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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2007
Applicants:
Hyung-soo Ohk, Seoul, KR;
Jonghyon Yi, Yongin-si, KR;
Charles A. Bouman, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Eri Haneda, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Inventors:
Hyung-Soo Ohk, Seoul, KR;
Jonghyon Yi, Yongin-si, KR;
Charles A. Bouman, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Eri Haneda, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Assignees:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/34 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus usable in an image encoding and decoding system includes segmentation unit to divide an image into one or more blocks, to segment the blocks into a binary mask layer of a foreground and a background according to a cost optimized function and a feature vector to generate a segmentation image according to the segmented blocks.