Patent Document ID: 9070203
Application ID: 13761912
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of analyzing microtextured regions in materials with ordered crystal structure, comprising: obtaining crystallographic orientation information from a sample of a material under evaluation, the obtained orientation information mapped to discrete spatial locations of the sample; performing texture processing of the obtained orientation information by generating hybrid descriptors, and by transforming the obtained orientation information to an orientation space using the hybrid descriptors, each hybrid descriptor comprising texture information and non-texture information extracted from associated orientation information; clustering the hybrid descriptors in the orientation space to produce orientation clusters where each orientation cluster corresponds to a dominant zone of microtexture; generating composite data by spatially resolving the orientation clusters back to corresponding spatial locations in the sample; and performing a local spatial filtering of the composite data such that continuous regions of similar zones of microtexture are identified in the filtered composite data.