METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOCATING A POINTING ELEMENT WITHIN A DIGITAL IMAGE

Patent №

US 7,170,490

Granted

2007-01-30

Filed 2004

Owner

WEATHER CENTRAL, LP

Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10959596

A method and apparatus for finding a pointing element within a digital image. A digitized image is received including a background and an object to be tracked. The background and the object have a different color. A rectangle is defined within the image including at least a portion of the object. The defined rectangle is searched to determine the X and Y coordinates of the pointing element.

VisionG06F 3/017G06V 40/10

AI classification

Vision1.00
AI hardware0.39
Natural language0.05
Knowledge representation0.01
Planning0.00
Speech0.00
Machine learning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

WEATHER CENTRAL, LP

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