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7606445 |
Methods and systems for ultrasound inspection
Methods and systems for measuring indications in an image are provided. The method includes acquiring image data that includes a potential indication, processing the data such that features of the...
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7573513 |
Image processing device and image processing method
An image processing apparatus having an arithmetic circuit for generating pixel data of output pixels by arithmetically processing the pixel data of M horizontally adjoining pixels and N vertically...
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7570794 |
System and method for evaluating a machined surface of a cast metal component
A method and system are provided for non-contact evaluation of a machined surface of a cast-metal part, including a vision-based porosity inspection station. A digital image of the machined surface...
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7529397 |
Automatic seeding points selection for DTI fiber tracking
The present invention discloses methods for automatically generating regions of seeding points for fiber tracking in diffusion tensor images. These methods are based on connected region grow....
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7515764 |
Image processing apparatus using morphology
An image processing apparatus which uses morphology is provided. A masked image is provided to a morphological processing section of the image processing apparatus. The morphological processing...
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7496231 |
Color interpolation method
Disclosed is a color interpolation method. The present invention decides a precise position of an edge with use of a G value in a unit pixel structure with a size of 3×3, thereby using different...
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7493340 |
Image retrieval based on relevance feedback
An improved image retrieval process based on relevance feedback uses a hierarchical (per-feature) approach in comparing images. Multiple query vectors are generated for an initial image by...
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7486838 |
Noise reduction apparatus
A noise reduction apparatus is disclosed. A noise amount estimating unit estimates a noise amount in a focused pixel. A smoothing unit smoothes the focused pixel. A control unit controls the...
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7471835 |
Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding image data
The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for encoding images, more particularly to an encoding unit in conjunction with a library of pictorial entities and image qualifiers. The method...
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7382941 |
Apparatus and method of compressing dynamic range of image
An apparatus to compress a dynamic range of an image, and a method of compressing the dynamic range. The apparatus includes a periphery value production unit to calculate periphery information...
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7359567 |
Signal processing apparatus for eliminating ringing signal and method thereof, record medium, and program
Image quality degrading components can be eliminated from a contour correction signal of high frequency region that is used for contour correction. A filtering section extracts a high frequency...
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7359542 |
Method and apparatus for detecting anomalous shadows
A method and apparatus for accurately detecting the anomalous shadows occurring within an interimage image based on two or more images obtained of the same subject, wherein the artifacts occurring...
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7359536 |
Automated method for image analysis of residual protein
An automated method for evaluating the amount of residual protein levels following treatment of cellular specimens. Particular methods include the measurement of maternal neutrophil alkaline...
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7330609 |
MTF measuring method and system
A method of measuring a modulation transfer function (MTF) includes detecting the center of a line spread function (LSF) image in order to calculate an MTF. For this purpose, an enlarged image of a...
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7321676 |
Automatic determination of the long axis of the left ventricle in 3D cardiac imaging
A diagnostic imaging apparatus generates a three-dimensional diagnostic image representation. The image representation is converted into an image representation of the patient's heart. A left lower...
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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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7277600 |
Skew detection
Skew angle in a document image is estimated using operators known from mathematical morphology. Skew angle in a document image (A) is estimated by run-length smoothing the image and then producing...
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7269294 |
Foreground erosion method and system for Multiple Raster Content (MRC) representation of documents
A foreground erosion method is used to meet thin (but unbroken) text requirements using linear YCC segmentation. The method uses a fixed value subtracted from a gray selector signal, thereby...
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7142732 |
Unsupervised scene segmentation
A method of segmenting objects in an image is described. The method applies a Top Hat algorithm to the image then constructs inner and outer markers for application to the original image in a...
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7123783 |
Face classification using curvature-based multi-scale morphology
An image classification system uses curvature-based multi-scale morphology to classify an image by its most distinguishing features. The image is recorded in digital form. Curvature features...
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7102793 |
Image filtering method
A method of filtering an input image is provided. In a creating action, a boolean tone map is created based on the input image and an array of tone nodes. In a determining action, it is determined...
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7091995 |
Method for morphing geometric shapes based upon direction map
The present invention provides a method for morphing different geometric shapes while not using algebraic characteristics and overcoming inefficiency of Minkowski sum computation. The method for...
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7062100 |
System for selecting a compression method for image data
In an image-data processing system, as would be found in a digital copier or scanner, a relatively quick calculation is performed to estimate a compression ratio or compression time resulting from...
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7043066 |
System for computerized processing of chest radiographic images
A method, system and computer readable medium for computerized processing of chest images including obtaining a digital first image of a chest (S 100 ); producing a second image which is a mirror...
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7027660 |
Images incorporating microstructures
A method of generating an image incorporating a microstructure includes the steps of obtaining an original image, generating a microstructure, and rendering a region or the whole said original...
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6978053 |
Single-pass multilevel method for applying morphological operators in multiple dimensions
A system and method of adding hyperlinked information to a television broadcast. The broadcast material is analyzed and one or more regions within a frame are identified. Additional information can...
