Image analysis – Image compression or coding – Shape – icon – or feature-based compression
Reexamination Certificate
2007-06-19
2007-06-19
Bella, Matthew C. (Department: 2624)
Image analysis
Image compression or coding
Shape, icon, or feature-based compression
C382S100000, C382S103000, C382S107000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10940677
ABSTRACT:
A region data describing method for describing, over a plurality of frames, region data about the region of an arbitrary object in a video, the method specifying the object region in the video with at least either of an approximate figure approximating the region or characteristic points of the region, approximating a trajectory obtained by arranging position data of the representative points or the characteristic point in a direction in which frames proceed with a predetermined function and describing the parameter of the function as region data. Thus, the region of a predetermined object in the video can be described with a small quantity of data. Moreover, creation and handling of data can easily be performed.
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Hori Osamu
Kaneko Toshimitsu
Mita Takeshi
Yamamoto Koji
Bella Matthew C.
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Oblon & Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt P.C.
Patel Shefali
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