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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2006
Steven Joseph Bushell, Cranston, RI (US);
Richard Mark Friedhoff, New York, NY (US);
Bruce Allen Maxwell, Springfield, PA (US);
Steven Joseph Bushell, Cranston, RI (US);
Richard Mark Friedhoff, New York, NY (US);
Bruce Allen Maxwell, Springfield, PA (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 information in an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of identifying depth information in the image, identifying spatio-spectral information for the image, as a function of the depth information and utilizing the spatio-spectral information to identify illumination flux in the image.