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7623741 System and method for transferring scanned imaging data to a personal imaging repository  
A system and method for transferring scanned imaging data from a scanning device to a personal imaging repository. The present invention includes a scanning device capable of reading information...
7623694 Method and apparatus for classifying detection inputs in medical images  
Detection inputs are classified using two thresholds. In a preferred embodiment, a multiplicity of inputs are scored and the scored inputs are searched to locate an input that has a score greater...
7623690 System and method for classifying in vivo images according to anatomical structure  
A system for identifying anatomical structure depicted in an in vivo image, that includes an examination bundlette having a captured in vivo image; and a gastrointestinal atlas that includes a list...
7623676 Method and apparatus for tracking objects over a wide area using a network of stereo sensors  
A method and/or system for tracking objects, such as humans, over a wide area (that is, over an area that is delineated by a large spatial domain and/or a long-duration temporal domain) is...
7620256 Method and apparatus for processing images in a layered structure  
An image processing apparatus includes an image element allocation unit that allocates image elements included in input image data to any of plural mutually-different coding processings, in...
7620251 Apparatus for selecting image of specific scene, program therefor, and recording medium storing the program  
Images of various scenes can be classified with high accuracy by considering a characteristic part corresponding to a desired one of the scenes in the images and a change in position or area...
7619648 User assisted customization of automated video surveillance systems  
A surveillance system allows a user to characterize the user's environment and/or the user s surveillance application, via a selection from among a variety of predefined environments and/or...
7619622 Selective rendering for driver classes  
Described is a filtering mechanism/process that selectively controls whether graphics primitives are provided to a given driver. For example, graphics primitives of an accessibility (e.g.,...
7613343 Nosologic system of diagnosis  
Nosologic classification of diseases is accessible on line in a computer system. A computer data base has records of discriminating features, consistent features and variable features of known...
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...
7609894 Adaptive sampling region for a region editing tool  
Properties of pixels in a digital image are sampled within different subdivisions of an editing tool impression to produce different property distributions. The different subdivisions can...
7609893 Method and apparatus for producing classifier training images via construction and manipulation of a three-dimensional image model  
A system ( 400 ) for generating training images for a pattern recognition classifier ( 54 ) from three-dimensional image data representing an output class comprises a model constructor ( 404 ) that...
7606425 Unsupervised learning of events in a video sequence  
Methods and systems for the unsupervised learning of events contained within a video sequence, including apparatus and interfaces for implementing such systems and methods, are disclosed. An...
7603032 Image capturing apparatus and image capturing method that instructs a user to capture an image before an image is captured based on a necessary image type  
The image capturing apparatus instructs a user to take an image of a type not stored among types of images necessary for making an album. The image capturing apparatus of the present invention...
7602971 System, method and recording medium for automatically classifying documents  
A system for automatically classifying documents includes a database, a positioning-information capturing device, a locating device, and a document comparison device. The database is used for...
7599894 Object recognition using a cognitive swarm vision framework with attention mechanisms  
An object recognition system is described that incorporates swarming classifiers with attention mechanisms. The object recognition system includes a cognitive map having a one-to-one relationship...
7599556 Apparatus, system, and method for scanning segmentation  
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for identifying content within a scanned document. The apparatus includes a modification module, an identification module, and a segmentation module....
7599555 System and method for image matting  
A method compresses a set of correlated signals by first converting each signal to a sequence of integers, which are further organized as a set of bit-planes. An inverse accumulator is applied to...
7596275 Methods and systems for imaging and classifying targets as empty or non-empty  
The present invention relates to systems and methods for characterizing targets, e.g., trucks, pallets, trains, cars, and the like, using digital target imaging. Accordingly, embodiments of the...
7596274 Method of inspecting unevenness of partition surface of honeycomb structure and inspecting device  
A method of inspecting unevenness of a partition wall surface of a honeycomb structure includes the steps of: allowing a diffusion light to enter from one end face 8 side by a predetermined...
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...
7590273 Estimation of solitary pulmonary nodule diameters with a hybrid segmentation approach  
A method for estimating a diameter of an object of interest, includes extracting a sub-volume of voxels around a marker identifying a location of the object of interest, and determining a...
7587069 Weak hypothesis generation apparatus and method, learning apparatus and method, detection apparatus and method, facial expression learning apparatus and method, facial expression recognition apparatus and method, and robot apparatus  
A facial expression recognition system that uses a face detection apparatus realizing efficient learning and high-speed detection processing based on ensemble learning when detecting an area...
7586646 System for processing and classifying image data using halftone noise energy distribution  
A method and system is provided for processing scanned data representative of a document image for classifying portions of the data into contone, low frequency halftone or high frequency halftone...
7584012 Automatic defect review and classification system  
An automatic defect review and classification system including at least one automatic defect review apparatus for specifically observing defect portions of a sample and at least one automatic...
