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7630533 |
Breast tomosynthesis with display of highlighted suspected calcifications
Systems and methods that facilitate the presentation and assessment of selected features in projection and/or reconstructed breast images, such as calcifications that meet selected criteria of...
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7627196 |
Image processing device and image capturing device
An image processing device comprises: plane conversion means which receives a subject image in which a subject having a particular shape has been captured and shape information about...
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7623734 |
Method and system for automatically inscribing noisy objects in scanned image data within a minimum area rectangle
A minimum area rectangle inscription method and system for automatically generating a minimum area rectangle that inscribes and bounds an approximately rectangular object (or “noisy” object)...
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7623735 |
Method for differentiating dynamic range of image
A method for differentiating dynamic range of image is disclosed. The method comprises the following steps. First of all, pixel numbers with the same level value of Density units D n - 1 and D n ...
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7613324 |
Detection of change in posture in video
Input video data is processed to detect a change in a posture of a person shown in the video data. The change of posture may be the result of an event, for example, the person falling or getting...
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7609951 |
Image pickup processing method and image pickup apparatus
A roll correction section ( 21 ) performs correction to an image captured by a camera ( 11 ). A region limiting section ( 15 ) limits image data of an image in an upper region of the image and...
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7603000 |
System and method for learning relative distance in a shape space using image based features
A system and method for identifying a shape of an anatomical structure in an input image is disclosed. An input image is received and warped using a set of warping templates resulting in a set of...
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7602937 |
Image-based visibility measurement
The invention provides an image-based visibility measurement solution in which an image is used to calculate a visibility (visual range). In one embodiment, a lighting condition for the image is...
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7593585 |
Image processing apparatus and method therefor
An image processing method includes the steps of inputting image data representing an input image, acquiring an image size of a face image which has the maximum image-face size contained in the...
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7586596 |
Field folding optical method for imaging system
Apparatus for inspecting a surface of a sample, including a detector and folding optics. The folding optics are configured to receive radiation arising from a first region of the surface and from a...
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7580559 |
System and method for calibrating a spatial light modulator
A method and system as used to calibrate a reflective SLM. The system can include the SLM having an array of pixels and a projection optical system resolving individual pixels and having an...
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7580590 |
Optical image system surface resolution calibration method
An optical image system surface resolution calibration method is provided herein, which utilizes a calibration standard and an image sensor device. The surface of the calibration standard is...
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7577684 |
Fast generalized 2-Dimensional heap for Hausdorff and earth mover's distance
A method of measuring distance between two distributions of data points in a space is described. The distances between data points are ordered in a plurality of heaps stored within 2-D heaps, which...
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7570801 |
Device suitable for placing components on a substrate
A device comprises an imaging device, a placement element connected to the imaging device for placing a component on a substrate, as well as an optical system having an optical axis. The placement...
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7570840 |
Determination of portrait against back light
A CPU 200 compares a luminance distribution characteristic of image data with a reference luminance distribution characteristic, and then confirms that the image data GD is a backlit portrait...
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7567708 |
Apparatus and method for image processing
This disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus or an image processing method, and takes as its technical problem the fact that conventionally it is difficult to perform a process of...
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7552120 |
Method for indexing and identifying multimedia documents
The method of indexing multimedia documents comprises the following steps: a) for each document identifying and extracting terms t i constituted by vectors characterizing properties of the; b)...
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7546210 |
Visual-servoing optical microscopy
The present invention provides methods and devices for the knowledge-based discovery and optimization of differences between cell types. In particular, the present invention provides visual...
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7542602 |
Digital image processing of medical images
A method is disclosed for processing a digital medical image using a computer with a display for viewing an input digital medical image The method includes steps of: accessing the input digital...
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7536053 |
Method and apparatus for the correction of nonlinear field of view distortion of a digital imaging system
Nonlinear distortions of imaging optics within a computer vision system are quantified as corrective values within a viewing window defined by a pixel array. A test artifact is displaced within an...
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7519206 |
Detection of features in images
An image processing technique which identifies pixels in images which are associated with features having a selected shape, such as but not exclusively step edge, roof, ridge or valley. The shape...
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7515734 |
Device, system and method for determining compliance with a positioning instruction by a figure in an image
A device, system and method for calculating location coordinates for a figure in an image that is illuminated by visible light, comparing such location coordinates to location coordinates of a...
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7511721 |
Radiographic image connection processing method, radiographic image connection processing apparatus, computer program, and computer-readable recording medium
In a radiographic image connection processing method of connecting plural partial radiographic images, the partial radiographic images are selected, and if appropriate the operation mode is...
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7512286 |
Assessing image quality
Systems and methods of assessing image quality are described. In one scheme for assessing image quality, a target object region is detected in an input image. An image quality feature vector...
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7508980 |
Method for preparing stereo image and three-dimensional data preparation system
A method for preparing stereo images by using a surveying instrument, which comprises an image pickup means for acquiring an image in a collimating direction, and a distance measuring and angle...
