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20100286981 | 12772562 | 0 | 1. A computer implemented method for estimating a fundamental frequency of a speech signal comprising: receiving within a processor a signal spectrum of the speech signal; filtering the signal spectrum within the processor to obtain a refined signal spectrum with an increased spectral resolution; determining a cross-power spectral density using the refined signal spectrum and the signal spectrum; transforming the cross-power spectral density into the time domain to obtain a cross-correlation function; and estimating the fundamental frequency of the speech signal based on the cross-correlation function. |
20150265175 | 14338478 | 0 | 1. A method for predicting risk of sudden cardiac death for a subject through analysis of surface electrocardiographic data recorded for the subject, the method comprising: processing a continuous surface electrocardiogram (EKG) signal received for the subject over a predetermined period of time to identify and extract a plurality of cardiac repolarization phase curves from the EKG signal in which each extracted cardiac repolarization phase curve represents an interval in the EKG signal extending between a corresponding feature of a respective cardiac cycle embodied in the EKG signal and the corresponding feature of a respective next sequential cardiac cycle embodied in the EKG signal; assigning each of the extracted cardiac repolarization phase curves into one of a plurality of groups based on a time duration of the cardiac repolarization phase curve between the corresponding feature of the respective cardiac cycle and the corresponding feature of the respective next sequential cardiac cycle; generating a respective graphical representation for each of the plurality of groups in which the cardiac repolarization phase curves assigned to the group are superimposed with one another in the respective graphical representation for the group; and evaluating the graphical representations generated for the plurality of groups to assess a risk of sudden cardiac death for the subject based on a classification of cardiac repolarization instability indicated by variations in voltage levels between the cardiac repolarization phase curves superimposed within the graphical representations. |
9773323 | 15127366 | 1 | 1. A method for calibrating a digital imager using a sequence of P input images acquired beforehand by the imager, to which images a calibrating image is applied to obtain a sequence of P output images, wherein the calibration is carried out by updating the calibrating image by estimating, in an iteration n, n being an integer higher than or equal to 1, an image representative of the calibrating image, wherein an initial image representative of the calibrating image is defined, wherein a mathematical transformation that is able to transform an output image into an image that is what is called the transform of the output image, and for which there exists another mathematical transformation, called the inverse transformation, capable of transforming the transform of the output image into the image that is what is called the inverse transform of the transform of the output image, is chosen, and wherein the estimation of the image representative of the calibrating image comprises the following steps: transforming the at least one P output images, each transformation giving an image of the transform of the output image; estimating an image representative of the transform of an image of a deviation between the initial image representative of the calibrating image and the calibrating image from the representative images and images of the transform of the output image of the preceding iterations; inversely transforming the representative image to obtain the image of the deviation; and combining the initial image and the image of the deviation and obtaining the image representative of the calibrating image. |
20140268207 | 14191935 | 0 | 1. An image examination apparatus, comprising: a read image acquisition unit configured to acquire a read image that is generated by reading an image formed on a recording medium; an examination image generation unit configured to generate an examination image for examining the read image on the basis of information on the image that is to be formed and output; a reference point extraction unit configured to extract, from the generated examination image, multiple reference points that are used as references for alignment between the examination image and the read image; a misalignment information calculation unit configured to calculate information on misalignment between positions of the reference points extracted from the examination image and positions corresponding respectively to the reference points in the read image; a reference point excluding unit configured to exclude a reference point to be excluded from the multiple reference points, on the basis of the calculated information on misalignment; an alignment unit configured to perform alignment between the examination image and the read image on the basis of the reference points other than the excluded reference point; and an image examination unit configured to perform examination for determining whether there is a defect in the read image on the basis of a difference, used for the alignment, between the read image and the examination image. |
20120224744 | 13389018 | 0 | 1. A method of recognising a moving feature in a video sequence, said moving feature having a characteristic pattern over said video sequence, said video sequence comprising a first frame and a plurality of following frames, said method comprising identifying points of interest in each frame of said video sequence; determining, for each frame other than said first frame, at least one point of interest that corresponds to a point of interest in the preceding frame in said video sequence; constructing a plurality of trajectories for a point of interest in said first frame, each trajectory comprising a location in said first frame and at least one of said following frames of said video sequence, said location in said first frame being the location of said point of interest in said first frame, said location in said at least one following frame being determined by sequentially considering each following frame of said sequence where at least one trajectory extends to the preceding frame and including in that trajectory the location of the point of interest that corresponds to a point of interest in the preceding frame included in the trajectory; and comparing said plurality of trajectories with said characteristic pattern. |
9295406 | 13288083 | 1 | 1. An image processing system comprising: a medical imaging device having a patient support table; a database comprising: (i) first lookup information associating descriptions of a plurality of predetermined anatomical elements and a plurality of predetermined potential pathologies, each of the plurality of predetermined anatomical elements being associated with one or more of the plurality of predetermined potential pathologies; and (ii) second lookup information associating the plurality of predetermined potential pathologies and a plurality of predetermined image acquisition methods, each of the plurality of predetermined potential pathologies being associated with one or more of the plurality of predetermined image acquisition methods; a repository comprising a template image comprising a plurality of template objects corresponding to a plurality of previously acquired anatomical elements; an image data processor configured to automatically process data representing a plurality of patient anatomical images acquired from the medical imaging device by: identifying: (i) a plurality of different anatomical elements of a patient in a corresponding plurality of different anatomical regions of the patient; and (ii) a plurality of different potentially pathological indicative features associated with said plurality of different anatomical elements of the patient by detecting a transition in luminance intensity between the portions of the plurality of patient anatomical images depicting the plurality of different anatomical elements of the patient and portions of the template image depicting the plurality of previously acquired anatomical elements; and assigning one or more of the potential pathologies in the first lookup information to the identified plurality of different anatomical elements of the patient using the association of each of the plurality of predetermined anatomical elements with the one or more predetermined potential pathologies in the first lookup information; and assigning one or more of the plurality of predetermined image acquisition methods in the second lookup information to the one or more assigned potential pathologies in the first lookup information using the association of each of the plurality of predetermined potential pathologies with the one or more predetermined image acquisition methods in the second lookup information; an output processor configured to collate one or more images depicting said identified plurality of different potentially pathological indicative features acquired by the medical imaging device using the one or more assigned predetermined image acquisition methods; and a patient support table controller configured to automatically move the patient support table to isocenter of the medical imaging device to obtain the one or more images depicting said plurality of different potentially pathological indicative features in response to an identified one of said plurality of different potentially pathological indicative features. |
9418320 | 13682137 | 1 | 1. An apparatus for detecting an object, comprising a hardware processor to implement: a foreground/background detector configured to detect a foreground by comparing corresponding pixel between a background model, generated based on a previous input image, and a current input image; and a background updater configured to update the background model based on time information of each pixel of the current input image; and a tracker configured to track the detected foreground in next input images, wherein the foreground/background detector is configured to classify a current pixel of the current input image into a foreground pixel or a background pixel by comparing pixel values of the current pixel and a pixel of the background model corresponding to the current pixel when the current pixel belongs to a detection area estimated according to a result of tracking the detected foreground for a predetermined time, wherein the foreground/background detector is configured to classify the current pixel of the current input image into the foreground pixel or the background pixel by comparing pixel values of the current pixel and comparison pixels of background model, the comparison pixels corresponding to the current pixel and at least one neighboring pixel of the current pixel in the background model, when the current pixel does not belong to the estimated detection area, and wherein the background updater is configured to update the background model by using a weight value for each pixel of the current input image, the weight value being a reciprocal number of an age value determined according to a time information of each pixel of the current input image. |
6014474 | 08623223 | 1 | 1. An image processing method comprising the steps of: i) carrying out a morphology operation on an original image signal Dorg, which represents an image, by using a multiply structure element Bi and a scale factor .lambda., a morphology signal Dmor being thereby obtained, said morphology signal Dmor representing whether each of picture elements constituting said image is or is not an element corresponding to an image portion at which said original image signal Dorg fluctuates in a spatially narrower range than said multiply structure element Bi, and ii) carrying out image emphasis processing on said original image signal Dorg and in accordance with said morphology signal Dmor; wherein the image emphasis processing in accordance with said morphology signal Dmor is carried out with Formula (2) EQU Dproc=Dorg+.alpha.f(Dmor) (2) wherein .alpha. represents the emphasis coefficient, and f(Dmor) represents the function of Dmor; and the function f(Dmor) in accordance with said morphology signal Dmor is an unsharp mask signal corresponding to super-low frequency of said morphology signal Dmor as represented by Formula (4) EQU f(Dmor)=(.SIGMA..SIGMA.Dmor)/N.sup.2 ( 4) wherein .SIGMA..SIGMA. Dmor represents the sum of the morphology signal values with respect to the picture elements located within a picture element matrix, which has a size of N columns.times.N rows (where N represents an odd number) and has its center at the picture element, that is associated with the morphology signal Dmor, in a two-dimensional array of picture elements. |
20150033285 | 14353053 | 0 | 1. A non-intrusive method for automatically dispatching a plurality of security rules in a cloud environment, comprising: forming a composition application model of an application in the cloud environment, wherein said composition application model comprises various servers for deploying said application; generating a topology model of said various servers in the cloud environment; automatically generating a plurality of security rules to be adopted by a plurality of server-side firewalls for respective various servers based on an application context of the following: (i) said application, (ii) said composition application model, (iii) and said topology model; and dispatching said plurality of security rules to each server-side firewall based on said composition application model and said topology model. |
