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20080205769 | Apparatus, method and program product for matching with a template - A similar image having a high correlation is selected through autocorrelation performs a template original image selected from an image photographed for a template, and a difference image between the similar image and template original image is formed. An image extracting a real difference is formed by removing noises and edges in unstable areas from the difference image. This image is added to the template original image to form a modified template. Template matching is performed by using the modified template as a template. The image extracting the real reference and added to the modified template functions to add an evaluation penalty to the similar image during matching evaluation to lower an evaluation value of the similar image so that a probability of erroneously recognizing the similar image as the image to be detected. | 08-28-2008 |
20080212880 | Identification and Classification of Virus Particles in Textured Electron Micrographs - The method is for the identification and characterization of structures in electron micrographs. Structures in a first image are selected. The structures have a first shape type deformed in a first direction. The selected structures are transformed to a second shape type different from the first shape type. The transformed structures of the second shape type are used to form a plurality of templates. A new structure in a second image is identified. The new structure has the first shape type. The second shape type structure of each template is deformed in the first direction. It is determined which template is a preferred template that best matches the new structure. | 09-04-2008 |
20080240575 | Learning concept templates from web images to query personal image databases - Methods and apparatus to generate templates from web images for searching an image database are described. In one embodiment, one or more retrieved images (e.g., from the Web) may be used to generate one or more templates. The templates may be used to search an image database based on features commonly shared between sub-images of the retrieved images. Other embodiments are also described. | 10-02-2008 |
20080247650 | MULTIMODAL IDENTIFICATION AND TRACKING OF SPEAKERS IN VIDEO - A computer program product includes machine readable instructions for providing enhanced video output by: receiving footage including likeness information in a plurality of modalities; demultiplexing the plurality of modalities to provide information for each modality; comparing information from at least two of the modalities for determining a correlation in the likeness information; using the correlation, obtaining semantic information for association with the likeness; and combining the semantic information with the likeness information for providing the enhanced video output. A system for implementing the computer program product includes resources for receiving the footage. | 10-09-2008 |
20080253662 | Similarity analyzing device, image display device, image display program storage medium, and image display method - A similarity analyzing device includes: an image acquisition section which acquires picked-up images with which image pick-up dates and/or times are associated; and an image registration section which registers a face image showing a picked-up face and with which an image pick-up date and/or time is associated. The device further includes: a degree of similarity calculation section which detects a face in each of picked-up images acquired by the image acquisition section and calculates the degree of similarity between the detected face and the face in the face image registered in the image registration section; and a degree of similarity reduction section in which the larger the difference between the image pick-up date and/or time associated with the picked-up image and that associated with the face image is, the more the degree of similarity of the face calculated by the degree of similarity calculation section is reduced. | 10-16-2008 |
20080260260 | Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image processing system, computer program and recording medium - An image processing apparatus includes a feature point calculating section for extracting two or more connected components from a document image of interest and calculating the feature point from the centroid defined in each of the connected components, a features calculating section for calculating the features of the document image from the distance between the feature points, a voting processing section for voting one of the registered images which is similar to the document image as reviewing the features, and a similarity judging process section for judging the similarity from the result of the voting, wherein the description of the processing to be executed for the output is determined from the result of the similarity judgment. | 10-23-2008 |
20080260261 | METHOD FOR DETECTING OBJECTS USING FLEXIBLE EDGE ARRANGEMENTS - A method wherein images of different types of objects within a class are partitioned into region stacks. For each one of the stacks, the method: (a) applies a template to extract fragments having a predetermined size and one of a plurality of different spatial orientations, to generate extracted templates; (b) determines, from the extracted templates, a most frequent one thereof having only a first number of fragments with a common spatial orientations; (c) records the number of images having the determined most frequent extracted template; (d) repeats (b) and (c) with successively increasing number of fragments until the number of recoded images falls below a threshold; and (e) selects as a master extracted template the one of the most frequent templates having the largest recorded number of fragments. The master extracted templates for the stacks are combined into a map that is then compared with background images to remove extracted templates matching segment in the background. | 10-23-2008 |
20080267510 | Document processing system control using document feature analysis for identification - The present subject matter relates to controlling of mail processing equipment. More specifically, the present subject matter allows for unique recognition of a printed document from all other similar documents, without the inclusion of additional purposeful identifying marks, data or barcodes. A document processing system, such as an inserter, printer, postage meter, sorter or other document processing system is controlled based on document identification which does not depend on unique identifiers. Similarly if a document is identified with a unique identifying mark on the first page, the present subject matter allows for identification of each subsequent page in the document without requiring identifying marks on each page. The identification data is then used to control the processing of the printed document based upon the recognition and enables the performance of quality checks. Further, each subsequent page in the document, as part of a quality check, can be verified without requiring identifying marks on each page. | 10-30-2008 |
20080267511 | Method for Certifying and Subsequently Authenticating Original, Paper of Digital Documents for Evidences - The present invention relates to a method for certifying and subsequently authenticating original physical or digital documents. The concept of the evidence lies in the dual nature of a physical information item and a digital information item, one being the reference for the other that cannot lie amended at the risk of the evidence being lost. For a physical original document ( | 10-30-2008 |
20080273800 | Template Matching Method, Template Matching Apparatus, And Recording Medium That Records Program For It - There is provided a template matching method having a small amount of calculation and high detection accuracy. The amount of calculation is reduced while minimizing the degradation of the detection accuracy by calculating the similarity between a template image region and a reference image region at rough position intervals and estimating by interpolation of the similarity at a position where it is not calculated from the similarity calculated at a peripheral position. At the time, even if the gradient of a similarity greatly changes at the minimal point, estimation can be realized with high accuracy by executing estimation making use of the directional gradients of the similarity obtained in plural different directions independently. Additionally, occurrence of wrong detection is avoided by the restriction to disable the difference between the estimated similarity and adjacent similarity to exceed a threshold, which is defined based on the similarity between the template image region and the image region obtained by moving the template image region in the same direction as or in the opposite direction to the direction of estimation. | 11-06-2008 |
20080285857 | Data Entry System and Method of Entering Data - A method and apparatus for entering words into a computer system. Letters contained in a desired word are entered by giving approximate location and directional information relative to any specified keyboard layout. The inputs need not correspond to specific keys on the keyboard, a sequence of ambiguous key-entries corresponding to individual words can be used to retrieve a word from the dictionary. The system tracks directional information of movement relative to a/the specific keyboard layout, reducing it to predetermined primary directions and translates this seemingly ambiguous information into accurate words from the dictionary. The system may also capture the user's intention (with regard to text entry) by observing the movements on the keyboard. | 11-20-2008 |
20080298686 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing system includes a computer and an image processing apparatus. A control portion of the apparatus controls so that a whole of one side and the other side of a transparent sheet are optically read, and the obtained image data of the front and rear sides is transmitted to the computer. A control portion of the computer controls so that character information for each of data area corresponding to containing ranges of the respective document on the transparent sheet is obtained by a character recognition, with respect to each front and rear side image data received, and the recognized character information of the both sides is related each other for each of the data area, based on previously associated front and rear information showing a front-and-rear position relation between one side and the other side of the document, and stored in a data storing portion. | 12-04-2008 |
20080304752 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTION OF AN AIRBORNE CONTAMINANT - A method is provided for detection of an airborne contaminant in a atmospheric environment. The method comprises capturing an air sample from the atmospheric environment; separating candidate particles of interest from particles of non interest in the air sample; generating an image of the candidate particles; identifying a contaminant from among the candidate particles by comparing the image of candidate particles with a plurality of stored reference images, each of which reflects a respective identified contaminant; and notifying a remote third party in response to detecting a contaminant from among the candidate particles. | 12-11-2008 |
20080310734 | HIGH SPEED VIDEO ACTION RECOGNITION AND LOCALIZATION - An apparatus for detecting an action in a test video. In an illustrative embodiment, the apparatus includes a first mechanism for receiving a query for a particular action via a query video. A second mechanism employs motion vectors associated with the test video to compute one or more motion-similarity values. The one or more motion-similarity values represent motion similarity between a first group of pixels in a first frame of a query video and a second group of pixels in a second frame of the test video based on the motion vectors. A third mechanism uses the one or more similarity values to search for the particular action or similar action in the test video. In a more specific embodiment, another mechanism aggregates the similarity values over a predetermined number of frames to facilitate estimating where the particular action or version thereof occurs or is likely to occur in the test video. | 12-18-2008 |
20080310735 | ANOMALOUS CHANGE DETECTION IN IMAGERY - A distribution-based anomaly detection platform is described that identifies a non-flat background that is specified in terms of the distribution of the data. A resampling approach is also disclosed employing scrambled resampling of the original data with one class specified by the data and the other by the explicit distribution, and solving using binary classification. | 12-18-2008 |
20080317356 | IMAGE MONITORING SYSTEM - In an image monitoring system, an image data acquisition unit takes in video signals from a camera to acquire image data. An image recognition unit carries out image recognition processing using an inputted image obtained from the image data acquisition unit. A reference image registration unit registers a reference image selected from among the inputted images. An image blur detection unit detects a difference in image blur between the reference image and the inputted image. A similarity computation unit computes a similarity between the reference image and the inputted image. A camera anomaly detection unit detects any anomaly in the camera from the difference in image blur and the similarity. | 12-25-2008 |
20080317357 | METHOD OF GATHERING VISUAL META DATA USING A REFERENCE IMAGE - A digital image processing technique gathers visual meta data using a reference image. A main image and one or more reference images are captured on a hand-held or otherwise portable or spatial or temporal performance-based image capture device. The reference images are analyzed based on predefined criteria in comparison to the main image. Based on said analyzing, supplemental meta data are created and added to the main image at a digital data storage location. | 12-25-2008 |
20090010548 | Using Photographic Images as a Search Attribute - Method and computer program product including executable instructions on a computer readable medium for using a photographic image in a component search. A plurality of attributes for searching a component information source is gathered, including a photographic image of space available for receiving a component. The photographic image is analyzed to determine the physical dimensions of the space available. A component information source may then be searched to identify components that satisfy the plurality of attributes. The attribute of the photographic image is satisfied with respect to a particular component if the physical dimensions of the space available are determined to allow proper installation of the particular component. Search results are communicated to a user, wherein the results include the identification of at least one component from the information source satisfying each of the plurality of attributes. | 01-08-2009 |
20090010549 | IMAGE RECOGNITION DEVICE, FOCUS ADJUSTMENT DEVICE, IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE RECOGNITION METHOD AND FOCUS ADJUSTMENT METHOD - An image recognition device includes a detection unit which is configured to detect a first difference between at least a part of the first image information and the reference information, a second difference between at least a part of the second image information and the reference information, and a third difference between at least a part of the third image information and the reference information. A recognition unit is configured to make a first determination whether the first difference is within a predetermined range, and to make a second determination whether the second difference is within the predetermined range. A changing unit is configured to change the predetermined range based on the first and second determinations. The recognition unit is configured to recognize an area corresponding to the reference image in the third image information based on the third difference and the predetermined range which has been changed. | 01-08-2009 |
20090028439 | PROVIDING VIRTUAL INSERTS USING IMAGE TRACKING WITH CAMERA AND POSITION SENSORS - Camera registration and/or sensor data is updated during a live event by determining a difference between an estimated position of an object in an image and an actual position of the object in the image. The estimated position of the object in the image can be based on an estimated position of the object in the live event, e.g., based on GPS or other location data. This position is transformed to the image space using current camera registration and/or sensor data. The actual position of the object in the image can be determined by template matching which accounts for an orientation of the object, a shape of the object, an estimated size of the representation of the object in the image, and the estimated position of the object in the image. The updated camera registration/sensor data can be used in detecting an object in a subsequent image. | 01-29-2009 |
20090041361 | Character recognition apparatus, character recognition method, and computer product - A character recognition apparatus includes a hash table registering unit and a recognition processing unit. The hash table registering unit creates a hash table indicating a characteristic of each of partial character images as an area of each character. The recognition processing unit divides an input image into partial input images, and calculates a characteristic of each partial input image. The recognition processing unit searches the hash table for a partial character image having a characteristic similar to that of each partial input image. The recognition processing unit compares a positional relationship of the partial input images with that of the partial character images to determine whether they match, and recognizes a character in each area of the input image. | 02-12-2009 |
20090041362 | Image Processing Apparatus and Method, and Program - An image processing apparatus includes: a correlation value computing section that computes a correlation value between pixels in a noted image and its preceding and following reference images; a break determining section that determines a break in identical images based on the correlation value between pixels; a successive occurrence counting section that cumulatively counts successive occurrences of identical images as a successive occurrence count, if the noted image is not determined as corresponding to a break; a pattern determining section that determines whether or not the successive occurrence count and a set count match, if the noted image is determined as corresponding to a break; a matching counting section that counts up a matching count if it is determined that the successive occurrence count and the set count match; and a pull-down pattern detecting section that detects a predetermined pull-down pattern if the matching count exceeds a predetermined count. | 02-12-2009 |
20090046932 | PARAMETRIC ESTIMATION OF MULTI-DIMENSIONAL HOMEOMORPHIC TRANSFORMATIONS - In object registration and recognition based on a set of known templates, the tremendous set of possible transformations that may relate the template and an observed signature makes any detection and recognition problem ill-defined unless this variability is taken into account. The present invention estimates the deformation that transforms some pre-chosen representation of an object (template) into the current observation. The method employs a set of non-linear operators to replace a high dimensional problem by an equivalent linear problem, expressed in terms of the unknown parameters of the transformation model. The solution is applicable to any homeomorphic transformation regardless of its magnitude. In the special case where the transformation is affine the solution is shown to be exact. | 02-19-2009 |
20090052783 | SIMILAR SHOT DETECTING APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND SIMILAR SHOT DETECTING METHOD - If a difference between feature values of frames from different shots is within a predetermined error range, one or more target frames are selected from each of the shots. Based on face areas in the selected target frames, the feature values of the target frames are calculated. If a difference between the feature values of the target frames is within a predetermined error range, these shots, from which these similar frames are originally retrieved, are assigned with the same shot attribute and set to be similar shots. | 02-26-2009 |
20090052784 | Detection And Classification Of Matches Between Time-Based Media - A system and method detects matches between portions of video content. A matching module receives an input video fingerprint representing an input video and a set of reference fingerprints representing reference videos in a reference database. The matching module compares the reference fingerprints and input fingerprints to generate a list of candidate segments from the reference video set. Each candidate segment comprises a time-localized portion of a reference video that potentially matches the input video. A classifier is applied to each of the candidate segments to classify the segment as a matching segment or a non-matching segment. A result is then outputted identifying a matching portion of a reference video from the reference video set based on the segments classified as matches. | 02-26-2009 |
20090052785 | REJECTING OUT-OF-VOCABULARY WORDS - Enhanced rejection of out-of-vocabulary words, in which, based on applying an input gesture to hidden Markov models collectively modeling a vocabulary of training gestures, a likelihood that the input gesture matches each training gesture, and a quantity of states of the input gesture that match corresponding states of a modeled training gesture determined to have a highest likelihood are determined. The input gesture is rejected if the determined quantity does not satisfy a threshold. | 02-26-2009 |
20090052786 | COMPUTER VISION-BASED METHODS FOR ENHANCED JBIG2 AND GENERIC BITONAL COMPRESSION - A system and method of symbol matching may include a processor configured to determine which pixels of a first symbol are tangent pixels; for each of the determined tangent pixels, determine whether a second symbol includes a pixel corresponding to the tangent pixel that includes at least one same tangent constraint as that of the tangent pixel; accept the first and second symbols as a match based on shared tangent constraints conditional upon a determination that the second symbol includes for each of at least a subset of the tangent pixels of the first symbol a corresponding pixel that includes the at least one same tangent constraint as that of the tangent pixel; and generate a document including a single symbol that is mapped to the first and second symbols. | 02-26-2009 |
20090060348 | Determination of Image Similarity - A method and apparatus for measuring the similarity of images comprising determining a plurality of displacement vectors indicative of the relative positions of similar pixels ( | 03-05-2009 |
20090060349 | Determination Of Inventory Conditions Based On Image Processing - Image analysis techniques, including object recognition analysis, are applied to images obtained by one or more image capture devices deployed within inventory environments. The object recognition analysis provides object recognition data (that may include one or more recognized product instances) based on stored product (training) images. In turn, a variety of functionalities may be enabled based on the object recognition data. For example, a planogram may be extracted and compared to a target planogram, or at least one product display parameter for a product can be determined and used to assess presence of the product within the inventory environment, or to determine compliance of display of the product with a promotional objective. In yet another embodiment, comparisons may be made within a single image or between multiple images over time to detect potential conditions requiring response. In this manner, efficiency and effectiveness of many previously manually-implemented tasks may be improved. | 03-05-2009 |
20090074300 | AUTOMATIC ADAPTION OF AN IMAGE RECOGNITION SYSTEM TO IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICES - A MMR system for newspaper publishing comprises a plurality of mobile devices, an MMR gateway, an MMR matching unit and an MMR publisher. The MMR matching unit receives an image query from the MMR gateway and sends it to one or more of the recognition units to identify a result including a document, the page and the location on the page. The image registration unit includes an indexing unit for generating images adapted to the environment and capabilities of the image capture device. The indexing unit also automatically adapts the configuration of the plurality of recognition units and index tables based upon image queries applied to the plurality of recognition and index tables. The plurality of recognition units and index tables are configured based on content they reference, recognition algorithm used or other factors. The present invention also includes a number of novel methods including a method for generating blurry images for device training; a method for generating classifiers; a method for selecting a pass classifier; and a method for modifying a hypothesizing and testing classifier on unrecognized images. | 03-19-2009 |
20090074301 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM THAT STORES PROGRAM THEREOF - The present invention provides a technique relating to image processing capable of searching for, from a surface of paper, a more suitable region for matching of paper fingerprint information or print paper surface unique information. Its configuration includes a region dividing section for dividing image data including a read out paper fingerprint into a plurality of regions; a section for obtaining variance of gradation values of pixels in the individual regions divided by the region dividing section; a deciding section for making a decision from each variance value obtained by the section for obtaining variance of gradation values as to whether a corresponding region is suitable for matching of the paper fingerprint information; and an extracting section for extracting the paper fingerprint information in the region decided by the deciding section. | 03-19-2009 |
20090080779 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REGISTRATION OF CONTRAST- ENHANCED IMAGES WITH VOLUME-PRESERVING CONSTRAINT - A method and system for registering a first image of, for example, a liver and a second image of the liver being contrast-enhanced comprises: deriving a statistical similarity measure between images; deriving a smooth divergence-free vector field derived from a gradient of the statistical similarity measure; and integrating the vector field for providing a fluid-based algorithm including a volume-preserving constraint for a transformation for registering the images. | 03-26-2009 |
20090080780 | Articulated Object Position and Posture Estimation Device, Method and Program - An object is to provide an articulated object position and posture estimation device with reduced calculation cost of model fitting for estimating position and posture and with improved estimation speed. A posture model storage section | 03-26-2009 |
20090080781 | Pattern retrieval method and apparatus - There is provided a pattern retrieval method for retrieving a reference pattern from a range to be retrieved, based on a correlation between image data in the range to be retrieved with the reference pattern indicated thereon and reference image data representing the reference pattern, wherein a plurality of characteristic lines less than the number of scanning lines are set in any one of a horizontal scanning direction and a vertical scanning direction of the reference image data. Then, the image data in the range to be retrieved is captured, a correlation value between the captured image data in the range to be retrieved and a pixel array on the set plurality of characteristic lines of the reference image data is calculated, and a position of the reference pattern in the range to be retrieved is detected based on the calculated correlation value. | 03-26-2009 |
20090087103 | Inspection Apparatus and Method - There is provided an inspection apparatus and method that output an accurate matching position even if a search image contains a pattern similar to a template. An image search unit includes a relative position comparing unit which compares the relative position of a template in a template selection image with the relative position of a location currently being searched for in a search image and outputs the amount of position mismatch between the relative positions. A matching position determining unit determines a matching position by taking into consideration the amount of position mismatch in addition to search image similarity distribution information. | 04-02-2009 |
20090092320 | DOCUMENT RECOGNITION USING STATIC AND VARIABLE STRINGS TO CREATE A DOCUMENT SIGNATURE - Systems and methods of recognizing a business document and creating a document signature. In one embodiment, a business document is scanned and a business document image is created. The business document image is compared to a template database. If a matching template is found, document fields are defined and extracted. If no matching document template is found, the document image is compared to a skeleton database. If a matching document skeleton in found, document fields are defined and extracted. A document skeleton is generated and then stored in the template database. If no matching document skeletons are found in the skeleton database, document fields are manually extracted. A document skeleton is then generated from the identification of static and variable strings and stored in the skeleton database. Document fields are validated after all document fields have been extracted. | 04-09-2009 |
20090103815 | Body position detecting apparatus - In a body position detecting apparatus, a controller repeatedly acquires image data that includes an object and an operator in a place where the operator is capable of operating the object. When the controller detects that the operator is in an operating position where the operator operates the object, the controller detects a position of a body part of the operator in the image data and the controller sets the position of the body part to an initial position. The controller detects a position of the body part of the operator in the image data that is acquired after the initial position is set, by detecting a displacement from a position of the body part detected last time and accumulating the displacement to the initial position. | 04-23-2009 |
20090110293 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information management apparatus includes a characteristic-amount management unit managing a characteristic amount; a characteristic-amount association unit maintaining an association with a similar characteristic amount for each of the characteristic amounts; a space index management unit managing a space index for the characteristic amounts managed by the characteristic-amount management unit; a partial space determination unit determining a partial space in the space index to which a first characteristic amount belongs in accordance with a request for retrieving a characteristic amount similar to the first characteristic amount; and a similarity determination unit calculating similarity between the first characteristic amount and a second characteristic amount and between the first characteristic amount and a third characteristic amount associated with the second characteristic amount by the characteristic-amount association unit, and determines which characteristic amounts are similar to the first characteristic amount by comparing the calculated similarity and a predetermined threshold. | 04-30-2009 |
20090110294 | AUTOMATIC TRANSFER OF OUTLINED OBJECTS FROM ONE DATA SET INTO ANOTHER DATA SET - A method for automatically localizing at least one object or structure in a second data set is provided. A reference data set is provided, and at least one object or structure is outlined or marked in the reference data set, the outline or marking information being a first or reference label data set. A mapping function is determined, using which said reference data set is approximately mapped onto said second data set, and the reference label data set assigned to said reference data set is transformed into a second label data set using said mapping function. | 04-30-2009 |
20090110295 | PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION APPARATUS, PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A product identification apparatus for determining whether an inspection target product to be identified is the same as a predetermined verification product includes: an extraction unit configured to extract an input pattern formed of asperities on the surface of a predetermined part of the inspection target product from a captured image obtained by capturing the image of the predetermined part of the inspection target product; and a comparison unit configured to compare the input pattern with an identification pattern extracted from a captured image obtained by capturing in advance the image of a part of the verification product so as to determine whether the input pattern is the same as the identification pattern or the input pattern includes the identification pattern. | 04-30-2009 |
20090129682 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE OPTICAL INSPECTION OF A PERIODIC STRUCTURE - Disclosed are a method and a system for inspecting a periodic structure ( | 05-21-2009 |
20090136140 | SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING FORENSIC EVIDENCE USING IMAGE FILTER AND METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides a system for analyzing forensic digital evidence using an image filter and a method thereof. The system for analyzing forensic evidence using an image filter includes: a duplicator that creates a copy of digital evidence; a verifying unit that discriminates whether a copy and the original of the digital evidence are the same; an original storage that stores the original of the digital evidence; an evidence analyzer that classifies image files for the copy of the digital evidence stored in the original storage, on the basis of an image filtering model created by a learning model in accordance with predetermined categories, and then analyzes the evidence; and a reporting unit that creates a report about the result of evidence analysis. The image evidence analyzer includes an image file extractor, an image filtering model learning unit, an image filter, and a plurality of analyzers. | 05-28-2009 |
20090141986 | Image Capture and Identification System and Process - A digital image of the object ( | 06-04-2009 |
20090154813 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VALIDATING HOLOGRAMS - A method and apparatus that validates a hologram by scanning the hologram at multiple angles is disclosed. The method may include scanning a document containing the hologram at a first angle to create a first image, scanning the document containing the hologram at a second angle to create a second image, determining whether the hologram is valid, and sending the validity determination to a user interface for display to a user. | 06-18-2009 |
20090161966 | OPTIMIZED PROJECTION PATTERN FOR LONG-RANGE DEPTH SENSING - A system and method are disclosed for generating an optimized projection pattern and for using the optimized projection pattern for depth reconstruction. The system includes a De Bruijn graph generation module, a non-recurring De Bruijn sequence generation module and projection pattern generation module. The De Bruijn graph generation module is configured to generate a classical De Bruijn graph. The non-recurring De Bruijn sequence generation module is configured to generate a non-recurring De Bruijn sequence by eliminating nodes with recurring alphabets from the classical De Bruijn sequence and calculating a Hamiltonian cycle of the modified De Bruijn graph. The projection pattern generation module is configured to generate the optimized projection pattern form the non-recurring De Bruijn sequence. The system further comprises a projector to project the non-recurring De Bruijn sequence to a plurality of images and a depth reconstruction module to reconstruct depth images from the plurality of the images. | 06-25-2009 |
20090169114 | INTERPOLATION OF IRREGULAR DATA IN A FINITE-DIMENSIONAL METRIC SPACE IN LITHOGRAPHIC SIMULATION - A method, system, and computer program product for preprocessing a pattern in a library of patterns and querying a preprocessed library of patterns are disclosed. Embodiments for querying a preprocessed library of patterns are disclosed for determining a distance between the representation for the first pattern and the representation for the second pattern, determining whether the distance between the representation for the first pattern and the representation for the second pattern is within the range for the first pattern, and transforming the second pattern with the transformation matrix to provide information about the second pattern. Embodiments for preprocessing a pattern in a library of patterns are disclosed for determining a transformation matrix for the first pattern, determining a range for the first pattern, wherein a distance between a representation for a first pattern and a representation for a second pattern is within the range and the second pattern can be transformed with the transformation matrix to provide information about the second pattern, and associating the range and the transformation matrix with the first pattern. | 07-02-2009 |
