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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...
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7616829 |
Reducing undesirable block based image processing artifacts by DC image filtering
A post-processing manager provides reconstructed block based picture post-processing that is uncoupled from picture decoding by dividing a reconstructed image that was encoded using block based...
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7616349 |
Font sharpening for image output device
A method of rendering text in an image forming device comprises providing a user interface to receive a user-defined font sharpening threshold; receiving the user-defined font sharpening threshold...
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7616240 |
Image processing method, image processing program, image processing apparatus, and digital still camera using the image processing apparatus
Electronic data output from CCD is separated into a brightness component Y and color difference components Cb and Cr and an edge is extracted for each of the components. The edge amounts are...
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7613355 |
Image processing device and registration data generation method in image processing
In an image processing device, a contour image generation section extracts edge points according to image data acquired by an image acquiring section, and generates a contour image of a object...
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7609907 |
Visualization of field of view constraints
A “field of view” (FOV) consists of all possible directions along which scalar valued functions satisfy selected thresholds. This combination of a scalar function and a threshold is called a...
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7609888 |
Separating a video object from a background of a video sequence
Video object cutting and pasting is described. In one implementation, pre-segmentation of video frames into regions is performed prior to a 3-D graph cut segmentation. The 3-D graph cut...
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7606438 |
Image signal processor and image signal processing method
To obtain an excellent edge enhancement effect even when dynamic γ correction processing is executed for an edge-enhanced image signal, and to obtain an excellent edge enhancement effect for...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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7593588 |
Edge preservation type image processing device
An edge preservation type of recursive filter 12 outputs an unsharpened image (i.e., low-frequency components) which is smoothed while preserving an edge of an input image in at least one...
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7590302 |
Image edge enhancement system and method
We describe and claim an edge enhancement system and method. The edge enhancement system includes an edge enhancement circuit to enhance a portion of image data with enhancement data determined...
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7589771 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image pickup apparatus, computer program and recording medium
Noises are reduced in an image picked up in natural light without using lighting equipment that affect the picked up image. The present invention provides an image processing apparatus that...
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7580158 |
Image processing apparatus, method and program
An image analysis unit analyzes an image on which AE processing has been performed and obtains a coefficient for obtaining a gradient of a compression table for compressing a dynamic range of the...
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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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7576894 |
Device and method for sharpening image signal
A device for sharpening an image signal for receiving an image signal input, detecting and sharpening the object edge of the image signal input by using a detection period, and outputting an image...
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7574026 |
Method for the 3d modeling of a tubular structure
The invention provides a method for 3D modeling of a three-dimensional tubular structure of an examination object from 2D projection images (D) of the structure taken from different projection...
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7573482 |
Method for reducing memory consumption when carrying out edge enhancement in multiple beam pixel apparatus
A method for reducing memory consumption when carrying out edge enhancement in a multiple beam pixel apparatus is provided, wherein Static Random Access Memories and first in first out buffers are...
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7570841 |
Method for determining a set of boundary points in a lattice
A method and system for determining a set of boundary points within a lattice is provided herein. The lattice is normalized into a regularly-spaced array and a first point within the array is...
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7570835 |
Edge smoothing filter for character recognition
A system and method for correcting defects in a black white image. An edge smoothing filter is disclosed that comprises: a system for selecting a block of pixels comprising one center pixel and...
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7567724 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program of image processing method, and recording medium in which program of image processing method has been recorded
The present invention is applied, for example, to resolution conversion. An edge gradient direction v 1 with the largest gradient of pixel values and an edge direction v 2 orthogonal to the edge...
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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...
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7567709 |
Segmentation, including classification and binarization of character regions
Disclosed is a device for binarizing an image. The device comprises an input part for receiving an image, a block classification part for dividing the received image into blocks, and classifying...
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7567294 |
Gradient adaptive video de-interlacing
A method includes determining a lowest-score interpolation direction among a plurality of interpolation directions. The method further includes calculating a candidate pixel value by interpolating...
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7565015 |
Edge pixel identification
The teachings provided herein disclose a method for the identification of edge pixels within a digital image. The method operates by generating edge-state codes for a plurality of pairs of...
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7561188 |
Image processing device and method, recording medium, and program
The present invention relates an image processing device and method, recording medium, and program. A simple-type angle detecting unit 901 simply detects the angle as continuity using correlation...
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7558435 |
Signal processing apparatus, method of processing a signal, recording medium, and program
In each of stages of a nonlinear filter, a successively determined target signal and plural adjacent signals are weighted-averaged with plural sets of different coefficients to calculate plural...
