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6078701 |
Method and apparatus for performing local to global multiframe alignment to construct mosaic images
A method and apparatus that determines the topology of a sequence of images and then globally aligns the images with respect to each image's neighboring images. The apparatus includes a topology...
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6078699 |
Composing an image from sub-images
Sub-images of an e.g. elongate scene are merged so as to form combined first and second portions on the basis of individual shifts of successive sub-images relative to the elongate scene. The first...
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6075905 |
Method and apparatus for mosaic image construction
A method of constructing an image mosaic comprising the steps of selecting source images, aligning the source images, selecting source segments, enhancing the images, and merging the images to form...
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6069980 |
Adaptive character image generation and synthesis
The present invention performs coding with little deterioration in the image quality of a character image when block coding is performed by synthesizing the character image on an image. To achieve...
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6069669 |
Video window control apparatus and method thereof
An improved video window control apparatus and a method thereof which are capable of generating a plurality of video windows on a television or a computer monitor, controlling the size and position...
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6064777 |
Image processing apparatus and method which composes an image on the basis of a raster image signal and an image signal converted by an optical-electric conversion device
An image forming apparatus has a developing device which develops a portion of one page into raster image data by translating a page describing language. A memory stores the developed partial image...
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6052492 |
System and method for automatically generating an image to represent a video sequence
A system automatically generates a representative image to represent a video sequence of a video program, and facilitates editing and manipulating of the video program. The system comprises...
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6044182 |
Method for embedding digital information in an image
A method of embedding digital data in a source image includes the steps of: a) generating a multi-level data image representing the digital data; b) convolving the multi-level data image with an...
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6044181 |
Focal length estimation method and apparatus for construction of panoramic mosaic images
The focal length estimation method and apparatus claimed in this application aligns plural overlapping images with one another for constructing an image mosaic. This is accomplished by computing a...
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6031934 |
Computer vision system for subject characterization
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for determining one or more characteristics of a sub-image within an electronic image. In one embodiment, the present invention includes an alpha image...
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6031942 |
Image collation method and apparatus for excluding combinations of coordinate values
A plurality of linear images are cut, the cut linear images are scanned successively on other images to detect positions where the degree of similarity is high, and these detected coordinate values...
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6031930 |
Method and apparatus for testing a progression of neoplasia including cancer chemoprevention testing
A system is provided for analysis of neoplasia in tissue at a very early stage as well as later stages of its progression and for reporting the progression or regression of the neoplasia. The...
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6018600 |
Sampling and reconstruction of signals and images including MR images of multiple regions
A method and apparatus are provided for acquiring and reconstructing an image. The method includes the steps of obtaining prior knowledge of the image, possibly by coarse sampling of the image and...
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6016356 |
Image superposition processing method
A plurality of image signals are obtained, which represent a radiation image of a single object or radiation images of the single object, and which have different frequency characteristics, each of...
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6011876 |
System and method for converting an incoming image into electronic form
A system (50) and method for converting an incoming image of a scene (12) into electronic form adapted for use with focal plane arrays of detectors (24, 28). The inventive system (50) includes a...
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6009187 |
Wafer prober having an emissive display inspection system and method of use
An inspection system (20) has an image capture device (10) that is mounted onto a wafer prober (15) for the electrical verification of electronic components (60) having an emissive display (61)....
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6009190 |
Texture map construction method and apparatus for displaying panoramic image mosaics
The texture map construction method and apparatus of the invention constructs, from a set of overlapping images, a texture map divisible into plural faces. This is accomplished for each one of the...
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6007052 |
System and method for local area image processing
A method of image processing and the image processor which includes providing a convolution operator having an input for receiving raw imaging data at a data rate N and a plurality of output paths...
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6005961 |
Method for processing name when combining numerical map shape data
A method for processing a name when converting a numerical map of a low level into a numerical map of a high level in a geographic information system includes the steps of: sequentially determining...
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6005971 |
Method, system and program products for displaying multiple types of data in single images
Production and processing of data representing digitized images are disclosed. The disclosure addresses the problem of providing an image which simultaneously represents both high spatial...
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6005987 |
Picture image forming apparatus
In forming a panoramic picture image by compositing picture images dividedly imaged, the invention corrects deviations of images of an object at overlap regions caused by a difference in fields of...
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6002849 |
Original reading apparatus for controlling order of pages of original to be read
An original reading apparatus includes an original feeding unit for feeding the front and back sides of two-side originals in succession to a reading position, a reader unit for reading the...
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6002492 |
Image reading device
The present invention provides an apparatus which separately reads and combines a plurality of partial images of a large document so as to produce simply and accurately produce a composite image of...
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5999662 |
System for automatically aligning images to form a mosaic image
A system for automatically generating a mosaic from a plurality of input images. The system sequentially executes an image alignment process, an editing process, and a combining process such that,...
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5995679 |
Process for coding image sequences in a transmitter unit
The method achieves a reduction of the required transmission capacity. This occurs in that pixels of pixel-based image parts (PB) and corresponding pixels of computer image parts (CB) that overlap...
