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6976046 Architectures for discrete wavelet transforms  
A microprocessor structure for performing a discrete wavelet transform operation, said discrete wavelet transform operation comprising decomposition of an input signal comprising a vector of r×k m...
6972766 Recording medium storing dynamic picture image generation program, dynamic picture image generation program, dynamic picture image generation method, and device for the same  
In order to express undulation of a surface of an object realistically, a dynamic picture image generation device comprises a movement amount computation unit 310 , which computes the movement...
6965696 Image processing device for image region discrimination  
An image processing device of the present invention is provided with four kinds of sub masks in total including two kinds in a main scanning direction and two kinds in a sub scanning direction, in...
6965457 Image processing apparatus, method, and program for image attribute determination based on orthogonal data  
An apparatus for image processing which determines such attributes as screen halftone area, character area and continuous tone area that appear in image data. A wavelet transform circuit wavelet...
6959386 Hiding encrypted messages in information carriers  
An identification code signal is hidden in a carrier signal (such as an electronic data signal or a physical medium) in a manner that permits the identification signal later to be discerned. The...
6959119 Method of evaluating cosmetic products on a consumer with future predictive transformation  
A method kit is provided for demonstrating the effects of a cosmetic product on a consumer's body, especially effects over a period of time. The method includes applying a cosmetic product to the...
6959385 Image processor and image processing method  
To provide a device capable of determining uniquely the direction of rotation applied to an image and extracting digital watermark information correctly even in the case where a registration signal...
6956625 Image processing apparatus and method for realizing panorama/waterglass functions  
An image processing apparatus and method for realizing panorama/waterglass functions, which are capable of reducing the size of a memory and simplifying memory control, are provided. In order to...
6954215 System and method for employing non-alpha channel image data in an alpha-channel-aware environment  
An image rendered by a non-alpha-channel-aware application is employed in an alpha-channel-aware environment. The pixel data file to be written to by the non-alpha-channel-aware application is...
6952494 COLOR COORDINATE TRANSFORMATION TABLE GENERATION METHOD, COLOR COORDINATE TRANSFORMATION TABLE GENERATION APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM ON WHICH A COLOR COORDINATE TRANSFORMATION TABLE GENERATION PROGRAM IS RECORDED  
The color coordinate transformation table generation method and apparatus of the invention enables substantial reduction in number of color samples required for inferring spectral characteristics...
6944579 SIGNAL SEPARATION METHOD, SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR RESTORING MULTIDIMENSIONAL SIGNALS FROM OBSERVED DATA IN WHICH MULTIPLE SIGNALS ARE MIXED  
Signals are separated by introducing a function having a monotonously increasing characteristic like an exponential type function as a cost function, and applying an adaptive algorithm that...
6941516 Object movie exporter  
Methods and apparatuses for compressing and/or transmitting and/or receiving data representing different views of an object. In one method according to the present invention, the method stores a...
6931152 Method for improved automatic partial color constancy correction  
A method for providing partial color constancy of a stimulus represented by an array of picture elements each represented by a color spectrum. The method comprising: (a) assigning to each picture...
6925210 Method for blurring images in real-time  
An image processing method takes advantage of the recursive rendering capabilities of graphics hardware devices to blur images in real-time, without a significant amount of computational precision....
6917703 Method and apparatus for image analysis of a gabor-wavelet transformed image using a neural network  
The present invention may be embodied in a method, and in a related apparatus, for classifying a feature in an image frame. In the method, an original image frame having an array of pixels is...
6909914 Method for generating time independent images of moving objects  
A method for generating time independent images of moving objects with the image information being related to properties of the moving objects represented by sequences of digital images. The images...
6909802 Image-correspondence position detection device, distance measuring device and apparatus using the same  
An image-correspondence position detection device comprising an extractor 12 for extracting a sampling image of specific size from a pair of images, correlation calculator 114 for generating a...
6907124 Optical encryption and decryption method and system  
The invention relates to securing of information utilising optical imaging technologies and more specifically to phase encryption and decryption of images. An image is encrypted into a mask having...
6906686 Apparatus for displaying a stereoscopic two-dimensional image and method therefor  
An apparatus for displaying a stereoscopic two-dimensional picture includes a display unit having a flat image display screen for displaying a two-dimensional picture containing a stereoscopic...
6904151 Method for the estimation and recovering of general affine transform  
The present invention relates to the methods of estimation and recovering of general affine geometrical transformations which were applied to data, extensible to any other defined class of...
6891542 Image processing integrated circuit, image processing system and method for image processing  
An image processing integrated circuit including a CPU configured to supply an image data, frame information of the image data and a first write destination address indicating an address to which...
6888960 Fast optimal linear approximation of the images of variably illuminated solid objects for recognition  
An efficient computation of low-dimensional linear subspaces that optimally contain the set of images that are generated by varying the illumination impinging on the surface of a three-dimensional...
6882748 Method for image texture analysis  
A method and apparatus for image texture analysis in which the image is mapped into a first set of binary representation by a monotonically varying operator, such as a threshold operator. Each...
6876779 Method and apparatus of reconstructing audio/video/image data from higher moment data  
A method and apparatus of reconstructing data from higher moment data. The method and apparatus include performing a finite Radon transform, generating an average function to allow inversion of...
