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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2001
Applicants:
Lawrence J. Ronk, Dallas, TX (US);
Bruce E. Flinchbaugh, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventors:
Lawrence J. Ronk, Dallas, TX (US);
Bruce E. Flinchbaugh, Dallas, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/46 (2006.01); H04N 5/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Automatic vision system object indexing and image database query system using both path-dependent and path-independent features of moving objects within a sequence of images. Feature vectors of both average over frames of an object traversing the field of view plus average over blocks of a grid for a path association. Color histograms may be an included feature.