Patent ID: 9589370
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: G06K,G06T,H04N

Claim:
1. A method for assisting with the search for an element having a predefined hue in an environment, the method comprising: providing at least one image in color, said or each image comprising pixels; expressing the hue of at least one portion of the pixels of said or each image in a colorimetric system, the colorimetric system being defined by the existence of a continuous bijection from the set of hues of the visible spectrum to the set of values of a parameter, the bijection associating a hue with a value of the parameter and the set of values of the parameter having a total extent; selecting in said or each image pixels having a hue for which the value of the parameter associated by the bijection is comprised between a first and a second values, the first and second values selected by an operator and being chosen so that the set of hues, for which the value of the parameter associated by the bijection is comprised between both chosen values, comprises the predefined hue; and highlighting the selected pixels.