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6529206 |
Image processing apparatus and method, and medium therefor
A projected image of a three-dimensional object is displayed in a frame which is a constituent of a moving picture. Shape information concerning the shape of a surface of the three-dimensional...
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6526183 |
Static image generation method and device
The invention relates to a method and device for generating a large static image M(n), such as a sprite or a mosaic, from a video sequence including successive video objects. This method comprises...
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6525302 |
Wavefront coding phase contrast imaging systems
The present invention provides extended depth of field or focus to conventional Phase Contrast imaging systems. This is accomplished by including a Wavefront Coding mask in the system to apply...
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6519361 |
Optimization of color transformation matrix with all positive coefficients
A color transformation matrix K transforms device dependent color imaging signals RGB into device independent color imaging signals XYZ. The transformation matrix K includes a set of coefficients k...
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6510244 |
Method and system for acquiring a three-dimensional shape description
Method for acquiring a three-dimensional shape or image of a scene, wherein a predetermined pattern of lines is projected onto the scene and the shape is acquired on the basis of relative distances...
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6507676 |
Hexagonal and octagonal regions from summed-area tables
Systems and methods for determining the texture of the images to be processed are provided. An image data manager is provided that is capable of generating summed-area tables to be applied in...
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6507912 |
Protection of biometric data via key-dependent sampling
Key-dependent sampling of a biometric characteristic is performed at a client, to thereby generate key-dependent biometric data samples. The key-dependent biometric data samples are then...
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6505064 |
Diagnostic imaging systems and methods employing temporally resolved intensity tracing
A diagnostic imaging system ( 100, 200 ) and method generates a plurality of temporally resolved volume image representations ( 130, 132, . . . , 134 ). A time course projection processor ( 140,...
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6502107 |
Visual database system
The visual database system comprises at least one visual data input device for inputting visual data, a visual database system device for storing the visual data, and at least one visual data...
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6496606 |
Static image generation method and device
The invention relates to a method and device for generating a large static image M(n), such as a sprite or a mosaic, from a video sequence including successive video objects. This method comprises...
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6489973 |
Image acquisition architecture
An image acquisition architecture includes a device class representing a physical image acquisition device, a storage class representing storage areas of the image acquisition device, a package...
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6487322 |
Generating image data
A surface generated from a radiosity simulation is shaded. The surface is divided into a plurality of elements and a brightness value is calculated for each of the elements. An initial surface...
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6483939 |
Image processing
A picture processing apparatus having a shape memory with shape data of an object previously stored therein, a processor to set a coordinate value of an object in a three-dimensional virtual space...
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6477656 |
System for generating clock pulse which the number of pulses outputted within a predetermined time period is based on the number of calculated delay stages
An image forming device scans in a main scanning direction in synchronization with dot clock pulses for each scanning line to form an image; a basic clock pulse generator generates basic clock...
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6477270 |
Method for converting a high resolution image to true color using a low resolution color image
A method for converting a high resolution greyscale digital image to a color image using a low resolution digital color image of the same area or region. The low resolution color image is first...
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6476938 |
Print control system and method
A print control system allows a user to specify the internal state of a PDL (Page Description Language) interpreter using data coded in a format other than the PDL format the PDL interpreter can...
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6466686 |
System and method for transforming fingerprints to improve recognition
A system and method reduces the amount of variation in a fingerprint image due to distortion from elastic deformation of the finger surface and projection onto a planar coordinate system. The...
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6463181 |
Method for optimizing visual display of enhanced digital images
The present invention provides a method utilizing a wavelet transform for improving and optimizing the visual display of image data at the time of viewing to provide enhanced information analysis...
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6459819 |
Image input system
To provide an image input system which enables to obtain a high-precision composite image at high speed with an easy operation from divisional images taken from an object, through calculating...
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6456743 |
Methods and devices for processing a set of data
A method and device that operates in accordance with the method are provided for primary processing a set of data (IM, f) representing physical quantities. The method comprises a step of...
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6456745 |
Method and apparatus for re-sizing and zooming images by operating directly on their digital transforms
Digital images are represented in the spatial domain by numbers that correspond to pixels and may be transformed to a transform domain image by means of a Transform Method. Other Transform Methods...
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6449396 |
Compact rendering for processing binary high addressability images
A method of processing a high addressability binary image comprises converting the high addressability binary image to gray-scale image data; manipulating the gray-scale image data; and rendering...
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6445815 |
Measurement of depth image considering time delay
An augmented reality presentation system that generates and presents a virtual image free from any latency from a real space. This system has a position/posture sensor for time-sequentially...
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6415051 |
Generating 3-D models using a manually operated structured light source
A 3D modeling system employing a commercially available structured light source is disclosed. The light source projecting a light stripe is swung manually across an object or a particular area of...
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6404925 |
Methods and apparatuses for segmenting an audio-visual recording using image similarity searching and audio speaker recognition
Methods for segmenting audio-video recording of meetings containing slide presentations by one or more speakers are described. These segments serve as indexes into the recorded meeting. If an...
