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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:
Dec. 08, 1987
Filed:
Apr. 03, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yasuo Hongo, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Fuji Electric Company, Ltd., Kawasaki, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ; G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382 22 ; 382 16 ; 382 25 ;
Abstract
An object identification method and apparatus determines within the boundary of an object to be identified points corresponding to abrupt changes in the profile of the object. Each segment of the boundary between adjacent points is identified with primitive element data and distance map data. These data associated with each segment are collated with similar type data associated with the boundaries of reference objects and the object is identified as the reference object having the highest coincidence of collation.