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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2018

Filed:

Mar. 18, 2013
Applicant:

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);

Inventors:

Kevin Bernard Kenny, Niskayuna, NY (US);

Alex David Corwin, Schenectady, NY (US);

Assignee:

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Schenectady, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/32 (2006.01); G06T 3/00 (2006.01); G06T 3/40 (2006.01); G06T 3/60 (2006.01); G02B 21/26 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06T 3/20 (2006.01); G02B 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 21/26 (2013.01); G06K 9/3208 (2013.01); G06T 3/0075 (2013.01); G06T 3/40 (2013.01); G06T 3/60 (2013.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01);
Abstract

Referencing of image acquired in multiple rounds of imaging is disclosed. In certain implementations, a baseline round of images are acquired and registered to one another to establish a global transformation matrix. In a subsequent round of image acquisition, a limited number of field of view images are initially acquired and registered to the corresponding baseline images to solve for translation, rotation, and scale. The full set of baseline images is then acquired for the subsequent round and each image is pre-rotated and pre-scaled based on the transform determined for the subset of images. The pre-rotated, pre-scaled images are then registered using a translation-only transform.


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