Patents
Patents for G06K 9 - Methods or arrangements for reading or recognising printed or written characters or for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints (160,016)
08/2004
08/19/2004US20040161146 Method and apparatus for compression of multi-sampled anti-aliasing color data
08/19/2004US20040161144 Method for producing an image
08/19/2004US20040161141 Method of determining the orientation of an image
08/19/2004US20040161139 Image data navigation method and apparatus
08/19/2004US20040161138 Automated measurement of anatomical structures in medical imaging
08/19/2004US20040161137 Method of determining physical parameters of bodily structures
08/19/2004US20040161136 System having a rotating optical system and a non-planar prism that are used to obtain print and other hand characteristic information
08/19/2004US20040161135 Fingerprint matching device, fingerprint matching method, and program
08/19/2004US20040161134 Method for extracting face position, program for causing computer to execute the method for extracting face position and apparatus for extracting face position
08/19/2004US20040161132 Gesture-controlled interfaces for self-service machines and other applications
08/19/2004US20040160628 Print inspection apparatus, printing system, method of inspecting print data and program
08/19/2004US20040160518 IRIS recognition camera for an iris recognition system and a method of operation for an iris recognition camera
08/19/2004US20040160440 Method for surface-contouring of a three-dimensional image
08/19/2004US20040160344 Robust system for transmitting and receiving map data
08/19/2004US20040160335 Method and device for controlling household appliances
08/19/2004US20040160255 Semiconductor circuit
08/19/2004US20040159961 Semiconductor chip and method for producing housing
08/19/2004US20040159773 Imaging system and methodology
08/19/2004DE202004008602U1 Protection system for protecting reproducible items against uncontrolled and unauthorized reproduction whereby each item has an identifying label with corresponding identification data stored in a secure database
08/19/2004DE10304703A1 Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Sichtbarmachung der Umgebung eines Fahrzeugs mit umgebungsabhängiger Fusion eines Infrarot- und eines Visuell-Abbilds Method and device for visualizing the surroundings of a vehicle with environment-dependent fusion of infrared and a visual image
08/19/2004DE10303453B3 Verfahren und Anwendung des Verfahrens zum Auswerten biometrischer Daten Methods and application of the method for evaluating biometric data
08/19/2004DE102004004528A1 Verfahren, Vorrichtung und Programm zur Verarbeitung eines Stereobildes Method, apparatus, and program for processing a stereo image
08/19/2004CA2514826A1 Video scene background maintenance using change detection and classification
08/18/2004EP1447985A1 Device and method to improve vision in vehicles
08/18/2004EP1447974A2 Method and program for correcting facial image and recording medium
08/18/2004EP1447973A1 Image editing apparatus, image editing method and program
08/18/2004EP1447767A2 Image document administration method
08/18/2004EP1446784A1 Non-motion detection
08/18/2004EP1446768A1 Temporal noise reduction and local contrast amplification
08/18/2004EP1446763A1 Character string identification
08/18/2004EP1446762A2 Image identification system
08/18/2004EP1446761A1 Automatic digitization of garment patterns
08/18/2004EP1227929A4 Colloidal rod particles as nanobar codes
08/18/2004EP1157544B1 Hi-speed deterministic approach in detecting defective pixels within an image sensor
08/18/2004CN1522362A Method for analyzing a biological sample
08/18/2004CN1522052A Image pickup device
08/18/2004CN1522048A Image editing apparatus
08/18/2004CN1521693A Method ,device and program for correcting facial image
08/18/2004CN1521686A Scanner having a frame-choosing unit and frame-choosing scanning method thereof
08/18/2004CN1521685A True and counterfeit note identifying machine and method for identification
08/18/2004CN1521684A Synergic fingerprint identification method
08/18/2004CN1521671A Electronic signature of individualized signs and method and system for conducting electronic businesses
08/18/2004CN1162803C Bill distinguishing device and method
08/18/2004CN1162802C Image sensor device and scanner control method with said image sensor device
08/18/2004CN1162801C Scanning device with double driving system
08/18/2004CN1162793C Method and apparatus for representing and searching an object using shape
08/17/2004US6779112 Integrated circuit devices with steganographic authentication, and steganographic authentication methods
08/17/2004US6778712 Data sheet identification device
