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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:
May. 15, 1990
Filed:
Dec. 30, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Enoch James, Stevenage, GB;
Raymond Stafford, Stevenage, GB;
Assignee:
British Aerospace Public Limited Company, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
350320 ; 350321 ; 35016213 ; 342 64 ; 358-125 ;
Abstract
An item of interest may be located in a scene image by scanning a reference image containing the item (extracted from a previous image of the scene for example) over the scene image and, for each position of the reference image, correlating corresponding pairs of pixels from the reference and scene images. Herein, to avoid inaccuracies due to bright spots say affecting a small portion of the scene image, for each position of the reference image, all the pixel pairs are correlated and an average similarity value assigned to that reference image position.