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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 11, 2005
Jeanette Marie Bruno, Saratoga Springs, NY (US);
Jeanette Marie Bruno, Saratoga Springs, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
Image objects within two-dimensional images are identified by locating boundary points that describe line segments that define a polygon outlining each object. Processing follows lines of pixels between boundary points to determine whether additional pixels are a part of the same image object by reference to a discriminator, such as color. Boundary points are thus identified for contiguous pixels and contiguous lines. Arm-like regions are identified by recursive analysis in a similar manner. The resulting boundary point list may serve to identify the image object, such as for labeling or tagging in web-based manuals, catalogs, and so forth.