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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:
Jan. 30, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 02, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gilles Richard, Viroflay, FR;
Assignee:
Symah Vision, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/500 ;
Abstract
The method for replacing a target billboard in the frames of a video sequence is usable while the billboard undergoes changes of position in the scene. Assuming that the speed of change is constant, a global transformation from a reference image stored in memory is predicted. A modified image is generated by applying the transformation to the reference image and the prediction is adjusted by a global analysis of the image. Then the representation of the billboard is recovered from its color, and its boundaries are extracted by segmentation. The representation of the billboard is substituted by the representation of the model, after the model is warped by a transformation.