Abstract: The present invention provides apparatuses and systems for determining block averages in film grain simulation including determining block averages during a display process and determining block averages during a decoding process. The apparatuses and systems of the present invention exhibit different characteristics in terms of memory requirements and computational cost. More specifically, the first apparatus and system use no external memory, but require either extra reads of the blocks, or internal memory in the display pipeline, while the second apparatus and system require extra memory bandwidth and extra external memory (e.g., RAM).

Abstract: To analyze a tire surface, a 3D elevational image is captured, which is formed of pixels representing points on the surface. Each point is assigned a grey-level value proportional to its elevation relative to a surface level. Based on the elevations in the elevational image, an orientational image is formed showing elevation gradients of the surface. In the orientational image, which is formed of pixels representing points on the surface, each point is assigned a grey-level value proportional to an angle formed with a direction given by a projection in an image plane of a non-zero norm vector substantially corresponding, at this point, to a gradient vector tangent to the surface and oriented in a direction of greatest slope. A filtered image is determined by transforming the orientational image using a filter to select areas that include structures similar to those in a reference orientational image of a blow hole.

Abstract: A method for examining cultured cells for the presence of periodic structures comprises the steps of providing cultured cells, fixing the cultured cells, staining the fixed cultured cells using a first staining agent, stimulating the first staining agent causing it to emit light taking a two-dimensional image of the fixed cultured cells, cross-correlating first and second filtered images derived from the image of the fixed cultured cells to obtain a correlation image, and determining the presence or absence of periodic structures in the fixed cultured cells by determining whether there are periodic structures of maxima and minima in brightness in the correlation image.

Abstract: A method to position multiple camera using camera ordering is described herein. Based on two known camera positions, a third camera position is able to be determined using acquired information and calculations.

Abstract: An apparatus for extracting a peak image includes an image selector configured to select one of continuously photographed images; a base image determiner configured to determine at least one base image according to a predetermined criterion; a difference calculator configured to calculate a difference between the selected image and the at least one base image; and a peak image determiner configured to determine a peak image among the continuously photographed images based on the calculated difference.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and a system for reducing functional ambiguity from an image. In one embodiment, an input image is received and processed to identify objects. Spatial proximity score of the identified objects are determined based on which functional proximity score of functionalities associated with the identified objects is further determined. Upon determining the functional proximity score, possible domain of all the functionalities associated with the identified objects is determined. Further, a domain score is determined based on which the ambiguity of the domain related to the input image is reduced. A text summary of objects, functionalities and possible domains associated with the input image is then generated upon mapping with one or more user profiles and displayed to end user.

Abstract: An authentication device may include a housing and a finger sensor carried by the housing and including first processing circuitry and a finger sensing area coupled thereto. The first processing circuitry may be configured to generate finger image data based upon a finger positioned adjacent the finger sensing area, and generate and store a first template based upon the finger image data. The authentication device may include second processing circuitry carried by the housing and configured to obtain the finger image data from the first processing circuitry. The second processing circuitry may be configured to generate a second template based upon the finger image data. The first processing circuitry may further be configured to obtain the second template from second processing circuitry, and validate the second template against the first template.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media related to a technique for providing handwriting input functionality on a user device. A handwriting recognition module is trained to have a repertoire comprising multiple non-overlapping scripts and capable of recognizing tens of thousands of characters using a single handwriting recognition model. The handwriting input module provides real-time, stroke-order and stroke-direction independent handwriting recognition. User interfaces for providing the handwriting input functionality are also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention is capable of distinguishing four types or more of substances such as air, water (soft tissues), contrast medium, and bones (calcification) to diagnose progress of atherosclerotic sites using dual energy imaging. A subject is imaged with two types of different tube voltages and an image obtained by image reconstruction is binarized to carry out a reprojection process; thereby, the distance of penetration of air is estimated, the contribution of air in measurement projection data is determined, and the amount of reduction by the air is deducted from the projection data so as to enable distinction between four or more substances such as air, water (soft tissues), contrast medium, and bones (calcification).