20160132719 | 14539606 | 0 | 1. A method of identifying and obscuring faces of specific individuals in an image, comprising: receiving a request for an image for display on a computer display device from a viewing user; determining automatically by a processor one or more individuals represented in the image using an image processing technique; identifying a target individual from the one or more individuals whose facial image is to be obscured when displaying the image based an access control level associated with the viewing user and one or more criteria associated with the target individual; responsive to the identifying, generating a customized image by obscuring a region having the facial image of the target individual from the image; and transmitting the customized image for display. |
9172880 | 14199962 | 1 | 1. A computerized image matching method being executed by at least one processor of a computing device, the computing device being connected to a measurement device, the measurement device comprising a projector, a left camera, and a right camera, the method comprising: receiving a number M of frequencies of gratings, cycles of gratings with each of the frequencies, and phase shifting times N; controlling the projector to project gratings with each of the frequencies on an object according to the phase shifting times N, and acquiring a number N of left grating images captured by the left camera and a number N of right grating images captured by the right camera of the gratings with each of the frequencies on the object; classifying the left grating images into groups of left grating images and classifying the right grating images into groups of right grating images according to the frequencies of the gratings, each group of left grating images and each group of right grating images corresponding to one of the frequencies; computing a luminous intensity of each pixel in each of the left grating images and the right grating images; computing a phase principal value of pixels having same coordinates in each group of left grating images of the gratings with each of the frequencies according to luminous intensities of the pixels having same coordinates in the group of left grating images and an N-step phase shifting method, and computing a phase principal value of pixels having same coordinates in each group of right grating images of the gratings with each of the frequencies according to luminous intensity of the pixels having same coordinates in the group of right grating images and the N-step phase shifting method; computing a phase of the pixels having same coordinates in the left grating images according to the phase principal value of the pixels having same coordinates in each group of left grating images, and obtaining a first phase grayscale image according to the phase of the pixels having same coordinates in each group of left grating images, and computing a phase of the pixels having same coordinates in the right grating images according to the phase principal value of the pixels having same coordinates in each group of right grating images, and obtaining a second phase grayscale image according to the phase of the pixels having same coordinates in each group of right grating images; matching the first phase grayscale image and the second phase grayscale image and obtaining a matched image. |
7729525 | 11505552 | 1 | 1. An image evaluation method for a two-dimensional projection image of an examination object containing a vascular system and a surroundings thereof, comprising: displaying a temporal course of a distribution of a contrast medium in the examination object by the projection image having a plurality of pixels with pixel values defined by an area of the examination object; determining a two-dimensional evaluation image based on the projection image having a plurality of pixels corresponding to the pixels of the projection image via a computer and outputting the evaluation image to a user via a display device; determining a type for each of the pixels in a sub-area of the evaluation image and assigning the determined type to the pixel, the type: characteristic of whether the pixel corresponding to a vessel of the vascular system, a perfused part of the surroundings or a non-perfused part of the surroundings, determined from the temporal course of the pixel values of the pixels of the projection image which is in a two-dimensional type evaluation core defined by a respective pixel of the evaluation image; and determining an extent of a perfusion of a corresponding area of the examination object in the pixels of the evaluation image assigned the type of perfused part of the surroundings and assigning the extent to the respective pixel, the extent determined from the temporal course of the pixel values of the pixels of the projection image which is in a two-dimensional basic extent-evaluation core defined by a respective pixel of the evaluation image, wherein the computer: determines the extent in the pixels of the evaluation image assigned the type of perfused part of the surroundings and in the pixels surrounded within a predetermined minimum distance of the pixels assigned the type of perfused part of the surroundings, and assigns the extent from the temporal course of the pixel values of the pixels of the projection image which is in an additional extent-evaluation core contained in a corresponding basic extent-evaluation core of the projection image defined by a respective pixel of the evaluation image. |
20170318310 | 15646341 | 0 | 1. (canceled) |
8046368 | 12029694 | 1 | 1. A document retrieval system, comprising: a document database for storing data for a plurality of documents; an arithmetic unit that: includes a numeric value data reading unit configured to read, from the data on the documents stored in the document database, numeric value data for which numeric value intervals are to be generated; calculates indices used for indexing numeric values and texts in each of the documents stored in the document database, each of the indices used for indexing the text being a group of a term constituting the text and a frequency of the term in the document, each of the indices used for indexing the numeric value being a group of a label describing a feature represented by the numeric value, an interval including the numeric value, and a frequency of the numeric value in the document; receives a designation of a document as a retrieval input; and computes a similarity between the designated document and each of the documents stored in the document database by use of the indices; and a numeric value distribution percentage designating unit configured to designate the numeric value intervals from distribution percentages of numeric values based on a distribution of the numeric value data, wherein the arithmetic unit includes a numeric value range designating unit configured to generate the numeric value intervals based on distribution percentages inputted by the numeric value distribution percentage designating unit; and the numeric value distribution percentage designating means generates numeric value intervals whose numeric value widths are so adjusted that each of the numeric value intervals includes an equal number of numeric values. |
20080292199 | 12124666 | 0 | 1. A charged particle beam apparatus that scans two-dimensionally a sample in a first direction with a charged particle beam so as to display an image of the scanned region with a signal based on a charged particle beam from the sample detected by the scanning, the charged particle beam apparatus employing a partitioning and interlacing method in which a plurality of partitioned regions are defined by partitioning a region to be scanned in a second direction different from the first direction, and scanning in the first direction is performed for every partitioned regions sequentially in a skipping manner, the charged particle beam apparatus comprising: an image processing section for carrying out an image processing to remove an artifact generated attributable to a scanning method of a scan line. |
20150301189 | 13718210 | 0 | 1. Apparatus comprising: processor; computer readable storage medium accessible to the processor and bearing instructions which when executed by the processor cause the processor to undertake logic comprising: establishing an observation set of plural past ranges and respective past times between first and second objects to establish past range/time pairs; establishing a lookahead set of plural predicted future ranges and respective future times between the first and second objects; using a curve fitting routine, describing the past range/time pairs and future range/time pairs at least in part through coefficients or parameters of a mathematical model produced by the curve fitting routine; and outputting the coefficients or parameters to a third object to enable the third object to correct errors, common to both the second object and the third object, in range measurements. |
7932498 | 12240818 | 1 | 1. A method of optimizing a scanning trajectory of a first radiation detector device about an object to be scanned, comprising: obtaining image data corresponding to a plurality of images of the object using a second radiation detector device of a different imaging modality; determining a maximum object boundary based on the image data; calculating an optimal scan trajectory of said first radiation detector device relative to the object based on the maximum object boundary, where the optimal scan trajectory minimizes a distance between the first radiation detector and the object; and scanning the object with the first radiation detector device along the optimal scan trajectory so as to detect radiation photons emanating from the object to acquire projection image data. |
7840399 | 11100991 | 1 | 1. A method of multi-lingual speech recognition, the method comprising using a device to examine characters of a word by: determining whether a character in the word is in a source list of a language-specific alphabet mapping table for a language, if the character is not in the source list: converting the character not in the source list according to a general alphabet mapping table and, where such conversion is performed, converting the converted character according to the language-specific alphabet mapping table for the language; verifying that the converted character in the word is in a character set of the language and keeping the character; and removing the character if it is not in the character set of the language; if the character is in the source list: verifying that the character in the word is in a character set of the language and keeping the character; and removing the character if it is not in the character set of the language; determining whether the character is a last character of the word, if the character is not the last character of the word: performing the examination of a next character of the word; if the character is the last character of the word, identifying a pronunciation of the word. |
7697741 | 11565899 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented process for compressing a medical image, comprising using a computer to perform the following process actions: computing a set of base images from a larger group of source medical images belonging to a same category as the medical image being compressed, wherein the base image set substantially captures the variance exhibited amongst the group of source images and wherein the base images are orthogonal to each other; computing a difference between the medical image being compressed and the base images; compressing the difference and producing difference data representing the compressed medical image; and storing or transferring the compressed difference data. |
8880620 | 12483246 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented data delivery system, comprising: a tagging component for adding a user to a social graph for a recipient and tagging the added user with a social relationship tag according to a type of social relationship as defined by a category in the social graph, the social graph comprising an entry for each added user, each entry comprising a link to the added user and at least one social relationship tag; an import component for importing information related to the tagged user from external sources to augment the social graph, the import component comprising a contact aggregation provider to access the external sources using delegated authentication codes or password authorization; a data component for handling data, received from the tagged user, based on the social graph, the data including messages; a perimeter component for accessing the social graph from a perimeter and controlling delivery of the messages at the perimeter of an email deployment, the perimeter component to block, at the perimeter, messages from users tagged as blocked in the social graph from passing to internal message servers; and a processor implementing one or more of the tagging component, the data component, or the perimeter component. |
9781415 | 13988819 | 1 | 1. An image decoding method for decoding a coded stream including encoded picture, comprising: a first step for determining a motion vector of a target block to be decoded, by selecting a motion vector among motion vectors of candidate blocks including adjacent blocks adjacent to the target block to be decoded, according to coding mode information obtained from the coded stream; and a second step for generating a prediction image by using the motion vector of the target block to be decoded and a reference picture, wherein, in a motion vector selection process of the first step, candidate blocks are selected among first blocks adjacent to the target block to be decoded in the same frame as the target block to be decoded and a second block located at the same position of the target block to be decoded in a different frame from the target block to be decoded, and wherein, in the motion vector selection process of the first step: excluding a block located on the upper side of the target block to be decoded in the first blocks from the candidate blocks in the case that the block located on the upper side of the target block to be decoded has the same motion vector as a block located on the left side of the target block in the first blocks, excluding a non-referenceable block in the first blocks from the candidate blocks in the case that the first blocks have a non-referenceable block, and adding another block or blocks to the candidate blocks, wherein the number of blocks to be added is changed based on the number of blocks that have been selected as candidate blocks. |
