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7365766 Video-assisted apparatus for hearing impaired persons  
There is described a method for providing audio and visual communication between a speaker and at least one hearing impaired person. The method comprises the steps of providing the speaker with a...
7302575 Apparatus for and method of preventing illicit copying of digital content  
Further increases in the difficulty of importing to a secure domain digital content including watermarks which impose a degree of difficulty on illicit importing to the secure domain of the digital...
7283650 Method and system for printing of automatically captured facial images augmented with promotional content  
The present invention is a system and method for printing facial images of people, captured automatically from a sequence of images, onto coupons or any promotional printed material, such as...
7246081 Method of facial coding monitoring for the purpose of gauging the impact and appeal of commercially-related stimuli  
A method of assessing consumer reaction to a marketing stimulus, involving the steps of (a) exposing a sample population to a marketing stimulus for a period of time, (b) interviewing members of...
7236629 Method and apparatus for detecting and/or tracking one or more colour regions in an image or sequence of images  
A method of detecting a region having predetermined colour characteristics in an image comprises transforming colour values of pixels in the image from a first colour space to a second colour...
7219062 Speech activity detection using acoustic and facial characteristics in an automatic speech recognition system  
An automatic speech recognizer only responsive to acoustic speech utterances is activated only in response to acoustic energy having a spectrum associated with the speech utterances and at least...
7171025 Automatic detection and tracking of multiple individuals using multiple cues  
Automatic detection and tracking of multiple individuals includes receiving a frame of video and/or audio content and identifying a candidate area for a new face region in the frame. One or more...
7151843 Automatic detection and tracking of multiple individuals using multiple cues  
Automatic detection and tracking of multiple individuals includes receiving a frame of video and/or audio content and identifying a candidate area for a new face region in the frame. One or more...
7130446 Automatic detection and tracking of multiple individuals using multiple cues  
Automatic detection and tracking of multiple individuals includes receiving a frame of video and/or audio content and identifying a candidate area for a new face region in the frame. One or more...
7127081 Method for tracking motion of a face  
A method for tracking the motion of a person's face for the purpose of animating a 3-D face model of the same or another person is disclosed. The 3-D face model carries both the geometry (shape)...
7113916 Method of facial coding monitoring for the purpose of gauging the impact and appeal of commercially-related stimuli  
A method of assessing consumer reaction to a marketing stimulus, involving the steps of (a) exposing a sample population to a marketing stimulus for a period of time, (b) interviewing members of...
EP1624447A2 Household appliance with imaging unit  
The appliance has an image recording unit (18) producing an image signal which represents an image of an operator. A detection device (22) evaluates the signal to identify a sound spoken by the...
6996460 Method and apparatus for providing virtual touch interaction in the drive-thru  
The present invention is a method and apparatus for providing an enhanced automatic drive-thru experience to the customers in a vehicle by allowing use of natural hand gestures to interact with...
6925438 Method and apparatus for providing an animated display with translated speech  
A first language to second language translator ( 11 ) converts text comprising a message in a first language into text representing that message in a second language. A text to speech transducer (...
6816836 Method and apparatus for audio-visual speech detection and recognition  
Techniques for providing speech recognition comprise the steps of processing a video signal associated with an arbitrary content video source, processing an audio signal associated with the video...
6731287 Method for animating a 3-D model of a face  
A method for animating a 3-D model of a person's face is disclosed. The 3-D face model carries both the geometry (shape) and the texture (color) characteristics of the person's face. The shape of...
6724919 Method of personal verification for computer system, computer system, and recording medium  
According to present invention, there is provide a method of verification for a computer system, the method comprising the steps of acquiring a face image of a user at any time of a user operation,...
6707921 Use of mouth position and mouth movement to filter noise from speech in a hearing aid  
A hearing aid includes an image sensing device, a sound input transducer, a sound output transducer, and a processor. The image sensing device detects an image from a selected region of a user of...
6664956 Method for generating a personalized 3-D face model  
A method for generating a 3-D model of a person's face is disclosed. The 3-D face model carries both the geometry (shape) and the texture (color) characteristics of the person's face. The shape of...
6654721 Voice activated communication system and program guide  
A subscriber unit for use with a program guide selection system is described. The program guide selection system provides program guide information which is communicated over a communication...
6594632 Methods and apparatus for hands-free operation of a voice recognition system  
Techniques for activating a voice recognition system are described. The system disclosed can be non verbally started and stopped without the need for the system user to use his or her hands...
6594629 Methods and apparatus for audio-visual speech detection and recognition  
In a first aspect of the invention, methods and apparatus for providing speech recognition comprise the steps of processing a video signal associated with an arbitrary content video source,...
6593956 Locating an audio source  
A system, such as a video conferencing system, is provided which includes an image pickup device, an audio pickup device, and an audio source locator. The image pickup device generates image...
6577771 Method for supplementing digital image with picture element, and digital image encoder and decoder using the same  
A method for supplementing a digital image with picture elements, by which prediction signals having small errors can be generated for a digital image in which objects move greatly through a...
