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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:
Feb. 22, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 14, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Fumiaki Tomita, Tsukuba, JP;
Hironobu Takahashi, Tsukuba, JP;
Assignees:
Industrial Science & Technology, Kozo Iizuka, Director-General of Agency, Tokyo, JP;
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Osaka-fu, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382154 ; 395 94 ;
Abstract
An image processing method and an apparatus therefor calculating the rotations and the magnifications of a plurality of image pick-up devices, which are located at different positions and rotations and rotates, and pick-up images of the same object in a three-dimensional space, from the following equation by matching the image picked-up by the two arbitrary image pick-up devices, extracting the corresponding points, and detecting the coordinates values thereof on each image, ##EQU1## where, {expression}.sub.y : y component of the expression,