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7616213 |
System and method for real-time co-rendering of multiple attributes
Systems and methods for enhancing the combined image of multiple attributes without comprising the image of either attribute. The combined image of the multiple attributes is enhanced for analyzing...
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7602935 |
Data processing apparatus and associated method of identifying an image data source by detecting variations in strength of different light receiving elements
A data processing apparatus and data processing method enabling a camera generating image data to be identified easily with a high reliability, which identify if a predetermined image generating...
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7580546 |
Marker-free motion capture apparatus and method for correcting tracking error
A marker-free motion capture apparatus having a function of correcting a tracking error and a method thereof are disclosed. The apparatus includes: a grouping unit for grouping feature candidates...
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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...
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7542624 |
Window-based method for approximating the Hausdorff in three-dimensional range imagery
One approach to pattern recognition is to use a template from a database of objects and match it to a probe image containing the unknown. Accordingly, the Hausdorff distance can be used to measure...
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7505841 |
Vision-based occupant classification method and system for controlling airbag deployment in a vehicle restraint system
A vehicle restraint system has a vision-based occupant classification system for control of airbag deployment during a crash scenario. The classification system utilizes two imaging sensors which...
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7436432 |
Sight line inducing information display device, sight line inducing information display program and sight line inducing information display method
Aspects of the invention can provide a sight line inducing information display device, a sight line inducing information display program and a sight line inducing information display method able to...
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7352902 |
System and method for detecting a hand-drawn object in ink input
A system and method for detection of hand-drawn objects in ink input is provided. A detector may detect a drawing such as a diagram or chart from ink input by detecting closed containers and/or...
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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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7317558 |
System and method for image processing of multiple images
A plurality of images are read in, two line segments which need be inherently parallel with each other in each of the images are designated, and a planar projective transform matrix is obtained...
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7298376 |
System and method for real-time co-rendering of multiple attributes
An apparatus and method for enhancing the combined image of multiple attributes without compromising the image of either attribute. The combined image of the multiple attributes is enhanced for...
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7295684 |
Image-based object detection apparatus and method
An object detection apparatus and method capable of detecting objects based on visual images captured by a self-moving unit. A sequential images output section makes a train of a first input image...
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7274801 |
Automatic target recognition system with Elliptical Laplacian Pyramid filter
Automatic target recognition system and/or method which employs an elliptical Laplacian pyramid based pre-screen image data filter. The filter is a resolution sequence matched filter, where the...
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7266221 |
Ranging device utilizing image processing
An image size changing section obtains a size-changed image by changing the size of one of two original images captured by a pair of cameras. If an edge of an object has many oblique components,...
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7257276 |
Digital image interpolation method
A digital image interpolation method is disclosed which a projection point (x, y) of the original image corresponding to a pixel of the transformed image first is determined. According to...
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7254270 |
System and method for bounding and classifying regions within a graphical image
A region bounding and classifying system utilizes memory and logic. The memory stores a set of image data that defines a graphical image. The logic is configured to identify a plurality of regions...
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7233708 |
Systems and methods for indexing and retrieving images
Systems and methods for indexing and retrieving images are described herein. The systems and methods analyze an image to determine its texture moments. The pixels of the image are converted to gray...
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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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7194111 |
Hyperspectral remote sensing systems and methods using covariance equalization
A method and apparatus for detecting a target or targets in a surrounding background locale based on target signatures obtained by a hyperspectral imaging sensor used the hyperspectral imaging...
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7152050 |
Learning system capable of performing additional learning and robot apparatus
In a learning system, a learning method, and a robot apparatus, the name of an object is obtained from the user through a dialog with the user. The object is identified based on the detection...
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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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7046849 |
Image-layout evaluation method, image-layout evaluation system, and image-layout-evaluation-processing program
The invention provides image layout evaluation method to optimize the layout of an image. The invention can include a laid-out-image input device for inputting laid-out combined images, an...
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7034831 |
System and method for generating a low discrepancy curve in a region
A system and method for generating a curve in a region, e.g., a Low Discrepancy Curve. The method may generate an unbounded Low Discrepancy Point (LDP); apply one or more boundary conditions to the...
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7030885 |
Method and apparatus for measuring color-texture distance, and method and apparatus for sectioning image into plurality of regions using measured color-texture distance
A method and apparatus for measuring a color-texture distance and a method and apparatus for sectioning an image into a plurality of regions using the measured color-texture distance are provided....
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7018055 |
Image projecting device and image projecting method
The present invention provides an image projecting device for projecting projecting light corresponding to image information by projecting means. The image projecting device includes at least...
