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7606424 Combined forward and reverse correlation  
Improved correlation techniques employ data from forward (template-to-reference) and reverse (reference-to-template) correlation to identify valid correlation peaks, enforce symmetry in correlation...
7596240 Object tracking method and object tracking apparatus  
An object tracking apparatus consisting of an imaging device, a signal processor for processing a video signal generated by the imaging device, and a display for displaying the result of processing...
7561722 System and method for interactive document layout  
A document layout is adjusted to alter the quality of the document by generating an initial document with a plurality of blocks. A user can manually adjust the parameters of the document....
7551782 System and method of user interface and data entry from a video call  
A system and method for imaging an object, and using reference templates to recognize and enhance object image, including the identification of a template for a specific area of a target object to...
7526143 Imaging method  
A method which, while displacing the field-of-view, allows the image in a target area to be acquired without degradations such as out-of-focus of the image. Plural pieces of images are acquired...
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...
7502528 Image matching apparatus, method of matching images, and computer program product  
An image matching apparatus includes a numerical analyzing unit that solves an equation of motion numerically. The equation of motion is formulated as an image matching state transition model...
7492947 Image processing method and image processing apparatus  
This invention consists in an image processing method in which the similarity between a first pixel and a second pixel constituting an image is numerically given by statistical testing, and the...
7474768 Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer readable medium storing program  
An image processing apparatus for processing image data including: appending information generating unit for receiving image data and generating an appending information based on contents of the...
7463773 Fast high precision matching method  
An initial search method uses the input image and the template to create an initial search result output. A high precision match uses the initial search result, the input image, and the template to...
7460737 Method and apparatus for photograph finding  
Digital image data including discrete photographic images of a variety of different subjects, times, and so forth, are collected and analyzed to identify specific features in the photographs. In an...
7450785 Method and device for sorting similar images  
A method of comparing images is disclosed herein. The images may be represented by image data comprising a plurality of image data values. An embodiment of the method may comprise determining at...
7450262 Form recognizing apparatus, form recognizing method, program and storage medium  
A form recognizing apparatus, a form recognizing method and a form recognizing program for easily and precisely recognizing whether or not a form including multiple pages corresponds to any of...
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...
7440617 Communication system and control method thereof, and computer-readable memory  
A mobile terminal reads a read manuscript as image data. A character recognition block performs character recognition from the image data, which is read, on the basis of a threshold for judgement...
7436989 Generation, verification and reproduction of a digitized writing  
A digitized writing is recorded in a digitized writing record including at least the position of each point of a writing in coordinates relative to a coordinate of a previous point thereof and...
7417632 Automatic testing of graphics programs  
A method and system to automatically test graphical output. A graphical output is generated in a format that permits automatic comparison with a reference graphic. The reference graphic is created...
7406198 Image capture apparatus  
An image capture apparatus is placed on a desk and an object to be captured is presented above the apparatus. An illumination device can emit light of a plurality of wavelengths, and a camera...
7403657 Method and apparatus for character string search in image  
A method and an apparatus for searching character image in an image whether the characters are incorporated into an image or separately picked up from a flip card, which are difficult to be...
7382898 Method and apparatus for detecting left objects  
A method and apparatus for detecting objects (e.g., bags, vehicles, etc.) left in a field of view are disclosed. A long-term representation and a short-term representation of the field of view are...
7374077 Similar image search system  
A similar image search system includes an image database which stores a number of pieces of image data representing a number of images. Search image data representing the whole and/or a part of an...
7370975 Image processing apparatus  
An image processing apparatus which includes: an imaging device; a reference luminance property storage device that stores a predetermined reference luminance property; a luminance property...
7355529 Binary image compression apparatus and method  
A binary image compression apparatus and method. The apparatus to compress a binary image includes a symbol extraction unit to extract symbols from a binary image, a symbol dictionary including a...
7333630 Method and apparatus for detecting film image using grouping  
Provided is a method and apparatus for determining whether an input mage is a film image. The method includes (a) receiving a predetermined number of similarity values of two adjacent fields of the...
7324710 Method and device for determining nominal data for electronic circuits by capturing a digital image and compare with stored nominal data  
A method and a corresponding device for determining nominal mechanical data for an electronic device by automatic image processing of a digital image of a specimen of said electronic device. In the...
