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7616794 |
System and method for automatic bone extraction from a medical image
A system and method for automatic bone extraction from a medical image is provided. A method for automatically extracting a bone from a medical image, comprises: performing a thresholding on the...
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7589721 |
Method for interactive segmentation of a structure contained in an object
The invention relates to a method for the interactive segmentation of a structure contained in an object from a three-dimensional image of the object. In an expansion mode a region expansion...
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7577311 |
Color fringe desaturation for electronic imagers
A method for correcting colored fringe artifacts in a region of an image around saturated pixels captured by an electronic imager associated with a color filter array, includes providing a...
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7558438 |
System for synthesizing divisional images based on information indicating relationship between a series of divisional images
An image synthesizing system for synthesizing more than one item of divisional image data respectively representing more than one divisional image of more than one portion of an object. The more...
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7515764 |
Image processing apparatus using morphology
An image processing apparatus which uses morphology is provided. A masked image is provided to a morphological processing section of the image processing apparatus. The morphological processing...
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7493340 |
Image retrieval based on relevance feedback
An improved image retrieval process based on relevance feedback uses a hierarchical (per-feature) approach in comparing images. Multiple query vectors are generated for an initial image by...
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7466872 |
Object based boundary refinement method
An object based boundary refinement method for object segmentation in digital images receives an image and a single initial object region of interest and performs refinement zone definition using...
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7447344 |
System and method for visualization of pulmonary emboli from high-resolution computed tomography images
A system and method for visualizing a tree structure in medical image data is provided. The method comprises: segmenting the tree structure in the image data ( 230 - 265 ); coloring an exterior of...
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7418131 |
Image-capturing device and method for removing strangers from an image
An image-capturing device and method for removing strangers from an image are described. First, a first image is input. Then, a control module determines if an unwanted object processing step is...
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7382494 |
Method for tag plane growth and contraction for improving object edge rendering
A method of improving edge rendering of objects includes dilation (or contraction) of an object's tag plane by one or more pixels into the surrounding region, with the adjacent tag region having a...
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7382243 |
Personal emergency response system with interconnected slave units
A monitoring system is disclosed. The monitoring system comprises a base station and a plurality of interconnected slave units, where each one of the slave units is adapted to receiving an alarm...
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7365881 |
Halftone dot-growth technique based on morphological filtering
A method for converting an original halftone bitmap image to a color converted halftone bitmap image. A set of asymmetrical morphological filters is provided. The original halftone bitmap image is...
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7362219 |
Information acquisition apparatus
When a plurality of objects having RFID tags attached are to be read, an image sensing unit performs image sensing, and at the same time an RFID reader reads an RFID tag within the image sensing...
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7359567 |
Signal processing apparatus for eliminating ringing signal and method thereof, record medium, and program
Image quality degrading components can be eliminated from a contour correction signal of high frequency region that is used for contour correction. A filtering section extracts a high frequency...
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7359538 |
Detection and analysis of lesions in contact with a structural boundary
An algorithm is disclosed that detects and analyzes possible lesions that are left in contact with a structural boundary. A morphological closing with a structuring element is performed along the...
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7336390 |
Method and apparatus for reducing multi-bit image data
Input pixels are input to a thinning processing circuit. When thinning is performed at the thinning processing circuit, minimum values are selected in order to reduce the pixel data, whereby loss...
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7330191 |
System for secure text display
Techniques for securely displaying text on a display panel involve destroying spatial and temporal correlations in an otherwise uniform visual field. The techniques render the displayed text secure...
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7302096 |
Method and apparatus for low depth of field image segmentation
A method for extracting an object of interest from an image is provided. The method initiates with defining an image feature space based upon frequency information. Then, the image feature space is...
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7298879 |
Computer-aided detection of lung nodules
The invention relates to a method and a device for forming an image of body structures from an image data set, notably for highlighting potential nodular structures (KI; KA) in a lung. The problem...
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7269294 |
Foreground erosion method and system for Multiple Raster Content (MRC) representation of documents
A foreground erosion method is used to meet thin (but unbroken) text requirements using linear YCC segmentation. The method uses a fixed value subtracted from a gray selector signal, thereby...
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7260244 |
Print inspection method and print inspection apparatus
A method of inspecting a defect on a surface of a printed matter includes a step of applying a gray scale erosion filter to a non-defect surface of a printed matter to prepare a gray scale erosion...
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7231072 |
Image processing method and image converting apparatus
There is described an image processing method and an image converting apparatus for performing the image processing for recording the medical image information. The apparatus includes an image...
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7194124 |
Reconstruction and motion analysis of an embryo
In an embodiment, a method includes receiving a number of optical sections of different parts of an embryo over time along a Z-axis through differential interference contrast microscopy. The method...
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7187785 |
Image processing method and apparatus
An image processing apparatus includes an image correcting section. When an image of an object is input, the image correcting section performs correction processing for the input image including...
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7173734 |
Intercolor bleed reduction in liquid ink printers
A system and method for detecting edge locations where intercolor bleeding would likely be a problem, and reducing the amount of ink printed at those locations. The method operates on image data...
