Patent ID: 8111919
Filing Date: 2012-02-07
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A method for encoding one or more region features in connected components labeling, the method comprising: associating one or more labels for an object with a memory structure, the memory structure including the one or more region features; storing the one or more region features in the memory structure, the one or more region features processed in raster order to provide a correspondence between one or more region properties and an original location of the object; enabling the memory structure to receive one or more extents of the one or more region properties at an adjustable precision and with an adjustable data rate, the adjustable precision and the adjustable data rate determined as a function of an amount of detail to be stored; and enabling the memory structure to receive one or more extents at an adjustable data rate determined as a function of an amount of detail to be stored independent of pixel data.