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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 15, 1997
Frederic Rivoallon, Santec, FR;
Thomas Licensing S.A., Boulogne, Cedex, FR;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a process and device for labeling a region in which the regions are defined by the juxtaposition of segments of a line, which are portions of a line. During a line scan of an image, the invention increments and allocates a label to each segment encountered on the current line when this segment is not connected to any segments of the preceding line. The invention allocates the same label to each segment encountered on the current line as that assigned to the segment of the preceding line when it is connected to the segment. The invention allocates the same label to each segment encountered on the current line as that assigned to the first of the segments of the preceding line. In this last case, the invention stores the relationship between the labels of the successive segments to one and the same segment of the current line.