622 results about "Model image" patented technology

To reduce medical mistakes, for instance, a surgical site is mistaken for another part. An operation support system includes a model image forming unit which applies a mark to a surgery site of a corresponding surgical position in accordance with inputted surgery information including an operative procedure, a surgery on right side or left side and the surgical position to form a human body model image and a display control unit which displays the human body model image formed by the model image forming unit on a display unit.

A method and system to help photographers to take better quality pictures of landmarks and scenes are disclosed. A user is guided with examples of existing quality images, which are extracted from a database, of the same or similar landmarks or scenes. The method includes taking a query photograph that may include an image associated with a GPS location and other metadata, and using information extracted from the image to retrieve existing, similar images. The images retrieved may be ordered according to different criteria. When a user selects one as a model image, the user is provided with assistance for taking a target photograph of similar quality.

In an image capturing apparatus, a video input unit (2) captures the image of an object and sequentially acquires image data associated with the image capturing, a model data memory (6) stores model data associated with the first feature quantity calculated from a feature point of the object in a model image, a principal object detection unit (3) calculates the second feature quantity from a feature point of the object in the acquired image data, a state change estimation unit (4) estimates, on the basis of the second feature quantity and the model data, the timing when the object satisfies a predetermined condition, and an image input processing control unit (7) stores the image data corresponding to the estimated timing in an image recording unit (5). This configuration makes the image capturing apparatus acquire an image in a more proper state without large-capacity memory.

An apparatus, method, and computer program product are provided for generating an image representation. The method includes receiving an input digital image, extracting features from the image which are representative of patches of the image, generating weighting factors for the features based on location relevance data for the image, and weighting the extracted features with the weighting factors to form a representation of the image.

A method for guiding stent deployment during an endovascular procedure includes providing a virtual stent model of a real stent that specifies a length, diameter, shape, and placement of the real stent. The method further includes projecting the virtual stent model onto a 2-dimensional (2D) DSA image of a target lesion, manipulating a stent deployment mechanism to navigate the stent to the target lesion while simultaneously acquiring real-time 2D fluoroscopic images of the stent navigation, and overlaying each fluoroscopic image on the 2D DSA image having the projected virtual stent model image, where the 2D fluoroscopic images are acquired from a C-arm mounted X-ray apparatus, and updating the projection of the virtual stent model onto the fluoroscopic images whenever a new fluoroscopic image is acquired or whenever the C-arm is moved, where the stent is aligned with the virtual stent model by aligning stent end markers with virtual end markers.

A system for rendering a merged virtual 3D augmented replica of a 3D product image and a 3D model image of a body part. A 3D modeling engine transforms an acquired 2D image of a body part into a 3D augmented replica thereof. A GUI enables the merging, displaying and manipulating of the 3D product image and the 3D augmented replica of a body part.

Disclosed herein an information processing device that compares an input image with a model image, the device including: a storage; an object feature point extractor; and a feature comparator.

A subject judgment program is capable of reducing the calculation load on a computer functioning as a device for judging the subject in a subject image. In a controller of a digital still camera, when a CPU running the subject judgment program (stored in a flash memory) obtains image data from an A/D converter via a first interface circuit, the CPU generates two-dimensional distribution data of product-moment correlation coefficients for each of model image data stored in the flash memory by successively calculating the product-moment correlation coefficient between the model image data and each part of the obtained image data, identifies a piece of model image data corresponding to two-dimensional distribution data having the highest maximum value, and thereby identifies subject information which has been associated with the identified model image data.

This invention relates to a method and a system for generating telecommunication merging services suitable for different interfaces and platforms, in which, the system is composed of service model edit/express tools, a model decoder container and various kinds of model decoders and related model image rule library stationed in it and model storage storehouse and information interaction among the components is realized via a standard interface. The method includes: generating a general service model independent of the concrete interface technology and the platform technology then carrying out images from the general technology model to the concrete interface technology related model , to the model for realizing platform technology, then to the codes realized to the program languages then arranging the executive service logic to an available service.

A robot simulation device for simulating an operation of a robot having a vision sensor in an off-line mode. The device includes a working-environment model setting section for arranging a sensor model, a robot model and a plurality of irregularly piled workpiece models in a virtual working environment; and an operation simulating section for allowing the sensor model and the robot model to simulate a workpiece detecting operation and a bin picking motion. The operation simulating section includes a workpiece-model image generating section for allowing the sensor model to pick up the workpiece models and generating a virtual image thereof; a workpiece-model position detecting section for identifying an objective workpiece model from the virtual image and detecting a virtual position thereof; and a robot-model operation controlling section for allowing the robot model to pick out the objective workpiece model based on the virtual position.

A face recognition system and process for identifying a person depicted in an input image and their face pose. This system and process entails locating and extracting face regions belonging to known people from a set of model images, and determining the face pose for each of the face regions extracted. All the extracted face regions are preprocessed by normalizing, cropping, categorizing and finally abstracting them. More specifically, the images are normalized and cropped to show only a persons face, categorized according to the face pose of the depicted person's face by assigning them to one of a series of face pose ranges, and abstracted preferably via an eigenface approach. The preprocessed face images are preferably used to train a neural network ensemble having a first stage made up of a bank of face recognition neural networks each of which is dedicated to a particular pose range, and a second stage constituting a single fusing neural network that is used to combine the outputs from each of the first stage neural networks. Once trained, the input of a face region which has been extracted from an input image and preprocessed (i.e., normalized, cropped and abstracted) will cause just one of the output units of the fusing portion of the neural network ensemble to become active. The active output unit indicates either the identify of the person whose face was extracted from the input image and the associated face pose, or that the identity of the person is unknown to the system.

