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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2009
Thomas F. El-maraghi, Ontario, CA;
Richard J. Rzeszutek, Ontario, CA;
Dimitrios Androutsos, Ontario, CA;
Raymond Phan, Ontario, CA;
Samuel Zhou, Ontario, CA;
Thomas F. El-Maraghi, Ontario, CA;
Richard J. Rzeszutek, Ontario, CA;
Dimitrios Androutsos, Ontario, CA;
Raymond Phan, Ontario, CA;
Samuel Zhou, Ontario, CA;
IMAX Corporation, Mississauga, ON, unknown;
Abstract
Certain embodiments relate to processing images by creating scale space images from an image and using them to identify boundaries of objects in the image. The scale space images can have varying levels of detail. They are used to determine a potential map, which represents a likelihood for pixels to be within or outside a boundary of an object. A label estimating an object boundary can be generated and used to identify pixels that potentially may be within the boundary. An image with object boundaries identified can be further processed before exhibition. For example, the images may be two-dimensional images of a motion picture. Object boundaries can be identified and the two-dimensional (2D) images can be processed using the identified object boundaries and converted to three-dimensional (3D) images for exhibition.