Patent ID: 7805008
Filing Date: 2010-09-28
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: executing a playback component on a first processor of a first processing system, wherein the playback component is adapted to perform image analysis on images displayed on a graphical user interface as a result of processing simulated user input data during a playback phase of execution of an application program, and wherein the playback component is further adapted to analyze captured displayed images recorded during a recording phase of execution of the application program on a second processor of a second processing system, and wherein the playback component is further adapted to reduce a number of hypotheses for a location of an active object in a recorded image generated by the graphical user interface by transforming the recorded image and a corresponding playback image; determining a sub-image from the transformed recorded image which corresponds to an object to be searched for in the transformed playback image; determining a subset of points on the transformed playback image which have appropriate values for matching the sub-image; and filtering hypotheses on the playback image which are more than a selected distance from any one of the subset of points.