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Cognition integrator and language

US7873223B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Definiens GmbH · DE

Inventors

Gerd Binnig · Richterswil, CH
Guenter Schmidt · Leun, DE
Arno Schaepe · Starnberg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 28, 2006
Grant date	Jan 18, 2011
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 16, 2029

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06V20/695
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a specification mode, a user specifies classes of a class network and process steps of a process hierarchy using a novel scripting language. The classes describe what the user expects to find in digital images. The process hierarchy describes how the digital images are to be analyzed. Each process step includes an algorithm and a domain that specifies the classes on which the algorithm is to operate. A Cognition Program acquires table data that includes pixel values of the digital images, as well as metadata relating to the digital images. In an execution mode, the Cognition Program generates a data network in which pixel values are linked to objects, and objects are categorized as belonging to classes. The process steps, classes and objects are linked to each other in a computer-implemented network structure in a manner that enables the Cognition Program to detect target objects in the digital images.

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