Appeal No. 1996-4030
Application 08/104,462
This is a decision on appeal from the final
rejection of claims 1 through 4, and 10 through 14. Claims 5
through 9 are objected to. On page 2 of the answer, the
Examiner withdraws the
35 U.S.C. § 103 rejection of claims 10 through 12 and 14,
thereby claims 1 through 4 and 13 have been finally rejected
and claims 5 through 12 and 14 are objected to.
Appellant's invention relates to digital image
processing. In particular, