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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:
May. 25, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2004
Applicants:
Daiki Kudo, Tokyo, JP;
Hirofumi Nishikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiaki Kato, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Each of an image retrieval method and an image retrieval device in accordance with the present invention is provided with a means for extracting a color layout feature quantity, a dominant color feature quantity, a region division feature quantity, and a shape feature quantity from a query image which is a key of retrieval, and a means for specifying a region of interest of the image by carrying out mutual use of the above-mentioned feature quantities.