20090169115 | BRAND IMAGE DETECTION - A method comprises segmenting a foreground and a background of an image; and extracting one or more features from the foreground and the background to recognize a brand image. The features comprises one or more from a group comprising a foreground area, coordinates of a foreground centeroid, a foreground symmetry, a connected property, a spatial moment of the foreground, a normalized center moment of the foreground, a background area, variations of the background in red, green and blue color channels, a ratio of the foreground area and the background, an entropy of the image, an edge density of the image. | 07-02-2009 |
20090185746 | IMAGE RECOGNITION - An image recognition method and system ( | 07-23-2009 |
20090190838 | Training a User on an Accessiblity Device - A user of an accessibility device is taught to properly use the device with a test image such that the accessibility device captures the entirety of or a large portion of a test image. In training the user, the device processes test image's information located within the device's field of view. Based on this processed information, the device indicates to the user if the device should be re-positioned such that a larger portion of the test image comes within the device's field of view. | 07-30-2009 |
20090190839 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HANDLING THE CONFOUNDING EFFECT OF DOCUMENT LENGTH ON VECTOR-BASED SIMILARITY SCORES - A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product for generating vector-based similarity scores in text document comparisons considering confounding effects of document length. Vector-based methods for comparing the semantic similarity between texts (such as Content Vector Analysis and Random Indexing) have a characteristic which may reduce their usefulness for some applications: the similarity estimates they produce are strongly correlated with the lengths of the texts compared. The statistical basis for this confound is described, and suggests the application of a pivoted normalization method from information retrieval to correct for the effect of document length. In two text categorization experiments, Random Indexing similarity scores using pivoted normalization are shown to perform significantly better than standard vector-based similarity estimation methods. | 07-30-2009 |
20090196509 | System and method for optimizing camera settings - There is provided an electronic system including an image capturing device and a comparator coupled to the image capturing device. The image capturing device is operable for capturing a live image. The comparator generates a feedback signal by comparing the live image with a reference image and adjusts at least one setting of the image capturing device by the feedback signal. | 08-06-2009 |
20090202156 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE READING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing system according to the present invention includes: a management server in which related information set with respect to reference image data is stored; a similarity determination process section for determining whether or not there is a similarity between input image data and the reference image data; a related information obtaining process section for obtaining related information from a related information storage section if the similarity determination process section determines that there is a similarity between the input image data and the reference image data; and a control section for adding the related information obtained to the input image data. With the arrangement, it becomes possible for the image processing system to add appropriate related information to inputted image data, so as to realize an accurate search for the image data on the basis of the related information. | 08-13-2009 |
20090208115 | Image Combining Method, Image Combining Program, Image Combining Apparatus, Template Extraction Method and Template Extraction Program - An image combining method for executing a template matching process to specify matching positions in a plurality of images with image patterns therein substantially matching one another and combining the plurality of images so that the matching positions are aligned with one another includes extraction processing through which a plurality of areas (a plurality of templates) to be used as templates in the template matching process are extracted from a reference image. | 08-20-2009 |
20090208116 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE OF IMAGES WITH RECOGNITION ANALYSIS - An index is provided that holds information about each image content item in a collection of items, For each image content item, a first information item identifying the image content item and its location on a network, and at least one of (i) a second information item identifying a signature value of an object in the image content, or (ii) identification of a recognized object in the image content. | 08-20-2009 |
20090214122 | Image processing apparatus for analysis of pattern matching failure - Information indicating the reason for a failure of template matching is provided. Difference information between a first image, which is referred to as a template, and a third image that is selected by the operator from a second image and that is larger than the template is displayed. | 08-27-2009 |
20090220160 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM - In a digital camera | 09-03-2009 |
20090232403 | OBJECT DETECTING APPARATUS AND LEARNING APPARATUS FOR THE SAME - An object detecting apparatus capable of suppressing an increase of processing loads with high accuracy and a learning apparatus for the same are provided. An object detecting apparatus includes an image window extracting portion ( | 09-17-2009 |
20090232404 | System and method for optical mark recognition - A method for creating a page template corresponding to a form for use in a mark recognition system includes identifying at least one path of traversal across a form, detecting edge transitions along each such path, and creating page template using the detected edge transitions. | 09-17-2009 |
20090238469 | GRAPHICAL RATING CONVERSION - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to the processing of graphical rating images. | 09-24-2009 |
20090245657 | IMAGE SEARCH APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - Provided is an image search apparatus for searching for a search-target image corresponding to an input image from among a plurality of search-target images. This image search apparatus includes: a characteristic partial image detection unit for detecting a characteristic partial image of each search-target image based on a dissimilarity level of a partial image at a corresponding position among a plurality of search-target images; and a search unit for respectively calculating a level of coincidence between a characteristic partial image of each search-target image detected by the characteristic partial image detection unit and a partial image of an input image, and searching for a search-target image corresponding to an input image from among a plurality of search-target images based on the coincidence level. Additionally provided is an image processing apparatus which stores, in an image database, a plurality of images of the same location that have been picked up by the imaging apparatus. Statistical processing is performed to the plurality of images, using a statistical processing unit. Based on the result of the statistical processing, a representative image selection unit selects, as a representative image, a background image with the lowest dispersion among all pixels as an aggregate of pixels in which the brightness exceeds a prescribed value. | 10-01-2009 |
20090252421 | Image Analysis - An image, represented by an ordered set of elements (x | 10-08-2009 |
20090252422 | EXPOSURE METHOD AND EXPOSURE DEVICE - An exposure method capable of performing accurate exposure without using a large photomask. The exposure method performs exposure while relatively moving a photomask above a substrate and includes a step of performing position correction of the photomask by performing, on a front side of the photomask relatively moved in a moving direction, image recognition of a pattern prearranged on the substrate such as a line and a black matrix and by correcting deviation of the photomask with respect to the pattern, and a step of checking the position correction of the photomask by performing image recognition of a reference mark arranged on the photomask and by determining whether or not the position correction of the photomask is accurately performed in the step of performing the position correction of the photomask. | 10-08-2009 |
20090252423 | Controlled human pose estimation from depth image streams - A system, method, and computer program product for estimating human body pose are described. According to one aspect, anatomical features are detected in a depth image of a human actor. The method detects a head, neck, and trunk (H-N-T) template in the depth image, and detects limbs in the depth image based on the H-N-T template. The anatomical features are detected based on the H-N-T template and the limbs. An estimated pose of a human model is estimated based on the detected features and kinematic constraints of the human model. | 10-08-2009 |
20090263026 | CONTENT ITEM PLACEMENT - A content item, e.g., an icon or advertisement logo, is placed in a display environment (e.g., on a map) so that the content item does not intersect a feature, e.g., a street name or graphical representation of a landmark. The placement of the content item is facilitated at a variety of zoom levels so that as the scale of the features and/or the content item changes, the content item and the features do not overlap. | 10-22-2009 |
20090279789 | System and Method to Recognize Images - A system to recognize images comprises a mobile device and a server. The mobile device is configured to capture an image. The mobile device is further configured to transmit the image to a network. The server of the network receives the image. The server executes a recognition application to determine at least one match by identifying at least one content of the image by comparing the at least one content with recognition application data. | 11-12-2009 |
20090279790 | Multispectral iris fusion for enhancement and interoperability - A multispectral iris recognition system includes a multispectral camera adapted to acquire spatially registered iris images simultaneously in at least three wavelengths and a database adapted to store the acquired iris images. A texture analysis section identifies an area within each acquired iris image having a maximum texture at each of the wavelengths. The identified areas are combined to generate an enhanced iris image. Additionally, a visible light iris image is acquired and stored along with a set of transformation mappings in a database. The acquired visible light iris image is modeled in a texture model, which clusters textures from the acquired visible light iris image. A mapping is selected from the database for each of the clusters. The selected mappings are applied to the acquired visible light iris image to generate a Near-Infrared equivalent. | 11-12-2009 |
20090285492 | DATA ACCESS BASED ON CONTENT OF IMAGE RECORDED BY A MOBILE DEVICE - Embodiments of the invention are directed to using image data and contextual data to determine information about a scene, based on one or more previously obtained images. Contextual data, such location of image capture, can be used to determine previously obtained images related to the contextual data and other location-related information, such as billboard locations. With even low resolution devices, such as cell phone, image attributes, such as a histogram or optically recognized characters, can be compared between the previously obtained images and the newly captured image. Attributes matching within a predefined threshold indicate matching images. Information on the content of matching previously obtained images can be provided back to a user who captured the new image. User profile data can refine the content information. The content information can also be used as search terms for additional searching or other processing. | 11-19-2009 |
20090297036 | OBJECT DETECTION ON A PIXEL PLANE IN A DIGITAL IMAGE SEQUENCE - The invention relates to a method for detecting objects on a pixel plane. Said movable object detection is frequently possible only by tracking the pre-segmented objects or the parts thereof. in this relation, the spatially adjacent objects often provoke problems, in particular in the case when a camera system or more precisely an observer is movable. The inventive method consists in determining a two-dimensional position of the relevant pixels inside a first image and in determining an associated remote value for each relevant pixel. Said pixels are tracked and localized on two ore more successive images, wherein the two-dimensional position or the pixel offset and the associated remote value are again determined for each pixel. The position and movement of the relevant pixels are also determined with the aid of a suitable filter. Finally, the relevant pixels are combined into objects under predefined conditions with respect to the position, moving direction and motion ratio thereof. | 12-03-2009 |
20090297037 | PATTERN MATCHING - A method of determining whether two patterns having a plurality of homologous regions match, comprising: generating a set of decisions associated with values (k,n) for determining whether the patterns match, where k, is a number of non similar homologous regions from a sample of size, n, of the homologous regions; constraining the decisions so that a probability of providing a false negative decision that there is no match when in fact there is a match is less than or equal to a predetermined upper bound; configuring the association of decisions and pairs (k,n) to minimize running time of a computer programmed to use the set of decisions to determine whether there is a match; and using a computer programmed with the set of decisions to determine if the patterns match. | 12-03-2009 |
20090297038 | Image Direction Judging Device, Image Direction Judging Method and Image Direction Judging Program - Up and down directions of an image are to be precisely judged without a special equipment installed in an image pickup device. An object candidate detecting means detects object candidates from an input image and their angles in the input image. A similarity calculation means calculate the degree of similarity between each detected object candidate and each object stored in advance. An input image angle calculating means judges up and down directions of the input image based on the calculated similarity of each object candidate and the angle of the input image. The input image angle calculating means carries out weighting for the angle of each object candidate in the input image based on its similarity and calculates slant angles with respect to the up and down directions of the input image by using the weighted angles. | 12-03-2009 |
20090297039 | SOFTWARE METHODOLOGY FOR AUTONOMOUS CONCEALED OBJECT DETECTION AND THREAT ASSESSMENT - A system and method for autonomous concealed object detection and threat assessment. Image data is received from a millimeter wave imaging device comprising at least one scan of a scene. The image data is enhanced thereby creating enhanced image data comprising a plurality of enhanced image pixels. The enhanced image data is evaluated thereby identifying at least one subject within the enhanced image data. The subject is separated from a background within the enhanced image data. The contrast of the subject is enhanced within the enhanced image data. Concealed physical objects associated with the subject within the enhanced contrast image data are detected, thereby detecting at least one concealed object associated with the subject. A representation of the subject and the concealed physical object is displayed on a display device. | 12-03-2009 |
20090297040 | Crop particle discrimination methods and apparatus - A method of discriminating between kernel and chaff particles, in crop, using a crop viewing apparatus that includes
| 12-03-2009 |
20090297041 | SURROUNDING RECOGNITION SUPPORT SYSTEM - A surrounding recognition support system includes an image processing portion receiving a captured image of a surrounding of a vehicle and performing an image processing on the captured image received, an object position detecting portion detecting a position of an object present in a vicinity of the vehicle, an object identification portion identifying information related to the object, a formative image generation portion generating a formative image that suggests a presence of the object existing within a specific area and existing out of an image captured area of the image capturing device, the object being identified by the object identification portion, and a display image control portion performing an image compositing process on the formative image and the captured image on which the image processing has been performed, and outputting a composite image obtained resulting from the image compositing process to a display device installed within the vehicle. | 12-03-2009 |
20090304286 | TEMPLATE CREATION METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSOR THEREFOR - An object of the present invention is to maintain the ease with which a template is created based on design data without acquiring an actual image, which is achieved by providing the template with equivalent information contained by a template used for image recognition that involves same-type image comparison, and to improve image recognition performance by increasing the matching rate between a template and an actual image. | 12-10-2009 |