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7142732 |
Unsupervised scene segmentation
A method of segmenting objects in an image is described. The method applies a Top Hat algorithm to the image then constructs inner and outer markers for application to the original image in a...
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7142208 |
Method for interactive segmentation of a structure contained in an object
The invention relates to a method for the interactive segmentation of a structure contained in an object from a three-dimensional image of the object. In an expansion mode a region expansion...
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7126723 |
Producing engraving-style halftone images
An image processing scheme that applies engraving-style effects to an image is described. In one embodiment, an initial line pattern is warped to produce a warped line pattern, and an original...
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7116800 |
Image segmentation system and method
The present invention relates in general to systems used to process images. In particular, the present invention is an image segmentation system and method used to isolate the segmented image of a...
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7116447 |
Halftone dot-growth technique using a dot edge-detection scheme
A method for color correcting an original halftone bitmap image by a predefined color correction function to produce a color corrected halftone bitmap image comprising: providing an original...
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7102784 |
Method of selective edge softening and rendering for the suppression of halo
Selective edge softening and selective edge dithering is introduced into an image representation to improve local control where halo problems are expected. Selective areas of dilation are isolated...
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7085013 |
Image processing apparatus including low-linear-density dot region detection unit, and image forming apparatus including the same
An image processing apparatus includes a maximum/minimum density detecting unit which detects a center pixel of a matrix of N×N pixels in image data that has a maximum or minimum density. A...
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7062100 |
System for selecting a compression method for image data
In an image-data processing system, as would be found in a digital copier or scanner, a relatively quick calculation is performed to estimate a compression ratio or compression time resulting from...
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7046829 |
Fingerprint verification
Fingerprint verification matching a claimant fingerprint with one of a number of recorded enrollee fingerprints uses various adaptations of model alignment techniques involving affine...
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7046397 |
Method of selective edge softening and rendering for the suppression of halo
Selective edge softening and selective edge dithering is introduced into an image representation to improve local control where halo problems are expected. Selective areas of dilation are isolated...
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7031549 |
Systems and methods for enhancing tone reproduction
The present invention is related to a method for processing a digital image, wherein the digital image comprises at least a gray-scale component. The method may comprise: morphologically filtering...
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7027660 |
Images incorporating microstructures
A method of generating an image incorporating a microstructure includes the steps of obtaining an original image, generating a microstructure, and rendering a region or the whole said original...
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6993170 |
Method for quantitative analysis of blood vessel structure
We disclose quantitative geometrical analysis enabling the measurement of several features of images of tissues including perimeter, area, and other metrics. Automation of feature extraction...
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6952502 |
Data filtering apparatus and method
Data filtering apparatus comprising: an input for receiving a stream of data, each data item taking a range of at least two values ranging between a low value to a high value, a segmentation device...
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6943916 |
Method of minimizing trapping, I.E., choking or spreading, in a printing-original production process
A method of determining trapping, i.e., spreading or choking, in color boundary areas in a printed image, includes characterizing with respect to register behavior one of a printing machine and a...
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6934413 |
Segmentation of text lines in digitized images
A method for locating symbols arranged in one or more rows in an image includes smearing the image, and fitting line segments through edge points of features in the smeared image. A group is found...
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6901168 |
Method for segmenting and identifying a document, in particular a technical chart
The object of the invention is a method of processing information contained in an image, including:
a first processing ( 1 - 4 ), for defining an area of interest of the image ( 8 ),...
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6891961 |
Image analysis systems for grading of meat, predicting quality of meat and/or predicting meat yield of an animal carcass
The invention is an image analysis system and method for grading of meat, predicting quality of meat and/or predicting meat yield of an animal. One embodiment of the invention is particularly...
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6832007 |
Method and system for compensating for scaling artifacts in mixed raster content (MRC) representations
An image processing method and system compensates for artifacts in scaling operations of mixed raster content data representations. In such data representations, a document is segmented into data...
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6816627 |
System for morphological image fusion and change detection
A system capable of efficiently fusing image information from multiple sensors operating in different formats into a single composite image and simultaneously display all of the pertinent...
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6816614 |
Method for comparing recorded pixel images representing equipotential lines of at least an integrated circuit chip
The invention concerns a method for comparing two recorded pixelated source images ( 2 a, 2 b ) of the same rectangular format representing in contrasted form the equipotential lines on an...
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6771834 |
Method for segmenting a digital image
Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a method of segmenting an initial digital image includes the following. The initial digital image is processed to produce a first...
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6766043 |
Pleural nodule detection from CT thoracic images
An algorithm is disclosed that recovers regions of possible pleural nodules left out of an organ field or otherwise undetected due to the nature of low level image processing in the organ field. A...
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6763127 |
Apparatus and method for fingerprint recognition system
A fingerprint recognition method includes iterative gamma correction that compensates moisture effect, feature extraction operations, directional morphological filtering that effectively links...
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6754374 |
Method and apparatus for processing images with regions representing target objects
An apparatus and method for processing images with regions representing target objects involves registering a first and a second image, where the second image contains a target object. The method...
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