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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:
May. 22, 2012

Filed:

Jul. 25, 2006
Applicants:

Maurizio Pilu, Stoke Gifford Bristol, GB;

Darryl Greig, Stoke Gifford Bristol, GB;

Inventors:

Maurizio Pilu, Stoke Gifford Bristol, GB;

Darryl Greig, Stoke Gifford Bristol, GB;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06K 9/52 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Detectors capable of accurately detecting and tracking moving features of such as faces within a video stream are sometimes too slow to be run in real-time. The present invention rapidly scans video footage in real-time and generates a series of preattemptive triggers indicating the frames and locations within the frames at our deserving of further investigation by a sub real-time detector. The triggers are generated by looking for peaks in a time variant measure such as the amount of symmetry within a frame or portion of a frame.


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