Abstract: A method for analysis of DNA data. A DNA source image is generated based on the DNA data. A digital bit-map is created from the DNA source image plotting image intensity data against a two-dimensional coordinate system from an initial viewpoint. An image model is generated based on the digital bit-map. The image model comprises model data representing the image intensity data as virtual points on a three-dimensional coordinate system further incorporating the the two-dimensional coordinate system of the digital bit map. A DNA analysis image is generated based on the image model. The DNA analysis image represents the model data from an analysis viewpoint with respect to the two-dimensional coordinate system. The analysis viewpoint differs from the initial viewpoint. The DNA analysis image is then displayed.

Abstract: The invention may comprise is a method and system of processing an image such as a road sign wherein the image is viewed from a host such as an automobile. The method begins with the initiating of a scan of an object to obtain an input. The input is converted to a signal before comparing the input with a set of stored inputs to determine a match. The converting step occurs via a fourier or similar transform to produce a transformed input; and, then filters the transformed input using nonlinear filtering.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for identifying differences between a stored pattern and a matching image subset, where variations in pattern position, orientation, and size do not give rise to false differences. The invention is also a system for analyzing an object image with respect to a model pattern so as to detect flaws in the object image. The system includes extracting pattern features from the model pattern; generating a vector-valued function using the pattern features to provide a pattern field; extracting image features from the object image; evaluating each image feature, using the pattern field and an n-dimensional transformation that associates image features with pattern features, so as to determine at least one associated feature characteristic; and using at least one feature characteristic to identify at least one flaw in the object image. The invention can find at least two distinct kinds of flaws: missing features, and extra features.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for analyzing a medical image obtained from one of a plurality of modalities, the method comprising normalizing the medical image to create a uniform display quality regardless of the original modality of the image.

Abstract: In an image sending apparatus for sending an image input from an external apparatus, the input image is displayed on display means. In the case where the input image is unnecessary, the image can be designated as an unnecessary image and not sent. The unnecessary image is designated by moving display of accompanying information of the image to an unnecessary image list in the display means. In an image transmission information display apparatus for displaying transmission information on a screen for confirmation of a transmission status of a medical image to be sent to a plurality of addressees, an image list is displayed on the screen. After transmission processing of the medical image to all the addressees has been finished, a transmission processing end status is displayed indicating the end of the transmission processing to all the addressees, in an information display area of the image in the image list.

Abstract: An image processing system which processes, in real time, multiple images, which are different views of the same object, of video data in order to match features in the images to support 3 dimensional motion picture production. The different images are captured by multiple cameras, processed by digital processing equipment to identify features and perform preliminary, two-view feature matching. The image data and matched feature point definitions are communicated to an adjacent camera to support at least two image matching. The matched feature point data are then transferred to a central computer, which performs a multiple-view correspondence between all of the images.

Abstract: In an image processing apparatus, an input image is synthesized with a stored image supplied from a storage unit and having been shifted so that the positions of the pixels in the image areas of the input image and of the stored image, associated with a telop, will coincide. The level distribution of the pixel values of the input image is maintained in the telop.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method and related system for determining a feature location in multiple dimensions including depth. The method includes providing left and right camera images of the feature and locating the feature in the left camera image and in the right camera image using bunch graph matching. The feature location is determined in multiple dimensions including depth based on the feature locations in the left camera image and the right camera image.

Abstract: The present invention envisions the use of a raw image buffer in an imager to aid the imager with power consumption problems and/or timing problems. When captured by the imager, data representing the image captured is directed either to processing circuitry or to a raw image buffer. The processing circuitry transforms the raw image data into a final image. The raw image data may be redirected into a raw image buffer for further processing at a later time. The raw image buffer may be used to buffer up a number of raw images, so that the processing circuitry may operate on the raw images in a single cohesive block of time rather than in intermittent bursts. Or, the raw image buffer may be used to aid in the speed of capturing images. If images are captured faster than the processing circuitry can process the raw data into a final version, the raw image data may be transferred into the raw image buffer for storage, thus allowing the processing circuitry to operate on the stored images in the raw image buffer.

Abstract: A method of local contrast mapping that changes the dynamic range of an original image to more closely match the dynamic range of the medium used for the reproduction. The method compresses large contrast differences between different areas of an image while preserving small contrast differences between different areas of an image.

Abstract: A work identification system comprises a work storage configured to store digital data representing at least one of a shape, area, and color of an only one work, a collation section configured to calculate a degree of deviation between digital data representing at least one of a shape, area, and color of a target work to be identified and the digital data stored in the work storage, and a test section configured to perform a test of hypothesis based on a predetermined hypothesis using the degree of deviation.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for identifying differences between a stored pattern and a matching image subset, where variations in pattern position, orientation, and size do not give rise to false differences. The invention is also a system for analyzing an object image with respect to a model pattern so as to detect flaws in the object image. The system includes extracting pattern features from the model pattern; generating a vector-valued function using the pattern features to provide a pattern field; extracting image features from the object image; evaluating each image feature, using the pattern field and an n-dimensional transformation that associates image features with pattern features, so as to determine at least one associated feature characteristic; and using at least one feature characteristic to identify at least one flaw in the object image. The invention can find at least two distinct kinds of flaws: missing features, and extra features.

