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7616204 |
Method of simulating dynamic objects using position based dynamics
Disclosed is a method of simulating a dynamic object comprising a plurality of vertices. The method comprises defining a current position and a current velocity for a vertex “v” among the...
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7590266 |
Image processing apparatus
An image processing apparatus is provided that is capable of executing identification of an object by using a two-dimensional-image having a relatively low resolution. In the image processing...
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7483572 |
Recovering a non-linear warping function from images
A method determines a warping function between a first image and a second image. For each pixel in each scan-line of the first image, a distance matrix is constructed which represents distances...
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7475013 |
Speaker recognition using local models
A system and method for voice recognition is disclosed. The system enrolls speakers using an enrollment voice samples and identification information. An extraction module characterizes enrollment...
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7463772 |
De-warping of scanned images
A system includes a stereoscopic camera to generate images of a document, such as a book, that can be converted to a three-dimensional contour of the document. A second camera take a...
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7447380 |
Efficient method for creating a viewpoint from plurality of images
A method for creating a novel viewpoint image from a plurality of images includes the steps of simultaneously and continuously acquiring sets of images from a plurality of cameras. Predetermined...
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7440619 |
Image matching method and image interpolation method using the same
An image matching method includes setting first and second lattices to first and second images respectively, computing potential force to each second lattice point of the second lattice by a...
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7430323 |
Method and apparatus for 4-dimensional image warping
A method of atlas mapping and an apparatus for image mapping are provided. The method includes generating a four dimensional template, linearly transforming the four dimensional representation of a...
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7408986 |
Increasing motion smoothness using frame interpolation with motion analysis
Techniques and tools for video frame interpolation and motion analysis are described. The techniques and tools may be implemented separately or in combination in software and/or hardware devices...
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7298907 |
Target recognizing device and target recognizing method
A target recognizing device that creates a template concerning a target by itself is provided. The device comprises a robot camera for creating continuous images showing a target and an arithmetic...
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7274821 |
System and method to facilitate pattern recognition by deformable matching
A system and method to facilitate pattern recognition or matching between patterns are disclosed that is substantially invariant to small transformations. A substantially smooth deformation field...
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7200269 |
Non-rigid image registration using distance functions
A system and method for non-rigid image registration using distance functions includes portions for receiving a source shape into an image space, integrating a global linear registration model with...
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7197166 |
Iris extraction method capable of precisely determining positions and sizes of irises in a digital face image
The present invention relates to an iris extraction method. In the method, two searching regions are defined in a face image. A deformable template match algorithm and an energy function are used...
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7064767 |
Image solution processing method, processing apparatus, and program
The invention establishes a target face to which a texture will be mapped and determines the start point for drawing the texture and the number of drawing iterations. In accordance with the drawing...
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7031498 |
Adaptive early exit techniques in image correlation
An image processor that calculates values that are related to distortion between two image parts. The values are detected in a previous calculation. Those values are then used in the next...
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7027650 |
Dynamic computing imagery, especially for visceral osteopathy and for articular kinetics
Computerized method for studying alterations in the location of an object, said method comprising the steps of computing successive shapes by means of a dynamic contour model algorithm, whereby the...
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6973204 |
Signature collation apparatus, signature collation method, and program which causes computer to execute the method
It is controlled by a non-transformation coefficient calculated by a non-transformation calculation section, whether feedback is performed or not. When the feedback is ended, a collation value...
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6937760 |
Interactive frame segmentation with dynamic programming
Control points used in deriving an object boundary for a prior frame are overlaid onto a current frame. An initial estimate of an object boundary are derived from the control points and edge energy...
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6771808 |
System and method for registering patterns transformed in six degrees of freedom using machine vision
A system and method for utilizing a search tool that registers transformation of a trained pattern by at least four degrees of freedom to register the instance of a pattern in an arbitrary...
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6754388 |
Content-based retrieval of series data
A graphical user interface (GUI) is used to quickly and easily find data patterns within a data sequence that match a target data pattern representing an event of interest. The user first specifies...
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6748112 |
Method and apparatus for finding shape deformations in objects having smooth surfaces
The present invention is directed to an imaging apparatus for examining an object having smooth surfaces to determine shape deformations in the surface of object. The imaging apparatus includes an...
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6700994 |
Embedding and detecting a watermark in images
A digital image signal is watermarked by locally changing geometric features of the image. The watermark consists of a pseudo-random, dense subset of image pixels, e.g., a pattern of lines ( 20 )....
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6668084 |
Image recognition method
The present invention provides an image recognition method whereby the influence of noise due to fluctuations of the ambient environment can be minimized and which has good response and high...
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6658149 |
Scheme for identifying gray-scale image
A scheme for identifying input gray-scale image data (F) having noise tolerance and distortion tolerance. The data (F) is composed of a set of gray levels representative of points that form an...
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6633686 |
Method and apparatus for image registration using large deformation diffeomorphisms on a sphere
An apparatus and method for image registration of a template image with a target image with large deformation. The apparatus and method involve computing a large deformation transform based on...
