OBJECT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF IDENTIFYING AN OBJECT USING THE SAME

• US 20120294539A1
• Filed: 01/28/2011
• Published: 11/22/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kiwiple Co., Ltd. (A Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Kiwiple Co., Ltd. (A Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Lim, Seong-Kyu, Shin, Eui-Hyun
• Application Number:
  US13/575,690
• Publication Number:
  US 20120294539A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/218
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/00 2D [Two Dimensional] image generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/10 Terrestrial scenes scenes under surveillance with static cameras G06V20/52; scenes perceived from the exterior of a vehicle G06V20/56; scenes perceived from the interior of a vehicle G06V20/59

Abstract

An object identification system includes a virtual object and an object identifying part. The virtual object storing part stores map data including an outline data of a virtual object. The object identifying part divides map data including outline data of virtual objects with a position previewing real objects as the central figure into a uniform angle gap with respect to an angle section corresponding to an image of the previewed real objects. The object identifying part extracts a virtual object having an outline firstly meet with a radiating line corresponding to each map angles of the divided map data from the map data. The object identifying part matches with the virtual object extracted from the map angle and a real object positioned at an azimuth angle equal to a map angle corresponding to the extracted virtual object.

Claims

1. An object identification system comprising:

a virtual object storing part configured to store map data including an outline data of a virtual object; and

an object identifying part configured to divide map data including outline data of virtual objects with a position previewing real objects as the central figure into a uniform angle gap with respect to an angle section corresponding to an image of the previewed real objects, to extract a virtual object having an outline firstly meet with a radiating line corresponding to each map angles of the divided map data from the map data, and to match with the virtual object extracted from the map angle and a real object positioned at an azimuth angle substantially equal to a map angle corresponding to the extracted virtual object.

2. The object identification system of claim 1, wherein the virtual object storing part further stores a position value of a point of interest, and

the object identifying part matches a point of interest positioned at an area surrounded by an outline of the virtual object with a virtual object having an outline surrounding the point of interest.

3. The object identification system of claim 2, wherein the virtual object storing part further store an attribute value of the point of interest, and

the object identification system outputs the attribute value of a point of interest positioned at an area surrounded by an outline of the virtual object extracted by the object identifying part to an image of the previewed real object.

4. The object identification system of claim 1, wherein the virtual object storing part further store an attribute value of a virtual object, and

the object identification system outputs the attribute value of the virtual object extracted by the object identifying part to an image of the previewed real object.

5. The object identification system of claim 1, wherein the outline data of the map data comprises position values of corners of each of the virtual objects, and an outline of each of the virtual object on the map data is a straight line connecting positions of neighboring corners of each of the virtual objects.

6. The object identification system of claim 1, wherein the virtual object storing part and the object identifying part are equipped to a server computer.

7. The object identification system of claim 6, wherein the virtual object storing part further store an attribute value of a virtual object, and

wherein the server computer receives a position value of the mobile terminal corresponding to a position previewing the real object and an azimuth value of a direction previewing a real object from the mobile terminal, and transmits an attribute value of a virtual object matched with the previewed real object to the mobile terminal.

8. The object identification system of claim 1, wherein the object identification system is a mobile terminal comprising the virtual object storing part and the object identifying part.

9. A method of identifying an object, the method comprising:

dividing map data including outline data of virtual objects with a position previewing real objects as the central figure into a uniform angle gap with respect to an angle section corresponding to an image of the previewed real objects, and extracting a virtual object from the map data, which has an outline firstly meet with a radiating line corresponding to each map angles of the divided map data; and

matching with the virtual object extracted from the map angle and a real object positioned at an azimuth angle substantially equal to a map angle corresponding to the extracted virtual object.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

outputting an attribute value of a virtual object matched with the previewed real object to an image of the previewed real object.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

matching a point of interest positioned at an area surrounded by an outline of a virtual object with a virtual object having an outline surrounding the point of interest.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein an attribute value of a virtual object outputted to an image of the previewed image is an attribute value of a point of interest positioned at an area surrounded by an outline of the extracted virtual object.

13. A computer-readable storage medium storing a software program using an object identification method of claim 9.

14. An object identification system:

configured to divide map data including outline data of virtual objects with a position previewing real objects as the central figure into a uniform angle gap with respect to an angle section corresponding to an image of the previewed real objects,

configured to extract a virtual object having an outline firstly meet with a radiating line corresponding to each map angles of the divided map data from the map data, and

configured to match with the virtual object extracted from the map angle and a real object positioned at an azimuth angle substantially equal to a map angle corresponding to the extracted virtual object.

15. The object identification system of claim 14, wherein an attribute value of a point of interest positioned at an area surrounded by an outline of the virtual object extracted by the object identifying part is outputted to an image of the previewed real object.

16. A server computer identifying a virtual object matched with the previewed real object by using an object identification system of claim 14, and transmitting an attribute value of the identified virtual object to a mobile terminal.

17. A mobile terminal outputting an attribute value of a virtual object matched with the previewed real object by using an object identification system of claim 14.