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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2017

Filed:

Jul. 30, 2015
Applicants:

NA He, Beijing, CN;

Gang Wang, Beijing, CN;

Zhongchao Shi, Beijing, CN;

Dianchao Liu, Beijing, CN;

Yaojie LU, Beijing, CN;

Inventors:

Na He, Beijing, CN;

Gang Wang, Beijing, CN;

Zhongchao Shi, Beijing, CN;

Dianchao Liu, Beijing, CN;

Yaojie Lu, Beijing, CN;

Assignee:

Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); H04N 5/262 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23238 (2013.01); G06K 9/4614 (2013.01); H04N 5/2628 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed is an image feature extraction method including a step of defining a combination of at least two kinds of solid angles along at least two directions, of an input spherical image; a step of determining respective values of the combination of the at least two kinds of solid angles, so that surface areas of spherical crowns of spherical segments, which are obtained by dividing the spherical image by the respective values of the combination of the at least two kinds solid angles, have a same value; and a step of generating, by utilizing the respective values of the combination of the at least two kinds of solid angles, an image feature template so as to conduct image feature extraction.


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