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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2012
Kai-hsiang Lin, Urbana, IL (US);
Rosemarie Geier Grant, Ellsworth, IL (US);
Joshua M. Mast, Bloomington, IL (US);
Douglas L. Dewey, Bloomington, IL (US);
Charlie K. Dagli, Burlington, MA (US);
Kai-Hsiang Lin, Urbana, IL (US);
Rosemarie Geier Grant, Ellsworth, IL (US);
Joshua M. Mast, Bloomington, IL (US);
Douglas L. Dewey, Bloomington, IL (US);
Charlie K. Dagli, Burlington, MA (US);
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Bloomington, IN (US);
Abstract
A method for identifying siding includes receiving particular texture data associated with a physical texture of a particular siding sample, accessing a reference database including reference texture data associated with physical texture of multiple different reference siding samples, performing an automated texture data analysis by analyzing the particular texture data associated with the particular siding sample and the reference texture data associated with different reference siding samples, and automatically identifying at least one reference siding sample that matches the particular siding sample based at least on the automated texture data analysis. The particular texture data associated with the physical texture of the particular siding sample may comprise a digital image, such as a photographic or scanned image of the particular siding sample, or a photographic or scanned image of an ink image physically transferred from the particular siding sample onto a substrate.