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5L096 | IMAGE ANALYSIS | |
G06T7/00 -7/00,350@Z;7/00,600-7/90@Z;G06V10/00-20/90;30/418;40/16@B-40/16@Z;40/20 |
G06T7/00-7/00,350@Z;7/00,600-7/90@Z;G06V10/00;10/30-10/98;G06V20/00-20/90;G06V30/418;G06V40/16@B-40/16@Z;40/20 | AA | AA00 PHYSICAL PROPERTY OF IMAGES FOR ANALYSIS |
AA01 | AA02 | AA03 | AA05 | AA06 | AA07 | AA09 | |||
. Colour | . . Colour images | . . Black and white images | . Quantisation level | . . Density i.e. n-ary values | . . Binary values | . Three-dimensional images | ||||||
AA11 | AA13 | |||||||||||
. with markings for processing on input images | . Others * | |||||||||||
BA | BA00 TYPE OF INPUT IMAGES OR USE THEREOF |
BA01 | BA02 | BA03 | BA04 | BA05 | BA06 | BA07 | BA08 | |||
. Specific use | . . Monitoring | . . Inspection | . . Automobiles | . . Robots | . . Medical treatments | . . Copying machines facsimiles or printers | . . Other use * | |||||
BA11 | BA12 | BA13 | BA14 | BA15 | BA16 | BA17 | BA18 | BA20 | ||||
. Specific images | . . Drawings | . . Medical images | . . Seal impressions | . . Fingerprints | . . Voice | . . Characters | . . Other specific images * | . Others * | ||||
CA | CA00 INPUT MEANS |
CA01 | CA02 | CA03 | CA04 | CA05 | CA06 | CA07 | CA08 | CA09 | CA10 | |
. Image acquisition | . . Cameras | . . . Photographic methods | . . . . Multiple images from a single camera | . . . . Multiple cameras | . . . . Photographing out of focus | . . . . Specific backgrounds in photographing | . . . Methods of scanning | . . . . Raster scanning | . . . . Oblique scanning | |||
CA11 | CA12 | CA13 | CA14 | CA15 | CA16 | CA17 | CA18 | |||||
. . . . Spiral scanning | . . . . Radial scanning | . . . . Scanning more than once | . . Charge-Coupled Devices (CCD) | . . Tablets | . . Line sensors | . . Illuminating means * | . . Other types of image acquisition * | |||||
CA21 | CA22 | CA23 | CA24 | CA25 | CA27 | |||||||
. Input by operators | . . Designation of parameters | . . for correcting errors | . . for designating areas | . . Other operator input * | . Others * | |||||||
DA | DA00 OUTPUT FORM |
DA01 | DA02 | DA03 | DA04 | DA05 | ||||||
. Output on bit maps e.g. images | . Numeric values e.g. results of recognition or geometric values | . Warnings | . characterised by the manner of displaying the output * | . Others * | ||||||||
EA | EA00 PREPROCESSING |
EA01 | EA02 | EA03 | EA04 | EA05 | EA06 | EA07 | ||||
. Shaping of images | . . Expansion contraction or shading # | . . Enlargement or reduction # | . . Thin line or thick line formation # | . . Elimination of noise | . . Smoothing | . . Other shaping of images * | ||||||
EA11 | EA12 | EA13 | EA14 | EA15 | EA16 | EA17 | EA18 | |||||
. Normalisation | . . Normalisation of brightness | . . Normalisation of size | . . Normalisation of position i.e. alignment | . . . with movement in parallel | . . . with rotational movement | . . . with movement of patterns in sequence for visual coincidence thereof | . . Other normalisation * | |||||
EA21 | EA22 | EA23 | EA24 | EA25 | EA26 | EA27 | EA28 | |||||
. Data conversion | . . Conversion to stroke data | . . Conversion to vector data | . . Coding * | . . . Chain codes | . . Coordinate systems * | . . . XY coordinates | . . . Polar coordinates | |||||
EA31 | EA33 | EA35 | EA37 | EA39 | ||||||||
. Approximation by specific patterns | . Interpolation | . Segmentation | . Erasing unnecessary part of images | . Weighting | ||||||||
EA41 | EA43 | EA45 | ||||||||||
. Initialisation | . Binary coding | . Others * | ||||||||||
FA | FA00 EXTRACTION OF FEATURES |
FA01 | FA02 | FA03 | FA04 | FA05 | FA06 | FA07 | FA08 | FA09 | FA10 | |
. Segmentation | . . Drawings of irregular shapes | . . Line separation e.g. including broken or dotted lines | . . Circles or arcs | . . Polygons | . . Outlines | . . Loops | . . Irregularity | . . Singular points * | . . . Points of branching or intersection | |||
FA12 | FA13 | FA14 | FA15 | FA16 | FA17 | FA18 | FA19 | |||||
. . . Bend points inflection points or apexes | . . . Starting points or ending points | . . . Points distinguished by density e.g. density peaks | . . . Points distinguished by colour e.g. specific colours | . . Frames | . . Flaws | . . Circumscribed polygons | . . Other segmentation * | |||||
FA21 | FA22 | FA23 | FA24 | FA25 | FA26 | FA27 | FA28 | FA29 | ||||
. Image conversion | . . Transforms | . . . Fourier transforms | . . . Huff transforms | . . . Affine transforms | . . . Other transforms * | . . Expansion | . . . K-L expansion | . . . Other expansion * | ||||
FA31 | FA32 | FA33 | FA34 | FA35 | FA36 | FA37 | FA38 | FA39 | ||||
. Statistical characteristics | . . Mean | . . Variance | . . Correlation | . . Histograms | . . . Projection histograms | . . . Light and dark histograms | . . Projection | . . Other statistical characteristics * | ||||
