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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2002
Applicants:
Ioannis Pavlidis, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Vassilios Morellas, Plymouth, MN (US);
Inventors:
Ioannis Pavlidis, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Vassilios Morellas, Plymouth, MN (US);
Assignee:
Honeywell International Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A cooperative camera network involving segmenting an image of an object and extracting a color signature from it. The color signature may be matched with the other signatures in an attempt to identify the object. There also can be combining and fusing the tracking of people and objects with image processing and the identification of the people and objects being tracked in an area or facility.