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7403669 Land mark, land mark detecting apparatus, land mark detection method and computer program of the same  
The present invention provides a land mark detecting apparatus simultaneously used with a land mark comprising plural mark primitives. The land mark detecting apparatus comprises a set of cameras...
7403638 Method and system for monitoring breathing activity of a subject  
A method and system for monitoring breathing movement of a subject is disclosed. A method and system for detecting and predictably estimating regular cycles of breathing movements is disclosed....
7400746 System and method for detecting obstacle  
A method for detecting an obstacle by using two cameras of three or more cameras, the obstacle being on a reference plane in a field of view common to the two cameras, the method inputting a first...
7397970 Automatic scene correlation and identification  
Computer software for and a method of determining location of a target image within a two-dimensional input image by employing a three-dimensional reference image comprising determining object edge...
7397931 Human identification apparatus and human searching/tracking apparatus  
A human identification apparatus, which can judge for identification of human images even in temporally-distant frames or frames shot with different cameras, judges whether or not persons...
7394918 Image recognition method and apparatus  
An image recognition apparatus has an image capture section for capturing a range image, an image deformation section for deforming the range image captured by the image capture section, and a...
7394917 Apparatus for measuring a trajectory  
An apparatus comprises a first camera ( 1 ), a second camera ( 2 ) and a third camera ( 3 ). The first camera ( 1 ) photographs a golf ball (B) from behind, the second camera ( 2 ) photographs the...
7391883 System and method for detecting obstacle  
A method for detecting an obstacle by using two cameras, the obstacle being on a reference plane in a field of view common to the two cameras, the method inputting a first image and a second image...
7389000 System and method for detecting obstacle  
A method for detecting an obstacle by using two cameras, the obstacle being on a reference plane in a field of view common to the two cameras, the method inputting a first image and a second image...
7379622 Information-inputting device inputting contact point of object on recording surfaces as information  
An information-inputting device is provided, which includes a plurality of photographing units photographing an area on a plane. An object located on the plane is then extracted from an image that...
7373018 Method and system for object recognition using fractal maps  
A method for recognizing an object in an image is disclosed wherein a fractal map of the image is generated by estimating the fractal dimension of each pixel in the image. The fractal map may be...
7373017 System and method for capturing adjacent images by utilizing a panorama mode  
A system and method for capturing adjacent images includes an imaging device with a panorama manager that performs various procedures to manipulate one or more image parameters that correspond to...
7372996 Method and apparatus for determining the position of a vehicle seat  
Systems and methods are provided for editing an image of a vehicle interior to isolate the occupant of a vehicle seat. An image generator ( 102 ) generates an image of a vehicle interior. A contour...
7366333 Method and apparatus for selecting regions of interest in optical imaging  
There is provided a method and system for positioning a mammal for optical imaging in which a digital image of the mammal is obtained using a camera and a region of interest is selected using the...
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...
7352917 Image processing apparatus and method, and image pickup apparatus  
The present invention aims to recognize the mixture state of images. An area specifying unit 103 specifies a mixed area in which foreground object components which form a foreground object and...
7349582 System and method for detecting obstacle  
A method for detecting an obstacle by using two cameras, the obstacle being on a reference plane in a field of view common to the two cameras, the method inputting a first image and a second image...
7346186 Video and audio content analysis system  
The present invention is directed to various methods and systems for analysis and processing of video and audio signals from a plurality of sources in real-time or off-line. According to some...
7336805 Docking assistant  
Many day-to-day driving situations require that an operator of a motor vehicle guide the motor vehicle along a specific course and bring the vehicle to a stop at a specific location, for example in...
7330605 Decoding and error correction in 2-D arrays  
A system and process for determining the location of a captured image from a larger image is described. A non-repeating sequence may be folded into a non-repeating array in which the array is...
7330584 Image processing apparatus and method  
An image processing apparatus and an image processing method, applied to e.g. a TV conference system or a TV telephone system, in which an image to be transmitted or received is captured and...
7327886 Photographing apparatus, method and program  
Processing for judging whether a face is included in a frame is performed, in a predetermined interval, on each of frames included in a moving image of a subject, displayed on a monitor, until the...
7317836 Pose estimation based on critical point analysis  
Methods and systems for estimating a pose of a subject. The subject can be a human, an animal, a robot, or the like. A camera receives depth information associated with a subject, a pose estimation...
7317811 Method to decode temporal watermarks in compressed video  
A system and method for efficient recovery of watermarks from compressed video is disclosed, wherein, in one embodiment, cyclic watermark noise blocks are tiled and embedded in a plurality of...
7308115 Incremental motion estimation through local bundle adjustment  
An incremental motion estimation system and process for estimating the camera pose parameters associated with each image of a long image sequence. Unlike previous approaches, which rely on point...
