Patent Document ID: 20160253799
Application ID: 15033778
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for extracting information of interest from an image and counting the occurrences of the information of interest within the image, the method comprising: a. obtaining a digital image, b. normalizing a region of interest to obtain an area for analysis, c. enhancing information of interest in the area for analysis by removing undesired information, d. analyzing each pixel within the enhanced information of interest in the digital image to determine those pixels within a particular color range, e. recording the position of each pixel within the particular color range, f. clustering the pixels within the particular color range based upon the recorded position of each pixel, g. determining the number of occurrences of information of interest by the number of clustered pixels, h. determining the distances between clustered pixels, and i. creating a graph of connected vertices on the image, wherein the vertices do not cross.