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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2009
Radek Grzeszczuk, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Vijay Chandrasekhar, Stanford, CA (US);
Gabriel Takacs, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Bernd Girod, Stanford, CA (US);
Radek Grzeszczuk, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Vijay Chandrasekhar, Stanford, CA (US);
Gabriel Takacs, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Bernd Girod, Stanford, CA (US);
Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
A method, apparatus and computer program product may be provided for generating a plurality of compressed feature descriptors that can be represented by a relatively small number of bits, thereby facilitating transmission and storage of the feature descriptors. A method, apparatus and computer program product may also be provided for permitting a compressed representation of a feature descriptor to be compared with a plurality of compressed representations of feature descriptors of respective predefined features. By permitting the comparison to be performed utilizing compressed representations of feature descriptors, a respective feature descriptor may be identified without having to first decompress the feature descriptor, thereby potentially increasing the efficiency with which feature descriptors may be identified.