7319791 Subtractive primitives used in pattern matching  
A method for recognizing an object in a target image using model primitives comprising an additive primitive and a subtractive primitive; weights are assigned to the additive and subtractive...
7308140 Method and device for measuring similarity between images  
A method of measuring a similarity between images is provided. The method includes the steps of (a) computing a statistical dissimilarity between the images; (b) computing a perceptual...
7308119 Image retrieval apparatus and method, and image display apparatus and method thereof  
Image data containing the face image of a person is retrieved from a plurality of images, the retrieved image data is displayed, face image data, which is for image retrieval, is extracted from the...
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...
7298881 Method, system, and computer software product for feature-based correlation of lesions from multiple images  
A method, system, and computer software product for correlating medical images, comprising: obtaining first image data representative of a first medical image including a first abnormality;...
7283673 Image processing method and apparatus  
An object of the present invention is to provide an image processing apparatus which allows a user to execute image processing, such as extraction and elimination of a portion common to a plurality...
7263242 Method for detecting repetitive surfaces in an optical mouse  
A repetitive surface detector includes an image capture device capturing an image. An autocorrelator receives the image and generates a signal indicative of a repetitive background of the image. A...
7260488 Similarity calculation method and device  
In a similarity vector detecting apparatus ( 2 ), vector transform units ( 20 ), ( 21 ) implement transform by sequential matrix, Discrete Cosine Transform, Discrete Fourier Transform,...
7149359 Searching and recording media streams  
In a networked client/server system, media data is streamed from a server to a client. A user of the client can search the media data to identify portions that satisfy certain search criteria,...
7139429 Image recognition scheme  
An image recognition method comprises the steps of: a) examining as to how much input image parts resemble a predetermined figure comprising a plurality of elements, and giving a first score on...
7136508 Image processing apparatus, method, and program for processing a moving image  
A moving image Vd consists of a plurality of frames F 1 –F 12 . A scene change SC of the moving image Vd is detected according to change in each frame regarding to brightness information of...
7134143 Method and apparatus for data packet pattern matching  
A pattern matching engine supports high speed (up to at least 2.4. Gbits per second line rate speeds) parallel pattern matching operations in an unanchored fashion. The engine is preferably...
7133568 Method and apparatus for analysis of variables  
Various components of the present invention are collectively designated as Analysis of Variables Through Analog Representation (AVATAR). AVATAR offers an analog solution to those problems of the...
7133555 Image color matching scheme  
Embodiments of a color image matching scheme are disclosed. In one embodiment, a pixel intensity count is determined for color components of color images in a database and for a query color image....
7133542 Fingerprint verification device and fingerprint verification method  
The present invention provides technologies for narrowing down fingerprints images, which will be used for identity determination, without extracting auxiliary information such as a fingerprint...
7130468 Method for identifying change of scenery and corresponding monitoring device  
A method for detecting changes in a viewfield observed by a stationary image capturing device is proposed, in which edge images are calculated and are compared to edge images of reference...
7130461 Systems and method for automatically choosing visual characteristics to highlight a target against a background  
A method for choosing visual characteristics of a characteristic space within a region includes calculating a mean characteristic of the region, determining a covariance of the region, inverting...
7117192 Text and imagery spatial correlator  
A text and imagery spatial correlator automatically relates the geographic locations where events referenced in text occur to those same geographic locations appearing in imagery. In the preferred...
7085418 Template matching method and image processing device  
A template matching method for searching a matching area having the highest correlation with a template including a reference point in a first image from a second image, the template matching...
7058240 Adaptive system and method for pattern classification  
The systems and methods of this invention provide a simple classifier suitable for real time use. The classifier adapts to changing system conditions and does not require recalculating the details...
7046865 Determination of similarity using weighting value depending on the type of characteristic  
A similarity determining apparatus is disclosed which determines whether a query signal and a search signal are similar to each other or not. The similarity determining apparatus determines...
7046850 Image matching  
A method for matching digital images, including regularization of image features of a first digital image, composed of pixels, defining a finite set of candidate values, wherein a candidate value...
7043083 Pattern-collating device, pattern-collating method and pattern-collating program  
The pattern-collating device includes as feature point pairs, among feature points which are portions indicating respective features of an examination target graphic which is the graphic to be...
7039238 Data relationship model  
A model is used to represent a set of structured data objects that include elements at defined positions. The model includes distributions of vectors, each distribution corresponding to particular...
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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