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7620264 Image-size dependent facial caricaturing  
Increased recognizance of caricatured images is provided for the level of caricaturing to be applied to an image to be set in dependence on the intended size of the caricature image. Preferably,...
7620250 Shape matching method for indexing and retrieving multimedia data  
The invention relates to a method for indexing and retrieving multimedia data. In particular the invention provides a method of comparing at least two sets of multimedia data using shape...
7620205 Method for characterizing shape, appearance and motion of an object that is being tracked  
A method for generating Pairwise Active Appearance Models (PAAMs) that characterize shape, appearance and motion of an object and using the PAAM to track the motion of an object is disclosed. A...
7620203 Imaging system analysis methods and apparatus  
Methods, systems, and computer program products for analyzing an imaging system or an image produced by the imaging system are disclosed. The imaging system is configured to sense a target on a...
7616813 Background area extraction in document layout analysis  
An apparatus, method, system, computer program and product, each capable of extracting a background area of a document image. The background area of the document image may be extracted by repeating...
7616779 Method for automatic key posture information abstraction  
The method for automatic key posture information abstraction of this invention comprises the steps of: Abstracting from a series of continuous digitized images spatial features of objects contained...
7613342 Method and device for displaying or searching for object in image and computer-readable storage medium  
A method of representing an object appearing in a still or video image, by processing signals corresponding to the image, comprises deriving a curvature scale space (CSS) representation of the...
7602964 Method and apparatus for detection of failures in a wafer using transforms and cluster signature analysis  
Detecting spatial failures in a wafer can be performed quickly and accurately by using transformations and cluster signature analysis. For this technique, a system can receive failure coordinates...
7602941 Component fusion for face detection  
A system and method for object detection are provided where the system includes a component detection unit for detecting components in an image, a component fusion unit in signal communication with...
7595878 Spectroscopic methods for component particle analysis  
The invention relates to methods of assessing one or more geometric properties of a particle of a substance using an infrared spectroscopic property of the substance. The method is useful, for...
7593577 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...
7593573 Method and device for visualizing the surroundings of a vehicle  
A method and device for visualizing the surroundings of a vehicle, in particular for detecting and representing the traffic situation in front of a driver are provided. A night vision information...
7587088 Method and apparatus for image processing  
The methods and apparatuses determine contour points from image data and carried out a segmentation process on the basis of the contour points, during which associated contour points are combined...
7577298 Method and system for response image feature collection and candidate summit, surface, and core estimation  
A method for estimating regions of detected candidates identified in a response image of an object created from a scanned Computerized Tomography image is disclosed. The regions are used to...
7576753 Method and apparatus to convert bitmapped images for use in a structured text/graphics editor  
An image analysis and conversion method and system. Bitmapped ink images are converted to structured object representations of the bitmapped images, which may be read and edited by a structured...
7574049 Method, apparatus, computer program, computer system and computer-readable storage for representing and searching for an object in an image  
A method of representing an object appearing in a still or video image, by processing signals corresponding to the image, comprises deriving a curvature scale space (CSS) representation of the...
7567720 Raster to vector conversion of a digital image  
A raster to vector conversion method of an initial digital image including a pixel matrix, includes generating a digital image divided into polygons by dividing the initial digital image into a...
7564571 Method for calibrating a camera-laser-unit in respect to a calibration-object  
The invention refers to a method for calibrating a camera-laser-unit ( 1 ) with respect to at least one calibration-object ( 12 ) disposed at a given position and orientation in a three-dimensional...
7557808 Image processing device and information recording medium  
An image processing device for realizing more realistic pictures of explosions in video game devices and the like. Objects displaying such pictures of explosions are formed of spherical polygons (R...
7555145 Multi-level optical mark reading that uses an unambiguous symbology of marks to fill into response bubbles  
One or more response bubbles are used on a scannable form to be read by a scanning system. An unambiguous symbology of marks is defined to fill into each response bubble, thereby allowing at least...
7542607 Digital pen and paper  
A digital pen and paper system comprises a pen arranged to make pen strokes on a document having a plurality of regions, to detect markings on the document, and to record them in a series of...
