43rd week of 2008 patent applcation highlights part 36 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20080260182 | Sound Recording Console - The invention relates to a console | 2008-10-23 |
20080260183 | Communication Method for Vacuum Tube Replacement Devices - Methods are provided for solid-state implementation of a vacuum tube replacement device (VTRD) that includes a communication interface. The communication interface enables the VTRD to command or retrieve information regarding VTRD performance, function, and status. A VTRD may communicate with other VTRDs in a target amplifier retrofitted with compatible VTRDs and to an external user interface for programming or query/response. The methods presented for the vacuum tube replacement device system(s) are equally useful for non-vacuum tube systems such as audio amplifier circuits. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260184 | Virtual Recording Studio - A virtual recording studio is formed based on information from a number of different locations. One instrument may be located locally, and other instruments may be located remotely, for example accessible over the Internet. The remote instruments may be combined with outputs from other instruments, to create a virtual recording studio where parts of it are available over the Internet. An electronic music component may also be used. The remote and local capture information may also include cameras that capture video information or still image information and combines those parts together, either with each other, or with another part. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260185 | Method And Apparatus For Automatically Detecting Audio Signal And Sending Control Signal - An apparatus and method for automatically detecting an audio signal and sending a control signal are provided. The present invention is for automatically detecting an audio signal from a conventional IC, and controlling the power amplifier of the driving speaker or the switch of other external circuit. The apparatus at least includes an audio detection circuit and a reset/delay circuit. The audio detection circuit is connected to an audio signal from a conventional IC to detect the presence of the audio signal. The reset/delay circuit, after receiving an output signal from the audio detection circuit, can either reset the reset/delay circuit, or send a control signal after delaying for a period of time. The apparatus of the present invention can also be integrated into the external circuit, such as a power amplifier, to simplify the control to the external circuit by the conventional IC so as to switch off the external circuit to save power when there is no presence of the audio signal. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260186 | Speaker - A speaker included in a speaker unit has a conical diaphragm. An end of a substantially circular cylindrical wall member is secured to the large-diameter end of the diaphragm. The inner surface of the wall member is arranged substantially parallel to a direction in which the diaphragm vibrates. Audio signals input to a voice coil cause the diaphragm and the wall member to vibrate in a direction that is substantially perpendicular to a surface of a cabinet. This causes air in front of the diaphragm to be compressed and then released. A shock that occurs when the compressed air is released propagates and is perceived as sound. The wall member prevents leakage of the compressed air from the front to the side of the diaphragm. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260187 | Devices and systems including transducers - A device includes a substrate and a transducer attached to the substrate, wherein the substrate includes a surface to which the transducer is attached and at least one edge member extending along at least a portion of the outside edge of the surface. The surface can be a generally planar surface. The edge member is stiffer than the surface. In several embodiments, the transducer is adapted to vibrate. The transducer can, for example, be selected from the group consisting of a piezoelectric transducer, an electrostrictive transducer and a magnetostrictive transducer. Preferably, the transducer is attached to the surface of the substrate by a metallic bonding agent and, more particularly, by welding. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260188 | Acoustic Diaphragm and Speaker Having the Same - Disclosed herein is an acoustic diaphragm for converting electrical signals into mechanical signals to produce sounds. The acoustic diaphragm comprises carbon nanotubes or graphite nanofibers as major materials. Preferably, the carbon nanotubes or graphite nanofibers are included or dispersed in the acoustic diaphragm. Since the acoustic diaphragm has excellent physical properties in terms of elastic modulus, internal loss and strength, it can effectively achieve superior sound quality and high output in a particular frequency band as well as in a broad frequency band. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260189 | Hearing Aid Comprising Sound Tracking Means - Sound reproduction system, for example a hearing aid system, comprising:—a direction dependent sound detection system ( | 2008-10-23 |
20080260190 | HEARING AID AND METHOD OF OPERATING A HEARING AID - A hearing aid is provided which has at least one input transducer for providing an input signal, at least one signal processing channel receiving at least a portion of said input signal, a hearing aid processor for processing said portion of said input signal to produce at least one output signal, an output transducer responsive to said output signal, and a data logger receiving said portion of said input signal for logging of input signal data. The data logger comprises a characterisation unit for characterising and logging parameters of the input signal data, and a memory unit for storing said parameters. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260191 | EXTERNAL EAR CANAL VOICE DETECTION - Ear-level full duplex audio communication systems each include one or two ear attachment devices, such as in-the-ear (ITE) or behind-the-ear (BTE) devices, that wirelessly communicates to a remote device such as a computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a cellular phone, a walkie talkie, or a language translator. When used as a hearing aid, such a system allows a hearing impaired individual to communicate with or through the remote device, such as to talk to another person through a cellular phone. When being used as an ear piece wirelessly extended from the remote device, such system allows an individual with normal hearing to privately communicate with or through the remote device without the need of holding the device or wearing any device wired to the remote device. Each ear attachment device includes a voice operated exchange (VOX), housed within the device, to preserve energy and hence, maximize the period between battery replacement or recharges. The VOX also gates various sounds detected by the system to control possible echoes and ringing. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260192 | REAL EAR MEASUREMENT SYSTEM USING THIN TUBE - An embodiment of a hearing assistance apparatus for performing a Real Ear Measurement (REM), comprises a hearing assistance device housing, a microphone within the housing, an earhook connected to the housing, and a flexible tube. The house has a first opening for guiding sound into the housing to the microphone. The housing and the connected earhook form an interface, where the earhook has a shape to provide a slot near the interface of the housing and the earhook. The tube guides sound, and has a first end and a second end. The first end of the flexible tube and the slot of the earhook cooperate to retain the first end of the flexible tube in the slot of the earhook and flush with the housing to provide a sound-tight connection with the first opening. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260193 | INTERCHANGEABLE ACOUSTIC SYSTEM FOR A HEARING AID, AND A HEARING AID - An acoustic system ( | 2008-10-23 |
