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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2011
Applicants:
Hao Tang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Feng Tang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/228 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/4671 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and system characterizes an image of an object. A plurality of interest points are detected within a first image and a local image feature descriptor is built for at least some of the interest points, including mapping information about the interest points according to at least circular distribution information.