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Japanese Inventors Develop Image Pickup Apparatus

US Fed News Service, Including US State News April 16, 2008 ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 16 — Tetsujiro Kondo, Takashi Sawao, Naoki Fujiwara and Toru Miyake, all from Tokyo, Takahiro Nagano and Seiji Wada, both of Kanagawa, Japan, and Junichi Ishibashi of Saitama, Japan, have developed an image processing device.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: “The present invention aims to recognize the mixture state of images. An area specifying unit specifies a mixed area in which foreground object components which form a foreground object and background object components which form a background object are mixed.” An abstract of the invention, released by the Patent Office, said: “An estimated-mixture-ratio calculator 104 detects, in correspondence with the image data, the mixture ratio indicating the ratio of the mixture of the foreground object components to the mixture of the background object components in the mixed area in which the foreground object components and the background object components are mixed. At least one of the area specifying unit and the estimated-mixture-ratio calculator performs image processing on the basis of a plurality of types of components. The present invention can be applied to an image processing apparatus.” The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,352,917 on April 1. website debt to income ratio calculator

The patent has been assigned to Sony Corp., Tokyo. web site debt to income ratio calculator

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