can be built...
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7167586 |
Method and system for remote form completion
The present application describes systems and methods for composing documents using a digital pointing instrument. In further configurations, a user utilizes a pen to partially fill in a form and...
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7168036 |
User interface identification and service tags for a document processing system
A tag-based user interface scheme for digitizing and processing hardcopy documents utilizes a sticker that includes a printed data code representative of a user identity code and a service code....
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7164789 |
Three-dimensional active vision with glyph address carpet
A method for reconstructing three dimensional shapes from two dimensional image domains uses glyph address carpets as a structured light pattern. The glyph address carpet includes a glyph encoding...
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7162084 |
System and method for automatically detecting and extracting objects in digital image data
An object detection and extraction system and method for processing digital image data. The system and method segregates objects contained within a single image and allows those objects to be...
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7158677 |
Matching of discrete curves under affine transforms
System and method for determining the presence of an object of interest from a template image in an acquired target image, despite of or using various types of affine transformations of the object...
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7158657 |
Face image recording system
In a face image recording apparatus, a camera photographs the face of a person a plurality of number of times, a processor extracts at least one high-quality image from the plurality of images...
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7151854 |
Pattern recognition of objects in image streams
The disclosure describes pattern recognition detectors and software used to detect objects in image streams. The detectors operate on streams of image data, making them suitable for detecting...
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7151855 |
Pattern measurement method, manufacturing method of semiconductor device, pattern measurement apparatus, and program
A pattern measurement method includes acquiring graphic data of a plurality of patterns including image data; processing the graphic data to detect a coordinate of an edge point of the pattern;...
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7149355 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image processing program, and computer-readable record medium storing image processing program
An image processing apparatus has an edge direction estimation section for estimating edge direction information for a first image area containing a notable pixel, an edge pattern selection section...
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7146048 |
Representation of shapes for similarity measuring and indexing
A method for analyzing an image includes constructing a graph to represent an object appearing in the image, and generating a string of symbols corresponding to the graph. The string is processed...
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7146047 |
Image processing apparatus and method generating binary image from a multilevel image
An information processing apparatus extracts a plurality of strokes from a multilevel image, and generates a stroke binary image. Next, the image processing apparatus extracts feature amounts...
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7143434 |
Video description system and method
The present invention relates to a system for generating a description record from multimedia information including, e.g., video data. A multimedia information input interface is used to receive...
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7139421 |
Methods and apparatuses for detecting similar features within an image
The invention provides methods and apparatuses for finding features that are similar in the image. The invention finds the similar features by searching portions of the image for features that are...
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7139430 |
Character recognition
Character recognition includes detecting a union of characters, preprocessing the union of characters, comparing the preprocessed union of characters with one or more template symbols, and applying...
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7139432 |
Image pattern matching utilizing discrete curve matching with a mapping operator
System and method for determining the presence of an object of interest in a target image. Regions of a target image may be located that match an object of interest, e.g., in a template image, with...
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7130448 |
Device for monitoring around a vehicle
A device for monitoring around a vehicle capable of detecting objects present around the vehicle based on an image captured by at least one infrared camera member provided with the vehicle. The...
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7127108 |
Image processing method
Each crest-shape distribution region is sectioned in accordance with a value of a color obtained from extracted elements such as hue, saturation and lightness. A characteristic amount at each of a...
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7127107 |
Land partition data generating method and apparatus
A method and apparatus generates data concerning a partition of land such as farmland based on an observation image of the surface of the earth photographed by a high-altitude flying vehicle such...
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7123761 |
Feature extracting method, subject recognizing method and image processing apparatus
A feature extracting method for a radiation image formed by radiation image signals each corresponding to an amount of radiation having passed through a radiographed subject, has plural different...
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7123768 |
Apparatus and method for detecting a pattern
A method for detecting a specific pattern contained in an image. The pattern-detection method has steps of binarizing the input image data to obtain binary image data, recognizing a partial image...
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7123769 |
Shot boundary detection
A video segment is processed to identify frames representing shot boundaries in the video segment. Initially, a partial block-based comparison technique is used to determine the amount of change...
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7110602 |
System and method for detection of image edges using a polar algorithm process
An edge detection system and method implement a recursive polar algorithm process to generate an edge image from an input image. The edge detection system may include a polar filter to recursively...
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7110607 |
Image processing apparatus
A multilevel image into which a color or a black-and-white image is converted is input, and a slightly indistinct binary image generating unit generates a slightly indistinct binary image that...
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7099510 |
Method and system for object detection in digital images
An object detection system for detecting instances of an object in a digital image includes an image integrator and an object detector, which includes a classifier (classification function) and...
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7096452 |
Method and device for checking lithography data
Devices and methods are provided that include advantages such as the ability to identify sizes, shapes and locations of frequently unwanted additional features that occur as a result of...
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7092562 |
Method for measuring a three-dimensional object, or assembly of objects
In this system, three-dimensional objects ( 1, 5, 6 ) in an environment that may be very complex are discerned by identifying their simple contour shapes on images, and the geometric...
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7092563 |
Three-dimensional information acquisition apparatus and three-dimensional information acquisition method
There are performed three types of object shooting, i.e., a projection pattern shooting using a pattern including both characterization of a stripe based on a color and characterization based on a...
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7090352 |
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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7079144 |
Curve generating device and method, and program recorded medium
A user gives, as input, two curves at a start time and at an end time and reference correspondence points with respect to the respective curves. Then, a pursuit operation of pursuing a reference...
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7076093 |
Structure-guided image inspection
A structure-guided transformation transforms a region of an image into a region in the structure-transformed image according to the desired structure. The invention achieves efficient and accurate...
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7076099 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium
The objective of the present invention is to provide a simple and accurate process for extracting an object from an image, which is used to impose a great load for an operator. According to the...
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7068843 |
Method for extracting and matching gesture features of image
A method for extracting and matching 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...
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7065262 |
Fast high-accuracy multi-dimensional pattern inspection
A method and apparatus are provided for identifying differences between a stored pattern and a matching image subset, where variations in pattern position, orientation, and size do not give rise to...
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7058128 |
Image editing apparatus and method
A shape decoder obtains shape data by decoding bit-stream data representing a shape, and a texture decoder obtains texture information by decoding a texture bit stream. A shape manipulation unit...
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7054489 |
Apparatus and method for image recognition
An object recognizing apparatus is provided which is capable of precisely recognizing an object in an input image with the use of a corresponding learning image even when a local-segment of the...
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7054466 |
Orientation determination
An improved orientation system includes a lens pre-distorting an image generated by imaging apparatus such that a non-linearity, the degree of which is dependent on the off-axis distance of an...
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7046824 |
System and method of presenting altitude visibility information provision system utilizing satellite image, and system and method of recognizing flight obstacle
A satellite image analysis and processing apparatus includes a DEM extraction unit for extracting digital elevation model information having topography data and steeple-shaped building data; a...
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