Patent ID: 7616151

Claim:
A method to reduce scattering centers (SC) comprising: receiving a set of SC data points representing an object, the object comprising a first region and a second region; using a computer processor for: reducing SC data points associated with the first region based on magnitudes of intensity of the SC data points associated with the first region; reducing SC data points associated with the second region based on magnitudes of intensity of the SC data points associated with the second region; combining the reduced SC data points associated with the first region and the second region to form a reduced set of SC data points; comparing the reduced set of SC data points with the received set of SC data points to determine if the reduced set of SC data points meets a set of comparison metrics; and performing another iteration of reducing the SC data points by region based on the magnitudes of intensity of the SC data points for each region if the reduced set of SC data points meets the set of comparison metrics.