7305145 Method and apparatus for filtering an image  
Objects are detected in an image using a spatially variant filter. The size of the filter is adjusted based on the portion of the image being processed by the filter. Portions of the image which...
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...
7302576 Systems and methods for authenticating documents  
Methods and systems for authenticating documents. Document data to be modified to contain authentication is inputted. A representation is determined from the document data. Assist information that...
7298922 Synthetic panchromatic imagery method and system  
Method and system for generating synthetic panchromatic imagery. A method for making a multi-spectral image includes capturing a panchromatic image of an imaging target. Additionally, the method...
7298890 Method and arrangement for the photographically detecting the spatial form of an object  
A method of detecting the 3D shape of an object by photogrammetry, in which a plurality of photogrammetric point markers and a plurality of connecting markers are provided on the surface of the...
7285384 Parallel genotyping of multiple patient samples  
The present invention relates to parallel genotyping (or other sample analysis) of multiple patients by direct sample immobilization onto microspheres of an array. The patient beads can then be...
7272267 Image processing method and apparatus for normalizing faces for a layout image  
Face information is detected from each of original image signals, each of the original image signals representing a person image, in which a face pattern of a person is embedded. The face...
7263217 Three-dimensional monitoring apparatus  
To provide a three-dimensional monitoring apparatus capable of detecting with high accuracy an incoming of an object into a predetermined three-dimensional space by using pattern light as a...
7263207 Method and apparatus for video object tracking  
Provided are a method for analyzing a video signal from a camera and determining the position, orientation and direction of motion of a predetermined object and a device for the same. The device...
7254256 Method and computer program product for locating facial features  
A digital image processing method detects facial features in a digital image. This method includes the steps of detecting iris pixels in the image, clustering the iris pixels, and selecting at...
7253427 Automatic object plane detection system and method  
An object plane detection system comprises a light source adapted to illuminate a media object to generate an image area on a photosensitive sensor. The system also comprises a detection module...
7242818 Position and orientation sensing with a projector  
A position and orientation of a projector are determined from projected images. First, a homography between a camera and a planar surface, where the relationship between the camera and planar...
7231099 Digitally-generated lighting for video conferencing applications  
A method of improving the lighting conditions of a real scene or video sequence. Digitally generated light is added to a scene for video conferencing over telecommunication networks. A virtual...
7215829 Method and system for object recognition using fractal map  
A method for recognizing an object in an image is disclosed wherein a fractal map of the image is generated by estimating the fractal dimension of each pixel in the image. The fractal map is...
7212653 Image processing system for vehicle  
A camera for imaging the periphery of a vehicle is provided, images imaged by the camera are stored, and a processed image obtained by processing a past image which has been imaged before reaching...
7209832 Lane recognition image processing apparatus  
A lane recognition image processing apparatus can improve lane marking recognition performance by preventing false detection by addition of a condition without changing the basic principle of an...
7206104 Method for automatically determining document position in a scanner window  
A method for determining the position of a document placed in the scanning widow of a flatbed scanner is disclosed. The method can correctly determine the precise position of a document from a...
7203384 Implement for optically inferring information from a planar jotting surface  
The present invention relates to a jotting implement that infers hand-jotted information from a jotting surface. The hand-jotted information is any information marked on the jotting surface as a...
7200285 Detecting skew angle in a scanned image  
Detecting skew and determining skew angle using the front of a document by determining background-to-document transitions. Incoming scanlines are interval sampled in the fast scan direction every...
7200246 Object detection  
A visual object detection system to provide access and/or presence monitoring of an area of interest. In steady state operation, that is when no object is entering or within the area of interest,...
7190491 Interactive publication printer and binder  
A combined printing and binding device which is designed to print and bind a multi-page interactive publication. The device includes a communicator which is designed to receive a set of page...
7184611 Data recording apparatus and method, data reproducing apparatus and method, data recording and reproducing apparatus and method, and map image data format  
Latitudes and longitudes of first and second points on a measured map image are recorded together with an image file. First, a beginning of position information data of the map image is shown....
7184606 Image processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program  
In an image processing apparatus, the head top of a subject is detected, and the positions of a camera and a mirror are adjusted so that the coordinates of the detected head top coincide with the...
7184071 Method of three-dimensional object reconstruction from a video sequence using a generic model  
In a novel method of 3D modeling of an object from a video sequence using an SfM algorithm and a generic object model, the generic model is incorporated after the SfM algorithm generates a 3D...
7177045 Process and system for mixed page imposition  
A process for formatting printable information orders selected data objects, document pages or images, to create a new document, where pages may be of uniform dimension and page orientation or...
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