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7376249 Determination of a motion of a background in a series of images  
The movement of an imaging of a background in a sequence of images of a scene determined. A combination image is composed with pixels which have been built up through combination of several...
7236636 Image compression method, image restoration method, program and apparatus  
An image compression divides an input image into blocks having the predetermined number of horizontal and longitudinal pixels, and scans the divided blocks in a main scan direction and a sub scan...
7231087 Matching binary templates against range map derived silhouettes for object pose estimation  
A method for approximating an object's pose from a camera generated image of a scene is performed by first extracting a binary map from the image. The binary map is filtered to include silhouettes...
6952484 Method and apparatus for mark detection  
Disclosed is a method of detecting a predetermined mark embedded in an image. The mark ( 29 ) comprises a predetermined arrangement of a plurality of elements ( 30 ), each element having a...
6859561 Faster lossless rotation of JPEG images  
Image rotations of 90°, 180° and 270° and horizontal and vertical mirroring image transformations are performed losslessly and with greatly enhanced speed by processing orthogonal transform...
6320671 Web browser printing enhancements  
A method and system for printing web pages from an intra- or internet source with a client computer. The client computer is capable of accessing and viewing a web page from an intra- or internet...
5946415 Method and apparatus to process drawing images  
The processing time and memory in converting scanned images to a hardware scription language is significantly reducer by using a "peephole" method to examine only partial images of features of the...
5872636 Flexible resolution control and matching in image processing  
An image processing apparatus includes a resolution ratio setting unit for setting a ratio of the resolution of input image data to the resolution of multi-value image data to be output, a pixel...
5835634 Bitmap comparison apparatus and method using an outline mask and differently weighted bits  
A bitmap comparison technique that is able quickly to compare two bitmap images while discounting differences between the images likely due to noise. The bitmap comparison technique includes the...
5671292 High speed digital image pattern matching circuit  
A high speed digital image pattern matching circuit which recognizes an image pattern, and discriminates whether the recognized image pattern matches with a desired reference pattern and where...
5291560 Biometric personal identification system based on iris analysis  
A system for rapid and automatic identification of persons, with very high reliability and confidence levels. The iris of the eye is used an optical fingerprint, having a highly detailed pattern...
5163101 Bitplane area correlator  
A method and apparatus for simultaneously correlating a mask to a series of shifted positions of an image. A series of bits from a field representing an image are supplied to a number of buffer...
5067161 Image recognition device  
A visual recognition device receives video signals representing an object to be recognized from a video camera, converts the video signals to a two-valued input pattern, and compares the input...
5054090 Fingerprint correlation system with parallel FIFO processor  
A method and apparatus for parallel processing "live" and pre-recorded "reference" fingerprint data for comparison purposes. An array sensor images a selected portion of a live fingerprint and...
5046113 Method of and apparatus for detecting pattern defects by means of a plurality of inspecting units each operating in accordance with a respective inspecting principle  
An apparatus for inspecting pattern defects in circuit board conductors or other images has inspecting units which perform inspection operations based on various pattern matching approaches, which...
4958378 Method and apparatus for detecting changes in raster data  
A method and apparatus which provides for the real time comparison of raster data. The raster data is stored in memory such that raster data corresponding to a specific X-Y coordinate location is...
4811407 Method and apparatus for converting analog video character signals into computer recognizable binary data  
A method and apparatus for converting a conventional analog video signal carrying alphanumeric video characters into computer recognizable data is disclosed. A signal containing composite video...
4651341 Pattern recognition apparatus and a pattern recognition method  
A pattern recognition apparatus and method, the apparatus comprising a correlation calculating circuit for calculating first correlations between each part of a image pattern data and a reference...
4630308 Character reader  
In the particular embodiment of the invention described in the specification, the identity of an unknown character is determined by comparing matrices representing the unknown character with...
4481664 Process for inspecting objects showing patterns with dimensional tolerances and reject criteria varying with the locations of said patterns and apparatus and circuits for carrying out said process  
First of all, this invention relates to a process based on the comparison of the image of a reference object I ref with the image of an object to be inspected I exa . Images I ref and I exa are...
4477926 Process for inspecting and automatically sorting objects showing patterns with constant dimensional tolerances and apparatus for carrying out said process  
This invention relates to a process for inspecting and sorting objects showing patterns with constant dimensional tolerances as masks, integrated circuit chips, modules currently in use in the...
4288782 High speed character matcher and method  
A high speed character matcher and method for measuring the similarity between a pair of binary patterns representing two-dimensional images. The patterns are compared on a bit by bit basis and...
4119946 Comparison apparatus, e.g. for use in character recognition  
A succession of signals forming the components of an input vector are compared simultaneously with a plurality of reference vectors as the components of the reference vectors are read out in time...
4032885 Digital correlator  
A digital correlator which will detect a digital pattern in the presence of noise. In an n bit pseudo-noise (PN) sequence, comparison is made of the input word with m desired PN coded word...
3713099 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING LETTERS, CHARACTERS, SYMBOLS AND THE LIKE  
Character recognition apparatus, comprising, in combination: means for scanning characters to be identified to provide for each character to be identified a time-varying first signal comprising a...
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