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6594392 |
Pattern recognition based on piecewise linear probability density function
The present invention is a method and apparatus to determine a similarity measure between first and second patterns. First and second storages store first and second feature vectors which represent...
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6574353 |
Video object tracking using a hierarchy of deformable templates
A hierarchy of deformation operations is implemented to deform a template and match the deformed template to an object in a video frame. At each level, the constraints on the template deformations...
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6546117 |
Video object segmentation using active contour modelling with global relaxation
A system for image object tracking and segmentation, includes (i) a modified adaptive resonance theory-2 (M-ART2) model for detecting changes of scenes, (ii) a two-dimensional correlative...
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6507912 |
Protection of biometric data via key-dependent sampling
Key-dependent sampling of a biometric characteristic is performed at a client, to thereby generate key-dependent biometric data samples. The key-dependent biometric data samples are then...
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6430308 |
Handwriting verification device
A handwriting verification device includes: a normalizing section for normalizing an inputted handwriting which has been subjected to sampling at regular intervals; a registered handwriting...
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6330358 |
Apparatus for character segmentation and apparatus for character recognition using the same
Hand-written characters which have been turned to electronic data are input by input means, and fields of induction on the retina of the character image are calculated by field of induction...
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6330347 |
Method and device for identifying fingerprints using an analog flash memory
A method for identifying fingerprints includes the steps of acquiring a primary image and a secondary image; determining notable points in the primary image; comparing with one another the primary...
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6327393 |
Method and apparatus to transform a region within a digital image using a deformable window
A method and apparatus is provided for intuitively, graphically parameterizing a region of an input image to be processed by a machine-vision vision system, the region being defined by a deformable...
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6256411 |
Image processing device and method for detecting objects in image data
An image processing device and method recognizing and deleting extraneous objects in image for data based on analysis of the image data. An object detection means detects an object region such as a...
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6160914 |
Handwritten character verification method and apparatus therefor
A handwritten character recognition method including the steps of acquiring coordinate information and writing pressure information relating to a handwritten character string as three-dimensional...
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6115505 |
Area detection apparatus
There is disclosed an area detection apparatus in which a reference image having a predetermined pattern is prepared beforehand, and an area having the same pattern as the reference image is...
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6052481 |
Automatic method for scoring and clustering prototypes of handwritten stroke-based data
A system and method for processing stroke-based handwriting data for the purposes of automatically scoring and clustering the handwritten data to form letter prototypes. The present invention...
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6044168 |
Model based faced coding and decoding using feature detection and eigenface coding
The method uses a three-dimensional face model and a technique called eigenface decomposition to analyze the video at one end. The facial feature locations and eigenface coding of the face image...
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6009198 |
Method for matching perceptual shape similarity layouts across multiple 2D objects
A method for matching objects based on spatial layout of regions based on a shape similarity model for detecting similarity between general 2D objects. The method uses the shape similarity model to...
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6006015 |
System and method of printer image warping
Method and apparatus facilitate alignment of a print image to a desired position. The print image includes a set of original linear groupings of pixels. A distortion of the print image is...
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5999651 |
Apparatus and method for tracking deformable objects
A computer-implemented method and apparatus for tracking an image object within successive first and second image frames. The first frame has a first contour model which defines the image object...
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5930380 |
Method and apparatus for verifying static signatures using dynamic information
In a process of signature verification, an off-line test signature is compared to one or more on-line reference signatures. Dynamic data obtained from the reference signature or signatures may be...
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5912989 |
Pattern recognition with a tree structure used for reference pattern feature vectors or for HMM
Preferably using frame vectors, a reference memory (13) keeps feature vectors of a set as a tree comprising a root node, leaf nodes farthest from the root node, and intermediate nodes with the...
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5887069 |
Sign recognition apparatus and method and sign translation system using same
In continuous sign language recognition, reference sign language patterns of good quality are generated. Continuous sign language patterns and reference sign language patterns are efficiently...
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5883986 |
Method and system for automatic transcription correction
A method and system for automatically modifying an original transcription produced as the output of a recognition operation produces a second, modified transcription, such as, for example,...
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5828769 |
Method and apparatus for recognition of objects via position and orientation consensus of local image encoding
A method for recognition of an object in an image is provided, the method comprising the steps of: capturing in electronic memory multiple model images of the object; selecting from each captured...
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5796410 |
Generation and use of defective images in image analysis
Apparatus and methods for generating a set of defective images from a model image. Defect parameters used with the apparatus and methods specify classes of defects including resolution, blur,...
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5784490 |
Method and apparatus for automated recognition of text embedded in cluttered observations
A method, and related apparatus, for recognizing alphanumeric characters within a sample includes applying ideal alphanumeric character templates to the sample to identify each template which is...
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5774586 |
Method and apparatus for standardization of inputs to word recognition systems
Groups of symbols to be recognized are standardized by fitting four flexible curves to the group of symbols. The curves are fitted by minimizing a cost or energy function that associates a cost...
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5748769 |
Pattern recognition apparatus
A pattern recognition apparatus includes a pattern analyzer for analyzing a similarity between an input pattern and a learning pattern, a hypothetic pattern forming section for forming, as a...
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