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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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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....
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;...
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;...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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;...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...