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6549646 |
Divide-and-conquer method and system for the detection of lung nodule in radiological images
A divide-and-conquer (DAC) method and system improve the detection of abnormalities, like lung nodules, in radiological images via the use of zone-based digital image processing and artificial...
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6542638 |
Method for matching spatial patterns
I present a method for matching the spatial relationships between an input set of feature points and a template set of feature points. A feature point consists of a location in space and a label...
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6532304 |
Matching geometric objects
A system is disclosed for identifying matching arcs in sets of geometric objects, such as a pair of electronic maps, without relying on attributes being assigned to the arcs. An arc in a first set...
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6529630 |
Method and device for extracting principal image subjects
The method for extracting a principal image subject performs a plurality of subject extractions having different characteristics, synthesizes extracted subjects and extracts the principal image...
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6523467 |
Method for measuring engraving cups
In a method for measuring cups given the engraving of printing cylinders in an electronic engraving machine, an engraver of an engraving member engraves cups into a printing cylinder. The geometric...
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6522781 |
Particle image analyzer
A particle image analyzer that facilitates display by designating on a distribution an image desired to be displayed from among a large number of recorded images is disclosed. The particle image...
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6519364 |
Method and apparatus for recognizing images, and copying machine and printer using the same
A copying machine obtains image data on the basis of a strip-shaped region by reading portion 10, converts the image data to YMCK data at image processing portion 20 in the succeeding stage,...
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6515763 |
Vignette recognition and compression
A method of trapping objects for a page includes identifying sequential matching objects, combining into a larger object matching sequential objects including parameterizing each object as a band...
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6510244 |
Method and system for acquiring a three-dimensional shape description
Method for acquiring a three-dimensional shape or image of a scene, wherein a predetermined pattern of lines is projected onto the scene and the shape is acquired on the basis of relative distances...
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6493620 |
Motor vehicle occupant detection system employing ellipse shape models and bayesian classification
A object on a seat of a motor vehicle is classified by creating a video image of the area and forming a silhouette of the object. The silhouette is divided into two segments and a separate ellipse...
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6487307 |
System and method of optically inspecting structures on an object
A system and method of optically inspecting a structure on a surface of a production object which is supported on a moving inspection platform. The method reliably traces structure edges and stores...
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6483943 |
Feature value extraction methods and apparatus for image recognition and storage medium for storing image analysis program
One or more contours of a picture element (PEL) array pattern are detected and, then, a strength of concavity/convexity on each contour (acuteness) and a direction of concavity/convexity are...
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6473524 |
Optical object recognition method and system
An iterative application of an optical object recognition method, such as an OCR method, with enhancements and modifications yields improved speed and accuracy. In the exemplary embodiment, after...
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6470096 |
Method for locating user interface tags in a document processing system
A method for locating a substantially rectangular pattern, in any orientation, in a digitized image used in a document processing system operates by identifying all connected components within the...
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6466694 |
Document image processing device and method thereof
A processing device performs region identification of an input image, and then performs an intra-region recognition process. The type code of each region and the individual code of a recognition...
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6459824 |
Method of retrieving moving pictures using joint points based on pose information
There is disclosed a method of retrieving moving pictures using joint point based moving information for allowing an user to retrieve pictures including a desired person object or the pose of the...
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6445819 |
Image processing method, image processing device, and recording medium
An image processing method, image processing device and recording medium are provided in which the effects of erroneous extraction of a region assumed to correspond to a main portion within an...
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6442292 |
Measuring apparatus
A preferred shape measuring apparatus comprises a characteristic pattern extracting portion, in accordance with a pair of first images of a subject for measurement having characteristic patterns...
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6434257 |
Size recognition system with method for determining price of a commodity
The present system and apparatus use image processing to recognize object size with a scene. The system includes novel image processing apparatus and method to segment one or more object images...
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6434271 |
Technique for locating objects within an image
A technique for locating objects within an image is disclosed. In one embodiment, the technique is realized by obtaining an image and then identifying an object within the image based upon an...
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6424746 |
FIGURE CLASSIFYING METHOD, FIGURE CLASSIFYING SYSTEM, FEATURE EXTRACTING METHOD FOR FIGURE CLASSIFICATION, METHOD FOR PRODUCING TABLE FOR FIGURE CLASSIFICATION, INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD FOR EVALUATING DEGREE OF SIMILARITY OR DEGREE OF DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FIGURES, FIGURE NORMALIZING METHOD, AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN FIGURES
A figure is input, and structural features of the input figure are extracted. Structural features of deformed figures are produced, in accordance with a specific transformation rule, from the...
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6421461 |
PATTERN RECOGNITION APPARATUS WHICH COMPARES INPUT PATTERN FEATURE AND SIZE DATA TO REGISTERED FEATURE AND SIZE PATTERN DATA, AN APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING FEATURE AND SIZE DATA, AND CORRESPONDING METHODS AND MEMORY MEDIA THEREFOR
A pattern recognition system which includes an input device for inputting a pattern and a character code, an extractor for extracting feature data from the input pattern, a detector for detecting...
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6411734 |
Object image search using validated sub-model poses
A method is provided for finding a pose of a geometric model of an object within an image of a scene containing the object that includes providing sub-models of the geometric model; and providing...