FA41 | FA42 | FA43 | FA44 | FA45 | FA46 | |||||||
. Region textures | . . Binary regions | . . Dot regions | . . Character regions | . . Photograph regions | . . Other textures * | |||||||
FA51 | FA52 | FA53 | FA54 | FA55 | FA56 | FA57 | FA58 | FA59 | FA60 | |||
. Geometric feature values | . . Number * | . . . Number of regions | . . . Number of pixels | . . Moments | . . . Zeroth moment | . . . Primary moment | . . . Secondary moment | . . Area | . . Centre of gravity | |||
FA62 | FA63 | FA64 | FA65 | FA66 | FA67 | FA68 | FA69 | FA70 | ||||
. . Centre | . . Main axis of inertia | . . Length | . . . Length around the perimeter | . . Distance | . . Direction or angle | . . Curvature | . . Position | . . Other geometric values * | ||||
FA71 | FA72 | FA73 | FA74 | FA75 | FA76 | FA77 | FA78 | FA79 | ||||
. Structuring the relationship between characteristics | . . Relationships between segments | . . . Relationships of line-segment connections | . . . Tree structures | . . . . Bisected trees | . . . Positional relationship of figures | . . . . Overlapping | . . . . Conjugation relation | . . Other structuration * | ||||
FA81 | ||||||||||||
. . Others * | ||||||||||||
GA | GA00 PROCESSING TECHNIQUE |
GA01 | GA02 | GA03 | GA04 | GA05 | GA06 | GA07 | GA08 | GA09 | GA10 | |
. Calculations with peripheral pixels | . . Differentiation # | . . . Second-order differentiation | . . . Directional differentiation | . . Laplacian | . . Differences # | . . . Differences between pixels in one image | . . . Differences between pixels in two images | . . Integration | . . Masks or operators # | |||
GA11 | GA12 | GA13 | GA14 | GA15 | GA17 | GA19 | ||||||
. . . Two-by-two grids | . . . Three-by-three grids | . . by tracking | . . . Four connections | . . . Eight connections | . Windows # | . Block separation | ||||||
GA21 | GA22 | GA23 | GA24 | GA26 | GA28 | GA30 | ||||||
. Logical operations # | . . AND | . . OR | . . EXOR | . Reduction of the total number of pixels e.g. averaging or thinning | . Counting of the number of pixels | . Probability | ||||||
GA32 | GA34 | GA36 | GA38 | GA40 | ||||||||
. Least-squares method | . Labelling | . Run length | . Use of specific colours | . . Red green and blue | ||||||||
GA41 | GA43 | GA45 | GA47 | GA49 | ||||||||
. . Hue brightness or chroma | . Use of specific gradations | . On-line hand-drawn figures | . Strokes | . with optical arithmetic processing * | ||||||||
GA51 | GA53 | GA55 | GA57 | GA59 | ||||||||
. Threshold values #* | . Tables #* | . Filters #* | . Fuzzy techniques | . Others * | ||||||||
HA | HA00 RECOGNITION |
HA01 | HA02 | HA03 | HA04 | HA05 | HA07 | HA08 | HA09 | |||
. Acquisition of multiple images for comparison | . . Analysis of moving images | . . . Extraction of moving bodies | . . . . Movement vectors | . . . Tracking | . compared with dictionary patterns | . . Finding of specific patterns | . . specifying the kind of given patterns | |||||
HA11 | HA13 | |||||||||||
. Neural networks * | . Others * | |||||||||||
JA | JA00 RECOGNITION PROCESSING |
JA01 | JA03 | JA04 | JA05 | JA06 | JA07 | JA09 | ||||
. Visual observation | . Degree of similarity | . . Degree of composite similarity or degree of mixed similarity | . . Inner products e.g. Cos | . . Number of matching pixels | . . Number of mismatching pixels | . Templates #* | ||||||
JA11 | JA13 | JA14 | JA16 | JA18 | JA20 | |||||||
. Recognition by use of feature values | . Multi-stage collation | . . Coarse and fine degrees of collation | . Combinations of different types of recognition | . Use of distinctive features of the entire images or parts thereof | . Dynamic pattern-matching | |||||||
JA22 | JA24 | JA25 | JA26 | JA28 | ||||||||
. Categories #* | . characterised by the manner of judgement | . . Rejection | . . for interrupting processings | . Others * | ||||||||
KA | KA00 DICTIONARY |
KA01 | KA03 | KA04 | KA05 | KA07 | KA09 | |||||
. Multiple dictionaries | . Correction of or additions to dictionaries | . . Learning | . . Returning to previous dictionaries | . Compression | . Retrieval | |||||||
KA11 | KA13 | KA15 | KA17 | |||||||||
. Sorting | . Creating | . having registration and recognition modes | . Others * | |||||||||
LA | LA00 HARDWARE |
LA01 | LA03 | LA04 | LA05 | LA06 | LA07 | LA08 | LA09 | LA10 | ||
. Higher speed | . Configurations | . . Analogue-digital conversion | . . Image memories | . . Line memories | . . Shift registers | . . Counters | . . Address generation or addressing | . . Delay means | ||||
LA11 | LA12 | LA13 | LA14 | LA15 | LA17 | |||||||
. . Control circuits | . . Synchronisation | . . Parallel processing | . . with a plurality of identical configurations | . . . Array structures | . Others * | |||||||
MA | MA00 OTHER CHARACTERISTICS * |
MA01 | MA03 | MA05 | MA07 | |||||||
. Image-quality evaluation | . Image correction | . Symmetry | . Clustering |