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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2011
Peter Harmon Smith, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Frank Meyer, Milford, MI (US);
John Frederick Cloyd, Escondido, CA (US);
Bora Tekkanat, Ann Aarbor, MI (US);
Peter Harmon Smith, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Frank Meyer, Milford, MI (US);
John Frederick Cloyd, Escondido, CA (US);
Bora Tekkanat, Ann Aarbor, MI (US);
Vision Interface Technologies, LLC, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Creative Lifestyles, Inc., Milford, MI (US);
Abstract
A method of finding targets in a color image applies ratio space rich colored filtering to identify a band of pixels that form a transition zone from one rich color to another. This pixel band is reduced to a rich color transition curve. A set of transition curves with simple geometric and color properties for the entire image, can be compared to a database of target properties to identify a target in an image.