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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2001
Bernhard Froeba, Steinbach, DE;
Christian Kueblbeck, Erlangen, DE;
Bernhard Froeba, Steinbach, DE;
Christian Kueblbeck, Erlangen, DE;
Abstract
A physically demarcated body part is recognized and located using only a relatively small amount of computation, but with a sufficient degree of recognition accuracy. For this purpose a procedure is proposed for detecting physically demarcated body parts (face, hand, leg) of a person's image () if a body part () as depicted in front of a background (). Borderlines () in the image are only evaluated along line directions (') to determine, by comparing with model (), whether the body part image corresponds to a type of body part given by the model. In addition, line directions (′) inside a body part image and borderline directions () of a physically demarcated body part are used to locate and store its position.