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US-7,046,863 Optimizing the advantages of multi-level rendering
Systems and methods for optimizing the advantages of multi-level rendering of text and/or graphics at an output device by providing an alternate manner to...
US-7,046,862 Image processing apparatus and program
A domain block extracting unit extracts a domain block image from an original image. A range block extracting unit extracts a range block image from an area in...
US-7,046,861 Image forming apparatus with image distortion correction function
Image distortion is corrected in a color printer wherein print units for a plurality of colors are aligned to form a color image by superposing images formed by...
US-7,046,860 Method for simultaneous body part display
The regions of interest of images of both breasts of a patient are defined as regions of the image of minimal surface area and containing views of the breasts....
US-7,046,859 Methods for determining a measure of atmospheric aerosol optical properties using a multi- or hyperspectral,...
A method of automatically determining a measure of atmospheric aerosol optical properties using a multi- or hyper-spectral, multi-pixel image. A plurality of...
US-7,046,858 Method for improved contrast mapping of digital images
A method of local contrast mapping that changes the dynamic range of an original image to more closely match the dynamic range of the medium used for the...
US-7,046,857 Apparatus and methods for image and signal processing
An apparatus and methods for efficiently processing signal and image data are described. The invention provides a representation of signal and image data that...
US-7,046,856 Accelerated predictive-transform
The present invention is drawn to a method for digital image modeling in which the digital image is divided into digital image blocks. First, a coder input...
US-7,046,855 Method and apparatus for performing spatial-to-frequency domain transform
In some embodiments of the present invention, quantized frequency coefficients of a matrix of spatial data are obtained. Blocks of frequency coefficients that...
US-7,046,854 Signal processing subband coder architecture
A method, apparatus, and computer program product for combining a subband decomposition and a linear signal processing filter (LSPF). Operations performed...
US-7,046,853 Efficient decoding method and apparatus for gradually coded images
Coded image data which are coded hierarchically are decoded successively by an inverse wavelet transformer. During a process of decoding, images of intermediate...
US-7,046,852 Fast image decompression via look up table
A system to decode compressed digital images coded with frequently occurring variable length or other symbols. The disclosed system extracts one or more symbols...
US-7,046,851 Image and video indexing scheme for content analysis
The present invention provides an image and video indexing scheme for content analysis. According to the invention, a database of images or videos is compressed....
US-7,046,850 Image matching
A method for matching digital images, including regularization of image features of a first digital image, composed of pixels, defining a finite set of candidate...
US-7,046,849 Image-layout evaluation method, image-layout evaluation system, and image-layout-evaluation-processing program
The invention provides image layout evaluation method to optimize the layout of an image. The invention can include a laid-out-image input device for inputting...
US-7,046,848 Method and system for recognizing machine generated character glyphs and icons in graphic images
A deterministic finite automaton uses binary search (and optionally hashing) method(s) of sparse matrix representation to recognize the graphical representations...
US-7,046,847 Document processing method, system and medium
A technique for extracting a meaningful text block from a document where a table, an itemized list, a multiple column, etc., are arbitrarily laid out. A document...
US-7,046,846 Document analysis system and method
Disclosed is a document analysis system and method. The document analysis system includes an interim analyzer configured to perform an interim document analysis...
US-7,046,845 Method and apparatus for compensating for dot gain in stochastic printing
A method for compensating for dot gain in printing with stochastic screens comprises obtaining continuous tone CMYK files and screening the files at a resolution...
US-7,046,844 Image processing device, image processing method, recorded medium, and program
When color converting image data of a first color coordinate system to image data of a second color coordinate system using a color conversion module, the tone...
US-7,046,843 Correction curve generating method, image processing method, image display unit, and storage medium
In an image processing method, an image display unit, and a storage medium, capable of effecting an appropriate color reproduction even under a change in color...
US-7,046,842 System and method for color characterization using fuzzy pixel classification with application in color...
A system and method for measuring the similarity of multiple-color images and for locating regions of a target image having color information that matches, at...
US-7,046,841 Method and system for direct classification from three dimensional digital imaging
An automated system and/or method is disclosed for rapidly, accurately, and efficiently processing bulk three-dimensional digital image data of both...
US-7,046,840 3-D reconstruction engine
Systems and methods for generating three-dimensional models of an object use images having unmeasured camera parameters. Camera calibration determines the...
US-7,046,839 Techniques for photogrammetric systems
Three techniques applicable to photogrammetric systems are taught. The first one is for performing camera position approximation, wherein an image is taken and...
