Image analysis – Image segmentation
Reexamination Certificate
2011-03-22
2011-03-22
Couso, Jose L (Department: 2624)
Image analysis
Image segmentation
Reexamination Certificate
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07912285
ABSTRACT:
A digital segmentation method and apparatus determines foreground and/or background within at least one portion of a captured image. The determining includes comparing a captured image to a pre-captured or post captured reference image of nominally the same scene. One of the images is taken with flash and the other without. The system can be implemented as part of a digital camera acquisition chain having effective computation complexity.
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Bigioi Petronel
Corcoran Peter
Prilutsky Yury
Steinberg Eran
Couso Jose L
Smith Andrew V.
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