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World Intellectual Property Organization

Image Processing Apparatus and Method Patent Published

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The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has published a patent titled "IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT" under Publication No. WO/2011/148549. The patent was filed on March 18, 2011, under Application No. PCT/JP2011/001609. The invention describes an image processing apparatus and method, comprising a storing unit, a brightness gradient vector calculating unit, and a position determining unit.

Key Takeaways:

  • The patent describes an image processing apparatus that comprises a storing unit, a brightness gradient vector calculating unit, and a position determining unit.
  • The position determining unit includes a sampling unit, an origin point position estimating unit, and a re-verifying unit.
  • The apparatus is capable of determining the position of a reference image in a searched image based on brightness gradient vectors, positional vectors, and voting vectors.
  • The invention has potential applications in fields such as computer vision, image recognition, and object detection.
  • The patent was filed by Panasonic Corporation and inventors Yasunori Ishii and Masao Hiramoto.

Statistics:

  • Publication No.: WO/2011/148549
  • Filing date: March 18, 2011
  • Application No.: PCT/JP2011/001609
  • Number of inventors: 2 (Yasunori Ishii and Masao Hiramoto)
  • Number of applicants: 1 (Panasonic Corporation)

Sources:

  • World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
  • Publication No. WO/2011/148549
  • Application No. PCT/JP2011/001609
  • http://www.wipo.int

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