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7479968 Semi-transparent highlighting of selected objects in electronic documents  
Highlighting selected objects in an electronic document is provided in a manner such that a highlighted object maintains coloring and formatting properties to allow for a maintenance of visual...
7479966 Method and apparatus for super montage large area spectroscopic imaging  
The disclosure relates to Method and Apparatus for Super Montage Large area Spectroscopic Imaging. In one embodiment of the disclosure, a method for producing a spectroscopic image of an object...
7474801 Automatic generation of a photo album  
A method for producing a digital photo album includes selecting a plurality of digital images each characterized by a portrait format or a landscape format, providing a library of page layouts each...
7474802 Method and apparatus for automatically estimating the layout of a sequentially ordered series of frames to be used to form a panorama  
A method of automatically estimating the layout of a sequentially ordered series of frames to be used to form a panorama comprises examining frames of the series to determine an initial flow...
7474315 Deep pixel display  
A method, apparatus, and system for generating a deep pixel display on a display device are provided. A first set of data relating to a first pixel is provided. The first set of data is stored. A...
7474773 Methods and systems for automated fingerprint recognition  
A method of identifying a donor of a fingerprint image exhibiting a pattern of minutiae. The method comprises deriving a donor index code and a donor match code associated with the donor...
7471401 Information processing apparatus, printing processing method, and program therefor  
The present invention aims that in a printing environment holding only a print instruction and a print data, a printing system capable of updating, changing, correcting, etc. only an additional...
7471849 Methods and apparatus for shifting perspective in a composite image  
Methods and apparatus for shifting perspective in a composite image derived from a plurality of images including a first image as a center of projection, and a modified version of a second image...
7469074 Method for producing a composite image by processing source images to align reference points  
A method is described for producing a composite image that is viewable through lenticular lenses to create a special visual effect. The method includes the steps of storing a first source image and...
7463789 Image-processing device, its method, its program and recording medium storing the program  
An image-processing device ( 130 ) includes a data access section ( 131 ) that reads composite image data ( 10 ) having one data structure in which a plurality of image data are combined, and a...
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....
7460731 Personalizing a video  
Processes and apparatus for personalizing video through partial image replacement are disclosed. Personalization may include partial or full replacement of the image of an actor, an object or both....
7460730 Video registration and image sequence stitching  
A “Keyframe Stitcher” provides an efficient technique for building mosaic panoramic images by registering or aligning video frames to construct a mosaic panoramic representation. Matching of...
7454087 Image blending using linear blends of corresponding neighborhood means and variances from first and second image regions  
Systems and techniques for blending image data such that noise, texture and/or high-frequency data may be better preserved in a resulting blended image. In general, in one implementation, the...
7454085 Method and apparatus for the creation of textures and borders for digital images  
First and second digital images are provided. A user is given the choice of using the first image as a texture or a border for the second digital image. A portion of the first image may be selected...
7454086 Techniques for positioning images in electronic documents  
Techniques for positioning images in an electronic document. The images may encode information that can be decoded by devices configured to read the images. An area within the electronic document...
7453496 Wide dynamic range digital image composition  
An image composition method comprises: composing a high-sensitivity image signal H and a low-sensitivity image signal L, so as to generate a composite image signal Gc according to a composing...
7451060 Method of producing aerial photograph data  
A method of producing aerial photograph data is provided which is capable of positively utilizing stored photograph data and an image of a desired object included in a photographed image. The...
7450782 Apparatus and method for improving the quality of a picture having a high illumination difference  
An apparatus and image reconstruction method for use in an apparatus including a digital camera are provided. The apparatus and method include driving an image sensor during a short exposure time...
7450786 Whiteboard imaging system  
An image capturing system is installable in a room opposite a writing surface. The image capturing system is adapted to take visual images of the writing surface and identify information written...
7450781 Method of enlarging the image field of a focal plane array camera  
A method of enlarging an image field of a camera by combining partial images. This method includes continuously rotating at least two refractive prisms such that an optical axis of the at least two...
7450137 System and method for blending images  
A method of blending a pair of images, each image comprising a plurality of pixels having an intensity. A blending edge is determined for each image, each blending edge comprising at least one...
7447380 Efficient method for creating a viewpoint from plurality of images  
A method for creating a novel viewpoint image from a plurality of images includes the steps of simultaneously and continuously acquiring sets of images from a plurality of cameras. Predetermined...
7444036 Device, method, and recording medium for processing a document having document data and a set of related data  
An image processing device processes a document including a document data body and at least one set of related data, and includes a display that displays an image of the document data body and an...
7440599 Apparatus and method for processing X-ray images  
An X-ray image processing apparatus and method for processing X-ray images for generating a continuous X-ray image of relatively uniform converted gradations by pasting a plurality of consecutive...
