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Automated cartographic annotation of digital images

  • US 6,208,353 B1
  • Filed: 09/05/1997
  • Issued: 03/27/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/05/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for generating at least one annotated image, comprising the steps of:

  • (a) extracting at least one cartographic feature whose visibility from a viewer position of the image has been ascertained, from digital cartographic data representing a map which includes the viewer position;

    (b) relating each extracted cartographic feature to a corresponding pictorial feature in the digital image;

    (c) annotating at least one pictorial feature based on the corresponding cartographic feature; and

    (d) generating the annotated image including each annotated pictorial feature.

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