Terrain map summary elements
First Claim
1. A method for analysis of image data for subject content, said method comprising the steps of:
- (a) performing at least one pass through a frame of said image data; and
(b) generating a base Terrain Map from said pass through said frame of said image data, said base Terrain Map comprising a plurality of base data members that indicate the content of said image data;
(c) generating at least one upper tier Terrain Map Summary hierarchically removed from said Terrain Map, said upper tier Terrain Map Summary comprising a plurality of members based upon or indicating the content of said base data members.
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Abstract
Method and system for image data analysis, by making use of a Terrain Map Summary Element (TMSE) data structure, in which a Terrain Map data structure provides processed primitive data about each 2×2 kernel of pixels from an original image. The new TMSE is a hierarchical multiple-level or tiered structure of such Terrain Map elements, in which each successive Terrain Map level summarizes, for example, 16 lower level elements or member. By providing such a hierarchical nature of the map elements, richness is enhanced by each higher element because every element of each successively higher level map summarizes the data from elements of the lower level map. For example, in a five-level Terrain Map Summary Element structure according to the disclosure, each element or member of the fifth level contains information summarizing data about 256K pixels.
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12 Claims
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1. A method for analysis of image data for subject content, said method comprising the steps of:
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(a) performing at least one pass through a frame of said image data; and
(b) generating a base Terrain Map from said pass through said frame of said image data, said base Terrain Map comprising a plurality of base data members that indicate the content of said image data;
(c) generating at least one upper tier Terrain Map Summary hierarchically removed from said Terrain Map, said upper tier Terrain Map Summary comprising a plurality of members based upon or indicating the content of said base data members. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A system of analysis of original image data for subject content, said system comprising:
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(a) a base Terrain Map generated from at least one pass through a frame of said image data, said base Terrain Map comprising a plurality of base data members that indicate the content of said image data; and
(b) at least one upper tier Terrain Map Summary hierarchically removed from said Terrain Map, said upper tier Terrain Map Summary generated to contain a plurality of data members based upon or indicating the content of said base data members, - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11)
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12. A data analysis Terrain Map Summary Elements structure comprising
a base Terrain Map data structure generated from at least one pass through a frame of original image data, said base Terrain Map comprising a plurality of base data members that indicate the content of said image data; - and a set of tiered Terrain Map Summary levels hierarchically successively removed from the first said Terrain Map,
said upper levels being generated, each level having a plurality of members, and wherein the members of each level indicate the content of members of the level immediately below it, being thereby richly indicative of the original data.
- and a set of tiered Terrain Map Summary levels hierarchically successively removed from the first said Terrain Map,
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