8165265 | 12002820 | 1 | 1. A method of constructing multiple tomographic images of a subject, comprising: irradiating X-rays onto a subject by operation of an X-ray source; detecting the X-rays that pass through the subject by an X-ray imaging CCD device; providing an imaging system by oppositely arranging and fixing the X-ray imaging device and the X-ray source at a certain distance, centered on the subject; revolving said imaging system about an axis centered on the subject; storing image information being obtained by the X-ray imaging device with a single X-ray radiography operation into a large-capacity frame image storage device as a frame image; digital-processing respective frame images extracted from the large-capacity frame image storage device to form panoramic images; storing the panoramic images in a large-capacity processed image storage device; displaying the panoramic images stored in the large-capacity processed image storage device; arraying a certain frame image taken out of the panoramic images stored in the large-capacity processed image storage device onto a circular arc arrangement, by linear-interpolating the pixel value with the area ratio per circular arc shaped square cell elements across plural pixels; performing a polar coordinate transformation sequentially with respect to each frame image by using the angle rotated while obtaining said each frame image as a unit angle; and adding the frame images sequentially by shifting every unit angle to construct a tomographic image on the radius positioned at the desired location. |
20030046277 | 10117701 | 0 | 1. A computerized method comprising: extracting information from a first document; retrieving a set of one or more second documents based on the extracted information; and identifying one or more of the set of second documents as more probably related to the first document than one or more others of the second documents using a learning machine. |
6035255 | 08980957 | 1 | 1. An article of manufacture for use in connection with a computer, said article of manufacture comprising a computer-readable storage medium having a program recorded thereon that enables a user of a computer executing said program to interactively: A) Display data obtained from a subsurface area; B) Select an object from a plurality of different three-dimensional objects; C) Place the selected three-dimensional object within a model of the subsurface area; and D) Transform the selected three-dimensional object to better fit data obtained from the subsurface area. |
20090080746 | 12231636 | 0 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving a 3D magnetic resonance (MR) scout image; and determining a location of an optic nerve in the scout image by registering a template image to the scout image using a hierarchical series of rigid registrations. |
9521397 | 14204119 | 1 | 1. A system comprising: a first camera defining a first camera coordinate system (C 1 ) and configured to acquire a first image of a scene; a range sensor spaced a first distance from the first camera and defining a range sensor coordinate system (R); a controller operatively connected to the first camera and range sensor, the controller having a processor and a tangible, non-transitory memory device on which is recorded instructions for executing a method for obtaining a two-dimensional region of interest (u 1 *, v 1 *) in the first image; wherein execution of the instructions by the processor causes the controller to: acquire the first image of the scene with the first camera, the first image being represented by a plurality of first points (u 1 , v 1 ) in a first image plane; acquire a range image of the scene with the range sensor, the range image being represented by a plurality of second points (u 2 , v 2 , d) in a second image plane; convert the range image to a three-dimensional sample of points (x 2 , y 2 , z 2 ) in the range sensor coordinate system (R); select a three-dimensional region of interest (x 2 *, y 2 *, z 2 *) in the range sensor coordinate system (R) from the three-dimensional sample of points (x 2 , y 2 , z 2 ); wherein the selected three-dimensional region of interest (x 2 *, y 2 *, z 2 *) in the range sensor coordinate system (R) includes only objects in the scene on a surface of or within a three-dimensional volume, the three-dimensional volume defining selected points; wherein a spatial location of each of the selected points is a function of time; wherein the selected three-dimensional region of interest (x 2 *, y 2 *, z 2 *) in the range sensor coordinate system (R) includes only objects in the scene that are less than a minimum distance from the range sensor; and wherein said converting the range image to a three-dimensional sample of points (x 2 , y 2 , z 2 ) in the range sensor coordinate system (R) includes: obtaining a conversion matrix (P 2 ) for converting the range sensor coordinate system (R) to the second image plane; and using an inverse of the conversion matrix for converting the range image to the three-dimensional sample of points (x 2 , y 2 , z 2 ). |
20170018079 | 15277082 | 0 | 1. An image processing device comprising: a target place setting unit which sets a target place in an area of a human body structure having a tree structure in a three-dimensional image obtained by imaging the human body structure; a tree structure acquisition unit which extracts the tree structure of the human body structure from the three-dimensional image; a path determination unit which determines a path from a reference point set on a branch upstream side of the target place on the extracted tree structure to the target place; a priority setting unit which sets priority for respective portions of the tree structure of the human body structure outside the path based on a positional relationship between the portions and the target place; an image generation unit which generates, from the three-dimensional image, an initial image representing only a portion of the determined path in the entire human body structure and images for confirmation of each step sequentially representing the respective portions of the human body structure outside the path according to the priority; a display unit which displays an image; and a display control unit which displays the generated initial image on the display unit and then displays the generated images for confirmation of each step on the display unit such that the respective portions of the human body structure outside the path are sequentially displayed according to the priority. |
20060071950 | 11097978 | 0 | 1. A computer program product residing on a computer readable medium for causing a portable reading device to pre-process a captured image prior to optical character recognition processing, comprises instructions for causing a computer to: detect distortion in an image of a page by measuring an extent to which page boundaries in the image deviate from a simple rectangular shape; and correct for the optical distortion by transforming the image to restore the page to a rectangular shape. |
9672524 | 15018358 | 1 | 1. A system for organizing, managing, and reporting data relating to a corporate entity, comprising: at least one database configured to store a document record relating to a corporate action, the document record further comprising a core record reflecting human-readable information for incorporation into the generated document and stored with the document record, the document record further comprising a set of tags stored with the document record; a business logic module, coupled to the at least one database; and at least one document template stored in the at least one database and comprising instructions for generating, at the business logic module, a document based on the core record with an initial set of tags, wherein a first tag of the set of tags is in a text format and associates a human-readable document type with the document record, and wherein the at least one database is configured to store the document record with a hierarchically delimited child tag by storing the document record in association with both the hierarchically delimited child tag and additional tags that are hierarchically related as parent tags of the hierarchically delimited child tag, without requiring a user to request storage of both the child tag and the additional parent tags, thereby providing namespaced tagging and retrieval of document records. |
20130289387 | 13870266 | 0 | 1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a specifying unit configured to specify a fluid region in a plurality of magnetic resonance images that are acquired by applying a labeling pulse to a label region and that are mutually related; and a deriving unit configured to derive an index indicating dynamics of a fluid on a basis of the specified fluid region. |
20140063258 | 13596411 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method for estimating distance to an object using motion measurement and video compression attributes derived from video captured by a single camera, comprising: estimating camera velocity using one or more camera motion values provided by an accelerometer associated with the camera; identifying frame motion vectors generated during compression of video captured by the camera; estimating distance to a target object from the one or more camera motion values provided by the accelerometer and motion vector information; and reporting at least one distance-to-object measurement. |
9436425 | 14747246 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method of providing content for display with geographic location images as part of an online property management system, comprising: receiving, by one or more computers, data identifying a region of interest within a panoramic image of a property; implementing a bid-based advertisement auction for the region of interest; receiving, by the one or more computers, an image; modifying the panoramic image to include the image over the region of interest by overlaying the image over the region of interest within the panoramic image of the property responsive to selection of the image in the bid-based advertisement auction based on a bid value of the image; and providing, by the one or more computers, code that includes instructions for displaying, on a client device, the image overlayed over the region of interest within the panoramic image of the property. |
20040106872 | 10654257 | 0 | 1. A pulsimeter comprising: a pulse wave detector that has a pulse wave sensor and outputs a pulse wave signal; a frequency analyzer for carrying out a frequency analysis on the pulse wave signal; a candidate extractor for extracting candidate spectrum peaks based on the frequency analysis result of the frequency analyzer; a phase angle information detector for detecting phase angle information of each of the extracted candidate spectrum peaks; a spectrum peak selector for selecting a target spectrum peak for calculating a pulse rate from among the extracted candidate spectrum peaks based on their respective phase angle information; and a pulse rate calculator for calculating the pulse rate based on the target spectrum peak. |
20160260114 | 15146137 | 0 | 1. An apparatus comprising: an early warning system; an electronic processing device; and a memory device storing computer readable instructions that, when executed by the electronic processing device, cause the apparatus to: receive economic data for a plurality of time series, wherein each member of the plurality of time series corresponds to a different geographical entity; determine auto regressive model coefficients for the economic data of the plurality of time series; determine, for a first member of the plurality, a first scaled lag-1 auto-correlation of the coefficients; determine, for the first member, a first scaled smoothed derivative from the first scaled lag-1 auto-correlation of the coefficients; output, for the first member, a first indicator based on the first scaled smoothed derivative; generate, by the early warning system based on at least the first indicator for a first member of the plurality of time series, an early warning signal, wherein the first member corresponds only to a first geographical entity and wherein the early warning signal comprises an early warning notification and detailed information about a potential instability of the economic data; determine a set of registered computing devices associated with the first geographical entity, wherein the set includes a first device and a second device; send the early warning notification about the first geographical entity to the first device and second device; when an acknowledgment of the early warning notification is received from the first device, initiate launching of an early warning application at the first device; and send the detailed information about the potential instability to the first device via the early warning application. |
8493500 | 12912943 | 1 | 1. An auto exposure blowout prevention system comprising: an image capture device for capturing an image representative of a scene; a memory coupled to the image capture device; and a programmable control device communicatively coupled to the memory, wherein the memory includes instructions for causing the programmable control device to perform a method comprising: obtaining image histogram information representative of the image; analyzing a distribution of the image histogram information, wherein the act of analyzing comprises comparing a number of pixels in an upper portion of the image histogram to a number of pixels in the highest n-buckets of the image histogram; determining whether the distribution of the image histogram information is indicative of the presence of exposure blowouts in the image based at least in part on the act of analyzing; and setting an exposure compensation parameter for the image capture device based at least in part on the act of determining. |
