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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2009
Applicants:
Tim K. Marks, Newton, MA (US);
Ashok Veeraraghavan, Cambridge, MA (US);
Yuichi Taguchi, Cambridge, MA (US);
Inventors:
Tim K. Marks, Newton, MA (US);
Ashok Veeraraghavan, Cambridge, MA (US);
Yuichi Taguchi, Cambridge, MA (US);
Assignee:
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2006.01); G06T 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0081 (2013.01); G06T 1/0014 (2013.01); G06T 7/0087 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30164 (2013.01);
Abstract
A set of images is acquired of a scene by a camera. The scene includes a moving object, and a relative difference of a motion of the camera and a motion of the object is substantially zero. Statistical properties of pixels in the images are determined, and a statistical method is applied to the statistical properties to identify pixels corresponding to the object.