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Class Information
Number: 382/257
Name: Image analysis > Image enhancement or restoration > Object boundary expansion or contraction > Dilation or erosion (e.g., opening or closing)
Description: Subject matter in which pixel*s are added or deleted by a specific morphological operation that passes a structuring element over the entire image.
Patents under this class:
| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7616794 |
System and method for automatic bone extraction from a medical image |
Nov. 10, 2009 |
| 7589721 |
Method for interactive segmentation of a structure contained in an object |
Sep. 15, 2009 |
| 7577311 |
Color fringe desaturation for electronic imagers |
Aug. 18, 2009 |
| 7558438 |
System for synthesizing divisional images based on information indicating relationship between a series of divisional images |
Jul. 7, 2009 |
| 7515764 |
Image processing apparatus using morphology |
Apr. 7, 2009 |
| 7493340 |
Image retrieval based on relevance feedback |
Feb. 17, 2009 |
| 7466872 |
Object based boundary refinement method |
Dec. 16, 2008 |
| 7447344 |
System and method for visualization of pulmonary emboli from high-resolution computed tomography images |
Nov. 4, 2008 |
| 7418131 |
Image-capturing device and method for removing strangers from an image |
Aug. 26, 2008 |
| 7382243 |
Personal emergency response system with interconnected slave units |
Jun. 3, 2008 |
| 7382494 |
Method for tag plane growth and contraction for improving object edge rendering |
Jun. 3, 2008 |
| 7365881 |
Halftone dot-growth technique based on morphological filtering |
Apr. 29, 2008 |
| 7362219 |
Information acquisition apparatus |
Apr. 22, 2008 |
| 7359567 |
Signal processing apparatus for eliminating ringing signal and method thereof, record medium, and program |
Apr. 15, 2008 |
| 7359538 |
Detection and analysis of lesions in contact with a structural boundary |
Apr. 15, 2008 |
| 7336390 |
Method and apparatus for reducing multi-bit image data |
Feb. 26, 2008 |
| 7330191 |
System for secure text display |
Feb. 12, 2008 |
| 7302096 |
Method and apparatus for low depth of field image segmentation |
Nov. 27, 2007 |
| 7298879 |
Computer-aided detection of lung nodules |
Nov. 20, 2007 |
| 7269294 |
Foreground erosion method and system for Multiple Raster Content (MRC) representation of documents |
Sep. 11, 2007 |
| 7260244 |
Print inspection method and print inspection apparatus |
Aug. 21, 2007 |
| 7231072 |
Image processing method and image converting apparatus |
Jun. 12, 2007 |
| 7194124 |
Reconstruction and motion analysis of an embryo |
Mar. 20, 2007 |
| 7187785 |
Image processing method and apparatus |
Mar. 6, 2007 |
| 7173734 |
Intercolor bleed reduction in liquid ink printers |
Feb. 6, 2007 |
| 7142732 |
Unsupervised scene segmentation |
Nov. 28, 2006 |
| 7142208 |
Method for interactive segmentation of a structure contained in an object |
Nov. 28, 2006 |
| 7126723 |
Producing engraving-style halftone images |
Oct. 24, 2006 |
| 7116447 |
Halftone dot-growth technique using a dot edge-detection scheme |
Oct. 3, 2006 |
| 7116800 |
Image segmentation system and method |
Oct. 3, 2006 |
| 7102784 |
Method of selective edge softening and rendering for the suppression of halo |
Sep. 5, 2006 |
| 7085013 |
Image processing apparatus including low-linear-density dot region detection unit, and image forming apparatus including the same |
Aug. 1, 2006 |
| 7062100 |
System for selecting a compression method for image data |
Jun. 13, 2006 |
| 7046829 |
Fingerprint verification |
May. 16, 2006 |
| 7046397 |
Method of selective edge softening and rendering for the suppression of halo |
May. 16, 2006 |
| 7031549 |
Systems and methods for enhancing tone reproduction |
Apr. 18, 2006 |
| 7027660 |
Images incorporating microstructures |
Apr. 11, 2006 |
| 6993170 |
Method for quantitative analysis of blood vessel structure |
Jan. 31, 2006 |
| 6993203 |
Image processing apparatus and image processing program |
Jan. 31, 2006 |
| 6952502 |
Data filtering apparatus and method |
Oct. 4, 2005 |
| 6943916 |
Method of minimizing trapping, I.E., choking or spreading, in a printing-original production process |
Sep. 13, 2005 |
| 6934413 |
Segmentation of text lines in digitized images |
Aug. 23, 2005 |
| 6901168 |
Method for segmenting and identifying a document, in particular a technical chart |
May. 31, 2005 |
| 6891961 |
Image analysis systems for grading of meat, predicting quality of meat and/or predicting meat yield of an animal carcass |
May. 10, 2005 |
| 6882740 |
System and method for determining a seed vigor index from germinated seedlings by automatic separation of overlapped seedlings |
Apr. 19, 2005 |
| 6832007 |
Method and system for compensating for scaling artifacts in mixed raster content (MRC) representations |
Dec. 14, 2004 |
| 6816614 |
Method for comparing recorded pixel images representing equipotential lines of at least an integrated circuit chip |
Nov. 9, 2004 |
| 6816627 |
System for morphological image fusion and change detection |
Nov. 9, 2004 |
| 6771834 |
Method for segmenting a digital image |
Aug. 3, 2004 |
| 6766043 |
Pleural nodule detection from CT thoracic images |
Jul. 20, 2004 |
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