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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 1988

Filed:

Dec. 03, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:

Jean Y Catros, Rennes, FR;

Denis Mischler, Acigne, FR;

Assignee:

Thomson-CGR, Paris, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ; G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382-6 ; 382 21 ; 382 37 ;
Abstract

In a method for identification of arborescent structures detected in digital images by starting from model arborescent structures, a matching operation consists in comparing an object tree with a model tree. The method involves computation of the distance between the object tree and the model tree in accordance with a so-called Selkow iterative method which utilizes predefined cost values for elementary operations of label-changing, insertion or destruction of sub-trees in the descriptive lists of the trees to be identified. Starting from all the steps of computation of the distance measurement, the elementary operations which have served to arrive at the final distance are recorded and identification is obtained by label changes of the sub-trees reduced to branches.


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