20090310870 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING PATTERN MATCHING OF INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FEATURES USING VORONOI DIAGRAMS - A method for implementing pattern matching of integrated circuit features includes computing Voronoi edge regions for both a reference configuration and a search space of an integrated circuit design to be searched and presenting the computed Voronoi edge regions of the reference configuration to a user; receiving one or more selected bisectors of the Voronoi computed reference configuration from the user, indicative of user identified salient regions of design shapes and/or corners to be searched, so as to define one or more search elements, wherein a search element comprises a given bisector and a pair of Voronoi edge regions bounded thereby; constructing a search pattern from the one or more search elements defined from the reference configuration; examining the search space for matching sequences with respect to the search pattern; and highlighting resulting matching patterns in the search space for the user. | 12-17-2009 |
20090316999 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING CHARACTERS - Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for recognizing characters using an image. A camera is activated according to a character recognition request and a preview mode is set for displaying an image photographed through the camera in real time. An auto focus of the camera is controlled and an image having a predetermined level of clarity is obtained for character recognition from the images obtained in the preview mode. The image for character recognition is character-recognition-processed so as to extract recognition result data. A final recognition character row is drawn that excludes non-character data from the recognition result data. A first word is combined including at least one character of the final recognition character row and a predetermined maximum number of characters. A dictionary database that stores dictionary information on various languages using the first word is searched, so as to provide the user with the corresponding word. | 12-24-2009 |
20090324097 | System and method for using a template in a predetermined color space that characterizes an image source - A system and method for identifying objects of interest in image data is provided. The present invention utilizes principles of Iterative Transformational Divergence in which objects in images, when subjected to special transformations, will exhibit radically different responses based on the physical, chemical, or numerical properties of the object or its representation (such as images), combined with machine learning capabilities. Using the system and methods of the present invention, certain objects that appear indistinguishable from other objects to the eye or computer recognition systems, or are otherwise almost identical, generate radically different and statistically significant differences in the image describers (metrics) that can be easily measured. | 12-31-2009 |
20090324098 | MOBILE PHONE WITH SELECTIVE PHOTOGRAPHIC SYSTEM AND METHOD - Electronic equipment, e.g., a mobile phone, includes a camera that continuously acquires a sequence of images that are stored on a FIFO basis, and a shutter release that identifies a current image. A number of images acquired sequentially before and after the current image and the current image are analyzed to select automatically a preferred image based on predetermined image attributes, e.g., open eyes, smile, image quality, etc. A method for storing images, selecting a sequence of images before, during and after shutter release, and selecting automatically from the sequence of images a preferred image based on image attributes. Software logic for carrying out the aforementioned method. A method for automatically adjusting a selected image based on attribute features from another image. | 12-31-2009 |
20090324099 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus inputs image data including a first pixel group, a second pixel group generated by interpolating the first pixel group and verification data of the first pixel group, verifies whether the first pixel group has been altered using the first pixel group and the verification data, verifies whether the second pixel group has been altered by determining whether the second pixel group and the first pixel group are in a predetermined relationship, and determines whether the image data has been altered based on results of the verification as to whether the first pixel group has been altered and the verification as to whether the second pixel group has been altered. | 12-31-2009 |
20100002940 | IMAGE DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE DATA PROCESSING METHOD - An image-data processing apparatus. The image-data processing apparatus includes: an imaging section capturing an image of a subject and generating image data; a feature-extraction processing section extracting a visual feature from the generated image data; a feature-comparison processing section comparing a visual feature, having been extracted from recorded image data in a recording medium and related to the recorded image data, with the visual feature extracted by the feature-extraction processing section; and a control section reading image data having the visual feature extracted by the feature-extraction processing section from the recording medium on the basis of the comparison result. | 01-07-2010 |
20100002941 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING AN OBJECT CAPTURED BY A DIGITAL IMAGE - An object captured by a digital image is automatically identified by determining a location at which a digital image is captured; retrieving a plurality of candidate objects associated with said determined location; comparing an object captured by said digital image with each of said retrieved plurality of candidate objects to identify said object. One of the candidate images can be selected and used to create a collage of the captured image and a more complete image of the object. | 01-07-2010 |
20100074534 | METHODS FOR MATCHING IMAGE-BASED TEXUAL INFORMATION WITH REGULAR EXPRESSIONS - A method for matching an image-form textual string in an image to a regular expression is disclosed. The method includes constructing a representation of the regular expression and generating a candidate string of characters from the image-form textual string. The method further includes ascertaining whether there exists a match between the image-form textual string and the regular expression, the match is deemed achieved if a probability value associated with the match is above a predetermined matching threshold. | 03-25-2010 |
20100074535 | VIDEO QUALITY ADAPTATION BASED UPON SCENERY - Operating on video frames includes determining a frame set backdrop of a set of video frames that is a characterization of the relative difference in content of the set of video frames. Decreasing video quality of the set of video frames when the frame set backdrop is relatively higher indicating relatively greater content difference among video frames of the set of video frames and increasing/leaving quality of the set of video frames when the frame set backdrop is relatively lower indicating relatively lesser content difference among video frames of the set of video frames. Alteration of video quality of the set of video frames includes altering a frame rate, altering a pixel resolution, and/or altering color resolution of the set of video frames and/or altering a ratio of independent frames to predictive frames of the set of frames. | 03-25-2010 |
20100080470 | TAGGING IMAGES BY DETERMINING A SET OF SIMILAR PRE-TAGGED IMAGES AND EXTRACTING PROMINENT TAGS FROM THAT SET - An image can be compared with a set of images, each including pre-existing tags. A similar image set can be determined from results of the comparing. Pre-existing tags can be extracted from the similar image set. Prominent tags can be determined from the extracted pre-existing tags. At least one of the determined prominent tags can be added to a tag set associated with the image. | 04-01-2010 |
20100098341 | IMAGE RECOGNITION DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING MULTIMEDIA DATA - An image recognition system, includes: an image capturing device, for multimedia data corresponding to a plurality of parameters respectively; an image recognition device, coupled to the image capturing device and the LUT, for recognizing a captured image and generating a parameter as an input to the LUT; and a first multimedia display device for displaying multimedia data from the LUT that corresponds to the parameter input to the LUT. | 04-22-2010 |
20100104200 | Comparison of Documents Based on Similarity Measures - Techniques for comparing a first document to one or more second documents are provided. At least one weight is assigned to one or more elements in the first document. A weighted document is generated in accordance with the at least one assigned weight. One or more comparison scores are computed by comparing each of the one or more elements in the first document to each of one or more elements in a given second document in accordance with one or more comparison rules. The one or more comparison rules determine if a given element in the first document and a given element in the given second document are compared using one or more language hierarchies and/or one or more similarity ranges. A similarity score is generated in accordance with the generated weighted document and the one or more computed comparison scores. The one or more second documents are retrieved in accordance with the generated similarity score. | 04-29-2010 |
20100119160 | GENERALIZED STATISTICAL TEMPLATE MATCHING UNDER GEOMETRIC TRANSFORMATIONS - A method of detecting a geometrically transformed object in an image comprises comparing a template comprising a plurality of line segments for the object with regions of an image, and determining a similarity measure that uses a statistical measure based on the sums of pixel values of line segments of the image corresponding to each of the line segments of the template. Embodiments of the invention use a discrete set of geometrically transformed versions of the template, for example using the similarity transform. | 05-13-2010 |
20100128991 | SPATIAL-TEMPORAL WARPING OF DIFFERENT PRE-CAPTURED MEDICAL IMAGES - It is described a method for medical image comparison purposes, comprising the step of generating a first global image or mask with increased similarity to a second global image, wherein the first global image comprises at least partially a composition of different pre-captured images of a patient; wherein the pre-captured images are captured at different times. | 05-27-2010 |
20100142828 | IMAGE MATCHING APPARATUS AND METHOD - Provided are an image matching apparatus and method, and the image matching apparatus includes a determining unit determining whether a node, in which a first pixel of a left image of a subject and a second pixel of a right image of the subject corresponding to the first pixel are calculated, is a matchable region, and an operating unit calculating a disparity value by using the brightness information of a left window composed of the first pixel corresponding to the node and peripheral pixels surrounding the first pixel and the brightness information of a right window composed of the second pixel corresponding to the node and peripheral pixels surrounding the second pixel, when the node is the matchable region as a result of the determination. | 06-10-2010 |
20100142829 | COMPLEXITY REGULARIZED PATTERN REPRESENTATION, SEARCH, AND COMPRESSION - A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for performing pattern representation, search and/or compression. In one embodiment, the method comprises extracting one or more target patterns from a portion of an image; forming a pattern matrix based on the one or more target patterns; approximating the pattern matrix using a complexity-regularized representation derived from the pattern matrix; and sending a query to search a library of images for vectors in the query to detect, using the a complexity-regularized representation, any image in the library that contains image patches similar to the one or more target patterns. | 06-10-2010 |
20100142830 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTROL PROGRAM, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE CONTROL METHOD - The invention includes: a pixel-value vertical-gradient-quantity calculation section ( | 06-10-2010 |
20100158391 | IDENTIFICATION AND TRANSFER OF A MEDIA OBJECT SEGMENT FROM ONE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK TO ANOTHER - Technology for sharing media objects includes receiving image selection data associated with a first media object, where the first media object is a television broadcast video. A media server maybe included for storing a second media object. In one embodiment, the second media object is a recording of the broadcast of the first media object. In another embodiment, the second media object may be loaded into a media object database within the media server separate from the television broadcast. The media server may then identify a segment of the second media object by comparing the image selection data with data representing at least a portion of the second media object. The media server may then send the segment to a second user. In one embodiment, sending the segment to a second user may include sending a web-link reference to the segment. The media server may also send or cause the transmission of advertising data related to the image selection data. | 06-24-2010 |
20100166320 | MULTI-STAGE IMAGE PATTERN RECOGNIZER - An image-based pattern recognizer and a method and apparatus for making such a pattern recognizer are disclosed. By employing positional coding, the meaning of any feature present in an image can be defined implicitly in space. The pattern recognizer can be a neural network including a plurality of stages of observers. The observers are configured to cooperate to identify the presence of features in the input image and to recognize a pattern in the input image based on the features. Each of the observers includes a plurality of neurons. The input image includes a plurality of units, and each of the observers is configured to generate a separate output set that includes zero or more coordinates of such units. | 07-01-2010 |
20100166321 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING NEAR DUPLICATE IMAGES - The present invention provides a method and system for determining near-duplicate images. The method and system includes performing a Fourier-Mellin transform on each of a plurality of images. For each image of the plurality of images, the method and system includes generating a signature based on the Fourier-Mellin transform. The method and system includes comparing the signature of at least one of the images to at least one of the signatures of the other plurality of images and determining any near duplicate images based on the comparing of the signatures. | 07-01-2010 |
20100183231 | HIGH PERFORMANCE IMAGE IDENTIFICATION - A method and apparatus for deriving a representation of an image is described. The method involves processing signals corresponding to the image. A two-dimensional function of the image, such as a Trace transform (T (d, θ)), of the image using at least one functional T, is derived and processed using a mask function (β) to derive an intermediate representation of the image, corresponding to a one-dimensional function. In one embodiment, the mask function defines pairs of image bands of the Trace transform in the Trace domain. The representation of the image may be derived by applying existing techniques to the derived one-dimensional function. | 07-22-2010 |
20100189363 | PROCESSING OF REMOTELY ACQUIRED IMAGING DATA INCLUDING MOVING OBJECTS - A system for processing remotely acquired imagery includes a storage element ( | 07-29-2010 |
20100189364 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMAGE IDENTIFICATION AND IDENTIFICATION RESULT OUTPUT - The present invention provides a method and system for image identification and identification result output, wherein a feature image under identification acquired from an image is compared with a plurality of sample images respectively stored in a database so as to obtain a plurality of similarity indexes associated with the plurality of sample images respectively. Each similarity index represents similarity between the feature image and the corresponding sample image. Thereafter, the plurality of similarity indexes are sorted and then a least one of comparison results is output. The present invention is further capable of being used for identifying identification marks with respect to a carrier. By sorting the similarity index with respect to each feature forming the identification marks, it is capable of outputting many sets of combinations corresponding to the identification marks so as to improve speed for targetting suspected carrier and enhance the identification efficiency. | 07-29-2010 |
20100189365 | Imaging apparatus, retrieval method, and program - An imaging apparatus includes an image acquisition mechanism configured to acquire an image by imaging a subject to output an acquired image; an acquired image characteristic amount extraction mechanism configured to extract a characteristic amount of the acquired image acquired by the image acquisition mechanism; and a retrieval mechanism configured to retrieve images of which the characteristics are identical or similar to the characteristics of the acquired image from other images other than the acquired image using the characteristic amount extracted by the acquired image characteristic amount extraction mechanism. | 07-29-2010 |
20100189366 | DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A diagnosis support apparatus includes a storage unit which stores pieces of image feature information and finding sentences as interpretation results in correspondence with each other. This apparatus acquires image feature information of a target area designated on an image to be interpreted, searches the storage unit for image feature information similar to the acquired image feature information, acquires a finding sentence stored in correspondence with the retrieved image feature information from the storage unit, and creates a finding sentence concerning interpretation of the designated target area by changing a description of the acquired finding sentence based on image feature information of the designated target area. | 07-29-2010 |
20100195916 | UNIQUE SECURITY DEVICE FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OR AUTHENTICATION OF VALUABLE GOODS, FABRICATION PROCESS AND METHOD FOR SECURING VALUABLE GOODS USING SUCH A UNIQUE SECURITY DEVICE - A security device for the identification or authentication of valuable goods is described, including a thin material layer ( | 08-05-2010 |
20100202703 | REAL-TIME FACE DETECTION APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a real-time face detection apparatus. The real-time face detection apparatus includes a down-scaling unit and a face region comparison unit. The down-scaling unit down-scales an input image at at least one ratio. The face region comparison unit creates a plurality of windows for the image down-scaled at the at least one ratio, acquires face region confidence of each of window images within the created windows by comparing the window image with a classifier, and determines whether the window image corresponds to a face region. | 08-12-2010 |