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7009635 |
Method for modifying a visible object shot with a television camera
A method for modifying a visible object shot with a television camera, in which method the object is marked by one or more marking surfaces disposed in the area of the object or in its vicinity,...
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6963845 |
Business card as electronic mail authorization token
The present invention provides a method of enabling a first user to obtain, using a business card of a second user, authority to transmit electronic mail to the second user, the business card...
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6941027 |
Method of and system for automatically determining a level of light falloff in an image
An image processing system includes an image collector and a light falloff correction system. The light falloff correction system comprises a polar transformer that converts an image into radial...
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6928185 |
Defect inspection method and defect inspection apparatus
A defect inspection method of inspecting a defect of an inspection object having a chip pattern, the defect inspection method comprising the steps of: inputting a captured first image of the...
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6915010 |
Real time object localization and recognition from silhouette images
The present invention provides a method for detecting an object. The method includes capturing a binary image of the object, and determining a projection of the binary image to a first axis. The...
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6888966 |
Length calculation and determination device, angle calculation and determination device and image determination system
A calculation section performs a simplified calculation to obtain lengths and/or angles using calculations of addition and multiplication, without using calculations of division, square root and...
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6839456 |
System for accurately obtaining a contour and/or quantitative information from an echo image with reduced manual operation
A system for analyzing an echo image containing a contour of an organ with reduced manual operation is provided. The echo image is first obtained. A user manually sets, say, four points as known or...
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6839151 |
System and method for color copy image processing
A system and method of processing an image including black text data and non-black text data are described. The system and method use a parametric analysis for discrimination of halftones, texts,...
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6791723 |
Method and system for scanning images in a photo kiosk
A method and system for determining the orientation of an image of a picture within a scanned image, including the steps of locating in the scanned image the contour of the image of the picture,...
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6650777 |
Searching and filtering content streams using contour transformations
Methods and systems are provided for locating objects within a content stream, by transforming prospective objects and evaluating the results to identify meaningful semantic values. Transformation...
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6633655 |
Method of and apparatus for detecting a human face and observer tracking display
A method is provided for detecting a human face in an image, such as a sequence of images supplied by a video camera. The method comprises locating in each image a candidate face region and...
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6631217 |
Image processor
An image processor includes unit pixel circuits, each circuit outputting a pixel value, according to incident light, to an output line; and read circuits in each row and each column, each of which...
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6600839 |
Non-linear adaptive image filter for filtering noise such as blocking artifacts
A filter reduces artifacts, such as grid noise and staircase noise, in block-coded digital images with image block boundaries. The type of filtering is determined after an estimation of the image...
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6589332 |
Method and system for measuring polycrystalline chunk size and distribution in the charge of a Czochralski process
A method and system for determining polycrystalline silicon chunk size for use with a Czochralski silicon growing process. Polycrystalline silicon chunks are arranged on a measuring background. A...
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6584214 |
Identification and verification using complex, three-dimensional structural features
Three-dimensional characteristics of a complex physical structure are used to generate a unique identifier. In effect, the characteristics reperesent the basis of a “physical one-way hash...
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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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6496597 |
Generating image data
Image data is generated by a process of radiosity, wherein a plurality of elements are defined in three dimensional space. Selected elements are set as being non-occluding and light emission values...
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6466686 |
System and method for transforming fingerprints to improve recognition
A system and method reduces the amount of variation in a fingerprint image due to distortion from elastic deformation of the finger surface and projection onto a planar coordinate system. The...
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6466262 |
Digital wide camera
A digital wide camera is capable of forming, in real time, a wide view still image from a dynamic sequence of images generated during a recording operation by panning the camera to capture a scene....
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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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6351571 |
Uniform convolution algorithm for frequency decomposition of image regions
A method of analyzing the low- and high-frequency components of a digital image comprising the steps of: providing a rectangular digital image; specifying the size of a rectangular kernel;...
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6205257 |
System and method for selectively noise-filtering digital images
A system and method for noise filtering digital images is implemented in an automated image enhancement system without significantly reducing the performance of the automated image enhancement...
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6185337 |
System and method for image recognition
In an artificial intelligence system for image recognition, a global image of an object is input from a camera or other optical pick-up device, and is processed in a global image processing means,...
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6128102 |
Apparatus and method for filing, registering, and retrieving image files
When an image file is to be registered, image data is read from a document; features of the document are extracted from the read-out image data; the image file is generated with the extracted...
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6075881 |
Machine vision methods for identifying collinear sets of points from an image
The invention provides a two-phase method for identifying sets of collinear points in data points, e.g., derived from an image. During a first phase, the "angle-finding" phase, the angular...
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