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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-7,551,778 |
Business form processing program, method, and device A business form processing program to cause a computer to execute a character box-image reading step for reading by a scanner all colors of a business form with... |
| US-7,551,777 |
Method and system for displaying large data signals Displaying a large data signal includes processing the input data to generate sets of hierarchical multi-resolution histograms that capture the frequency... |
| US-7,551,776 |
Histogram generation apparatus and method for operating the same Histogram circuitry is provided to increment a tonal value tally corresponding to received pixel data without immediately writing the incremented tally back to a... |
| US-7,551,775 |
Method for evaluating an image of a predetermined extract of a printed
product A method for evaluating an image of a predetermined extract of a printed product makes corrections to a white reference to account for spatial variations and... |
| US-7,551,774 |
Image processing apparatus, and image processing method An image processing apparatus for correcting a hue and a saturation in an input video signal of a moving picture in real time is disclosed wherein the image... |
| US-7,551,773 |
Encoding image data using mask lookup table and decoding such encoded
image data In one aspect, an image is quantized by assigning sub-ranges of pixel values in the image to respective quantization levels. The quantized image is encoded based... |
| US-7,551,772 |
Blur estimation in a digital image A method performed by a processing system is provided. The method comprises computing an auto-correlation of sharp channel information of a digital image,... |
| US-7,551,771 |
Methods, systems, and computer program products for acquiring
three-dimensional range information Methods, systems, and computer program products for acquiring three-dimensional range information are disclosed. According to one aspect, acquiring... |
| US-7,551,770 |
Image conversion and encoding techniques for displaying stereoscopic 3D
images A method of producing a depth map for use in the conversion of 2D images into stereoscopic images including the steps of: identifying at least one object within... |
| US-7,551,769 |
Data structures and algorithms for precise defect location by analyzing
artifacts Described are methods and systems for providing improved defect detection and analysis using infrared thermography. Test vectors heat features of a device under... |
| US-7,551,768 |
Image recognition apparatus and method for surface discrimination using
reflected light In an image recognition method, the image of a cream solder 9 printed on a rectangular electrode 16 having a solder leveler formed is picked up and recognized to... |
| US-7,551,767 |
Pattern inspection apparatus A pattern inspection apparatus uses a die-to-database comparison method which compares detected pattern data obtained from an optical image of a pattern of a... |
| US-7,551,766 |
Apparatus and method for inspecting golf balls using threshold analysis A method for inspecting golf balls is disclosed. An imager such as a camera captures a digital image of the golf ball. The golf ball image is separated into... |
| US-7,551,765 |
Electronic component detection system The present invention provides a method and a system for determining whether a target component of an electronic assembly is assembled correctly. The method of... |
| US-7,551,764 |
Currency bill and coin processing system A system for processing currency and other media includes a compact currency bill processing device, a coin scale, and a controlling device. The compact currency... |
| US-7,551,763 |
Methods for altering one or more parameters of a measurement system Methods for altering one or more parameters of a measurement system are provided. One method includes analyzing a sample using the system to generate values from... |
| US-7,551,762 |
Method and system for automatic vision inspection and classification of
microarray slides The present invention provides a unique low cost vision inspection and classification system and methods for automatic inspection and classification of a... |
| US-7,551,761 |
Method and apparatus for fast automatic centerline extraction for virtual
endoscopy A method for automatic centerline extraction for a virtual endoscopy image of an organ having a boundary surface includes centering on selected points of an... |
| US-7,551,760 |
Registration of 3D imaging of 3D objects A three-dimensional-based modeling method and system designed for dentistry and related medical (and appropriate non-medical) applications. Data capture means... |
| US-7,551,759 |
Target identification using time-based data sets A system includes acquisition of a first image of a portion of a body, the first image representing the portion during a first phase of motion, acquisition of a... |
| US-7,551,758 |
Medical viewing system and method for detecting borders of an object of
interest in noisy images The invention relates to a viewing system and a method for detecting an object of interest in a sequence of images (IS). Said object of interest is detected by... |
| US-7,551,757 |
Method for determining the bearing surface in skin print images In a method for determining the bearing surface in images of skin prints, the skin having ridges and furrows and the images existing in the form of image data,... |
| US-7,551,756 |
Process and device for detecting faces in a colour image The invention relates to a device and a process for detecting faces in a colour image. The process is such that it comprises the steps of: detection of the flesh... |
| US-7,551,755 |
Classification and organization of consumer digital images using workflow,
and face detection and recognition A processor-based system operating according to digitally-embedded programming instructions includes a face detection module for identifying face regions within... |
| US-7,551,754 |
