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| 20080205770 | Generating a Multi-Use Vocabulary based on Image Data - Functionality is described for generating a vocabulary from a source dataset of image items or other non-textual items. The vocabulary serves as a tool for retrieving items from a target dataset in response to queries. The vocabulary has at least one characteristic that allows it to be used to retrieve items from multiple different target datasets. A target dataset can have a different size than the source dataset and/or a different type than the source dataset. The enabling characteristic may correspond to a size of the source dataset above a prescribed minimum number of items and/or a size of the vocabulary above a prescribed minimum number of words. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080292194 | Method and System for Automatic Detection and Segmentation of Tumors and Associated Edema (Swelling) in Magnetic Resonance (Mri) Images - A method and system for segmenting an object represented in one or more input images, each of the one or more input images comprising a plurality of pixels. The method comprising: aligning the one or more input images with one or more corresponding template images each comprising a plurality of pixels; extracting features of each of the one or more input images and one or more template images; and classifying each pixel, or a group of pixels, in the one or more input images based on the measured features of the one or more input images and the one or more corresponding template images in accordance with a classification model mapping image properties or features to a respective class so as to segment the object represented in the one or more input images according to the classification of each pixel or group of pixels. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20090010550 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MATCHING IMAGES - A method for matching images is disclosed. The method includes selecting a template image and a target image from a batch of images and sampling the template image so as to obtain a template-sampled image, and sampling the target image so as to obtain a target-sampled image, wherein the sampling of both the template image and the target image is according to a sample interval. The method further includes matching the template-sampled image and the target-sampled image, and matching the template image and the target image, if the template-sampled image and the target-sampled image are matched successfully. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090016615 | Invisible Junction Feature Recognition For Document Security or Annotation - The present invention uses invisible junctions which are a set of local features unique to every page of the electronic document to match the captured image to a part of an electronic document. The present invention includes: an image capture device, a feature extraction and recognition system and database. When an electronic document is printed, the feature extraction and recognition system captures an image of the document page. The features in the captured image are then extracted, indexed and stored in the database. Given a query image, the features in the query image are extracted and compared against those stored in the database to identify the query image. The feature extraction and recognition system of the present invention is integrated into a multifunction peripheral. This allows the feature extraction and recognition system to be used in conjunction with other modules to provide security and annotation applications. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090116752 | ALBUM CREATING APPARATUS, ALBUM CREATING METHOD AND ALBUM CREATING PROGRAM - An album creating apparatus for crating an album by automatically selecting an appropriate image to be laid out in an image layout frame arranged in a template and laying out the selected image in the image layout frame is provided. The album creating apparatus according to the present invention includes: a classification method storage section for classifying images into groups in association with the kind of album; an image input section; a kind of album determining section for determining the kind of album to be created; an in image classification section for classifying the images into the groups based on the classification method stored in the classification method storage section in association with the kind of album; a template storage section for storing a template in which the image layout frame with which the classified group is associated is arranged; and an album creating section for laying out in an image layout frame the image classified into the group associated with the image layout frame to create the album. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090324100 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FINDING A DOCUMENT IMAGE IN A DOCUMENT COLLECTION USING LOCALIZED TWO-DIMENSIONAL VISUAL FINGERPRINTS - An image management method and system provides for storing, indexing, searching, and/or retrieving image data. Keypoints are identified in images, including keypoints in a query image of a query document, and keypoints in potential target document images of a collection of potential target documents. Fingerprint information from the keypoints are generated, and the fingerprint information of a query image is compared with fingerprint information of potential target document images, found in the collection of potential target documents. A best match is determined between the fingerprint information of the query image and the potential target document images. At least one target document image is retrieved based on the determined best match. The retrieved at least one target image may then be displayed, printed or transmitted. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100034468 | Object Information Derived from Object Images - Search terms are derived automatically from images captured by a camera equipped cell phone, PDA, or other image capturing device, submitted to a search engine to obtain information of interest, and at least a portion of the resulting information is transmitted back locally to, or nearby, the device that captured the image. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100067806 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLEOGRAPHIC RECOGNITION, MATCHING, AND IDENTIFICATION OF IMAGES AND OBJECTS - The inventive data processing system and method enable recognition, matching, and/or identification of images and/or of objects, utilizing at least one novel pleographic data processing technique. