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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2012
Applicant:
Analog Devices Inc., Norwood, MA (US);
Inventors:
Bijesh Poyil, Bangalore, IN;
Anil M. Sripadarao, Bangalore, IN;
Assignee:
ANALOG DEVICES, INC., Norwood, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/48 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/6232 (2013.01); G06K 9/00818 (2013.01); G06K 9/4633 (2013.01);
Abstract
The Hough transform for circles can be implemented in a manner that avoids random access to the Hough accumulator array by successively identifying center candidates in each line of the image based on edge pixels in corresponding lines voting on the line of interest.