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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:
Jun. 13, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 18, 1997
Joshua Randy Herman, deceased, late of Robbinsville, NJ (US);
James Russell Bergen, Hopewell, NJ (US);
Shmuel Peleg, Jerusalem, IL;
Vincent Paragano, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Douglas F Dixon, Hopewell, NJ (US);
Peter J Burt, Princeton, NJ (US);
Harpreet Sawhney, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Gary A Gendel, Neshanic Station, NJ (US);
Rakesh Kumar, Dayton, NJ (US);
Michael H Brill, Morrisville, PA (US);
Sarnoff Corporation, Princeton, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method of constructing an image mosaic comprising the steps of selecting source images, aligning the source images, selecting source segments, enhancing the images, and merging the images to form the image mosaic is disclosed. An apparatus for constructing an image mosaic comprising means for selecting source images, means for aligning the source images, means for selecting source image segments, means for enhancing the images, and means for merging the images to form the image mosaic is also disclosed. The process may be performed automatically by the system or may be guided interactively by a human operator. Applications include the construction of photographic quality prints form video and digital camera images.