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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2017
Filed:
May. 05, 2011
Robert Paul Higgins, Seattle, WA (US);
Robert Paul Higgins, Seattle, WA (US);
THE BOEING COMPANY, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for processing images. A sequence of images is received from a sensor system. A number of objects is present in the sequence of images. Information about the number of objects is identified using the sequence of images and a selection of a level of reduction of data from different levels of reduction of data. A set of images from the sequence of images is identified using the selection of the level of reduction of data. The set of images and the information about the number of objects are represented in data. An amount of the data for the sequence of images is based on the selection of the level of reduction of data.