20100209003 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC MASH-UP GENERATION - In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining a target template and processing the target template to identify at least one component of the target template. The method also includes searching at least one collection of content to identify at least a first instance of content that substantially matches the component of the target template. The first instance of content is presented as substantially matching the component. Finally, a first arrangement that includes the first instance of content is created. Such a first arrangement is associated with a mash-up related to the target template. | 08-19-2010 |
20100209004 | SPECTROSCOPIC CHEMICAL COMPOUND IDENTIFICATION - A spectroscopic chemical compound identification system includes a container, a memory, a spectrometer, and a processor. The container receives unknown chemical compound. The memory stores a plurality of spectral signatures corresponding to known chemical compounds. The spectrometer measures a spectral signature of the unknown chemical compound through the container. The processor is connected to the memory and the spectrometer, performs a comparison of the spectral signature with at least one of the plurality of spectral signatures, and determines the identity of the unknown chemical compound from the comparison. The system can be housed in a portable handheld housing. A chemical compound can include a pharmaceutical or controlled substance. The system can be also be used to determine if a pharmaceutical or controlled substance is present within an unknown mixture of chemical compounds. | 08-19-2010 |
20100220932 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STEREO MATCHING OF IMAGES - A system and method for stereo matching of at least two images, e.g., a stereoscopic image pair, employing a global optimization function, e.g., a belief propagation function, that utilizes dynamic programming as a preprocessing step are provided. The system and method of the present disclosure provide for acquiring a first image and a second image from a scene, estimating the disparity of at least one point in the first image with at least one corresponding point in the second image, and minimizing the estimated disparity using a belief propagation function, e.g., a global optimization function, wherein the belief propagation function is initialized with a result of a deterministic matching function, e.g., dynamic programming, applied to the first and second image to speed up the belief propagation function. The system and method further generates a disparity map from the estimated disparity and converts the disparity map into a depth map. | 09-02-2010 |
20100226580 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREASED GAMMA/NEUTRON DETECTION - A system detects at least one of nuclear and fissile materials. The system includes a plurality of high speed scintillator detectors. Each high speed scintillator detector in the plurality of high speed scintillator detectors includes at least one photo sensor and a pre-amp circuit adapted to eliminate pulse stretching and distortion of detected light pulses emitted from scintillation material when interacting with neutron particles and/or gamma particles. An isotope database includes a plurality of spectral images corresponding to different known isotopes. An information processing system is adapted to compare spectral data received from each high speed scintillator detector to one or more of the spectral images and identify one or more isotopes present in an object or container being monitored. | 09-09-2010 |
20100226581 | MOBILE BROWSING - The present invention resides in one aspect in a system including a user operable portable radio communication device and a server. The invention includes the portable radio communication device comprising a sensor adapted to allow automatic input of data to the portable radio communication device, a controller for controlling the device, a browser adapted to download content from the server, the controller being arranged to be responsive to data input via said sensor so as control the browser to download content from a server associated with the input data, means for providing for information personal to a user, and contextualization means configured to contextualize the downloaded content with the personal information. | 09-09-2010 |
20100232712 | DETECTOR, DETECTION METHOD, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR DETECTION - A detector detects a specified image in an input image. The detector includes an area determination unit for determining, in the input image, a detection target area in which the specified image potentially exists, a setting unit for setting positions of a plurality of matching target ranges substantially in the detection target area, each of the matching target ranges being a predetermined size, so that the matching target ranges cover the detection target area, and each matching target range overlaps a neighboring matching target range by a predetermined overlap width, and a matching unit for detecting the specified image by matching a portion of the input image encompassed by each matching target range set by the setting unit and a template image for detecting the specified image. | 09-16-2010 |
20100232713 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFICATION OF VERTICAL SCROLLING REGIONS IN DIGITAL VIDEO - A vertical scrolling region detector may include a motion estimator that can generate motion vectors between blocks of two or more primary frames of a mixed-mode video sequence. The detector may also include a primary frame motion analyzer that can analyze the motion vectors to detect substantially constant vertical motion of at least some of the blocks between the two or more primary frames. The presence of substantially constant vertical motion may reflect the presence of a vertical scrolling region in the mixed-mode video sequence. Moreover, the detector may also include a consecutive frame motion analyzer that can calculate differences in pixel values between lines of two or more consecutive frames in the mixed-mode video sequence. The differences in pixel values may further reflect the presence of the vertical scrolling region in the mixed-mode video sequence. | 09-16-2010 |
20100246974 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPTICALLY DETECTING SURFACE DEFECT OF ROUND WIRE ROD - A device and method can optically detect a defect of a round wire rod to be tested, and particularly, remotely detect the defect without contact in real-time. The device includes a lighting device for emitting circular surface light to the round wire rod; an optical sensor for generating an optical signal by receiving the light reflected from the round wire rod, which is being transported, and converting the optical signal into an image signal; and a signal-processing unit for acquiring surface information of the round wire rod by receiving the image signal from the optical sensor. | 09-30-2010 |
20100246975 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING IF IMAGING OBJECT IS STILL - For an image of an object for use in biometrics and the like, if the imaging object is still is detected with a simple configuration. From two pieces of image data that have been captured in time series, the absolute value of the difference in brightness of pixels in the identical position is calculated, and the number of pixels whose absolute values exceed the threshold value indicative of the limit of the brightness change is counted. The counted result is compared with the movement determination threshold value to determine if the imaging object is still. | 09-30-2010 |
20100254612 | PROCESSING ARCHITECTURE FOR AUTOMATIC IMAGE REGISTRATION - A system for automatically registering a sensed image with a reference image. A sensor image of a first scene is obtained while the sensor is mounted on a platform, and at least one processing subsystem may be provided. The processing subsystem may be adapted to perform a plurality of operations including obtaining a reference image of a second scene, with the reference image encompassing the sensor image; to identify the portion of the reference image depicted in the sensor image; to define an area of the reference image based on the reference image portion; to conform the sensor image and an area of the reference image to a common perspective by transforming the perspective of at least one of the sensor image and the reference image area; and to match the images of common perspective. | 10-07-2010 |
20100260425 | Method and Device for the Automated Comparison of Two Sets of Measurement Values - A method and a device are for an automated comparison of at least two sets of measuring values. The measuring values of the two sets are assigned respectively to one class from a finite number of classes defined by indices so that a frequency distribution is defined respectively for each of the two sets, which frequency distribution indicates for each class a frequency of the measuring values assigned to this class. A distance measure reflecting a similarity or dissimilarity between the two sets of measuring values between these frequency distributions is calculated as a function of a final value of a first auxiliary value termed here match by way of example. The first auxiliary value match is calculated by an algorithm using two sets of variables in that, with a given maximum distance d | 10-14-2010 |
20100272371 | PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEM, PATTERN RECOGNITION METHOD, AND PATTERN RECOGNITION PROGRAM - A pattern recognition system, pattern recognition method, and pattern recognition program capable of increasing the accuracy in computing the false acceptance probability and capable of ensuring a stable security strength are provided. Pattern recognition systems | 10-28-2010 |
20100278436 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMAGE IDENTIFICATION AND IDENTIFICATION RESULT OUTPUT - The present invention provides a method and a system for image identification and identification result output, which determines a location coordinate with respect to an image and a rotating angle based on at least one direction of the image according to features of the image. The image is compared to a plurality of sample images stored in a database according to the rotating angle so as to obtain at least one identification result. By means of the method and the system of the present invention, identification can be achieved with respect to various rotating angles and distances so as to improve the identification rate. | 11-04-2010 |
20100278437 | KEY BLANK IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM WITH GROOVE SCANNING - A key identification system is provided. The key identification system comprises an imaging system to capture an image of a master key, and a logic to analyze the captured image. The imaging system may be capture an image of a groove in the master key from an angle between perpendicular and parallel to the blade of said master key. The logic analyzes the captured image to compare characteristics of the groove with groove characteristics of known key blanks to determine the likelihood of a match between the master key and a known key blank. The key identification system may further compensate for displacement or orientation of the master key with respect to the imaging system when analyzing characteristics of the groove. | 11-04-2010 |
20100278438 | KEY BLANK IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM WITH BITTING ANALYSIS - A key identification system is provided. The key identification system comprises a sensing device configured to extract bitting information from a master key, and a logic configured to analyze the image. The sensing device may be configured to capture information about the bittings of the master key, such as an image of the bittings. The logic analyzes information about the bittings of the master key and compares it with bitting characteristics of known key blanks to determine the likelihood of a match between the master key and a known key blank. | 11-04-2010 |
20100278439 | Digital Media Recognition Apparatus and Methods - One of the embodiments of the invention includes a method of identifying illegal uses of copyright material. The steps of the method preferably include the steps of: (a) providing a primary digital media object, (b) associating an auxiliary construct with the object, (c) transforming the construct using at least one of the attributes of the object to generate a unique key representative of the primary object, (d) receiving a plurality of secondary digital media objects, (e) performing steps (b) and (c) on the secondary objects to generate unique keys representative of the secondary objects, (f) comparing the keys of the secondary objects with the key of the primary object to identify if any of the secondary objects are substantially similar to the primary object. | 11-04-2010 |
20100284620 | METHOD FOR ORGANIZING A DATABASE OF IMAGES AND RETRIEVING IMAGES FROM THAT DATABASE ACCORDING TO A QUERY IMAGE - A method for determining a matching score between a first set of n | 11-11-2010 |
20100290709 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING TYPES OF VEHICLES - Consistent with the disclosed embodiments, the shapes of the windows of vehicles are used as features for recognizing vehicle types. This method transforms vehicle images with different view angles in a homographic manner to a normalized coordinate system and further extracts normalized window images. Subsequently, the method recognizes target vehicle types correctly in accordance with the normalized window images. | 11-18-2010 |
20100296740 | PATTERN RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - Pattern matching of a plurality of stages that refer to respectively different parameters at each stage is performed with respect to each of a plurality of input data in sequence from a first stage until a matching result is false. A parameter referred to in pattern matching from a first stage until a predetermined stage among pattern matching of the plurality of stages is fixedly held in a fixed parameter holding unit. A parameter referred to in pattern matching of a stage after the predetermined stage is rewritably held in a variable parameter holding unit. In accordance with progress of pattern matching of the plurality of stages, a parameter held in the variable parameter holding unit is rewritten with an unheld parameter. | 11-25-2010 |
20100310181 | REGISTRATION OF OPTICAL IMAGES OF TURBID MEDIA - A co-registration system provides a means for spatially warping an optical image of an object with another images of a similar object. The optical image may be a scatter image, and the second image may be the same type of image modality, or may be different. The co-registration may use landmarks selected by a user, or may make use of contour information derived from the images. The system may also include processing of three-dimensional volume data in the form of sets of two-dimensional slices for co-registration. | 12-09-2010 |
20100316298 | MULTIPLE VIEW FACE TRACKING - A system and method track a face moving through multiple frames of a video sequence. A predicted position of a face in a video frame is obtained. A search is performed to determine appearance model similarity values of a detected face. Motion and appearance probabilities of the detected face are obtained, and the detected face in the video frame is associated with a track as a function of a joint probabilistic data association filter. | 12-16-2010 |
20100316299 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING PRESENCE OF USER'S HAND TREMOR OR INTENTIONAL MOTION - A method is provided for determining presence of a user's hand tremor or intentional motion during recognition of an image through photographing. Image sample blocks of a previous frame are detected by using an edge detecting method. A block distance between the detected image sample block of the previous frame and an estimated image sample block of a current frame is calculated. The calculated block distance is compared with a first threshold. The calculated block distance is compared with a second threshold when the calculated block distance is less than the first threshold. | 12-16-2010 |
20100329572 | Method And Apparatus For Identification of Image Uniqueness - A processor executing a display driver receives a new image object that has one or more identifiers. The processor makes a first determination as to whether the new image object matches one of a plurality of previously received image objects based on the one or more identifiers. If no match is found, the processor makes a second determination as to whether the new image object matches one of the plurality of previously received image objects based on comparing a hash of the new image object to hashes of the plurality of previously received image objects. If a matching previously received image object is found from either the first determination or the second determination, a reference to the matching previously received image object is sent to a client. If no matching previously received image object is found, the new image object is sent to the client. | 12-30-2010 |
20100329573 | DISPLAY TEST DEVICE, DISPLAY TEST METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A display test apparatus includes a determination information storage unit that stores a determination information for use in determining correctness of content displaying, a file acquisition unit that acquires a file, a content image creation unit that creates an image of content to be displayed on the basis of the file, a content image analysis unit that analyzes a displaying of the content on the basis of the image of content, a determination unit that determines whether the content is correctly displayed on the basis of the determination information and a result of the analysis by the content image analysis unit, and an output unit that outputs a determination result information indicating a result of the determination by the determination unit. | 12-30-2010 |
20110019924 | PRIORITIZER SYSTEM FOR TARGET ACQUISITION - A system having an approach for prioritizing targets for an order of capturing the targets photographically or otherwise. Prioritizing is based on cost of obtaining or capturing the target for viewing or photographing in high resolution. One acquisition mechanism is for obtaining a wide field of view of a scene of targets and another acquisition mechanism is for obtaining a narrow field of view of a target for capture. The cost for prioritizing is based on the time that the narrow field of view acquisition mechanism takes to pan and tilt to get a close-up image of a target divided by the width of the target. The targets may be faces of people. | 01-27-2011 |
