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US 8,509,475 B2Granted
Identification method
AssigneeNeoperl GmbH
InventorsOliver Denzler, Christoph Weis
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Abstract
A method for identifying an object involves transmitted at least one electronic image of the object to be identified to an evaluation unit. The electronic image is compared in the evaluation unit for matches with at least one electronic image of the object to be identified stored in a database, or at least one object having an identical or similar shape, and the evaluation unit then outputs the data stored in the database for the at least one image detected as a sufficient match.
Claims20
A method for identifying an object, comprising:
- receiving, by an evaluation unit, at least one electronic image of an object to be identified and a reference object, wherein the reference object is identifiable based on an identifier attached to a surface of the reference object and characteristic data of the reference object including at least one linear measurement;
- automatically identifying, by the evaluation unit, the imaged reference object independent of a scale of the imaged reference object;
- using characteristic data of the identified reference object stored in a second database to identify a scale of the received at least one electronic image;
- deriving, by the evaluation unit, characteristic data of the imaged object using the identified scale of the received at least one electronic image;
- correlating, by the evaluation unit using the derived characteristic data of the imaged object, the received at least one electronic image to electronic images of the object to be identified stored in a first database, of at least of a form-identical stored in the first database or of a form-analogous object stored in the first database;
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- outputting, by the evaluation unit, data stored in the first database for the at least one image that has been recognized as being a match based on the correlation,
- wherein the evaluation unit makes a pre-selection based on the imaged reference object.
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An apparatus for identifying an object, comprising:
- a receiving unit that receives a searched object;
- a camera that generates an electronic image of the received searched object;
- a communications component that transmits the electronic image to an evaluation unit, wherein the evaluation unit is configured to
- automatically identify the imaged reference object independent of a scale of the imaged reference object;
- use characteristic data of the identified reference object stored in a second database to identify a scale of the received at least one electronic image;
- derive characteristic data of the imaged object using the identified scale of the received at least one electronic image;
- correlate using the derived characteristic data of the imaged object, the received at least one electronic image to electronic images of the object to be identified stored in a first database, of at least of a form-identical stored in the first database or of a form-analogous object stored in the first database;
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- output data stored in the first database for the at least one image that has been recognized as being a match based on the correlation.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.