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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2007
Applicant:
Geoffrey L. Barrows, Washington, DC (US);
Inventor:
Geoffrey L. Barrows, Washington, DC (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An optical flow sensor for generating optical flow measurements based on a visual field is provided. The optical flow sensor comprises a binarized signal generator capable of generating binarized feature signals based on the visual field, a metafeature signal generator capable of generating metafeature signals based on the binarized feature signals, an apparatus for generating velocity reports based on the metafeature signals, and an apparatus for generating an optical flow measurement based on the velocity reports.