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7593561 |
Computer-aided detection of microcalcification clusters
A method for computer-aided detection of microcalcification clusters using a digital computer obtains digital mammography data for a single view image and normalizes and filters the image data to...
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7587272 |
Method for locating difficult access points on a map
A method of locating difficult access points on a topological map includes: analyzing curvilinear distances using a chamfer mask to catalogue approximate values C(V) of the Euclidean distances...
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7587100 |
Masking tool
A system for controlling effects performed on an image includes a digital camera having a display that displays the image. A masking tool positions a graphical representation on the display, the...
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7583856 |
Method for determining optimal chamfer mask coefficients for distance transform
The coefficients of a chamfer mask are, to within a multiplicative scale factor making it possible to give them an integer value, approximations of the Euclidian distances separating the pixels...
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7570787 |
X-ray inspection apparatus and method for creating an image processing procedure for the X-ray inspection apparatus
An X-ray inspection apparatus is provided with a shied box, a conveyor, an X-ray irradiator, an X-ray line sensor, a monitor, and a control computer to enable the apparatus to inspect an article by...
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7508415 |
Method for controlling masking block in monitoring camera
A method for controlling a masking block in a monitoring camera. The method adjusts the masking block to precisely hide an image of a subject with its position and size changed when a zoom...
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7474803 |
System and method of three-dimensional image capture and modeling
System and method for constructing a 3D model of an object based on a series of silhouette and texture map images. In the exemplary embodiment an object is placed on a rotating turntable and a...
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7463788 |
Method, device and program for cutting out moving image
To enable obtainment of a composite image including a movement trajectory of a moving body, even from a moving image including a background. Sampling means samples frames from moving image data....
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7460129 |
Manipulating text and graphic appearance
A method, device and computer system for creating a smooth, continuous height (scalar or vector) field are described. The described techniques permit arbitrary closed regions to be smoothly shaded...
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7456982 |
Segmentation method and system for multiple raster content (MRC) representation of documents
A method and a system for dynamically thresholding an image signal. The system comprises a computing block. The computing block receives the image signal and a minimum and a maximum within each of...
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7432937 |
System and method for concave polygon rasterization
An apparatus and method to render concave polygons. In some embodiments, the method includes setting an alpha buffer of a hardware rasterizer to zero, generating an alpha mask by rendering the...
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7415150 |
Photomask image registration in scanning electron microscope imagery
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that computes translational differentials between a “perfect” image (henceforth called a database-image) and a scanned-image of a...
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7403641 |
Object recognition system
An object recognition system utilizes a mask locator for extracting a mask area (M) from within a subject image in order to recognize the mask area (M) with a subject image. The mask locator ( 40 )...
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7397952 |
“Don't care” pixel interpolation
A system and method facilitating image smoothing is provided. The invention includes an image processor having an image receptor and an image smoother. The invention provides for the image smoother...
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7391929 |
Masking tool
According to one embodiment of the invention, a method of masking comprises an operation of selecting a masking tool based on operations performed on a digital camera by a user. The masking tool is...
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7391444 |
Image pickup apparatus capable of selecting output according to time measured by timer
In an image pickup apparatus, timer 2 starts a time measuring operation when a shutter button is pressed. When a time T 1 is measured by timer 2 , the image from CCD 1 is output as a...
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7386190 |
Method for image cropping
A method to crop image from an irregularly shaped region. A top-left corner of the best cropping rectangle are determined by sequentially scanning the rows of the irregularly shaped region to find...
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7385729 |
Optimization techniques during processing of print jobs
Methods for processing print jobs in rendering devices include constructing display list objects for to-be-printed objects and determining if two or more sequential objects are combinable. If so, a...
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7382936 |
Surveillance camera apparatus having a selecting operation of image information in a receiving side
A surveillance camera apparatus which has an image signal transmission apparatus transmitting an image signal and an image signal reception apparatus receiving an image signal from the image signal...
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7333670 |
Image sequence enhancement system and method
Motion picture scenes to be colorized are broken into separate elements, backgrounds/sets or motion/onscreen-action. Background and motion elements are combined separately into single frame...
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7305089 |
Picture taking apparatus and method of controlling same
The camera includes a sensor for sensing the photographer's iris image and registering the image in advance. The iris image is recorded in the image of a subject by a digital MCU at a timing...
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7283673 |
Image processing method and apparatus
An object of the present invention is to provide an image processing apparatus which allows a user to execute image processing, such as extraction and elimination of a portion common to a plurality...
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7283277 |
Image borders
A border can be added to an image using pixels of a graphic piece that can be copied into or around an image. The graphic piece can be repeatedly copied around an image to form a border. A mask...
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7260177 |
X-ray inspection apparatus
An X-ray inspection apparatus is disclosed. An inside area defining unit defines an area inside the rim of the can in an X-ray image created by an image formation unit. An extension area defining...