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7505604 |
Method for detection and recognition of fog presence within an aircraft compartment using video images
Detecting video phenomena, such as fire in an aircraft cargo bay, includes receiving a plurality of video images from a plurality of sources, compensating the images to provide enhanced images,...
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7505012 |
Display source divider
In an implementation of a display source divider, a video generation system generates a video display source that includes display data for multiple display regions on a display device. For...
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7502125 |
Measuring technology and computer numerical control technology
A measuring apparatus of this invention comprises: a projector; a camera; a generator that generates, from a photographed image of a fringe pattern projected by the projector at a time of...
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7492471 |
Image forming apparatus for printing images properly arranged relative to index tab
An image forming apparatus prints images on print sheets, and insets tab-index sheets between the printed print sheets. The image forming apparatus includes an orientation detecting unit which...
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7486837 |
Method, device, and program for image conversion, method, device and program for texture mapping, and server-client system
A plurality of parameters included in a predetermined illumination equation which defines a brightness are acquired for each pixel of an image. For each of the parameters, a homogeneous region...
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7477262 |
Automatic calculation of minimum and maximum tolerance stack
Determining a minimum condition and a maximum condition of an assembly of parts includes determining a subset of the assembly of parts, constructing a tolerance chain comprised of tolerance...
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7475013 |
Speaker recognition using local models
A system and method for voice recognition is disclosed. The system enrolls speakers using an enrollment voice samples and identification information. An extraction module characterizes enrollment...
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7466875 |
Method and system for determining the legibility of text in an image
Legibility of text in an image of a page is determined by comparing a measure of the text in the page image with a measure of the page image itself. In one aspect, a measure of the text in the page...
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7466854 |
Size checking method and apparatus
A pair of edges that are located at ends as viewed in the widthwise direction of a design pattern are recognized. On the basis of the edge direction in which the paired edges are recognized, edge...
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7463790 |
Calculation module
A calculation module for calculating the position of a mechanical element, the calculation module being operable to receive an input signal, detect a first plurality of corresponding features in...
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7460728 |
Image processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program
For each pixel read from an imaging device, a horizontal counter value and a vertical counter value corresponding to the pixel are supplied from a signal generator to a distance computation section...
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7454083 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, noise-amount estimate apparatus, noise-amount estimate method, and storage medium
An image processing apparatus processes input pixel data and outputs the processed pixel data as output pixel data. The image processing apparatus includes an input reliability calculation section...
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7454319 |
System, method, and computer program product for determining wall thickness in graphic model
A system, method, and computer program product for measuring wall thickness. After an internal body topology of the model is generated, the topology is traversed between wall elements to determine...
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7454088 |
Estimating orientation angle and translation values of a scanned image
Exemplary methods for estimating an orientation angle and a translation values for scanned images are disclosed. The methods described herein may be embodied as logic instructions on a...
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7450268 |
Image reproduction
A method of reproducing an image, comprising:
creating a, or using an already existing, bitmap-input image; finding zones in the input image containing text; determining colors of pixels,...
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7450783 |
Methods and systems for measuring the size and volume of features on live tissues
Methods and systems for measuring volume and size of features such as lesions, tumors, sores, and wounds external to animal, human and plant skin, using 3D structured light scanners are provided....
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7433498 |
Apparatus, method and program for generating photo card data
A photo card can be generated easily. An eye position detection unit detects positions of eye centers in a face image, and a normalization unit obtains a normalized face image by normalizing the...
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7433542 |
Method for measuring line and space pattern using scanning electron microscope
The present invention is relates to a method for measuring average line width of line and space patterns in a simplified manner and at high speed without measuring at many positions. An average...
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7424174 |
Image processing device
An image processing device comprises an image acquisition apparatus configured to acquire an image of an object, a feature extraction unit configured to extract a feature portion from a visual...
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7417765 |
Image processing apparatus and method, image processing program, and storage medium
An image processing apparatus which includes an image reading apparatus comprising a first memory, a book image corrector, and a selector. The first memory stores optical positioning information of...
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7406193 |
Image processing method and image processing apparatus for making luminance correction
An image processing method of making luminance correction on the basis of a luminance histogram showing luminance level distribution of image data expressing an image by a numerical value. A...
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7394915 |
Method and system for measuring thickness of an item based on imaging
A system and method for determining the thickness of a mail piece is provided. A first image of at least a portion of a surface of a mail piece is captured using a first optical axis for a feature...
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7391885 |
Method for determining overall effectiveness of a document
The present invention is directed to a method for determining a document's overall effectiveness or quality using a technique that employs detecting correlation between document citation rate and...
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7388687 |
Method of evaluating image pattern output accuracy
A method of evaluating image pattern output accuracy based on numerical and objective criteria, by employing quality engineering. The method includes setting command signals which provide different...
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7379561 |
Method and system for differentially and regularly modifying a digital image by pixel
Th invention relates to a method and system for modifying a digital image ( 100 ) consisting of pixels. Said digital image is divided into areas ( 103 ). At least one area value is assigned to each...
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