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2005-08-16

2005-08-16

Dam, Tuan (Department: 2122)

Data processing: software development, installation, and managem

Software program development tool

Testing or debugging

C717S115000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06931633

ABSTRACT:
A system and method for creating an image processing algorithm and automatically evaluating the performance of the algorithm. A user may develop an image processing algorithm in an image prototyping environment. The image prototyping environment may provide image processing functions for analyzing, processing, or manipulating various types of images. Once the user has developed an image processing algorithm, the user may execute the algorithm. In response to executing the algorithm, the execution time requirements of the algorithm may be determined. This information may be used, for example, in order to determine whether the image processing algorithm is fast enough to evaluate images that are acquired at a particular rate in a real-time application. The information may also help the user identify portions of the algorithm that need to be modified, e.g., because they are bottlenecks in the algorithm. In the preferred embodiment, the image prototyping environment is operable to automatically generate a program implementing the image processing algorithm, once the user is satisfied with the performance of the algorithm.

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