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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2010
Applicants:
David Hue, Chatou, FR;
Samia Ahiad, Villemomble, FR;
Abdelaziz Bensrhair, Mont Saint Aignan, FR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Valeo Vision, Bobigny, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method for determining a region of interest in an image, characterized in that it comprises the following steps: a plurality of lines Lformed by pixels is defined in the image; in each line L, a plurality of segments Sconstituted by pixels is defined; a luminance level NVG(S) is calculated for each segment Sbased on the luminance of the pixels constituting this segment S; depending on this luminance level NVG(S) the segment Sis selected or excluded from the region of interest; and the region of interest is obtained by amalgamating all the segments selected for each line.