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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2019
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Deepak Kumar Poddar, Karnataka, IN;
Pramod Kumar Swami, Karnataka, IN;
Prashanth Viswanath, Karnataka, IN;
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
In accordance with disclosed embodiments, an image processing method includes performing a first scan in a first direction on a first list of pixels in which, for each pixel in the first list, a feature point property is compared with a corresponding feature point property of each of a first set of neighboring pixels, performing a second scan in a second direction on the first list of pixels in which, for each pixel in the first list, a feature point property is compared with a corresponding feature point property of each of a second set of neighboring pixels, using the results of the first and second scans to identify pixels from the first list to be suppressed, and forming a second list of pixels that includes pixels from the first list that are not identified as pixels to be suppressed. The second list represents a non-maxima suppressed list.