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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2002

Filed:

Oct. 01, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:

Naoki Chiba, Higashiosaka, JP;

Takeo Kanade, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Hiroshi Kano, Kyotanabe, JP;

Assignee:

Other;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 ; G06K 9/36 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 ; G06K 9/36 ;
Abstract

Optical flow is calculated for each patch on the basis of two images, and then a region having low confidence and a region having high confidence are separated depending on confidence of the optical flow, and the optical flow in the region having low confidence is interpolated using the optical flow in its surrounding regions.


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