Patent ID: 6408089
Filing Date: 2002-06-18
Classification: G06K,G06T,H04N

Abstract:
A video inspecting device for determining whether an image belongs to a specified harmful class known to be capable of inducing adverse reaction when viewed by photosensitive people, the video inspecting device comprising:input means for inputting a video subject to be inspected; image analyzer means for analyzing the image in each frame in the inputted video subject with respect to both contrast and spatial frequency thereof; image processor means for computing, according to the result of the image analysis, a ratio between the entire image area and the part of the image in which the intensity of said contrast and the frequency range of the peak values of said spatial frequency are out of allowable tolerance range respectively; and decision means for determining that an image in the frame belongs to the specified class to be detected if the computed ratio is not within the allowable tolerance range.