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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:
Oct. 21, 1997
Filed:
Apr. 18, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382156 ; 382232 ;
Abstract
A system (22) for synthesis of textured images, comprising a texture analyser (24) and a texture synthesizer (28). The texture analyser (24) comprises an analyzing neural network (30) which learns to characterize a texture by calculating synaptic coefficients (C.sub.ab), utilizing at least one proximity function which characterizes a neighbourhood around pixels of said texture. The texture synthesizer (28) comprises a synthesizing neural network (40) which receives the synaptic coefficients (C.sub.ab) thus calculated and which, utilizing a relaxation mechanism, synthesizes a replica of the texture learned. The neural networks (30), (40) may have a tree-type structure.