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7623732 Method and apparatus for digital image filtering with discrete filter kernels using graphics hardware  
The invention provides, in some aspects, methods and apparatus for signal and/or image processing which perform convolution-based filtering utilizing a graphics processing unit (GPU, also called...
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...
7623141 Methods and systems for sub-pixel rendering with gamma adjustment  
Sub-pixel rendering with gamma adjustment allows the luminance of the sub-pixel arrangement to match the non-linear gamma response of the human eye's luminance channel. For each of a subset of...
7620266 Robust and efficient foreground analysis for real-time video surveillance  
Systems and methods for foreground analysis in real-time video include background subtraction and foreground detection, shadow removal, quick lighting change adaptation, static foreground region...
7620249 Analysis of patterns  
A first pattern (A) is represented by a first ordered set of elements (x i ) each having a value whilst a second pattern (B) is represented by a second ordered set of element (u i ) each having a...
7620239 Color determination device and color determination method  
A color determination device sections a hue plane, in which unit data constituting determining image data is mapped, into partial regions by a color determination boundary, and carries out a color...
7620206 Image processing device and method, and distribution medium  
To make it possible to accurately track a prescribed part a low-resolution overall image is taken in from an input image, and a medium-resolution image, whose center is the head part, is extracted...
7616233 Perfecting of digital image capture parameters within acquisition devices using face detection  
Within a digital acquisition device, acquisition parameters of a digital image are perfected as part of an image capture process using face detection within said captured image to achieve one or...
7616214 Method and apparatus for generating characteristic data of illumination around image display device  
A method of generating illumination characteristic data around an image display device, includes: obtaining predetermined illumination characteristic data around the image display device; and...
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...
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...
7609909 Image density test chart and method for determining image density level  
An image density discrimination chart is used to discriminate a density of a test image printed by an image forming apparatus. The chart includes an exposing portion for exposing the test image...
7609908 Method for adjusting the brightness of a digital image utilizing belief values  
A method of processing a digital image, including the steps of: assigning belief values to pixels in the digital image, wherein the belief values are proportional to a belief that the pixels are...
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...
7609883 Method and apparatus for compensating for uneven lighting in an image  
A system that compensates for uneven lighting in a digital image of a surface. During operation, the system receives the digital image of the surface. Next, the system obtains a reference lighting...
7609880 Display apparatus and its control method  
An image display apparatus includes a display device, and a signal processing circuit. In at least one case where an image is displayed by a first image signal which designates a first image having...
7609869 Processing method for a two-dimensional initial image and objects corresponding thereto  
A computer dismantles a two-dimensional initial image into partial images containing components that vary locally with partial image frequencies and a residual image containing a direct component...
7609419 Image scanning apparatus and method  
An image scanning apparatus and method are provided in which shading data of the image scanning apparatus is acquired when manufacturing the image scanning apparatus, which is when a white...
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...
7606415 Image gradation correction based on switching resolution of correction coefficients  
The invention provides an image processing apparatus and an image processing method. An area to which image data belongs is discriminated, and a correction coefficient to be used for correction of...
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...
7602992 Image processing device, method, and program  
An image processing device, method, and program are capable of obtaining processing results which are even more accurate and even more precise as to events in the real world, taking into...
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...
7602969 Imaging data processing method, imaging data processing device, and computer program  
An accurate white balance adjustment process is provided for an image captured in an environment where different color components, such as an ambient light and a flash light are mixed. With respect...
7602960 System and method for measuring thin film thickness variations and for compensating for the variations  
A method for measuring thin film thickness variations of inspected wafer that includes an upper non-opaque thin film. The method including (i) scanning the wafer and obtain wafer image that...
7602952 Scanner having spatial light modulator  
The present invention features incorporating an adaptive spectral filter into a confocal scanner optical arrangement or other suitable optical device to permit real time control of the fluorescence...
7599575 Method and apparatus for reducing noise in a sequence of fluoroscopic images  
A method and apparatus for reduction of noise in an image of a sequence of fluoroscopic images of an object in motion having a differentiation of the pixels of the image between pixels in motion...
7599574 Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, correction value generation apparatus, correction value generation method, and display apparatus manufacturing method  
A signal processing apparatus supplied with a signal obtained by performing orthogonal transform on a video signal corresponding to a plurality of pixels includes a correction circuit for...
