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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2003
Applicant:
Roy T. Hashimoto, Redwood City, CA (US);
Inventor:
Roy T. Hashimoto, Redwood City, CA (US);
Assignee:
Shoestring Research, LLC., Redwood City, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/62 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A novel method of region segmentation for an image is disclosed. Specifically, region segmentation is accomplished by dividing the image into a plurality of sticks of pixels and determining whether each stick belongs to any region from a set of region. Each stick that belongs to any region is classified as belonging to a specific region.