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US-6,798,928 Image recording apparatus
An image recording apparatus for recording image data of an inspection object and inspection data corresponding to inspection results outputted at their own...
US-6,798,927 Conversion of pixel data for interpolation or image reduction, using a small memory
An image processing apparatus and method capable of decoding and varying at high speed encoded image data having an arbitrary image size by using a memory of a...
US-6,798,926 System and method of pointed position detection, presentation system, and program
A system and method of pointed position detection, a presentation system, and a program that make it possible to detect a pointed position accurately. The system...
US-6,798,925 Method and apparatus for calibrating an image acquisition system
A single fiducial mark with at least one characteristic of known value is placed on one or more objects that are examined by a machine vision system....
US-6,798,924 System and method for displaying an image indicating a positional relation between partially overlapping images
A camera system includes a display monitor which displays an image of an object, taken by an optical unit, on a screen of the monitor. A reading unit reads a...
US-6,798,923 Apparatus and method for providing panoramic images
A method and system of merging a pair of images to form a seamless panoramic image including the following steps. A set of feature points are extracted along the...
US-6,798,922 Image transmission method and image transmission device for realizing the same
According to the present invention, it is designed in such manner that a designation minimum unit for designating a position of an effective region of an image...
US-6,798,921 Method for image designating and modifying process
Images in a plurality of related images are processed such that a specific region of the image in the first frame is designated and a specific image in the...
US-6,798,920 Method for half tone phase matching at run boundaries
A method for correcting a white line artifact between low and high frequency printed pixels. A printer may be able to print either a high or low frequency...
US-6,798,919 System and method for providing a scalable dynamic objective metric for automatic video quality evaluation
There is disclosed an improved system and method for providing a scalable dynamic objective metric for automatically evaluating the video quality of a video...
US-6,798,918 System and method using edge processing to remove blocking artifacts from decompressed images
A system and method using edge processing to remove blocking artifacts comprises an edge processor having an image converter for building an edge representation...
US-6,798,917 Image input apparatus, image processing apparatus, image input method, image processing method and image input...
The invention provides an encoding method applicable to the sub band encoding of an image of any resolution or size. For example, by designating the resolution...
US-6,798,916 Decoding method and decoding apparatus
An image decoding method is provided for decoding each block of a digital image divided into a plurality of blocks, from a coded image signal including codewords...
US-6,798,915 Apparatus having lower data transmission rate and less degradation of image quality and method therefor
An image display apparatus having a lower data transmission speed and less degradation of the image quality for displaying the image having a lower data-rate...
US-6,798,914 Neural-network-based method of image compression
A method for compressing images uses artificial intelligence and neural-network-based techniques to convert digital image data into symbolic data. The symbolic...
US-6,798,913 Image processing device and image processing program
An image processing device and a computer program product capable of accurately determining a user-desired region even when a region has been only roughly marked...
US-6,798,912 Apparatus and method of program classification based on syntax of transcript information
A method of program classification based on syntax of transcript information includes receiving transcript information associated with the program wherein the...
US-6,798,911 Method and system for fuzzy clustering of images
An approach to clustering a set of images based on similarity measures employs a fuzzy clustering paradigm in which each image is represented by a node in a...
US-6,798,910 Self-optimizing edge detection in blurred, high-noise images
An apparatus, program product and method detect region boundaries, or edge, of an arbitrary number of pixels in width in a digital image that has coarse...
US-6,798,909 Surveillance apparatus and recording medium recorded surveillance program
An economical surveillance apparatus robust to an environmental change includes an input unit for inputting images in a time series, a background image memory...
US-6,798,908 Surveillance apparatus and recording medium recorded surveillance program
An economical surveillance apparatus robust to an environmental change includes an input unit for inputting images in a time series, a background image memory...
US-6,798,907 System, computer software product and method for transmitting and processing handwritten data
A system, computer program product and method are provided that smooth handwritten information following the transmission of handwritten data to a second...
US-6,798,906 Image processing apparatus and method including line segment data extraction
The present invention provides an image processing apparatus and method that enables extraction of line segments of an arbitrary width from multi-valued images...
US-6,798,905 Document orientation recognizing device which recognizes orientation of document image
An image of a document is divided into a plurality of areas, and a reliability is obtained for each area for a case where an image of the area is used in...
US-6,798,904 Identifying color processing modules
Methods and apparatuses, including computer program products for generating a plurality of color processing module fingerprints are described. A set of input...
