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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. 19, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 01, 1999
Susan S. Young, Buffalo, NY (US);
Hsien-Che Lee, Penfield, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for automatically locating instances of a target pattern in digital images, comprising the steps of: providing a digital image; detecting a first simple feature associated with the target patterns in the digital image; for each detected feature, searching, in its spatial neighborhood, a second or a plural of other features associated with the target patterns; for each pair of plural of features detected, checking the consistency of image intensity profile with the target pattern within the spatial neighborhood as delimited by the feature points detected in the searching and detecting steps; and labeling those image regions that are found to be consistent with the structure of the target pattern in the checking step.