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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:
Dec. 26, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2000
Applicants:
Thumpudi Naveen, Redmond, WA (US);
Anil M. Murching, Beaverton, OR (US);
Ali Tabatabai, Beaverton, OR (US);
Inventors:
Thumpudi Naveen, Redmond, WA (US);
Anil M. Murching, Beaverton, OR (US);
Ali Tabatabai, Beaverton, OR (US);
Assignee:
Thomson Licensing, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of coarse representation of a visual object's shape for search/query/filtering applications uses a binding box that fully encompasses the object of interest within the image to extract a feature vector. Once the feature vector is available, matching based on specific queries may be performed using a search engine to compare the query number to an appropriate element of the feature vector, performing sorting to pick the best matches.