Visibility of a license plate and color reproducibility of a vehicle body are improved in a monitoring camera.

A vehicle body area detection unit detects a vehicle body area of a vehicle from an image signal. A license plate area detection unit detects a license plate area of the vehicle from the image signal. A vehicle body area image processing unit performs processing of the image signal corresponding to the detected vehicle body area. A license plate area image processing unit performs processing different from the processing of the image signal corresponding to the vehicle body area on the image signal corresponding to the detected license plate area. A synthesis unit synthesizes the processed image signal corresponding to the vehicle body area and the processed image signal corresponding to the license plate area.

Automatic nuclear segmentation. In an embodiment, a plurality of superpixels are determined in a digital image. For each of the superpixels, any superpixels located within a search radius from the superpixel are identified, and, for each unique local combination between the superpixel and any identified superpixels located within the search radius from the superpixel, a local score for the local combination is determined. One of a plurality of global sets of local combinations with an optimum global score is identified based on the determined local scores.

The invention relates to a method for detecting a phantom, comprising the steps of: arranging a phantom with respect to an object, acquiring at least one image of said object by means of an x-ray apparatus, such that the image contains projections of the object and projections of at least three first calibration fiducials of the phantom, detecting the projections of the at least three first calibration fiducials in said at least one image, and establishing a correspondence between the 2D image coordinates of said projections of the at least three first calibration fiducials and the 3D coordinates of said at least three first calibration fiducials in a local coordinate system of the phantom for computing the projection matrix at least up to a scale factor.

A sequence program creation device includes a search-key-circuit specification unit specifying a search key circuit; a search-area specification unit specifying a search area for searching for a circuit similar to the search key circuit; a search-index specification unit specifying an index in a process of calculating a similarity to the search key circuit; a similarity calculation unit calculating a similarity to the search key circuit, based on the index, for each circuit included in the search area; a search-target-part determination unit determining whether the similarity is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold for each circuit for which the similarity calculation unit has calculated the similarity; and a search-result display-screen display unit displaying on a search-result display screen a circuit whose similarity is determined to be equal to or more than the predetermined threshold by the search-target-part determination unit.

Provided is an image displaying apparatus including a display configured to display a first image; a checker configured to check a correlation between the first image and a second image by analyzing the first and second images; a determiner configured to determine a change effect to be applied when the display is changed from a state of displaying the first image to a state of displaying the second image, based on the correlation; and a changer configured to change an image displayed on the display from the first image to the second image by applying the change effect.

Systems and methods for privacy and sensitive data protection. An image of a document is received at a pre-processing stage and image pre-processing is applied to the image to ensure that the resulting image is sufficient for further processing. Pre-processing may involve processing relating to image quality and image orientation. The image is then passed to an initial processing stage. At the initial processing stage, the relevant data in the document are located and bounding boxes are placed around the data. The resulting image is then passed to a processing stage. At this stage, the type of data within the bounding boxes is determined and suitable replacement data is generated. The replacement data is then inserted into the image to thereby remove and replace the sensitive data in the image.

A system and method for communicating at least one of updated configuration information and hardware setup recommendations to a user of an ID decoding vision system is provided. An image of an object containing one or more IDs is acquired with a mobile device. The ID associated with the object is decoded to derive information. Physical dimensions of the ID associated with the object are determined. Based on the information and the dimensions, configuration data can be transmitted to a remote server that automatically determines setup information for the vision system based upon the configuration data. The remote server thereby transmits at least one of (a) updated configuration information to the vision system and (b) hardware setup recommendations to a user of the vision system based upon the configuration data.

The present disclosure provides a texture recognition method and apparatus thereof. The texture recognition method includes: acquiring a side texture image of a selected joint of an creature to be recognized; extracting side texture features in the side texture image; and recognizing a side texture of the selected joint based on the extracted side texture features.

A method of reading optical codes is specified in which an image sensor having at least one pixel element detects image information in a reading zone and in which the image information is evaluated to read a code in the reading zone. The image sensor is an event-based image sensor here.

A method disclosed herein uses a processor of a server to function as a processing unit to enhance accuracy of character recognition in a terminal connected to the server, using a communication apparatus of the server. The processing unit may be configured to acquire first data indicating a result of character recognition with respect to image data taken by the terminal. The processing unit can determine a character type of a character included in the image data when it is determined that misrecognition is included in the result of character recognition based on the first data. The processing unit controls the communication apparatus to transmit second data according to the character type to terminal and instructs the terminal to perform character recognition using the second data with respect to the image data in order to improve the accuracy of character recognition.