US-7,046,838 Three-dimensional data input method and apparatus
The three-dimensional data input method uses the three-dimensional data input apparatus that includes a monitor screen for confirming an object and is...
US-7,046,837 System and method for locating irregular edges in image data
A system for processing image data, such as an image of a die cut from a silicon wafer, is provided. The system includes an irregular edge detection system,...
US-7,046,836 Image processing method apparatus and storage medium for recognition of irradiation area
An image processing method is intended to extract an irradiation area in an image easily and accurately.A calculation unit 202 calculates secondary difference...
US-7,046,835 Method and system for processing vascular radiographic images which have been reconstructed by...
Method and system for processing vascular radiography images which have been reconstructed by three-dimensional modelling, in which: from this three-dimensional...
US-7,046,834 Method for measuring bone mineral density by using X-ray image
A method for measuring a bone mineral density, by use of an x-ray image, in a bone mineral density measuring system, includes the steps of: (a) obtaining an...
US-7,046,833 Region extracting method for medical image
From CT images having captured an abdomen, a two-dimensional characteristic space is assumed, in which X and Y axes indicate CT values of image data taken in...
US-7,046,832 Imaging of scattering media using relative detector values
A method and system for imaging of a scattering target medium using a modified perturbation formulation of a radiation transport equation where normalized...
US-7,046,831 System and method for fusion-aligned reprojection of incomplete data
The present invention provides a system and method of using current but incomplete data to prepare an approximated complete image of a patient potentially...
US-7,046,830 Method and system for extracting spine geometrical data
A method for extracting geometrical data from a 2-D digital image of the spine, comprising steps for determining spine outlines, endplates and corners wherein: ...
US-7,046,829 Fingerprint verification
Fingerprint verification matching a claimant fingerprint with one of a number of recorded enrollee fingerprints uses various adaptations of model alignment...
US-7,046,828 Method and system for verifying and authenticating signed collectibles
A system and method for verifying the identity of an authenticated item such as memorabilia and collectibles where each authenticated item is assigned a unique...
US-7,046,827 Adapting point geometry for storing address density
Techniques are disclosed for adapting point geometry for storing address density information. Preferred embodiments store this density information in a...
US-7,046,826 Machine vision system and method for estimating and tracking facial pose
The present invention includes in a system and method for estimating and tracking an orientation of a user's face by combining head tracking and face detection...
US-7,046,825 Machine vision system and method for estimating and tracking facial pose
The present invention includes in a system and method for estimating and tracking an orientation of a user's face by combining head tracking and face detection...
US-7,046,824 System and method of presenting altitude visibility information provision system utilizing satellite image, and...
A satellite image analysis and processing apparatus includes a DEM extraction unit for extracting digital elevation model information having topography data and...
US-7,046,823 Correlation tracker breaklock detection
A system and method for detecting breaklock for correlation trackers. The inventive system includes a first circuit (50) for computing energy E.sub.L in a...
US-7,046,822 Method of detecting objects within a wide range of a road vehicle
The invention relates to a method of detecting objects within a wide range of a road vehicle. According to said method, the distance between a moving or...
US-7,046,821 Image detection processor
An image detection processor of the present invention enhances the processing speed of the calculation of the center of gravity or the like of a target with a...
US-7,046,820 Methods for digital watermarking of images and images produced thereby
The computer analyzes a representation of a digitized image to determine contiguous edges of the image; select edges for modulation in accordance with a data...
US-7,046,819 Encoded reference signal for digital watermarks
This disclosure describes a method for encoding a digital watermark into an image signal that is robust to geometric distortion. The digital watermark is adapted...
US-7,046,818 Standards compliant watermarking for access management
Visible watermarking techniques for digital images and video operate on decoded transform coefficients and maintain the watermarked data in the same compressed...
US-7,046,817 Image processing apparatus and method therefor
It is one object of the present invention to prevent embedded verification information from being lost even when a quantization process is performed after...
US-7,046,816 Coincident source stereo speaker
A coincident source stereo speaker in accordance with the present invention includes a high-frequency component (tweeter) and a low-frequency component (woofer)...
US-7,046,815 Microphone
The improved microphone with the removable connection to the phantom power supply facilitates the setting and provides elimination of the forgetful operation of...
US-7,046,814 Impedance adapter preamplifier device for electronic tube audio frequencies able to be inserted on line on the...
The invention concerns an online low frequency amplifying interface operating in automatic cutting feed, particularly designed for multimedia computers. It...
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