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6404922 |
Curve length measuring device and measuring method therefore and storage medium which stores control program for measuring length of curve
A curve length measuring device which processes image data obtained by the photographing of an object to be measured to measure a length of an arbitrary curve on a surface of the object to be...
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6404911 |
Semiconductor failure analysis system
A semiconductor failure analysis system and method therefor facilitated by a failure information collection unit for collection, by bit, failure information of a semiconductor, an inspection unit...
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6400846 |
Method for ordering image spaces to search for object surfaces
A method determines a surface of an object in a sequence of images. The method begins by estimating a boundary of the object in each image of the sequence using motion information of adjacent...
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6396952 |
Computer animation generator
Polygonal data input in a first step is subjected to evaluation in which all edges of the polygon data are ranked in importance on the basis of a volume change caused by removal of that edge. The...
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6393159 |
Multiscale characterization and analysis of shapes
An adaptive multiscale method approximates shapes with continuous or uniformly and densely sampled contours, with the purpose of sparsely and nonuniformly discretizing the boundaries of shapes at...
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6393151 |
Pattern reading system
An apparatus for recognizing visual patterns of handprinted characters or the like by means of an optical character reader which reads the patterns by a so-called outermost point method. While...
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6370262 |
Information processing apparatus and remote apparatus for object, using distance measuring apparatus
An information processing apparatus using a distance measuring apparatus includes a distance measuring device for producing distance information related to a distance for each of different areas in...
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6363167 |
Method for measuring size of fine pattern
A method for measuring a size of fine pattern wherein sizes of a plurality of fine patterns are measured using a scanning electron microscope is disclosed. The measuring method comprises the...
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6351559 |
User-enclosed region extraction from scanned document images
In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a user-enclosed region extraction device allows users to store, in a digital format, only selected portions of a document image. The user...
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6341013 |
Method and device for regulating the attitude of a motor vehicle
A method for regulating the attitude of a motor vehicle by measuring the characteristic angles of the wheels, includes the following operations: obtaining at least one pair of images of each moving...
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6333995 |
System and methods for providing robust keyword selection in a personal digital notepad
Keyword selection methods for use with handwriting recording devices such as a personal digital notepad (PDN) which provide robust keyword selection by making stroke membership and selection more...
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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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6332038 |
Image processing device
The present image processing device includes an image obtaining device which obtains an electronic image (still image) or a series of electronic images (moving image), an image extraction...
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6327388 |
Identification of logos from document images
The method and apparatus enables any user to search for logos in document images stored in a bitmap format. The search efficiently compares bitmap or image data by extracting a series of connected...
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6324300 |
Defining color borders in a raster image
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for converting the color borders of a raster image into a more abstract mathematical representation that can be converted into a vector format without...
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6310964 |
Produce size recognition system
The present system and apparatus uses image processing to recognize object size within a scene. The system includes novel image processing apparatus and methods to segment one or more object images...
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6310970 |
Defining surfaces in border string sequences representing a raster image
An apparatus is disclosed for converting a raster image comprising a plurality of pixels into a plurality of data tags representing at least one shape in the raster image. The apparatus comprises a...
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6307964 |
Method for ordering image spaces to represent object shapes
A method represents a shape of an object in an image. Portions of the image interior to a boundary of the object are ordered. A medial axis for the ordered portions of the image is derived. The...
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6301303 |
Method and apparatus for predictively coding shape information of video signal
A method and an apparatus for predictively coding shape information of a video signal. An error between the current shape information and the previous shape information is obtained through the...
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6298351 |
Modifying an unreliable training set for supervised classification
An unreliable training set is modified to provide for a reliable training set to be used in supervised classification. The training set is modified by determining which data of the set are...
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6295073 |
Figure filling apparatus
A vertex processing unit is provided for labeling each selected vertex dot as a vertical or horizontal attribute dot based on the direction of a side vector terminating at the vertex dot selected...
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6282327 |
Maintaining advance widths of existing characters that have been resolution enhanced
The widths of characters, that have had (or that are having) resolution enhancement processing applied, are adjusted so that the widths of the characters are maintained. In this way, formatting of...
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6282317 |
Method for automatic determination of main subjects in photographic images
A method for detecting a main subject in an image, the method comprises: receiving a digital image; extracting regions of arbitrary shape and size defined by actual objects from the digital image;...
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6275604 |
Method and apparatus for generating semiconductor exposure data
A computer implemented method and an apparatus for generating exposure data of a layout pattern used to fabricate semiconductor integrated circuits. The layout pattern is first analyzed to...
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6272243 |
Method and apparatus for entering characters into a writing recognizer
The present invention provides a user interface having a plurality of user entry regions (34 and 36) Each user entry region is preferably separated into a first user entry sub-region (40) and a...
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6266444 |
Character processing apparatus and method therefor
The present invention intends to generate non-intersecting entire outline data from intersection-involving stroke data at a high speed, thereby outputting characters and graphics of higher quality...
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6263095 |
Imaging method and apparatus
A method of detecting the presence and position of labelled material in a sample in which the labelled material either gives off light or can be stimulated to do so. The sample is imaged onto a CCD...
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