Image analysis – Pattern recognition – Template matching
Reexamination Certificate
2005-06-28
2005-06-28
Johns, Andrew W. (Department: 2621)
Image analysis
Pattern recognition
Template matching
C348S586000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06912313
ABSTRACT:
An image's pixels are initially segmented into pixels of the image foreground and background by comparing the pixels of the image to updated models of background reference pixels. Pixel structures are identified in the image. The probability that a pixel is in the background or foreground is refined by considering the initial segmentation of the pixel's neighbors and the pixel's membership in a pixel structure. If a pixel is identified as a background pixel it is replaced by a pixel of a new background.
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Alavi Amir
Chernoff Vilhauer McClung & Stenzel LLP
Johns Andrew W.
Sharp Laboratories of America Inc.
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