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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2012
Applicants:
Sergey Ioffe, Mountain View, CA (US);
Troy Chinen, Newark, CA (US);
Inventors:
Sergey Ioffe, Mountain View, CA (US);
Troy Chinen, Newark, CA (US);
Assignee:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/62 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06T 7/40 (2006.01); G06K 9/64 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/6215 (2013.01); G06K 9/46 (2013.01); G06K 9/6212 (2013.01); G06F 17/3028 (2013.01); G06T 7/408 (2013.01); G06T 7/40 (2013.01); G06K 2009/4666 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method is provided that determines whether objects in one image are visually similar to objects in another image by replacing the images' backgrounds with other images, such as a solid color or an image with texture, and comparing the resulting histograms.