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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2003
Hyun-doo Shin, Sungnam, KR;
Yang-lim Choi, Kyungki-do, KR;
Yining Deng, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Bangalore S. Manjunath, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Hyun-doo Shin, Sungnam, KR;
Yang-lim Choi, Kyungki-do, KR;
Yining Deng, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Bangalore S. Manjunath, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Kyungki-do, KR;
University of California at Santa Barbara, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
A color image processing method is provided. The color image processing method includes the step of: (a) indexing a color image by assigning representative colors of an image to a color space divided into a plurality of regions. The color image processing method may be applied to object-based image processing such as MPEG-7, and fast search and retrieval of multimedia content can be made.