Image analysis – Pattern recognition – Template matching
Reexamination Certificate
1999-12-14
2003-09-02
Johnson, Timothy M. (Department: 2625)
Image analysis
Pattern recognition
Template matching
C382S199000, C382S201000, C382S232000, C382S253000, C382S305000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06614932
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an information converting system in which a sender and a receiver share common information codes, the sender generates and sends an information code corresponding to the information of an object that the sender has acquired, and the receiver converts the received information code into the corresponding information of an object, so that desired information, e.g., image information, can be transmitted, received, and recorded simply and quickly using information codes that can be transmitted as a relatively small amount of information.
2. Description of the Related Art
Information of various images including still images and moving images may be transmitted to a remote location as a number of pixels that are generated by dividing the image information. Since, however, the amount of image information transmitted as such pixels is very large, there has been developed an image compression technology which allows a sender to compress the data of the pixels and transmit the compressed data as a reduced amount of information, and which also allows a receiver to restore the original image from the compressed data. Various processes of the image compression technology have been proposed in the art. For example, JPEG (Joint Photographic Coding Experts Group) has generally been employed as an international standard process for compressing and encoding still image information, and MPEG (Motion Picture Coding Experts Group) has generally been employed as an international standard process for compressing and encoding moving image information.
Since these compressing and encoding processes primarily operate by appropriately decimating a number of pixels from desired image information according to certain rules or processing only moving image information in frames to reduce the overall quantity of image information, they basically process the image information itself. Therefore, though these processes attempt to simplify images themselves, the processed images still contain a large amount of image information. As a consequence, the conventional compressing and encoding processes suffer problems in that the rate of processing compressed image information, e.g., storing and transmitting compressed image information, is relatively low.
The inventor of the present invention has made various research efforts to solve the above problems of the conventional processes, and found that various information of objects which have been acquired should not be directly transmitted, recorded, reproduced, and stored by a sender and a receiver, but common information codes corresponding to objects, e.g., IDs or codes converted from attributes or the like of objects, should be shared by a sender and a receiver, the acquired information of an object should be converted into an ID or code corresponding thereto and the ID or code should be transmitted by the sender, and the corresponding reproduced information of an object should be converted from the received ID or code by the receiver, for thereby greatly reducing the amount of information that needs to be transmitted, recorded, reproduced, and stored.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the present invention to provide an information converting system for reducing an amount of information to be transmitted and received to allow the information to be processed quickly at a high rate on a real-time basis for thereby making it possible to transmit information at a high rate, record highly compressed information, and communicate between different information spaces.
According to the principles of the present invention, a sender (recorder) and a receiver (reproducer) have a common storage of information codes in the form of IDs and codes converted from various information of objects as a parts warehouse database or a reproduced parts warehouse database, the sender transmits the acquired information of an object as an information code in the form of an ID and code, and the receiver converts the received information code into the reproduced information of an object corresponding thereto, so that the amount of information that is sent by the sender and received by the receiver can greatly be reduced.
To achieve the above object, there is provided in accordance with the present invention an information converting system comprising an information code converting apparatus for converting object information acquired with respect to an object into a registered information code in association with the object, and transmitting or outputting the information, and a reproduced information converting apparatus for converting the information code transmitted or inputted from the information code converting apparatus into registered reproduced object information in association with the information code.
The information code converting apparatus may comprise parts retrieval correlation function calculating means for comparing object data generated and stored in a parts warehouse database in association with objects, with the acquired object information, and selecting corresponding object data to generate the information code corresponding to the object information.
More specifically, the information code converting apparatus may comprise field analysis correlation function calculating means for analyzing positions of objects in acquired images based on a field information database, optimum coordinate generating means for analyzing calculated results of the field analysis correlation function calculating means based on a coordinate code database thereby to generate optimum coordinates in the images, preprocessing means for defining contours of objects in the images from an analysis in the acquired images, and parts retrieval correlation function calculating means for converting contour data produced by the preprocessing means, field data produced by the field analysis correlation function calculating means, and optimum coordinate data produced by the optimum coordinate generating means into configuration codes, and comparing the object data in a parts warehouse database with the acquired object information, and selecting corresponding object data thereby to generate information codes to be combined with the configuration codes.
The information code may comprise a combination of object data representing numerical values of the object and attributes thereof.
The reproduced information converting apparatus may comprise parts configuration processing means for converting the information code relative to the object converted by the information code converting apparatus into reproduced object information corresponding to the object based on reproduced object information which is registered and stored a reproduced parts warehouse database with respect to objects to be reproduced in association with the information code. The object information and the information code in the parts warehouse database may be associated with each other in substantially the same manner as the information code and the reproduced object information in the reproduced parts warehouse database are associated with each other.
The parts configuration processing means may comprise means for converting the information code into reproduced part image information corresponding to an image of the object information based on the reproduced parts warehouse database, and, in connection with the conversion of the information code into reproduced part image information, configuring a reproduced part image according to a configuration code representing coordinates and directions of the object and transmitted or outputted from the information code converting apparatus.
Information relative to an object which has been acquired at a sender or an outputting side is compared with object data in the parts warehouse database by the parts retrieval correlation function calculating means, and converted into a selected corresponding information code in the form of a numerical value, which is transmitted to a receiver or outputted.
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Desire Gregory
Iwane Laboratories Ltd.
Johnson Timothy M.
Merchant & Gould P.C.
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