20080260194 | MICROPHONE SLEEVE - A microphone sleeve for a handheld microphone can be used to alter the overall appearance of a microphone and/or to make a microphone easier to hold, handle, and/or grip. A sleeve encloses at least a portion of a microphone's body, without interfering with the microphone's audio receiving end, controls, wires, or antennas. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260195 | Flexible transmit voice tube - A hollow gooseneck or other flexible transmit voice tube for a headset for use in telecommunications, telephony, and/or multimedia applications is disclosed. The voice tube may generally include a kink-resistant flexible tubular, e.g., gooseneck, member having an open end and an opposing end for coupling to a microphone, the flexible tubular member being bendable into a curvilinear operative shape and generally retains its curvilinear operative shape throughout its operative use until further adjustment is made thereto, and a lumen defined by the flexible tubular member extending between the open and opposing ends for acoustic transmission between the open end and the microphone. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260196 | Earphone receiving structure - An earphone receiving structure includes a housing and an earphone. The housing has an opening slot. The opening slot is formed by an indent formed inwards from one end of the housing. There is a pair of pivoting holes in the opening slot, and a plurality of concave portions on the inner surface of the pair of the pivoting holes. The earphone has a pair of pivoting shafts. The pair of pivoting shafts is pivoted in the pivoting holes. There is at least one convex portion on the outer surface of the pair of pivoting shafts. The convex portion fits in the concave portions. The earphone is received in the opening slot and can be rotated to the outside of the opening slot. Thereby, the earphone can be received in the housing to prevent the connection point of the earphone from being broken due to external forces. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260197 | Adjustable earhook - An earhook adapted to fit on a user ear. In an embodiment of the invention, the earhook includes a first portion having a fixed first curvature and a second portion having an adjustable second curvature for grasping a user ear. The second portion may be adjustably coupled together with the first portion with a coupling mechanism so that the second curvature is adjusted to suit a user preference. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260198 | HEADSET - Communication unit comprising a housing ( | 2008-10-23 |
20080260199 | Authenticity Verification Methods, Products and Apparatuses - A method and apparatus for determining a class signature from an article made of paper or cardboard in order to identify a generic type of class to which the article belongs. An optical beam illuminates the article and a detector arrangement collects data points from light scattered from many different parts of the article as the article is scanned by the beam. The class signature derives from intrinsic properties imparted to the paper/cardboard during manufacture by, it is believed, the screen used during dewatering of paper pulp. Detection of the class signature allows the manufacturer or the particular paper making machine that made the paper to be identified. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260200 | Image Processing Method and Image Processing Device - This invention provides an image processing method and image processing device capable of detecting a falsification with high accuracy. A watermarked image inputting part | 2008-10-23 |
20080260201 | Digital Watermarking Apparatus and Methods - The present invention relates to various digital watermarking methods and systems. In one embodiment, monetary objects can be watermarked to signify currency denomination information. The information, once extracted, is used to provide feedback regarding the currency denomination. An audio signal or Braille output can be provided as feedback. In another embodiment, a document management system can be based on watermarks. Embedded watermarks can be used to track document history, determine document version information, and enhance overall security. Handheld computing devices can be advantageously employed with these embodiments. Of course, other embodiments are provided and claimed as well. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260202 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING PHOTOREALISTIC MOSAICS - Systems and methods for constructing photorealistic mosaics are described. One embodiment of the invention includes capturing an image of a sheet that includes a plurality of pieces of material, determining the location of each piece of material on the sheet from the captured image, extracting images of each piece of material on the sheet from the captured image, storing an image of each piece of material and information concerning the location of the piece of material in a database and using the images in the database and the target image to identify pieces of material to be used in the construction of the photorealistic mosaic. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260203 | System and apparatus for evaluating the reliability of a watermarking technique for a video sequence - A system and apparatus for evaluating the reliability of a watermarking technique for a video sequence, said system and apparatus comprising:
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20080260204 | Apparatus For and Method of Measuring Image - An image measuring apparatus for enhancing an accuracy of an image captured by an optical system and a method thereof are disclosed. The apparatus includes a CCD camera for capturing the object and outputting the captured image, a lamp for generating white light to illuminate a capturing area of the object, an illumination controller for controlling the lamp to be turned on, a piezoelectric actuator for controlling a minute height of the optical system with respect to the object, an image capturing device for acquiring the image captured by the CCD camera, a driving signal generator for outputting a driving signal to the illumination controller and the piezoelectric actuator when an enable signal is generated from the CCD camera, and an image signal processor for estimating height information of the object from data transmitted from the image capturing unit. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260205 | Image Processing Device and Method - The present invention relates to an image processing device and a corresponding image processing method for processing medical image data showing at least two image objects, including a segmentation unit for detection and/or segmentation of image objects in said image data. To allow a more accurate and better segmentation of target objects which are hard to localize and detect, it is proposed that the segmentation unit comprises: a selection unit ( | 2008-10-23 |
20080260206 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An image processing apparatus includes a feature-quantity calculating unit that calculates feature quantities of target regions each indicating a tracking object in respective target images, the target images being obtained by capturing the tracking object at a plurality of time points; a provisional-tracking processing unit that performs provisional tracking of the target region by associating the target regions of the target images with each other using the calculated feature quantities; and a final-tracking processing unit that acquires a final tracking result of the target region based on a result of the provisional tracking. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260207 | Vehicle environment monitoring apparatus - A vehicle environment monitoring apparatus capable of extracting an image of a monitored object in an environment around a vehicle by separating the same from the background image with a simple configuration having a single camera mounted on the vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes a first image portion extracting processing unit to extract first image portions (A | 2008-10-23 |
20080260208 | Automotive environment monitoring device, vehicle with the automotive environment monitoring device, and automotive environment monitoring program - The present invention provides an automotive environment monitoring device to detect the existence of an object, a pedestrian or the like, with high accuracy even if one part of the object is overlapped with the background of an image obtained from an imaging unit mounted on the vehicle. An area where the object exists in the image obtained from an infrared camera ( | 2008-10-23 |