6466250 System for electronically-mediated collaboration including eye-contact collaboratory  
A system and method for producing and receiving electronically-mediated collaboration is presented. The electronically-mediated collaboration system and method include a high-fidelity audio system...
EP0734162B1 Communication terminal  
6404900 Method for robust human face tracking in presence of multiple persons  
A method for robust human face tracking in the presence of multiple facial images includes taking a frame from a color video sequence as a current input image; filtering the current input image to...
6332033 System for detecting skin-tone regions within an image  
A system detects a face within an image by receiving the image which includes a plurality of pixels, where a plurality of the pixels of the image is represented by respective groups of at least...
6330023 Video signal processing systems and methods utilizing automated speech analysis  
A method of increasing the frame rate of an image of a speaking person comprises monitoring an audio signal indicative of utterances by the speaking person and the associated video signal. The...
D448015 Video camera headset  
6292092 Secure personal identification instrument and method for creating same  
A personal identification instrument is comprised of a substrate, and carried on the substrate: a photograph and/or a personal signature, personal information relating to the legitimate holder of...
6272466 Speech detection apparatus using specularly reflected light  
As a speaker produces a sound, the positions and angles of specular reflection plates put on the skin of the vocal organs and periphery thereof change. Resultantly, a ray of light applied from a...
6243695 Access control system and method therefor  
A TCS (200) and procedure (400) for identifying an unidentified class as a class of a group of classes includes a new tree-structured classifier (208) and training processor (204). Unidentified...
6185529 Speech recognition aided by lateral profile image  
An apparatus and a method for imaging the mouth area laterally to produce reliable measurements of mouth and lip shapes for use in assisting the speech recognition task. A video camera is arranged...
6148092 System for detecting skin-tone regions within an image  
A system detects a face within an image by receiving the image which includes a plurality of pixels, where a plurality of the pixels of the image is represented by respective groups of at least...
6128397 Method for finding all frontal faces in arbitrarily complex visual scenes  
A method for detecting a face in an image includes the steps of applying the image to a first classification tool that determines a rotational angle for rotating the image that makes the image most...
6111580 Apparatus and method for controlling an electronic device with user action  
An input unit for controlling a device. The input unit first determines whether a user is actively operating the device. If such a detection is made, the input unit then determines whether the user...
6110123 Region-of-interest setting apparatus for respiration monitoring and a respiration monitoring system  
A region-of-interest (ROI) setting apparatus for respiration monitoring and a respiration monitoring system capable of setting an ROI in an automatic manner. Absolute values of subtractions between...
6101264 Person identification based on movement information  
A method of identification of an individual is based on movement information. Movement information from an image sequence that results when a typical or predetermined movement is carried out by the...
6081611 Aesthetic imaging system  
Disclosed is an aesthetic imaging system (20) for use in editing digital images. The aesthetic imaging system includes an imaging program (21) that runs on a personal computer (28) having an image...
6075557 Image tracking system and method and observer tracking autostereoscopic display  
An image tracking system which is configured to present a sequence of images, determine the position of a target image in a previously presented image, determine movement of the target image...
6028960 Face feature analysis for automatic lipreading and character animation  
A face feature analysis which begins by generating multiple face feature candidates, e.g., eyes and nose positions, using an isolated frame face analysis. Then, a nostril tracking window is defined...
5978523 Method and apparatus for detecting modifications to aesthetic images  
Disclosed is an aesthetic imaging system (20) for use in editing digital images. The aesthetic imaging system includes an imaging program (21) that runs on a personal computer (28) having an image...
5943646 Signal transmission system in which level numbers representing quantization levels of analysis coefficients are interpolated  
In a transmission system a signal is encoded in an encoder (7) and the encoded signal is transmitted by a transmitter (2) via a transmission medium (4) to a receiver (6). In the encoder, analysis...
5940118 System and method for steering directional microphones  
A system that selects and/or steers a directional steerable microphone system based on input from an optical transducer is described. An optical transducer, such as a video camera, provides video...
EP0758471B1 PERSON IDENTIFICATION BASED ON MOVEMENT INFORMATION  
Abstract not available for EP0758471 Abstract of corresponding document: WO9525316 The technical domain of the invention is that of person identification. Movement information from image sequences...
EP0919184A1 Region-of-interest setting apparatus for respiration monitoring and a respiration monotoring system  
A region-of-interest (ROI) setting apparatus for respiration monitoring and a respiration monitoring system are capable of setting an ROI in an automatic manner. Absolute values of subtractions...
5884257 Voice recognition and voice response apparatus using speech period start point and termination point  
A voice recognition apparatus is provided which includes a first detection circuit for receiving an electric signal corresponding to voice. The first detection circuit detects a voice termination...
5854850 Method and apparatus for selectively illustrating image modifications in an aesthetic imaging system  
Disclosed is an aesthetic imaging system (20) for use in editing digital images. The aesthetic imaging system includes an imaging program (21) that runs on a personal computer (28) having an image...
5832115 Ternary image templates for improved semantic compression  
A method and apparatus for carrying out rapid, block-based SAD search operations for facial ellipses in a CIF videophone image frame are disclosed. A set of search templates, each having an ellipse...
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