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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2014

Filed:

Mar. 04, 2010
Applicants:

Ronald S. Cok, Rochester, NY (US);

Anthony Scalise, Fairport, NY (US);

Peter O. Stubler, Rochester, NY (US);

Inventors:

Ronald S. Cok, Rochester, NY (US);

Anthony Scalise, Fairport, NY (US);

Peter O. Stubler, Rochester, NY (US);

Assignee:

Intellectual Ventures Fund 83 LLC, Las Vegas, NV (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method of combining an image with an imaging-related product, comprising: providing an image; forming an image-color histogram of spatially-coherent color clusters within the image, the image-color histogram indicating the frequency of occurrence of spatially-coherent related colors in the image; selecting one or more of the image colors having a frequency of occurrence in the image high enough to be visible to an image observer; selecting an imaging-related product having one or more of the selected high-frequency colors within the imaging-related product or having a color complementary to one or more of the selected high-frequency colors within the imaging-related product; and combining the image and the imaging-related product.


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