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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.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2010

Filed:

Jul. 27, 2006
Applicants:

Pere Obrador, Mountain View, CA (US);

Nathan M. Moroney, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Pere Obrador, Mountain View, CA (US);

Nathan M. Moroney, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/68 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); H04N 11/20 (2006.01); H04N 7/01 (2006.01); G09G 5/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Image processing methods, image management systems, and articles of manufacture are described. According to one embodiment, an image processing method includes accessing image data of a plurality of images, defining a plurality of regions in individual ones of the images, wherein the regions individually comprise a plurality of image forming elements having a common characteristic, comparing a region of one of the images with respect to regions of a plurality of others of the images, and providing information indicative of similarities of the one image relative to the others of the images using results of the comparing.


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