44th week of 2008 patent applcation highlights part 38 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20080267441 | Automatic Illuminating System for a Contactlessly Measuring Automobile Service Device - Automatic illuminating and image recording system for an automobile service device, combined illuminating and image recording unit and method for automatic measured value-dependent setting of the image recording and exposure for an automobile service device having contactless measuring capability. Comprises at least one camera ( | 2008-10-30 |
20080267442 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING VIDEO LOCATION OF ATTENTION FOCUS PROBABILITY TRAJECTORIES DUE TO DISTRACTIONS - A method is provided to predict the location of attention focus probability trajectories due to distractions in a test video. A peripheral sensitivity probability map is created base upon a nominal measurement map, and an attention probability map, which are both based on a test video input. A focus of attention probability map with distraction is produced based upon the peripheral sensitivity map, the nominal measurement map, the attention probability map and a distractibility control input. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267443 | Method, System and Computer Program Product for Automatic and Semi-Automatic Modification of Digital Images of Faces - The present invention is directed at modifying digital images of faces automatically or semi-automatically. In one aspect, a method of detecting faces in digital images and matching and replacing features within the digital images is provided. Techniques for blending, recoloring, shifting and resizing of portions of digital images are disclosed. In other aspects, methods of virtual “face lifts” and methods of detecting faces within digital image are provided. Advantageously, the detection and localization of faces and facial features, such as the eyes, nose, lips and hair, can be achieved on an automated or semi-automated basis. User feedback and adjustment enables fine tuning of modified images. A variety of systems for matching and replacing features within digital images and detection of faces in digital images is also provided, including implementation as a website, through mobile phones, handheld computers, or a kiosk. Related computer program products are also disclosed. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267444 | Modifying a Person's Eating and Activity Habits - A system for managing the food intake of a person comprises means for collecting information about food consumed by the subject, and means for providing feedback to the subject regarding the food consumed. It further comprises a sensor ( | 2008-10-30 |
20080267445 | CHEMISTRY STRIP READER AND METHOD - A chemistry strip reader and method for analyzing chemistry strips. A conveyor moves chemical strips through different imaging positions at discrete points in lime across the field of view of a camera, which captures images of each chemistry strip at different discrete times. A processor determines reflectance values for each of the chemical strips from the captured images at the discrete points in time. Calibration targets adjacent the chemistry strips can be used to adjust the determined reflectance values. The light source can sequentially illuminate each chemistry strip with three different wavelengths of light, where the processor calculates a concentration determination associated with the chemistry strip by calculating different chromaticity coordinates for the different wavelengths of light, and comparing them to known chromaticity coordinates for known analyte concentrations. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267446 | CHEMISTRY STRIP READER AND METHOD - A chemistry strip reader and method for analyzing chemistry strips. A conveyor moves chemical strips through different imaging positions at discrete points in time across the field of view of a camera, which captures images of each chemistry strip at different discrete times. A processor determines reflectance values for each of the chemical strips from the captured images at the discrete points in time. Calibration targets adjacent the chemistry strips can be used to adjust the determined reflectance values. The light source can sequentially illuminate each chemistry strip with three different wavelengths of light, where the processor calculates a concentration determination associated with the chemistry strip by calculating different chromaticity coordinates for the different wavelengths of light, and comparing them to known chromaticity coordinates for known analyte concentrations. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267447 | Mobile Video-Based Therapy - Mobile video-based therapy, using a portable therapy device that includes a camera, a therapy application database, a processor, and a display. The camera is configured to generate images of a user, and the therapy application database is configured to store therapy applications. The processor is configured to select, from the therapy application database, a therapy application appropriate for assisting in physical or cognitive rehabilitation or therapy of the user, to invoke the therapy application, to recognize a gesture of the user from the generated images, and to control the invoked therapy application based on the recognized gesture. The display is configured to display an output of the controlled therapy application. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267448 | SECURITY DOCUMENT HAVING INTEGRATED COPY-VOID AND VALIDATION SECURITY FEATURES - Documents for minimizing and detecting fraudulent activity are provided. The document comprises a printable substrate, a first security feature that forms a latent copy-void warning message that visually appears on an electronically printed reproduction of the document original, and a second security feature that forms a latent validation message that visually appears on a digital reproduction of the document original. This arrangement allows a possessor of the printed document reproduction to quickly identify it as a counterfeit by virtue of the presence of the copy-void warning message on the document original, and allows an inspector of a digital document reproduction to quickly identify it as an authentic digital reproduction of the document original by virtue of the presence and exactness of the validation message. The second security feature is at least partially embedded, and can be completely embedded, within the first security feature. In this manner, a criminal who attempts to circumvent the first security feature by removing the latent copy-void warning message, will inadvertently remove the latent validation message. As a result, any document generated from such fraudulent activity will not contain the validation message, thereby indicating to an inspector of the digital image that it was not generated from the document original. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267449 | 3-D MODELING - A system comprising an imaging device adapted to capture images of a target object at multiple angles. The system also comprises storage coupled to the imaging device and adapted to store a generic model of the target object. The system further comprises processing logic coupled to the imaging device and adapted to perform an iterative process by which the generic model is modified in accordance with the target object. During each iteration of the iterative process, the processing logic obtains structural and textural information associated with at least one of the captured images and modifies the generic model with the structural and textural information. The processing logic displays the generic model. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267450 | Position Tracking Device, Position Tracking Method, Position Tracking Program and Mixed Reality Providing System - The present invention has a simpler structure than before and is designed to precisely detect the position of a real environment's target object on a screen. The present invention generates a special marker image MKZ including a plurality of areas whose brightness levels gradually change in X and Y directions, displays the special marker image MKZ on the screen of a liquid crystal display | 2008-10-30 |
