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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:
Mar. 02, 2010
Filed:
May. 16, 2006
Applicants:
Mark R. Bolin, Fairport, NY (US);
Peter O. Stubler, Rochester, NY (US);
Inventors:
Mark R. Bolin, Fairport, NY (US);
Peter O. Stubler, Rochester, NY (US);
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of finding an object in an image that consists of describing an object shape by one or more sets of feature points (); estimating positions of the feature points (); finding new locations for each feature point based on an appearance model of an aggregate appearance of the object in local neighborhoods of all features points (); and constraining the positions of the feature points based on a shape model ().