20080260209 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A location predicting unit predicts a composing location based on the composing locations corresponding to partial images of one-frame-before and two-frames-before the current partial image on an assumption that the above partial image moves at a constant speed, and gives the above predicted value to a combining unit as an initial value. The combining unit moves locations of the current partial image and the one-frame-before partial image pixel by pixel in a predetermined direction starting from the initial value and combines the above partial images each other. A picture element comparing unit and a location determining unit calculate the cumulative value of the brightness differentials between picture elements of the current partial image and the one-frame-before partial image in the overlapped part with respect to each of the combining locations. In the above operation, the calculation of the cumulative value corresponding to the currently-calculated combining location is finished when the above currently-calculated cumulative value exceeds the cumulative value corresponding to the already-calculated combining location. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260210 | TEXT CAPTURE AND PRESENTATION DEVICE - Embodiments of the invention provide devices and methods for capturing text found in a variety of sources and transforming it into a different user-accessible formats or medium. For example, the device can capture text from a magazine and provide it to the user as spoken words through headphones or speakers. Such devices are useful for individuals such as those having reading difficulties (such as dyslexia), blindness, and other visual impairments arising from diabetic retinopathy, cataracts, age-related macular degeneration (AMD), and glaucoma. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260211 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTHENTICATING AN INDIVIDUAL - Systems and methods for employing histological and physiological biometric markers that are substantially unique to an individual in order to activate a device, participate in a transaction, or identify himself or herself, wherein at least one biometric marker is obtained by one or more electrical contacts on the surface of the skin. A biometric identification of an individual is obtained by a heartbeat waveform, which is acquired by one or more direct electrical contacts. A mechanism for biometric authentication is used that includes one or more electrodes, an electrical signal receiver, a memory module, and a processing module. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260212 | System for indicating deceit and verity - An improved method for detecting truth or deceit ( | 2008-10-23 |
20080260213 | FACE IMAGE DETECTION DEVICE, FACE IMAGE DETECTION METHOD AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An face image detection device capable of detecting the location of the face image with high accuracy without increasing time for detecting the location of the face image or electric consumption required for detecting the location of face image includes: a rotated reduced image data generation unit operable to generate n pieces of rotated reduced image data by reducing the input image data and rotating the reduced input image data by 360×i/n, where n is an integer equal to or larger than 2 and i ranges from 0 to n−1, each of the rotated reduced image data is rotated at intervals of 360/n degrees; and a face detection unit operable to detect the location of the face image from among the n pieces of rotated reduced image data. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260214 | Method and Device for Acquiring Biometric Data - The invention refers to a device for collecting biometric data, in particular fingerprints, the device having an optically active detector for recording the surfaces of body regions. In the beam path between the surface and the detector a mirror is provided. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260215 | Fingerprint identification system - The invention discloses a fingerprint identification system including a communication network, a finger-scanning device and a server. The finger-scanning device includes a fingerprint sensor and a transmitting module. The fingerprint sensor is used for scanning a fingerprint, so as to generate a plurality of fingerprint image sections. The transmitting module is used for transmitting each of the fingerprint image sections through the communication network instantly when the fingerprint image section is generated. The server is used for receiving the fingerprint image sections from the communication network, reproducing the fingerprint, and performing identification according to the fingerprint. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260216 | Method for Encrypting and Identifying Fingerprint Image in Fingerprint-Identifying System - A method for fingerprint image encryption and recognition in the fingerprint recognition system includes: inputting a characteristic fingerprint image through a fingerprint acquisition device of the said system by a user as per a selected angle of imaging; extracting characteristic data from said characteristic fingerprint image; and storing said characteristic data in a form of data module to complete the encryption of the fingerprint image. A method of the present invention may change the data information of existing individual fingerprint characteristics by changing the angle of imaging when a fingerprint is input into the system so that the fingerprint image can be encrypted. Thus, the adverse consequences of a stolen fingerprint image can be avoided despite of objective openness of individual fingerprints. Methods of the invention minimize the security risks and protect users' interests. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260217 | System and method for designating a boundary of a vessel in an image - A method and system of applying a fitting function to an element in an image, and determining the segments of the element that are included in an boundary of a blood vessel in the image. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260218 | Medical Imaging Method and System - A computerized method and system for detection and quantification of changes in color on skin or internal tissue or organs within the human body. Digital images of the skin or tissue containing an area of interest are analyzed using the software of the invention, based on at least one channel of the LAB color system. The invention calculates the intensity and distribution of color present within the predetermined area of interest, and results in display of at least one color information attribute. The invention allows color calibration of the image to be performed in relation to a reference label having predetermined colors which surrounds the area of interest, prior to the analysis. The invention allows a threshold analysis to be performed, which graphically depicts the size and location of areas exhibiting significant change in color, which is a determinant factor in medical diagnosis. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260219 | AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINING LANDMARKS ON ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES - An automatic landmark determining device, includes a storage device for storing at least one anatomical sample image and at least one anatomical landmark, the at least one anatomical landmark corresponding to a characteristic location within the at least one anatomical sample image, The automatic landmark determining device also includes an input device for inputting an anatomical patient image, and a transformation device. The transformation device is configured to apply an image-adapting transformation to the at least one anatomical landmark, said image-adapting transformation corresponding to a transformation that converts the at least one anatomical sample image to the anatomical patient image. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260220 | REGISTRATION OF OPTICAL IMAGES OF SMALL ANIMALS - A method for registering a first imaging dataset of a small animal with a second imaging dataset of the animal includes defining a contour of the animal body and dividing it into subregions using skeleton lines. The subregions of the first dataset, once defined, are morphed individually into corresponding subregions of the second dataset. A set of lines may be found for defining each of the subregions, and an index determined which relates the lines of a subregion of the first dataset to those of a corresponding subregion of the second dataset. A pixel index may thereafter be determined for each of the lines, and used to map each pixel of a line to a corresponding list of pixels for the corresponding line of the other dataset. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260221 | System and Method for Lesion Segmentation in Whole Body Magnetic Resonance Images - A method for lesion segmentation in 3-dimensional (3D) digital images, includes selecting a 2D region of interest (ROI) from a 3D image, the ROI containing a suspected lesion, extending borders of the ROI to 3D forming a volume of interest (VOI), where voxels on the borders of the VOI are initialized as background voxels and voxels in an interior of the VOI are initialized as foreground voxels, propagating a foreground and background voxel competition where for each voxel in the VOI, having each neighbor voxel in a neighborhood of the voxel attack the voxel, and, if the attack is successful, updating a label and strength of the voxel with that of the successful attacking voxel, and evolving a surface between the foreground and background voxels in 3D until an energy functional associated with the surface converges in value, where the surface segments the suspected lesion from the image. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260222 | Lesion Quantification and Tracking Using Multiple Modalities - A method for lesion detection includes acquiring pre-therapy medical image data from a first modality. Post-therapy medical image data is acquired from a second modality. A transformation matrix for transforming from an image space of the first modality to an image space of the second modality is calculated. A volume of interest is defined from the medical image data of the first modality. The volume of interest includes one or more lesions. The volume of interest is automatically copied to the medical image data of the second modality using the calculated transformation matrix. Treatment is directed to the lesion using the medical image data of the second modality including the copied volume of interest data. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260223 | System And Method For Concurrent Transfer And Processing And Real Time Viewing Of In-Vivo Images - Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for a concurrent transferring of an image stream gathered by an in-vivo sensing device, including creating a plurality of segments from at least a portion of the image stream and concurrently transferring the created segments. Other embodiments of the present invention provide and system and method for a concurrent processing of an image stream gathered by an in-vivo sensing device, including creating a plurality of segments from at least a portion of the image stream and concurrently processing the created segments. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260224 | Using statistical process control (SPC) to demonstrate solution convergence in a technician guided segmentation system - A method and apparatus for generating a computer model from scan data from a patient, comprising:
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20080260225 | Infrared Multi-Spectral Camera and Process of Using Infrared Multi-Spectral Camera - A process of performing a medical test includes taking multi-spectral images of an area of interest of a patient. The patient can be a human being or an animal, and can be known to be healthy or known to have health issues or problems. A multi-spectral camera includes a long-infrared charge-coupled device, a mid-infrared detector array, and a control device that synchronizes operation of the charge-coupled device and the detector array. The mid-infrared detector array can include carbon nanotubes. The carbon nanotubes can be detector elements. For example, the carbon nanotubes can be tuned-bandgap carbon nanotubes. Each pixel of resolution of the detector array can include a balanced Wheatstone bridge circuit including one of the tuned-bandgap carbon nanotubes. Adjacent pixels of the detector array can be arranged for orthogonal polarization. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260226 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR JUDGING IMAGE RECOGNITION RESULTS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM HAVING THE PROGRAM STORED THEREIN - To obtain more accurate image recognition results while alleviating the burden on the user to check the image recognition results. An image recognition unit recognizes a predetermined structure in an image representing a subject, then a recognition result judging unit measures the predetermined structure on the image recognized by the image recognition unit to obtain a predetermined anatomical measurement value of the predetermined structure, automatically judges whether or not the anatomical measurement value falls within a predetermined standard range, and, if it is outside of the range, judges the image recognition result to be incorrect. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260227 | Ultrasonic Imaging Apparatus and Projection Image Generating Method - A three-dimensional ultrasonic image with which the positional relationship between tissues can be surely grasped is generated. Accordingly, an ultrasonic imaging apparatus and a projection image generating method according to the present invention acquire first three-dimensional image data and second three-dimensional image data, generate a first projection image on the basis of at least a part of the first three-dimensional image data and the second three-dimensional image data, and generate a second projection image on the basis of at least a part of the second three-dimensional image data and the first three-dimensional imaged data. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260228 | Methods of View Selection for Radioactive Emission Measurements - A method is described for identifying an optimal, or preferred set of views for radioactive-emission measurements of a body structure, based on modeling the body structure, in terms of its geometry and radioactive emission distribution, obtaining different sets of views of the model, and scoring the different sets of views, with a scoring function, using information theoretic measures, for example, for uniformity, reliability and separability in reconstruction. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260229 | System and method for segmenting structures in a series of images using non-iodine based contrast material - A method and system of defining a boundary of a part of a blood vessel in an image captured by an ex vivo imager, where such part of the blood vessel is free from iodine-based contrast material. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260230 | Method and Apparatus for Detecting Intraventricular Dyssynchrony - A method and apparatus for detecting intraventricular dyssynchrony is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes: a) receiving information from an observer viewing a source image to define a plurality of points associated with muscle boundaries of a ventricle, b) extracting muscle boundaries for a series of source images to define a corresponding series of contour shape images using a Fourier descriptor model, and c) deforming each contour shape based at least in part on image forces, external forces, and internal forces to track movement of the muscle boundaries over time. In another embodiment, the method includes: a) characterizing the series of source images as a corresponding series of contour shape images representative of movement of muscle boundaries of the ventricle over time, b) classifying the series of contour shape images in a dyssynchronous class or a non-dyssynchronous class, and c) pre-diagnosing the ventricle as dyssynchronous or non-dyssynchronous. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260231 | Apparatus and Method for the Processing of Perfusion Images - The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for the reconstruction of time-dependent cross-sectional images and may be applied for example in perfusion imaging in the vessel system ( | 2008-10-23 |
20080260232 | X-RAY IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - An X-ray image processing system, comprises: a radiographing section including an X-ray source to emit X-rays for an object to be radiographed and an image detector to detect X-rays having passed through the object, wherein the radiographing section is adapted to conduct a phase contrast radiography by providing a space between the object and the image detector and by irradiating X-rays having an X-ray energy of 15 to 30 (keV) from the X-ray source to the object; an image data producing section to produce X-ray image data of X-ray image detected by the image detector; an image processing section to applying an image processing including a noise reducing process for the produced X-ray image data; and an output section to output the processed image data applied with the image processing. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260233 | AUTOMATED METHOD FOR IMAGE ANALYSIS OF RESIDUAL PROTEIN - A method for measuring residual protein in a cellular specimen including obtaining a low magnification image of a candidate object of interest, filtering the candidate object of interest pixels with a low pass filter, morphologically processing the candidate object of interest pixels to identify artifact pixels, identifying the candidate object of interest by eliminating artifact pixels, acquiring a higher magnification image of the subsample for the candidate object of interest, transforming pixels of the higher magnification image in a first color space to a second color space to differentiate higher magnification candidate object of interest pixels from background pixels, identifying an object of interest from the candidate object of interest pixels in the second color space, and determining the optical density of the protein in a cell contained in a subsample, wherein the optical density is indicative of the residual component of a cellular protein. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260234 | PATTERN INSPECTION APPARATUS, CORRECTED IMAGE GENERATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A pattern inspection apparatus includes a first unit configured to acquire an optical image of a target workpiece to be inspected, a second unit configured to generate a reference image to be compared, a third unit configured, by using a mathematical model in which a parallel shift amount, an expansion and contraction error coefficient, a rotation error coefficient, a gray-level offset and an image transmission loss ratio are parameters, to calculate each of the parameters by a least-squares method, a forth unit configured to generate a corrected image by shifting a position of the reference image by a displacement amount, based on the each of the parameters, and a fifth unit configured to compare the corrected image with the optical image. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260235 | System And Method Of Providing Mask Defect Printability Analysis - A simulated wafer image of a physical mask and a defect-free reference image are used to generate a severity score for each defect, thereby giving a customer meaningful information to accurately assess the consequences of using a mask or repairing that mask. The defect severity score is calculated based on a number of factors relating to the changes in critical dimensions of the neighbor features to the defect. A common process window can also be used to provide objective information regarding defect printability. Certain other aspects of the mask relating to mask quality, such as line edge roughness and contact corner rounding, can also be quantified by using the simulated wafer image of the physical mask. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260236 | Image defect inspection method, image defect inspection apparatus, and appearance inspection apparatus - In an image defect inspection method and apparatus, which detects a gray level difference between the corresponding portions of two images, automatically sets a threshold value based on the distribution of the detected gray level difference, compares the detected gray level difference with the threshold value, and judges one or the other of the portions to be defective if the gray level difference is larger than the threshold value, provisions are made to reduce the occurrence of false defects when there is a brightness difference between the two images undergoing the comparison. In the image defect inspection method, the brightness difference between the two images is computed (S | 2008-10-23 |
20080260237 | Method for Determination of Stand Attributes and a Computer Program for Performing the Method - The invention is concerned with a method for forest inventory and for determination of stand attributes. Stand information of trees, sample plots, stands and larger forest areas can be determined by measuring or deriving the most important attributes for individual trees. The method uses a laser scanner and overlapping images. A densification of the laser point clouds is performed and the achieved denser point clouds are used to identify individual trees and groups of trees. The invention is also concerned with a computer program for performing the method. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260238 | Method and System for Determining Objects Poses from Range Images - A method and system determines a pose of an object by comparing an input range image acquired of a scene including the input object to each of a set of reference range image of a reference object, such that each reference range images has an associated different pose, and the reference object is similar to the input object. Then, the pose associated with the reference range image which best matches the input range image is selected as the pose of the input object. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260239 | OBJECT IMAGE DETECTION METHOD - The present invention discloses an object image detection method, which uses a coarse-to-fine strategy to detect objects. The method of the present invention comprises steps: acquiring an image and pre-processing the image to achieve dimensional reduction and information fusion; using a trained filter to screen features; and sequentially using a coarse-level MLP verifier and a fine-level MLP verifier to perform a neural network image detection to determine whether the features of the image match the features of the image of a target object. The present invention simultaneously uses three mainstream image detection methods, including the statistic method, neural network method and adaboost method, to perform image detection. Therefore, the present invention has the advantages of the rapidity of the adaboost method and the accuracy of the neural network method at the same time. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260240 | User interface for inputting two-dimensional structure for recognition - In embodiments consistent with the subject matter of this disclosure, a user may input one or more strokes as digital ink to a processing device. The processing device may produce and present a recognition result, which may include a misrecognized portion. A user may indicate a desire to correct the misrecognized portion and may further select one or more strokes of the misrecognized portion. The processing device may then present the one or more recognition alternates corresponding to the selected one or more strokes of the misrecognized portion. In some embodiments, the processing device may permit a user to rewrite the selected one or more strokes of the misrecognized portion with newly entered digital ink. Features, such as, rewriting and correction of the input digital ink may be discoverable in some embodiments. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260241 | Grouping writing regions of digital ink - A method for grouping writing regions of digital ink receives processed digital ink that comprises writing regions. A relationship can be generated between a plurality of the writing regions. A feature set can be determined that is associated with the plurality of the writing regions. The plurality of the writing regions can be grouped based on the feature set. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260242 | Apparatus and methods for measuring and controlling illumination for imaging objects, performances and the like - Scene illumination analysis and control systems and methods that can measure the intensity and wavelength dependent distribution of light illuminating a scene, determine any differences between desired illumination and actual illumination, determine appropriate remedies to adjust illumination and automatically control, and adjust illumination to effect those remedies if desired. Associated software, measurement and control devices, for example appropriate accessories for calibrating the measurement devices, collecting and controlling measurements, analyzing measurements and comparing them to established criteria. The systems and methods can also calculate expected scene illumination based on geographic location, altitude, time of year and day, and weather or other environmental factors, and provides analysis and reports to allow the user to assess scene illumination and plan for in-production or post-production correction of video or film images. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260243 | Device of Analysing the Colour of a Unhomogeneous Material, Like Hair, and Method Thereof - A device for analyzing the color of a nonhomogeneous material, utilizable for example for analysing the hair color of an individual includes at least one of an illumination source for illuminating the above sample of a nonhomogeneous material, a display structure for exposing the sample of a nonhomogeneous material to the radiation emitted from the illumination source, detection means for the digital acquisition of the image of the sample illuminated from the illumination source, and processing means for transforming the digital acquisition readings of the image of said detection means in coordinates comparable with the perception of the human eye. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260244 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFICATION OF OBJECTS USING COLOR CODING - A device and method for identifying a pre-defined pattern of colors in an image and associating the identified pattern with a value stored in a memory of an electronic device. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260245 | Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus and recording medium storing image processing program - An image processing apparatus includes an image input section, an image segmenting section, a correcting section and a determining section. The image input section loads an input image data. The image segmenting section segments the image data into a main area containing an image of a main subject and a non-main area other than the main area. The correcting section corrects a color of the main area based on a color of the non-main area. The determining section determines a variance of hue of the non-main area. In the above-stated constitution, the correcting section enhances the correction of the color of the main area when the variance of hue of the non-main area is small compared to a case when the variance is large. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260246 | COLOR PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A color processing method includes outputting, via an image output device, a chart image in which a plurality of images obtained by applying illuminant corrections corresponding to a plurality of different illuminants to images corresponding to a plurality of representative colors are arranged in a predetermined layout, receiving a user's instruction to select one of the illuminant corrections corresponding to one of the plurality of different illuminants based on the output chart image, and setting the selected illuminant correction to be applied to an original image, wherein the plurality of representative colors are memory colors. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260247 | INTERACTIVE IMAGE SEGMENTATION BY PRECOMPUTATION - A method for interactive image segmentation includes receiving an image to be segmented, performing an offline computation of eigenvectors of a Laplacian of the image without using seed points, receiving seed points, and performing an online segmentation taking the seed points and the eigenvectors of the Laplacian as input and outputting a partition of the image. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260248 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes display means for displaying a zoom image resulting from enlargement of a certain area in an original image to a zoom area; important object determining means for determining whether the absolute value of the difference in pixel value between a pixel on a boundary line, which is the outermost circumference of the zoom area, and the pixel that adjoins the pixel on the boundary line in the direction perpendicular to the boundary line and outward from the zoom area is lower than or equal to a predetermined threshold value to determine whether any important object is across the boundary line; and resetting means for resetting a zoom parameter used for determining the zoom area if the important object determining means determines that any important object is across the boundary line. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260249 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LABELING FEATURE CLUSTERS IN FRAMES OF IMAGE DATA FOR OPTICAL NAVIGATION - A system and method for labeling feature clusters in frames of image data for optical navigation uses distances between feature clusters in a current frame of image data and feature clusters in a previous frame of image data to label the feature clusters in the current frame of image data using identifiers associated with the feature cluster in the previous frame of image data that have been correlated with the feature clusters in the current frame of image data. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260250 | Apparatus and methods for hand motion detection and handwriting recognition generally - Apparatus and method for handwriting recognition including a hand-held device including at least one accelerometer providing an acceleration indicating output, computation circuitry receiving the acceleration indicating output and providing a velocity indicating output and a handwritten multiple character recognizer receiving the velocity indicating output and providing a multiple character recognition output indication. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260251 | Recognition of mathematical expressions - In embodiments consistent with the subject matter of this disclosure, a user may input strokes as digital ink to a processing device. The processing device may partition the input strokes into multiple regions of strokes. A first recognizer and a second recognizer may score grammar objects included in regions and represented by chart entries. The scores may be converted to a converted score, which may have at least a near standard normal distribution. The processing device may present a recognition result based on highest converted scores according to a recurrence formula. The processing device may receive a correction hint with respect to misrecognized strokes and may add a penalty score with respect to chart entries representing grammar objects breaking the correction hint. Incremental recognition may be performed when a pause is detected during inputting of strokes. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260252 | System, Method, and Apparatus for Continuous Character Recognition - A technique for continuously recognizing a character entry into a computer. In one example embodiment, this is achieved by drawing a character in a continuous stroke order using a stylus [ | 2008-10-23 |
20080260253 | Information Processing Apparatus, Feature Extraction Method, Recording Media, and Program - The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, a feature extraction method, a recording media, and a program that are adapted to easily and correctly extract features of classes in which a plurality of elements are classified. Of all combinations of metadata for each piece of content belonging to each class subject to feature extraction, a combination extraction block | 2008-10-23 |
20080260254 | Automatic 3-D Object Detection - This invention relates to systems for automatically detecting and segmenting anatomical objects in 3-D images. A method of detecting an anatomical object employing the Generalized Hough Transform, comprising the steps of: a) generating a template object; b) identifying a series of edge points in the template and storing their relative position data and additional identifying information in a table; c) carrying out an edge detection process on the object and storing relative position data and detected points in the object; d) applying a modified Hough Transform to the detected data, in order to identify detected points of the object corresponding to edges of the template, in which the voting weight of each detected point is modified in accordance with a predetermined correspondence between the additional identifying information of the detected data, and the additional identifying information which has been stored for the template, and in which the classification of detected points is also refined by applying further predetermined information relating to model point grouping and base model weights. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260255 | Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, image processing method, and computer program - Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus, including a representative face extraction unit configured to detect face images in an image frame that forms part of video image data, and select, from the detected face images, a face image to be used as index information. The representative face extraction unit is configured to calculate a score of each of the face images detected in the image frame based on characteristics of the face image, and select a detected face image whose score is high as an index-use face image. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260256 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING VANISH POINTS FROM AN IMAGE, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREOF - The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for estimating vanish points from an image, computer program and storage medium thereof. One of the method for detecting the vanishing points from an image according to the present invention comprising a dividing step for dividing the image into small patches; a first detecting step for detecting each patch's local orientations; a composing step for composing lines of pencils based on the local orientations detected in the first detecting step; and a first computing step for computing at least one vanishing point based on the lines of pencils composed in said composing step. On the basis of the vanishing points found by the present invention, the perspective rectification on a document image can be executed accurately and fastly. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260257 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC IMAGE RECOGNITION - A method of improving the accuracy and computation time of automatic image recognition by the implementation of association graphs and a quantum processor. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260258 | Enhanced isotropic 2D and 3D gradient method - A system and method use 2D and 3D numerical gradient operators for reducing anisotropic inaccuracies in digital image processing. Enhanced isotropic operators are derived by first parameterizing corresponding numerical operators, followed by determining the parameters for the operators by matching analytical gradients with numerical gradients, which produces generic frequency-independent operators. The system and method also optimize the design of operators for use at any given frequency range needed for any special purpose application. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260259 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTION OF REPEATING PATTERNS OF FEATURES - Methods and system for automatic identification of repeating patterns of slanted stripe features (marks) on an item. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260260 | Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image processing system, computer program and recording medium - An image processing apparatus includes a feature point calculating section for extracting two or more connected components from a document image of interest and calculating the feature point from the centroid defined in each of the connected components, a features calculating section for calculating the features of the document image from the distance between the feature points, a voting processing section for voting one of the registered images which is similar to the document image as reviewing the features, and a similarity judging process section for judging the similarity from the result of the voting, wherein the description of the processing to be executed for the output is determined from the result of the similarity judgment. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260261 | METHOD FOR DETECTING OBJECTS USING FLEXIBLE EDGE ARRANGEMENTS - A method wherein images of different types of objects within a class are partitioned into region stacks. For each one of the stacks, the method: (a) applies a template to extract fragments having a predetermined size and one of a plurality of different spatial orientations, to generate extracted templates; (b) determines, from the extracted templates, a most frequent one thereof having only a first number of fragments with a common spatial orientations; (c) records the number of images having the determined most frequent extracted template; (d) repeats (b) and (c) with successively increasing number of fragments until the number of recoded images falls below a threshold; and (e) selects as a master extracted template the one of the most frequent templates having the largest recorded number of fragments. The master extracted templates for the stacks are combined into a map that is then compared with background images to remove extracted templates matching segment in the background. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260262 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTICALLY MEASURING A PARAMETER OF AN OBJECT - A system and method for optically measuring a parameter of an object uses a first segment of the object captured as a first frame of image data using a first imaging region of an image sensor array and a second segment of the object as a second frame of image data using a second imaging region of the image sensor array, which is larger than the first imaging region, to determine a displaced distance of the object relative to the image sensor array. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260263 | System for replacing a portion of an image data stream in an ink jet printer - A system detects image data in an image data stream that cause ink ejection errors and replaces the image data with a replacement pattern that attenuates the ink ejection errors. The system includes a scanline memory for storing image data, an input data register for forming an image data pattern from image data read from the scanline memory and an image bit received from an image data stream, an image data pattern detection circuit having a comparator that is configured to compare a portion of an image data bit stream used to drive a print head in an ink jet printer to a plurality of detection bit patterns and to generate a bit pattern detection signal in response to the portion of the image data bit pattern corresponding to one of the detection bit patterns, a replacement bit pattern circuit being configured to replace the portion of the image data bit stream corresponding to one of the detection bit patterns with a replacement bit pattern, the replacement bit pattern being different than the detected bit pattern, a tag register coupled to the image data pattern detection circuit and being configured to modify the comparison of the portion of the image data bit stream to one of the detection bit patterns, and an output data register for providing a replacement image bit from the replacement bit pattern to a print head controller and for storing a remainder of the replacement bit pattern to the scanline memory. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260264 | Method and system for generating aesthetic characters, and business model of the same - The present invention relates to a method and system for generating aesthetic characters, and to a business model for commercially developing the method and system utilizing the Internet or the like. The present invention makes it possible to synthesize a variety of image patterns with arbitrary characters by adding stroke fonts. According to a first aspect, the present invention provides a method and system for generating aesthetic characters, in which an arbitrary image pattern is selected from a pattern database, and data on arbitrary characters constituting single lines are superposed on the selected image pattern, whereby the arbitrary image patterns are processed into various characters and generating aesthetic image patterns. Thus, it is possible to provide character bodies drawn with excellent aesthetic properties that are uniquely designed for attracting public attention, such as in the television broadcasts, Internet sites, headings of journals or newspapers, advertisements, and signboards. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260265 | COMPRESSED DOMAIN IMAGE SUMMATION APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS - Apparatus, systems, and methods disclosed herein may transpose image blocks from successively-captured versions of an image according to relative movement between an image capture device and the scene being captured. The transposition may provide for alignment of the successively-captured images notwithstanding the movement. The transposed image blocks from the successive images are composited in the frequency domain by integrating frequency domain coefficients from each into a composite final image. Additional embodiments are disclosed. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260266 | Encoding apparatus, encoding method, and computer product - An encoding apparatus encodes a picture by inserting an intra-refresh area into a portion of the picture periodically based on an intra-refresh period. An encoding-status monitoring unit monitors an encoding status of the picture. A refresh-area control unit changes at least one of the intra-refresh area and the intra-refresh period based on the encoding status monitored by the encoding-status monitoring unit. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260267 | System And Method For Generating A Signed Hardcopy Document And Authentication Thereof - A system and method for generating a signed hardcopy document and authentication thereof is provided. A data representation including digital data is recorded from a hardcopy document. The digital data is compressed using a compression scheme including one of low-fidelity compression and symbol-based compression. An authentication token is generated from the compressed digital data. The authentication token is encoded. A signed hardcopy document including both the encoded authentication token and the data representation is printed. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260268 | Liquid-Crystal-Driving Image Processing Circuit, Liquid-Crystal-Driving Image Processing Method, and Liquid Crystal Display Apparatus - In a liquid-crystal-driving image processing circuit that encodes and decodes image data to reduce the frame memory size, the present invention has the object of providing a liquid-crystal-driving image processing circuit capable of correcting image data accurately and applying appropriately corrected voltages to the liquid crystal without being affected by encoding or decoding errors, even when moving images are input. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260269 | Repetition and Correlation Coding - A method for compressing image data of an image wherein a difference between each element and a previous element is calculated ( | 2008-10-23 |