20110026835 | SYSTEM FOR MATCHING ARTISTIC ATTRIBUTES OF SECONDARY IMAGE AND TEMPLATE TO A PRIMARY IMAGE - A system for automatically selecting a template and a number of secondary images for display with a primary preselected image based on analyzing the primary image's attribute information and comparing the template's required image attributes and secondary image's attribute information. The attribute information is used to evaluate and arithmetically score a compatibility of the images and template so that a best compatibility fit can be obtained when displaying the image. | 02-03-2011 |
20110026836 | CONTEXT COORDINATION FOR AN ARTISTIC DIGITAL TEMPLATE FOR IMAGE DISPLAY - An apparatus and method for creating a coordinated image display. A computer system comprising stored digital templates for said image display can be operated by a user to generate the image display. The templates each have a plurality of digital openings for displaying digital images and each of those openings has a required image attribute. The group of required attributes for the openings are stored as a template recipe. The template recipe includes a required image attribute for a dependent opening. The dependent opening is dependent on an image attribute of an image captured by a capture device coupled to the computer system, which includes scanners and cameras. The captured image can be of a paint swatch, a fabric, furniture, carpeting, or any other item or image. | 02-03-2011 |
20110026837 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - It is an object of the present invention to provide an image processing device capable of capturing an image of various objects and common scenes with ideal compositions and attractive compositions. The image processing device predicts an attention region | 02-03-2011 |
20110026838 | PUBLISHING TECHNIQUES FOR ADDING VALUE TO A RENDERED DOCUMENT - A system for processing a visual capture operation as described. The system receives an indication of a visual capture operation performed from a rendered document. The indication specifies both a text sequence capture as part of the capture operation and a supplemental marking captured as part of the capture operation. The system determines an action to perform in response to receiving the indication, based both upon the text sequence specified in the indication and the supplemental markings specified by the indication. | 02-03-2011 |
20110038549 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, CAMERA, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention enables the detecting and tracking of a specific subject using a simple structure and simplified operations without registering characteristic information of the subject. The invention comprises: a subject detection means that detects a subject image from an image; a subject-recognition-information storage means that stores a recognition ID of the subject image as well as a first position that is the position at which the subject image was last detected within the image; and a recognition ID assigning means that assigns the recognition ID to the subject image, wherein if the first position is within a predefined distance from the position at which the subject detection means detects the subject image, the recognition ID assigning means assigns the recognition ID corresponding to the first position to the subject image. | 02-17-2011 |
20110044547 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CHARACTER RECOGNITION - Character recognition is described. In one embodiment, it may use matched sequences rather than character shape to determine a computer-legible result. | 02-24-2011 |
20110052082 | Systems and Methods for Detecting Tape on a Document - Systems and methods for detecting tape on a document are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes capturing a first image of a document. The first image is captured while at least a portion of the document is subjected to a first electromagnetic radiation. The method includes capturing a second image of the document. The second image is captured while at least a portion of the document is subjected to a second electromagnetic radiation. The method also includes comparing the first image to the second image to determine whether tape is adhered to the document. | 03-03-2011 |
20110091116 | OBJECT RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND OBJECT RECOGNITION METHOD - An information processing apparatus acquires registration image data related to an object and input image data related to an object, and matches the acquired registration image data related to the object and each of a plurality of object dictionary data items stored in a storage device. Based on the matching result, the information processing apparatus selects an object dictionary data item relevant to the object related to the registration image data from the plurality of object dictionary data items, and matches the acquired input image data related to the object and the selected object dictionary data item. Based on the matching result, the information processing apparatus determines the object related to the input image data. Based on the determination result, the information processing apparatus updates the selected object dictionary data item. Thus, object recognition is easily and highly accurately performed. | 04-21-2011 |
20110103699 | IMAGE METADATA PROPAGATION - Methods and computer-readable media for propagating content category information to images stored in a database are described. A seed image that is associated with a known content category is received. A content-based image retrieval is conducted using the seed image as a search query image. A number of search result images are identified. The content category is propagated to the search result images. Metadata associated with the search result images is aggregated and analyzed to identify domains that should also be associated with the content category. Additional images that are associated with the domain are identified and the content category propagated thereto. The process is iterated using the additional images as search query images for the content-based image retrieval. | 05-05-2011 |
20110123123 | AUTOMATIC FORMS IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods automatically generate a model of a form or other document and identify the form or other document. In one aspect, a system and method normalize an image of a document and identify the relative positions of vertical and horizontal lines in the normalized image. The relative positions of vertical and horizontal lines of the normalized image are the model of the document image. The model may be stored in a record, such as an array. The system and method compare the relative positions of vertical and horizontal lines of the model to the relative positions of vertical and horizontal lines of other models to identify a matching model. | 05-26-2011 |
20110135207 | Matching An Approximately Located Query Image Against A Reference Image Set - Aspects of the invention pertain to matching a selected image/photograph against a database of reference images having location information. The image of interest may include some location information itself, such as latitude/longitude coordinates and orientation. However, the location information provided by a user's device may be inaccurate or incomplete. The image of interest is provided to a front end server, which selects one or more cells to match the image against. Each cell may have multiple images and an index. One or more cell match servers compare the image against specific cells based on information provided by the front end server. An index storage server maintains index data for the cells and provides them to the cell match servers. If a match is found, the front end server identifies the correct location and orientation of the received image, and may correct errors in an estimated location of the user device. | 06-09-2011 |
20110142354 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING POSE IN MOTION CAPTURE DATA - An apparatus for detecting a pose in motion capture data includes: a motion data input unit which receives motion data of characters; a virtual marker attaching unit for forming a point cloud by attaching virtual markers to joints of an end-effector of each character; and a scaling unit for, when a frame has different character size from an a character size of an original frame to be compared is detected, scaling the character size. The apparatus further includes an ICP algorithm execution unit for finding a matching transformation matrix between the original frame and each frame of the motion data, of which character size has been scaled, by applying an ICP algorithm, and determining a frame, in which character's pose has the smallest difference from that in the original frame based on a sum of the distances between the virtual markers chosen by sampling the matched two poses. | 06-16-2011 |
20110150345 | PATTERN MATCHING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR EXECUTING PATTERN MATCHING - A pattern matching method which is capable of selecting a suitable measurement object pattern, even on a sample containing a periodic structure, and a computer program for making a computer execute the pattern matching. In a pattern matching method which executes matching between the design data-based first image of an object sample, and a second image, whether or not a periodic structure is included in a region to execute the matching is determined, so as to select a pattern, based on distance between an original point which is set in said image, and the pattern configuring said periodic structure, in the case where the periodic structure is included in said region, and to select a pattern based on coincidence of the pattern in said image, in the case where the periodic structure is not included in said region, and a computer program product. | 06-23-2011 |
20110170787 | USING A DISPLAY TO SELECT A TARGET OBJECT FOR COMMUNICATION - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to interacting with a target object using an imaging device of a handheld mobile device. | 07-14-2011 |
20110176735 | FORM IDENTIFICATION APPARATUS, FORM PROCESSING SYSTEM, FORM PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A form identification apparatus includes a form registration unit and a candidate registered form extracting unit. The form registration unit registers stylized forms as registered forms, and sets, for each of the registered forms, content of form processing and a threshold for determining a degree of difference in accordance with the content of the form processing. The candidate registered form extracting unit extracts, as a candidate registered form, the registered forms in which content of form processing executable on a to-be-processed form has been set, based on a degree of difference between an image of the to-be-processed form and an image of each of the registered forms and the threshold. | 07-21-2011 |
20110194777 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE OF IMAGES WITH RECOGNITION ANALYSIS - An index is provided that holds information about each image content item in a collection of items, For each image content item, a first information item identifying the image content item and its location on a network, and at least one of (i) a second information item identifying a signature value of an object in the image content, or (ii) identification of a recognized object in the image content. | 08-11-2011 |
20110194778 | PATTERN-SEARCHING CONDITION DETERMINING METHOD, AND PATTERN-SEARCHING CONDITION SETTING DEVICE - Provided is a method for determining the magnification of a pattern searching template of a scanning electron microscope. The determining method comprises: acquiring a first image initially at a first magnification; then acquiring a second image which contains a pattern image displayed on the first image at a second magnification lower than the first magnification; making the size of the first image coincident with the size of a third image which cut out a portion of the second image; thereafter determining the correlation value between the first image and the third image; and setting the second magnification as the magnification of a pattern searching template, in the case where the correlation value is equal to or higher than a predetermined value. As a result, a condition for acquiring a search area can be properly set, when pattern recognition is performed by means of the template. | 08-11-2011 |
20110211762 | IMAGE PROCESSING - A method of selecting a homography model from point correspondences of an associated image pair; a method of filtering point correspondences from a pair of associated images; a method of calculating a homography transformation; and a method of image differencing; including implementing one or more sampling constraints, e.g. partition zones and an exclusion zone, that provide a more even spread of point selection over the image, and/or that provide for selected points to be spread further apart, than would be the case if the one or more sampling constraints were not implemented. Repeated selections of combinations of points may be selected in a deterministic manner, and the deterministic manner may be tailored to an escape condition. | 09-01-2011 |
20110243457 | SCENE MATCHING REFERENCE DATA GENERATION SYSTEM AND POSITION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM - A scene matching reference data generation system inputs a set of probe data. The set of the probe data includes captured images sequentially obtained by a plurality of probe cars and the vehicle positions of the probe cars. The system temporarily stores the captured images, evaluates image similarity degrees of the captured images, and assigns the similarity degrees to the captured images. The system selects, as a plurality of processing target captured images, a plurality of the captured images having similarity degrees equal to or higher than a first predetermined degree, determines a representative image-capturing position that is a representative of the image-capturing positions of the plurality of the processing target captured images, generates image feature point data based on the plurality of the processing target captured images, and generates the reference data for scene matching by associating the image feature point data with the representative image-capturing position. | 10-06-2011 |
20110243458 | STILL IMAGE VERIFYING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A still image verifying apparatus includes, a storage unit that stores a plurality of pieces of summary information generated respectively from a plurality of pieces of still image data, a recording unit that records edited image data obtained by performing an edit process on still image data, and a still image decoding unit that generates decoded still image data by retrieving from the recording unit. The apparatus includes a still image determining unit that determines whether the generated decoded still image data matches the edited image data, a digest generating unit that generates summary information by retrieving from the recording unit, a digest information verifying unit that retrieves summary information corresponding to the edited image data and compares the generated summary information with the retrieved summary information and an edited still image verifying unit that verifies the authenticity of the edited image data. | 10-06-2011 |
20110262043 | PATTERN MATCHING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - A pattern matching method for a scanning electron microscope comprises a step of performing pattern matching of only an upper layer pattern between an image ( | 10-27-2011 |
20110268363 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING SUPERIMPOSITION OF PATTERN - Provided is a method for evaluating superimposition of a pattern, wherein an alignment shift quantity and a shift direction can be evaluated at a discretionary position within an exposure shot. The method uses a superimposition evaluation pattern, and the image of the superimposition evaluation pattern is acquired (S | 11-03-2011 |
20110280489 | SIGNAL RECOGNITION AND TRIGGERING USING COMPUTER VISION TECHNIQUES - A test and measurement instrument processes digital data that represents an input signal to produce a target image, and then uses a computer vision technique to recognize a signal depicted within the target image. In some embodiments, the location of the signal within the target image is identified on a display device. In other embodiments, the location of the signal within the target image is used to perform a measurement. In other embodiments, when the signal is recognized, a trigger signal is generated that causes digital data that represents the input signal to be stored in a memory. | 11-17-2011 |
20110280490 | LEARNING IMAGE TEMPLATES FOR CONTENT ANCHORING AND DATA EXTRACTION - Methods, and corresponding systems, of generating one or more image anchor templates for extracting data from a data field of a first class of documents are provided. The methods include generating one or more candidate image anchor templates from at least one of one or more exemplars of the first class; determining a quality score for each of the one or more candidate image anchor templates using a computer processor and known locations of the data field within the one or more exemplars of the first class; ranking the one or more candidate image anchor templates according to quality score; and selecting one or more of the most highly ranked image anchor templates. | 11-17-2011 |
20110286675 | Automated Image Sizing and Placement - Versions of user-selected content images are automatically created, sized, and positioned within a template such that all versions are simultaneously displayed without overlapping in a defined acceptable image area of the template. Creating the content image versions may include creating a frame image for the content image. A predefined anchor point associated with the acceptable image area is used to control the location of the image versions within the image area. | 11-24-2011 |
