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20100173709 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PHYSICALLY INTERACTIVE MUSIC GAMES - A system and method of capturing an image of an object, where the object is associated with a musical feature, generating the musical feature once the object is detected in the image, detecting a change of a position of an the object in a series of images, and altering the musical feature in response to such change. | 07-08-2010 |
20100195902 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALIBRATION OF IMAGE COLORS - A system and method for correcting or calibrating a color in an image by comparing a value of a color property of at least two colors in the image to a known value of such color property for such colors, calculating a variance of the colors in the image from the known values of the colors, and applying the variance to other colors in the image. Some embodiments include identification of an object in the image as including the known colors. | 08-05-2010 |
20100310161 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFICATION OF OBJECTS USING MORPHOLOGICAL CODING - A method and system for detecting in an image a repeating unit, where the unit includes a reference form and a set of elements at a known distance from and orientation to the reference form, deriving a value from the elements included in the unit, and comparing the derived value to a know value. The elements may indicate binary values that may be used in the derivation of the value, and the value may be associated with an object. The comparison of the value derived from the elements in the image with the stored value that is associated with the object may be used in identifying or confirming the identification of the object in the image. | 12-09-2010 |
20130321447 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OBJECT EXTRACTION - Systems and methods for extracting an image of a physical object constructed of for example bricks are presented. The method and system may detect boundaries and edges of a background using an edge detection operator, perform a perspective transformation calculation to compute a corrected virtual grid that is substantially aligned with the physical object's image, locate a color calibration palette in the digital image and extract color value information for pixels of the color calibration palette, and discern bricks as part of the physical object's image, the discernment being based in part on a determination of the brick's color compared to the color palette and the background color, the discerned bricks forming the extracted image. A computer readable medium may include instructions causing a system to extract an image of a physical object constructed of bricks according to the method. | 12-05-2013 |
20140105456 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING COMPLIANCE WITH AN INSTRUCTION BY A FIGURE IN AN IMAGE - A system and method for determining a compliance with an instruction to assemble a figure according to a depiction of the figure on an output device, by presenting image data of the figure, capturing an image of the assembled figure, and comparing the figure captured in the image to the figure depicted on the output device. | 04-17-2014 |
20140293045 | SYSTEM FOR VISION RECOGNITION BASED TOYS AND GAMES OPERATED BY A MOBILE DEVICE - A system and method for capturing an image of an object with a camera of a first electronic device, identifying an object in such image with a processor of the first device by comparing the object in the image to image data stored in a memory of the first electronic device, and issuing a signal from the processor of the first electronic device to activate an output device of a second electronic device that holds the first electronic device. | 10-02-2014 |
20140329598 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OBJECT EXTRACTION - Systems and methods for extracting an image of a physical object constructed of for example bricks are presented. The method and system may detect boundaries and edges of a background using an edge detection operator, perform a perspective transformation calculation to compute a corrected virtual grid that is substantially aligned with the physical object's image, locate a color calibration palette in the digital image and extract color value information for pixels of the color calibration palette, and discern bricks as part of the physical object's image, the discernment being based in part on a determination of the brick's color compared to the color palette and the background color, the discerned bricks forming the extracted image. A computer readable medium may include instructions causing a system to extract an image of a physical object constructed of bricks according to the method. | 11-06-2014 |