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7590281 Stereo image matching method and system using image multiple lines  
Disclosed is a stereo image matching method for re-creating 3-dimensional spatial information from a pair of 2-dimensional images. The conventional stereo image matching method generates much noise...
7583851 Apparatus and method for processing an image  
An image processing apparatus is provided for enhancing the image processing function without having to increase the circuit scale. The image processing apparatus includes an image divider, a pixel...
7555021 Digital multi-source multi-destination video multiplexer and crossbar device  
A Digital Multi-Source Multi-Destination Video Multiplexer and Crossbar Device and method which may be applied to a video imaging system, in which multiple input image sources including...
7551176 Systems and methods for providing shared attribute evaluation circuits in a graphics processing unit  
Systems and method for providing shared attribute evaluation circuits in a graphics processing unit are provided. One embodiment can be described as a system for evaluating attributes in a graphics...
7538773 Method and system for implementing parameter clamping to a valid range in a raster stage of a graphics pipeline  
A method of determining pixel parameters, wherein the pixel parameters were clamped to a valid range. The method includes a step of accessing a geometric primitive comprising a plurality of...
7532220 System for adaptive resampling in texture mapping  
An apparatus for mapping primitives of a 3D graphics model from a texture space to a screen space. The apparatus includes a texture memory for storing texture maps. A resampler resamples, for each...
7515311 Image synthesis apparatus and image synthesis method  
An image synthesis apparatus stores a synthesis order in which input images are to be synthesized with each other, and first and second synthesis numbers respectively designating how many of the...
7480393 Optimized digital watermarking functions for streaming data  
In one aspect of the invention, a digital watermark detector comprises a memory buffer for managing an incoming stream of data. The detector includes logic for transferring overlapping data blocks...
7477772 Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method utilizing 2D run length encoding for image data compression  
A lithographic apparatus comprises an array of individually controllable elements and a data processing pipeline. The array of individually controllable elements modulates a beam of radiation. The...
7457484 Method and device to process digital media streams  
A method and digital processor to process digital samples is provided. The processor may comprise a time domain processing engine to process a digital sample in the time domain, and a frequency...
7437021 Image processing device and method  
An image processing apparatus and method which can achieve a reduction in size of the crossbar circuit and achieve a higher speed of processing, which perform DDA processing (ST 11 ), then read out...
7400781 Symmetric type image filter processing apparatus and program and method therefor  
A symmetric type image filter processing apparatus having a symmetric type image filter composed of symmetric kernel coefficients, in which SIMD commands are utilized efficiently for making the...
7389006 Auto software configurable register address space for low power programmable processor  
A configurable graphics pipeline has more than one possible process flow of pixel packets through elements of the graphics pipeline. In one embodiment, a data packet triggers an element of the...
7356202 Image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a computer readable medium having recorded thereon a processing program for permitting a computer to perform image processing routines  
In order to provide an image processing apparatus and an image processing method whereby a high quality output image can be consistently obtained, regardless of the order in which an operator sets...
7308159 Image processing system and method with dynamically controlled pixel processing  
A system for processing digital images. The system may included a controller that includes a processor and a memory. The system may also include a plurality of image processing blocks operatively...
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...
7302108 System and method for creating information handling system restore media  
Restore media, such as a CD, for restoring an information handling system to a manufacture state is automatically created from the manufacture image and descriptive files used to create the...
7295334 Image processing apparatus having configurable processors  
An image processing apparatus includes at least two signal processor modules interconnected each other in series. Each of the signal processor modules has an input port through which data is input,...
7283686 Image processor  
In one embodiment, an image processor includes a plurality of processing pipelines, each configured to receive data associated with a portion of an image and to output pulse data associated with...
7280710 Architecture for real-time 3D image registration  
A system architecture is disclosed that facilitates rapid execution of 3D registration or alignment algorithms. A first image module (e.g., RAM) is included to store data corresponding to images to...
7269302 Negotiated image data push processing  
An improved image data processing architecture utilizes a negotiation protocol with an information push technique to provide a more efficient and effective image data rendering pipeline. The...
7254280 Method and apparatus for reducing image acquisition time in a digital imaging device  
A method and apparatus for reducing the image acquisition time in a digital imaging device by processing segments of the image through an image processing pipeline and storing the processed image...
7228002 Inverse halftoning process  
Performing inverse halftoning on a halftoned image includes smoothing the halftoned image using a two-dimensional filter to produce a smoothed image, detecting edge areas in the smoothed image,...
7227663 Printing an electronic document to multiple output mechanisms  
A manner of specifying a document to be printed to multiple output mechanisms, including multiple printers and multiple output bins of each printer. Print specification data is received for an...
7218786 Method of compressing and decompressing images  
A method of compressing and decompressing images is disclosed for applications in compression and decompression chips with the JBIG standard. The pipeline of computing a pixel is divided into three...
7082222 System and method for optimizing control parameter settings in a chain of video processing algorithms  
For use in a video processing system that is capable of processing a video stream using a chain of video processing algorithms, there is disclosed a system and method for optimally configuring...
