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7620268 |
Method and apparatus for recognizing text in an image sequence of scene imagery
An apparatus and a concomitant method for detecting and recognizing text information in a captured imagery. The present method transforms the image of the text to a normalized coordinate system...
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7619663 |
Image processing apparatus for correcting distortion of image and image shooting apparatus for correcting distortion of shot image
A digital camera acquires the image of an original including an original from a shot image acquired by shooting. The digital camera reduces the image of the original and corrects distortion of the...
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7616818 |
Method of determining the orientation of an image
The orientation of an image such as a radiographic image is deduced from the digital representation of the image. In one embodiment the curvature is calculated and a decision on the orientation of...
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7616247 |
Reproducing apparatus, image data reproducing method, program, and storage medium
A reproducing apparatus, an image data reproducing method, a program, and a storage medium each detects an attitude state of the reproducing apparatus, extracts a part of an area of image data...
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7599560 |
Embedded interaction code recognition
In accordance with embodiments of the invention, embedded interaction code (EIC) symbols are recognized. EIC dots are generated based on effective EIC symbols, which have been generated by...
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7593856 |
Brand recognition system
Computer software for and method of determining livestock ownership comprising inputting an image of a livestock brand whose ownership is to be determined, automatically determining one or more...
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7590335 |
Digital camera, composition correction device, and composition correction method
When composition of a first captured image having a tilted subject image is corrected, the first image is rotated such that the subject image stands in an erect position, according to the attitude...
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7590267 |
Accelerated face detection based on prior probability of a view
A method and system for detecting faces at different views within images that allocates the computational effort based on a prior probability associated with a view is provided. A face detection...
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7562820 |
Barcode recognition apparatus
After binarization is performed, the adjacency relationship of connection fields is analyzed from a labeled input image on the basis of the characteristics of the structure of a barcode, thereby...
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7554698 |
Robust document boundary determination
The present application discloses a system for determining document boundaries inc1uding an image sensor, a backing opposed to the sensor, and an image processor. The image processor analyzes...
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7538903 |
Method for scanning by using a virtual frame holder
Embodiments of a scanning method utilizing a virtual frame holder are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes using a computer drive scan program to perform a scanning preview, determining...
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7515772 |
Document registration and skew detection system
Disclosed methods and systems perform electronic registration of digitally captured images in real-time and performs accurate and robust digital image processing by analyzing the entire digitally...
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7512275 |
Image collating apparatus, image collating method, image collating program and computer readable recording medium recording image collating program
When first and second images are input, a partial image feature calculating unit calculates feature values of partial images of the two images. A maximum matching score position searching unit...
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7505162 |
Digital scanning systems and methods for scanning multi-sided cards and documents
The present invention relates to scanning multi-sided documents. The scanner device scans the multi-sided document one side at a time. The image of each side is tiled vertically or horizontally to...
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7502494 |
Face orientation detection apparatus, face orientation detection method, and computer memory product
The CPU of a face orientation detection apparatus which acquires an image frame photographed by a camera through a cable detects the face region in the horizontal direction of the acquired image...
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7502493 |
Image processing apparatus and method and program storage medium
According to the present invention, the face of a subject person can be rapidly detected. An image input unit inputs an image to be processed. A photographing-position input unit inputs...
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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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7483591 |
Image transfer apparatus with streak removal system
An image transfer apparatus for transferring an image on a sheet medium having a frame and a reader connected to the frame for reading the image on the sheet medium. The image moves relative to the...
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7457481 |
Apparatus and method for labeling rows and columns in an irregular array
The apparatus and method of the invention provide for assigning coordinates to samples in an array. The method is based on a hierarchical pattern matching to a local lattice structure that is used...
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7456995 |
Techniques for aligning images using page characteristics and image shifting
Techniques for printing an image on a print medium. Information regarding the actual size of the medium, or the actual placement of the medium at a print zone, is used to shift the image to...
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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...
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7438231 |
Method for detecting forged barcodes
A method of printing a two-dimensional barcode by tilting the print head, which results in tilted barcode, and methods of detecting various types of attempts to forge the tilted barcode including:...
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7437017 |
Image processing method
In accordance with an image processing method, a data region is detected from input image data. The input image data is rotated in accordance with inclination of an image. Determination is made...
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7433509 |
Method for automatic de-skewing of multiple layer wafer for improved pattern recognition
A method for processing wafers includes learning a first pattern at a de-skew site on a first wafer layer, saving the first patterns in a recipe for de-skewing wafers, learning a second pattern at...
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7420719 |
Skew correction
Method embodiments herein print a test document using a multi-function printing device to produce a printed document. This printed document is examined in a first direction to determine a first...
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7418126 |
Image distortion correcting method and apparatus, and storage medium
An image distortion correcting apparatus is provided with an image input section to input an image of a flat rectangular paper surface imaged by an imaging section, as an input image, an imaging...
