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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:
Jul. 12, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2002
Applicants:
Ravi Krishnamurthy, Princeton, NJ (US);
Sriram Sethuraman, Hightstown, NJ (US);
Ya-qin Zhang, Cranbury, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Ravi Krishnamurthy, Princeton, NJ (US);
Sriram Sethuraman, Hightstown, NJ (US);
Ya-Qin Zhang, Cranbury, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Sarnoff Corporation, Princeton, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K009/36 ; H04N007/14 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Apparatus and method for classifying regions of an image, based on the relative 'importance' of the various areas and to adaptively use the importance information to allocate processing resources and input image formation.