Compound object separation
US8787669B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 30, 2008 |
| Grant date | Jul 22, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 1, 2030 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T7/155
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Representations of an object can comprise two or more separate sub-objects, producing a compound object. Compound objects can affect the quality of object visualization and threat identification. As provided herein, a compound object can be separated into sub-objects based on object morphological properties (e.g., an object's shape, surface area). Further, a potential compound object can be split into sub-objects, for example, eroding one or more outer layers of volume space (e.g., voxels) from the potential compound object. Additionally, a volume of a representation of the sub-objects in an image can be reconstructed, for example, by generating sub-objects that have a combined volume approximate to that of the compound object. Furthermore, sub-objects, which can be parts of a same physical object, but may have been erroneously split, can be identified and merged using connectivity and compactness based techniques.
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