Patent SG-11201804949Y-A (SG)
Title: Systems and methods for detecting imaged clouds
Inventor: FEINGERSH TAL
IPC: G06T7/00
Filed: 2017-01-01
Abstract: INTERNATIONAL APPLICATION PUBLISHED UNDER THE PATENT COOPERATION TREATY (PCT) (19) World Intellectual Property -, Organization IIIM141101110101011111 HO 111110111011110011111011101111111101111011111 International Bureau 0.. .1 j ..... ..or::,„, (10) International Publication Number (43) International Publication Date WO 2017/130184 Al 3 August 2017 (03.08.2017) WI P0 I P CT (51) International Patent Classification: BZ, CA, CH, CL, CN, CO, CR, CU, CZ, DE, DJ, DK, DM, G06T 7/00 (2017.01) DO, DZ, EC, EE, EG, ES, FI, GB, GD, GE, GH, GM, GT, HN, HR, HU, ID, IL, IN, IR, IS, JP, KE, KG, KH, KN, (21) International Application Number: KP, KR, KW, KZ, LA, LC, LK, LR, LS, LU, LY, MA, PCT/IL2017/050004 MD, ME, MG, MK, MN, MW, MX, MY, MZ, NA, NG, (22) International Filing Date: NI, NO, NZ, OM, PA, PE, PG, PH, PL, PT, QA, RO, RS, 1 January 2017 (01.01.2017) RU, RW, SA, SC, SD, SE, SG, SK, SL, SM, ST, SV, SY, TH, TJ, TM, TN, TR, TT, TZ, UA, UG, US, UZ, VC, VN, (25) Filing Language: English ZA, ZM, ZW. (26) Publication Language: English (84) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every (30) Priority Data: kind of regional protection available): ARIPO (BW, GH, 243846 28 January 2016 (28.01.2016) IL GM, KE, LR, LS, MW, MZ, NA, RW, SD, SL, ST, SZ, TZ, UG, ZM, ZW), Eurasian (AM, AZ, BY, KG, KZ, RU, (71) Applicant: ISRAEL AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES LTD. TJ, TM), European (AL, AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, [IL/IL]; Ben-Gurion International Airport, 7010000 Lod DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LT, LU, (IL). LV, MC, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SI, SK, (72) Inventor: FEINGERSH, Tal; c/o MBT Space, P.O.B 105, SM, TR), OAPI (BF, BJ, CF, CG, CI, CM, GA, GN, GQ, Yehud 56000 (IL). GW, KM, ML, MR, NE, SN, TD, TG). (74) Agent: HAUSMAN, Ehud; REINHOLD COHN AND Declarations under Rule 4.17: PARTNERS, P.O.B 13239, 6113102 Tel Aviv (IL). — of inventorship (Rule 4.17(iv)) (81) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every Published: kind of national protection available): AE, AG, AL, AM, with international search report (Art. 21(3)) AO, AT, AU, AZ, BA, BB, BG, BH, BN, BR, BW, BY, (54) Title: SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING IMAGED CLOUDS B{i n p ut) M I cO r nh Pvo Texture Subset I terate last ROI ,-- —, Mosaic RCS's — analysis to N ROTS through all Yes. Prose- maps Clouds map ) ROI's R ` ssed? (output) figment & 1 Sieve h (RO) o i 01) b R / Legend [MCI, hi Preliminary cloud (TWA (ROO 1 Feature space j Array ',, I Operation 11 PCO (ROI) I Decision 71' GC Apply Thresholds i 11 Fig. 1 M 11 ---- (57) : A computer-implemented method N comprising quantifying pixel-level characteristic/s Il C fimction/s of the pixel-level characteristic/s to threshold/s thereby to generate comparison result/s; and using a controller for generat N ing an output identifying clouds in the digital image, including identifying presence of cloudiness at at least one first pixel in the di - 0 gital image, at least partly because the at least identifying absence of cloudiness at at least one second pixel in the digital image, at least partly because the at least one comparison result indicates that the second pixel exceeds the 1 Cloud Pixels Detection for identifying clouds in a digital image, comprising pixels, of a scene, the method in each of a multiplicity of pixels within a digital image of a scene; comparing - one comparison result indicates that the first pixel falls below the threshold/s, and threshold/s.