20090176171 | 12341106 | 0 | 1. An image forming apparatus comprising: an image carrier; an exposing unit configured to form an electrostatic latent image including dot images based on image data, by exposing a surface of the image carrier with exposure energy in accordance with pixels in the image data, wherein each of the dot images corresponds to one of the pixels; and a developing unit configured to perform a developer contact developing method by applying a developing bias onto a developer carrier carrying a non-magnetic one-component developer and causing the non-magnetic one-component developer on the developer carrier to contact the image carrier, thereby developing the electrostatic latent image on the image carrier into a toner image, wherein: the toner image on the image carrier is transferred onto a recording material, either directly or via a surface of an intermediate transfer body; and the developing bias or the exposure energy is adjusted such that an isolated one-dot image has a predetermined image density, the image forming apparatus further comprising: a control unit configured to control the exposing unit in such a manner that, when the image carrier is exposed to form the dot images which are continuously arranged in a sub scanning direction, an exposure time period for each of the dot images is shorter than a time period for exposing the image carrier to form the isolated one-dot image. |
20120121179 | 13231411 | 0 | 1. A signal-processing system comprising: a processing component; and a signal-processing routine executed by the processing component that enhances an input image to produce an enhanced output image and store the output image in an electronic memory by computing, by constructing multi-scale intermediate-image pyramids, a photographic-mask, without low-contrast details, in which smooth, homogeneous regions are separated by high-contrast edges, and a temporary-image with enhanced mid-contrast detail, retained high-contrast detail, and reduced low-contrast detail, and employing values of the photographic-mask intermediate image and temporary-image intermediate image to produce the output image that is stored in the electronic memory and that is globally and locally contrast-enhanced, sharpened, and denoised, with global contrast enhancements including one or more of brightening, darkening, histogram stretching or equalization, and gamma correction and local contrast enhancements including one or more of adaptive lighting, shadow lighting, highlight enhancement, and 3D boosting. |
20040207759 | 10822742 | 0 | 1. A method for enhancing a video signal comprising: mapping a luminance range of the video signal; selecting a neutral point located at a dark point in the luminance range; and processing the video signal by suppressing luminance to a darker side of the neutral point and enhancing luminance to a brighter side of the neutral point. |
20130301912 | 13891007 | 0 | 1. An image enhancement system comprising a computer data processing system that includes at least one computer data hardware processor and other computer hardware components that, in connection with a modulation strength map (MSM) that contains positive or negative values representing a sign and magnitude of modulation to be applied in the vicinity of each of multiple locations in an image at each of multiple orientations for each of the locations, each of the multiple orientations at each of the multiple locations having an image value, collectively: generate a net signed fractional modulation value at each of the locations in the image using the MSM in combination with a modulation kernel F(θ), the generating being done in accordance with the following algorithm: at a given location X in the image, and for a given orientation θ, the modulation strength M represented in the MSM is used to scale F(θ); at every image location, positive and negative contributions are accumulated from all scaled modulation kernels arising from surrounding image locations/orientations, in order to produce a net signed fractional modulation value that represents a fractional increase or decrease to be applied to the image value at that location; and scale an image value at each location using the net signed fractional modulation value at each location, wherein application of the algorithm does not result in systematic clipping of peri-edge locations to maximum or minimum brightness values, or any other form of systematic homogenization of values at peri-edge locations. |
20080107331 | 11872446 | 0 | 1. An album creating apparatus for creating an album including an image, comprising: a main subject determining section for determining a main subject of the image; an image color analyzing section for analyzing a color in an image region other than the main subject determined by the main subject determining section; and an album color determining section for determining colors used for a region other than the image in the album including the image based on the result of analysis of the image color analyzing section. |
8243157 | 12278708 | 1 | 1. A method for processing light data using light collected with an imaging arrangement including a main lens that focuses light to microlenses at a focal plane, and photosensors that include, for each micro lens, a plurality of photosensors arranged to receive light directed by the microlens, the method comprising: using the photosensors to collect light that is directed by the microlenses, and to output light data characterizing the collected light, wherein the collected light data comprises a four-dimensional (4D) light field function; weighting the light data as a function of an optical characteristic of the imaging arrangement and a light ray path of the collected light through the main lens and micro lenses, thereby providing weighted light data values; digitally processing the light data as a function of the weighted light values and the light ray path; and using the digitally processed light data to output image data in which at least a portion of the image data is corrected. |
20030195429 | 10123834 | 0 | 1. A method of detecting a seizure, comprising the steps of: a) dividing a digitized waveform of an electroencephalogram (EEG) recording into a plurality of epochs each having a first predetermined duration; (b) computing matching pursuit for a given one of the epochs to obtain a plurality of seizure atoms; (c) describing the seizure atoms and the given epoch with at least one neural network (NN) rule; (d) applying connected-object clustering to the epochs in a sliding window of a second predetermined duration to obtain a clustering result; and (e) establishing a seizure point from the clustering result. |
7593019 | 11944983 | 1 | 1. An object collation method comprising: a registration procedure registering registered data of a registered object in a database; and a collation procedure collating on an object collation apparatus an input image of a target object with said registered data, said registration procedure comprising the steps of: inputting a three-dimensional shape of the registered object and reflectivity of a surface of the registered object; acquiring a texture group indicating luminance and color information of each location of the surface of the registered object under various illumination conditions by using said three-dimensional shape and said reflectivity; generating a texture space, which is an image space, defined by said texture group; and storing said three-dimensional shape and said texture space, and said collation procedure comprising the steps of: taking a two-dimensional image of the target object as an input image; presuming location and position of the target object in said input image; converting the input image into an input texture by using said three-dimensional shape and said presumed location and position; calculating distance between said texture space and said texture obtained at said converting step; and collating the target object and the registered object based on said distance. |
5434788 | 08260507 | 1 | 1. An improved accuracy sensory system for vehicle navigation comprising: first means for sensing a navigation parameter of a vehicle and for providing a first signal indicative of said navigation parameter; second means for sensing said navigation parameter of the vehicle and for providing a second signal indicative of said navigation parameter; means for classifying a difference between said first signal and said second signal into a plurality of sets representative of predetermined behaviors; and means for providing a clearness coefficient for the first signal dependent on a degree of participation of the difference between the first and second signals in each of the plurality of sets. |
20160307573 | 14691492 | 0 | 1. A speaker-dependent voice-activated camera system, comprising: a computing device including: a processor; a camera module coupled to the processor, the camera module configured to execute at least one camera function, each of the at least one camera function associated with a user voice input; a speech recognition module coupled to the processor and the camera module, the speech recognition module configured to identify the user voice input as being from an authorized user; and a microphone coupled to at least one of the camera module and the speech recognition module; whereby the voice-activated camera system is configured to perform the steps of: receive the user voice input via the microphone, identify whether the user voice input is from the authorized user; and upon identifying that the user voice input is from the authorized user, execute one of the at least one camera function associated with the user voice input. |
20120317454 | 13157237 | 0 | 1. A method of multi-target Boolean Satisfiability (SAT)-based pattern generation, comprising: receiving circuit design information for a circuit and a set of faults that model a plurality of potential defects in the circuit; constructing a SAT instance based on the circuit design information and the set of faults; applying a SAT solving engine to the SAT instance; and outputting a test pattern based on an satisfying assignment derived from solving the SAT instance or a report that a test pattern cannot be generated. |
20140240475 | 14185945 | 0 | 1. A stereoscopic image display device, comprising: a display panel in which pixels each constituted with N×N pieces (N is a natural number of 2 or larger) of sub-pixels colored in M (M is a natural number of 1 or larger) primary colors are arranged in matrix; and an optical separation module in which optical elements which distribute exit light from each of the pixels according to parallax images in a first direction and a second direction along layout of the pixels are arranged by being corresponded to each of the pixels, wherein: the sub-pixels neighboring to each other within each of the pixels are of different colors from each other; array pitches of the sub-pixels are uniform in the first and second directions; same numbers of the parallax images are displayed for each of the first direction and the second direction within each of the pixels; and numbers of the sub-pixels in different colors within the parallax images are equivalent. |
9047265 | 13112858 | 1 | 1. A form creation device comprising: an operation unit configured to receive a user's input for creation of a form layout; a retaining unit that retains a range of set information which prescribes image elements that are suitable for OCR processing; an image generation unit that generates a form image based on the user's input and the set information range retained in the retaining unit; a suitability decision unit that decides whether each of the image elements that constitutes the form image is suitable for the OCR processing; and an element replacement unit that replaces any ones of the image elements of the form image which are not suitable for the OCR processing with the image elements which are suitable for the OCR processing. |
8392896 | 12399058 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method for generating a test bed for developing, testing and/or supporting the use of software, comprising: receiving a manifest that refers to a type space model of a computer network, the type space model including hardware, software, network and storage entity types, the manifest including an encoding that conveys parameters that can be used to inflate the type space model of the computer network into an instance space model of the computer network; processing the manifest to create an instance space model of the computer network, creating the instance space model comprising creating multiple instances of each entity type included in the type space model; and storing data representative of the instance space model to a physical storage medium. |
9661154 | 15053478 | 1 | 1. A non-transitory machine-readable medium including data that, when accessed by a machine, cause the machine to: receive optical density (OD) measurement data corresponding to application of a halftone pattern using ink on a medium in a printing system; and calculate a predicted OD versus normalized ink coverage relationship for the printing system based on the received OD measurement data, wherein the predicted OD versus ink coverage relationship is calculated using Weibull distribution function parameters. |
20140168056 | 13838467 | 0 | 1. A method for enabling object recognition using eye gaze tracking, comprising: displaying an image to a user of a scene viewable by the user; receiving information indicative of an eye gaze of the user; determining an area of interest within the image based on the eye gaze information; determining an image segment based on the area of interest; initiating an object recognition process on the image segment; and displaying results of the object recognition process. |