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5991461 |
Selection process for sequentially combining multiple sets of overlapping surface-profile interferometric data to produce a continuous composite map
The process of combining various sets of measured data is carried out by first selecting a section of the test surface and its data set as the starting point and comparing the regions of overlap...
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5991444 |
Method and apparatus for performing mosaic based image compression
A system for automatically generating a mosaic from a plurality of input images. The system sequentially executes an image alignment process, an editing process, and a combining process such that,...
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5987164 |
Block adjustment method and apparatus for construction of image mosaics
The invention is embodied in a block adjustment method and apparatus which simultaneously aligns a set of overlapping images in order to construct an image mosaic. For each one of the images of the...
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5982931 |
Apparatus and method for the manipulation of image containing documents
An apparatus and method for manipulating a referenced document and a searched document containing images and descriptive text. The manipulation includes conversion of images and text into...
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5982951 |
Apparatus and method for combining a plurality of images
An image combine apparatus for combining a plurality of images to generate a panoramic image. The image combine apparatus identifies an overlapping region of two inputted images and determines a...
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5982941 |
Method of producing digital image with improved performance characteristic
A method of producing a digital image with improved performance characteristics including capturing at least two photographic film images of a scene and digitizing the at least two photographic...
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5970182 |
Registration process for myocardial images
Registration of organ images, such as myocardial images obtained by myocardial perfusion scintigraphy, is performed by an elastic transformation which includes a rigid transformation, a global...
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5963664 |
Method and system for image combination using a parallax-based technique
A system for generating three-dimensional mosaics from a plurality of input images representing an imaged scene. The plurality input images contain at least two images of a single scene, where at...
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5960108 |
Method and system for creating an image-based virtual reality environment utilizing a fisheye lens
The present invention provides a method and system for providing a virtual reality environment utilizing images from a lens on a display of a data processing system is disclosed. The method and...
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5960124 |
Image reproducing method for reproducing handwriting
A handwriting storing and reproducing method which takes small images including a leading edge for writing and stores the small images in a time sequential manner following a movement of a writing...
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5953462 |
Method and apparatus for processing image
The present invention relates to improvement of an image processing method and apparatus which senses the state of a test object as image information by a sensor or sensors, outputs a plurality of...
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5946423 |
Apparatus and method for processing images using position-dependent weighting factors
An image processing apparatus which is capable of combining two images desirably by providing weight and performing an image editing operation. The image processing apparatus has an addition/output...
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5940530 |
Backlit scene and people scene detecting method and apparatus and a gradation correction apparatus
An apparatus for printing video images is disclosed. First the percentage of backlighting or people in the image is detected. That is, the probability of the presence of backlighting or people is...
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5940543 |
Image copying apparatus for recording multiple images in composite form
When images on the front and rear sides of multiple originals are reduced in size and recorded onto both sides of a single recording sheet in composite form, recording positions of images on the...
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5933249 |
Image processing apparatus and method
One object of the present invention is to cut out areas of different natures from an image hierarchically. For encoding, an area identifier identifies areas of an input image. A multivalued area is...
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5930405 |
Image change sensing and storage apparatus and method
A still image of high resolution is stored as a reference image. Regarding images which are inputted later, they are inputted at lower resolution and analyzed, then if any portion differing from...
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5930404 |
Image processing system and method
An image processing system and method for laser-printing a composite image containing a monotone image and a multi gradation-level image in a superposed fashion such that the contours of characters...
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5926581 |
System for topographic mapping from remotely sensed images
In a method for generating a model of terrain, images of the terrain are generated at different angles. Matching points in the images are identified and from these matching points, the coefficients...
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5923381 |
Device and method for processing a signal with a subject moving against a colored background
A device and method that overlays, onto a new colored background a subject clipped from a source video image having a subject moving against a first colored background. A clipping key KD is...
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5920657 |
Method of creating a high resolution still image using a plurality of images and apparatus for practice of the method
The invention is a method for generating a still image, comprising the steps of producing a plurality of images, each of the plurality having been produced at a distinct focal length, scaling each...
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5907626 |
Method for object tracking and mosaicing in an image sequence using a two-dimensional mesh
A method for motion tracking and constructing a mosaic of video objects is disclosed. Also disclosed is a method for synthetic object transfiguration from a mosaic. A 2-D triangular mesh is...
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5905819 |
Method and apparatus for hiding one image or pattern within another
A method of hiding a first image in a second image to produce a combined image includes the steps of: a) modifying the first image according to the content of the second image, so that when the...
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5903318 |
Device and method for determining a key for clipping a subject moving against a colored background
The invention relates to a method for determining a key KD for clipping a subject moving against a colored background, the said key making it possible to separate the color space into three...
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5892554 |
System and method for inserting static and dynamic images into a live video broadcast
A live video insertion system efficiently places static or dynamic images into a live broadcast. The system initially identifies natural landmarks within the video scene that can be automatically...
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5881163 |
X-ray examination apparatus with an imaging arrangement having a plurality of image sensors
An imaging arrangement including a multi-sensor for use in an x-ray examination apparatus is described that combines a plurality of partially overlapping sub-images, resulting in an increased...
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