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7627191 Image manipulation  
Image data is scaled, rotated and/or otherwise manipulated. Diffusive effects of associated interpolation and/or re-sampling are compensated for, or corrected, by applying an adaptive packing form...
7627190 Computationally enhanced image recognition system  
Method for enhancing visual images. An operator manipulates a visual image by adjusting darkness levels within each primary color to embellish the recognition of distinct objects which may appear...
7627189 Sharpness adjustment method and program and electronic endoscope apparatus  
The sharpness of an image obtained by an endoscope is adjusted. A sharpness enhancement amount is determined for each pixel based on the value of each pixel which forms a luminance distribution...
7627169 Image processing apparatus and method  
Processing for improving the contrast of an image of interest is executed by an image processing circuit in an X-ray photography apparatus. The image is decomposed into coefficient values of a...
7626591 System and method for asynchronous continuous-level-of-detail texture mapping for large-scale terrain rendering  
A multi-resolution texture mapping system suitable for large scale terrain rendering using commodity graphics processing units (GPU). The GPU vertex and fragment shaders are used to implement the...
7623738 Method, apparatus and a unit for image conversion  
An image conversion unit for converting a first image with a first resolution into a second image with a second resolution, the second resolution being higher than the first resolution being higher...
7623725 Method and system for denoising pairs of mutually interfering signals  
In various embodiments of the present invention, a number n of mutually interfering signals are denoised by selecting a discrete universal denoiser method that denoises n mutually interfering...
7623724 Interface method and system for mapping image intensity  
Provided is a computer implemented method and interface for mapping image intensities on a computing device. The processing method includes displaying an image on a display device having a range of...
7623723 Method for random point and patterned noise reduction in digital images  
A technique is provided for filtering noise in digital image data, particularly random point or spike noise. Image data may be rank order filtered and absolute differences between ordered values...
7623722 Animated display for image manipulation and correction of digital image  
A method for selectively optimizing a plurality of image characteristics for captured images, that includes modifying two or more one-dimensional image characteristic controls using a single loop...
7623717 Capturing device for embedding software into raw sensor data  
Multimedia and multi-content capture device and integration model. A capture device takes raw sensor data and processes it using a set of algorithms stored on the capture device. A processing...
7623704 Color processing method, color processing apparatus, and storage medium  
A representative color calculation section calculates a representative color representing a region, which is a subject of color adjustment in an input image. A color adjustment distance calculation...
7623279 Method for holographic data retrieval by quadrature homodyne detection  
Systems and methods for recovering data in a holographic memory system. The systems and methods use homodyne detection to introduce a local oscillator beam into a reconstructed data beam of the...
7623267 Image processing method, apparatus and program  
The image processing method for obtaining a quantized image from a multiple tone image, the method comprises: an image dividing step of dividing an input image into a plurality of image blocks of a...
7620892 Server based image processing for client display of documents  
Methods and systems that allow the viewing of arbitrary documents on a client display by up-loading all necessary image processing steps to the server, thereby eliminating any software downloads...
7620265 Color invariant image fusion of visible and thermal infrared video  
A methodology for forming a composite color image fusion from a set of N gray level images takes advantage of the natural decomposition of color spaces into 2-D chromaticity planes and 1-D...
7620263 Anti-clipping method for image sharpness enhancement  
An image processing system provides image enhancement and anti-clipping units. The anti-clipping unit for image sharpness enhancement, operates such that any shoot artifacts in the enhanced image...
7620259 History adding device for generating history-added image file, electronic camera, and image processing program for processing history-added image file  
A history adding device includes an image processing unit and a history adding unit. The image processing unit applies image processing to an input image to generate a processed image. The history...
7619628 Caching digital image data  
Methods and systems for processing digital image data utilizing vertically-oriented Effect graphs are provided. When processing digital image data utilizing Effect graphs, it is often necessary for...
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.,...
7617060 Extracting higher order information from scene-based Shack-Hartmann wave-front sensing  
An adaptive optics system is provided, comprising a deformable mirror configured to receive an input beam with an aberrated wavefront and to reflect the input beam to a Shack-Hartmann wavefront...
7616842 End-to-end design of electro-optic imaging systems with constrained digital filters  
A unified design strategy takes into account different subsystems within an overall electro-optic imaging system. In one implementation, the design methodology predicts end-to-end imaging...
7616841 End-to-end design of electro-optic imaging systems  
A unified design strategy takes into account different subsystems within an overall electro-optic imaging system. In one implementation, the design methodology predicts end-to-end imaging...
7613363 Image superresolution through edge extraction and contrast enhancement  
A technique for generating high-resolution bitmaps from low-resolution bitmaps. A low-resolution bitmap is magnified to form a magnified image. Edge detection is performed on the magnified image to...
7613359 Single-chip color camera for high accuracy image measurements  
An image measuring apparatus comprises an imaging portion with pixels, each pixel being allocated with one color, four pixels constituting one set, one set being allocated with a plurality of...
