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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:
Jul. 24, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 13, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Radovan V. Krtolica, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Roger D. Melen, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/62 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/62 ;
Abstract
A sample image (,) is recognized by normalizing (,) the size of a sample image (,) to the size of a referent images (,); and determining (,) a set of candidate images (,) from a set of referent images (,), wherein each of the candidate images (,) is within an acceptable distance from a different binarization (,) of the sample image (,). A system (,) for image recognition includes a scanning device (,), a normalization unit (,), a distance calculation unit (,), a classification unit (,), a disambiguation unit (,), and a display device (,).