21516 results about "Image identification" patented technology

A portable device configured to provide an augmented reality experience is provided. The portable device has a display screen configured to display a real world scene. The device includes an image capture device associated with the display screen. The image capture device is configured to capture image data representing the real world scene. The device includes image recognition logic configured to analyze the image data representing the real world scene. Image generation logic responsive to the image recognition logic is included. The image generation logic is configured to incorporate an additional image into the real world scene. A computer readable medium and a system providing an augmented reality environment are also provided.

Provided is a user interface apparatus that can control a telematics terminal safely and comfortably while driving, by recognizing a hand gesture image received through a camera in the telematics terminal as a corresponding control signal, and a method thereof. The interface apparatus using a hand gesture recognition, includes: an input receiving block for receiving a command registration request signal and a command selection signal; a hand gesture recognizing block for storing the hand gesture image in connection with a specific command, and transforming the hand gesture image into the corresponding command by recognizing the hand gesture image from the image obtained in the image obtaining block; and a command performing block for performing an operation corresponding to a command transformed in the hand gesture recognizing block.

An intelligent document recognition-based document management system includes modules for image capture, image enhancement, image identification, optical character recognition, data extraction and quality assurance. The system captures data from electronic documents as diverse as facsimile images, scanned images and images from document management systems. It processes these images and presents the data in, for example, a standard XML format. The document management system processes both structured document images (ones which have a standard format) and unstructured document images (ones which do not have a standard format). The system can extract images directly from a facsimile machine, a scanner or a document management system for processing.

A vehicle information display system includes a head-up display for reflecting an image on a windshield of a vehicle and displaying the image so that a driver recognizes the image as a virtual image. Information is collected for being displayed by the head-up display. A circumstance of the vehicle, a circumstance of surrounding of the vehicle, or a circumstance of the driver is detected. The collected information is classified in accordance with a detection result. Then, display contents of the head-up display are controlled in accordance with a classification result.

A system and method for servoing robot marks using fiducial marks and machine vision provides a machine vision system having a machine vision search tool that is adapted to register a pattern, namely a trained fiducial mark, that is transformed by at least two translational degrees and at least one mon-translational degree of freedom. The fiducial is provided to workpiece carried by an end effector of a robot operating within a work area. When the workpiece enters an area of interest within a field of view of a camera of the machine vision system, the fiducial is recognized by the tool based upon a previously trained and calibrated stored image within the tool. The location of the work-piece is derived by the machine vision system based upon the viewed location of the fiducial. The location of the found fiducial is compared with that of a desired location for the fiducial. The desired location can be based upon a standard or desired position of the workpiece. If a difference between location of the found fiducial and the desired location exists, the difference is calculated with respect to each of the translational axes and the rotation. The difference can then be further transformed into robot-based coordinates to the robot controller, and workpiece movement is adjusted based upon the difference. Fiducial location and adjustment continues until the workpiece is located the desired position with minimum error.

A method and system for image blending is disclosed. A destination image is received (100), the destination image including an image portion to be replaced and having characteristics associated with the identified image portion. A source image is also received (130). An image portion of the source image to be inserted into the destination image is identified (140). Where necessary, parameters of the image portion to be inserted are transformed to match those of the image portion to be replaced (150). The image portion to be inserted is then blended into the destination image in dependence on the image portion to be replaced and its associated characteristics (160). A video generation system using these features is also disclosed.

The present invention provides a system and method for input of images containing faces for accessing, linking, and or visualizing multiple similar facial images and associated electronic data for innovative new on-line commercialization, medical and training uses. The system uses various image capturing devices and communication devices to capture images and enter them into a facial image recognition search engine. Embedded facial image recognition techniques within the image recognition search engine extract facial images and encode the extracted facial images in a computer readable format. The processed facial images are then entered for comparison into at least one database populated with facial images and associated information. Once the newly captured facial images are matched with similar “best-fit match” facial images in the facial image recognition search engine's database, the “best-fit” matching images and each image's associated information are returned to the user. Additionally, the newly captured facial image can be automatically linked to the “best-fit” matching facial images, along with comparisons calculated, and / or visualized. Key new use innovations of the system include but are not limited to: input of user selected facial images for use finding multiple similar celebrity look-a-likes, with automatic linking that return the look-a-like celebrities' similar images, associated electronic information, and convenient opportunities to purchase fashion, jewelry, products and services to better mimic your celebrity look-a-likes; health monitoring and diagnostic use by conveniently organizing and superimposing periodically captured patient images for health professionals to view progress of patients; entirely new classes of semi-transparent superimposed training your face to mimic other similar faces, such as mimic celebrity look-a-like cosmetic applications, and or facial expressions; intuitive automatic linking of similar facial images for enhanced information technology in the context of enhanced and improved organization, classification, and fast retrieval objects and advantages; and an improved method of facial image based indexing and retrieval of information from the web-crawler or spider searched Web, USENET, and other resources to provide new types of intuitive easy to use searching, and / or combined use with current key-word searching for optimized searching.

