Patent ID: 8571264

Claim:
A method for recognizing an object in an image, the method comprising: capturing the image by an image sensor; preliminarily assigning a plurality of geometric structural elements and creating at least one structural model of each different object of a plurality of objects that could be found in the image, wherein a structural model describes an object as one including at least one geometric structural element; creating a classifier, wherein the classifier is capable of comparing structural models for objects against a vector representation for an object in the image; isolating the object from the image via instructions executing on a processor of a computing device; providing at least one hypothesis about the isolated object; testing the at least one hypothesis by matching a vector representation for the isolated object with at least one structural model of the provided hypothesis, wherein structural elements described in a structural model are searched in the vector image of the object; identifying a variant of the structural model that matches the object; and saving in an electronic storage a result of the testing of at least one hypothesis.