20080050012 | 11842679 | 0 | 1. An image processing method for performing a processing of a line sensor image which is continuously taken by a line sensor installed on a flight vehicle, comprising: calculating first coordinates transformation information between an image coordinates system and a three-dimensional reference coordinates system for each line of the line sensor image; searching the most suitable line on the line sensor image corresponding to a position whose three-dimensional position is known in a three-dimensional reference coordinates system (hereinafter referred to as “known position”), based on information of the known position, information about a three-dimensional position and a speed of the flight vehicle for each line of the line sensor image, and the first coordinates transformation information; and searching a position of a pixel on the line sensor image corresponding to the known position, based on information about the most suitable line, the information about a three-dimensional position and a speed of the flight vehicle for each line of the line sensor image, and the first coordinates transformation information. |
5463773 | 08066218 | 1 | 1. A document classifying system comprising: a document data classifying system for inputting document data and defining a classification to which the document data belongs; a document classifying function building system operatively connected to the document data classifying system for automatically and recursively building a classification decision tree in the document data classifying system by optimization of a function determined by selection of keywords in the tree; a sample data storage apparatus operatively connected to the document classifying function building system for storing sample data formed by a set comprised of the document data and the classification to which the document data belongs; and a keyword storage apparatus operatively connected to the document classifying function building system for storing keywords extracted thereby. |
20090245582 | 12378509 | 0 | 1. A lane recognition apparatus for a vehicle which recognizes a lane along which a vehicle is traveling from a color image of a road acquired via an imaging device mounted on the vehicle, comprising: a lane mark detection image acquisition device which acquires a lane mark detection image, which is divided into a first image region composed of pixels having pixel values supposed to be image portions of a lane mark defining the lane and a second image region composed of other pixels, from the color image of the road acquired via the imaging device; a clustering device which performs clustering in which the first image region of the lane mark detection image is divided into subregions each composed of adjacent pixels; a color determination device which determines a color of the subregions of the first image region obtained by the division in the clustering; a lane recognition device which performs line component extraction for each group, considering the subregions determined to have the same color by the color determination device as a single group, and recognizes a line position of the lane defined by the lane mark from the extracted line component; and a vehicle equipment control device which controls equipment of the vehicle according to a recognition result of the lane recognition device. |
7689539 | 11560889 | 1 | 1. A data retrieval system for retrieving data from a multidimensional medical data set, comprising: a client configured to electronically request image data of a patient; a server in communication with a plurality of electronically stored multidimensional patient medical image data sets; and an electronic data retrieval interface in communication with the client and the server, the data retrieval interface configured to retrieve image data from the multidimensional patient medical data sets, the respective data sets having a number of grid points in G dimensions, and a number of values V for each grid point, wherein some of the data sets have different G dimensions and V values than others, wherein the data retrieval interface is configured to employ a Physical region object that defines a multi-dimensional region extent associated with a client request for data on a region of interest to retrieve relevant image data from a respective patient data set, and wherein some of the data sets have grid points in G dimensions such that G≦4 and at least some have multivariate values for each grid point such that 1<V≦6 while others have a single value for a respective grid point such that V=1. |
7557950 | 10484497 | 1 | 1. A printing system comprising: a photo editor configured to cause desired editing operations to be carried out on image data, configured to cause working color profiles indicating working color spaces for editing operations to be automatically set for the image data, and configured to cause, after completion of editing operations, the edited image data to be output with the linked working color profiles; printers; and a print controller configured to create print image data using the edited image data and configured to print using the created print image data, and configured to carry out color matching on the edited image data using the working color profile linked to the edited image data and the printer color profile indicating color spaces for the printer when the print image is created; wherein the photo editor is configured to detect an original color profile linked to the image data, and select the working color profile from one of (1) through (3), below: (1) the detected original color profile, (2) color profiles substantially corresponding to color profiles for display monitors, and (3) user-specified color profiles; wherein the photo editor is configured to carry out color matching on the image data using the original color profile and the working color profile before beginning editing operations when the original color profile is different from the working color profile. |
20160342851 | 14719654 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: capturing, via a computing device, a representation of a user, said representation comprising a rendering of a face of the user; parsing, via the computing device, said captured representation to identify facial features of the user, said parsing comprising determining information associated with a human being based on the identified facial features; determining, via the computing device, a live-ness of the captured representation based on the determined information, said live-ness indicating that the representation is of a human being and not a non-human representation; and enabling, via the computing device, facial recognition authentication of the user based on said live-ness determination. |
9686275 | 14324542 | 1 | 1. A method for continuous user authentication through real-time fusion and correlation of multiple factors, the method comprising: continuously obtaining monitored data from a computer, the monitored data being related to user actions on the computer of a user; analyzing, by a server, the monitored data of the computer to execute a windowing system event sequences modality, a network footprint modality, an application specific user actions modality, and a forensic linguistic analysis modality for the user; authenticating the user on the computer based on a combination score of a first score related to the windowing system event sequences modality, a second score related to the network footprint modality, a third score related to the application specific user actions modality, and a fourth score related to the forensic linguistic analysis modality; and in response to an application comprising rote operations in the application specific user actions modality, increasing the first score related to the windowing system event sequences modality; wherein the windowing system event sequences modality is configured to authenticate the user based on user operations in a windowing system based operating system on the computer; wherein the network footprint modality is configured to monitor network activities on the computer to build a network fingerprint of user interactions with other entities on a communications network; wherein the application specific user actions modality is configured to track what actions the user performs in a particular application and track how the user invokes each command to perform the actions in the particular application, in order to generate a trained model; and wherein the forensic linguistic analysis modality is configured to combine two or more of linguistic features, stylometric features, topical features, behavioral features, and contextual features all performed by the user, in order to determine a previous score for the forensic linguistic analysis modality. |
8131655 | 12130630 | 1 | 1. A spam filtering method comprising employing a computer system to perform the steps of: computing a set of pattern relevancies for a set of feature patterns, wherein at least one pattern relevance of the set of pattern relevancies is computed according to a set of feature relevance weights determined through a process external to neuronal training; and classifying a target message as spam or ham according to a result of a processing of the target message by a neural network filter according to the set of pattern relevancies by: assigning a pattern relevance of the set of pattern relevancies to each neuron of a subset of neurons of the neural network filter; computing a target input vector characterizing the presence of a set of spam/ham identifying message features within the target message; selecting an active neuron of the subset of neurons according to a scalar product between the target input vector and a first set of neuronal weights of the neural network filter; computing a recognition score according to a scalar product between the target input vector and a second set of neuronal weights of the neural network filter, and according to the pattern relevance corresponding to the active neuron; and comparing the recognition score to a predefined vigilance threshold. |
20080033898 | 11882480 | 0 | 1. An anomaly monitoring device comprising: a signal input unit for receiving a target signal generated by an operation of an apparatus; a characteristics extraction unit for extracting an amount of characteristics having a plurality of parameters from the target signal; two competitive learning neural networks each of which are switchable between a training mode for learning by using amounts of characteristics extracted from the characteristics extraction unit as training samples and a checking mode for classifying based on a training result from the training mode whether or not the amount of characteristics indicates that the operation of the apparatus is normal; a output selecting unit for generating a classification result of the competitive learning neural networks; a mode switching unit for operating each competitive learning neural network in one of the training mode and the checking mode wherein the neural networks operate in modes different from each other; and a switching determining unit for computing a judgment evaluation value serving to evaluate reliability of a judgment result of one of the competitive learning neural networks operating in the checking mode, and for instructing the mode switching unit to have said one of the competitive learning neural networks operate in the training mode and the other competitive learning neural network operate in the checking mode when the judgment evaluation value does not meet evaluation criteria. |
20030036891 | 09682314 | 0 | 1. A system for performing engine baseline modeling, comprising: an engine service database that contains engine data; a preprocessor for processing the engine data into a predetermined format; and an engine baseline modeling component that builds an engine baseline model from the preprocessed data, wherein the engine baseline model relates engine performance variables as a function of engine operating conditions. |
9432650 | 14508397 | 1 | 1. An image display apparatus comprising: a display unit configured to display an image; a readout unit configured to selectively read out one of a RAW image and a first developed image obtained by performing a developing process and a compression process for the RAW image, as a candidate image to be displayed following a currently displayed image, from a storage medium storing the RAW image and the first developed image, in accordance with the currently displayed image; a developing unit configured to perform a developing process for the RAW image read out by said readout unit with higher image quality than the first developed image; a decompression unit configured to perform a decompression process for the developed image read out by said readout unit; a storage unit configured to store the candidate image which is processed by said developing unit or said decompression unit so as to be displayed on said display unit; and a control unit configured to perform control to display the candidate image stored in said storage unit on said display unit by switching from the currently displayed image to the candidate image, in response to an instruction to switch an image displayed on said display unit, wherein said readout unit further configured to selectively read out one of the RAW image and the first developed image obtained by performing the developing process and the compression process for the RAW image, in accordance with image quality of the currently displayed image. |
