Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
382206000 | Global features (e.g., measurements on image as a whole, such as area, projections, etc.) | 23 |
20080205768 | Method and system for optimizing business location selection - A method and system for making predictions about business locations. The method includes providing a spatial map and analyzing heterogeneous data having a spatial component to find utilizable data. Relationships are automatically extracted from the utilizable data. The step of automatically extracting relationships includes generating a composite indicator, which correlates spatial data with unstructured data. The extracted relationships are presented on a spatial map to make a prediction about at least one business location. Preferably, the predictions are presented as a rank-ordered list on the spatial map and a heat map overlays the spatial map to indicate predictions about particular regions. | 08-28-2008 |
20090324096 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GROUPING SCANNED PAGES USING AN IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus and method for grouping pages with an image processing apparatus includes scanning each of a plurality of pages, detecting one or more features of each of the scanned pages, and grouping each of the plurality of scanned pages into at least first and second groups based on the detected features. Each of the at least first and second groups comprises at least one of the plurality of scanned pages. | 12-31-2009 |
20100008588 | MULTIPLE CHANNEL LOCATING - Methods, systems, and apparatuses are provided for estimating a location on an object in a three-dimensional scene. Multiple radiation patterns are produced by spatially modulating each of multiple first radiations with a distinct combination of one or more modulating structures, each first radiation having at least one of a distinct radiation path, a distinct source, a distinct source spectrum, or a distinct source polarization with respect to the other first radiations. The location on the object is illuminated with a portion of each of two or more of the radiation patterns, the location producing multiple object radiations, each object radiation produced in response to one of the multiple radiation patterns. Multiple measured values are produced by detecting the object radiations from the location on the object due to each pattern separately using one or more detector elements. The location on the object is estimated based on the multiple measured values. | 01-14-2010 |
20100034467 | IMAGE RECOGNITION AND DISTANCE CALCULATION METHODS AND DEVICES - Image recognition and distance calculation methods and devices are provided. First, an image corresponding to a level ruler is obtained, wherein the image includes a first predefined scale and a second predefined scale projected on the level ruler. Then, a baseline height of a baseline mark in the level ruler is determined according to the image. The heights of the first predefined scale and the second predefined scale are calculated according to the baseline height of the baseline mark, the position of the baseline mark in the image, and the positions of the first predefined scale and the second predefined scale in the image. Thereafter, a distance to the level ruler is calculated according to a height difference between the heights of the first predefined scale and the second predefined scale. | 02-11-2010 |
20100098340 | Method And A System For Lenticular Printing - A method of selecting images for lenticular printing. The method comprises receiving a sequence having a plurality of images, selecting a segment of the sequence according to one or more lenticular viewing measures, and outputting the segment for allowing the lenticular printing. | 04-22-2010 |
20100209002 | METHOD FOR OPTICAL MEASUREMENT OF THE THREE DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRY OF OBJECTS - The invention relates to a method for optically scanning the three-dimensional geometry of an object by means of triangulation, in which a pattern ( | 08-19-2010 |
20100232711 | IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DETERMINING SIZE OF ORIGINAL DOCUMENT - An image scanning apparatus arranged to press an original document placed on a glass plate by a platen cover and to scan the original document by a line sensor includes a light source used when scanning image information, a first detection sensor arranged to detect as a first timing a state in which the cover is opened at, for example, an angle of 20 degrees, a second detection sensor arranged to detect as a second timing a state, for example, that is immediately before the cover closes the glass plate, and an original document size determining unit arranged to determine the size of the original document based on the differential data, which is calculated from first image information scanned at the first timing and second image information scanned at the second timing. | 09-16-2010 |
20100266212 | Estimating Vanishing Points in Images - A digital image is processed to provide an estimation of the position in the image plane of a vanishing point. The processing includes detecting pairs of similar image patches and identifying a concurrent set of straight virtual lines that substantially converge at a point on the image plane, each line passing through a pair of similar image patches within the image. | 10-21-2010 |
