Patent ID: 9576359
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: G06K,G06T,G16H

Claim:
1. A method for extracting information of interest from an image and counting occurrences of the information of interest within the image, the method comprising: a. obtaining a digital image, b. normalizing a region of interest to obtain an area for analysis, c. enhancing information of interest in the area for analysis by removing undesired information, d. analyzing each pixel within the enhanced information of interest in the digital image to determine those pixels within a particular color range, e. recording a position for each pixel within the particular color range, f. creating a number of clustered pixels by clustering the pixels within the particular color range based upon the recorded position of each pixel, g. determining a number of occurrences of information of interest by the number of clustered pixels, h. determining distances between clustered pixels, and i. creating a graph of connected vertices on the image, wherein the vertices do not cross.