FOREGROUND/BACKGROUND SEGMENTATION IN DIGITAL IMAGES

Patent №

US 7,796,822

Granted

2010-09-14

Filed 2010

Owner

FOTONATION VISION LIMITED

Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12712006

An analysis and classification tool compares at least a portion of a captured image and a reference image of nominally the same scene. One of the captured and reference images is taken with flash and the other is taken without flash. The tool provides a measure of the difference in illumination between the captured image and the reference image. The tool compares the measure with a threshold and segments a foreground region from a background region based on the measure.

VisionG06T 7/0002G06T 7/11G06T 7/174G06T 7/194G06T 7/40G06V 10/28G06V 20/35G06V 40/193+4 more

AI classification

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

Ownership

FOTONATION VISION LIMITED

assignment · 239860785

Assignors

STEINBERG, ERAN, PRILUTSKY, YURY, CORCORAN, PETER, BIGIOI, PETRONEL

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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