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7590268 |
Method and apparatus for representing an area of a raster image by a centerline
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that can represent an area of a raster image by a centerline. During operation, the system receives a planar map which represents a raster...
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7468734 |
Apparatus for and method of graphic processing and computer-readable program
A graphic processing apparatus makes a scan of graphic primitives of a target graphic object to search for an outermost closed figure, and displays the scanned graphic primitives, a search starting...
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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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7447341 |
Methods and systems for computer aided targeting
A method for acquiring an image on an imaging system includes accessing at least first image data from a first imaging system, processing the first image data in accordance with a CAD algorithm,...
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7412360 |
Method and apparatus for shape deformation and placement
A method for deforming a plurality of shapes is described wherein each of the shapes comprises a set of parametric curves. The method comprises: providing a parametric surface, and forming a...
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7372983 |
Method for automatic branch labeling
The present invention relates to a method of analyzing an object data set in which a tubular structure having a plurality of branches and bifurcations occurs, wherein the object data set assigns...
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7308112 |
Sign based human-machine interaction
Communication is an important issue in man-to-robot interaction. Signs can be used to interact with machines by providing user instructions or commands. Embodiment of the present invention include...
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7295714 |
Image processing circuit and image processing method that prevent problems occurring in image reduction
An image processing circuit reduces binary data of an original image. At least one line buffer stores data of each line of the original image. At least one line buffer stores data of each line of a...
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7295211 |
Method of automatic image processing
Method is disclosed for the automatic creation of images in a “van Gogh” style. The method comprises locating portions of detail in an image an utilising the areas of detail to propagate brush...
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7280683 |
Method, code, and system for assaying joint deformity
A method, machine-readable storage medium embodying computer-readable code and automated system for assaying or monitoring the extent of joint or bone deformity reported by a summarized score that...
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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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7177480 |
Graphic processing method and device
There is disclosed a graphic processing method in which a first figure skeleton apart from an outline of a figure by each equal distance in a central direction of the figure is calculated using at...
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7023441 |
Shape descriptor extracting method
A method for extracting from an image a shape descriptor which describes shape features of the image is provided. The shape descriptor extracting method includes: (a) extracting a skeleton from an...
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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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6894694 |
Producing automatic “painting” effects in images
Method is disclosed for the automatic creation of images in a “van Gogh” style. The method comprises locating portions of detail in an image an utilizing the area of detail to propagate brush...
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6775418 |
Image processing device and processing method
An image processing device detects the correlation between a pixel to be removed in thinning pixel blocks generated by using a delay in horizontal and vertical directions and an adjacent pixel. The...
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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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6754396 |
Method of processing of a single raster element of a skeletonized binary image through the use of tiles
A process for producing a skeleton from a raster image by overlaying a plurality of tiles on the raster image, wherein each of the tiles identifies a sub-region of the raster image comprised of a...
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6504953 |
Method for the automatic removal of image errors
In a method for automatic removal of image errors in digital image data, for example which have arisen due to scratches, hairs, etc., a contour mask is generated with a contour filter and a color...
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6427024 |
APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF AUTOMATIC OPTICAL INSPECTION OF ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT BOARDS, WAFERS AND THE LIKE FOR DEFECTS, USING SKELETAL REFERENCE INSPECTION AND SEPARATELY PROGRAMMABLE ALIGNMENT TOLERANCE AND DETECTION PARAMETERS
A novel wafer or circuit board automatic scanning optical inspection system and technique using the reference comparison principle for finding defects in scanned sample images, that enables a new...
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6393159 |
Multiscale characterization and analysis of shapes
An adaptive multiscale method approximates shapes with continuous or uniformly and densely sampled contours, with the purpose of sparsely and nonuniformly discretizing the boundaries of shapes at...
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6377710 |
Method and apparatus for extracting the skeleton of a binary figure by contour-based erosion
A method and apparatus for performing thinning, or skeletonization, of binary images or figures are provided. More particularly, a method is implemented in a system for encoding a figure using a...
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6259821 |
PDL operator overloading for line width management of lines that intersect filled objects
A method and apparatus for overloading operators in Page Description Language (PDL) defined graphics redefines the graphic, such as to compensate for certain undesirable line growth characteristics...
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6252996 |
Systems and methods for image conversion useful in the transformation of photographic pictures into templates for painting
Methods and computer executable instructions are provided for converting original images such as photographic pictures into various other formats such as drawings by reducing the amount of data...
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6175655 |
Medical imaging system for displaying, manipulating and analyzing three-dimensional images
A method and device for generating, displaying and manipulating three-dimensional images for medical applications is provided. The method creates a three-dimensional images from MRI or other...
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6157750 |
Methods of transforming a basic shape element of a character
The present invention relates to an outline font. The purpose lies in supplying a transforming and rendering method in the shape where the important form of the shape, such as the thickness of the...
