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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:
Feb. 19, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2001
Applicants:
David J Chatting, Ipswich, GB;
David G Morrison, Felixstowe, GB;
Inventors:
David J Chatting, Ipswich, GB;
David G Morrison, Felixstowe, GB;
Assignee:
British Telecommunications public limited company, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/40 (2006.01); G06K 9/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image recognition process applied to a photograph is preceded by a pre-processing step which identifies parts of the image which are in focus. The recognition process is then limited to those parts. The pre-processing typically operates by creating a measure of high spatial frequency activity and applying a threshold to them.