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US-7,471,824 Method and apparatus for deposterizing a posterized digital image
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that deposterizes a posterized image. During operation, the system receives a posterized image, wherein...
US-7,471,823 Color correction control graphical user interface
A graphical user interface for performing color correction and methods for implementing the color correction are disclosed. The graphical user interface allows a...
US-7,471,822 Method and apparatus for high brightness wide color gamut display
A device to produce a color image, the device including a color filtering arrangement to sequentially produce at least four colors by transmission through...
US-7,471,821 Method and apparatus for registering a known digital object to scanned 3-D model
Method and apparatus for registering an object of known predetermined geometry to scanned three dimensional data such that the object's location may be verified....
US-7,471,820 Correction method for defects in imagers
A method and apparatus that allows for the identification and correction of defective pixels and/or pixel clusters in an imaging device. The method, and...
US-7,471,819 Position detecting apparatus, a position detecting method and an electronic component carrying apparatus
A position detecting apparatus for detecting a position of an electronic component, which includes a terminal, includes an image acquiring unit for acquiring an...
US-7,471,818 Lockbox imaging system
A system and method for imaging and capturing information from checks and documents contained in a lockbox remittance. A computer workstation is used to generate...
US-7,471,817 Method for performing interactions on microscopic subjects that change in space and time, and system therefor
The method and the system simplify moving interactions by means of virtual reference subjects and flux-based coordinate transformations in order to generate a...
US-7,471,816 Virtual resolution enhancement in diagnostic imaging using FEA
A method is described for achieving resolutions beyond the resolution of a diagnostic imaging using multilevel computational analysis. This is accomplished by...
US-7,471,815 Candidate generation for lung nodule detection
A computer-implemented method for candidate generation in three-dimensional volumetric data comprises forming a binary volumetric image of the three-dimensional...
US-7,471,814 Curved-slab maximum intensity projections
A method to define a curved slab region of interest that includes vessels while maximally excluding surrounding soft tissue and bone is provided. The thickness...
US-7,471,813 Systems and methods for correction of scatter in images
A method for correction of scatter in an image includes receiving data of an image having a scatter characteristic, performing a deconvolution procedure on the...
US-7,471,812 Fingerprint symmetry axis extraction method and fingerprint recognition method using fingerprint symmetry axis
A fingerprint symmetry axis extraction method is provided. The method includes detecting a core point of a fingerprint, setting imaginary symmetry axes...
US-7,471,811 Image pickup apparatus and fingerprint recognition apparatus
An image pickup apparatus is provided which performs correction of shading without performing correction of an image signal with a complicated algorithm or a...
US-7,471,810 Renewal method and renewal apparatus for an IC card having biometrics authentication functions
A renewal apparatus for an IC card, which utilizes biometrics information to perform individual authentication, prevents the divulgence of biometrics data during...
US-7,471,809 Method, apparatus, and program for processing stereo image
A method for processing a stereo image is provided which includes the steps of setting a specified area of a base window with reference to a point for obtaining...
US-7,471,808 Image sensing device, image processing apparatus and method, and memory medium
An image sensing device of this invention corrects sensitivity nonuniformity of an image sensing element. This image sensing device has an image sensing element...
US-7,471,807 Digital watermark detection method and apparatus
An image size reduction unit reduces the image size of an input image signal, thereby generating a size-reduced image signal. A specific frequency component...
US-7,471,806 Method, apparatus and computer program for inserting a watermarking program into an image processing program
At every reproduction of a moving image, a tamper resistant module (TRM) randomly selects any one of plural electronic watermark inserting modules, and...
US-7,471,805 Hearing aid mechanism
A hearing aid includes a sound input device, and a speaker, wherein the speaker includes a compartment with magnet suspended in a fluid containing magnetic...
US-7,471,804 Flat panel monitor frame with integral speakers
A flat panel monitor frame (10) with integrated speakers (26) as well as planar speakers (50a, 50b, 50c) for facilitating a consumer's selection of an aesthetic...
US-7,471,803 Integrated electro acoustic equipment with portable compact construction for sound applications
The present invention refers to an integrated electro acoustic equipment, characterised by the fact that it uses the parallelepiped case of the main loudspeaker...
US-7,471,802 Boundary microphone
There is provided a boundary microphone especially suitable for outdoor applications, which has strong waterproof and high wind noise resistance. In a boundary...
US-7,471,801 Device for the generation of or monitoring of vibrations
The present invention relates to an electromagnetic vibrator of variable reluctance type, according to a new principle which provides higher efficiency, smaller...
US-7,471,800 Wax barrier system
A customizable cerumen guard for a hearing aid having a shell, a receiver, a receiver tube, and aperture in the shell communicating with the receiver tube,...
