Appeal No. 1998-0618
Application 08/288,194
canceled claims 6, 20, 22 and 26 . The Examiner has 1
subsequently withdrawn the rejection of claims 7, 9, 11, 12,
14, 19, 23, 24, 28 and 29 . Thus, the remaining claims under2
rejection are claims 32 through 37, being all the independent
claims in this application.
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for
automatically identifying persons by comparing an image of the
face of such a person with a dictionary or library of images
previously generated. The library images are taken from
different angular directions, with the angle between two
adjacent directions being equal to or greater than 10E, but no
greater than 40E. In addition to the 10E/40E angular aspect,
different embodiments include mosaic processing, normalization
of intensity, and geometrical transform of matching regions.
Representative independent claim 32 is reproduced as
follows:
32. A method for detecting a face image in an input
test image as a face region by matching each of successive
1 Note page 2 of the brief.
2 Note page 2 of the answer.
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