20120027310 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING EXTRACTED PLANE FEATURES - Systems and methods for processing extracted plane features are provided. In one embodiment, a method for processing extracted plane features includes: estimating an area of each plane of a plurality of planes extracted from data collected by an imaging sensor; generating a list of detected planes including the area of each plane; filtering the list of detected planes to produce a list of candidates for merger, filtering the list of detected planes discarding any plane not satisfying an actual points received criteria; applying a primary merge algorithm to the list of candidates for merger that iteratively produces a list of merged planes by testing hypothetical merged planes against a merging criteria, the hypothetical merged planes each comprising a plane from the list of merged planes and a plane from the list of candidates for merger; and outputting a final list of planes. | 02-02-2012 |
20120308144 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - A clustering unit obtains a distance between a local motion vector obtained per block of a predetermined size and a representative motion vector for each of clusters stored in a delay buffer, classifies the local motion vector into a cluster to which the motion vector having the shortest distance belongs, and outputs the information of the classified clusters and the local motion vectors. Average value calculation units accumulate an average motion vector by accumulating the local motion vectors of the respective clusters, and output the average motion vector as a motion vector representing the cluster. A global motion vector determination unit outputs the motion vector having the largest number of elements in its cluster among the motion vectors representing the clusters as the global motion vector. The present technology may be applied an image processing device. | 12-06-2012 |
20130195367 | APPLIANCE CONTROL APPARATUS, METHOD THEREOF AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - An appliance control apparatus recognizes image features of an target appliance from an obtained image, calculates a degree of similarity between the image features of the target appliance and image features of a registered appliance, specifies the registered appliance corresponding to the image features in the case where the degree of similarity indicates a high similarity as the target appliance; calls up control information of the specified target appliance, and controls the target appliance. | 08-01-2013 |
20130243339 | PICTURE DATA PROVISION SYSTEM - Picture data provision systems, methods, and programs provide picture data of an aerially-photographed ground surface to a picture using device. The systems, methods, and programs access determination target picture data that is the data of the aerially-photographed ground surface, and determine a recognition difficult portion within the determination target picture data. The recognition difficult portion is a portion of the determination target picture data where recognizing the ground surface is difficult. The systems, methods, and programs determine whether the determination target picture data is recognized as provision target picture data based on feature information and a determination result of the recognition difficult portion of the determination target picture data. The feature information is information regarding a feature included in determination corresponding map data and including position information of each feature. The determination corresponding map data is map data of a ground surface area corresponding to the determination target picture data. | 09-19-2013 |
20130279814 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - One of different channels is selected using the pixel values of a plurality of pixels in partial images of a predetermined channel in a current set assigned to a currently referred node. The partial image of the selected channel is set as a target partial image. A node corresponding to the pixel values of a plurality of pixels in the target partial image is selected out of nodes under the currently referred node. The current set is assigned to the selected node. Information about the set assigned to the end node is output. | 10-24-2013 |
20140119666 | HEURISTIC METHOD FOR SCENE CUT DETECTION IN DIGITAL BASEBAND VIDEO - A video detector for detecting scene changes in a video according to embodiments includes an input for accepting the video, a difference metric calculator for computing a difference metric between two adjacent video frames, and an outlier detector to detect whether an output of the difference metric calculator contains measurements outside of a threshold level of standard deviations of a Gaussian distribution. Methods are also described. | 05-01-2014 |
20140147051 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WEBPAGE REGRESSION TESTING - A regression testing system comprises an automatic test tool configured to capture a first web screen shot and a second web screen shot of a webpage, where the webpage has undergone an update or edit. The regression testing system also comprises a visual comparator configured to identify similar areas in the first web screen shot and the second web screen shot. The visual comparator receives, and compares characteristics of, the web screen shots. Furthermore, the regression testing system generates a report with marked different characteristics between the first and second web screen shots. The regression testing system identifies similar areas in the first and second web screen shots shot even if the similar areas are at different locations within the web screen shots. The comparison performed by the visual comparator includes performing a pixel comparison combined with a marking algorithm to group differences in smaller, related but separate areas. | 05-29-2014 |