08/17/2004US6778709 Embedded block coding with optimized truncation
08/17/2004US6778706 Image compression method for video decoding based on motion compensation
08/17/2004US6778705 Classification of objects through model ensembles
08/17/2004US6778704 Method and apparatus for pattern recognition using a recognition dictionary partitioned into subcategories
08/17/2004US6778703 Form recognition using reference areas
08/17/2004US6778701 Feature extracting device for pattern recognition
08/17/2004US6778700 Method and apparatus for text detection
08/17/2004US6778699 Method of determining vanishing point location from an image
08/17/2004US6778698 Method and apparatus for digital image segmentation
08/17/2004US6778697 Color image processing method and apparatus thereof
08/17/2004US6778688 Remote authentication of fingerprints over an insecure network
08/17/2004US6778687 Fingerprint matching system with ARG-based prescreener
08/17/2004US6778686 Sensing device and a method relating thereto
08/17/2004US6778685 Two-stage local and global fingerprint matching technique for automated fingerprint verification/identification
08/17/2004US6778684 Systems and methods for checking image/document quality
08/17/2004US6778683 Method and apparatus for reading and decoding information
08/17/2004US6778679 Method for steganographic decoding
08/17/2004US6778678 High-capacity digital image watermarking based on waveform modulation of image components
08/17/2004US6778672 Audio reception control arrangement and method for a vehicle
08/17/2004US6778301 Fast preview of CCITT-compressed documents
08/17/2004US6778297 Image processing apparatus, method, and computer program product
08/17/2004US6776542 Ticket issuing system
08/12/2004WO2004068850A1 Method for adjusting an image sensor
08/12/2004WO2004068844A1 Image compression method, image restoration method, program, and apparatus
08/12/2004WO2004068414A1 Emerging position display of marked object
08/12/2004WO2004068413A1 Biometrics information registration apparatus, biometrics information matching apparatus, biometrics information registration/matching system, and biometrics information registration program
08/12/2004WO2004068411A1 Average value filter apparatus and filtering method
08/12/2004WO2004068410A1 Method and device for detection of points of interest in a source digital image, corresponding computer programme and data support
08/12/2004WO2004068407A1 Method for supporting data linkage between applications
08/12/2004WO2004068406A2 A method and system for image processing and contour assessment
08/12/2004WO2004068402A2 Method and apparatus for image processing
08/12/2004WO2004068394A1 Person recognition method and device
08/12/2004WO2004068393A1 Method and use of said method for evaluating biometric data
08/12/2004WO2004068368A1 Image processing method, system, program, program storage medium and information processing apparatus
08/12/2004WO2004049777A3 Method and apparatus for automated detection of target structures from medical images using a 3d morphological matching algorithm
08/12/2004WO2004049241A3 Bio-linking a user and authorization means
08/12/2004WO2004047005A3 Method of determining the region of interest in images of skin prints
08/12/2004WO2004027713A3 Method and apparatus for cross-modality comparisons and correlation
08/12/2004WO2004019154A3 Identity verification system
08/12/2004US20040158821 System and method for non-square blind source separation under coherent noise by beamforming and time-frequency masking
08/12/2004US20040158592 Method and apparatus for analysis of variables
08/12/2004US20040158581 Method for determination of co-occurences of attributes
08/12/2004US20040158525 System and method providing contingency biometric security activation
08/12/2004US20040158469 Augmentation and calibration of output from non-deterministic text generators by modeling its characteristics in specific environments
08/12/2004US20040157134 Simulation based PSM clear defect repair method and system
08/12/2004US20040156559 Method and apparatus for measuring quality of compressed video sequences without references
08/12/2004US20040156555 Calibration and correction in a fingerprint scanner
08/12/2004US20040156554 System and method for simulating visual defects
08/12/2004US20040156550 Digital image encoding
08/12/2004US20040156549 Feedback scheme for video compression system
08/12/2004US20040156548 Image processing apparatus, image compressing apparatus, image decompressing apparatus, image processing method, image compressing method, image decompressing method, information processing apparatus, information processing method, program and recording medium
08/12/2004US20040156547 Method and apparatus for image processing