Perceptual information processing system
First Claim
1. An electronic digital image processing system incorporating cognitive, psychophysical, and perceptual principles, comprising one or more pre-processors, a processing engine with multiple processing units each re-parameterizing input variables to graded category variables to accomplish processing functions such as color segmentation and grouping by similarities, a perceptual schema database, and an output generator that produces structured image data.
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Abstract
A system and method for perceptual processing, organization, categorization, recognition, and manipulation of visual images and visual elements. The sysstem utilizes a dynamic perceptual organization schema to adaptively drive image-processing sub-algorithms. The schema incorporates knowledge about the visual world, human perception and image categories within its structure. A fuzzy logic query control system integrates the knowledge base and image processing drivers.
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13 Claims
- 1. An electronic digital image processing system incorporating cognitive, psychophysical, and perceptual principles, comprising one or more pre-processors, a processing engine with multiple processing units each re-parameterizing input variables to graded category variables to accomplish processing functions such as color segmentation and grouping by similarities, a perceptual schema database, and an output generator that produces structured image data.
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11. A data structure for describing the perceptual data of the digital image comprising:
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numeric data that describe the digital image;
linguistic data that describe the digital image;
indices that identify the data with each level of processing such as ordinate level within schema structure, perceptual schema, and human categorization; and
labels that associate the data with perceptual concepts.
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13. A method of analyzing visual information, comprising:
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an electronic spreadsheet that accepts digital images and their image descriptors as input to its cells;
means for reading the data in the image descriptors; and
formulas that operate on the data contained in the image descriptors.
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