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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 14, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Dariu Gavrila, Ulm, DE;
Assignee:
DaimlerChrysler AG, Stuttgart, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 ;
Abstract
An image-processing method, and an apparatus for carrying out the method, that is used particularly for detecting and recognizing objects in traffic. Locally-softened feature images of an image scene are correlated with feature images of patterns for detecting and recognizing objects in real scenes with the use of images. A plurality of patterns ordered in a pattern tree structure is correlated with the image scene. To extensively prevent erroneous detections, the features are subdivided into different feature types.