20140185942 | Imaging System for Determining Multi-View Alignment - A computer-implemented method which may be used with imaging systems is provided. The method may include receiving a first image from a first device configured to generate the first image based upon, at least in part, a first portion of an item. The method may further include receiving a second image from a second device configured to generate the second image based upon, at least in part, a second portion of the item. The method may also include extracting one or more features from the first image and the second image in a multi-view calibration space wherein the one or more features share a global coordinate system. The method may further include applying a global constraints embedded Hough transform to the one or more features present in the first image and the second image. | 07-03-2014 |
20140212051 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING CONTENT CAPTURE OF PROHIBITED CONTENT - Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, and storage mediums associated with controlling content capture of prohibited content on remote devices, are disclosed. In embodiments, components of a remote device may receive image data of an image captured by the remote device and analyze the image data to determine whether the image includes prohibited content. In embodiments, the remote device may conditionally display or persistently store the image data, based at least in part on a result of the analysis. | 07-31-2014 |
20150055878 | IMAGE RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE RETRIEVAL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image retrieval system includes an obtaining unit that obtains a query image, a specifying information extracting unit that extracts, from the query image, specifying information which specifies an image group as a retrieval target, a feature information extracting unit that extracts, from the query image, feature information to be used in image retrieval processing, and a retrieval unit that performs the image retrieval processing on retrieval target images specified by the specifying information, using the feature information. | 02-26-2015 |
20150139555 | SHOE IMAGE RETRIEVAL APPARATUS AND METHOD USING MATCHING PAIR - Provided are a shoe image retrieval apparatus and method using a matching pair, which can accurately retrieve image information corresponding to an inputted image from the database and provide the retrieved image information, by normalizing a correspondence relation in consideration of geometric image transformation about the matching pair and allowing a similar image to be retrieved by applying the normalized correspondence relation. It is possible to detect optimum geometric image transformation from a matching pair between the inputted shoe image and the image stored in the database and simultaneously retrieve a plurality of objects in the inputted shoe image based on the detected geometric image transformation, thereby providing an efficient shoe retrieval service. | 05-21-2015 |
20160004919 | IMAGE PROCESSOR WITH EVALUATION LAYER IMPLEMENTING SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE ALGORITHMS OF DIFFERENT PRECISION - An image processor comprises image processing circuitry implementing a plurality of processing layers including at least an evaluation layer and a recognition layer. The evaluation layer comprises a software-implemented portion and a hardware-implemented portion, with the software-implemented portion of the evaluation layer being configured to generate first object data of a first precision level using a software algorithm, and the hardware-implemented portion of the evaluation layer being configured to eV generate second object data of a second precision level lower than the first precision level using a hardware algorithm. The evaluation layer further comprises a signal combiner configured to combine the first and second object data to generate output object data for delivery to the recognition layer. By way of example only, the evaluation layer may be implemented in the form of an evaluation subsystem of a gesture recognition system of the image processor. | 01-07-2016 |
20160034757 | Generating an Academic Topic Graph from Digital Documents - Documents of a content management system are classified into a hierarchical taxonomy comprising a hierarchy of nodes, such that each document is associated with a node in the hierarchical taxonomy. For each of a plurality of topics extracted from the documents, a topic extraction system determines an affinity of the topic to respective nodes of the hierarchical taxonomy. Based on the determined affinities, a topic graph is generated for display to a user. The topic graph identifies one or more nodes of the hierarchical taxonomy and a plurality of topics associated with each of the one or more nodes, and each topic is linked to a corresponding node in the topic graph. Responsive to receiving a selection of a topic in the topic graph, identifiers of documents from which the selected topic was extracted are displayed. | 02-04-2016 |
20160078311 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - [Object] To obtain a more useful image when an image including a 360° view around the camera is used without being remapped. | 03-17-2016 |
20170236287 | Object Segmentation, Including Sky Segmentation | 08-17-2017 |