Abstract: One embodiment of the invention provides an image processing method for use in fitting a deformable shape model to an acquired image. The deformable shape model specifies a set of target points whose motion is governed by the model. The method comprises, for each target point, generating a corresponding response image by: providing a feature detector to locate a given target point within the acquired image, wherein said feature detector includes a random forest comprising one or more decision trees; scanning a patch image across the acquired image to define multiple sampling locations with respect to the acquired image; for each sampling location of the patch image with respect to the acquired image, performing regression voting using the random forest to produce one or more votes for the location of the given target point within the acquired image; and accumulating the regression votes for all of the multiple sampling locations to generate said response image corresponding to the given target point.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a calculating unit and a detecting unit. The calculating unit calculates an additional value of a luminance values for each coordinate value in a first direction. The calculating unit calculates an additional value of the luminance values for each coordinate value in a second direction. The detecting unit detects a region of the image in which additional values of the luminance values for each coordinate value in the first direction are equal or a region in which additional values of the luminance values for each coordinate value in the second direction are equal.

Abstract: A computer application on a device for tracking menstrual blood loss by receiving an image of a used sanitary product, analyzing, or receiving analysis of, the amount of blood volume in the image, and aggregating the blood volume from more than one image to determine total blood loss volume for a menstrual cycle.

Abstract: Systems and methods of generating a compact visual vocabulary are provided. Descriptor sets related to digital representations of objects are obtained, clustered and partitioned into cells of a descriptor space, and a representative descriptor and index are associated with each cell. Generated visual vocabularies could be stored in client-side devices and used to obtain content information related to objects of interest that are captured.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide an information processing device, a method of processing information, and a program for processing information to easily identify the location of the monitoring object and to reduce the cost. The information processing device 10 that monitors the monitoring object includes a location information database that associates the vertical and horizontal position of the image data captured by a fixed camera with actual location information corresponding to the position, judges whether or not the monitoring object is imaged in the image data, and outputs actual location information corresponding to the position of the image data to which the monitoring object is imaged, based on the location information database if the monitoring object is judged to be imaged.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and device for assisting a user for capturing an image. In an embodiment, an image is focused by a user of an image capturing device. The image capturing device extracts one or more features from the image being focused. The extracted features are classified into significant features and background features. The image capturing device also extracts one or more line segments in the image. Upon extracting the features and the line segments, the image capturing device determines relation between the features and the line segments. The image capturing device provides assistance to the user for capturing the image based on the relation.

Abstract: The method comprises the steps of, successively for each image following a preceding image based on a map of motion vectors that corresponds to the motion from said preceding image toward said following image, building a pixel mask for said following image, applying said pixel mask to the corresponding following image in order to obtain a corresponding masked image that samples the pixels of said following image. The application of this method to color clustering allows the iterative update of the colors clusters with limited computer resources.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method that includes: accessing data encoding a fingerprint slap scan image, the fingerprint slap scan image including fingerprints of a number of fingers from a subject's hand; performing a radon transform of the fingerprint slap scan image to generate a sinogram, the sinogram represented on a grid having a lateral span axis and a projection angle axis; automatically identifying patterns of segments on the sinogram as finger lines, each finger lines corresponding to a particular finger present on the fingerprint slap scan image; and based on identified finger lines on the sinogram, automatically determining whether one or more fingers are missing on the fingerprint slap scan image.

Abstract: An information processing device and method can detect facial feature point positions with high accuracy. The information processing device includes: a facial image input unit receiving a facial image; a facial feature point reliability generation unit generating, based on a plurality of classifiers for computing the suitability of feature points of a face, a reliability image indicating the suitability for each feature point from the facial image; a facial feature point candidate position computation unit obtaining a candidate position of the feature point in the facial image based on the reliability image; and a facial shape model conformity computation unit determining a feature point that satisfies conditions based on a position corresponding to each of the feature points of one facial shape model selected from a plurality of statistically generated facial shape models and the candidate position of the feature point, and calculating a conformity to the facial shape model.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires volume data including a blood vessel image. The processing circuitry generates volume data indicating a blood vessel image on a basis of the acquired volume data. The processing circuitry generates three-dimensional image data indicating a blood vessel image of a region corresponding to a predetermined dominance region of dominance regions, on a basis of the volume data indicating the blood vessel image.

Abstract: A disparity deriving apparatus for deriving disparity of an object includes a calculator to calculate costs between a first reference area in a reference image and each one of corresponding areas corresponding to the first reference area in the comparison image, and costs between a second reference area, surrounding the first reference area in the reference image, and each one of corresponding areas corresponding to the second reference area in a comparison image; a synthesizer to synthesize the costs of the first reference area and the second reference area as synthesis costs; a deriving unit to derive a disparity value of the object captured in the first reference area based on the synthesized synthesis costs; and a correction unit to apply a spatial filter to a local region, composed of a plurality of areas, in the first reference image to correct a disparity value of the local region.