A method for searching an image database includes capturing an image of a photograph and a background, determining a boundary of the photograph in the image, cropping the photograph from the image, correcting the perspective of the photograph, compensating colors of the photograph, and matching the photograph with an image in the image database.

An object of the present invention is to provide an image retrieval system for computing similarity in the case when components are different between an image feature vector of a query image and the image feature vectors of images to be retrieved when retrieval is carried out by using features of images. A first image feature vector conversion device converts a query image feature vector into a first image feature vector for use in a similarity computation according to similarity computation ima...

A meeting recorder captures multimodal information of a meeting. Subsequent analysis of the information produces scores indicative of visually and aurally significant events that can help identify significant segments of the meeting recording. Textual analysis can enhance searching for significant meeting segments and otherwise enhance the presentation of the meeting segments.

Stored digital data is searched for on the basis of an input image, difference information is extracted by comparing the retrieved digital data and the input image, and the difference information is composited to the digital data. Digital data generated by composition is stored. When no digital data is retrieved, the input image is converted into vector data, and the image that has been converted into the vector data is stored as digital data. Obtained region segmentation information and an inpu...

A meeting recorder captures multimodal information of a meeting. Subsequent analysis of the information produces scores indicative of visually and aurally significant events that can help identify significant segments of the meeting recording. Textual analysis can enhance searching for significant meeting segments and otherwise enhance the presentation of the meeting segments.

A database of visual images includes metadata having, for a particular image, at least one entry specifying: a part of that image, another stored image, and a measure S.sub.abi of the degree of similarity between that specified part and the specified other image. One or more images are displayed and input is received from a user (for examples, by using a gaze tracker) indicative of part of the displayed images. Measures of interest are determined for each of a plurality of non-displayed stored i...

An image retrieval system including: a retrieval subject image storing unit storing images corresponding to first and second characteristic information among semantic characteristic information, physical characteristic information and prominence characteristic information; a retrieval key inputting unit inputting the first and second characteristic information as the retrieval key; a characteristic information converting unit obtaining remaining characteristic information, the physical character...

A connection between a fluid line and a connecting element, in which at one end the line has an insertion part, and the connecting element is provided with an bore for accommodating the insertion part of the line, in which the line is provided with a locking shoulder, and in which the connecting element is designed to accommodate a locking element, which locking element when fitted covers the locking shoulder of the line, so that the insertion part of the line is locked in the bore of the connec...

A system is provided wherein data processing devices are connected to a high-speed picture archiving and communications system (PACS) server network that archives and transmits medical image data. As part of a diagnostic process, medical images are processed at the data processing devices and image processing parameter (IPP) sets are created. The image processing parameters are attached to image diagnosis reports and can be used to recreate the processing of key images that are referenced in the...

In an image processing apparatus and method for converting a raster format into a block format, generated image data is separated into given color components so as to be stored in a single line memory. A block unit reading may be performed in a sequence adapted to be read in the block format such that the read image data is transmitted to an encoder. Since only one line memory is used, the size of the memory, and hence a chip size containing the memory, may be reduced.