7583833 Method and apparatus for manufacturing data indexing  
A method, apparatus, and a system for generating an index for storing data. A pattern associated with a first set of data is determined. The first set of data is stored. A determination is made as...
7583832 Method and its apparatus for classifying defects  
A highly reliable defect automatic classifying method and apparatus capable of flexibly coping with a request for classifying a defect given by each user without having to collect lots of teach...
7580907 Invariant object recognition  
A system and method of identifying the computing architecture used by the mammalian visual system and to implement it in simulations and software algorithms, and in hardware components, is described.
7580562 Image processing method, image processing device, and image processing program  
When making judgments of image type, image data is input, and a judgment is made as to whether the type of image indicated by the image data is a first type; for image data judged as being of the...
7574054 Using photographer identity to classify images  
A method of identifying at least one particular person of interest in a collection of digital images taken over time, includes providing the collection of digital images with each digital image...
7574053 Method for processing data structures  
A method for processing data structures with the aid of networked semantic units includes: acquiring a data structure, and generating, modifying, deleting and storing semantic structure units and...
7574048 Freeform digital ink annotation recognition  
The present invention leverages classification type detectors and/or context information to provide a systematic means to recognize and anchor annotation strokes, providing reflowable digital...
7570816 Systems and methods for detecting text  
The subject invention relates to facilitating text detection. The invention employs a boosted classifier and a transductive classifier to provide accurate and efficient text detection systems...
7567954 Sentence classification device and method  
A DT matrix generation means ( 11 ) generates a DT matrix ( 11 A) from each document (D) in a document set ( 21 ) and each term (T) in a term list ( 22 ). A DT matrix transformation means ( 12 )...
7567707 Red eye detection and correction  
A system suited to correction of red eyes in images includes a detection module which, for a plurality of pixels in a digital image, assigns a probability that a pixel is within a red eye. The...
7567704 Method and apparatus for identifying physical features in video  
An image is processed by a sensed-feature-based classifier to generate a list of objects assigned to classes. The most prominent objects (those objects whose classification is most likely reliable)...
7565014 Method for automatically defining regions of interest for matching and visualizing forensic images  
A method and apparatus for an automated system to extract a high quality signature from an image having areas not relevant for specific identification purposes which can lead to misleading image...
7558426 Device for outputting character recognition results, character recognition device, and program therefor  
An output mechanism of a character recognition device includes a category classifier for classifying image data of characters to be recognized for each category recognized in character recognition...
7555165 Method for semantic scene classification using camera metadata and content-based cues  
A method for scene classification of a digital image includes extracting pre-determined camera metadata tags from the digital image. The method also includes obtaining estimates of image class...
7551763 Methods for altering one or more parameters of a measurement system  
Methods for altering one or more parameters of a measurement system are provided. One method includes analyzing a sample using the system to generate values from classification channels of the...
7548808 Hardware independent mapping of multiple sensor configurations for classification of persons  
Sensors are mounted within a seat structure for measuring seat occupant weight. The sensors can be mounted in any one of various sensor configurations. So that common hardware can be used for each...
7548651 Data process unit and data process unit control program  
To provide a data process unit and data process unit control program that are suitable for generating acoustic models for unspecified speakers taking distribution of diversifying feature parameters...
7545986 Adaptive resampling classifier method and apparatus  
According to the invention, an apparatus for classifying and sorting input data in a data stream includes a processor having a classifier input control with a first input and second input, an...
7545985 Method and system for learning-based quality assessment of images  
A method and system for learning-based assessment of the quality of an image is provided. An image quality assessment system trains an image classifier based on a training set of sample images that...
7542610 System and method for use of images with recognition analysis  
An index is provided that holds information about each image content item in a collection of items, For each image content item, a first information item identifying the image content item and its...
7539343 Classifying regions defined within a digital image  
A method for classifying regions defined within a digital image includes defining a tessellated set of regions from a plurality of regions identified by a plurality of segmented versions of the...
7536045 Method for the analysis of array images and device  
A method of image analysis applicable to the analysis of arrays, such as DNA or protein microarrays. In the method the luminous spots of the array are filtered and isolated without any intervention...
7532759 Method, system and computer software product for selecting elements of a digital image  
A method and system for selecting image elements, such as image pixels or vectors, of a digital image provide a set of lexical classifiers, such as a set of color names, which characterize a visual...
7532755 Image classification using concentration ratio  
Methods and systems of classifying an image by use of a concentration ratio that indicates the smoothness of the distribution of a population of elements in the image or portions thereof. Alternate...
7522773 Using time in recognizing persons in images  
A method of identifying at least one particular person of interest in a collection of digital images taken over time, includes providing the collection of digital images with each digital image...