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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2012
Applicant:
Eron Samuel Steger, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventor:
Eron Samuel Steger, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Systems and methods for optimizing bilateral filtering operation, by segmenting an image based on predetermined ranges of colors, and reiteratively blurring the image based on each color. In one aspect, colors associated with pixels that are located in such compartment are substantially similar. A blurring procedure(s) can subsequently be applied to each compartment, wherein pixels on the image that have more color similarity to a color of the compartment are weighted more, as compared to pixels that have less color similarity to the color of such compartment.