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US-7,409,120 Integrated circuit for programmable optical delay
Interference caused by the propagation of a transmit signal transmitted from a transmit antenna to a receive antenna is effectively cancelled by an improved...
US-7,409,119 Optical filter, manufacturing method thereof, and planar lightwave circuit using the same
An optical filter includes a body of a polyhedron structure in which a recess having a predetermined depth from one side surface is exposed on a front surface...
US-7,409,118 Monolithic translation stage device
A monolithic device for determining a translation, the monolithic device being fabricated from a single continuous piece of a glass substrate. The monolithic...
US-7,409,117 Dynamic laser power control for gas species monitoring
A gas species monitoring system includes a laser, a fiber amplifier configured to receive an input signal from the laser and generate an amplified signal, and a...
US-7,409,116 RF to optical converter for RF imaging with optical sensors
A radio frequency (RF) to optical converter for RF imaging, wherein the converter comprises an array of RF antenna pixels adapted to receive RF signals, wherein...
US-7,409,115 Method and apparatus for spectrum deconvultion and reshaping
A method and apparatus for filter spectrum deconvolution and reshaping include providing a filter output of a spectrum signal and determining the intensity and...
US-7,409,114 Optical modulator
An optical modulator using a thin plate including a portion having 20 .mu.m or less thickness, capable of selecting a specific polarized wave from a light wave...
US-7,409,113 Semiconductor electro-absorption optical modulator, semiconductor electro-absorption optical modulator...
This invention provides an optical transmitter module and an optical module using an EA modulator capable of realizing stable ACER regardless of operating...
US-7,409,112 Image displaying apparatus and program product for displaying image
To enable a necessary image data to be easily found out based on image sizes of a plurality of index images displayed in a list format and to enable contents of...
US-7,409,111 Image synthesizing system for automatically retrieving and synthesizing images to be synthesized
An image processing apparatus which associates a plurality of images obtained in advance for the purpose of panoramic image synthesis or stereo-scopic viewing...
US-7,409,110 Image retrieval system, image retrieval program and storage medium and image retrieval method
An image retrieval system including: a retrieval subject image storing unit storing images corresponding to first and second characteristic information among...
US-7,409,109 Apparatuses and methods for incorporating a border within an image by defining a portion of the border
A hardware implemented method for incorporating a border region within an image region is provided. In this method, a portion of the border region is stored in...
US-7,409,108 Method and system for hybrid rigid registration of 2D/3D medical images
A method of aligning a pair of images with a first image and a second image, wherein said images comprise a plurality of intensities corresponding to a domain of...
US-7,409,107 Input device, information device, and control information generation method
An input device which generates control information by moving an object to be detected, having an image capture section which captures an image of the object to...
US-7,409,106 Image generating device, image generating method, and image generating program
Designed to determine a number of frames of data for acquisition from video data on the basis of image quality setting data that allows image quality to be set...
US-7,409,105 Panoramic maker engine for a low profile system
A method for generating a panoramic image includes receiving a first image, dividing the first image into a first portion and a second portion, rotating the...
US-7,409,104 Enhanced wide dynamic range in imaging
A method for enhancing wide dynamic range in images. The method comprises: acquiring at least two images of a scene to be imaged, the images acquired using...
US-7,409,103 Method of reducing noise in images
An image noise reducing method that can properly reduce CCD noise which emerges in an image imported from a digital camera is provided. The method includes...
US-7,409,102 Methods and systems for reducing ringing in composited user interface elements
Video graphics methods and systems can reduce objectionable ringing associated with composited user interface elements and video content, while at the same time...
US-7,409,101 Image enhancement for aerial refueling operations
Methods and apparatus for digitally enhancing images are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes analyzing an acquired image to provide a high sensitive...
US-7,409,100 Methods and apparatus for improving quality of block-transform coded images
Block-based image processing methods and apparatus that provide a reduction in block-transform image coding artifacts are described. In various embodiments, the...
US-7,409,099 Method of improved image/video compression via data re-ordering
A method of image and video compression including data re-ordering to improve the performance of the core compression algorithm. In the inventive method, pixel...
US-7,409,098 Image processing apparatus and method for coding with complexity-based quantization
An image processing apparatus is provided that can define the change amount of a quantizing parameter by suitably reflecting the complexity of image data in the...
US-7,409,097 Video encoding using variable bit rates
A system and method is provided for variable bit rate encoding using a complexity ratio. Quantization parameter is calculated using a complexity ratio, which is...
US-7,409,096 Process and functional unit for the optimization of displaying progressively coded image data
In a process and unit for gradual decoding, archiving and graphic display of progressively decoded image data, time intervals between the time points of...
