TEACHING COMPUTERS TO SEE

Scientific, electromechanical, electronic, photographic, cinematographic, optical, measuring, signaling, checking, supervising and teaching instruments and apparatus, namely, still image and video data acquisition devices, still image and video data recognition devices, still image and video data analyzers, still image and video data storage devices, and integrated still image and video data analyzers and still image and video data storage devices; apparatus for recording, storing, transmitting, reproducing, and analyzing images or sound, namely still image cameras, video cameras, and integrated still image and video data recording, storing, transmitting, reproducing, and analyzing devices; electromechanical, electronic, optical, and acoustic devices, namely, anti-intrusion alarms, access control systems, entry control systems, security doors, person identification systems, monitoring systems, and time attendance systems for monitoring, checking, and authorizing access to, in particular, buildings; electromechanical, electronic, optical, and acoustic devices, namely, data processors and computers for recording, processing, sending, transmitting, arranging, and storing information and data, including parts and combinations of all aforementioned devices; devices, namely, data processors, computers, and electronic image processing devices for the recognition, reading, storage, checking, correction, representation, and wireless transmission of image objects; data processing equipment, namely, data processors and computers; blank magnetic and optical data carriers; prerecorded magnetic and optical data carriers featuring image-processing computer software programs, still image data, video data, and output data provided by image-processing computer software programs; computer programs stored on machine readable data carriers for use in computer aided image processing, in particular for the purpose of face, pattern, and object recognition as well as scene analysis; apparatus and computer software programs for the acquisition, reading, correction, checking, compression, storage, representation, recognition, classification, and wireless transmission of images in the fields of natural environment video image interpretation, video sequence analysis, person identification, object identification, scene analysis, and face recognition

Medical apparatus, namely, medical image analysis systems, medical image management systems, medical image documentation systems, telemedicine computer systems, computer-based skin-cancer detection systems, and dermatoscopes

Installation and maintenance of computer hardware, namely, installation and maintenance of devices for image recording and image processing

Telecommunications, namely, rental of general telecommunication equipment; providing telecommunications networks for others; providing transmission paths for others; providing access to information networks for others; electronic messaging, namely processing, recording, storage, and transmission of messages of all types, in digital networks; providing data messages to others, namely, still images and video sequences, protocol data, and voice messages

Installation and maintenance of medical image analysis systems, medical image management systems, medical image documentation systems, telemedicine computer systems, computer-based skin-cancer detection systems, and dermatoscopes; computerized database management in the field of medicine; computer data processing programming for others; computer software development; computer services, namely, designing, implementing, and maintaining software for others in the fields of face recognition, image recognition, pattern recognition, object recognition, image processing, image preparation, image analysis, scene analysis, image storage, and image data transmission; computer consultancy services in the fields of face recognition, image recognition, pattern recognition, object recognition, image processing, image preparation, image analysis, scene analysis, image storage, and image data transmission; installation and maintenance of computer software, namely, image databases; and, computer services, namely, designing, implementing, and maintaining software for others in the field of analyzing sequences of images in order to establish various represented points in time