A relatively inexpensive image recognition apparatus offering a high image recognition rate. An image recognition apparatus recognizes movements of players matched against each other between domains partitioned with obstacles from content including a television program being telecasted to show the sport match or game, image material in an uncompleted state for broadcasting and content recorded in such a recording medium as a VTR, the image recognition apparatus including: a score information obt...

Apparatus and methods for converting raster illustrated parts images into intelligent vector-layered files. The method involves recognizing and removing reference labels from the raster illustrated parts image to produce a reference label scrubbed file. Reference lines are recognized and removed from the reference label scrubbed file to produce a scrubbed file. The scrubbed file includes a reusable base graphic. The scrubbed file is converted to a vector file in which the reusable base graphic i...

A pattern recognition apparatus that comprises an input section, a feature extraction module, a feature transform module, a recognition section that includes a recognition dictionary, and a categorizer. The input section receives input patterns that include a pattern belonging to one of plural categories constituting a category set. The feature extraction module that expresses features of the pattern as a feature vector. The feature transform module uses transform vector matrices to transform at...

One implementation provides a method for processing a first representation of a geometry of a component that is stored in a computer file. In this implementation, the method includes analyzing the first representation of the geometry of the component, and, upon analysis, generating a second, non-invertible representation of the geometry of the component from the first representation, the second representation being at least partially independent of a rotation or a translation of the component in...

One implementation provides a method to provide information associated with a previously designed component having a geometry that is similar to a geometry of a source component. In this implementation, the method includes obtaining a first set of coefficients for a non-invertible representation of the geometry of the source component, and comparing the first set of coefficients to a second set of coefficients for a non-invertible representation of the geometry of the previously designed compone...

Images of the same scene from multiple cameras may be use to generate a stereo disparity map. At least a portion of the stereo disparity map may be compared to a kernel image to detect and/or determine the location of an object in the disparity map. The kernel image is an array of pixel values which represent the stereo disparity of an object to be located, more particularly, the kernel image indicates the 3-dimensional surface shape of the object to be located from a point of view. The disparit...

A technique is disclosed for determining a portion of a document corresponding to a captured image. A user employs a pen to create a stroke in a document, and images are captured by a camera mounted on the pen. The locations of some of the images are determined by, e.g., analyzing a pattern on the document captured by the image or by a pixel-by-pixel comparison of the image with the document. The locations of other images are determined by segmenting the sequence of images into groups correspond...

In a data processing method, all information on a figure to be drawn, as vector-graphic data representing said figure, is transmitted to a drawing apparatus. The vector-graphic data is processed to form an image, as raster-graphic data representing the figure, and the run length data is extracted from the image. The run length data is grouped to become grouped run length data, and outline vector-graphic data, that is having a smaller data amount than that of the vector-graphic data, and that is ...

The present invention features the use of the fundamental concept of color perception and multi-level resolution to perform scene segmentation and object/feature extraction in the context of self-determining and self-calibration modes. The technique uses only a single image, instead of multiple images as the input to generate segmented images. Moreover, a flexible and arbitrary scheme is incorporated, rather than a fixed scheme of segmentation analysis. The process allows users to perform digita...

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 ...