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US 7,453,467 · App. 10/992,672 · Granted Nov 18, 2008

Method for dominant color setting of video region and data structure and method of confidence measure extraction

Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
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Patent No.
US 7,453,467
App. No.
10/992,672
Granted
Nov 18, 2008
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for a dominant color setting of a video region and a data structure and a method of a confidence measure extraction are disclosed. The video region dominant color setting method is characterized in that a region dominant color descriptor is expressed by the number of dominant colors with respect to a certain region, a dominant color expressed, a frequency that the dominant color appears, and an accuracy of a color value representing the region in a region dominant color based on various region dominant color extraction methods, for thereby expressing a region dominant color using a plurality of colors with respect to a region dominant color value and a confidence value of a region dominant color information based on various region dominant color feature extracting methods.

Claims (13)

1. A method of describing a coherency value for at least one dominant color in a region of an image used in a content-based multimedia data retrieval system, comprising:

describing a weighted sum of coherencies for each dominant color, wherein the weight is proportional to a number of pixels corresponding to each dominant color of the region and the weighted sum is normalized from 0 to 1.

2. A representative coherency value extraction method of at least one region dominant color in a region of an image used in a content-based multimedia data retrieval system, comprising:

obtaining a number of pixels and a coherency value corresponding to each region dominant color of the region, respectively;

multiplying the number of pixels by the coherency value corresponding to each region dominant color of the region, and

summing all the multiplied values and extracting a representative coherency value descriptive of at least one dominant color in the region.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:

dividing the summed value by a region size before extracting the representative coherency value for at least one dominant color in the region.

4. A coherency extraction method of a dominant color used in a content-based multimedia data retrieval system, comprising:

inputting a size of a coherency checking mask having a width and a height;

obtaining a number of pixels mapped to and corresponding to the dominant color;

obtaining a number of coherent pixels by counting a number of pixels mapped to the coherency checking mask when the pixels masked by central arrangement of the coherency checking mask is mapped to the dominant color; and

dividing the total number of coherent pixels by a value obtained by multiplying the number of pixels mapped to and corresponding to the dominant color by a value obtained by subtracting 1 from the size of coherency checking mask to obtain a coherency descriptive of the dominant color.

Priority Claims (1)
KR 26784/1999 · Jul 3, 1999 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 0960939200 · Jul 3, 2000
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