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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2016
Applicant:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Minato-ku, JP;
Inventor:
Christopher Zach, Cambridge, GB;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Minato-ku, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/68 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06K 9/52 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0042 (2013.01); G06K 9/52 (2013.01); G06K 9/6201 (2013.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06T 2207/10028 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for use in estimating a pose of an imaged object comprises identifying candidate elements of an atlas that correspond to pixels in an image of the object, forming pairs of candidate elements, and comparing the distance between the members of each pair and with the distance between the corresponding pixels.