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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2014
Method of identifying and replacing an object or area in a digital image with another object or area
Applicant:
Pandoodle Corporation, Lexington, SC (US);
Inventors:
David M. Ludwigsen, Columbia, SC (US);
Dirk Dewar Brown, Columbia, SC (US);
Robert John Glassett, Fair Lawn, NJ (US);
Jason Griffith, Brighton, CO (US);
Mark Bradshaw, Weston, FL (US);
Assignee:
Pandoodle Corporation, Lexington, SC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06T 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/46 (2013.01); G06K 9/00624 (2013.01); G06T 1/00 (2013.01); G06K 2009/4666 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method for object and area detection and replacement in an image includes identifying an object or area in one or more sequential images that form a moving image sequence and replacing some or all of the identified object or areas with another image such that the image looks to be part of the original composition of the original image including lighting, shadows, placement, occlusion, orientation, position, and deformation.