Patent Document ID: 20110044545
Application ID: 12933306
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An apparatus comprising: a computer processor; logic instructions executable by the computer processor to cause the computer processor to: access a digital image; determine a largest patch size to traverse the digital image, the largest patch size having a dimension set to approximately the minimum of the digital image's width and height dimensions; analyze the digital image to detect whether the digital image includes a one or more first objects of a size approximately the same as the largest patch size; discontinue analyzing the digital image when the first object(s) are detected; if the first object(s) are not detected at the largest patch size, progressively decrement the patch size and analyze the digital image to detect the first object of a size approximately the same as one of the smaller patch sizes until the first object(s) are detected or the patch size is decremented below a minimum patch size.