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6970579 |
Orientation invariant feature detection system and method for unstructured low-quality video
A system and method for detecting features in video from business meetings and video teleconferencing systems can use color, motion, morphological (shape) filtering and a set of heuristic rules to...
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6959119 |
Method of evaluating cosmetic products on a consumer with future predictive transformation
A method kit is provided for demonstrating the effects of a cosmetic product on a consumer's body, especially effects over a period of time. The method includes applying a cosmetic product to the...
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6956669 |
Effects processor for effects module
An effects processor for an effects module. The effects processor comprises a RISC processor, a DSP for fast integer multiplication and a small memory. The processor uses VARK language and a lookup...
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6952502 |
Data filtering apparatus and method
Data filtering apparatus comprising: an input for receiving a stream of data, each data item taking a range of at least two values ranging between a low value to a high value, a segmentation device...
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6922201 |
Chronological age altering lenticular image
A chronological age altering lenticular image is comprised of a first photograph ( 62 ) of an individual at a first age ( 64 ). A second photograph ( 66 ) of the individual at a second age ( 68 )...
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6901168 |
Method for segmenting and identifying a document, in particular a technical chart
The object of the invention is a method of processing information contained in an image, including:
a first processing ( 1 - 4 ), for defining an area of interest of the image ( 8 ),...
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6879720 |
Methods for outlining and filling regions in multi-dimensional arrays
A system and method of adding hyperlinked information to a television broadcast. The broadcast material is analyzed and one or more regions within a frame are identified. Additional information can...
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6879713 |
Meiotic spindle imaging in oocytes and uses therefor in in vitro fertilization
The developmental potential of a mammalian oocyte for successful implantation is evaluated by producing a plurality of intensity images of the oocyte using polarized light optics, and calculating a...
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6834288 |
Content-based similarity retrieval system for image data
An image retrieval system for retrieving image similarities from a database is proposed. The image retrieval system uses a universal query mechanism (UQM) to locate statistically silent common...
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6816627 |
System for morphological image fusion and change detection
A system capable of efficiently fusing image information from multiple sensors operating in different formats into a single composite image and simultaneously display all of the pertinent...
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6813373 |
Image segmentation of embedded shapes using constrained morphing
An imaging system and method enables 3-D direct segmentation from a series of spatially offset 2-D image slices in a volume scan. The algorithm first smoothes and preserves the interface edges of...
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6801661 |
Method and system for archival and retrieval of images based on the shape properties of identified segments
A method for representing an image in terms of the shape properties of its identified segments of interest involves analyzing each segment of interest to automatically identify one or more of its...
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6785409 |
Segmentation method and apparatus for medical images using diffusion propagation, pixel classification, and mathematical morphology
A method of digital imaging includes receiving image data and fitting a curve to boundaries within the image data. The curve is fit to the boundaries within the image data by extracting a region of...
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6771834 |
Method for segmenting a digital image
Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a method of segmenting an initial digital image includes the following. The initial digital image is processed to produce a first...
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6757442 |
Image enhancement method with simultaneous noise reduction, non-uniformity equalization, and contrast enhancement
A technique is disclosed for enhancing discrete pixel images. Image enhancement is first performed by separating structural regions from non-structural regions and performing separate smoothing and...
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6741255 |
Method, apparatus and computer program product for using deferred execution for a tiling pull model in a tiled image processing architecture
Apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products are disclosed that optimize the application of deferred image operations on a tiled source image. The invention dynamically creates a data...
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6731414 |
Image processing apparatus
For preventing the occurrence of disjunction among a plurality of images in the magnification index in the main scanning direction, image data delivered from an external device through an input...
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6728427 |
Method of extracting temporal and spatial combination markers for morphological image division
The present invention provides the method of extracting temporal and spatial combination markers including the steps of: (1) simplifying inputted current image frames, quantizing the simplified...
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6728004 |
Logic-based image processing method
A method for processing digital images to be displayed, stored, or printed, to eliminate blooming and other artifacts. The system utilizes morphological processes to isolate and modify image...
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6711306 |
Automatic bright window detection
A method for automatically processing a digital image to locate one or more windows that are substantially brighter than their surroundings begins by processing the digital image to compute a...
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6674925 |
Morphological postprocessing for object tracking and segmentation
An object mask and a set of control points defined for a given frame are subjected to morphological processing to remove false edge points and provide a more robust mask for use in tracking the...
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6650788 |
Expandable binary morphological erosion operator
A binary morphological erosion operator image processor which operates on images of any size and dimension with a structuring element of any dimension and shape. The erosion operations are all...
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6631212 |
Twostage scheme for texture segmentation based on clustering using a first set of features and refinement using a second set of features
A method and system for segmenting textures in an image includes computing multiresolution simultaneous autoregressive (MSAR) features in the image, preparing an uncertainty map of the MSAR...
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6577251 |
Accessing sub-blocks of symbols from memory
There is disclosed apparatus ( 106 ) for accessing items of information. The apparatus ( 106 ) comprises sixteen memory banks ( 202 ) and an address generator ( 204 ). Each of the sixteen memory...
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