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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2006
Applicant:
Daniel Russakoff, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventor:
Daniel Russakoff, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and an apparatus process images. The method according to one embodiment accesses digital image data including a region of interest; and calculates a Hessian peak characteristic for the region of interest, the calculating step including summing eigenvalues of a Hessian matrix to obtain the Hessian peak characteristic, wherein the Hessian matrix is associated with a pixel property in the region of interest.