Steps after a user finds an attractive product until he or she buys it are successively performed so that he or she can buy it stressfreely. The user photographs an attractive product with a portable camera telephone terminal 1 and transmits image data 7 to a server 3 through Internet 2. The server 3 has a DB 4 in which images such as various types of products, persons, and logo marks are registered and a DB 5 in which related information of image data registered in the DB 4 is registered. The server 3 performs an image recognizing process for the image data 7, retrieves data that match the image data 7 with a high match rate from the image data registered in the DB 4, and extracts corresponding related information from the DB 5. The related information is provided to the user through the Internet 2. By only transmitting the image data 7, the user can obtain related information of an attractive product. When the user accesses a site 6 for the product corresponding to the related information, he or she can obtain detailed information and buy the product.

An apparatus for a user to interface with a control object apparatus by a posture or a motion of the user's physical part. An image input unit inputs an image including the user's physical part. A gesture recognition unit recognizes the posture or the motion of the user's physical part from the image. A control unit controls the control object apparatus based on an indication corresponding to the posture or the motion. A gesture information display unit displays an exemplary image of the posture or the motion recognized for the user's reference to indicate the control object apparatus.

A portable data input or computer system includes an input / output device such as a keyboard and a display, another data input device such as an optical bar code scanner, and a data processor module. To scan bar code type indicia, the operator points the scanner at the bar code and triggers the scanner to read the indicia. All the system components are distributed on an operator's body and together form a personal area system (PAS). Components may include a scanner or imager, a wrist unit, a headpiece including an eyepiece display, speaker and a microphone. Components within a particular PAS communicate with each other over a personal area network (PAN). Individual PASs may be combined into a network of PASs called a PAS cluster. PASs in a particular PAS cluster can communicate with each other over another wireless communication channel. Individual PAS can gain access to a Local Area Network (LAN) and / or a Wide Area Network (WAN) via an access point. Individual PASs can use devices, such as servers and PCs situated either on the LAN or the WAN to retrieve and exchange information. Individual PAS components can provide automatic speech and image recognition. PAS components may also act a telephone, a pager, or any other communication device having access to a LAN or a WAN. Transmission of digitized voice and / or video data can be achieved over an Internet link.

Fingerprint image processing methods for fingerprint security systems, for example, in wireless communications devices, including capturing fingerprint images (320), identifying features from images (330), matching the identified features with reference features (340), and providing access to the device based upon feature matching (350) results. In one embodiment, minutiae features are extracted from the image and matched to reference minutiae features.

Extensive social communication is induced. Connection is made with a network terminal capable of connecting to the Internet, and an image and voice signal reflecting the subjective visual field of the user and the like which can be obtained from the headset system that can be worn by the user on the head is uploaded via the network terminal to a knowledge-information-processing server system, and specifying and selecting of an attention-given target by the voice of the user himself / herself are enabled on the server system with collaborative operation with the voice recognition system with regard to a specific object and the like to which the user gives attention and which is included in the image, and with regard to the series of image recognition processes and image recognition result made by the user, image recognition result and recognition processes thereof are notified as voice information to an earphone incorporated into the headset system of the user by way of the user's network terminal via the Internet by the server system with collaborative operation with a voice-synthesizing system, so that user's message or tweet can be extensively shared by users.

