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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:
Apr. 29, 2003

Filed:

Sep. 05, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:

Nam Kyu Kim, Seoul, KR;

Hae Kwang Kim, Seoul, KR;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
Abstract

Disclosed is a method and apparatus for searching a human three-dimensional (3D) posture which can rapidly and accurately search a human 3D posture by effectively representing the human 3D posture with a small amount of data. According to the method, a posture database is established by extracting posture descriptors using relation among respective joints of a body, and a feature of a query 3D posture is simultaneously extracted in the same manner. Then, the similarity is calculated by comparing the posture descriptor of the query 3D posture with the posture descriptors of postures in the posture database, and then outputted to search the human 3D posture.


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