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DETECTION OF ANIMATE OR INANIMATE OBJECTS

  • US 20100177968A1
  • Filed: 03/18/2009
  • Published: 07/15/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method implemented at least in part by a data processing system, the method for detecting objects in an environment, and the method comprising:

  • receiving image data representing a captured image of the environment or a portion thereof;

    receiving electric-field data from or derived from a bio-electric field sensing system, the electric-field data representing electric fields present in the environment or a portion thereof, and the electric-field data and the image data representing information gathered from an overlapping portion of the environment;

    detecting a candidate object in the overlapping portion of the environment and classifying the candidate object as animate or inanimate, based at least upon an analysis of the image data and the electric-field data, wherein the analysis of the electric-field data includes an evaluation of whether the electric-field data represents a bio-electric field; and

    storing information pertaining to results of the classifying in a processor-accessible memory system.

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