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7595898 Print control apparatus, printer apparatus, information processing apparatus, and program product  
A print control apparatus is connected to a printing device, and includes: a generation unit that generates first vector data for printing an image on a single sheet and second vector data for...
7567714 System, method and apparatus for clustering features  
A method, system, computer-readable medium, and apparatus for identifying a boundary of a cluster in a bitmap, the bitmap having at least one initially set bit, for applying an expansion shape to...
7542174 Image processing method for reducing jaggy effect  
An image processing method for reducing jaggy effect, which is applied in an image output device, is provided. Firstly, a continuous tone image is generated, and continuous tone pixels are defined...
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...
7474788 Method and system for enhancing image resolution using a modification vector  
An image processing system. An input/output device receives information for pixels in an image corresponding to an object, wherein the information specifies optical properties. A storage device...
7463779 Method of compressing digital ink using linear prediction  
A method of compressing digital ink input including a sequence of strokes is provided. Each stroke is represented as a series of digital words representing x and y co-ordinates. The compressed...
7433519 Bitstream format for compressed image data  
It is desirable to provide a bitstream format for compressed data that would allow multiple processors to access and decompress different parts of the data in parallel. Compressed images are...
7388988 Systems and methods for processing boundary information of a graphical object  
In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to a method for processing boundary information of a graphical object. The method may comprise: receiving a graphical image that comprises the...
7372916 Process and devices for transmitting digital signals over buses and computer program product therefore  
Digital signals are transmitted on a bus at given instants selectively in a non-encoded format and an encoded format. The decision whether to transmit the signals in non-encoded format or in...
7308148 Method of compressing digital ink  
A method of compressing a digital ink input is disclosed. The digital ink includes a sequence of strokes, each stroke being represented as a series of digital words representing x and y...
7302106 System and method for ink or handwriting compression  
A system and method for compressing digital pen stroke data utilizing curve simplification. Digital pen stroke images (ink images) generate a relatively large amount of data to preserve the ink...
7302001 Random access points in video encoding  
In a method of encoding/decoding a video sequence, which is composed of video frames, at least one video frame is divided into a set of coding blocks, and at least one of the coding blocks is...
7251375 Tile boundary artifact removal for arbitrary wavelet filters  
A method for processing data is described. In one embodiment, the method includes decompressing a plurality of sets of compressed data, including performing detiling on a first set of compressed...
7203375 Quantization error compensation apparatus and method thereof  
A quantization error compensation includes a dividing unit to divide an input current image signal into a first high-frequency signal and a low-frequency signal; a changing unit to replace bits of...
7149356 System and method for template matching of candidates within a two-dimensional image  
The present invention includes a method for matching a stored template with an image of an object. This is a final stage identification device in the at least one candidate array is received from a...
7146057 System and method for image analysis using a chaincode  
The present invention includes a method for analyzing an image to screen for target candidates wherein an edge-follower detects straight segments within a plurality of longer edges and detects also...
7133564 Dynamic chain-based thresholding using global characteristics  
One embodiment relates to an apparatus for image processing. The apparatus includes a candidate edge chain identifier for identifying candidate edge chains in an image being processed, means for...
7127118 System and method for compressing image files while preserving visually significant aspects  
The present invention concerns a way of compressing an initial data structure that defines an image as an array of pixel elements. The method includes generating a new data structure that defines...
7116823 System and method for analyzing a contour of an image by applying a Sobel operator thereto  
The present invention includes a method for analyzing an image wherein elements defining a path within a two-dimensional image are received from a prescreener. A Sobel operator may be applied to...
7039230 Method for compressing an image by using characteristic values  
The present invention relates to a method compressing image data, more particularly to a method for compressing image data by using characteristic values. At first, input image data are executed by...
7024047 Apparatus, method, and computer program product for image processing  
An apparatus for image processing including a region detector, a density conversion unit, a compression unit, and an expansion unit. The region detector detects an edge region in an image data. The...
7016082 Halftone dot thinning  
The invention provides techniques for thinning halftone dots in a halftone dot bit map. A bit map filter may be used to thin the dots. For example, a target glyph may passed over the bit map. If...
7012958 Partition coding method and device  
The invention relates to a method of coding segmented pictures, or partitions, divided into homogeneous regions. Said method, called intra-mode coding process, comprises, for each successive...
7003155 System and method for creating unclassified line drawings from classified NTM images  
A system and method of automatically creating a NIMA certified line drawing from a National Imagery Transmission Format (NITF) image file. A grayscale (electro-optical) image and its associated...
6947605 Dynamic chain-based thresholding using local characteristics  
One embodiment relates to an apparatus for image processing. The apparatus includes a candidate edge chain identifier for identifying candidate edge chains in an image being processed, means for...
6944337 Preventing green non-uniformity in image sensors  
The present invention relates to digital image sensors and in particular to contour filters (ZSB, 7 ) preventing green non-uniformity in the contour signal of the RGB Bayer image sensors. A set of...