8213029 | 13111994 | 1 | 1. An image editing apparatus comprising: a display unit which displays various kinds of information thereon; an image display control unit which displays a catalog of plural images on the display unit; a template display control unit which displays on the display unit the catalog of plural images and a template being used as a photo album paper, said template having at least one image insertion area, each area attached with multiple pieces of composition information representing composition of an image or images to be inserted in the area; a designation reception unit which receives designation of image insertion area in the template displayed on the display unit; an image selection unit which receives selection of image to be inserted in the designated image insertion area from the catalog of plural images; and a processing information generation unit which selects a piece of composition information suitable for the selected image from the multiple pieces of compensation information attached to the designated image insertion area in accordance with a scene property of the selected image, and generates processing information including information on a magnification ratio and/or a trimming position regarding the selected image in order to process the selected image to have the composition represented by the selected composition information, with reference to the selected composition information of the designated image insertion area. |
20050041863 | 10643672 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: partitioning a database corresponding to object images into a first partition and a second partition based on a fuzzy similarity analysis of a measure of the object images to a first threshold. |
20080180535 | 11795218 | 0 | 1. A motion vector calculation method in which multiple pieces of image data are input to calculate motion vectors between/among images, the method comprising: multi-resolution image generation processing for calculating and storing multi-resolution data up to a predetermined resolution level L (where L is a natural number) of the input multiple pieces of image data; input motion vector calculation processing for calculating input motion vectors for the resolution level L of a reference image; and processing for estimating motion vectors per resolution by using the reference image, a target image and the input motion vectors at the resolution level L calculated by the processings above to perform: a step (1) of defining an energy function on each starting point coordinate of the input motion vectors by handling the coordinate on the reference image and a coordinate on the target image as arguments, and temporarily calculating motion vectors, within predetermined range from the input motion vectors, based on the energy function; a step (2) of temporarily calculating reliability of the motion vectors based on a feature amount of an image at each feature point of the reference image; a step (3) of calculating correlation by using at least one of a difference in the feature amount of the image and a difference in the temporarily calculated motion vectors between feature points of the reference image; and a step (4) of finally calculating motion vectors of the resolution level L by smoothing the temporarily calculated motion vectors and the reliability by using the motion vectors, the reliability and the correlation in predetermined ranges, wherein the motion vectors between the reference image and the target image are calculated by using the finally calculated motion vectors of the resolution level L as input motion vectors of a resolution level L-1, which is a higher resolution, and by repeating the processing for estimating motion vectors per resolution on image data having higher resolutions sequentially. |
20160203585 | 15076394 | 0 | 1. An image processing system, comprising: a processor; and a memory connected to the processor, where the memory contains: an image cropping application; and an image file containing image data encoding an original image; wherein the image cropping application configures the processor to: utilize at least one object detector to identify at least one region of interest within the original image; select a plurality of candidate cropped images within the original image; for each candidate cropped image, generate an output by weighting each of the at least one region of interest contained within the candidate cropped image as a function of its position within the candidate cropped image; select a crop location within the original image based upon the candidate cropped image having the largest output; and generate cropped image metadata. |
9845092 | 14644233 | 1 | 1. A method of assisting in maneuvering of a vehicle, the method comprising: receiving, at a controller located within the vehicle, signals indicative of vehicle motion associated with the vehicle; generating, using the controller, a predictive model of possible vehicle paths based on the received signals; receiving, at the controller, information indicative of the proximity of one or more objects to the vehicle; generating, using the controller, a predictive model of possible object paths for each one of the one or more objects based on the received information associated with each object; determining, using the controller, possible intersecting points indicative of a collision based on the predictive model of possible vehicle paths and the predictive model of possible object paths; determining, using the controller, for each object of the one or more objects, a scalar field representing a probability of collision for each possible intersecting point with the object at various locations proximate to the vehicle, the probability of collision is determined based on the received signals indicative of the vehicle motion and the received information indicative of the proximity of the object to the vehicle; and visually displaying, on a display mounted within the vehicle and configured to communicate with an operator of the vehicle, a visual representation including the possible vehicle paths, the possible object paths, the possible intersecting points between the vehicle paths and object paths, and the probability of collision between each one of the one or more objects and the vehicle associated with each one of the intersecting points. |
9105048 | 13862919 | 1 | 1. A method of behavioral targeting comprising: identifying, via a computing device, a user data set associated with a plurality of users, the user data set comprising past event information from a plurality of events, the past event information being generated based on past on-line activity between each user of the plurality of users and an entity, the user data set comprising categories of activities, wherein each activity of a particular user associated with the past event information is categorized within the user data set, the entity being an online entity; analyzing, via the computing device, the user data set to determine a performance metric based upon the past event information, the determination comprising predicting user behavior responsive a targeting objective associated with the past on-line activity, the targeting objective comprising branding advertising associated with the entity; generating, via the computing device, a model for the targeting objective, the model being based upon the performance metric and the past event information between each user and the entity; storing, via the computing device, the model, the computing device being different from the entity; receiving, at the computing device, an event associated with a first user, the first user being not within the plurality of users, the event comprising activity between the first user and the entity; and generating, via the computing device, an interest score between the first user and the entity, the interest score being based upon the stored model. |
9819974 | 14372747 | 1 | 1. A media processor for the creation of metadata from a set of images, said media processor comprising: an input for a first set of data, said first set of data comprising image data, metadata or image data/metadata associated with said set of images, said set of images comprising a sequence of images; and a metadata processor being capable of receiving said first set of data and computing a set of metadata from said first set of data, said set of metadata comprising statistical data derived from said sequence of images over a plurality of different temporal intervals and said set of metadata representing a media fingerprint which identifies said set of images without altering said set of images; and wherein said metadata processor is capable of generating and storing a multi-scale version of said set of metadata, said multi-scale version including first metadata generated based on statistical attributes associated with said sequence of images over a first temporal interval and second metadata generated based on statistical attributes associated with said sequence of images over a second temporal interval; said first temporal interval and said second temporal interval are associated with increasing levels of said multi-scale version of metadata; and each increasing level of said multi-scale version of metadata is associated with an increasing confidence level in said media fingerprint; said set of metadata further comprises at least one of statistical attributes derived directly from said first set of data and statistical attributes derived from image appearance correlates of said first set of data; said media processor is further capable of performing display management (DM) processing of a set of image data to be rendered on a target display having a set of display specifications; and to perform said DM processing, said media processor is operative to compute a first set of statistics from said set of image data over time, compare a portion of said first set of statistics against said set of display specifications, test for a match condition for said portion of said first set of statistics against said set of display specifications, and render a portion of said set of image data upon said target display, said target display comprising said set of display specifications. |
20160330384 | 14992991 | 0 | 1. A mobile terminal comprising: a camera; a display; and a controller configured to: cause the display to display an image received via the camera; extract, from the image, at least one object corresponding to a face; and correct the image by modifying a certain region of the extracted at least one object based on a distance from a center of the image to the at least one object in the image. |
20150224649 | 14618326 | 0 | 1. A robot system comprising: a robot that is controlled by a program including operational instructions for performing predetermined operations on an object placed at a first object position on a plane by use of a device attached to an arm end thereof; a camera that is attached to the arm end to take the image of the object; a first robot position storing unit configured to store, as a first robot position, the position of the arm end arranged in a predetermined positional relationship relative to the first object position; a target arrival state data storing unit configured to store, at least, one feature quantity among the position, attitude and size of the object on the image of the camera in a target arrival state where the object is placed at the first object position while the arm end is positioned at the first robot position, as the target arrival state data; a robot movement amount calculator configured to calculate the amount of movement from an arbitrary initial position of the arm end in order to make, at least, one feature quantity of the position, attitude and size on the camera image of the object when the object placed at a second object position on the plane has been captured by the camera with the arm end of the robot positioned at the arbitrary initial position, agree with the corresponding feature quantity of the target arrival state data; and, a correction data calculator configured to calculate correction data for correcting the program based on the difference between the second robot position, or the position of the arm end when the arm end has been moved based on the calculated amount of movement, and the first robot position. |
8149319 | 11999101 | 1 | 1. An electro-optic color imaging system for imaging a color-correlated object in at least two different color channels, the imaging system comprising: an optical subsystem that has a full width half max chromatic depth of focus ratio greater than 5 over the different color channels; a detector subsystem located at a fixed image distance from the optical subsystem, the detector subsystem capturing color channel images of the object at each of the different color channels; and a digital image processing subsystem coupled to the detector subsystem for estimating an image of the object by combining the color channel images based at least in part on an a priori estimate of the color correlation of the object. |
20110206286 | 13029748 | 0 | 1. An image coding apparatus, comprising: a selector which selects a region of interest on a moving image; a coding unit which encodes the moving image; and a generator which generates a codestream including therein the coded moving image and information for specifying the region of interst. |
5588071 | 08329493 | 1 | 1. A method of analyzing a data set of a digitized image to identify an area of interest, the method comprising the steps of: dividing the digitized image into a plurality of regions; calculating histogram data for frequencies of image values within each of the plurality of regions; organizing the histogram data for each of the regions according to a predetermined sequence of the plurality of regions to create a data set for an image in histogram space of the plurality of regions; and analyzing said data set for the image in histogram space of the plurality of regions to identify localities of maxima and minima in grouped image value characteristics which correspond to the area of interest within the digitized image. |
