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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2015
Applicant:
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Inventor:
Robert Reed Booth, Lexington, KY (US);
Assignee:
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/62 (2006.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01); G06K 9/42 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2013.01); G06K 9/42 (2013.01); G06K 9/4671 (2013.01); G06K 9/6211 (2013.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); H04N 7/181 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods identify consumer products in images. Known consumer products are captured as grayscale or color images. They are converted to binary at varying thresholds. Connected components in the binary images identify image features according to pixels of a predetermined size, shape, solidity, aspect ratio, and the like. The image features are stored and searched for amongst image features similarly extracted from unknown images of consumer products. Identifying correspondence between the features of the images lends itself to identifying or not known consumer products.