SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DECOMPOSING A DIGITAL IMAGE

Patent №

US 7,876,958

Granted

2011-01-25

Filed 2007

Owner

PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER, INC.

Lab

AI components

7

ml · nlp · vision · kr · planning · evo · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11821980

A system and method for decomposing a digital image is provided. A digital image is represented as a word-graph, which includes words and visualized features, and zone hypotheses that group one or more of the words. Causal dependencies of the zone hypotheses are expressed through a learned generative zone model to which costs and constraints are assigned. An optimal set of the zone hypotheses are inferred, which are non-overlapping, through a heuristic search of the costs and constraints.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Vision1.00
Machine learning1.00
Knowledge representation0.93
AI hardware0.80
Planning0.78
Evolutionary computation0.59
Speech0.02

Ownership

PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER, INC.

assignment · 195270349

Assignors

WANG, YIZHOU, GAO, DASHAN, HINDI, HAITHAM, DO, MINH BINH

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

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