20110299785 | MOTION DETECTION TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVED IMAGE REMOTING - Techniques are disclosed for acceleration techniques for improved image remoting. A rolling 2D hash of a first image sent to a client is computed. When the server has a second image to send to the client, it calculates a rolling 2D hash of the new image. It also calculates “pivot points” for the images based on the rolling 2D hashes. Based on the pivot points, it determines possible matching hash windows between the two images that correspond to window moves or scrolls. Where a match is confirmed, it determines whether a “larger” a larger matching rectangle exists between the two images. It then instructs the client to display the matching rectangle that exists in the first image that the client has in the appropriate location in the second image, thereby saving the bandwidth requirements to re-transmit it to the client. | 12-08-2011 |
20110311148 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING COMBINATIONS OF MATCHING REGIONS IN IMAGES - Matching combinations of regions are identified in a first and second image of a common scene. First and second sets of image regions are first identified in the first and second image on their own. Next a search is made for potentially matching first and second regions from the first and second set. First and second geometrical parameters such as moments are computed, which provide a first order approximation of the shapes of the first and second region respectively, in terms of the size and directions of major and minor axes of ellipses. These first and second geometrical parameters may be considered to define a first and second normalizing map, which map the first and second regions to isotropic regions, wherein the ellipses become circles. A search is made for closest third and fourth regions in the first and second image with matching distances to the first and second regions in spaces obtainable by mapping locations in the first and second image according to the first and second normalizing maps. The match is verified when such matching closest regions are found. | 12-22-2011 |
20110311149 | CHANGE IMAGE DETECTING DEVICE, CHANGE IMAGE DETECTING METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR REALIZING CHANGE IMAGE DETECTING FUNCTION, AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDED WITH THE COMPUTER PROGRAM - Change image detecting devices and methods are disclosed. In one example, a determination unit partially compares a first image and a reference image and determines whether there is a change therebetween. If the determination unit determines no change between the first image and the reference image, the change image detecting unit selects a second image, which is temporally later than the first image and stored in a first storing unit, as a new image to be processed and the determination unit partially compares the second image and the reference image at a different position than previously compared and determines whether there is a change between the second image and the reference image. If the determination unit determines change between the first image and the reference image, a change image detecting unit detects the first image stored in the first storing unit as the change image, and stores the first image in the second storing unit. | 12-22-2011 |
20110317926 | UNGUIDED CURIOSITY IN SUPPORT OF ENTITY RESOLUTION TECHNIQUES - Provided are techniques for receiving data comprising an entity having at least one feature; determining how the entity correlates with an existing entity, identifying an additional feature to increase confidence of the entity resolution, searching a data source for the additional feature to obtain an observation containing the additional feature, and performing the entity resolution using the at least one feature and the additional feature. | 12-29-2011 |
20120045136 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS - A method of improving the accuracy and computation time of automatic image recognition by the implementation of association graphs and a quantum processor. | 02-23-2012 |
20120070089 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A TEMPLATE MATCHING TEMPLATE, AS WELL AS A DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING A TEMPLATE - Provided is a method of manufacturing a template matching template, as well as a device for manufacturing a template, by both of which high matching accuracy can be stably ensured without being affected by factors such as process variations. As an embodiment of the above, a method of manufacturing a template matching template, as well as a relevant deice, is proposed by both of which a template memorized in advance and an image acquired by a microscope are compared, thereby identifying a desired position, and by which a plurality of images at the identified location are acquired by template matching, and the aforementioned plurality of images are added and averaged, thereby manufacturing a new template. | 03-22-2012 |
20120076426 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MATCHING PANORAMIC IMAGES USING A GRAPH STRUCTURE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - The present invention relates to a method for performing an image matching process for panoramic images. The method includes the steps of: (a) creating a connection(s) among images of a specific object respectively included in at least two panoramic images, if some objects included in the at least two panoramic images are recognized as the specific object by referring to information on shooting places of multiple panoramic images and information on directions of respective objects on the multiple panoramic images; and (b) matching an image of a certain object inputted as a query with at least one of images included in a specific connection and providing a search result for the query by referring to a result of the image matching process and the specific connection. | 03-29-2012 |
20120093421 | DETECTION OF DUPLICATE DOCUMENT CONTENT USING TWO-DIMENSIONAL VISUAL FINGERPRINTING - A system and method of detecting duplicate document content in a large document collection and automatically highlighting duplicate or different document content among the detected document content using two-dimensional visual fingerprints. | 04-19-2012 |
20120106851 | DOCUMENT AUTHENTICATION USING TEMPLATE MATCHING WITH FAST MASKED NORMALIZED CROSS-CORRELATION - Techniques are described for authenticating security documents having security images that incorporate multiple security features. The techniques may produce robust template matching results in situations of lighting unevenness, even with stronger occluding objects. The techniques may be particularly useful in validating a security document having a security image composed of one or more “virtual” retroreflective images formed over a background of a repeating retroreflective image. The virtual retroreflective images within the security image provide strong signals that may dominate analysis and validation of the background retroreflective image, thereby resulting incorrect authentication. The techniques provide a modified normalized cross-correlation analysis that masks out the strong signals contributed by the additional security features, such as the retroreflective virtual images, while still allowing for fast and efficient template matching to be performed with respect to the background image. | 05-03-2012 |
20120128256 | Image Processing Method, Apparatus, and Computer Program Product - According to one embodiment, an image processing method includes calculating an activity value for a first block, the activity value indicating a higher degree of activity as pixel values vary in a greater degree in the first block, and calculating a first evaluation value that indicates higher evaluation as a difference between a pixel value of the first block and a pixel value of a second block is smaller. The method further includes calculating a second evaluation value that indicates higher evaluation as correlation between a relative spatial relationship of the pixel value of the first block and that of the pixel value of the second block is higher, and calculating a third evaluation value by weighting the first evaluation value and the second evaluation value to search for the second block that corresponds to the first block, a weight of the first evaluation value is larger as the activity value is larger. | 05-24-2012 |
20120141036 | OBSERVATION APPARATUS AND OBSERVATION METHOD - An observation apparatus compares a plurality of image information acquired in a specific time by a plurality of image acquisition methods whose image acquisition timings are different, and includes a timer for counting observation time, and a PMT and a CCD whose image information acquisition timings are different. A storage unit stores different image information, when acquired by the PMT and the CCD, by relating each type of the acquired image information to the observation information counted by the timer. A control unit sets a display standard to associate the different types of image information stored in the storage unit, according to the observation time that has been respectively related to these types of image information, and associates the different types of image information according to the time information, on the basis of the set display standard. A monitor displays the image information associated by the control unit. | 06-07-2012 |
20120155778 | Spatial Image Index and Associated Updating Functionality - An image matching system is described for finding reference images which match a query image. The image matching system performs this operation in expeditious fashion by restricting the matching to a bounding region; the bounding region, in turn, may be associated with a location at which the query image may have been captured. In addition, the image matching system provides various mechanisms that expedite adding new reference images to an image index, to thereby provide a re-enforced learning mechanism of the image matching system. | 06-21-2012 |
20120170854 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMAGE STORAGE AND ANALYSIS - An image storage and retrieval system is provided with means for matching and retrieving images based on image content, rather than image file names. In one embodiment, an image storing tool is configured to store an image in a relational database table. The image storing tool converts a compressed image back to the original image with the actual pixel values block-by-block until the entire image line as derived by the width has been decoded for one component or all interleaved components. In another embodiment, an image matching tool is configured to retrieve a stored image in a relational database table and return data values associated with the image. The image matching tool matches image content of an input image against each retrieved image in the relational database table on a line-by-line basis from top to bottom within the same image number and component number. | 07-05-2012 |
20120189210 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes an image output apparatus and an image reading apparatus. The image output apparatus includes an input object information receiving unit that receives first input object information, a first information image generating unit that generates a first information image, a second information image generating unit that generates a second information image, a first combining unit that combines the first information image with a document, a second combining unit that combines the second information image with a document, and a first output unit that outputs the document. The image reading apparatus includes a first reading unit that reads an information image including first input object information, a second reading unit that reads an information image including second input object information, an extracting unit that extracts the first and second input object information, and a determining unit that determines whether these pieces of information correspond to each other. | 07-26-2012 |
20120257834 | COMPUTER VISION-BASED METHODS FOR ENHANCED JBIG2 AND GENERIC BITONAL COMPRESSION - A system and method of symbol matching may include a processor configured to determine which pixels of a first symbol are tangent pixels; for each of the determined tangent pixels, determine whether a second symbol includes a pixel corresponding to the tangent pixel that includes at least one same tangent constraint as that of the tangent pixel; accept the first and second symbols as a match based on shared tangent constraints conditional upon a determination that the second symbol includes for each of at least a subset of the tangent pixels of the first symbol a corresponding pixel that includes the at least one same tangent constraint as that of the tangent pixel; and generate a document including a single symbol that is mapped to the first and second symbols. | 10-11-2012 |
20120328202 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENROLLING A USER IN A TELEPRESENCE SYSTEM USING A FACE-RECOGNITION-BASED IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM - In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining a first image of a party that is stored in a first structure in response to an instruction to enroll the user in a system, and using information associated with the first image to identify a second image stored in a second structure. The second image has a relatively high likelihood of depicting the party. Finally, the method includes enrolling the party in the system, wherein enrolling the party in the system includes associating the second image with the party. | 12-27-2012 |
20130004085 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image processing apparatus may include: a first registration device for performing, by taking a first input image of two overlapped input images having an overlapped as a reference image, a first registration on a second input image, to find, in the second input image, a second pixel which is matched with each first pixel located in the overlapped area of the reference image; an output pixel location determination device for calculating, a location of an output pixel which is located in the overlapped area of the output image and corresponds to the first pixel, wherein the locations of the first and second pixels are respectively weighted, and the shorter the distance from the first pixel to a non-overlapped area of the reference image is, the greater a weight of the location of the first pixel is; and an output pixel value determination device for calculating a pixel value. | 01-03-2013 |
20130051684 | SMART CREATION OF PHOTOBOOKS - A method for proactively creating a photobook includes identifying a group of images by a computer system and automatically creating a design for a photobook by the computer system without receiving a user's request for designing a photobook if the number of images in the group is determined to be within a predetermined range. Pages of the photobook incorporate a plurality of images in the group. The method further includes presenting the design of the photobook to a user for preview and receiving an order from the user for a physical manifestation of the photobook based on the design. | 02-28-2013 |
20130129228 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE OF IMAGES WITH RECOGNITION ANALYSIS - An index is provided that holds information about each image content item in a collection of items, For each image content item, a first information item identifying the image content item and its location on a network, and at least one of (i) a second information item identifying a signature value of an object in the image content, or (ii) identification of a recognized object in the image content. | 05-23-2013 |
20130170757 | METHOD FOR CREATING TEMPLATE FOR PATTERNMATCHING, AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - Disclosed is a method for creating a template for the purpose of performing pattern matching on the basis of a template image having high contrast. Also disclosed is an image processing apparatus. In the method for creating the template, design data is partially extracted, and on the basis of the extracted partial region, the template for template matching is created. In the image processing apparatus, such method is performed. In the method and the apparatus, a density of edges that belong to a predetermined region in the design data equivalent to the region to be searched for in the template matching is obtained. | 07-04-2013 |
20130188878 | IMAGE ANALYSIS SYSTEMS HAVING IMAGE SHARPENING CAPABILITIES AND METHODS USING SAME - Described herein are image analysis systems that utilize a non-linear data processing algorithm for overlaying and comparing time sequence images. The image analysis system and method also sharpens at least one of the time sequence images during the process to improve image registration accuracy. | 07-25-2013 |
20130243340 | MOBILE AUTHENTICATION BY IMAGE INPAINTING - In some examples, a method of authenticating is described. The method may include sending first repair parameters representing one or more first repair operations applied to a first marked image to generate a first repaired image to a first entity. The method may also include receiving, from the first entity, a second repaired image. The method may also include authenticating the first entity when the second repaired image received from the first entity matches the first repaired image. | 09-19-2013 |
20130315491 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MATCHING AND IMAGING TISSUE CHARACTERISTICS - Systems and methods for matching a characteristic of multiple sectors of a moving tissue to verify an overlap thereof are disclosed herein. In an exemplary method, tissue data for at least a first sector and a second sector of a moving tissue is acquired. A characteristic of at least a portion of the first and second sectors is estimated from the acquired tissue data, and the estimated characteristics are matched to verify whether a portion of the first sector overlaps with a portion of the second sector. Estimating can include estimating a displacement such as an axial displacement and/or lateral displacements. Estimating can further include estimating a strain, a velocity, a strain rate and/or a stiffness or equivalent. | 11-28-2013 |
20130322772 | EDGE BASED LOCATION FEATURE INDEX MATCHING - A system for image processing that matches a model image with an input image. The matching process includes using a feature location index for the model image. | 12-05-2013 |
20140003726 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING CHARACTERS | 01-02-2014 |
