Owner Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.

Inventors Comaniciu, Dorin; Okada, Kazunori; Krishnan, Arun

Agent Shelston IP

Pub. Number AU-B-2004318104

PCT Pub. Number WO2005/096224

Priority 60/552,481 12.03.04 US; 10/991,683 18.11.04 US

Filing date 6 December 2004

Wipo publication date 13 October 2005

Acceptance publication date 26 February 2009

G06K 9/34 (2006.01) Methods or arrangements for reading or recognising printed or written characters or for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints - Segmentation of touching or overlapping patterns in the image field

G06F 19/00 (2006.01) Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific applications

G06K 9/00 (2006.01) Methods or arrangements for reading or recognising printed or written characters or for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints

G06T 5/00 (2006.01) Image enhancement or restoration, e.g. from bit-mapped to bit-mapped creating a similar image