Systems and methods for two-way, interactive communication regarding emergency notifications and responses for mobile environments are disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a specific geographic area is designated for selective emergency communications. The emergency communications may comprise text, audio, video, and other types of data. The emergency notification is sent to users' mobile communications devices such as in-vehicle telematics units, cellular phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), laptops, etc. that are currently located in the designated area. The sender of the emergency message or the users' service provider(s) may remotely control cameras and microphones associated with the users' mobile communications devices. For example, a rear camera ordinarily used when driving in reverse may be used to capture images and video that may assist authorities in searching for a suspect. The users' vehicles may send photographs or video streams of nearby individuals, cars and license plates, along with real-time location information, in response to the emergency notification. Image recognition algorithms may be used to analyze license plates, vehicles, and faces captured by the users' cameras and determine whether they match a suspect's description. Advantageously, the present invention utilizes dormant resources in a highly beneficial and time-saving manner that increases public safety and national security.

A hand pattern switch device recognizes a hand pattern from an image of a hand in an image pickup zone and detects a hand motion. One of controlled objects is selected based on the recognized hand pattern and / or hand motion. In accordance with the selected object, a mode of detection of operation information based on hand motion is changed. In a moved distance detecting mode, a moved distance of the hand in the zone is detected as operation information, and in a stop time detecting mode, a stop time of the hand at a stop position to which the hand has been moved in the zone is detected as operation information. The image pickup zone is at a location which is located laterally to a steering wheel and to which a driver can extend his / her arm without changing a driving posture.

A method of producing a digital image with extended dynamic range, includes capturing at least a first full resolution digital image of a scene; combining pixels of a first full resolution digital image to produce a lower resolution digital image identifying dark regions in a first full resolution digital image and replacing the dark regions in the full resolution image with corresponding regions from the brighter, lower resolution image to thereby provide a digital image with extended dynamic range.

An intelligent video / audio observation and identification database system may define a security zone or group of zones. The system may identify vehicles and individuals entering or exiting the zone through image recognition of the vehicle or individual as compared to prerecorded information stored in a database. The system may alert security personnel as to warrants or other information discovered pertaining to the recognized vehicle or individual resulting from a database search. The system may compare images of a suspect vehicle, such as an undercarriage image, to standard vehicle images stored in the database and alert security personnel as to potential vehicle overloading or foreign objects detected, such as potential bombs. The system may track individuals or vehicles within a zone or between zones. The system may further learn the standard times and locations of vehicles or individuals tracked by the system and alert security personnel upon deviation from standard activity.

Systems and techniques are provided for tracking puts and takes of inventory items by subjects in an area of real space. A plurality of cameras with overlapping fields of view produce respective sequences of images of corresponding fields of view in the real space. A processing system is coupled to the system. In one embodiment, the processing system comprises image recognition engines receiving corresponding sequences of images from the plurality of cameras. The image recognition engines process the images in the corresponding sequences to identify subjects represented in the images and generate classifications of the identified subjects. The system processes the classifications of identified subjects for sets of images in the sequences of images to detect takes and puts of inventory items on shelves by identified subjects.

An image recognition / reproduction method includes an extraction step of extracting local feature elements of an image, and a selection step of selecting a pair composed of a prescribed local feature element and position information indicative thereof, this pair being such that the distance between a pair composed of a prescribed local feature element and position information indicative thereof and a pair composed of a local feature element extracted at the extraction step and position information indicative thereof is less than a prescribed distance.

A method for selecting an emphasis image from a collection of images based on facial identification comprises the steps of: (a) obtaining a collection of digital images; (b) detecting image patterns indicative of the presence of one or more faces in the digital images, thereby identifying one or more detected faces for each image in which a face is detected; (c) recognizing one or more faces from the detected faces for each of the images in which a face is detected; and (d) scoring an image based on the relative frequency of occurrence of a recognized face within the collection of images, thereby producing an emphasis image characteristic of the most frequently occurring face in the collection of images.

A system having a video display screen that provides video to a user. The position of the display screen is adjustable based upon the location of the user with respect to the display screen. The system includes at least one image capturing device trainable on a viewing region of the display screen and coupled to a control unit having image recognition software. The image recognition software identifies the user in an image generated by the image capturing device. The software of the control unit also generates at least one measurement of the position of the user based upon the detection of the user in the image.

Systems and techniques are provided for tracking multi joint subjects in real space having a plurality of cameras. The field of view of each camera overlaps with at least one other camera. The plurality of cameras produce respective sequences of images of corresponding fields of view in the real space. A processing system is coupled to the plurality of cameras. In one embodiment, the processing system comprises image recognition engines receiving sequence of images from the plurality of cameras and generating corresponding arrays of joint data structures. A tracking engine is configured to receive the arrays of joint data structures and generate candidate joints having coordinates in the real space. The processing system includes the logic to identify sets of candidate joints having coordinates in the real space as multi-joint subjects in the real space.

