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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2008
Kristin Jean Dana, Spring Lake, NJ (US);
Steven Joseph Bushell, Cranston, RI (US);
Timothy King Rodgers, Jr., Concord, MA (US);
Bruce Allen Maxwell, Benton, ME (US);
Kristin Jean Dana, Spring Lake, NJ (US);
Steven Joseph Bushell, Cranston, RI (US);
Timothy King Rodgers, Jr., Concord, MA (US);
Bruce Allen Maxwell, Benton, ME (US);
Tandent Vision Science, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of converting a color band representation of the image to a homogeneous representation of spectral and spatial characteristics of a texture region in the image and utilizing the homogeneous representation of spectral and spatial characteristics of a texture region in the image to identify homogeneous tokens in the image.