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...
7538814 Image capturing apparatus capable of searching for an unknown explanation of a main object of an image, and method for accomplishing the same  
An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing module for capturing an image; a display module for displaying the captured image captured by said image capturing module; a main object...
7536029 Apparatus and method performing audio-video sensor fusion for object localization, tracking, and separation  
An apparatus for tracking and identifying objects includes an audio likelihood module which determines corresponding audio likelihoods for each of a plurality of sounds received from corresponding...
7535461 Information processing apparatus, control method therefor, and program  
Input interpretation information describing rules for interpreting the intentions of inputs is held in an indication input interpretation grammar holding unit. An input to a coordinate input region...
7535460 Method and apparatus for identifying a graphic shape  
An information processing device executing a graphics identification program detects a trace drawn on an input surface as coordinate points in chronological order. Coordinate points for...
7529421 Optical proximity correction in raster scan printing based on corner matching templates  
Methods and apparatus for correcting defects, such as rounded corners and line end shortening, in patterns formed via lithography are provided. Such defects are compensated for...
7528833 Three-dimensional data controller and three-dimensional data processor  
A three-dimensional data controller controls voxel data by distributing the voxel data to hierarchical nodes. The three-dimensional data controller stores combination patterns, each representing...
7526131 Image processing apparatus and methods  
A method is provided of processing digital image data representing an image of an object to determine data representing a boundary for said object, the method comprising: inputting said image data;...
7526116 Automated microscopic sperm identification  
A method and device for automatically identifying sperm cells in a smear on a microscope slide, including capturing a first digital color image within an area of interest on the microscope slide....
7526103 Imaging system for vehicle  
An imaging system for a vehicle includes an imaging device having a field of view exteriorly and forward of the vehicle in its direction of travel, and an image processor operable to process the...
7522771 Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for fast neighborhood determinations in dynamic environments  
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for ascertaining neighborhood information in a dynamically changing environment, such as an electronic ink environment may include: (a) receiving data...
7522752 Central location of a face detecting device, method and program  
A central location of a face detecting device comprises an image input means for inputting a captured face image, a horizontal edge detecting means for detecting a horizontal edge having a...
7519223 Recognizing gestures and using gestures for interacting with software applications  
An interactive display table has a display surface for displaying images and upon or adjacent to which various objects, including a user's hand(s) and finger(s) can be detected. A video camera...
7519206 Detection of features in images  
An image processing technique which identifies pixels in images which are associated with features having a selected shape, such as but not exclusively step edge, roof, ridge or valley. The shape...
7508986 Document recognition device, document recognition method and program, and storage medium  
In document recognition processing for accurately recognition a document image at high speed, a shape feature is extracted from a component included in an input document image, and the degree of...
7508969 Image processing apparatus and method and recording medium  
An image processing method for extracting a characteristic amount of a photographed image from the photographed image obtained by photographing an object, comprises a passing through deleting step...
7502511 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...
7499569 Hand pattern switching apparatus  
A camera for taking an image of movement of a hand, and a hand pattern switching apparatus which operates an object equipment based on the result of the image taken by the camera, having a storage...
7499055 Method of font generation for displaying the thickness of strokes of characters  
The present invention employs the notion of a Chinese writing brush in moving a geometric figure to produce a style of calligraphy, where the area of the geometric figure is large or small, then...
7496453 Classification of herbal medicines using wavelet transform  
An efficient, effective and reliable method for authentication of herbal medicines (HMs) based on a novel wavelet-enhanced automated three-dimensional chromatograms classification system. The...
7483570 Software and method for creating a dynamic handwriting font  
A machine-readable storage medium storing executable code is configured to cause a machine to randomly alter a shape of a character. A method for creating a dynamic handwriting font includes:...
7483023 Model based adaptive multi-elliptical approach: a one click 3D segmentation approach  
A seed point is selected inside a structure that is to be segmented in image data. An adaptive model is defined around the seed point, and a preprocessing filter is applied only within the bounding...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...