An imaging apparatus, medium, and apparatus using infrared rays with image discrimination. The imaging apparatus may includes an image sensor optically together sensing a visible light component and an infrared component of an image, and an image processor to recognize an object component of the image. Accordingly, an infrared component cell can be far more easily implemented than conventionally. Also, an object component can be more accurately identified while being less affected by ambient illumination of the object component because an infrared component is used. Furthermore, both iris identification and color image acquisition can be achieved using a single camera by employing the image sensor, which senses the infrared component and the visible light component together. Thus, both the iris identification and the color image acquisition can be incorporated and executed by a single camera. Therefore, the imaging apparatus can be made compact.

A contextually intelligent communication system and processes acquire and processes data on the current context of a user who is using a connected mobile communication device such as a smart phone or tablet by using various sensors, image recognition or augmented reality residing in the connected device; providing additional data to define the user's current environment; combining the contextual data on the device with the additional data to define the user's complete, relevant context; gathering the user's current context data and updating the device by uploading the data via a wide area mobile network to a contextually intelligent server in the cloud, matching the user's current contextual data with the user's past and historical data and then downloading updated data back to the device, with the updated data including any of a variety of contextually relevant information such as feedback, experiences, recommendations, offers, coupons, advice, tactile feedback, content such as visual and audio representations, augmented reality, and other audio / visual displays to the device of the user that is predictably useful and relevant to the user's current context and future context as the user enters a new context.

A method for detecting the lane departure of a vehicle includes an image recognition process and a deviation estimation process. The image recognition process includes the following steps: an image capturing step for capturing image frame data by using an image capturing unit; and a lane line recognition for analyzing the image frame data for determining the lane lines. By using a quadratic curve fitting equation, a plurality of lane line being detected so as to establish a road geometry estimation model. The road geometry estimation model is inputted into the deviation estimation process to detect the lane departure of the vehicle so as to alert the driver. Furthermore, an apparatus for detecting the deviation of the vehicle, comprising: an image capturing unit, a processing unit and a signal output unit.

Computerized methods and interactive input systems for manipulation of 3D objects are disclosed. An image of 3D object is displayed on a 2D interactive surface, and input is received and is interpreted for manipulating the 3D object. When the 3D object is selected, rotation control handles indicating available rotation directions are displayed. In one embodiment, the method comprises capturing images of a 3D input space, recognizing at least one object in the images, and comparing the recognized objects in the images to determine a difference therebetween based on a difference threshold. Depending on the outcome of the comparison, the recognized objects are emerged and associated with digital content, or only one of the recognized objects is maintained and associated with digital content.

The invention provides an auto-tracking recognition system and a method. The system comprises a fixed viewing field camera, a suspicious object determination module, a trail tracking module, a control module, a variable viewing field camera, a picture recognition module, a contrast module and an alarm module, wherein, the suspicious object determination module is used for analyzing a video picture collected by the fixed viewing field camera, determining a suspicious object, and acquiring the position of the suspicious object; the trail tracking module is used for determining the motion trail of the suspicious object; the control module is used for outputting a control signal according to the position and the motion trail of the suspicious object; the variable viewing field camera is used for acquiring the video picture in accordance with the feature recognition requirement based on an adjustment parameter of the control signal; the picture recognition module is used for acquiring a feature parameter of the suspicious object; the contrast module is used for contrasting the acquired feature parameter with the feature information of the contrasted object in a feature database; and the alarm module is used for giving an alarm to the suspicious object in accordance with the set alarm condition. The invention can automatically track and collect detail pictures of the suspicious object, and efficiently realize the recognition of the suspicious object, thereby giving an early and reliable alarm.

An image for an operator is extracted, and an operation determination unit employs a relationship, relative to a marker of an operation input system, for the operator, who is standing behind the marker when viewed by a video camera. When a body part of the operator comes to the front of an operation plane, as viewed by the video camera, the operation determination unit determines that an action for an input operation has been started, and examines the shape and the movement of each individual body part (an open hand, two fingers that are being held up, etc.), and determines whether the shape or the movement is correlated with one of operations that are assumed in advance.