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20100286981
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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-po...
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...
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...
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...
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; det...
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 predetermin...
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...
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 wheth...
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 ...
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; id...
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, ...
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...
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 ...
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 partitioni...
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 objec...
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 ...
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...
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 substantiall...
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 ...
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, accordi...
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 ...
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 document...
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 ...
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 sen...
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 st...
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 bou...
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...
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...
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; identifyi...
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...
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 analy...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 n...
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 modulatio...
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; a...
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: us...
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) describ...
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: inpu...
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 o...
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 m...
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; app...
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 ...
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 use...
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 ...
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 rela...
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 ba...
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 e...
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 bu...
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 firs...
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 retriev...
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 editi...
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 wit...
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 compute...
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 proce...
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...
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 ...
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 followin...
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 ...
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 nu...
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 d...
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, a...
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 pl...
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 ...
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 d...
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 ...
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 f...
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 ea...
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...
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 mea...
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 compri...
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 dete...
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...
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 elec...
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 da...
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 ea...
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 ...
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 patter...
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...
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 displa...
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 p...
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 contro...
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 f...
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 ...
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 ...
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 e...
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 si...
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 ...
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; displayi...
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...
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 plural...
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 configu...
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...
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 outpu...