6912316 Data compression and reconstruction methods and apparatuses for hard copy device  
Data compression and reconstruction methods and apparatuses for a hard copy device are provided. The data compression method of compressing source image data, which is used for hard copying a...
6911980 Manipulation of curves and surfaces  
In a shape manipulation method, relocation information is received indicative of an intended change in position of a target location on a Bezier shape, the contour of the Bezier shape being...
6909747 Process and device for coding video images  
A process and device for coding video images using a non object-based coding standard that extracts at least one video object from an image originating from a sequence of images, by the...
6873736 Method for supplementing digital image with picture element, and digital image encoder and decoder using the same  
The present invention provides a method of supplementing a digital picture with a shorter delay time and less calculations. The padding method is applied to a picture having a great motion, and...
6829371 Auto-setup of a video safety curtain system  
A two-dimensional (2-D) machine-vision safety method and apparatus performs high-integrity, high efficiency machine vision. The system digitally filters a configurable number of time-sequenced...
6778698 Method and apparatus for digital image segmentation  
An image segmenter uses one or more techniques to accurately segment an image, including the use of a progressive flood fill to fill incompletely bounded segments, the use of a plurality of scaled...
6774937 Image processing system and camera system  
In the case where an output signal of an image pickup device is compressed and is transmitted through a transmission path with band limitation, when a conventional compression and expansion...
6731799 Object segmentation with background extraction and moving boundary techniques  
Image data for an image frame are allocated among three groups. In one group are image data which are part of a derived motion boundary, along with image data which differ by at least a threshold...
6728412 Method and apparatus for on-the-fly image coding  
A method and apparatus for on-the-fly coding digital images using a line scanner, a boundary matcher/follower and a coder, and utilizing a small amount of processing and memory is disclosed. In an...
6714664 ROAD AREA EXTRACTING APPARATUS FOR EXTRACTING A ROAD AREA FROM A BLOCK MAP, DEFORMED MAP AUTOMATIC GENERATION SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A DEFORMED MAP FROM ROAD AREA DATA OBTAINED BY THE ROAD AREA EXTRACTING APPARATUS, MAP INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM AND GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION DESCRIBING METHOD  
A vector block information indicating a plurality of line segment rows is read out from a block map. Each line segment row divides an area of a block from an area of a road in an image drawing...
6707946 Partition decoding method and device  
The invention relates to a method of decoding coded signals corresponding to successive segmented pictures, or partitions, divided into homogeneous regions to which specific labels are respectively...
6690821 Determining the font of text in an image  
Systems and methods are provided for automatically determining the font of text in a captured document image. Sequences of turns (left, right, straight) around the boundaries of connected...
6674910 Apparatus and method for image-compression encoding and decoding using adaptive transform  
An apparatus and method for image-compression encoding and decoding using an adaptive transform in which, where different transform coefficients are outputted in accordance with a change of the...
6674435 Fast, symmetric, integer bezier curve to polygon conversion  
A printer forms an approximate of a Bezier curve as a sequence of line segments. Two parametric equations, X(t) and Y(t), are employed. Two methods can be used to evaluate the parametric equations....
6665340 Moving picture encoding/decoding system, moving picture encoding/decoding apparatus, moving picture encoding/decoding method, and recording medium  
A moving picture encoding/decoding system includes a moving picture encoding apparatus and moving picture decoding apparatus. The moving picture encoding apparatus has an input image encoding unit,...
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...
6633680 System, method and computer program product for small-font compression  
A system, method and computer program product are provided for the compression of characters with a predetermined size. Initially, a plurality of characters are received. Thereafter, the characters...
6628837 Assist channel coding with convolution coding  
A system encodes a separate assist channel that carries only a small amount of additional information in a hardcopy document to compensate for failure of an OCR system to accurately reconstruct a...
6614940 System, method and computer program product for generic outline font compression  
A system, method and computer program product are provided for compression of characters. Upon receipt of a plurality of characters, at least one test is performed on the characters to determine if...
6614933 Image processing apparatus and method, and storage medium  
An encoding method efficiently encodes information relating to a multivalue image having an arbitrary shape, i.e., a rectangular or non-rectangular shape. An image processing apparatus includes an...
6606414 Method and device for coding a digitized image  
Image segments are not subjected to any residual error encoding when the coincidence of the encoding information of an image segment to be encoded with encoding information of a predicted image...
6567560 Methods, apparatuses and program recording media for image coding and image decoding  
An object of this invention is to provide a coding method and a coding apparatus for efficiently coding both a pixel value signal and a shape signal which are included in an image signal to be...
6498608 Method and apparatus for variable weight outline emboldening of scalable outline fonts  
An emboldened font is simulated from a regular font by moving the outline that describes the font along a vector normal to the direction of the outline a predetermined distance. A new emboldened...
6487305 Deformed map automatic generation system including automatic extraction of road area from a block map and shape deformation of at least one road area drawn in the map  
A vector block information indicating a plurality of line segment rows is read out from a block map. Each line segment row divides an area of a block from an area of a road in an image drawing...
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