20080260270 | SPATIALLY ENHANCED TRANSFORM CODING - A system and method for improving prediction error coding performance of various video compression algorithms. Various embodiments combine the energy compaction features of transform coding with localization properties of spatial coding. In various embodiments, the effects of pixel “outliers” are removed from the transform and are coded separately as a spatially coded pixel prediction, thereby improving the coding gain of the transform. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260271 | Method for Reducing the Amount of Data to be Processed in a Visualization Pipeline - A method for reducing an amount of data to be processed in a visualization pipeline. The visualization pipeline includes data capture, data compression, data storage, data decompression, and data rendering including the use of a transfer function. The data is divided into blocks in the compression and the reduction is achieved by adaptively selecting a level-of-detail for each block in the step of decompression utilizing a significance measure based on the transfer function. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260272 | IMAGE CODING DEVICE, IMAGE CODING METHOD, AND IMAGE DECODING DEVICE - An image coding device includes a block dividing unit that divides image data into blocks, so as to generate block data, each of the blocks being formed with a plurality of pixels, a DCT unit that carries out a discrete cosine transform on the block data, so as to generate DCT coefficients, a feature analyzing unit that analyzes the block data, so as to generate feature data, a quantization parameter generating unit that refers to the block data and the feature data, and generates a quantization matrix, a quantizing unit that quantizes the DCT coefficients with the use of the quantization matrix, so as to generate quantized data, and a variable-length coding unit that performs variable-length coding on the quantized data, so as to generate variable-length coded data. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260273 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An object of this invention is to increase the encoding efficiency of attribute data of each pixel of image data by using the fact that the probability that the attribute flag data of adjacent pixels have the same bit position is higher than the probability that the attribute flag data of adjacent pixels have the same value. In the first phase, to encode 32×32 attribute data having a size of 8 bits corresponding to one pixel, input attribute data is directly output to an encoding unit and encoded. In the second phase, “7” is set in a variable i as the initial value. Eight attribute data are input. Eight-bit data including bits i is generated and output to the encoding unit. The data of bits | 2008-10-23 |
20080260274 | LOCAL IMAGE DESCRIPTORS - A local image descriptor generation technique that produces a descriptor for an image patch is presented. The technique generally involves smoothing the pixels of the image patch, followed by employing a transformation to produce a transform vector for each of a set of sample points spaced across the image patch. The transform vectors are weighted and spatially accumulated to produce a prescribed number of linearly summed vectors. The linearly summed vectors are concatenated to form a raw local image descriptor, which is normalized to produce a finalized descriptor for the image patch. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260275 | Image Coding Apparatus - An image coding apparatus includes a rate control information extraction means for determining which up to a coding pass in which code block should be coded from the sum of the code amounts of the code blocks, the slope of an RD curve calculated from the distortion difference between a coding distortion at a time of coding each coding pass and a coding distortion at a time of coding a preceding coding pass, and the number of output bytes of the code amount of each coding pass, and the inverse of one of given rate control parameters which are listed in order of decreasing monotonously, and for outputting an end-of-coding pass, and a coded data extraction means for reading coded data including up to coded data corresponding to the end-of-coding pass, for adding the number of coding passes to the coded data, and for outputting them as a code stream. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260276 | Data Compression-Decompression Method, Program, and Electronic Device - An electronic device includes: a PHLCT circuit ( | 2008-10-23 |
20080260277 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACCURATE PARALLEL QUANTIZATION WITH TWO MULTIPLICATION OPERATIONS - A method, system and computer program product that involves receiving and initializing a digital image. Quantization is preformed on the digital image using at least two multiplication operations. Finally, a compressed version of the digital image is presented for viewing and/or storage or transport. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260278 | Encoding adjustments for animation content - Techniques and tools are described for encoding animation video. In some embodiments, a video encoder designates animation video for encoding as animation content, which typically involves changing one or more encoder settings or rules to improve encoding performance for the animation content. When the encoder encodes the animation video, the encoder detects edges in the animation video using texture and changes settings for areas that include detected edges so as to improve encoding quality for the areas. In some embodiments, a video encoder adjusts differential quantization rules and quantizes animation video according to the adjusted differential quantization rules. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260279 | SUPER-RESOLUTION IMAGE PROCESSING - A method for iterative derivation of a master image from sampled images of non-identical, at least partially overlapping, regions of a scene. The method includes defining a transformation operator mapping positions within the master image to corresponding positions in the sampled image; a distortion operator simulating a modulation transfer function associated with an imaging sensor from which the sampled image was generated; and a sampling operator for reducing an image from the output resolution to the resolution of the sampled image. For each sampled image the transformation operator, distortion operator and sampling operator are applied to a current master image hypothesis to generate a predicted image A difference image is calculated which has pixel values corresponding to the difference in corresponding pixel values between the sampled image and the predicted image. A back-projection of each of the difference images is performed to generate a correction image for the current master image hypothesis. Finally, the correction images are employed to perform a correction to the current master image hypothesis to generate a new master image hypothesis. The correction to the current master image hypothesis includes combining the correction images by deriving a weighted average of values of corresponding pixels in the correction images. The weight of each pixel in each correction image is calculated as a function of a distance as measured in the sampled image between: a point in the sampled image to which the pixel in the correction image is mapped by the transformation operator, and at least one pixel centroid proximal to that point. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260280 | Image Processing Method and Related Apparatus for a Display Device - An image processing method for a display device, for enhancing image quality, includes receiving video signals, sequentially generating a plurality of image data according to the video signals, and sequentially displaying the plurality of image data on a panel of the display device. Each of the plurality of image data includes a frame data and a low-gray-level frame data respectively corresponding to a frame output duration and a vertical blanking duration in a timing sequence of the video signals. | 2008-10-23 |
20080260281 | Color content detection - Embodiments including detection of color content in an image are disclosed. | 2008-10-23 |