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7415168 |
Image reading device
An image reading apparatus has a data calculation unit ( 31,32 ) to calculate moving average data and second derivative data for a plurality of samples made of multivalued data, a position...
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7412113 |
Captured image projection apparatus and captured image correction method
A calligraphy/drawing camera image-captures a document and sends a resultant captured image to a personal computer (S 101 ). The personal computer applies various image processes such as correction...
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7406214 |
Methods and devices employing optical sensors and/or steganography
A wireless phone is equipped with a 2D optical sensor, enabling a variety of applications. For example, such a phone may also be provided with a digital watermark decoder, permitting decoding of...
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7400782 |
Image warping correction in forming 360 degree panoramic images
A method for creating a 360 degree panoramic image from multiple images includes (1) computing a gross rotation error ΔR between a first image and a calculated first image rotated to be stitched...
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7391930 |
Angle de-skew device and method thereof
An angle de-skew device and the method thereof are used in an image processing system to rotate a skewed image with respect to a reference point as a rotated center. First and second accumulator...
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7376289 |
Image processing method and image processing apparatus
Image data having a total number of pixels being H×V is written in SDRAM having an enough number of recording domains capable of storing all the pixel data of the image data and the number of...
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7376285 |
Method of auto-deskewing a tilted image
A method of auto-deskewing a titled original image is provided. Frist, obtain an original image by scanning to acquire values of pixels in the original image. Next subject the original image to a...
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7356200 |
Method and device for determining skew angle of an image
Methods and apparatuses for determining a skew angle of text relative to an axis are disclosed herein. One exemplary embodiment of the method comprises locating a first portion of the text that has...
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7352888 |
Method for computer recognition of projection views and orientation of chest radiographs
A method for identifying a projection view and an orientation of a chest radiograph. The method includes the steps of: providing an input digital image of the chest radiograph; preprocessing the...
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7349567 |
Method and apparatus for determining angular pose of an object
The present invention is operative to determine the angular pose of an assumed object. A series of projection sums are calculated from a sample image of the known object where the known object has...
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7346194 |
Method and apparatus of measuring rotational and flight characteristics of sphere
A reference posture and a reference position of the imaginary sphere and an arbitrary position are set. The relationship between three-dimensional coordinates and two-dimensional coordinates is...
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7340110 |
Device and method for correcting skew of an object in an image
A device and method for correcting a skew of an object in an image. The device and method comprises an input part for receiving an image; a binarization part for binarizing pixels of the image into...
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7333676 |
Method and apparatus for recognizing text in an image sequence of scene imagery
An apparatus and a concomitant method for detecting and recognizing text information in a captured imagery. The present method transforms the image of the text to a normalized coordinate system...
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7333675 |
Method and device for extracting a subset of data from a set of data
A method for extracting a subset of data from an ordered set of bi-dimensional matrices (data arrays) such as a sequence of pictures or a multi-dimensional matrix, for instance, is implemented by...
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7330604 |
Model-based dewarping method and apparatus
An apparatus and method for processing a captured image and, more particularly, for processing a captured image comprising a document. In one embodiment, an apparatus comprising a camera to capture...
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7327900 |
Image reading apparatus and recording medium
An image read controller for extracting an original portion from an image read by an image reader. The image read controller includes means for extracting a rectangular area containing the area in...
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7327887 |
Increasing accuracy of discrete curve transform estimates for curve matching
System and method for estimating a rotational shift between a first discrete curve and a second discrete curve, where the second discrete curve is a rotationally shifted version of the first...
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7327494 |
Image producing device and image deviation amount detection device
A construction is used in which a plurality of sets of frame information are acquired from video information, rotation amount information that expresses the rotational deviation among the images...
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7313266 |
Pose estimation method and apparatus
A three-dimensional image data is formulated and saved in a memory for indicating a three-dimensional shape of an object and reflectivity or color at every point of the object. For each of multiple...
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7305612 |
Systems and methods for automatic form segmentation for raster-based passive electronic documents
Systems and methods for automatically extracting form information (document structure, elements, format, etc.) from electronic documents such as raster-based passive documents, and storing such...
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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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7302111 |
Graphics engine for high precision lithography
The present invention includes a method to use a phase modulating micromirror array to create an intensity image that has high image fidelity, good stability through focus and good x-y symmetry....
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7298920 |
Method and device for determining orientation of text
A method of determining the orientation of text is disclosed herein. An embodiment of the method may comprise measuring the contrasts associated with an upper edge of the text relative to a...
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7286718 |
Method and apparatus for determination of text orientation
The present invention relates to a method for determining the orientation of text, so that the text can be correctly read. In one embodiment, the method analyzes the “open” portions of text...
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