US-7,471,799 Method for noise reduction and microphonearray for performing noise reduction
Method of noise reduction in a hearing aid or a listening device to be used by a hearing impaired person in which the noise reduction is provided primarily in...
US-7,471,798 Microphone array having a second order directional pattern
A directional microphone system is disclosed, which comprises circuitry for low pass filtering a first order signal, and circuitry for high pass filtering a...
US-7,471,797 Networked sound masking system with centralized sound masking generation
A sound masking system for shaping the ambient noise level in a physical environment. The sound masking system comprises a networked and distributed system...
US-7,471,796 Apparatus for and method of controlling propagation of decryption keys
A security system for controlling access to encrypted information, comprising: a memory for storing at least one decryption key for use in decrypting an...
US-7,471,795 Information transmission system
A sending apparatus generates a first initial vector, a second initial vector, and an encryption key in response to a pseudo random number. Original information...
US-7,471,794 Network lock method and related apparatus with ciphered network lock and inerasable deciphering key
The method includes: associating different cell phones to different enciphering and deciphering keys of an asymmetric encryption algorithm. Access information of...
US-7,471,793 Method and apparatus for use in encrypted communication
A method and apparatus for secure distribution of cryptographic key information based on quantum cryptography is described. The apparatus incorporates or is used...
US-7,471,792 Key agreement system, shared-key generation apparatus, and shared-key recovery apparatus
Provided is a content distribution system that prevents different keys to be derived between an encryption apparatus and a decryption apparatus. A random-number...
US-7,471,791 Method for countermeasure in an electronic component using a secret key algorithm
A countermeasure method in an electronic component using a secret key algorithm K on an input message M executes an operation O.sub.PN(D) on input data D. A...
US-7,471,790 Encryption method, cryptogram decoding method, encryptor, cryptogram decoder, and communication system
An encryption technique having a greater encryption strength than conventional mathematical encryption by using classic physical random numbers etc., including a...
US-7,471,789 Encryption circuit achieving higher operation speed
An addition and subtraction circuit performs addition and subtraction using a carry-in signal from another operation circuit, and outputs a carry-out signal...
US-7,471,788 Echo cancellers for sparse channels
The present invention is an echo canceller for sparse channels in an echo channel. The echo channel receives a far-end input and a near-end input. An enable...
US-7,471,787 Method of operating a distributed call progress tone detection system
A method of operating a distributed call progress tone detection system. In one embodiment, the method includes: (1) receiving requests from an application over...
US-7,471,786 Interactive voice response system with partial human monitoring
The present invention enables service agents in a call center to monitor portions of calls that are especially error-prone (e.g., automated speech recognition of...
US-7,471,785 Method and system for controlling outside incoming call transfer in network-connected private branch exchanges
A system comprising a plurality of network-connected private branch exchanges (PBXs), wherein an outside originating route of a transfer source terminal is...
US-7,471,784 Dialed number service routing in a telephone network by reference to a database
In accordance with an improved call routing methodology, a call is routed within a communication network by reference to one or more databases. In response to...
US-7,471,783 Method and system for replicating ring back tones
The present invention, in one aspect, relates to a method for replicating ring back tone (RBT). In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of sending a...
US-7,471,782 Pro-active features for telephony
A system is provided for pro-actively suggesting communication features to users, comprising a tuple space for facilitating collaboration among software agents,...
US-7,471,781 Billing data interface for conferencing customers
A billing data interface provides billing data to customers in an accurate and efficient manner. Billing data is processed to preserve client billing information...
US-7,471,780 Configurable profiling of data
In one embodiment, a method of configurably profiling data uses system comprising a pre-processor, a profiler, a post-processor and database. The pre-processor...
US-7,471,779 Communication control method and communication apparatus
A communication apparatus is adapted to carry out a real-time network facsimile communication with an other party's apparatus via a packet network based on ITU-T...
US-7,471,778 Private branch exchange
A private branch exchange (PBX) capable of transmitting and receiving an E-mail over a network is provided. The PBX includes an interface for communicating with...
US-7,471,777 Indirect DSL over loaded and unloaded loops
Indirect digital subscriber line (DSL) service generally involves connecting conversion equipment that converts between DSL service delivered to a customer...
US-7,471,776 System and method for communication with an interactive voice response system
Described is a system and method for communicating using a telecommunications device which includes an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system. The ASR system...
US-7,471,775 Method and apparatus for generating and updating a voice tag
A method and apparatus (100) for updating a voice tag comprising N stored voice tag phoneme sequences includes a function (110) for determining (205) an accepted...
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