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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2008
Paul Brasnett, Surbiton, GB;
Miroslaw Bober, Guildford, GB;
Paul Brasnett, Surbiton, GB;
Miroslaw Bober, Guildford, GB;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for deriving a representation of an image is described. The method involves processing signals corresponding to the image. A two-dimensional function of the image, such as a Trace transform (T (d, θ)), of the image using at least one functional T, is derived and processed using a mask function (β) to derive an intermediate representation of the image, corresponding to a one-dimensional function. In one embodiment, the mask function defines pairs of image bands of the Trace transform in the Trace domain. The representation of the image may be derived by applying existing techniques to the derived one-dimensional function.