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6401143 |
Loopback direct memory access control system for a digital scanner
The present invention generally relates to a loopback direct memory access control system for a digital scanner for processing images. More specifically, the present invention is directed to a...
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6396959 |
Compound transfer modes for image blending
Methods and apparatus operable to create transfer or blending functions defining blending modes for image processing. The identity of a first transfer mode function T 1 and of a second transfer...
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6393144 |
Image transformation and synthesis methods
In a telepresence system, a scene is captured by recording pixel data elements, each associated with a pixel ray vector having a direction and an intercept on an known locus in the frame of...
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6389178 |
Method of downsampling documents
A method downsamples characters in a document by font substitution when the characters in the document are identified with sufficient reliability. Otherwise, the characters are downsampled by...
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6385334 |
System and method for adjusting stereo camera
In a correction operating part 10 c, three regions including two distant regions and one near region are selected on a reference image picked up by a main camera 2, and distance data are added...
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6381375 |
Methods and apparatus for generating a projection of an image
Novel methods for generating a projection of an image according to the invention concurrently rotate, scale, translate, skew, shear, or otherwise transform the image via a sequence of two...
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6377280 |
Edge enhanced image up-sampling algorithm using discrete wavelet transform
A method comprising constructing virtual (Discrete Wavelet Transform) DWT sub-bands from an image by performing the DWT and then applying an inverse DWT upon the virtual sub-bands, the result of...
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6370268 |
Image data converting method
An image data generating method for generating image data corresponding to a planar holographic stereogram is provided. First, an object of imaging device is rotated, while the distance between the...
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6360027 |
Multiple ultrasound image registration system, method and transducer
An ultrasonic imaging system includes an ultrasonic transducer having an image data array and a tracking array at each end of the image data array. The tracking arrays are oriented transversely to...
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6348926 |
Image conversion method and conversion device
To realize image conversion processing by means of filtering using a multi-tap structure without requiring that a memory to use has a high-speed capability, a merge circuit 102 merges sampled...
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6345125 |
Multiple description transform coding using optimal transforms of arbitrary dimension
A multiple description (MD) joint source-channel (JSC) encoder in accordance with the invention encodes n components of a signal for transmission over in channels of a communication medium. In...
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6343160 |
Utilization of caching in image manipulation and creation
A method of increasing the speed of image creation on a computer system for the interactive creation of images via a series of creation steps. A resultant image of each of the creation steps is...
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6341183 |
Graphical user interface for image acquisition and processing
An event-driven GUI-based image acquisition interface for the IDL programming environment designed for CCD camera control and image acquisition directly into the IDL environment where image...
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6320988 |
Skeleton model shape transformation method, image synthesizing apparatus, and information storage medium
The objective of this invention is to provide a method of transforming the shape of a skeleton model, wherein this method can easily handle a skeleton model of a multiple-branching structure and...
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6307964 |
Method for ordering image spaces to represent object shapes
A method represents a shape of an object in an image. Portions of the image interior to a boundary of the object are ordered. A medial axis for the ordered portions of the image is derived. The...
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6301370 |
Face recognition from video images
The present invention is embodied in an apparatus, and related method, for detecting and recognizing an object in an image frame. The object may be, for example, a head having particular facial...
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6289135 |
Electronic image processing device for the detection of motions
An electronic processing device receives sets of image data representing respectively sequential three-dimensional digital images of the same region. This device comprises means capable of defining...
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6278805 |
System for composing color transforms using class information
A system is disclosed that uses input and output color space identifiers and other information about the transforms to automatically determine a size and a class of identity function composite...
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6272261 |
Image processing device
The present invention provides an image processing device capable of performing high-resolution conversion, enlargement processing, etc. which, even with images including both text images and...
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6272231 |
Wavelet-based facial motion capture for avatar animation
The present invention is embodied in an apparatus, and related method, for sensing a person's facial movements, features and characteristics and the like to generate and animate an avatar image...
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6263100 |
Image processing method and apparatus for generating an image from the viewpoint of an observer on the basis of images obtained from a plurality of viewpoints
Each two adjacent images of multi-viewpoint images are interpolated by detecting corresponding pixels and generating an interpolated image in accordance with the correspondence among pixels. The...
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6259828 |
Sprite-based video coding system with automatic segmentation integrated into coding and sprite building processes
A sprite-based coding system includes an encoder and decoder where sprite-building is automatic and segmentation of the sprite object is automatic and integrated into the sprite building as well as...
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6259825 |
Auto setup process
In an auto set up process for performing auto setup operations to automatically determine conditions for processing an image on the basis of captured images, not only is a histogram process for...
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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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6249609 |
Apparatus and method for processing images
An image processing apparatus makes it possible to cut off a desired image with a high extraction rate irrespective of whether or not an inputted image has compression hysteresis. With the image...
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