Patent Document ID: 20120170801
Application ID: 12981634
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1 ) Automatic method for food recognition by means of portable devices equipped with digital cameras that segments each food on a image of a plate of food, identifying these foods segmented from a pre-set menu, identifying and recording food and calories to their over a period, said method comprising the steps of: Semi-automatic segmentation, where the objects of the photo of the plate are segmented from the choice of a user image of the centers of each food, and being applied, then, a method based on broadening of region to each center and on different color spaces (HSV, RGB and LAB) ( 212 ), providing three hypotheses of segments chosen for each center ( 214 ), making possible to obtain robust results from the segmentation under the user control; From each segment obtained at ( 214 ), training an MVS having a radial based kernel-type function ( 215 ), and from a predetermined menu of food images, obtaining a list of probabilities for each segment of food, being the segment with the highest probability chosen ( 216 ) and the results of segmented food and their possible identifications ( 217 ), shown.