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7557963 |
Label aided copy enhancement
Regions within a scanned document are labeled according to content. These labeled regions allow for particular enhancement and sharpening methods to be applied. The labeled regions may be further...
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7554559 |
Edge directed de-interlacing
One implementation of a method for edge directed video de-interlacing in accordance with the disclosed invention includes obtaining at least a portion of a field of input video data including at...
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7554552 |
Method of graphical generation of vectors with dark contours
The field of the invention is that of graphical libraries providing graphical functions used for the drawing of symbologic images. One of the fields of favored application is the generation of...
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7551322 |
Image edge filtering
Techniques for image edge filter processing are provided. Data samples surrounding vertical and horizontal edges of an image are acquired and iteratively processed. If the samples are associated...
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7551173 |
Pixel accurate edges for scanline rendering system
A method ( 2500 ) of converting a monotonic curve into edge information is disclosed. A method ( 2800 A) of determining an integer edge crossing value, Xi, for a new edge crossed by a scanline...
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7548660 |
System and method of spatio-temporal edge-preserved filtering techniques to reduce ringing and mosquito noise of digital pictures
A method can include selecting a block of pixels. It may be determined whether the block of pixels contains an edge pixel. If the block of pixels contains an edge pixel, a first pixel may be...
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7545989 |
System and method for encoding and decoding using texture replacement
The invention provides devices and methods that process images. The invention processes a received signal representing information of texture and information of an image, which has the texture...
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7545539 |
Apparatus and method for adjusting sharpness of image
A method for adjusting a target gray level of a target pixel based on a spatial mask is provided. The target pixel is surrounded with N adjacent pixels; each of the N adjacent pixels respectively...
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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...
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7542170 |
Method for enhancing print quality of halftone images
A method for enhancing the print quality of halftone images makes use of error diffusion to perform halftone image processing to a document. After an RGB image is obtained by scanning the document,...
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7536052 |
Corner sharpening of text and line art in a super resolution anti-aliasing image path
A method for sharpening the corners of digital image data within an anti-aliasing image path so as to overcome corner rounding when displayed or printed. The method comprises stepping a window...
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7528932 |
SLM direct writer
The present invention relates to an apparatus ( 100 ) for patterning a workpiece arranged at an image plane and sensitive to electromagnetic radiation, comprising a source emitting electromagnetic...
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7526140 |
Model-based localization and measurement of miniature surface mount components
A system and method for object inspection includes an object modeler; an iterative object segmentor in signal communication with the object modeler for receiving an input image and model parameters...
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7526131 |
Image processing apparatus and methods
A method is provided of processing digital image data representing an image of an object to determine data representing a boundary for said object, the method comprising: inputting said image data;...
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7519234 |
Apparatuses and methods for incorporating a border region within an image region
A hardware implemented method for incorporating a border region within an image region is provided. In this hardware implemented method, a position of a pixel along a line within the image region...
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7519232 |
Method and system for detecting diagonal strength of an edge in an image
A system and method that determines the strength of an edge in a video image using a gradient of the edge in a first direction and a gradient of the edge in a second direction. The system uses the...
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7518618 |
Anti-aliased tagging using look-up table edge pixel identification
The teachings provided herein disclose an image processing method for rendering a digital image possessing anti-aliased pixels by selecting a target pixel location within the digital image;...
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7518610 |
Display apparatus, display control apparatus, display method, and computer-readable recording medium recording display control program
A display apparatus is designed to make a display corresponding to one pixel through the use of a plurality of rectangular display elements. The apparatus comprises a multi-gradation character...
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7515763 |
Image denoising based on wavelets and multifractals for singularity detection and multiscale anisotropic diffusion
A noisy image is transformed through a wavelet transform into multiple scales. The wavelet coefficients are classified at each scale into two categories corresponding to irregular coefficients,...
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7515209 |
Methods of noise reduction and edge enhancement in image processing
Methods of noise reduction and edge enhancement in image processing. An exemplary method comprises extracting a plurality of pixels from the video signal, evaluating measures of edge existence in a...
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7512285 |
Signal processing device and signal processing method, and program and recording medium
A signal processing device, signal processing method, and program and recording medium which provide images and the like closer approximating real world signals. The signal processing device...
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7512284 |
Volumetric image enhancement system and method
A technique is described for enhancing three dimensional or volumetric image data, such as thick slice or slab data, or data for slices stacked in a third dimension orthogonal to an imaging plane....
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