8285118 | 12350889 | 1 | 1. A method to control the display of media content on a media player with player preferences, the method comprising: analyzing the media content and computing a plurality of signatures representative of temporal portions of the media content; wherein the signatures are created by: analyzing a series of time successive portions of the media content for features; using a nearest neighbor fit to assign the features to a standardized array of different features; counting the number of each type of assigned feature in the time successive portions of the media content, creating an array of coefficients for the standardized array of different features, wherein the signature consists of the array of coefficients; wherein the media content is video media content, and the features are chosen so as to be invariant with respect to video resolution, orientation, or lighting; wherein the type of assigned features is determined by the visual content of the local spatio-temporal region of the video data surrounding the feature (feature descriptors); matching the plurality of signatures to a database of signatures; finding the closest corresponding signatures; retrieving the metadata associated with the closest corresponding signatures as matching metadata; and controlling the display of the media content using the player preferences and the matching metadata. |
8374799 | 12705539 | 1 | 1. A system for predicting intensities of a saturated peak using a peak predictor, comprising: a mass spectrometer that performs a plurality of scans producing a plurality of intensity measurements; and a processor in communication with the mass spectrometer, wherein the processor obtains the plurality of intensity measurements from the mass spectrometer, the processor selects a set of data from the plurality of intensity measurements that comprises a saturated peak, the processor assigns confidence values to each data point in the set of data producing a plurality of confidence value weighted data points, the processor selects a peak predictor, and the processor applies the peak predictor to the plurality of confidence value weighted data points of the saturated peak and produces predicted intensities for the saturated peak. |
20130177209 | 13736527 | 0 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving a plurality of images; recognizing data in each of the plurality of images, wherein recognizing data in each of the plurality of images comprises performing optical character recognition on the plurality of images; determining that at least two images of the plurality of images comprise information from a first scene, based at least in part on the recognized data; and storing a final image representing the first scene using at least one image of the at least two images and the recognized data associated with the at least one image. |
20080118103 | 11561727 | 0 | 1. A system for navigating an image-guided object traveling in an area of interest of an imaged subject supported on table in relation to an acquired image of the imaged subject, comprising: an image detector operable to generate the acquired image of the imaged subject, a location of the image detector defining a detector coordinate system; a gantry in mobile support of the image detector relative to the table, a location of the gantry defining a gantry coordinate system; a first tracking element fixed with respect to the table in support of the imaged subject, the first tracking element defining a first tracking coordinate system, the first tracking element not located within a field of view of the image detector; and a second tracking element attached at the object traveling through the imaged subject, the second tracking element in electromagnetic communication with the first tracking element, the second tracking element defining a second tracking coordinate system; a controller electrically connected in communication with the first and second tracking elements, the controller having a processor operable to execute a plurality of program instructions stored in a memory, the plurality of program instructions comprising: registering the image coordinate system with the detector coordinate system; acquiring a spatial relation between the detector coordinate system and the gantry coordinate system; acquiring a spatial relation between the gantry coordinate system and a table coordinate system; registering the first tracking coordinate system defined by the first tracking element with respect to the table coordinate system; acquiring the spatial relation between the first tracking element relative to the second tracking element; translating the spatial relation between first tracking element and the second tracking element at the object automatically into a spatial relation of the object relative to the image; and generating a composite image comprising a virtual image of the object in spatial relation to the image of the imaged subject acquired by the image detector. |
7791593 | 11166780 | 1 | 1. A system comprising: a computing device configured to save a human-generated association between a hand-formed mark and a classification symbol of at least two classification symbols, the computing device configured to accept the association of the classification symbol with the mark, and the association between the hand-formed mark and the classification symbol is formed by a human user of the computing device; and a data store comprising computer memory and coupled to the computing device and configured to store the hand-formed mark according to the association between the hand-formed mark and at least one of the at least two classification symbols; wherein each classification symbol of the at least two classification symbols is configured to be differentiated by the computing device using a predetermined classification over each other classification symbol of the at least two classification symbols, and each of the at least two classification symbols are drag and drop associatable with the hand-formed mark, the hand-formed mark formed on an electronic display surface by the human user. |
20050163365 | 11045703 | 0 | 1. An apparatus for information extraction from electromagnetic energy via multi-characteristic spatial geometry processing to determine three-dimensional aspects of an object from which the electromagnetic energy is proceeding, said apparatus including: means for receiving the electromagnetic energy, the received electromagnetic energy having a plurality of spatial phase characteristics; means for separating the plurality of spatial phase characteristics of the received electromagnetic energy; means for identifying spatially segregated portions of each spatial phase characteristic, with each spatially segregated portion of each spatial phase characteristic corresponding to a spatially segregated portion of each of the other spatial phase characteristics in a group; means for quantifying each segregated portion to provide a spatial phase metric of each segregated portion for providing a data map of the spatial phase metric of each separated spatial phase characteristic; and means for processing the spatial phase metrics to determine surface contour information for each segregated portion of the data map. |
20080185430 | 12024128 | 0 | 1. A medical instrument identification system for identifying a medical instrument from a plurality of medical instruments, comprising: at least one optical sensor for detecting features of the at least one medical instrument; and a data processing device operatively coupled to said at least one optical sensor, said data processing device operative to use videometric pattern recognition to identify the at least one medical instrument based on the detected features, wherein the optical sensor and the data processing device are assigned to a medical instrument tracking system. |
10101424 | 15387616 | 1 | 1. A method of accelerated 3D multispectral imaging (MSI) based on phase-encoding in two dimensions and frequency-encoding in the third, implemented on a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, the method comprising: generating randomized k-space undersampling patterns to determine k-space samples to be acquired in each spectral bin; ordering k-space samples into echo trains that determine gradient waveforms; initializing the gradient waveforms, RF waveforms, and timing information; playing the gradient and RF waveforms using the timing information to excite and refocus different spatial and spectral bin regions; acquiring undersampled MRI signal data on the MRI system from the spatial and spectral bin regions; reconstructing on-resonance images and off-resonance images represented as sets of low rank and sparse matrices from the undersampled MRI signal data, wherein the reconstructing uses a robust-principal-component-analysis-based algorithm implemented on a CPU or GPU; combining the on-resonance images and off-resonance images on the CPU or GPU to yield a final image; presenting the final image on a display. |
9747506 | 14919540 | 1 | 1. A system comprising: one or more perception sensors configured to generate perception data about a region near a vehicle; an attribute component configured to detect one or more environmental attributes based on the perception data; an estimator component configured to determine an estimated legal speed limit based on the environmental attributes, wherein the estimator component determines the estimated legal speed limit based on environmental attributes comprising one or more of a size of a shoulder of a road, a number of lanes on a road, a presence of houses, a presence of buildings, a presence of parked cars, a presence of a concrete medium, a lane marking, a curb, a rumble strip, a lane width, and a road curvature; and a notification component configured to provide the estimated legal speed limit to an automated driving system or driver assistance system of the vehicle. |
20110318065 | 13167726 | 0 | 1. An image forming apparatus to form a color image by superimposing images of a plurality of colors one above the other, the apparatus comprising: an image forming device to form a plurality of patterns on a surface of an image carrier using the plurality of colors as a first pattern, and to form a plurality of patterns on the surface of the image carrier using one of the plurality of colors as a second pattern, the plurality of patterns of the second pattern each configured to be formed at a pitch substantially the same with a pitch of corresponding one of the plurality of patterns of the first pattern; a detector to obtain a first detection result indicating the pitch of each one of the plurality of patterns of the first pattern, and to obtain a second detection result indicating the pitch of each one of the plurality of patterns of the second pattern; and a controller to calculate a difference between the first detection result and the second detection result to obtain a difference value, to calculate a correction value using the second detection result and the difference value, and to control the image forming device according to the correction value to suppress color shifts in the images. |
7760270 | 10330937 | 1 | 1. A storage device detachably loaded in a data processing apparatus, comprising: tap generation information storage means which stores tap generation information for generating a tap coefficient for each predetermined class for a data conversion process of converting first data into second data higher in quality level than the first data; tap coefficient generator means which generates the tap coefficient from the tap generation information under the control of the data processing apparatus; tap extractor means which extracts, from the first data supplied from the data processing apparatus, a predictive tap which is used to predict target data which is of interest in the second data; class tap extractor means which extracts, from the first data supplied from the data processing apparatus, a class tap which is used to classify the target data into one of a plurality of classes; class classifier means which classifies the target data according to the class tap; and predictor means which predicts the target data from the tap coefficient and the predictive tap of the class of the target data, and supplies the data processing apparatus with the target data. |
7770119 | 11944221 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method of automatically re-arranging nodes in a display, the method comprising: (a) displaying a plurality of nodes in a first configuration on a display, each node having an association with at least one other node represented by a physical connector between the associated nodes on the display; (b) for each node in the plurality of nodes, positioning the node at each of a plurality of pre-determined positions, while maintaining the associations between nodes, and storing a position of the node at one of the pre-determined positions when a number of overlapping connectors between nodes is reduced; (c) iteratively adjusting a distance between each pair of nodes toward a target distance; and (d) repeating steps (b) and (c) until a total length of all physical connectors is minimized and a number of overlapping connectors is minimized. |
9213799 | 14459307 | 1 | 1. A systematic defect analyzing method, comprising: utilizing a processor to perform following steps: receiving a plurality of physical features and a plurality of equivalence classes of suspected physical sites of a portion or all of a chip; partitioning physical sites into groups to obtain a plurality of groups of physical sites according to the plurality of physical features of a chip corresponding to different potential systematic defects; computing at least one defect probability of each group of physical sites; and deriving an analysis result according to the plurality of defect probabilities corresponding to the plurality of groups of physical sites, wherein the analysis result includes a trend result; wherein the step of computing the defect probability of each of the groups of physical sites comprises: according to the plurality of groups of physical sites and the plurality of equivalence classes of suspected physical sites obtained through defect diagnosis, computing a defect probability of each group of physical sites of a site where an equivalence class of a suspected physical site is located for each of the plurality of equivalence classes of suspected physical sites; and the step of deriving the analysis result according to the plurality of defect probabilities corresponding to the plurality of groups of physical sites comprises: computing a variance-within-group of each of the plurality of groups of physical sites according to the plurality of defect probabilities; deriving a simultaneous confidence intervals (SCI) between two neighboring physical sites of the plurality of physical sites according to the plurality of defect probabilities and a plurality of variance-between-groups respectively corresponding to the plurality of groups of physical sites, and further obtaining a plurality of SCIs; and obtaining the trend result according to the plurality of SCIs. |