Method and apparatus for selective rejection of digital images An unsatisfactory scene is disqualified as an image acquisition control for a camera. An image is acquired. One or more regions of facial or other key features... |
| US-7,551,753 |
Image processing apparatus and method therefor When a document image printed by freely editing and processing image data is to be copied, the user may want to copy the edited/processed image or copy an... |
| US-7,551,752 |
Systems and methods for authenticating objects using multiple-level image
encoding and decoding A method of producing a digital multiple-level encoded image is presented. The method comprises obtaining a digital authentication image, obtaining a first... |
| US-7,551,751 |
Watermarking images with wavepackets encoded by intensity and/or phase
variations A phase space encoded watermark is applied to an image to guard against counterfeiting and/or unauthorized copying. The watermark is formed of wavepackets. An... |
| US-7,551,750 |
Holographic digital watermark A digital watermark which is incorporated, perceptibly or imperceptibly, into a diffractive device such as a hologram. When applied to protect and/or... |
| US-7,551,749 |
Baffle vibration reducing An electro-acoustic transducer includes a magnet assembly having a first magnetic flux gap and a second magnetic flux gap. A first voice coil is positioned in... |
| US-7,551,748 |
Earphone The receiver unit includes a receiver body, a housing containing this receiver body, a cord connected to the receiver body, and a cord protector for protecting... |
| US-7,551,747 |
Perforated cap for a hearing aid Embodiments of the invention provide a protective cap assembly for a CIC hearing aid. The assembly comprises a perforated cap configured to be mounted over the... |
| US-7,551,746 |
Drive unit for electro-acoustic converter with radially magnetized
permanent magnetic bars An electro-acoustic drive unit includes at least one permanent magnet assembly and at least an inner pole piece and an outer pole piece forming a pair of pole... |
| US-7,551,745 |
Volume and compression control in movie theaters A single control determines both volume and the degree of compression in the reproduction of motion picture soundtracks. For some settings of the control,... |
| US-7,551,744 |
Display showing waveform of an audio signal and corresponding dynamic
volume adjustments A DSP (digital signal processor) processor having a gain reduction function processes an audio input signal to produce a current audio meter value, and a current... |
| US-7,551,743 |
Noise reduction apparatus and audio output apparatus The FM broadcast is received and the FM demodulated FM composite signal is stereo demodulated, and when the high band components of the demodulated signal are... |
| US-7,551,742 |
Acoustic signal-processing apparatus and method A band-dividing unit is operable to extract a low frequency component from an input signal in order to generate overtones based on the extracted low frequency... |
| US-7,551,741 |
System and method for 3D sound processing A system for 3D sound processing. The system includes a first processing section including a first left lattice filter and a first right lattice filter,... |
| US-7,551,740 |
Weighted secret sharing and reconstructing method A weighted secret sharing and reconstructing method includes encoding the secret using a predetermined code, producing voices so that different weights are... |
| US-7,551,739 |
System and method for container monitoring, real time authentication,
anomaly detection, and alerts An invention is provided for monitoring an item, such as a container. The invention includes a computer in communication with a receiver that receives signals... |
| US-7,551,738 |
Separation of copy protection rules A copyright protection method and apparatus employ a first protection scheme within a single authorized domain, in which all interfaces are protected with... |
| US-7,551,737 |
Cryptographic keys using random numbers instead of random primes A system and method for providing cryptographic keys which are usable in a network of connected computer nodes applying a signature scheme. The method employs:... |
| US-7,551,736 |
Physical layer header scrambling in satellite broadcast systems Methods and apparatuses for minimizing co-channel interference in communications systems are disclosed. A method in accordance with the present invention... |
| US-7,551,735 |
Housing for an electronic device, and method for making the same A housing (100) for an electronic device includes a cover (10) and an elastic keypad (12). The cover includes a plurality of keypad openings (102) defined... |
| US-7,551,734 |
Method and system for modifying a connection parameter The present invention relates to a method and system for modifying at least one connection parameter of a circuit switched terminal device, wherein the at least... |
| US-7,551,733 |
Methods and devices for establishing an area party line service for
telephone calls Methods and devices establish an area party line for telephone calls to provide a geographically based chat forum via a telephone. One method receives telephone... |
| US-7,551,732 |
Centralized voice over IP recording and retrieval method and apparatus The present subject matter is directed to an apparatus and methodology for recording, at a central data center, telephone conversations originating from remote... |
| US-7,551,731 |
Flexible caller ID and calling name information presentation Embodiments of the system, and method provide for network support for providing caller flexibility on "name", "number", and "message" for a calling terminal that... |
| US-7,551,730 |
TV set with a telephone calls-rejecting function A TV set (20) with a function of rejecting telephone calls is provided. The TV set includes a first communication port (201) and a second communication port... |
| US-7,551,729 |
Method and apparatus for increasing channel capacity in an IP-based voice
messaging system A method and apparatus for increasing channel capacity in an Internet-based voice messaging system. Voice messages are stored in client mailboxes in the voice... |
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