20080267451 | System and Method for Tracking Moving Objects - A method for tracking an object that is embedded within images of a scene, including: in a sensor unit that includes movable sensor, generating, storing and transmitting over a communication link a succession of images of a scene. In a remote control unit, receiving the succession of images. Receiving a user command for selecting an object of interest in a given image of the received succession of images and determining object data associated with the object and transmitting through the link to the sensor unit the object data. In the sensor unit, identifying the given image of the stored succession of images and the object of interest using the object data, and tracking the object in other image of the stored succession of images. The other image being later than the given image. In the case that the object cannot be located in the latest image of the stored succession of images, using information of at images in which the object was located to predict estimated real-time location of the object and generating direction command to the movable sensor for generating realtime image of the scene and locking on the object. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267452 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DETERMINING SIMILAR IMAGE - An apparatus of determining a similar image contains a subject-region-detecting unit that detects a subject region from a received image, a pixel-value-distribution-generating unit that generates pixel value distribution of pixels included in the subject region detected by the subject-region-detecting unit, and a determination unit that determines whether or not an image relative to the subject region is similar to a previously registered subject image based on the pixel value distribution generated by the pixel-value-distribution-generating unit and a registered pixel value distribution of the previously registered subject image. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267453 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING THE POSE OF A PTZ CAMERA - Provided is an iterative method of estimating the pose of a moving PTZ camera. The first step is to use an image registration method on a reference image and a current image to calculate a matrix that estimates the motion of sets of points corresponding to the same object in both images. Information about the absolute camera pose, embedded in the matrix obtained in the first step, is used to simultaneously recalculate both the starting positions in the reference image and the motion estimate. The recalculated starting positions and motion estimate are used to determine the pose of the camera in the current image. The current image is taken as a new reference image, a new current image is selected and the process is repeated in order to determine the pose of the camera in the new current image. The entire process is repeated until the camera stops moving. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267454 | MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - A measurement apparatus ( | 2008-10-30 |
20080267455 | Method for Movement Compensation of Image Data - According to an exemplary embodiment a method for movement compensation of image data of an object of interest comprises receiving projection data, receiving motion vector field data, and dividing the motion vector field data into a number of layers of motion vector field data. Furthermore, the method comprises generating motion compensated projection data by projecting at least one of the number of layered motion vector field data onto the projection data and applying a two dimensional motion compensation on the projection, and generating image data of at least one voxel by back-projecting the movement compensated projection data. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267456 | BIOMETRIC DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM - A data collection system having a touch screen and sensors behind the touch screen for obtaining biometric data about the user. While the user is making entries on the touch screen, one or more fingerprints of the user may be taken. There may be cameras taking pictures of the user for face and iris recognition purposes. There may be microphones detecting sounds for attaining voice prints of the user. Other data about the user may be acquired during use of the touch screen. This data and information may be obtained about the user without the user being aware of such acquisition. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267457 | Electronic device with biometric module - An electronic device comprises a biometric module having a contact-based sensor configured to capture a biometric image, the biometric module configured to discharge electrostatic energy from a user of the biometric module before activating the sensor. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267458 | FACE IMAGE LOG CREATION - A system and method are provided for constructing face image logs from video surveillance that are complete and concise in the sense that the logs contain only the best images available for each individual observed. The quality of the face images are assessed and scored based upon a plurality of image criteria. The image criteria are combined to an overall quality score. The quality score is associated with the face image enabling the face log to be purged so that only high quality face images are contained in the log. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267459 | Computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon training program and a training apparatus - One of a plurality of prepared given expressions is displayed on a screen. After the given expression is presented to the user, the position of a face feature point is detected from a face image of the user taken by a camera cartridge. Based on the detected position of the face feature point, the user's expression in the face image is expressed in accordance with the evaluation criteria corresponding to the given expression, and an image representing the evaluation result is displayed on the screen. Thus, the user can effectively train the mimetic muscles. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267460 | Occupant information detection system - An occupant information detection system for detecting information related to a vehicle occupant on a vehicle seat includes an image detecting section facing a vehicle seat area taking a three-dimensional image, an information extraction processing section extracting information related to a three-dimensional surface profile of a detected object on a vehicle seat based on the three-dimensional image, a conversion processing section converting the extracted information into numerical coordinates of a predetermined coordinate system, and a computation processing section deriving a computed value by subtracting an average of first and second coordinate components from a third coordinate component. The system also includes a determination processing section determining the concave-convex shape of a line segment formed by the arbitrary points and the middle point based on the computed value. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267461 | REAL-TIME FACE TRACKING IN A DIGITAL IMAGE ACQUISITION DEVICE - A database includes an identifier and associated parameters for each of a number of faces to be recognized. A new acquired image from an image stream is received potentially including one or more face regions. Face detection is applied to at least a portion of the acquired image to provide a set of candidate face regions each having a given size and a respective location. Using the database, face recognition is selectively applied to at least one of the candidate face regions to provide an identifier for a face recognized in a candidate face region. A portion of the image is stored including the recognized face in association with at least one image of the image stream. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267462 | Apparatus and method for protecting fingerprint sensing circuitry from electrostatic discharge - A fingerprint sensor in accordance with the invention includes a non-conductive substrate providing a first surface onto which a user can apply a fingerprint to be sensed. A sensor circuit is applied to a second surface of the non-conductive substrate opposite the first surface to sense a fingerprint when juxtaposed proximally thereto. An electrostatic discharge conductor is applied to the non-conductive surface and is located between an area where a fingerprint is swiped and the sensor circuit. The electrostatic discharge conductor discharges electrostatic charge resulting from a user swiping a fingerprint across the first surface. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267463 | FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION APPARATUS AND PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING SAME - A fingerprint identification apparatus includes an image pickup module and a digital camera module. The image pickup module including a beam splitter that includes a first surface, a second surface adjoining the first surface, a third surface opposite to the second surface; and a lighting module disposed facing towards the first surface and configured for emitting parallel light beams toward the first surface. The digital camera module is disposed facing towards the second surface and configured for capturing a fingerprint of a user or taking pictures; and a fingerprint identification module for distinguishing similarity between the captured fingerprint and a previously registered image. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267464 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDED WITH PROGRAM THEREOF - The present invention provides a mechanism for re-registering a paper fingerprint that may change. A configuration for this includes: a extracting means that extracts a paper fingerprint of a sheet surface and coded information on the paper fingerprint; a means that decodes the coded information extracted by the extracting means; a matching means that matches paper fingerprint data decoded by the decoding means with data of the extracted paper fingerprint; and a re-registration prompting means that performs a display to prompt a re-registration based on a result of matching by the matching means. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267465 | Operating Input Device and Operating Input Program - A finger placement detection unit | 2008-10-30 |