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6134353 |
Digital image processing method for automatic extraction of strip-shaped objects
A digital image (J o ) processing method for automatic extraction of strip-shaped objects, includes a skeletonization operation with steps for forming smoothed images (J i ) at several scales (σ i...
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6130966 |
Image processing system and method for converting an input N-valued (N>or-Z) image into an M-valued (M>N) image
A facsimile apparatus contains transfer modes such as a standard mode, a fine image quality mode, a super fine image quality mode which are different from one another in resolution. A signal...
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6058219 |
Method of skeletonizing a binary image using compressed run length data
The present invention relates to a process for producing a skeleton from a binary image by using the compressed run data of the image instead of using natural expanded binary format of the image. A...
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6054998 |
Document display system for displaying documents set in fonts not native to a display device
The document display system comprises a first character shape generator, a first display and a first transmitter in a first terminal device; and a first receiver, a second character shape generator...
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6028948 |
Surface anomaly-detection and analysis method
A method (30) is provided for the detection and analysis of anomalies (32) in a road surface (36). An image (34) of the road surface (36) is obtained (82) wherein traffic control markings (76) are...
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5940535 |
Method and apparatus for designing a highly reliable pattern recognition system
A design for a high reliability recognition system utilizes two optimized thresholds for each class k of a prototype data base. One threshold is a class region threshold CR k and the other is a...
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5841892 |
System for automated analysis of 3D fiber orientation in short fiber composites
An apparatus and method for determining the Fiber Orientation Distribution (FOD) in an injection molded polymer is described. The transparent sample (12) is comprised of a matrix material,...
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5787196 |
Method and apparatus for splitting connected characters into component characters
Image processing apparatus is disclosed for splitting, for subsequent storage or processing by OCR apparatus, character images in digital form comprising connected characters, the image processing...
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5748798 |
Method and system for adding effects to gray scale images
The present invention enables application of the bold process to thicken the data or the outline process to hollow the inside of the data to leave the contour thereof to the gray scale data...
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5734756 |
Methods and apparatus for reproducing a gray scale raster represented elongate graphic image including vectorizing a skeleton of the image by determining a midpoint between two detected endpoints of the image
A method for generating a vector representation of the skeletal configuration of an elongate graphic image from a raster representation thereof, the method comprising providing a gray scale raster...
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5719959 |
Similarity determination among patterns using affine-invariant features
Pattern recognition, for instance optical character recognition, is achieved by forming a skeletal representation (400) of a pattern (300), processing the skeletal diagram (400) to improve...
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5710837 |
Branch deletion method for thinned image
The present invention has an object to provide an image processing method for generating an image through thinning from which the topological characteristics of the image can be extracted more...
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5664027 |
Methods and apparatus for inferring orientation of lines of text
The techniques for determining the orientation of lines in images disclosed herein take as their starting point an apparently universal typesetting convention: that symbols are generally closer to...
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5621823 |
Image processing method for thinning lines using index values
An image processing method for thinning lines converts pixels having a density of a configuration to a background density. Pixels are converted according to conditions which include densities of...
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5574803 |
Character thinning using emergent behavior of populations of competitive locally independent processes
A character bit map is skeletonized using competitive locally independent processes (CLIPs) by defining for each foreground pixel an individual CLIP with a center location and radius defining the...
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5548695 |
Image figure editing system for manipulating figure elements given in terms of image data
An image figure editing system capable of manipulating figure elements given in terms of the image data in a substantially similar manner as the editing of the figure elements given in terms of the...
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5515455 |
System for recognizing handwritten words of cursive script
A system for recognizing handwritten words of cursive script by extracting temporal information from static text is described. The temporal information consists of the shape, location and temporal...
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5497432 |
Character reading method and apparatus effective for condition where a plurality of characters have close relationship with one another
A dividing step (a) divides into segments at least one character line forming input characters to be read. A partial-figure forming step (b) forms partial figures by combining segments from among...
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5384866 |
Thinning method of an image
An image thinning method for obtaining a resultant image of one pixel width without removing the object being thinned when the object changes width from 3 pixels to 2 pixels. An index pixel value...
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5272763 |
Apparatus for inspecting wiring pattern formed on a board
An inspection apparatus for inspecting a wiring pattern on a printed board by illuminating the printed board with light to photoelectrically convert light reflected from the printed board into an...
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5267332 |
Image recognition system
An image recognition system includes a method and apparatus in which images are characterized and compared on the basis of internal structure, which is independent of image size and image...
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5224179 |
Image skeletonization method
A method for improved thinning or skeletonizing handwritten characters or other variable-line-width images. The method scans a template set over the image to be thinned. Each template has a...
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5148500 |
Morphological processing system
Image processing elements forming an image processor for automatic inspection of circuits. Each processing element for performing a thinning algorithm passes along a data bit and a flag bit to each...
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5142589 |
Method for repairing images for optical character recognition performing different repair operations based on measured image characteristics
A computer system and method for repairing address blocks and ZIP codes numerical groups before segmentation of the ZIP code in an optical character recognizer. The system repairs the image based...
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