| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 382302000 | Multilayered image transformations | 17 |
| 20090052806 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR ANNOTATING ELECTRONIC MAP DATA - The invention relates to a method and a device for annotating electronic background maps adapted in particular to navigation aid systems for vehicles. Projection parameters and geodesic parameters are associated with the said background map. Display references are associated with the display of at least part of the said background map. After at least one annotation has been acquired, it is displayed on the said background map. The said at least one annotation is then transformed to at least one vectorial object characterized by at least one point having geometric coordinates defined in the display system of the said at least one annotation and of the said background map. The said geometric coordinates of the said at least one point of the said at least one vectorial object are then converted to geographic coordinates according to the said projection parameters and the said geodesic parameters associated with the said background map and according to the said display references. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090297064 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A REPRESENTATION SYMBOL AS AN IDENTIFICATION CHALLENGE - Provided is a system and method for generating a representation of a symbol. The method includes receiving a base image symbol. The base image symbol is distinguished into a plurality of initial image components. The initial image components are mapped to a first plane defined by two perpendicular axes, a third axis being normal to the plane. A noise function is selected. A plurality of views are generated, each by applying the selected noise function to each initial image component to provide an adjusted image component, each adjusted image component offset from initial image component. The adjusted image components are collectively orthogonally projected into a viewing plane angled relative to the first plane. The plurality of views are output such as to a database or a display. An associated system for performing the method is also provided. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100202713 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR PIXEL TRANSFORMATIONS - Methods, apparatuses, systems, and machine readable media for pixel transformations. One exemplary method includes: determining a state of a pixel format transformation, wherein a pixel format includes a predetermined number of pixel data components and a predetermined number of bits for each of the pixel data components and wherein the state includes a source pixel format and a destination pixel format and at least one intermediate pixel format; converting pixel data in the source pixel format to pixel data in the intermediate pixel format; and converting the pixel data in the intermediate pixel format to pixel data in the destination pixel format. In certain embodiments, a method includes building and compiling a function, at run-time, for the pixel format transformation based upon the state. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20140029868 | IMAGE LAYER STACK INTERFACE - In an example embodiment, a system and method is illustrated that includes receiving a layering instruction that includes an image, the image including a layer. Further, the system and method includes generating a sub layer through filtering the layer, the sub layer including a property of the layer. Additionally, the system and method includes editing the property to create an edit, the edit including a change to the property of the layer. Also the system and method includes storing the edit into the sub layer as an edit associated with the sub layer. A system and method is also shown to receive a layered image that includes an image layer stack, the image layer stack including an image with a layer and a sub layer, and an edit associated with the sub layer. The system and method also includes displaying the layered image in a display area. | 01-30-2014 |
| 382303000 | Pipeline processing | 5 |
| 20080219595 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AN IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND A COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM HAVING RECORDED THEREON A PROCESSING PROGRAM FOR PERMITTING A COMPUTER TO PERFORM IMAGE PROCESSING ROUTINES - In order to provide an image processing apparatus and an image processing method whereby a high quality output image can be consistently obtained, regardless of the order in which an operator sets the parameters for the performance of filtering, (I) a GUI module ( | 09-11-2008 |
| 20090060390 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus has a plurality of serially connected image processing blocks for sequentially processing image data input thereto. After a first command for controlling the plurality of image processing blocks and image data to be processed by the plurality of image processing blocks are output to the leading image processing block, a second command indicating end of this output is output to the leading image processing block. When the second command is output from a final image processing block, the next first command and image data are output to the leading image processing block. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20110317938 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus for processing image data by a plurality of pipeline-connected processing modules is provided. The apparatus includes a first pipeline processing unit configured to include a plurality of processing modules including a processing module which processes image data for every first size; and a second pipeline processing unit configured to be branched from the first pipeline processing unit and include a plurality of processing modules including a processing module which processes image data for every second size different from the first size. The second pipeline processing unit includes, at a start, a change unit configured to acquire partial image data of the first size from the first pipeline processing unit and change the partial image data of the first size into partial image data of the second size. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20150117795 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus for processing image data by a plurality of pipeline-connected processing modules is provided. The apparatus includes a first pipeline processing unit configured to include a plurality of processing modules including a processing module which processes image data for every first size; and a second pipeline processing unit configured to be branched from the first pipeline processing unit and include a plurality of processing modules including a processing module which processes image data for every second size different from the first size. The second pipeline processing unit includes, at a start, a change unit configured to acquire partial image data of the first size from the first pipeline processing unit and change the partial image data of the first size into partial image data of the second size. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20160086301 | ESTABLISH IMAGE PIPELINE - An image pipeline execution method includes analyzing at least one attribute of an image and determining an image type of the image from a set of predetermined image types based on the analyzing the at least one attribute of the image. The image pipeline execution method also includes dynamically establishing an image pipeline to process the image based on the image type and executing the image pipeline to print the image. | 03-24-2016 |
| 382304000 | Parallel processing | 8 |
| 20080247673 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - In a first image processing apparatus, a first image processing unit | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080292217 | Quantitative image reconstruction method and system - A technique is provided for generating quantitative projection images from projection images. The pixels of the quantitative projection images correspond to quantitative composition estimates of two or more materials. The quantitative projection images are reconstructed to generate a quantitative volume in which each voxel value corresponds quantitatively to the two or more materials or a mixture of the two or more materials. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20100086233 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus comprises: a division unit dividing input data; a processing unit performing predetermined processing for the divided data; a generation unit generating intermediate data by referencing the processed divided data, and combining the intermediate data; a temporary storage unit storing the processed divided data; and a detection unit selecting a group of divided data that includes the processed divided data, and determining whether or not all processed divided data in the selected group is stored, is provided. As a result of the determination, if it is determined that all the processed divided data is stored, the generation unit generates intermediate data and then deletes all the processed divided data in the selected group, and if it is determined that a part of the processed divided data is not stored, the processing unit preferentially generates the part of the processed divided data. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20110293200 | Quantitative image reconstruction method and system - A technique is provided for generating quantitative projection images from projection images. The pixels of the quantitative projection images correspond to quantitative composition estimates of two or more materials. The quantitative projection images are reconstructed to generate a quantitative volume in which each voxel value corresponds quantitatively to the two or more materials or a mixture of the two or more materials. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20140037228 | ZERO COMMUNICATION BLOCK PARTITIONING - A computer-implemented method for calculating a multi-dimensional wavelet transform in an image processing system comprising a plurality of computation units includes receiving multi-dimensional image data. An overlap value corresponding to a number of non-zero filter coefficients associated with the multi-dimensional wavelet transform is identified. Then the multi-dimensional image data is divided into a plurality of multi-dimensional arrays, wherein the multi-dimensional arrays overlap in each dimension by a number of pixels equal to the overlap value. A multi-dimensional wavelet transform is calculated for each multi-dimensional array, in parallel, across the plurality of computation units. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140064640 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Input amount calculation processing and output amount calculation processing corresponding to each processing module are defined. The input amount calculation processing and the output amount calculation processing are performed in a processing order (a reverse order to the processing order) to obtain a favorable peripheral pixel amount. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20160125606 | Ultra-Low Power, Ultra High Thruput (ULTRA2) ASIC-based Cognitive Processor - There has been a significant advance in the capabilities of electro-optical sensors to search wide areas and provide data streams that contain information critical to system operators. The problem being addressed by this invention is the accurate and timely interpretation of the observations made by these sensor suites and the instantiation of the processing on practical low power, high throughput processors which enable deployment on a wide variety of platforms. The interpretation of sensor observations will also depend upon a) the general situation, e.g. level of hostility, and b) collateral data, e.g. normal or abnormal operations of the platforms themselves. Can accurate and timely situation awareness be achieved? Yes, humans do it all the time. Can it be done on small, ultra-low power, ultra-high throughput processors? Yes 3D stacked analog ASIC circuits enable such processors. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160148400 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ARBITRARY-RESOLUTION TRANSFORMS OF FREQUENCY-SPACE AND INVERSE FREQUENCY-SPACE DATA - A method and system for arbitrary-resolution and parallelizable data processing, reconstruction, and deconstruction, uses arbitrary frequency-space (FS) or inverse frequency-space (IFS, such as image, audio, or video space) sample points in N dimensions. According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, a subset of optionally pre-processed and/or pre-conditioned N-dimensional FS data (or IFS data) is acquired ( | 05-26-2016 |
