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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2012
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Niraj Gupta, Bangalore, IN;
Oren Agam, Haifa, IL;
Benny Eitan, Haifa, IL;
Mostafa Hagog, Kaukab, IL;
INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus may include a memory, a processor circuit, and a connected component labeling module. The connected component labeling module may be operative of the processor circuit to determine one or more connected components during reading of an image comprising a multiplicity of pixels from the memory, assign a label to a plurality of pixels of the multiplicity of pixels, generate one or more label connections for a respective one or more labels, each label connection linking a higher label to a lowest label for the same connected component, and write to the memory for each label of the one or more labels a lowest label as defined by the label connection for the each label after a label is assigned to each pixel.