US-7,409,095 Image processing apparatus and method for scalable encoded image data
An image processing apparatus for reproducing a moving image from its encoded data is disclosed. The apparatus includes a decoding unit to decode the encoded...
US-7,409,094 Methods and systems for packetizing encoded data
Systems and methods thereof for processing data are described. First information associated with encoded data is parsed. The first information describes an...
US-7,409,093 Method and apparatus for encoding video signals
A method for a video encoder to encode video data into a video bit stream, the video data includes at least a picture, the picture includes a plurality of...
US-7,409,092 Method and apparatus for the surveillance of objects in images
Object detection and tracking operations on images that may be performed independently are presented. A detection module receives images, extracts edges in...
US-7,409,091 Human detection method and apparatus
A human detection method and apparatus are provided. In the method, a person is detected from an image provided by a digital video camera. The method includes...
US-7,409,090 Handwritten character input device and handwritten character input processing method
The present invention provides a handwritten character input device and handwritten input character processing method enabling easy selection of a text input...
US-7,409,089 Writing guide for a free-form document editor
Displaying a writing guide for a free-form document editor by detecting electronic ink, classifying the detected ink as corresponding to handwriting or a...
US-7,409,088 System and method for connectivity-based recognition of a hand-drawn chart in ink input
A system and method for recognition of hand-drawn charts in ink input is provided. A chart recognizer may be provided that may recognize a hand-drawn diagram or...
US-7,409,087 Matrix slicing
A user identifies desired target elements in a two dimensional matrix. A set of interesting cuts is created. The maximum potential gain in isolated target...
US-7,409,086 Segmentation of image data
In an image processing system, successive segmentation steps are carried out. In the case of a "hole" in the segmentation result, which is defined as a small...
US-7,409,085 Method and apparatus for determining symmetry in 2d and 3d images
A method of determining symmetry in an image, a method of determining a symmetry plane line segment of a 3D image, a method of determining a symmetry line of a...
US-7,409,084 Method for determining dark condition and method for interpolating color in image sensor
Disclosed are a method for determining a dark condition in an image sensor to prevent a color noise and a method for interpolating colors. The present invention...
US-7,409,083 Image processing method and apparatus
It aims to prevent occurrence of gradation jump or color displacement even if a process for improving a brightness distribution of a digital image to be...
US-7,409,082 Method, apparatus, and recording medium for processing image data to obtain color-balance adjusted image data...
When carrying out further color balance adjustment processing on color-balance adjusted image data having been through color balance adjustment processing,...
US-7,409,081 Apparatus and computer-readable medium for assisting image classification
An inspection system 1 includes an image pickup apparatus 2 for picking up an image of a defect, an inspection and classification apparatus 4 for performing...
US-7,409,080 Inspection method of electric part
An inspection apparatus of an electric junction box is provided, by which improper mounting of electric parts can be detected. The inspection apparatus 1 has a...
US-7,409,079 Calcium scoring method and system
A method of automatically scoring intravascular calcium. The delineation of a body surface is detected in a tomographic image produced by an X-ray CT system....
US-7,409,078 Method for registration of an image applied to digital subtracted angiography
In registration of images in digitized subtracted angiography, X-rays irradiate a patient's body. A first digitized mask image is acquired without an injection...
US-7,409,077 Nearest-neighbor rebinning in clinical PET using on-line three dimensional LOR-to-bin mapping
A projection data rebinning device for nearest-neighbor rebinning in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) using on-line 3D axial LOR-to-bin mapping. The...
US-7,409,076 Methods and apparatus for automatically tracking moving entities entering and exiting a specified region
Techniques for tracking entities using a single overhead camera are provided. A foreground region is detected in a video frame of the single overhead camera...
US-7,409,075 Image processing apparatus and method, program, and recording medium
In each of frames of specified image data, a covered background area or an uncovered background area is detected. In an image in the first frame, a user inputs...
US-7,409,074 Information processing apparatus and system using pixel data
The present invention relates to an image processing device enabling detection of a mixture ratio indicating the state of mixture between multiple objects. A...
US-7,409,073 Optimization methods for the insertion, protection, and detection of digital watermarks in digitized data
The implementations of digital watermarks can be optimally suited to particular transmission, distribution and storage mediums given the nature of...
US-7,409,072 Content processing apparatus
A content processing apparatus includes a clock circuit. The clock circuit counts time with reference to a first start-up time. A flash memory holds a storage...
US-7,409,071 Large-diameter arcuate speaker
In an arcuate array of speakers (100) the wind component of air motion near each speaker is converted into sound because the wind is trapped within the arc, and...
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