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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.:

US 9672226 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2017

Filed:

Oct. 25, 2012

Method to identify an object and a system for doing the same

Applicants:

Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, SG;

Illinois AT Singapore Pte Ltd, Singapore, SG;

Inventors:

Jiangbo Lu, Singapore, SG;

Gang Wang, Singapore, SG;

Assignee:

Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, SG;

Attorneys:

K. David Crockett, Esq.

Paul J. Backofen, Esq.

Crockett & Crockett, PC

Primary Examiner:

Andrae S Allison

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06K 9/32 (2006.01); G06K 9/34 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06K 9/48 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); G06T 7/90 (2017.01); G06T 7/194 (2017.01); G06K 9/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30247 (2013.01); G06K 9/3241 (2013.01); G06K 9/34 (2013.01); G06K 9/4652 (2013.01); G06K 9/48 (2013.01); G06K 9/6211 (2013.01); G06K 9/6212 (2013.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); G06T 7/194 (2017.01); G06T 7/90 (2017.01); G06K 9/50 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10024 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30088 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various embodiments relate to a method to identify an object comprising: receiving an image, the image having an object in front of a background; segmenting the image into a segmented image using a segmentation technique, the segmented image having a foreground component showing at least a part of the object and a background component showing at least a part of the background; determining at least one property of the foreground component of the segmented image; and matching the at least one property of the foreground component with a database of identified objects having the corresponding at least one property to identify the object.

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