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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:
Jun. 15, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 30, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
John Richard Windle, Hebersham, AU;
Jing Wu, Carlingford, AU;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for determining a texture which best matches an image ( ) are provided. The method involves determination of an image feature value from the image ( ), and determination of corresponding texture feature values for each member of a set of textures ( ). Thereafter the image feature value is compared with the corresponding texture feature values of each member of the set of textures ( ) to produce comparison values, from which the best comparison value is selected according to a rule. This best comparison value determines the coresponding desired matching texture.