7613353 Method of color image processing to eliminate shadows and reflections  
A method of color image processing comprises at least the following steps: the color image is converted into an intermediate image comprising components that depend solely on the H and S components...
7613338 Image processing method and apparatus, program, and storage medium  
A method and apparatus obtains an image of a proper brightness in various scenes in which it is difficult to appropriately determine the brightness of an image. The apparatus includes a unit which...
7612916 Image processing device, image processing method, and computer program  
An image processing device includes a memory that is adapted to store an input image; an inverted image generator that is adapted to generate an inverted image, the inverted image corresponding to...
7612804 Methods and apparatuses for image processing  
Methods and apparatuses for generating a low dynamic range image for a high dynamic range scene. In one aspect, a method to generate a low dynamic range image from a high dynamic range image,...
7609912 Image transforming device and method based on edges  
An image transforming apparatus and method include a linear interpolation block for generating linear interpolation information for a pixel to be interpolated between original pixels of a...
7609905 Method and arrangement for image representation of two-dimensional image data  
In a method and an arrangement for image representation of two-dimensional digital image data acquired via a medical diagnostic modality, whereby a processing only in a region of the entire image...
7609870 Methods and systems for enhancing images  
Methods and systems for enhancing an image including a plurality of image pixels are provided. The method includes segmenting the image by comparing an image pixel CT number to a plurality of...
7609275 System and method for mosaic rendering of three dimensional image  
A system and method for a mosaic rendering of a 3D model is provided. Textures are created using polygon information related to a vertex of each face of an inputted 3D model, a normal, and a face...
7606439 Method for extracting raw data from an image resulting from a camera shot  
The method according the invention allows the extracting raw data from an image resulting from a camera shot. It comprises determining, for each point of the image of a combination V 0 [C,L] of...
7606437 Image processing based on ambient air attributes  
A method of processing a digital image captured by a camera includes providing an ambient air measuring device associated with the camera; using the ambient air measuring device to measure air...
7605825 Fast zoom-adaptable anti-aliasing of lines using a graphics processing unit  
A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium are disclosed for performing anti-aliasing operations on lines using a graphics processing unit (GPU). Input comprising a plurality of...
7602988 Method for adjusting saturation and contrast of an area of an image and apparatus thereof  
A method for adjusting saturation of an area of an image is disclosed. The method includes calculating a deviation level of a pixel in the area of the image and calculating a modified saturation...
7602987 Defective pixel correcting method, software and image processing system for implementing the method  
A defective pixel correcting method, for correcting one or more of defective pixels present in visible light image data, the one or more of pixels being determined as defective by using the visible...
7602967 Method of improving image quality  
A method of improving image quality of a reproduced image, the method including converting red, green, and blue color data of a subject pixel into color data having brightness and chroma...
7602949 Method and system for enhancing portrait images that are processed in a batch mode  
A batch processing method for enhancing an appearance of a face located in a digital image, where the image is one of a large number of images that are being processed through a batch process,...
7602525 Method of producing color conversion table, image processing device, image processing method, program and recording medium  
A method of producing a color conversion table capable of enhancing continuity in an image-data color conversion, an image processing device and a method using the color conversion table, a program...
7599550 Method for accurate real-time compensation for changing illumination spectra in digital video cameras  
A method for determining a correction for a spectra of scene illumination based on analysis of color content of a video image, in which average image colors are obtained by considering only those...
7599538 Method and system for automatic intra-oral sensor locating for image acquisition  
A method and systems for capturing digital intra-oral images, while automatically determining a location of an intra-oral sensor placed within a mouth of a patient, is disclosed. A spatial...
7596248 Method for identification of person by recognition of a digital fingerprint  
The invention relates to a method for identification of a person by recognition of a digital fingerprint, whereby the characteristic points on a digitized image of a digital fingerprint (E) are...
7593598 System and method for efficient filter design through weighted difference of Gaussian filters  
A method of designing filters for filtering digitized images includes constructing a set of difference-of-Gaussian (DoG) filters that partition a frequency space, forming a linear combination of...
7593589 Image processing device for processing an image including multiple pixels to create a new image by emphasizing edges of an image  
An image processing device emphasizes edges of an image without changing the image. A differential operation is performed on pixel values of a subject pixel and surrounding pixels to calculate a...
7593586 Method and system for reducing artifacts in image detection  
An imager captures light reflecting off an object of interest and generates two or more images of the object. A controller identifies one or more non-interpretation regions in one of the captured...
7593585 Image processing apparatus and method therefor  
An image processing method includes the steps of inputting image data representing an input image, acquiring an image size of a face image which has the maximum image-face size contained in the...
7593037 Imaging device and method for capturing image  
An imaging device includes: a capturing unit that captures a motion picture at one of a plurality of frame rates; a buffer that temporary stores the motion picture captured by the capturing unit; a...
7590293 Non-iterative method to restore image from transformed component data  
An original image or other data sequence is modified with an internal marker value, and is communicated (stored and/or transmitted) as one component of a transform having multiple complementary...