US-6,798,903 Image processing method, image processing device, recording medium, and transmission medium
An image processing method and image processing device extracting, from an image, a pupil region in which unsatisfactory color tone has arisen on the image;...
US-6,798,902 Method of processing signals and apparatus for signal processing
An image processing apparatus operates to process input signal samples representative of at least part of a colour video image to produce legal colour signal...
US-6,798,901 Method of compressing a color image
In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a method of compressing a color image includes the following. The wavelet transform of each of the respective...
US-6,798,900 Paper sheet identification method and apparatus
An identification method and apparatus for paper sheet statistically process information representing characteristics of a bank note, condense these to a smaller...
US-6,798,899 Document feeding method and apparatus
A document feeding apparatus for use with a document processing device. The document feeding apparatus comprises an input receptacle adapted to receive a stack...
US-6,798,898 Management of physiological and psychological state of an individual using images therapeutic imaging...
A method for classifying images according to features that are relevant to potential therapeutic effect, comprising: providing an image; and classifying said...
US-6,798,897 Real time image registration, motion detection and background replacement using discrete local motion estimation
A method for registration between first and second images, the method including defining, for each individual location from among a plurality of locations...
US-6,798,896 Image input apparatus
The present invention enables to increase the speed of recognizing characters on an undefined-size postal matter such as a flat mail. The flat mail often has an...
US-6,798,895 Character string extraction and image processing methods and apparatus
A character string extraction apparatus comprises: a connected component (CC) detector for detecting, in a binary image, connected components (CC) comprising...
US-6,798,894 Method and apparatus for watermarking video images
Embedding a watermark in an image by changing selected DCT coefficients in the blocks and macro blocks of coefficients which represent the image. The changes in...
US-6,798,893 Digital watermarking technique
A watermarking system allowing both sufficiently high quality of watermarked moving pictures and enhanced ease of watermark detection is disclosed. A watermark...
US-6,798,892 Rotatable removeable speaker assembly
A speaker assembly a speaker assembly that is readily mounted and dismounted from a mounting bar, and which also achieves reliable electrical connection in the...
US-6,798,891 Speaker system
A small-sized speaker system having extremely excellent bass range reproduction capability comprises a speaker unit provided in a closed box and a sound guide...
US-6,798,890 Directional microphone assembly
A directional microphone assembly for a hearing aid is disclosed. The hearing aid has one or more microphone cartridge(s), and first and second sound passages....
US-6,798,889 Method and apparatus for multi-channel sound system calibration
A calibration system for calibrating multi-channel sound systems. The calibration system includes a method for calibrating a sound system that includes a...
US-6,798,888 Mount for underwater acoustic projector
A mount for acoustic transducers has a resilient sheet with a plurality of mounting apertures therein. Each mounting aperture has an annular groove formed about...
US-6,798,887 Key click masker and method for masking key clicks
A key click masker and method for disguising key clicks protect sensitive information by randomly varying key click echo generated by a computer system. The key...
US-6,798,886 Method of signal shredding
Methods for identifying the harmonic content of a single signal contained within a more complex signal and subsequently processing or separating signals...
US-6,798,885 Method and apparatus for encoding security information in a MIDI datastream
The present invention is apparatus and method for encoding, decoding, and encoding and decoding security information in a Musical Instrument Digital Interface...
US-6,798,884 Encryption method, decryption method, encryption/decryption method, cryptographic communications system, and...
A product-sum type cryptosystem is employed to obtain ciphertext C=m.sub.0 D.sub.0 +m.sub.1 D.sub.1 + . . . +m.sub.K-1 D.sub.K-1 by (an) inner product(s) using a...
US-6,798,883 Method of testing a randomizer
A method of testing a randomizer having at least one source of probabilistic data and a device for mixing the probabilistic data to form random data, where the...
US-6,798,882 Mobile station
A dual function mobile station is constructed with first input and first display, which are used in the first functional mode, and second input and second...
US-6,798,881 Noise reduction circuit for telephones
A system for processing audio signals in two channels, wherein each channel includes a plurality of band pass filters for dividing the signal in each channel...
US-6,798,880 System and method for suppressing in-band stimuli and telecommunications infrastructure incorporating the same
For use with analog telecommunications equipment that responds to in-band stimuli, a system for, and method of suppressing an in-band stimulus and a ...
US-6,798,879 Remote telephone call notification system
A remote telephone call notification system for notifying a user at a remote location that a communication device is receiving a call. The remote telephone call...
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