7440609 Method of segmenting a three-dimensional structure  
The invention relates to a method for segmentation of a three-dimensional structure in a three-dimensional data set, especially a medical data set. The method uses a three-dimensional deformable...
7440585 Autonomous vehicle and motion control therefor  
There are provided an autonomous vehicle, and an apparatus and method for estimating the motion of the autonomous vehicle and detecting three-dimensional (3D) information of an object appearing in...
7440013 Image pickup device with facial region detector and method of synthesizing image including facial region  
An image pickup device is constituted by a handset of cellular phone, wherein an image pickup unit photographs a user as first object, to output image data of a first image frame. A facial region...
7440634 Method for de-blurring images of moving objects  
Systems and methods for providing methods are provided for deblurring images, which are blurred due to the movement of objects in the imaged scene. The systems and methods involve separating a...
7440637 Method and apparatus for image mosaicing  
A method and apparatus is provided for capturing images using a camera or other imager having imaging sensitivity characteristics which vary across the imager's viewing angle. The imager's...
7433084 Digital de-screening technique for scanned documents  
A method and system for de-screening an image signal utilizing a bank of filters to provide several increasingly blurred versions of the original image signal is disclosed. At any given time, only...
7433540 Decomposing natural image sequences  
Techniques for recovering reflectance and illumination from natural image sequences, which techniques can be implemented separately, or combined. The images in a sequence of images can be aligned....
7433541 Image synthesizing apparatus and method  
In an image synthesizer ( 1 ), code stream analyzers ( 10, 11 ), code block extraction units ( 12, 13 ) and EBCOT decoders ( 14, 15 ) work together to decode encoded code streams (D 10 , D 11 )...
7430682 Processing image data from multiple sources  
Interleaving multiple logical data streams into one physical data stream reduces overhead required to process the multiple logical data streams. Multiple arrays of data values are interleaved into...
7430339 Border matting by dynamic programming  
Techniques are disclosed to provide more efficient and improved border matting for extracted foreground images, e.g., without requiring excessive user interaction. Border matting techniques...
7430343 System and method for displaying images  
Disclosed are systems and methods for generating customized images for display to a user. In one example, a system may comprise a web server and one or more databases. A web server may generate one...
7428019 System and method for increasing space or time resolution in video  
A system and method for increasing space or time resolution of an image sequence by combination of a plurality input sources with different space-time resolutions such that the single output...
7426063 System and apparatus for image-formation, and computer-readable for recording medium recording program for the same  
An image-formation system includes an image display function which displays, at a display section, images of a plurality of desired original monochromatic images for output among original...
7424133 Method and apparatus for capturing, geolocating and measuring oblique images  
A computerized system for displaying, geolocating, and taking measurements from captured oblique images includes a data file accessible by the computer system. The data file includes a plurality of...
7420559 Video rendering apparatus and method and program  
Apparatus includes unit storing CG data containing data about coordinate transformation, camera, geometry, light source, and texture, unit transforming coordinate system of CG data into...
7418111 Methods and apparatus to process media  
The presently claimed invention relates generally to digital watermarking, obtaining identifiers from media and/or processing media files. One claim recites a method including: accessing a target...
7418150 Image processing apparatus, and program for processing image  
An image processing apparatus is configured to include: illumination controlling section for controlling emission of light with a setting amount of light; region extracting section for...
7415167 Image processing apparatus  
An image display apparatus which corrects images, which are projected from a plurality of image display sections onto different regions of a screen, by a correction data calculated from picked up...
7415166 Image processing device  
Provided is an image processing device, including a division area setting unit for dividing and cutting out a plurality of image areas from a single image; and a synthesizing unit for synthesizing...
7412112 Image generation apparatus, image generation system and image synthesis method  
A surveillance system includes an image deformation unit for deforming the image captured or picked up by a surveillance camera so that the appearance of a specified region within this image has...
7412111 Enhanced image processing method for the presentation of digitally-combined medical images  
The present invention provides a method and associated system for processing a digital medical image. The method includes defining a plurality regions of an initial digital medical image, wherein...
7409104 Enhanced wide dynamic range in imaging  
A method for enhancing wide dynamic range in images. The method comprises: acquiring at least two images of a scene to be imaged, the images acquired using different exposure times; constructing...
7409105 Panoramic maker engine for a low profile system  
A method for generating a panoramic image includes receiving a first image, dividing the first image into a first portion and a second portion, rotating the first portion of the first image, saving...
7409111 Image synthesizing system for automatically retrieving and synthesizing images to be synthesized  
An image processing apparatus which associates a plurality of images obtained in advance for the purpose of panoramic image synthesis or stereo-scopic viewing display without troubling the user....
7409106 Image generating device, image generating method, and image generating program  
Designed to determine a number of frames of data for acquisition from video data on the basis of image quality setting data that allows image quality to be set for an image output by an image...