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Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2009

Filed:

May. 25, 2005
Applicants:

Robert Mark Stefan Porter, Winchester, GB;

Ratna Rambaruth, Guildford, GB;

Simon Dominic Haynes, Basingstoke, GB;

Jonathan Living, Near Stourbridge, GB;

Clive Henry Gillard, Alton, GB;

Inventors:

Robert Mark Stefan Porter, Winchester, GB;

Ratna Rambaruth, Guildford, GB;

Simon Dominic Haynes, Basingstoke, GB;

Jonathan Living, Near Stourbridge, GB;

Clive Henry Gillard, Alton, GB;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/68 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An image processing method for selecting a subset of n (where n is two or more) images representative of a test set of images. The method includes detecting a degree of similarity between images in the test set of images so that the subset of images comprises those n images having substantially the lowest similarity with other images in the set.


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