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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. 02, 2010
Filed:
May. 27, 2005
Applicants:
Leon Bottou, Highlands, NJ (US);
Patrick Guy Haffner, Atlantic Highlands, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Leon Bottou, Highlands, NJ (US);
Patrick Guy Haffner, Atlantic Highlands, NJ (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property II, LP, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/62 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method, system, and machine-readable medium for classifying an image element as one of a plurality of categories, including assigning the image element based on a ratio between an unoccluded perimeter of the image element and an occluded perimeter of the image element and coding the image element according to a coding scheme associated with the category to which the image element is classified. Exemplary applications include image compression, where categories include image foreground and background layers.