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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2023
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Tianyi Chen, Kenmore, WA (US);
Tianyu Ding, Kirkland, WA (US);
Luming Liang, Redmond, WA (US);
Ilya Dmitriyevich Zharkov, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method performed by a processor of a computing system is described herein, where the method includes obtaining an image that includes an object having a shape, where a boundary of the shape of the object in the digital image is labeled in the digital image. The method also includes computing an encoding for the shape, where computing the encoding for the shape includes partitioning the shape into multiple partitions. Computing the encoding for the shape further includes, for the multiple partitions, computing angle-based contour descriptors that represent boundaries of the partitions, where the encoding for the shape of the object is based upon the angle-based contour descriptors.