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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2009
Sajjad Hussain Baloch, Monmouth Junction, NJ (US);
Rupen Melkisetoglu, Princeton, NJ (US);
Sergei Azernikov, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Alexander Zouhar, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Tong Fang, Morganville, NJ (US);
Sajjad Hussain Baloch, Monmouth Junction, NJ (US);
Rupen Melkisetoglu, Princeton, NJ (US);
Sergei Azernikov, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Alexander Zouhar, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Tong Fang, Morganville, NJ (US);
Siemens Audiologische Technik GmbH, Erlangen, DE;
Abstract
A method for detecting anatomical features in 3D ear impressions includes receiving a 3D digital image of a 3D ear impression, obtaining a surface of the ear impression from the 3D image, analyzing the surface with one or more feature detectors, the detectors adapted to detecting generic features, including peak features, concavity features, elbow features, ridge features, and bump features, and derived features that depend on generic features or other derived features, and forming a canonical ear signature from results of the detectors, where the canonical ear signature characterizes the 3D ear impression.