Multilayer coextrusion method and apparatus are shown which provide a relatively easily obtained symmetry control of the layer thickness which is particularly suitable when the desired laminate contains many layers.

A method and apparatus for an automated system to extract a high quality signature from an image having areas not relevant for specific identification purposes which can lead to misleading image signatures, the method comprising: identifying at least one region of interest within the image by determining local orientation information at each pixel position in the image, the at least one region of interest comprising elements useful for the specific identification purposes; creating and applying ...

A method and apparatus for tracking a color-based object in video sequences are provided. According to the method, an initial object area in one frame of video sequences desired to be tracked is assigned, and an initial object effective window containing the initial object area is assigned. A frame following the frame containing the assigned initial object area is received as a newly input image, and an object search window containing the initial object area for tracking and the initial object e...

A method for detecting edges in an image is disclosed along with corresponding apparatus and system for accurately extracting edges in the image. The edge detecting apparatus comprises a reading means, an image gray-level statistical means, an image classification means, a segmenting threshold generating means, an edge criterion determining means, and an image edge extracting means. The present invention realizes a reliable and accurate method for detecting edges in an image so as to extract edg...

In a digital copying machine, a ground in a document image is removed according to the type of document by referring to a histogram of reflectance data on a document image prepared for each line. A ground peak or a gradation level having the largest frequency in the histogram is determined. Further, frequencies are obtained in three windows appropriate for extracting characteristic quantities for ground, background and characters. A window for the ground quantity is determined according to the g...

Methods and systems for segmentation of digital mixed-content documents. Segmentation processes may include identification of text and background regions and identification of contone regions outside the text and background regions. Further analysis may be performed to identify additional text and background regions within the contone regions thereby identifying verified contone regions, which may then be divided into contone sub-regions.

A method for creating a summary of an audiovisual presentation initiates with segmenting a frame of the audiovisual presentation. Then, a slide region of the segmented frame is identified. Next, a histogram representing lines in the slide region is generated. Next, moving regions associated with successive frames from the histogram are suppressed. A computer readable medium, a system for providing a real time summarization of a meeting and an integrated circuit are also provided.

The present invention is a character recognition apparatus, which comprises a background discriminating section, a non-character line discriminating section, a first non-character line removed image creating section that creates a first non-character line removed image, which is an original image from which the non-character line is removed, a first character area discriminating section, an enlarged image creating section, a second non-character line removed image creating section, an interferen...

A method of segmenting a radiographic image into diagnostically relevant and diagnostically irrelevant regions comprising: acquiring a digital radiographic image including a matrix of rows and columns of pixels; detecting the initial background left point of a histogram of the image; detecting the foreground of the image; regenerating the background of the image by region growing; validating the background of the image; merging the background and foreground regions of the image as diagnostically...

A landmark detection apparatus and method, the apparatus including a first detection unit that generates N first sample blocks in a first sampling region using a first weighted sampling method according to a first degree of dispersion, and that performs a first landmark detection by comparing a feature of each first sample block a feature of a landmark model, where the first sample region is set to the entirety of a current frame image; and a second detection unit that generates N second sample ...