6873733 Combined wavefront coding and amplitude contrast imaging systems  
The present invention provides extended depth of field or focus to conventional Amplitude Contrast imaging systems. This is accomplished by including a Wavefront Coding mask in the system to apply...
6873744 Image restoration from transformed component data  
An image in a base domain (e.g., spatial) is restored from only one component (e.g., magnitude) of a transform-domain (e.g., Fourier) image by combining this component with a complementary...
6873747 Method for measurement of pitch in metrology and imaging systems  
In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a method for measuring pitch in data obtained from metrology and imaging systems is provided. A data set from a metrology or imaging instrument is...
6868524 Method and apparatus for text layout across a region  
The present invention displays text within a region by identifying text boxes within the region. To identify the text boxes, the invention uses scan lines that are spaced at intervals that are...
6856706 Image processing method and system, and storage medium  
Output-size information G 1 and reference-resolution information G 0 are input to a zoom-rate section. The zoom-rate section derives zoom-rates M 1 and M 2 , based on the output-size information...
6847740 Method for the optical detection of objects, whose surfaces can reflect or scatter light and which have self-affine, or self-similar, or fractal patterns or structures  
The invention relates to a method for the optical detection of objects or object streams, wherein the surfaces of the objects or object streams are capable of reflecting or of scattering light, and...
6845288 Method and device for measuring a position of a passing sheet  
The position of sheets in a printing press is measured. A problem in transporting sheets through the printing press is how to guarantee the correct orientation and lay of the sheets, which must be...
6839154 Image forming apparatus  
A system CPU checks whether a copying mode is selected. If the copying mode is selected, the system CPU calculates “read area=periphery of original 2−mm×100÷magnification.” If the copying...
6834126 Method of modifying the geometric orientation of an image  
A method of modifying the geometric orientation of a digital image in an image acquisition apparatus adapted to acquire an image in one amongst several different orientations and to store said...
6826309 Prefiltering for segmented image compression  
A method of prefiltering is applied before data compression of scanned image data to better preserve important information. Before prefiltering, the image is segmented and tagged as belonging in a...
6820137 Computer-readable recording medium storing resolution converting program, resolution converting device and resolution converting method  
A resolution converting method, device, and computer-readable recording medium that can improve the quality of a resolution-converted image. The invention converts resolution based on a model...
6816109 Method for automatic association of moving target indications from entities traveling along known route  
A method for automatic association of moving target indications from at least one entity traveling along a route. A moving target indicator radar is used to detect a plurality of moving target...
6809765 Demosaicing for digital imaging device using perceptually uniform color space  
A digital camera is provided having a lens for focusing light from an image through a RGB mosaiced filter on to a solid state photosensor array containing a matrix of CCDs. The CCDs provide a...
6804406 Electronic calibration for seamless tiled display using optical function generator  
Calibrating a seamless tiled display image having multiple overlapping discrete images produced by multiple displays includes generating a display-to-screen spatial transformation function to...
6804411 Method, system, and program for decompressing and aligning line work data from multiple objects  
Disclosed is a method, system, and program for receiving line work data and control data for pixels on a sheet from objects. The control data for one pixel indicates whether to use the line work...
6788828 Adaptive image combination according to image sensing condition  
There is disclosed an image combining apparatus for generating a single image by combining a plurality of sensed images. When the panoramic image sensing mode is set, the image sensing angle is...
6788827 Image processing method and system for following a moving object from one image to an other image sequence  
An image processing method for processing the images of an image sequence (S) comprising steps of determining image data related to first points of an Object of Interest observed in a first image,...
6782138 Method and system for processing multidimensional data  
A method and system for processing multidimensional data. A method of forming multiresolution representations of data includes partitioning the data in a first dimension at a first rate, and...
6775404 Apparatus and method for interactive 3D registration of ultrasound and magnetic resonance images based on a magnetic position sensor  
Intraoperative ultrasound (US) is integrated with stereotactic systems, where a system interactively registers two-dimensional (2D) US and three-dimensional (3D) magnetic resonance (MR) images. The...
6775411 Apparatus and method for image recognition  
An apparatus, method and computer program for recognizing one or more images within digitized image data that might include a target image desired to be located. The system generates a set of...
6766051 Adaptive tree-base lookup for non-separably divided color tables  
A method of color transformation is based on non-separable tiling of a color space. Non-separable tiling allows fine granularity where it is desired and coarse granularity where it is tolerable....
6763146 Method and system for image processing  
A method for image processing in a computerized system reduces the amount of memory required for image processing and produces a layered effect which permits complex manipulation such as scaling...
6760037 Systems and methods for providing improved two pass resampling  
Systems and methods are provided for improved two pass resampling in a computing system. The systems and methods address both bottleneck problem(s) and aliasing problem(s) to improve upon prior art...
6757888 Method and apparatus for manipulating data during automated data processing  
A number of items of data from a data source ( 12 ) can be processed and then deposited in at least one data destination ( 16, 17 ). The data can be image data, text data, numeric data or some...
6751347 Color diamond chroma keying  
A process of defining a color volume for use in a process of color keying, in which a foreground image ( 405 ) is composited against a background image ( 407 ). The foreground image ( 405 )...
6748347 Method and apparatus for rapidly evaluating digital data processing parameters  
The present invention includes a method and apparatus for simulating, for example on a desktop computer, a specific view of a hologram. A preferred embodiment of this invention suitably enables, in...