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7236642 |
Method and structure for generating output data of a digital image including a transparent object
A method for generating output data for a transparent object in a digital image creates a plurality of image areas. The plurality of image areas covers a total area of the transparent object in the...
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7218342 |
Pan/tilt/zoom surveillance system and method for dynamically adjusting a user defined image picture mask
A surveillance camera apparatus includes a first storage unit for storing a size of pixels configuring a image-sensor, a computation unit for performing a computation using first information,...
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7215827 |
Object detection method using an image-pickup device with easy detection masking region setting and object detection apparatus using the method
In object detection method and apparatus, a detection image related to a binary image obtained by subtracting a background image from an input image delivered from an image-pickup device is...
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7184595 |
Pattern matching using projection kernels
Pattern matching apparatus for comparing signal samples with a pattern to find signal samples substantially matching said pattern, the apparatus comprising: a projector for projecting said signal...
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7164779 |
Privacy-enhanced display device
A method displays an image only to an authorized user by generating a mask image from a data image. The data and mask image are then displayed periodically in an alternating manner on a display...
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7161615 |
System and method for tracking objects and obscuring fields of view under video surveillance
A system and method is provided for processing video signals, tracking objects in view, and blanking fields of view in video surveillance systems. The system includes a camera having two rotational...
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7143495 |
Backlight etching process
A backlight etching process, and more particularly the etching of a solid, semi-translucent base material, to form an exact image within the material. The base material is preferably translucent...
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7127684 |
Synchronized magnification system and method for images
A synchronized image manipulation system and method are disclosed. The image manipulation system includes a computer device for controlling the operation of the system, at least one display screen...
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7106892 |
Display of image data information
A method and workstation for producing a combined image, including information from first and second diagnostic images, identify areas of increased uptake in the second diagnostic image as a region...
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7103750 |
Method and apparatus for finding repeated substrings in pattern recognition
A method and apparatus for compressing a reference pattern (RP) with repeated substrings by encoding produce compressed reference patterns (CRPs) with reduce storage requirements. Operation codes...
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7103228 |
Local change of an image sharpness of photographic images with masks
A process for the image sharpening of a photographic image with a multitude of image elements is disclosed, wherein a correction mask for the change of the image sharpness is determined from the...
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7054492 |
Fast regular shaped pattern searching
An accumulation method for fast pattern search can accurately locate regular shaped patterns of interest. The method can be used for invariant search to match patterns of interest in images where...
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7054482 |
Smart masking tool for image processing
Smart selection and paste operations for image processing use a wide edge area for selection and masking of an object from a source image. The wide edge area, which can be designated with a brush...
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7027664 |
Method for removing noise regions in stereo 3D display system
A method for removing noise regions in a stereo 3D image, which includes a first eye image and a second eye image is achieved by calculating a maximum offset value and turning a horizontal...
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7027647 |
Coder matched layer separation for compression of compound documents
Methods for decomposing compound documents for mixed raster content representation are provided. A method for decomposing an image includes the step of decomposing the image into a plurality of...
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7003758 |
System and method for lithography simulation
There are many inventions described and illustrated herein. In one aspect, the present invention is directed to a technique of, and system for simulating, verifying, inspecting, characterizing,...
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6999073 |
Method and system for generating fully-textured 3D
A 3D modeling system for automatically generating fully-textured 3D models of objects from a sequence of images taken around the objects is disclosed. There are several processes developed to...
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6996272 |
Apparatus and method for removing background on visual
A background removal apparatus comprises a color normalization module that normalizes an original image, and an image segmentation module that segments the normalized image into several segmented...
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6985260 |
Apparatus and method for drawing a gradient fill object
To allow high-speed image data generation processing by shortening time required to generate an object having a predetermined gradation pattern over a number of lines in the vertical or horizontal...
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6973222 |
System and method of cropping an image
Systems and methods are disclosed for cropping an image to be included in an image-based product by displaying the image; generating a crop mask based on cropping product attributes, the crop mask...
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6970578 |
Method of generating images to aid in the detection of manmade objects in cluttered underwater environments
An underwater image area is illuminated with light generating elastic scattering from manmade objects and naturally-occurring features, and fluorescence from naturally-occurring features. Local...
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6961477 |
Image-based selection of gamut mapping
Gamut mapping of an original image using one or more of plural different gamut mapping algorithms. The original image is subjected to spatial frequency analysis so as to determine spatial frequency...
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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...
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6950495 |
Backscatter imaging using Hadamard transform masking
Backscatter imaging using Hadamard transform masking includes an area x-ray source with alternating, masked, Hadamard transform patterns. The total backscatter signal from a target for each pair of...
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6941027 |
Method of and system for automatically determining a level of light falloff in an image
An image processing system includes an image collector and a light falloff correction system. The light falloff correction system comprises a polar transformer that converts an image into radial...
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6941024 |
Coder matched layer separation and interpolation for compression of compound documents
A method of preparing an image for efficient wavelet transform compression includes the steps of separating the image into foreground and background image layers, and a mask layer. A smoothing...
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