9639809 | 15390236 | 1 | 1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-readable instructions that when executed by a computing device cause the computing device to: receive a set of support vectors, a Lagrange constant for each support vector of the set of support vectors, a center threshold value, an upper control limit value, and a lower control limit value, wherein the set of support vectors define a normal operating condition of a system, wherein the center threshold value, the upper control limit value, and the lower control limit value are computed from the set of support vectors and the plurality of Lagrange constants; receive a first plurality of observation vectors, wherein a number of the first plurality of observation vectors is a predefined window length; compute a window threshold value and a window center vector by solving an objective function defined for a support vector data description (SVDD) model using the received first plurality of observation vectors; compute a window distance value between the window center vector and the set of support vectors using the set of support vectors and the plurality of Lagrange constants; when the computed distance value is greater than the center threshold value, identify the first plurality of observation vectors as an outlier relative to the normal operating condition of the system; when the computed window threshold value is greater than the upper control limit value, identify the first plurality of observation vectors as the outlier relative to the normal operating condition of the system; when the computed window threshold value is less than the lower control limit value, identify the first plurality of observation vectors as the outlier relative to the normal operating condition of the system; and when the first plurality of observation vectors are identified as the outlier, output an alert. |
10083690 | 15458664 | 1 | 1. A method for operating a digital assistant, the method comprising: at an electronic device having one or more processors and memory: receiving user speech input; generating a textual representation of the user speech input; parsing the textual representation to determine a primary domain representing a user intent for the textual representation; identifying a first substring from the textual representation that corresponds to a first attribute of the primary domain; parsing the identified first substring to determine a secondary domain representing a user intent for the first sub string; performing a task flow comprising one or more tasks based on the primary domain and the secondary domain; and outputting a response in accordance with the performed task flow. |
20020087622 | 09752082 | 0 | 1 A method for integrating web photo-services for a browser-enabled device, comprising the steps of: (a) providing a server that communicates with the device over a network; (b) associating images stored on at least one photo-service site with a user account; (c) receiving from the device an inventory of images stored on the device; (d) providing an image-related web application to the device over the network, the web application requiring access to the user's images; and (e) providing a list of the images associated with a user's account to the web application, wherein the list of images includes an image reference for each image and an indication of whether each image is stored on the device or on the photo-service site, such that the web application may perform at least one function on the users images regardless of where the images are stored. |
20160317027 | 15140221 | 0 | 1. A method of generating a tomographic image using optical coherence tomography, comprising: a data obtaining step of obtaining a plurality of pieces of tomographic image data each indicating a tomogram at substantially the same portion of an object; a removing step of removing an outlier from the plurality of pieces of tomographic image data; a computation step of computing a motion contrast value based on the plurality of pieces of tomographic image data from which the outlier is removed; and a generation step of generating a motion contrast image of the object based on the motion contrast value. |
7982766 | 11391472 | 1 | 1. Method for determining characteristic angles and characteristic parameters of alignment of a vehicle situated at a measurement location comprising the following steps: equipping each of the wheels of the vehicle with a flat target carrying any design; determining relationship between the position of the target and each of the wheels; arranging at least one pair of television cameras such that said at least one pair of television cameras have a known relative position and together form a stereo system, said at least one pair of television cameras being arranged in a position such that said at least one pair of television cameras view at least the target associated with each wheel along two different viewing paths; taking two 2 dimensional images of the target associated with the wheel, by respective television cameras of said at least one pair of television cameras; comparing the two 2 dimensional images, to put points of the image taken by a television camera in relation to corresponding points of the image taken by the other television camera, resorting to epipolar mathematics; creating a three-dimensional image of the target by means of the comparison of the images taken by said at least one pair of television cameras; creating a spatial reference system W to which said three-dimensional image of the target refers; processing the three-dimensional image of the target collected by the at least two television cameras and determining the angular orientation and the position of the target in a spatial reference system W; and using said position and angular orientation to determine the alignment of the wheel relative to the spatial reference system. |
20070197930 | 11617151 | 0 | 1. A method for detecting epileptiform activity, the method comprising: obtaining brain wave signal data from a subject; decomposing the brain wave signal data into at least one predetermined subband, to obtain subband-specific output data representing a time series of a quantitative characteristic of the brain wave signal data, wherein each subband is indicative of a specific type of epileptiform activity; determining at least one measure for at least one of the at least one predetermined subband, the at least one measure belonging to a measure set comprising a first measure indicative of the entropy of the subband-specific output data and a second measure indicative of a normalized form of k:th order central moment of the subband-specific output data, where k is an integer higher than three; and indicating, based on the at least one measure of the respective subband, whether a specific type of epileptiform activity is present in the brain wave signal data. |
20060209366 | 11082082 | 0 | 1. A method for scanning a media sheet with a scanning apparatus having a scanning area and a media transport system for conveying said media sheet in a media feed direction, said media transport system having a first set of rollers located upstream of said scanning area with respect to said media feed direction and a second set of rollers located downstream of said scanning area with respect to said media feed direction, said method comprising: feeding said media sheet through said first set of rollers into said scanning area, such that a first portion of said media sheet is available for scanning; scanning a first partial media sheet image of said first portion of said media sheet, and storing said first partial media sheet image in memory; feeding said media sheet into said second set of rollers, then out of said first set of rollers, such that a second portion of said media sheet is available for scanning in said scanning area, wherein an extent of said second portion partially overlaps an extent of said first portion; scanning a second partial media sheet image of said second portion of said media sheet, and storing said second partial media sheet image in memory; and combining at least said first partial media sheet image with said second partial media sheet image to generate a full image of said media sheet. |
6120297 | 09139964 | 1 | 1. A method of guiding a student's acquisition of additional terminology for use in the student's vocabulary through the use of structured inductive reasoning, said method comprising the steps of: displaying information indicating the derivation of a current target word to be added to the student's vocabulary; displaying a clue that relates to the information indicating the derivation of the current target word and does not use the current target word, said clue offering answers for selection by the student; displaying a clue that relates to and does use the current target word, said clue offering answers for selection by the student; displaying the student's selected answer and asking the student to try again, if the answer selected by the student for a given clue was incorrect; displaying the correct answer to the clue and an explanation of that answer, if the answer selected by the student for a given clue was correct; and displaying the correct answer to the clue and an explanation of that answer after a given number of incorrect answers have been selected by the student for a given clue. |
20040086170 | 10637488 | 0 | 1. A pattern inspecting method for inspecting a defect or defective candidate of patterns on a sample, comprising: a size defining step for measuring geometric distortion in an image of a standard sample by picking up the image of the standard sample while shifting a sampling position on the standard sample, beforehand, and for defining a size for which the measured geometric distortion is neglectable; an image picking-up step for picking up an image of a sample by shifting a sampling position on the sample; an image data obtaining step for obtaining a first image of the sample obtained by the image picking-up step and for obtaining a second image to be compared with the first image; an image dividing step for dividing the first image and the second image into images of a division unit having a size not greater than the size defined by the size defining step; a calculating step for comparing a divided image of the first image which is divided in the dividing step with a divided image of the second image which corresponds to the divided image of the first image, and for calculating a difference in gradation values between both of the divided images of the first and second images; and an extracting step for extracting the defect or the defect candidate of the sample in accordance with the calculated difference in the gradation values of both of the divided images obtained from the calculating step. |
20030118250 | 10234244 | 0 | 1. A method of creating an image, said image being formed by rendering at least a plurality of graphical objects to be composited according to a compositing expression, each said object having a predetermined outline, said method comprising the steps of: dividing a space in which said outlines are defined into a plurality of mutually exclusive regions wherein each of said regions is defined by a region outline substantially following at least one of said predetermined outlines or parts thereof; examining each said region to determine those said objects which contribute to said region; modifying said compositing expression on the basis of the contribution of each of said objects within said region to form an optimized compositing expression for each said region; and compositing said image using each of said optimized compositing expressions. |
20160345404 | 15115170 | 0 | 1. A sensor unit for ascertaining control information for use in daylight-dependent light control, comprising: an image sensor for capturing digital image information and a controller for evaluating the image information and generating a brightness signal which represents the daylight, wherein the controller is configured to take into consideration to a greater extent image regions of the image information that is captured by the image sensor which are influenced to a greater extent by the daylight when generating the brightness signal. |
20160267651 | 15035581 | 0 | 1. A method for processing X-ray image data, the method comprising: receiving sum image data and difference image data, wherein the sum image data and the difference image data comprise intensity information of X-rays of two different energies passing through an object, the sum image data is based on a sum intensity of the two different energies and the difference image data is based on a difference intensity of the two different energies; partitioning the difference image data into a low frequency range and a high frequency range; and generating low noise image data by replacing the high frequency range of the difference image with a high frequency range based on the sum image data. |
20070147929 | 11610660 | 0 | 1. An image processing apparatus comprising: storage unit which stores an image data that is to be combined with a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image before being printed out; and transmission outputting unit which combines a stamp image with the image data stored in said storage unit and executing transmission outputting of the combined image data with the stamp image in the case that a transmission outputting direction is made for the image data stored in said storage means. |