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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2006
Kristin Jean Dana, Spring Lake, NJ (US);
Richard Mark Friedhoff, New York, NY (US);
Bruce Allen Maxwell, Springfield, PA (US);
Casey Arthur Smith, Ithaca, NY (US);
Kristin Jean Dana, Spring Lake, NJ (US);
Richard Mark Friedhoff, New York, NY (US);
Bruce Allen Maxwell, Springfield, PA (US);
Casey Arthur Smith, Ithaca, NY (US);
Tandent Vision Science, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for determining illumination flux in an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of performing a computer learning technique to determine spatio-spectral information for the images, and utilizing the spatio-spectral information to identify illumination flux.