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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2010
Manika Puri, Fremont, CA (US);
Zhiwei Zhu, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Jeffrey Lubin, Princeton, NJ (US);
Tom Pschar, Ringoes, NJ (US);
Ajay Divakaran, Monmouth Junction, NJ (US);
Harpreet S. Sawhney, West Windsor, NJ (US);
Manika Puri, Fremont, CA (US);
Zhiwei Zhu, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Jeffrey Lubin, Princeton, NJ (US);
Tom Pschar, Ringoes, NJ (US);
Ajay Divakaran, Monmouth Junction, NJ (US);
Harpreet S. Sawhney, West Windsor, NJ (US);
SRI International, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for analyzing at least one food item on a food plate is disclosed. A plurality of images of the food plate is received by an image capturing device. A description of the at least one food item on the food plate is received by a recognition device. The description is at least one of a voice description and a text description. At least one processor extracts a list of food items from the description; classifies and segments the at least one food item from the list using color and texture features derived from the plurality of images; and estimates the volume of the classified and segmented at least one food item. The processor is also configured to estimate the caloric content of the at least one food item.