20080267466 | Receiving Apparatus - Each of detecting circuits | 2008-10-30 |
20080267467 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC ADJUSTMENT OF A DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING DISPLAY - A method and system for automatic adjustment of a diagnostic imaging display are provided. The system includes an acquisition component configured to acquire image data and a display configured to display the acquired image data. The diagnostic imaging system further includes an ambient light detector configured to detect an ambient light level and a display adjustment module configured to automatically adjust a display transfer function for the display based on the detected ambient light level. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267468 | System and Method for Segmenting a Region in a Medical Image - A method and computer program are provided for segmenting a prostate from a medical image such as an ultrasound image. Each slice in a study is analysed and uses a manual initialization to obtain an initial contour, in which a user selects initial points that are automatically rendered on the image. An automatic refinement stage then snaps the contour to the prostate boundary in the image based on a pre-stored anatomical atlas and edge information obtained from the image. A manual adjustment stage may then be performed and if selected, the contour is automatically propagated to the next image slice to avoid the manual initialization. An auxiliary image slice may be referred to, which indicates how the prostate shape changes from slice to slices e.g. by providing a perpendicular profile. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267469 | SPECIMEN ANALYSIS AND ACICULAR REGION ANALYZER - The present invention provides assistance for visual observation based counting of particles or crystals. In an image of a specimen of an unidentified sample, particles are counted from an image obtained as a result of binarization using a method such as the discriminant analysis method, for example, and crystals are counted from two images using the difference between the images according with different imaging conditions. As an example, in the particle counting, such as a two-step noise removal is performed, and also, for the crystals, alignment and aspect ratio calculation are performed. In particular, the present invention can provide assistance for the dispersion staining method in which asbestos crystals are visually searched for using a phase-contrast microscope. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267470 | ALGORITHMS FOR SELECTING MASS DENSITY CANDIDATES FROM DIGITAL MAMMOGRAMS - The present invention provides a method for selecting mass density candidates from mammograms for computer-aided lesion detection, review and diagnosis. The method has two steps: a Gaussian difference filter to enhance the intensity and a Canny detector to find potential mass density contours. For circumscribed masses, an additional Hough circle detector is used. This invention makes use of both intensity and morphology information and only processes each image at a single gray-level, so both sensitivity and processing time are improved. The selection algorithm can be also used to select mass candidates from ultrasound images, from 3D tomosynthesis mammography images and from breast MRI images. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267471 | AUTOMATIC PARTITIONING AND RECOGNITION OF HUMAN BODY REGIONS FROM AN ARBITRARY SCAN COVERAGE IMAGE - A recognition pipeline automatically partitions a 3D image of the human body into regions of interest (head, rib cage, pelvis, and legs) and correctly labels each region. The 3D image is projected onto a 2D image using volume rendering. The 3D image may contain the whole body region or any subset. In a learning phase, training datasets are manually partitioned and labeled, and a training database is computed. In a recognition phase, images are partitioned and labeled based on the knowledge from the training database. The recognition phase is computationally efficient and may operate under 2 seconds in current conventional computer systems. The recognition is robust to image variations, and does not require the user to provide any knowledge about the contained regions of interest within the image. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267472 | SIMULTANEOUS ACQUISITION OF DIFFERING IMAGE TYPES - A system in one embodiment includes an image forming device for forming an image from an area of interest containing different image components; an illumination device for illuminating the area of interest with light containing multiple components; at least one light source coupled to the illumination device, the at least one light source providing light to the illumination device containing different components, each component having distinct spectral characteristics and relative intensity; an image analyzer coupled to the image forming device, the image analyzer decomposing the image formed by the image forming device into multiple component parts based on type of imaging; and multiple image capture devices, each image capture device receiving one of the component parts of the image. A method in one embodiment includes receiving an image from an image forming device; decomposing the image formed by the image forming device into multiple component parts based on type of imaging; receiving the component parts of the image; and outputting image information based on the component parts of the image. Additional systems and methods are presented. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267473 | MEDICAL IMAGE ACQUISITION ERROR DETECTION - A medical image acquisition error detection technique is presented which exploits the special characteristics of medical images to detect possible errors. In general, the presented technique categorizes medical images based on the type of images. For each category, a type of standard image is computed which represents the typical characteristics of images within a category. Then, exemplary images in a category are compared to the standard image for that category to establish an acceptable difference between actual images and the standard image for the category under consideration. When a medical image is to be examined for possible acquisition errors, it is categorized and a measure of difference between the image and the standard image for the category is computed. If the measure of difference falls outside the acceptable difference for the category, the image is deemed to contain an acquisition error and an alert is issued. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267474 | Layer Reconstruction From Dual-Energy Image Pairs - A system and method for layer reconstruction from dual-energy image pairs are provided, the method including: receiving a pair of dual-energy images, one having a relatively high energy dose and the other having a relatively low energy dose; ascertaining that a first relatively motionless layer is substantially aligned between the high and low dose images; computing a preliminary image of a second layer that has non-rigid motion relative to the first layer; detecting the relative motion of the second layer relative to the first layer; generating a mask in accordance with the detected motion; filling the motion area corresponding to the mask with gradients of the high-dose image; removing the first layer; and inpainting the motion area. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267475 | Method for high-resolution presentation of filigree vessel implants in angiographic images - The invention relates to a method for high-resolution display of vessel implants in angiographic images, featuring the steps: recording at least two images of an object-catheter combination including catheter markers with a medical imaging method; detection of an region of interest created in the form of an area between the balloon markers which completely contains the object to be registered for each recorded image; coarse registration of the region of interest images by registration of the respective pairs of balloon markers of all recorded images; fine registration of the region of interest image content/of the region of interest image by registration of the region of interest content; and arithmetic averaging across the fine-registered images. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267476 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECONSTRUCTING IMAGE VOLUMES FROM HELICAL SCAN ACQUISITIIONS - A method and computer-readable medium for reconstructing an image volume of an object scanned in helical mode is provided. The method and computer-readable medium include obtaining one or more helical views corresponding to an image volume of an object and determining a plurality of discretized focal lengths within an imaging plane of the reconstructed field of view comprising the image volume. The method then comprises generating a plurality of circular scan sinograms for the plurality of discretized focal lengths. The plurality of circular scan sinograms are generated by interpolating the helical views. The method then comprises selecting one or more circular scan sinograms from the plurality of circular scan sinograms, based on the plurality of discretized focal lengths, wherein the selection is performed within a backprojection operation, for one or more image points within the imaging plane, over one or more circular views. The method then comprises using one or more of the selected circular scan sinograms, in the backprojection of one or more of the image points over one or more of the circular views. The method finally comprises performing a backprojection for all the image points over all the circular views to generate a reconstructed image of the object. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267477 | Iterative Image Processing - A method for processing an image which has the steps of a) receiving acquired data necessary to obtain an image and estimating a preliminary image; b) selecting at least one image element within the image; c) performing an iterative algorithm for processing the image at least on the at least one image element; d) computing a difference between the processed at least one image element and the at least one image element; and e) repeating the steps c) and d) until the difference is below a predefined threshold. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267478 | Device consisting of a combination of a magnetic resonance tomograph and a positron emission tomograph - A sandwich structure which attenuates the PET radiation only very slightly, is used as a support tube for the transmit antenna. In at least one embodiment, it includes a thin strong inner wall, a likewise thin and strong outer wall and an interior of the support tube which is of the honeycomb type or is made of foam material. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267479 | Faster Rates for Real-Time 3D Volume Rendered Images - The present invention provides for generating ultrasound volume images at a higher rate by generating rendered images at the same rate as that of the acquired frames. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267480 | Iterative Image Reconstruction of a Moving Object From Projection Data - Iterative methods for reconstructing an image sequence of a moving object based on projection data usually require a high computationally effort. According to embodiments of the present invention there is provided such a method wherein a first image representing the object at a first phase is used as an initial image for iteratively reconstructing a second image at a second phase. A first gating function is assigned to the first phase, a second gating function is assigned to the second phase. When executing a first iteration for reconstructing the second image only projection data corresponding to a non-overlapping part of the two gating functions are used. For executing further iterations the amount of projection data corresponding to the overlapping part of the two gating functions may be gradually increased. Therefore, for all further but the last iteration the computationally effort is significantly reduced. However, this low computationally expense has no negative impact on the quality of the finally reconstructed second image because the method benefits from the fact that the first image was used as the initial image for iteratively reconstructing the second image. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267481 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CORRECTING RESULTS OF STRUCTURE RECOGNITION, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING A PROGRAM FOR CORRECTING RESULTS OF STRUCTURE RECOGNITION RECORDING THEREIN - To correct a region recognition result in each tomographic image easily. Causing a plurality of tomographic images representing a plurality of regions of a subject or a reconstructed image based on the images and results of recognition processing of the regions of the subject represented by the respective tomographic images, in which the positional relationship of the recognized regions between the tomographic images matches with the anatomical positional relationship of the regions, to be displayed on a screen, accepting input of correction information identifying a correction position which is a boundary of different regions, determining an image whose result of the recognition processing is incorrect and a correct region of the image based on the anatomical positional relationship and/or results of the recognition processing of images adjacent to the correction position, and the correction information, and correcting the result of the recognition processing of the image. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267482 | ULTRASONIC IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND ULTRASONIC IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Three slices, i.e., Basal, Mid, and Apical slices, which correspond to clinically useful ASE segmentation are designated, and the positions of the three slices are tracked through at least one cardiac cycle by performing three-dimensional speckle tracking in the remaining time phases. Three C-mode projection images concerning the tracked positions are reconstructed. In addition, arbitrary myocardial wall motion parameters at the tracked positions are computed and displayed upon being superimposed on C-mode images or projected/displayed on a polar map. As a C-mode projection image method, one of the following techniques can be used detecting and projecting only movement components perpendicular to slices determined in an initial time phase, detecting and projecting average movement components of the respective walls, and tracking and projecting each myocardial position. The obtained C-mode images are simultaneously displayed together with markers indicating the positions of long-axis images and C-mode images. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267483 | Registration of Medical Images Using Learned-Based Matching Functions - A method for registering a medical image includes acquiring a first medical image of a subject. One or more simulated medical images are synthesized based on the acquired first medical image. One or more matching functions are trained using the first medical image and the simulated medical images. A second medical image of the subject is acquired. The first medical image and the second medical image are registered using the one or more trained matching functions. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267484 | Ultra Low Radiation Dose X-Ray CT Scanner - A line scan cone beam CT imaging system irradiates an object with an x-ray cone beam for multiple views. A projection data set of the object is acquired at each view. Between views, the cone beam and detector array are translated along parallel lines in opposite directions. An image is generated by converting the cone beam projection data set of the real object into a parallel-beam projection data set corresponding to a virtual object and using a total variation minimization image reconstruction algorithm to reconstruct a virtual image of the virtual object. The reconstruction algorithm includes the constraint that the Fourier transform of the reconstructed virtual image matches the known Fourier coefficients in the set of converted parallel-beam projections of the virtual object. The constructed virtual image is then transformed into an image of the real object. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267485 | Medical Image Processing Apparatus for Analyzing Properties of Living Body Based on Image Data Thereof - A medical image processing apparatus for analyzing properties of living body based on image data of the living body is provided. The medical image processing apparatus executes a predetermined image analysis processing on the image data of the living body, to obtain shape image data obtained by extracting a profile of the living body, and pattern image data obtained by extracting the pattern on the interior of the profile of the living body. A fractal dimension D | 2008-10-30 |
20080267486 | METHODS FOR SELECTING CELLS WITH ENHANCED GROWTH AND PRODUCTION PROPERTIES - The disclosure relates generally to cell biology and more specifically to mechanical manipulation of cells. Methods are provided which allow robotic devices to select cell colonies that have optimum growth and bioproduction qualities resulting in a collection of cell lines that have a much higher proportion of desired growth and production characteristics. These methods greatly reduce the time and effort needed to identify cell lines with optimum combinations of viability, growth and bioproduction properties. In some embodiments, the robotic device is able to measure multiple characteristics of the colonies and use these results to select the desired colonies. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267487 | Process and System for Analysing Deformations in Motor Vehicles - Process for identifying, analysing and estimating deformations particularly in motor vehicles and wherein the following steps are provided in the so called manual selection mode: providing a database of sample vehicle images, that is not damaged vehicles calling up a sample vehicle image corresponding to the damaged vehicle in a vehicle image memory from a database of sample vehicle images displaying said image on a monitor selecting regions corresponding to damaged or deformed regions of the damaged vehicle, on the displayed vehicle image by inputting graphic and/or alphanumeric commands by means of graphic and/or alphanumeric command input means. by inputting graphic and/or alphanumeric commands by means of graphic and/or alphanumeric command input means entering in the work program alternatively or in combination a quality and/or quantitative estimation degree of the deformation depth proportional to the deformation gravity. computing perimeter. area and/or volume and/or identifying the locution in space of the damage on vehicle by means of algorithms implemented by the work program. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267488 | Apparatus and method for monitoring overlapped object - An apparatus and a method for monitoring overlapped objects are disclosed. The monitoring apparatus comprises a projection device and a camera for projecting images to a target plane at different angles and shooting the pictures from the target plane. When an object is placed on the target plane, the pictures present the part of the image overlapping the surface of the object for determining whether there are overlapped objects or not. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267489 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING ABNORMAL CHARACTERISTICS IN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURING PROCESS - A method for determining abnormal characteristics in integrated circuit manufacturing process is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining a charged particle microscope image of a sample test structure, wherein the sample including a reference pattern and a test pattern; measuring gray levels of the reference pattern and the test pattern; calculating a standard deviation from a distribution of the gray levels of the reference pattern measured; and determining the abnormal characteristics of the test pattern based on the gray levels measured and the standard deviation. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267490 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO IMPROVE VISIBILITY OF AN OBJECT IN AN IMAGED SUBJECT - A system to track movement of an object travelling through an imaged subject is provided. The system includes an imaging system to acquire a fluoroscopic image and operable to create a three-dimensional model of a region of interest of the imaged subject. A controller includes computer-readable program instructions representative of the steps of calculating a probability that an acquired image data is of the object on a per pixel basis in the fluoroscopic image, calculating a value of a blending coefficient per pixel of the fluoroscopic image dependent on the probability, adjusting the fluoroscopic image including multiplying the value of the blending coefficient with one of a greyscale value, a contrast value, and an intensity value for each pixel of the fluoroscopic image. The adjusted fluoroscopic image is combined with the three-dimensional model to create an output image illustrative of the object in spatial relation to the three-dimensional model. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267491 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An object of the present invention is to support the user to create VDP data and use the VDP data to appropriately set a color profile to every object contained in the VDP data for printing, thereby reducing the burden of the user. The present invention an information processing method comprising a color filter setting step of setting a color filter associating a color profile and an object for variable area of variable data printing based on a filtering rule and a color profile acquisition step of obtaining the color profile associated with the color filter. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267492 | Real Time Conversion of Colour Data to a Palette Based on Image Format - A colour point from a first set of points in a colour space is selected to stand in for a colour point from a second, larger set of colour points in the colour space. The second set colour point is hashed to produce an address that is used to look up a group of one or more first set colour point identifiers, each corresponding to a first set colour point that is capable of producing the address of the group if subjected to the hash function. Where the group contains more than one first set colour point, an error test is used to determine which of them is the best match for the second set colour point. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267493 | Color identifying apparatus and color identifying method - A color identifying apparatus for identifying the color of a reaction surface which has caused a color reaction with a gas to be specified, includes a reference data storage that stores a plurality of associated sets of reference color information represented by the difference between one and the remaining other two of signal intensities of R, G, B signals of RGB bitmap images of a reaction surface which has caused a color reaction with a gas, and identifying information for identifying the reaction surface, an image capturing unit for capturing a image of the reaction surface and generating RGB bitmap images of the reaction surface, an arithmetic unit for generating color information represented by the difference between one and the remaining other two signal intensities of R, G, B signals from the RGB bitmap images generated by the image capturing unit, checking the generated color information against the reference color information stored in the reference data storage, specifying the reference color information which corresponds to the generated color information, and specifying the identifying information which is related to the specified reference color information, and an output unit for outputting the identifying information specified by the arithmetic unit. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267494 | JOINT BILATERAL UPSAMPLING - A “Joint Bilateral Upsampler” uses a high-resolution input signal to guide the interpolation of a low-resolution solution set (derived from a downsampled version of the input signal) from low-to high-resolution. The resulting high-resolution solution set is then saved or applied to the original input signal to produce a high-resolution output signal. The high-resolution solution set is close to what would be produced directly from the input signal without downsampling. However, since the high-resolution solution set is constructed in part from a downsampled version of the input signal, it is computed using significantly less computational overhead and memory than a solution set computed directly from a high-resolution signal. Consequently, the Joint Bilateral Upsampler is advantageous for use in near real-time operations, in applications where user wait times are important, and in systems where computational costs and available memory are limited. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267495 | Image compressing method and image compressing apparatus - An image compressing method of dividing and compressing a color image, in which each of pixels is represented by a brightness signal and two color difference signals, into a plurality of blocks including a plurality of pixels, the image compressing method including a compressing step of compressing the color image including the block in which the color difference signal is converted by at least one of a monochrome converting step, a zero value converting step or a correction value converting step. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267496 | METHOD FOR CREATING AND PRESENTING A DYNAMIC MULTI-MEDIA VISUAL DISPLAY - Various embodiments of this invention are directed toward a system and method for creating and displaying a dynamic multi-media visual display. In various embodiments of the invention, images are selected and digitally recorded. The images are then deconstructed and manipulated into a series of iterations. The iterations are then placed in a selected sequence and transitioned in an evolutionary manner from one to another in order to create the final sequence of images and the final dynamic multi-media visual display. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267497 | IMAGE SEGMENTATION AND ENHANCEMENT - Methods, apparatus, and machine-readable media for segmenting and enhancing images are described. In one aspect, gradient magnitude values at respective pixels of a given image are determined. The gradient magnitude values are thresholded with a global threshold to produce thresholded gradient magnitude values. The pixels are segmented into respective groups in accordance with a watershed transform of the thresholded magnitude values. A classification record is generated. The classification record labels as background pixels ones of the pixels segmented into one of the groups determined to be largest in size and labels as non-background pixels ones of the pixels segmented into any of the groups except the largest group. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267498 | UNSUPERVISED COLOR IMAGE SEGMENTATION BY DYNAMIC COLOR GRADIENT THRESHOLDING - A method for segmenting an image includes computing a color gradient map based on an inputted image and selecting at least one initial seed of at least one pixel based on the color gradient map. The method further includes growing a region of pixels adjacent to the initial seed and merging adjacent regions of pixels using a measure of similarity. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267499 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF OBJECTS IN AN IMAGE - A method and system for automatic detection of objects in an image are provided. The method includes segmenting image data defining the image using an initial threshold to identify a plurality of objects, separating the plurality of objects into discrete structures and fitting to a predetermined shape the discrete structures. The method further includes displaying with the image an identifier for the plurality of objects defined by the discrete structures. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267500 | Coupon Copy Protection - A data distribution system which includes business groups, a client system and a main database system is described. Coupons and coupon data may be exchanged between the business groups, the client system and the main database system. Each coupon being exchanged may include one or more fraud protection features that can neither be altered nor tampered by users, consumers or retailers. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267501 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DIGITAL IMAGE COMPRESSION - Methods and systems for compression of digital images (still or motion sequences) are provided wherein predetermined criteria may be used to identify a plurality of areas of interest in the image, and each area of interest is encoded with a corresponding quality level (Q-factor). In particular, the predetermined criteria may be derived from measurements of where a viewing audience is focusing their gaze (area of interest). In addition, the predetermined criteria may be used to create areas of interest in an image in order to focus an observer's attention to that area. Portions of the image outside of the areas of interest are encoded at a lower quality factor and bit rate. The result is higher compression ratios without adversely affecting a viewer's perception of the overall quality of the image. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267502 | Variable skew correction system and method - A variable skew correction system comprises a de-skew application executable to transform scanned image data of a document exhibiting a variable skew condition to an output model representing a de-skewed image of the document by transferring pixel data for each of a plurality of raster lines of the scanned image data to the output model, wherein a variable spacing between at least two adjacent raster lines of the scanned image data is modified in the output model to correct non-linear distortion of the scanned image data. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267503 | Increasing Retrieval Performance of Images by Providing Relevance Feedback on Word Images Contained in the Images - An interactive system provides for increasing retrieval performance of images depicting text by allowing users to provide relevance feedback on words contained in the images. The system includes a user interface through which the user queries the system with query terms for images contained in the system. Word image suggestions are displayed to the user through the user interface, where each word image suggestion contains the same or slightly variant text as recognized from the word image by the system than the particular query terms. Word image suggestions can be included in the system by the user to increase system recall of images for the one or more query terms and can be excluded from the system by the user to increase precision of image retrieval results for particular query terms. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267504 | METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR INTEGRATING CODE-BASED AND OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGIES INTO A MOBILE VISUAL SEARCH - A device for switching between code-based searching, optical character recognition (OCR) searching and visual searching is provided. The device includes a media content input for receiving media content from a camera or other element of the device and transferring this media content to a switch. Additionally, the device includes a meta-information input capable of receiving meta-information from an element of the device and transferring the meta-information to the switch. The switch is able to utilize the received media content and the meta-information to select and/or switch between a visual search algorithm, an OCR algorithm and a code-based algorithm. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267505 | Decision criteria for automated form population - A method is provided for selecting fields of an electronic form for automatic population with candidate text segments. The candidate text segments can be obtained by capturing an image of a document, applying optical character recognition to the captured image to identify textual content, and tagging candidate text segments in the textual content for fields of the form. The method includes, for each of a plurality of fields of the form, computing a field exclusion function based on at least one parameter selected from a text length parameter, an optical character recognition error rate, a tagging error rate, and a field relevance parameter; and determining whether to select the field for automatic population based on the computed field exclusion function. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267506 | INTEREST POINT DETECTION - An interest point detection technique is presented. More particularly, for each of possibly multiple image pyramid resolutions, a cornerness image is generated. One or more potential interest point locations are identified in the cornerness image. This involves finding locations associated with a pixel that exhibits a higher corner strength value than pixels in a prescribed-sized surrounding pixel neighborhood. The potential interest point locations are then clustered to identify groups that likely derive from a same 2D structure. Potential interest point locations in one or more of the identified groups are respectively combined to produce a single location that represents the combined group. The representative location of each group having one is then designated as an interest point. An optional location refinement can also be implemented. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267507 | Information processing apparatus and method - An information processing apparatus detects, from time-sequential information continuously supplied for a given period of time, associated information regarding a time at which a piece of information satisfying a predetermined condition is supplied within the given period of time. A dividing section divides the time-sequential information into a plurality of temporally successive information units at predetermined time intervals. A feature value detecting section temporally successively detects feature values of the plurality of temporally successive information units. A change-information detecting section stores the temporally successively detected feature values for a predetermined period of time, and detects a plurality of temporally successive pieces of feature-value-change information on the basis of the stored feature values and a currently detected feature value. The change-information detecting section outputs the plurality of temporally successive pieces of feature-value-change information in sequence to output time-sequential associated information as the associated information. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267508 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING EDGES OF OBJECTS IN AN IMAGE - The invention relates to a system and method of identifying an edge of an object in an image. The method comprises: identifying a segment of the image and a central pixel in the segment; identifying a set of mini-vectors as possible edges for the central pixel, utilizing a calculated gradient figure for the center pixel; and producing a reduced set of mini-vectors from the set of mini-vectors by removing mini-vectors that do not generate a continuous edge with an adjacent edge in an adjacent segment in the image. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267509 | Automatic Determination of Parameters of an Imaging Geometry - The apparatus ( | 2008-10-30 |
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. | 2008-10-30 |
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 ( | 2008-10-30 |
