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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2013
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Attaullah Seikh, Irvine, CA (US);
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06T 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2006.01); H04N 19/172 (2014.01); H04N 19/12 (2014.01); H04N 19/136 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/4642 (2013.01); G06T 9/00 (2013.01); G06T 7/00 (2013.01); H04N 19/172 (2014.11); H04N 19/12 (2014.11); H04N 19/136 (2014.11);
Abstract
Systems and methods for quantifying an image generate a grayscale histogram of an image, wherein the grayscale histogram includes a respective number of pixels for a plurality of histogram values; determine a respective percentage of pixels in each of the histogram values based on the numbers of pixels for the respective histogram value and a total number of pixels in the image; compare the respective percentages of the histogram values to a first threshold; add the respective percentages that exceed the first threshold to a total percentage; and compare the total percentage to a second threshold.