Patent Document ID: 20040175760
Application ID: 10803115
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer program product, tangibly embodied on a computer-readable medium, for evaluating a library of materials, the program comprising instructions operable to cause a programmable processor to perform operations comprising: receiving a plurality of images of a library of materials, the library including an array of members associated with locations in the library; receiving user input identifying a plurality of regions of interest, each of the plurality of regions of interest including a plurality of pixels in the images and corresponding to a location in the library; determining a series of reduced data values for one or more of the regions of interest, the series of reduced data values for a given region including reduced data values for a plurality of the images, the reduced data value for a given region in a given image being determined as a statistical function of a plurality of pixel values for the pixels in the region; and calculating from one or more of the series of reduced data values a figure of merit for the library member at the corresponding library location.