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100080471 | System and method for paper independent copy detection pattern - Systems and methods for detecting copies of documents are described. In one example, a system and method for detecting copies of documents utilizes multiple authentication tests performed using original and scanned copy detection patterns. The system captures a CDP that may be skewed or improperly sized. The system also retrieves or reconstitutes the expected CDP. Then the system performs a first correlation to determine if the captured CDP indicates the correct document identification and then if necessary, one or more authentication tests are applied wherein the authentication test may be grouped into distinct orthogonal test groups. The authentication tests applied may be selected according to usefulness, system throughput or target document valuation parameters. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100172590 | Combined Image and Text Document - A combined image and text document is described. In embodiment(s), a scanned image of a document can be generated utilizing a scanning application, and text representations of text that is included in the document can be generated utilizing a character recognition application. Position data of the text representations can be correlated with locations of corresponding text in the scanned image of the document. The scanned image can then be rendered for display overlaid with the text representations as a transparent overlay, where the scanned image and the text representations are independently user-selectable for display. A user-selectable input can be received to display the text representations without the scanned image, the scanned image without the text representations, or to display the text representations adjacent the scanned image. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100189367 | BLURRING BASED CONTENT RECOGNIZER - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for identifying regions of interest in an image and identifying a barcode in a degraded image are provided. A region of interest is identified by pre-processing an image, generating a binary image based on a metric calculated on the pre-processed image, and analyzing regions of the image identified using connected components and other analysis. A barcode is identified by searching a population of barcodes, degrading ideal image intensity profiles of candidate barcodes, and comparing the degraded ideal image intensity profiles to an image intensity profile of the degraded image. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100202704 | SYSTEM FOR ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION VIA INTERACTIVE SURFACE - A system for anonymous communication between a user and a software application is provided, via interaction of an optical imaging device with an interactive surface to generate interaction data. The device has a unique identity which is associated with the user's identity. The interaction data includes data on the application and device identities. The system has a computer system which receives the interaction data generated by the optical imaging device, identifies the application and the device from the identity data included in the received interaction data, translates the identified application and device identities into an alias identity, sends the alias identity and interaction data to the identified application, receives information from the identified application addressed to the alias identity, and forwards the information from the application to the user via the alias identity. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100232715 | AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM AND PORTABLE MEDIUM FOR AUTHENTICATION - An authentication system includes: a measuring portion that radiates terahertz waves to a portable medium for authentication including materials having a characteristic oscillation frequency in a terahertz frequency band, measures a spectrum, and outputs a measurement spectrum that is a measurement result; a characteristic spectrum database which stores a characteristic spectrum of the materials; a discriminating portion that discriminates the materials that are included in the portable medium for authentication based on the measurement spectrum and the characteristic spectrum, and outputs a discrimination result. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100254613 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DUPLICATE TEXT RECOGNITION - A system for duplicate text recognition includes a first means for dividing an electronic text into a plurality of phrase segments; a second means for converting each of the phrase segments into a unique and fixed-length bit string; a third means for storing a plurality of groups of the bit strings, each group of bit strings (string group) including a plurality of bit strings respectively corresponding to the phrase segments in a particular electronic text; and a fourth means for determining whether a predefined similarity between any two string groups in the third means reaches a first threshold, and for determining the two electronic texts corresponding to the two string groups are duplicate texts if the predefined similarity between the two string groups reaches the first threshold. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100329574 | MIXED MEDIA REALITY INDEXING AND RETRIEVAL FOR REPEATED CONTENT - A system and method for indexing and retrieval of document images in an MMR system having repeated content is described. The system provides one or more hierarchical shared content indices that produce faster and/or more accurate search results. The system is also advantageous because the number and configuration of the hierarchical shared content indices is automated, scalable and efficient for processing documents with partially repeated content. In particular, the MMR matching unit includes a hierarchical shared content index (HSCI) and associated methods of use for processing images where the MMR system includes repeated content. The present invention also includes a number of novel methods including a method for adding an image to a hierarchical shared content index; a method for deleting an image from the hierarchical shared content index, and a method for using the hierarchical shared content index for image recognition, as well as a method for combining multiple MMR indexes into a hierarchical MMR index. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110026839 | ARTISTIC DIGITAL TEMPLATE FOR IMAGE DISPLAY - A system storing digital templates for an image display. The template has a plurality of digital openings for displaying digital images and each opening has at least one corresponding required attribute that is digitally stored in association with its corresponding opening. At least one designated image for display in at least one of the openings is identified and stored. The designated image has image attributes that are used to select complementary images from a database to be stored in other openings of the template. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110116719 | Media Identification System for Efficient Matching of Media Items Having Common Content - To identify a media item from a database of media items that have common content, a region of interest is defined to include a plurality of frames of a test fingerprint that correspond to different segments of a media item. A media identification system queries a database of reference fingerprints to identify candidate reference fingerprints that contain a frame that matches a frame of the test fingerprint. When a candidate reference fingerprint is found, additional matching frames are determined and the region of interest is reduced to eliminate the matched frames of the test fingerprint. This continues until the region of interest is empty or there are no further matching candidates. Once the set of candidate reference fingerprints are identified, the media identification system compares the test fingerprint to the candidates to determine a closest match, thereby identifying the media item associated with the test fingerprint. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110249903 | SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING NON-RECTANGULAR IMAGES IN ELECTRONIC CONTENT ON A READER DEVICE - A system for and method of displaying non-rectangular images in electronic content on an electronic device in accordance with exemplary embodiments may include identifying, using a template identification computing apparatus, an image shape template associated with a non-rectangular image that is part of electronic content to be displayed on the electronic device, determining, using a boundary region determination computing apparatus, a boundary region of the image shape template, placing, using an image placement computing apparatus, the non-rectangular image inside the boundary region of the image shape template and on the electronic content, flowing, using a text flow computing apparatus, text that is part of the electronic content outside and along the boundary region of the image shape template, and transmitting, using a communication computing apparatus, the electronic content along with the non-rectangular image to the electronic device via a network. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110274360 | SIMILAR PICTURE SEARCH APPARATUS - It is an object of this invention to detect a similar picture at high speed with high accuracy from a large-scale picture archive. Previously, a frame is extracted from each picture in a picture archive at fixed time intervals, an image feature quantity is extracted from each extracted frame, and the extracted image feature quantities are clustered, thereby constructing a clustered feature quantity database. A frames search section performs a similar frame search not only for a leading frame of a query picture but also for a subsequent frame, by using the database. A search result integration section checks whether there is a sequence across a plurality of search results and outputs, as a picture similar to the query picture, a segment which is confirmed to be continuous for a certain length or more. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20120002883 | PHOTOGRAPHY APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A photography apparatus includes: an imaging unit configured to image a subject and acquire photographed image data; a display unit configured to perform an image display; and a control unit; wherein the control unit executes reading processing for reading out, from a storage medium which stores template information arranged to fit and display photographed image data imaged by the imaging unit into a target region within display screen data according to a predetermined display format, the template information, wherein instruction information for instructing what sort of image should be photographed as the photographed image data to be fit and displayed in the target region is correlated therewith, and instruction information display control processing for controlling the display unit so as to display the instruction information in a correlated manner with the target region, in accordance with the template information. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120134598 | Depth Sensor, Method Of Reducing Noise In The Same, And Signal Processing System Including The Same - The method includes calculating similarities between a plurality of pixel signals of a depth pixel and a plurality of pixel signals of neighbor depth pixels neighboring the depth pixel, calculating a weight of each of the neighbor depth pixels using the similarities, calculating a weight of the depth pixel using the weights of the respective neighbor depth pixels, and determining a denoised pixel signal using the weights of the respective neighbor depth pixels and the weight of the depth pixel. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20130044959 | Computer-Vision Content Detection for Sponsored Stories - Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to sponsored story generation from an photo upload in an organic activity stream in a social networking site. A social networking system may apply computer image algorithms to detect image objects in user-uploaded images and videos, and promote them as sponsored stories. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130071035 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROGRESSIVE PATTERN MATCHING IN A MOBILE ENVIRONMENT - Methods and apparatus for performing efficient pattern matching in a client-server network are described herein. A communication device acquires an object to be matched. At least one reduced set of features is extracted from the object to be matched and a determination as to whether the object to be matched matches one of a plurality of known objects in a local library stored on the communication device is generated. An indication representing a match of the object is presented if the determination indicates a local match exists in the local library. A match request including the at least one reduced set of features is transmitted for a remote matching determination when the determination indicates that no local match exists in the local library. In accordance with some aspects, a series of one or more match requests may be transmitted for a remote matching determination. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130129229 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING WITH DISCRETE TEXTURE TRACES - An active set of discrete texture traces to a target point is determined in a first video frame and is applied to a second video frame to detect the target location in a second video frame. An estimate is made of the target location in the second video frame. A score map is computed of an area of locations. A location with a highest score in the score map is the new target location. If a threshold value is not met the active set of texture traces is stored. A score map for each of stored active sets is computed to determine the target location. If no score meets the threshold the target location in a previous video frame is made the current target location and a new active set of discrete texture traces is determined. Systems that implement the steps of the methods are also provided. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130195368 | SCALABLE PATTERN MATCHING BETWEEN A PATTERN CLIP AND A PATTERN LIBRARY - A two-level matching technique is described. A system can generate a set of index patterns based on a set of library patterns in a pattern library. The pattern library can include patterns that are expected to have problems during manufacturing. Next, the system can use a fast matching process to check if a first-level pattern clip potentially matches one or more index patterns from the set of index patterns. If so, the system can use a detailed matching process to match a second-level pattern clip with library patterns that correspond to the one or more index patterns. Otherwise, the system can report that the first-level pattern clip does not match any library pattern in the pattern library. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130322773 | METHODS OF OBJECT SEARCH AND RECOGNITION - Embodiments of the invention disclose techniques for processing of machine-readable forms of unfixed or flexible format. An auxiliary brief description may be optionally specified to determine the spatial orientation of the image. A method of searching for elements of a document comprises the following main operations in addition to the operations of preliminary image processing: selecting the varieties of structural description from several available variants, determining the orientation of the image, selecting the text objects, where the text must be recognized, and determining the minimal required volume of recognition, recognizing the text objects, searching for elements of the form. Searching for elements of the form comprises the following actions: selecting a searched element in the structural description, gaining the algorithm of search constraints from the structural description, searching for the element, testing the obtained variants. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20140112585 | CONTENT PROCESSING DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Attribute information is extracted from content stored by users. A product expression model indicating a product display method is corrected using reference information pertaining to content characteristics suitable for the product expression model and using attribute information. Processing information is then determined for making the content suit the corrected product expression model. The content is processed according to the determined processing information and a product is generated using the corrected product expression model. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140205196 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PHOTO FRAME WITH DYNAMIC AUTOMATIC TEMPLATE BUILDING SYSTEM AND LOCATION SENSITIVE PHOTO COMMERCE - A method is provided for photo frames with dynamic automatic template building system and location sensitive photo commerce. The method comprises: determining, by a geographic location sensing device, a first geographic location of the mobile device; obtaining, by a communication device, information from an external source regarding templates for photo frames associated with second geographic locations of known proximity to the first geographic location; downloading, by the communication device, a template for one of the photo frames for which information was received, the photo frame including a graphic content; combining, by the processor, the graphic content from the photo frame with additional graphic content from one of a digital photo stored previously stored in a memory or a digital photo taken by a digital camera; creating a new digital photo from the combined graphic content; and storing the new digital photo in the memory. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140270545 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DOCUMENT ALIGNMENT, CORRECTION, AND CLASSIFICATION - A template document and a reference document that contains objects (e.g. text objects) are received, for example, from a scanner. A plurality of common objects between the template document and the reference document are identified. Locations of the plurality of common objects in the template document and the reference document are identified. One or more distances between the locations of the plurality of common objects in the template document and the reference document are also identified. A determination is made whether the one or more distances between the plurality of common objects in the template document and the reference document are substantially the same. In response to determining that the one or more distances between the plurality of common objects in the template document and the reference document are substantially the same, the template document and the reference document are grouped as common documents. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140321759 | OBJECT DETECTION APPARATUS - An object detection apparatus includes a storage section storing a plurality of selection patterns as combinations of one of a plurality of recognition dictionaries and one of a plurality of image recognition algorithms, a specifying means for specifying at least one of a distance from a position at which an input image is taken and a target corresponding to the detection object within the input image and a state of light of the input image, a selection means for selecting one from the plurality of the selection patterns based on at least one of the distance and the state of the light specified by the specifying means, and a detection means for detecting the detection object within the input image by performing an image recognition process using the image recognition dictionary and the image recognition algorithm included in the selection pattern selected by the selection means. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140328545 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CORRECTING A DIGITAL IMAGE BY GEOMETRIC ADJUSTMENT OF THIS IMAGE ONTO A REFERENCE IMAGE - The present invention concerns a method for correcting a digital image stored by a client device by geometric adjustment of this image onto a reference image stored by a server device connected to the client device by a communication network. The method is characterised in that it includes the following steps:
