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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...