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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2009
Rudolph Van Der Merwe, Portland, OR (US);
Richard Eugene Crandall, Portland, OR (US);
Samuel Gordon Noble, Portland, OR (US);
Bertrand Serlet, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Stanislav Kounitski, Portland, OR (US);
Rudolph van der Merwe, Portland, OR (US);
Richard Eugene Crandall, Portland, OR (US);
Samuel Gordon Noble, Portland, OR (US);
Bertrand Serlet, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Stanislav Kounitski, Portland, OR (US);
Apple Inc., Cuppertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for identifying regions of interest in an image and identifying a barcode in a degraded image are provided. A region of interest is identified by pre-processing an image, generating a binary image based on a metric calculated on the pre-processed image, and analyzing regions of the image identified using connected components and other analysis. A barcode is identified by searching a population of barcodes, degrading ideal image intensity profiles of candidate barcodes, and comparing the degraded ideal image intensity profiles to an image intensity profile of the degraded image.