A camera has a provisional photographing mode in which a human model image is displayed on a through image in an overlapping manner on a display, and the user moves the human model image to a desired position in the through image and records a composition indicating image representing the conditions of the through image with the human model image at the desired position. After the provisional photographing process, the through image is synthesized with the recorded composition indicating image in a semi transparent manner, to display a synthesized image in place of the through image on the display. When a shutter is operated, a normal photographing process is performed to record an image.

A two-dimensional (2-D) machine-vision safety-solution involving a method and apparatus for performing high-integrity, high efficiency machine vision. A known structured lighting texture pattern is projected upon a target area. A model image of the pattern on an empty target field is stored during an initial training step. The machine vision safety solution digitally interprets a camera image of the light reflected by the objects in the target area to detect and characterize a pattern in the image. The pattern characterization is then processed to determine if a distortion of the characterization factors is larger than a predetermined threshold, and results in an alarm condition.

The present invention relates to an image processing system, a learning device and method, and a program which enable easy extraction of feature amounts to be used in a recognition process. Feature points are extracted from a learning-use model image, feature amounts are extracted based on the feature points, and the feature amounts are registered in a learning-use model dictionary registration section 23. Similarly, feature points are extracted from a learning-use input image containing a model object contained in the learning-use model image, feature amounts are extracted based on these feature points, and these feature amounts are compared with the feature amounts registered in a learning-use model registration section 23. A feature amount that has formed a pair the greatest number of times as a result of the comparison is registered in the model dictionary registration section 12 as the feature amount to be used in the recognition process. The present invention is applicable to a robot.

A defect detecting apparatus captures an image of a protein chip formed on each die of a wafer with a low magnification for every first division region obtained by dividing each die in plurality; stores each obtained image as an inspection target image together with an ID for identifying each first division region; creates a model image for every first division region by calculating an average luminance value of pixels of each inspection target image; extracts a difference between the model image and each inspection target image as a difference image; determines presence of a defect by extracting a Blob having an area larger than a preset value from the difference image; captures a high-magnification image of every second division region; creates a model image again and extracts a Blob; and determines the kind of the defect based on a feature point of the defect.

This invention provides a system and method for determining position of a viewed object in three dimensions by employing 2D machine vision processes on each of a plurality of planar faces of the object, and thereby refining the location of the object. First a rough pose estimate of the object is derived. This rough pose estimate can be based upon predetermined pose data, or can be derived by acquiring a plurality of planar face poses of the object (using, for example multiple cameras) and correlating the corners of the trained image pattern, which have known coordinates relative to the origin, to the acquired patterns. Once the rough pose is achieved, this is refined by defining the pose as a quaternion (a, b, c and d) for rotation and a three variables (x, y, z) for translation and employing an iterative weighted, least squares error calculation to minimize the error between the edgelets of trained model image and the acquired runtime edgelets. The overall, refined/optimized pose estimate incorporates data from each of the cameras' acquired images. Thereby, the estimate minimizes the total error between the edgelets of each camera's/view's trained model image and the associated camera's/view's acquired runtime edgelets. A final transformation of trained features relative to the runtime features is derived from the iterative error computation.

A method for identifying lithographically significant defects. A photomask is illuminated to produce images that experience different parameters of the reticle as imaged by an inspection tool. Example parameters include a transmission intensity image and a reflection intensity image. The images are processed together to recover a band limited mask pattern associated with the photomask. A model of an exposure lithography system for chip fabrication is adapted to accommodate the band limited mask pattern as an input which is input into the model to obtain an aerial image of the mask pattern that is processed with a photoresist model yielding a resist-modeled image. The resist-modeled image is used to determine if the photomask has lithographically significant defects.

The invention provides a computerized tomography (CT) image metal artifact correction method, a computerized tomography (CT) image metal artifact correction device and a computerized tomography (CT) apparatus. The computerized tomography (CT) image metal artifact correction method comprises the following steps that: a metal projection range caused by an interference object is determined according to an original image corresponding to original projection data; diagnosis object projection data after the removal of the interference object are obtained based on metal projection data in the metal projection range, and after that, the original projection data are corrected and a model image is constructed based on the diagnosis object projection data; and secondary correction is performed on the original projection data according to the projection data of the model image, and reconstruction is performed based on corrected target projection data and according to clinically-used scanning and image construction conditions so as to obtain a metal artifact-free target image, and therefore, the purpose of metal artifact correction can be achieved. According to the computerized tomography (CT) image metal artifact correction method of the invention, the original projection data are adopted as a correction object, and therefore, the spatial resolution and low-contrast ability of a processed image can be ensured; and the original projection data completely contain all information of the interference object, and therefore, the introduction of a new artifact can be avoided.