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| 20140348433 | IMAGE RECOGNITION METHOD AND DEVICE - The invention relates to the field of image processing technology, in particular to an image recognition method and device, for the purpose of solving such a problem in the prior art that lower recognition accuracy is resulted from loss of key information (except a contour drawing) in the image due to adoption of an image recognition mode for image representation based on a contour drawing. The embodiment of the invention provides an image recognition method, including: to determine the triangle matching degree on the basis of a characteristic triangle determinated from the target image and a characteristic triangle determinated from the source image; and to determine image matching degree between the target image and the source image on the basis of the triangle matching degree determinated. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140355890 | CANDIDATE IDENTIFICATION BY IMAGE FINGERPRINTING AND MODEL MATCHING - Candidate identification utilizing fingerprint identification is disclosed. The method includes receiving a candidate image comprising a plurality of constituent elements arranged in a content pattern, compensating for rotation variation in the content pattern of the received candidate, analyzing each of the plurality of constituent elements comprising the content pattern of the received candidate image to define a bounded area about each of the plurality of constituent elements, building a candidate fingerprint representative of the content pattern wherein the candidate fingerprint is based on the defined bounded area, comparing the candidate fingerprint to a plurality of fingerprints wherein each of the plurality of fingerprints represents one of a plurality of exemplars, identifying one of the plurality of fingerprints that corresponds to the candidate fingerprint, and evaluating the candidate and one or more identified exemplars to determine the best match there between, wherein the identified exemplar corresponds to the one of the plurality of fingerprints. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20150023604 | CARD ART DISPLAY - Providing improved card art for display comprises receiving, by one or more computing devices, an image of a card and performing an image recognition algorithm on the image. The computing device identifies images represented on the card image and comparing the identified images to an image database. The computing device determines a standard card art image associated with the identified image based at least in part on the comparison and associates the standard card art image with an account of a user, the account being associated with the card in the image. The computing device displays the standard card art as a representation of the account. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150055879 | Method, Server and System for Setting Background Image - The present disclosure provides an example method, server, or system of setting a background image. The server includes a receiving module, an inquiring module, and a sending module. The receiving module receives image characteristic information sent by a client device. The inquiring module searches a background image that matches the image characteristic information from a preset background image database. The sending module sends the background image that matches the image characteristic information to the client device so that the client device may use the background image as a desktop background. The present techniques intelligently set the desktop background or subject of the client device according to current information of the client device, thereby enabling automatic configuration of individualized desktop background at the client device. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150078671 | AUTOMATED DOCUMENT RECOGNITION, IDENTIFICATION, AND DATA EXTRACTION - A method for automated document recognition, identification, and data extraction is described herein. The method comprises receiving, by the processor, an image of a document associated with a user. The image is analyzed using optical character recognition to obtain image data, wherein the image data includes text zones. Based on the image data, the image is compared to one or more document templates. Based on the comparison, a document template having the highest degree of coincidence with the image is determined. The text zones of the image are associated with text zones of the document template to determine a type of data in each text zone. The data is structured into a standard format to obtain structured data. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150086122 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND MEDIUM - There is provided an image processing system for performing image processing on input image. The image processing system includes an input data determination unit configured to determine a device that has input image data that is input, an image processing unit configured to selectively perform image processing on the input image data based on the determination result by the input data determination unit, an image classification unit configured to classify input image data, and a redirect URL determination unit configured to determine a URL at the time of the next access by a user in accordance with the result of classification by the image classification unit. The image data on which the selective image processing is performed is subjected to processing in accordance with instructions from a display screen of the URL destination and the result of the processing is saved. | 03-26-2015 |
