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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.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2014

Filed:

Mar. 31, 2011
Applicants:

Liangyin Yu, Fremont, CA (US);

Ming-chang Liu, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Liangyin Yu, Fremont, CA (US);

Ming-Chang Liu, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/34 (2006.01); G06T 7/40 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0081 (2013.01); G06T 7/408 (2013.01); G06T 7/0087 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for effectively performing an integrated segmentation procedure comprises an image segmenter that includes a texture modeler, a contrast modeler, and a model integrator. The texture modeler creates a texture model based upon an original image. Similarly, the contrast modeler creates a contrast model based upon the original image. The model integrator then performs a model integration procedure to create a final segmented image by integrating the texture model and the contrast model according to a calculated texture model metric. A processor of an electronic device typically controls the image segmenter to perform the integrated segmentation procedure.


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