20080267512 | Automatic review of variable imaging jobs - A VI production system and method for automatic review of variable imaging job output includes a VI interpreter includes raster image processing for producing electronic output document images based on a variable imaging job included in a VI job stream. A proofing process includes obtaining sample document images from the output document images, and for each obtained sample document image, performing a review procedure. The review procedure includes comparing the obtained sample document image to a corresponding expected document image selected from the expected database to determine differences between the obtained sample document image and the corresponding expected document image. Based on at least one difference being determined, the differences are resolved by displaying the obtained sample document image on the user interface, indicating in the displayed sample document image each of the differences, and performing a difference procedure based on an operator input. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267513 | Method of CABAC Significance MAP Decoding Suitable for Use on VLIW Data Processors - This invention decodes a next significance symbol using a selected context. The invention operates in a loop for each symbol decode for a whole block until the number of decoded map elements reaches a maximum number of coefficients for the block type or a last significant coefficient marker is decoded updating loop variables accordingly. This invention counts the number of decoded significance symbols indicating a significant coefficient and stores the locations of such significant coefficients in an array. An embodiment of this invention estimates the number of significant coefficients in a block and selects the inventive method or a prior art decode method. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267514 | Object Authentication Using a Portable Digital Image Acquisition Device - A method is provided for determining whether a test object is an authentic object having an authentication image applied to an authentication image area thereof. The method comprises positioning and orienting a portable image acquisition device for selectively viewing and capturing a magnified image of a target surface area of the test object. The target surface area corresponds to the authentication image area of an authentic object. The method further comprises capturing a magnified digital image of the target surface area using the image capture acquisition device. The captured digital image is then processed to obtain a processed digital image and an authentication result is determined based on whether the processed digital image meets predetermined authentication criteria. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267515 | ENCODING INVISIBLE ELECTRONIC INFORMATION IN A PRINTED DOCUMENT - A printed image can be redundantly encoded by printing a visible image using a colorant with a luminance that contrasts with that of the output sheet and printing a redundant image using a colorant with a luminance that varies only slightly from that of the output sheet. Accordingly, the visible image can be easily read by a user while the redundant image is substantially invisible to the human eye at normal reading distances, yet capable of being captured by a conventional digital scanner. In one aspect, redundantly encoded images may be printed on a white background, with visible images printed in black text and redundant images printed in blue in content regions of the visible image and in yellow in its background regions. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267516 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CODING IMAGE FRAMES - A method including modifying at least a first pixel value in a first portion of a first image frame to create a first difference between the first pixel value in the first image and a first pixel value in a first portion of a second image frame that, at least in part, represents a first code and providing the first image frame and the second image frame to a display device for display at different times is provided. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267517 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image processing apparatus is provided which can restore original data by combining divided data without requiring information about the number of divisions and about succeeding data. To achieve this, the image processing apparatus includes a dividing section for successively dividing the original data at a data size predetermined with respect to a prescribed two-dimensional code image; and a section for assigning a final flag indicating that the data is final data to the data divided lastly from the original data, and for assigning to the other data an ordinary flag indicating that the other data is not the final data. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267518 | Using Geometric Wavelets Based on Active Contours for Signal Processing - Certain embodiments provide systems and methods for using geometric wavelets based on active contours for signal processing. Certain embodiments may allow image processing. A system includes providing an image processing circuitry that computes a segmentation tree using active contours for an input image data; creates a geometric wavelets representation using the segmentation tree; and then generate an image based on geometric wavelet sparse representation extracted from the geometric wavelets representation. The geometric wavelet sparse representation may comprise M most active geometric wavelets from a set of N geometric wavelets in the geometric wavelets representation. The image processing circuitry may recursively find sub-domains and multivariate polynomials for each domain at each stage in the computing of the segmentation tree. Each of the sub-domains is a domain for a succeeding stage for the segmentation tree. The recursively finding may be terminated, for example, when each domain at a stage comprises less than a determined number of pixels. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267519 | Method for Identifying Images After Cropping - Images within an image repository related to a selected image may be located despite cropping, rotating, and/or the application of a variety of other distortions to either the selected image and/or images in the image repository. Described exemplary approaches may use image digests produced using a multi-step process. In a first step, a discrete Fourier transform may be applied to produce an M×N frequency-based image matrix from an M×N image matrix containing elements that represent spatial image pixel values. In subsequent steps, matrix approximations may be applied to reduce the M×N frequency-based image matrix and to produce an image digest that reflects the content of the image. Further, an approach is described for generating a search threshold value that may be used to determine whether images digests associated with images in a repository are sufficiently similar to a search digest to be returned in a search result. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267520 | METHOD OF IMAGE AUTHENTICATION AND RESTORATION - A method of effective image authentication and image restoration by hiding watermarks in DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) coefficients is presented. The basic concept is to embed the selected significant watermarking bits for authentication and restoration into the selected medium- and low-frequency DCT coefficients. Thus, the illegally tampered regions can be detected, and then the original information in that region can be extracted for restoration. Experimental results show that the proposed authentication and restoration techniques can be applied to a DVR (Digital Video Recorder) system, in which no original image information is involved, and it can effectively detect the illegally tampered region and restore the tampered region in the human visual perceptual quality by only using a little embedded original information. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267521 | MOTION AND IMAGE QUALITY MONITOR - A method, apparatus and computer program product for monitoring the motion and/or image quality associated with a captured image are provided. Various actions may be taken in response to the detected motion and corresponding image quality associated with a captured image. In particular, the motion and image quality monitor may, for example, only allow captured images to be used in conjunction with an image matching application, such as a mobile visual search application, when the image features of the captured image have stabilized (i.e., little to no motion is detected between consecutive frames of the captured image). The detected changes in motion and/or image quality may further be used for energy saving purposes, for example, by switching on or off various applications and/or components operating on the mobile device depending upon the amount of motion detected and/or the quality of the image captured. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267522 | IMAGE PROCESSOR, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processor is an image processor generating a composed image by composing together two or more images, and includes: image data acquisition unit that acquires image data groups as a result of image capturing of an image-capturing target with varying amounts of exposure; and image data composite unit that composes, out of the image data groups acquired by the image data acquisition unit, any of the image data groups corresponding to at least a partial range of the composed image, and generating image data of another piece of composed image. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267523 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A left-eye color discrimination unit ( | 2008-10-30 |
