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Image understanding system

US4907285A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 5, 1988
Grant dateMar 6, 1990
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Expiry dateOct 5, 2008

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06V30/416
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An image understanding system of this invention uses a grammer describing a document image, and represents the structure of an unknown input image by parsing a statement (the structure of the grammar) written in accordance with this grammer. In other words, the grammer describes an image as substructures and the relative relation between them, and when the substructures and their relative relation are identified in parsing, search is then made whether or not the substructures and their relative relation exist in an unknown input image. The structure of the unknown input image is represented on the basis of the result of this search.

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