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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 29, 2012
Oliver Woodford, Cambridge, GB;
Minh-tri Pham, Cambridge, GB;
Atsuto Maki, Cambridge, GB;
Frank Perbet, Cambridge, GB;
Bjorn Stenger, Cambridge, GB;
Oliver Woodford, Cambridge, GB;
Minh-Tri Pham, Cambridge, GB;
Atsuto Maki, Cambridge, GB;
Frank Perbet, Cambridge, GB;
Bjorn Stenger, Cambridge, GB;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An object location method includes: analyzing data including plural objects each including plural features, and extracting the features from the data; matching features stored in a database with those extracted from the data, and deriving a prediction of the object, each feature extracted from the data providing a vote for at least one prediction; expressing the prediction to be analyzed in a Hough space, the objects to be analyzed being described by n parameters and each parameter defining a dimension of the Hough space, n is an integer of at least one; providing a constraint by applying a higher weighting to votes which agree with votes from other features than those votes which do not agree with votes from other features; finding local maxima in the Hough space using the weighted votes; and identifying the predictions associated with the local maxima to locate the objects provided in the data.