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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:
Sep. 23, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 10, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Tinku Acharya, Chandler, AZ (US);
Ajay K. Ray, West Bengal, IN;
A. K. V. Subba Rao, West Bengal, IN;
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 ; G06K 9/34 ; G06G 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 ; G06K 9/34 ; G06G 7/00 ;
Abstract
Embodiments of a fuzzy distinction based thresholding technique for image segmentation are disclosed. In one embodiment, at least one signal value level of the image is determined along which to divide a fuzzy histogram, the histogram being based, at least in part, on the image. The signal value represents a value which produces a divided fuzzy histogram with an extreme value of one of distinctiveness and fuzziness based on a measure of multidimensional distance between measurement distributions and their respective complements. The image is then segmented using the at least one signal value.