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Patent No.:

US 10096097 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2018

Filed:

Aug. 01, 2016

Content-aware bidirectional image edge highlighting

Applicant:

Spawar Systems Center Pacific, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Gregory Knowles Fleizach, San Diego, CA (US);

Brian Matthew Sperlongano, North Kingstown, RI (US);

Kevin Donald Casey, Alexandria, VA (US);

Assignee:

The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);

Attorneys:

SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific

Kyle Eppele

Young Fei

Primary Examiner:

Jerome Grant, Ii

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/40 (2006.01); G06T 5/20 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 5/20 (2013.01); G06T 5/002 (2013.01); G06T 5/003 (2013.01); G06T 7/0085 (2013.01); G06T 7/0095 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20192 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for highlighting edges of interest in an image comprising the following steps: calculating edge intensity of edges in the image using gradient operators; applying a transformation to emphasize mid-level edges and deemphasize strong edges; and if a given transformed edge is greater than a threshold value, highlighting the corresponding edge in an edge-highlighted image.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Fleizach, Gregory. (2018). Content-aware bidirectional image edge highlighting (U.S. Patent No. 10096097). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/10096097

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