20080267524 | AUTOMATIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT - This invention provides a method for automated image enhancement. Attribute measurements are extracted from a digital image and used for the generation of at least a noise threshold parameter, a sharpness parameter and a radicality parameter. The noise threshold parameter and sharpness parameter are evaluated to determine the degree of noise reduction and the degree of sharpening to be performed, collectively a determined enhancement. The determined enhancement is applied to derive a nominally enhanced image. With respect to the radicality parameter, the output image is the weighted average between the initial image and the nominally enhanced image. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267525 | Soft Edge Smoothness Prior and Application on Alpha Channel Super Resolution - Systems and methods are disclosed for processing a low resolution image by performing a high resolution edge segment extraction on the low resolution image; performing an image super resolution on each edge segment; performing reconstruction constraint reinforcement; and generating a high quality image from the low quality image. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267526 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus which can restore, from a color and sensitivity mosaic image acquired using a CCD image sensor of the single plate type or the like, a color image signal of a wide dynamic range wherein the sensitivity characteristics of pixels are uniformized and each of the pixels has all of a plurality of color components. A sensitivity uniformization section uniformizes the sensitivities of pixels of a color and sensitivity mosaic image to produce a color mosaic image, and a color interpolation section interpolates color components of the pixels of the color mosaic image M to produce output images R, G and B. The present invention can be applied to a digital camera which converts a picked up optical image into a color image signal of a wide dynamic range. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267527 | Ghost Artifact Reduction for Rendering 2.5D Graphics - An image processing system for performing a transformation of an input image associated with an input viewpoint to an output image associated with an output viewpoint. The input image is a pre-filtered 2D representation of 3D objects as seen from the input viewpoint, and comprises for each input pixel an associated input pixel value and an associated input pixel depth. Additional to the input image a hidden image is received, being another 2D representation of the 3D objects and comprising information, which information is occluded from the input viewpoint. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267528 | Method for Retargeting Images - A method for content-aware image retargeting generates an energy image from a source image according to an energy function. From the energy image, one or more seams are determined according to a minimizing function such that each seam has a minimal energy. Each seam is applied to the source image to obtain a target image that preserves content and a rectangular shape of the source image. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267529 | Image processing - Embodiments including pre-adjustment of source image data prior to compression are disclosed. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267530 | GENERATING COMPOUND IMAGES HAVING INCREASED SHARPNESS AND REDUCED NOISE - Systems and method of generating compound images having increased sharpness and reduced noise are described. In one aspect, a comparison image signal is determined. The comparison image signal includes pixels with values respectively indexing values of pixels of a first image signal in relation to values of spatially corresponding pixels of a second image signal. The comparison image signal is filtered with a spatial filter. A compound image signal is generated. The compound image signal has pixels with values composed of contributions from the pixel values of the first image signal and the pixel values of the second image signal. The contributions are functions of respective values of spatially corresponding pixels in the filtered comparison image signal in relation to values of noise variation in the filtered comparison image signal. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267531 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An index detection unit ( | 2008-10-30 |
20080267532 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image enlarging apparatus includes: a luminance data calculation unit configured to set a reference frame from a video image, and to calculate first luminance data for a high resolution video image; a position calculation unit configured to set target pixels in at least one of frames included in the video image except the reference frame, and to calculate corresponding positions to the target pixels in the reference frame with decimal accuracy; a correction amount calculation unit configured to parallelly calculate correction amounts of the first luminance data for the corresponding positions based on the first luminance data, third luminance data of the target pixels, and the corresponding positions; an addition unit configured to calculate sum of correction amounts from the correction amounts; and a luminance data correction unit configured to correct the first luminance data based on the sum of the correction amounts. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267533 | RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD - A resolution enhancement apparatus includes unit to acquire a first image, unit to perform edge emphasis on the first image to obtain a second image, unit to detect, using one of the first image and the second image, points corresponding to image regions at a precision of a sub-pixel unit as a unit smaller than an interval between neighboring pixels, unit to set each of second values of the second image as a sampling value of a luminance value at each point when one of the second pixels is used as a pixel of interest, unit to enlarge the first image into a high-resolution image including a larger number of third pixels than the first image, and unit to execute value conversion which adds or subtracts third values in the high-resolution image in a direction to reduce errors between the luminance values sampled at the points and the sampling values. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267534 | Image-Processing System - An image-processing system receives an image from a user and identifies an image-processing instruction which has been added to the image by the user. The instruction corresponds to an image-processing operation which is to be applied to at least a portion of the image in order to manipulate the image into a modified form. When the system is coupled to a device such as a photocopier, the photocopier is controlled to perform the image manipulation in accordance with the identified instruction and to print the modified image. Thus the image can be modified without the need to alter the original image itself. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267535 | EFFICIENT PROCESSING OF NON-REFLOW CONTENT IN A DIGITAL IMAGE - A computer system and method for efficiently processing a digital image into reflow content is presented. The method comprises each of the following as executed on a computer. A digital image is obtained for processing. The digital image includes at least some content suitable for conversion into reflow content. The digital image is processed into a digital content file. The digital content file includes both reflow content and non-reflow blocks of content. For each non-reflow block of content in the digital content file, the following are performed. A confidence rating is determined for the non-reflow block of content. If the confidence rating for the non-reflow block of content falls below a predetermined threshold, an evaluation of the non-reflow block is triggered. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267536 | THEME-BASED BATCH PROCESSING OF A COLLECTION OF IMAGES - Processing a collection of images includes identifying a theme for the collection of images, and performing batch processing on the collection of images. The batch processing includes applying a pre-defined group of image editing operations to the images to give the edited images a look and feel that is consistent with the identified theme. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267537 | Noise Reduction by Image Subtraction in an Automatic Data Collection Device, Such as an Image Acquisition Device - An automatic data collection device ( | 2008-10-30 |
20080267538 | Bag Cartridge with Anti-Torque Collar - A collapsed bag cartridge ( | 2008-10-30 |
20080267539 | Sealing gussets together through apertures in multi-wall paper and woven polypropylene packages or bags - Reclosable gusseted packages or bags have improved resistance to leaking or spilling through the gussets by sealing the gussets together through apertures in the gusset walls, by sealing the zipper flanges together through apertures passing through the gussets in the package or bag, or by sewing the gussets shut in areas proximate to the zipper. | 2008-10-30 |
20080267540 | Reusable bag container - A reusable bag container is described, including a reusable bag, a sheath forming a substantially cylindrical shape, the sheath being used to store the reusable bag in an interior vestibule of the sheath, wherein a distal end of the sheath is configured to fit within a proximal opening of a holder, and an opening disposed at a proximal end of the sheath, the opening being configured to allow addition or removal of the reusable bag from the interior vestibule formed by the sheath. | 2008-10-30 |