20140064626 | ADAPTIVE IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD BASED IN IMAGE PYRAMID - An adaptive image processing apparatus includes a first matching unit selecting representative candidate images from among a plurality of images included in an image pyramid and calculating a first matching score between each of the representative candidate images and a target model; a second matching unit selecting one scale level from among scale levels of the representative candidate images based on the first matching score and calculating a second matching score between each of images having scale levels included in a dense scale level range with respect to the selected scale level and the target model; a representative scale level selecting unit selecting at least one of the scale levels included in the dense scale level range as a representative scale level based on the second matching scores; and an image processing unit performing image processing based on an image having the selected representative scale level. | 03-06-2014 |
20140079322 | IMAGE SYNTHESIZING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus comprises an image acquiring unit that acquires images from the image managing server; an image analyzing unit that analyzes the acquired images to determine evaluation values thereof; a grouping unit that groups the acquired images into groups based on collateral information of the acquired images; a group selecting unit that selects groups including images having operation information as the collateral information out of the plurality of groups; an image selecting unit that selects images out of the images included in the selected groups, based on the evaluation values and the operation information; and an image arranging unit that arranges the selected images in a predetermined layout to create the synthetic image. | 03-20-2014 |
20140099034 | INTELLIGENT VIDEO THUMBNAIL SELECTION AND GENERATION - In accordance with one embodiment, an intelligent video thumbnail selection and generation tool may select a relevant and visually stimulating image from a video file and generate a thumbnail including the image. The image may be selected by computing a relevancy metric for an image in the file based on one or more selected relevant features, and comparing that relevancy metric with the metric of at least one other image in the file. In another embodiment, a series of images in a video file may be divided into shots. One of the shots may be selected based on a shot relevancy metric and a key image from the shot may be selected as a thumbnail based on a key image relevancy metric, where the shot relevancy metric and the key image relevancy metrics may be computed based on one or more relevant content features. | 04-10-2014 |
20140205195 | LANDMARK TRIGGERED IMAGE AUGMENTATION - System, method, and computer program product to provide an augmented image, by receiving an image, analyzing the image to identify at least two augmentation triggers comprising: (i) a predefined object in the image, and (ii) a predefined landmark in the image, and generating an augmented image based on the analysis of the image, comprising affecting the predefined object with a retrieved augmentation image and adding a fictional character to the augmented image. | 07-24-2014 |
20140254942 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OBTAINING INFORMATION BASED ON AN IMAGE - An information-providing system is disclosed. The information-providing system can include an image-receiving module that receives an image from a device, an item-selection module that identifies an item based on the received image, an information-retrieving module that retrieves information relating to the item, and a data transmitting module that transmits the retrieved information to the device, wherein the item is identified by matching one or more features of the received image with features identified from a training image associated with the item. | 09-11-2014 |
20140270542 | Automated video campaign building - A method to automatically classify video content retrieved over the Internet and, in particular, to determine whether a candidate video is an instance of a source video. The method begins by sampling static image frames from each of the candidate video and the source video. Based on the sampled static image frames, a set of static image frames in the candidate video that match a corresponding set of static image frames in the source video are then identified. Metadata associated with the sets of matching static image frames are then compared to determine how closely a temporal order of the set of static image frames in the candidate video matches the temporal order of the set of static image frames in the source video. Based on a measure of temporal order match, a classification is then applied to the candidate video to complete the method. | 09-18-2014 |
20140270543 | VIDEO GENERATION WITH TEMPORALLY-OFFSET SAMPLING - Various embodiments are directed to generating video data using temporally offset image data samples having disparate exposure times. Synthetic samples are generated for each of the pixels at a particular time period by computing, for each synthetic sample, a combined intensity of the captured samples that fall within the time period. Synthetic samples from adjacent pixels are grouped and image data in different groups is compared to identify matching groups. Video frames are constructed by combining image data from the captured samples based upon the matched images. | 09-18-2014 |
20140314327 | Systems and Methods for Computer Recognition of Plush Toys - Systems and methods for identifying that a non-digital object, specifically a plush toy, has been brought into the presence of a digital device, which can provide content in reaction to the presence of that plush toy. | 10-23-2014 |
20140355889 | Tree-Model-Based Stereo Matching - Aspects of the present invention include feature point matching systems and methods. In embodiments, a tree model is used to find candidate matching features for query feature points. In embodiments, the tree model may be pre-learned using a set of sample images, or alternatively, the tree model may be constructed using one or more of the input images. In embodiments, features in one of the stereo images are registered with the tree model, and then features from the other stereo image are queried through the tree model to identify their correspondences in the registered stereo image. As compared to prior brute force matching methodologies, embodiments disclosed herein reduce the complexity and calculation time for determining matching feature points in stereo images. | 12-04-2014 |
20150010241 | INDOOR POSITIONING USING CAMERA AND OPTICAL SIGNAL - A method for detecting a collector device in an indoor area associated with imaging devices covering the area includes a plurality of collector devices emitting markers to the imaging devices coupled to a server. The imaging devices capture the images of the collector devices including the markers. The images are processed in order to determine the current positions of the collector devices corresponding to the markers. The server and the collector device communicate with each other and match a current position corresponding to the collector device among the plurality of collector devices. | 01-08-2015 |
20150030254 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION STORAGE DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device includes an image sequence acquisition section that acquires an image sequence that includes a plurality of images, and a processing section that performs an image summarization process that deletes some of the plurality of images included in the image sequence acquired by the image sequence acquisition section to acquire a summary image sequence, the processing section selecting a reference image and a determination target image from the plurality of images, and determining whether or not the determination target image can be deleted based on the results of a process that utilizes deformation information about the reference image and the determination target image, and a process that utilizes a structural element that corresponds to an attention area. | 01-29-2015 |
20150071555 | Managing Access by Applications to Perceptual Information - Functionality is described herein by which plural environment-sensing applications capture information from an environment in a fine-grained and least-privileged manner. By doing so, the functionality reduces the risk that private information that appears within the environment will be released to unauthorized parties. Among other aspects, the functionality provides an error correction mechanism for reducing the incidence of false positives in the detection of objects, an offloading technique for delegating computationally intensive recognition tasks to a remote computing framework, and a visualization module by which a user may inspect the access rights to be granted (or already granted) to each application. | 03-12-2015 |
20150078670 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING QUALITY ESTIMATORS - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, sampling a variable effect distribution of viewing preference data to determine a first set of effects comprising a plurality of first distortion type effects associated with a first distortion type of a first image and to determine a second set of effects comprising a plurality of second distortion type effects associated with the second distortion type of a second image, calculating a preference estimate from a logistic regression model of the viewing preference data according to the first set of effects and the second set of effects, wherein the preference estimate comprises a probability that the first image is preferred over the second image, and selecting one of the first distortion type or the second distortion type according to the preference estimate. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 03-19-2015 |
20150347836 | MACHINE PRINT, HAND PRINT, AND SIGNATURE DISCRIMINATION - Systems, computer program products, and techniques for discriminating hand and machine print from each other, and from signatures, are disclosed and include determining a color depth of an image, the color depth corresponding to at least one of grayscale, bi-tonal and color; reducing color depth of non-bi-tonal images to generate a bi-tonal representation of the image; identifying a set of one or more graphical line candidates in either the bi-tonal image or the bi-tonal representation, the graphical line candidates including one or more of true graphical lines and false positives; discriminating any of the true graphical lines from any of the false positives; removing the true graphical lines from the bi-tonal image or the bi-tonal representation without removing the false positives to generate a component map comprising connected components and excluding graphical lines; and identifying one or more of the connected components in the component map. | 12-03-2015 |
20150356372 | CHARACTER RECOGNITION METHOD - The present invention relates to a character recognition method. Same comprises: step | 12-10-2015 |
20160004914 | INTELLIGENT VIDEO ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present disclosure relates to an intelligent video analysis system and method and, more specifically, an intelligent video analysis system and method which provides an event by analyzing data acquired from a camera and a smart device. The an intelligent video analysis system and method system selects information by temporally and spatially matching information received from a camera and a smart device, determines based on the selected information whether a security event-relevant condition is satisfied, generates Customer Relationship Management (CRM) information, and outputs the CRM information and a security event, which is generated from the selected information. | 01-07-2016 |
20160012304 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR IMAGE MATCHING AND OBJECT RECOGNITION IN IMAGES USING MINIMAL FEATURE POINTS | 01-14-2016 |
20160012312 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | 01-14-2016 |
20160012593 | SPEED-UP TEMPLATE MATCHING USING PERIPHERAL INFORMATION | 01-14-2016 |
20160034756 | Coarse Document Classification - Systems and methods coarsely classify unknown documents in a group or not with reference document(s). Documents get scanned into digital images. Counts of contours are taken. The closer the counts of the contours of the unknown document reside to the reference document(s), the more likely the documents are all of a same type. Embodiments typify contour analysis, classification acceptance or not, application of algorithms, and imaging devices with scanners, to name a few. | 02-04-2016 |
20160063746 | IMAGE COMBINING APPARATUS, IMAGE COMBINING METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR STORING IMAGE COMBINING PROGRAM - A template image is found and a target image is combined with a combining area of the found template image. The template image found has first template image analysis information, which is of a type identical with that of first target image analysis information in target image analysis information consisting of the brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, color balance and spatial frequency of the target image, and for which the degree of resemblance is equal to or greater than a first threshold value, and moreover has second template image analysis information, which is of a type identical with that of second target image analysis information in target image analysis information, and for which the degree of resemblance is less than a second threshold value. | 03-03-2016 |
20160070985 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM THEREON - An image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and an image processing program are provided, in which a template can be set appropriately when a region unsuitable for a template is included in a range subjected to template matching. The image processing apparatus includes an input unit for acquiring an input image to be used for generating a template, an accepting unit for accepting designation of an unsuitable region that is a region inappropriate for a template in the input image, and a generating unit for setting a plurality of regions serving as candidates for a template in the input image and determining a candidate with fewer unsuitable regions in the region of the candidate, as a template, from among the candidates for a template. | 03-10-2016 |
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20160078314 | Image Retrieval Apparatus, Image Retrieval Method, and Recording Medium - An image retrieval apparatus comprises: a memory unit that stores image feature values; an acquisition unit that acquires a first image feature value for a retrieval target image; a retrieval unit that retrieves an image feature value that is similar to the first image feature value from the image feature values, based on the first image feature value; a determining unit that determines a linear conversion parameter to be used for linear conversion out of a group of linear conversion parameters based on image feature values for images of the same photographic subject obtained under conditions, based on the first image feature value and image feature values for said photographic subject; a conversion unit that converts the first image feature value by the linear conversion parameter, and converts the image feature value using said linear conversion parameter; and an output unit that outputs the conversion results. | 03-17-2016 |
20160098623 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING CHARACTERS - A method and an apparatus for recognizing characters using an image are provided. A camera is activated according to a character recognition request and a preview mode is set for displaying an image photographed through the camera in real time. An auto focus of the camera is controlled and an image having a predetermined level of clarity is obtained for character recognition from the images obtained in the preview mode. The image for character recognition is character-recognition-processed so as to extract recognition result data. A final recognition character row is drawn that excludes non-character data from the recognition result data. A first word is combined including at least one character of the final recognition character row and a predetermined maximum number of characters. A dictionary database that stores dictionary information on various languages using the first word is searched, so as to provide the user with the corresponding word. | 04-07-2016 |
20160125265 | CONTEXT-BASED IMAGE RECOGNITION FOR CONSUMER MARKET RESEARCH - Example methods, apparatus, systems to perform context-based image recognition for consumer market research are disclosed. Disclosed example methods include comparing a first subset of feature points in a first region of interest of a reference image with a first subset of feature points of a first image residing within a first region corresponding spatially to the first region of interest and located at a first location in the first image to determine a first match value. Disclosed example methods also include, in response to determining the first match value satisfies a first threshold, comparing a second subset of feature points in a second region of interest of the reference image with a second subset of the feature points of the first image residing within a second region of the first image corresponding spatially to the second region of interest to determine a second match value. | 05-05-2016 |
20160132531 | ELECTRONIC CALCULATING APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AN INTERACTION INDEX MAP OF AN IMAGE, METHOD THEREOF AND NON-TRANSITORY MACHINE-READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - An electronic calculating apparatus for generating an interaction index map of an image, a method thereof and a non-transitory machine-readable medium thereof are provided. The electronic calculating apparatus includes a database and a processor electrically coupled to the database. The database stores a plurality of reference images. The processor sets at least one feature of the image, selects at least one candidate reference image from the plurality of reference images according to the at least one feature by a matching calculating procedure, transforms the at least one candidate reference image into at least one transformed candidate reference image, and generates a specific interaction index map of the image according to at least one interaction index map of the at least one transformed candidate reference image so that a displaying device executes the corresponding operation according to a user instruction by the specific interaction index map and side-information. | 05-12-2016 |
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20220138923 | Change Detection System - A change detection system including an image analysis unit that analyzes an image gathered from an image gathering unit, a change detection unit that detects changes in a plurality of images taken over a predetermined time, where the change detection unit modifies the image to indicate areas where a change has occurred. | 05-05-2022 |