Curve smoothing without shrinking
US6727901B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Aug 7, 2002 |
| Grant date | Apr 27, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 7, 2022 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T11/203
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system generates a smoothed curve from a noisily drawn, multi-segmented curve by minimizing an energy function for a smoothed curve which fits between end-points of the drawn curve. The energy function has three components: a distortion component, a smoothing component and a shrink component. Numerical analysis methods are applied to evaluate the energy function and to identify the smoothed curve with the lowest energy. The transposed curve with the lowest energy value is selected as the smoothed curve.
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