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Image registration

US9088673B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P. · US

Inventors

Ron Banner · Haifa, IL
Omer Barkol · Haifa, IL
Daniel Freedman · Haifa, IL

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 24, 2010
Grant date	Jul 21, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 25, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06T2207/30144
WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An image registration method to register a target image with a reference image is provided, including to determine a target set of features present in the target image, to determine a reference set of features present in the reference image, to generate respective signatures for each feature in the target and reference sets, to match features from the target set to corresponding features in the reference set using the signatures, to generate respective transformations to map pairs of features in the target set to corresponding pairs of features in the reference set, and determine a similarity transformation for the target image using a measure of the accuracy of the transformations.

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