Abstract: A model is used to represent a set of structured data objects that include elements at defined positions. The model includes distributions of vectors, each distribution corresponding to particular positions in the respective structured data objects, each of the vectors comprising values for the particular positions; and comparing a given set of structured data objects to the model to determine a likelihood that the given set is represented by the model. At least some of the distributions of the model differ such that different states of matching are indicated. Distributions of the model can indicate: dissimilarity between the structured data objects at defined positions; similarity between the structured data objects at defined positions; or similarity to a reference structure data object at defined positions.

Abstract: Described is electronic ink maintained as a software object, thereby associating ink functionality with electronic ink data. The ink may be separated into words or characters, with one object per word or character. By the associated functionality, applications that deal with embedded objects in general can automatically benefit from electronic ink, including having the object's functionality render the ink data as part the application's document. Further, because the ink data is maintained as an object, the data is automatically persisted in association with the document into which it is embedded. Ink-aware applications may call on methods of the electronic ink object to adjust formatting, search recognized ink along with text, and perform other functions. Via the electronic ink object, electronic ink substantially approaches much of the behavior normally available with text data, without requiring applications to interpret the ink data.

Abstract: In a method for determining the general semantic theme of a group of images, whereby each digitized image is identified as belonging to a specific group of images, one or more image feature measurements are extracted from each of the digitized images in an image group, and then used to produce an individual image confidence measure that an individual image belongs to one or more semantic classifications. Then, the individual image confidence measures for the images in the image group are used to produce an image group confidence measure that the image group belongs to one or more semantic classifications, and the image group confidence measure is used to decide whether the image group belongs to one or to none of the semantic classifications, whereby the selected semantic classification constitutes the general semantic theme of the group of images.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for compression and restoration of images, videos, surfaces, curves and, generally, pixel-based data sets, including: feature-based quantization using a set of N isocontours; compressing each of these N contours using a level set-based compression of curves or surfaces—and/or combining the quantization with a conventional method for compression of surfaces; and decompressing the compressed data using a nonoscillatory reconstruction. The method is naturally multiscale, but does not use wavelets or other multiscale-basis functions. The method performs compression and decompression (1) without excessive computational complexity, even in the presence of topological changes such as merging or breaking of isocontours as the scale changes, (2) with excellent image fidelity, (3) without unacceptable artifacts such as ringing, blurring, or blocking, (4) with simple and natural grid based ways of calculating geometric features such as normals, principal curvatures.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for generating an 2-D projection directly from a 3-D volume data, the method comprising the steps of determining a viewing direction vector in a viewing frustum, determining a major axis of the direction vector, resampling the volume data in the direction of the major axis, applying a shear factorization to the resampled data; and rendering the factorized data. The method provides a singularly warped image which avoids have to patch images from multiple warp functions which, in turn, improves the quality of the final image. Finally, the image allows a scene to be rendered from within the scene itself. The invention can be applied to medical imaging and enable a surgeon to view an image such as a CT scan with perspective as well as from within the scan itself, providing the surgeon with an invaluable tool.

Abstract: A logical separation between pages, such as an implicit page break, is introduced to separate text entered during one handwriting session from text entered during another handwriting session. The amount of time elapsed since ink has been captured on the previous page is a factor that may be used to determine whether to insert an implicit page break into the new page. A change in context, such as a different date or different recognized subject matter labels, is also a factor that may be considered in determining whether to insert an implicit page break.

Abstract: An information converting system includes: a database (300) in which attribute data including three-dimensional shape data of parts modeled on various objects and identification codes are registered; a comparison part generating unit (400) for generating part information for comparison from the attribute data for each of the parts; an input unit (100) for obtaining an input image including an object image; a comparison information generating unit (200) for performing an imaging process on the input image to thereby generate image information for comparison in which information of the object image is not clipped; and a specifying unit (500) for retrieving a part corresponding to the part information for comparison from the image information for comparison, recognizing the corresponding portion in the image information for comparison as an object image, and specifying a part having the part information for comparison as a part corresponding to the object image.

Abstract: In a computer system that accepts handwritten input, a digitizer tracks the location of a user's pen while the pen is not in contact with the digitizer's writing surface. The digitizer maps the pen's three-dimensional location into a two-dimensional location on the digitizer's writing surface. Handwriting-recognition is triggered for handwriting entered into a handwriting-recognition task area upon detecting that the user has lifted the pen off of the digitizer's writing surface and that the pen has moved out of proximity from the handwriting-recognition task area. The handwriting-recognition triggering may be inhibited when the pen is down and in contact with the digitizer's writing surface in an inking orientation.