7599573 Image processing device, method, and program  
An image processing device and method, and a program, obtains processing results which are even more accurate and even more precise as to events in the real world, taking into consideration the...
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...
7599519 Method and apparatus for detecting structural elements of subjects  
Structural element candidates, estimated to be predetermined structural elements of a predetermined subject, are detected from an image that includes the subject. The subject that includes the...
7598966 Methods and systems for automatically rendering information on a display of a building information system  
A method, system and computer program product for automatically rendering information on a display screen of a building information system. Following generation of a plan image, such as a floor or...
7596280 Video acquisition with integrated GPU processing  
Systems and techniques for processing sequences of video images involve receiving, on a computer, data corresponding to a sequence of video images detected by an image sensor. The received data is...
7595825 Image pickup system and image processing program  
An image pickup system includes a color noise estimation section, which has a local region extraction section that extracts luminance and color difference signals in units of 4×4 pixels from...
7595800 Signal processing device, method, and program  
A data processing apparatus and method, where the apparatus includes a region selecting unit configured to select a region corresponding to a pixel of interest, a frequency detector configured to...
7593835 Reformulated atmospheric band model method for modeling atmospheric propagation at arbitrarily fine spectral resolution and expanded capabilities.  
A radiative transport band model method for prediction and analysis of high spectral resolution radiometric measurements. Atomic and molecular line center absorption is determined from finite...
7593591 Method and apparatus for increasing contrast in a digital image  
A method of enhancing contrast in a digital image comprises isolating pixels of the image having intensities falling within a low intensity range, determining at least one feature of the pixel...
7593590 Image status estimating method, image correcting method, image correction apparatus, and storage medium  
An apparatus divides an original image into a plurality of areas, computes a characteristic amount for the plurality of areas, and computes a statistic amount for estimation of the status of an...
7593587 Spectral feature generation using high-pass filtering for scene anomaly detection  
A method of detecting an image anomaly (target) within a scene represented by image data comprises obtaining test data from a test window within the scene, combining the test data with reference...
7593570 Image processing method and apparatus and storage medium  
Software of a simple configuration checks whether an original image to be corrected is an image picture, and an image correction process based upon a formed histogram of the original image is not...
7593141 Image apparatus with batch scan and real time display and method of the same  
An image apparatus with batch scan and real time display and a method of the same are provided. The method of the present invention comprises steps of utilizing a transmission device for...
7590304 Signal processing device, method, and program  
An image processing device and method, where the image processing device includes an angle detector configured to detect an angle between a reference axis of data continuity with image data made up...
7590303 Image enhancement method using local illumination correction  
An image processing system for implementing a variant of Retinex algorithm based on local illumination correction is provided to improve an intensity value of each position of an input image. The...
7590301 Method and system for correcting defective pixels of a color image  
A method and system for correcting defective pixels of a color image, which first performs an interpolation on a Bayer image captured by an image sensor to thus reconstruct red, green and blue...
7590285 Imaging apparatus and method of processing images  
The present invention realizes a function equivalent to an optical half-ND filter electrically and incorporates this function in an image-signal processing system, thereby to compress the dynamic...
7589729 Image synthesis by rank-1 lattices  
Systems and techniques are described in which rank-1 lattices are used in computerized image processing, in particular in the context of image synthesis. These include systems and techniques for...
7586631 Image quality correction method, image data processing device, data storing/reproducing method, data batch-processing system, data processing method, and data processing system  
An object of the invention is to process image data the quality by simply uploading the image data prepared by the user himself himself to a server of a provider without using a particular hardware...
7583857 System and method for salient region feature based 3D multi modality registration of medical images  
A method for aligning a pair of images includes providing a pair of images, identifying salient feature regions in both a first image and a second image, wherein each region is associated with a...
7583417 Bi-directional scanning and imaging with scanning compensation  
In bi-directional imaging, such as bi-directional printing, a driving mechanism scans a light beam through a scan path across an imaging window. A controller enables transmission of video data to a...
7580588 Image processing apparatus, image reading apparatus, and image forming apparatus  
An apparatus includes a CCD that reads a script image, an analog front end unit (AFE) that adjusts the offset and the gain of an image signal and A/D-converts the image signal, an image processing...