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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2009
Sun Hyuck Chae, Suwon-si, KR;
DO Kyoon Kim, Seongnam-si, KR;
Kee Chang Lee, Yongin-si, KR;
Hwa Sup Lim, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Anton Sergeevich Konushin, Moscow, RU;
Olga Vyacheslavovna Barinova, Moscow, RU;
Vadim Sergeevich Konushin, Moscow, RU;
Anton Anatolyevich Yakubenko, Moscow, RU;
Sun Hyuck Chae, Suwon-si, KR;
Do Kyoon Kim, Seongnam-si, KR;
Kee Chang Lee, Yongin-si, KR;
Hwa Sup Lim, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Anton Sergeevich Konushin, Moscow, RU;
Olga Vyacheslavovna Barinova, Moscow, RU;
Vadim Sergeevich Konushin, Moscow, RU;
Anton Anatolyevich Yakubenko, Moscow, RU;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-Si, KR;
Abstract
A method of determining a ground line from an input image. The method includes determining a plurality of ground line candidates from the image, determining a certain band a central-line of which is a boundary between a G region and other regions in a Ground Building Sky (GBS) map of the image, and determining the ground line of the image by selecting a ground line candidate, among the plurality of ground line candidates, having the greatest extent crossing the certain band.