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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2012
Hui Cheng, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Harpreet Singh Sawhney, West Windsor, NJ (US);
Bogdan Calin Mihai Matei, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Zhiwei Zhu, Princeton, NJ (US);
Nicholas John Vander Valk, Monmouth Junction, NJ (US);
Hui Cheng, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Harpreet Singh Sawhney, West Windsor, NJ (US);
Bogdan Calin Mihai Matei, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Zhiwei Zhu, Princeton, NJ (US);
Nicholas John Vander Valk, Monmouth Junction, NJ (US);
SRI International, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for determining a geographic location of a scene in a captured depiction comprising extracting a first set of features from the captured depiction by algorithmically analyzing the captured depiction, matching the extracted features of the captured depiction against a second set of extracted features associated with reference depictions with known geographic locations and when the matching is successful, identifying the geographic location of the scene in the captured depiction based on a known geographic location of a matching reference depiction from the reference depictions.