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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2005
Filed:
May. 24, 2002
Richard K. Niles, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christine L. Martens, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Darach B. Foskett, San Francisco, CA (US);
Richard K. Niles, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christine L. Martens, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Darach B. Foskett, San Francisco, CA (US);
Niles Scientific, Inc., Portola Valley, CA (US);
Abstract
A method (and system) for using information contained within the scanned image to create, in an automated (or semi-automated) process, an accurate data grid. The process has steps: enhance the image; locate blocks of spots; and find each individual spot in each of the blocks. Preferably, the method makes use of image filtering using a 'Principal Frequency Filter' based on a mathematical determination of major periodic elements in the image to eliminate noisy, non-periodic signals, and of smoothed intensity profiles of the filtered image data. Here, the term Principal Frequency Filter is used to indicate an image-enhancing filter based upon a mathematical operation which identifies the major periodic components of the image.