7058235 Imaging systems, program used for controlling image data in same system, method for correcting distortion of captured image in same system, and recording medium storing procedures for same method  
An imaging system of the present invention includes: a reflecting mirror having a geometry of one of two sheets of a two-sheeted hyperboloid; and an imaging section which includes an imaging device...
6993210 Imaging system having adaptive clocking in response to processing state  
An imaging system that can adaptively clock the component subsystems based upon the processing schedules of these subsystems is disclosed. Additionally, disclosed is an adaptively enabled...
RE38911 Modular digital image processing via an image processing chain with modifiable parameter controls  
Aspects for allowing variably controlled alteration of image processing of digital image data in a digital image capture device include forming an image processing chain with two or more image...
6961469 Sort middle, screen space, graphics geometry compression through redundancy elimination  
A geometry compression method for sort middle, screen space, graphics of the standard graphics pipeline. The pipeline processes a 3D database having geometric objects such as triangles and textures...
6947581 Integrated data conversion and viewing station for medical images  
A method, in a picture archiving and communication system (PACS), for processing raw image data at a PACS display workstation includes the step of retrieving from a PACS database raw image data...
6944358 Image processor  
Image dividing means of an RPU divides raw image data into divided image data A 1 having 2048 horizontal pixels and A 2 having 1024 horizontal pixels. The divided image data A 1 is continuously...
6912449 Image processing apparatus, robot apparatus and image processing method  
Each of plural image processing means is informed of address information of storage means in which image data to be read is stored upon request of the image data to be read by each of the plural...
6812058 Reference data coding in solid state image sensors  
Data is encoded in a solid state image sensor that includes a sensor pixel array by varying the color processing applied to at least some of the border pixels of the sensor pixel array. Data may be...
6728419 Multi-tasking multi-threaded image processing system and method for image capture devices  
A method and apparatus for multi-threaded, multitasking processing of image data includes inputting a plurality of image data portions representing one or more images to be processed and putting...
6717695 Method and circuit for the production of compressed or expanded images, and printer with such circuit  
A method for producing compressed or expanded images is provided. For compression or expansion in a direction of the lines of the image, a line factor is determined as a starting value for a line...
6650794 Digital multifunctional apparatus and data terminal apparatus connected therewith  
A digital multifunctional apparatus includes a printer, a scanner and a memory. A document code is stored in the memory and printed on a management document when a scanned document is stored in the...
6516029 Method and apparatus for adaptive video encoding  
New and improved apparatus and methods for video encoding, for example, to efficiently and concurrently apply adaptive encoding techniques to convert analog data into digital formats, such as...
6340981 Method and apparatus for stroke substitution  
The invention provides a method and apparatus for customizing and substituting strokes provided by a standard API. In a preferred embodiment, a stroke interface that encapsulates stroking...
6263422 Pipeline processing machine with interactive stages operable in response to tokens and system and methods relating thereto  
A plurality of processing stages interposed between an input and an output of a system including a pipeline machine interconnect for conveyance of tokens along the pipeline. Control and or data...
6208772 Data processing system for logically adjacent data samples such as image data in a machine vision system  
A data processing system including a data processor, also called a processing accelerator, processes at least one processor word each clock cycle. Each processor word includes multiple complete...
6175665 Image inquiry circuit capable of comparing reference image and retrieval object image  
An image inquiry apparatus includes a plurality of unit inquiry circuits arranged in a matrix of m rows and r stages (each of m and r is an integer more than 1). The plurality of unit inquiry...
6157394 Flexible digital image processing via an image processing chain with modular image processors  
A method for altering a linked series of image processors capable of manipulation digital image data includes providing a digital image capture device with an image processing chain, and modifying...
6111992 Real-time two-dimensional filtering of video signals  
A method and device for real time processing of analog signals, such as video signals, representative of frames of data acquired in row order in a two dimensional field. The incoming signal is...
6079009 Coding standard token in a system compromising a plurality of pipeline stages  
A multi-standard video decompression apparatus has a plurality of stages interconnected by a two-wire interface arranged as a pipeline processing machine. Control tokens and DATA Tokens pass over...
6072916 High speed pipeline image processing for digital photoprinter  
An image processing apparatus subjects image data photoelectrically read out by an image reading apparatus to predetermined image processings and outputs the read-out image data as image data to be...
6041148 System and method for extracting image data  
A data extraction processor receives data, such as image data, at a high rate of speed and generates processed results, generally at a much lower overall data rate. This sort of processing is...
6038352 Two-bit morphology processing apparatus and method  
The present invention provides a novel system and method that permits a "mask" to be directly incorporated into an image during image processing. This is accomplished by processing binary images or...
6038350 Signal processing apparatus  
A multiple parallel digital signal processor having a large number of bit processing processor elements arranged in one-dimensional array is treated as a processor block, and a plurality of the...
6009191 Computer implemented method for compressing 48-bit pixels to 16-bit pixels  
The present invention provides a method, in a computer system, for compressing bit formats provided in a first packed data sequence. One embodiment of the method comprises the steps of generating,...
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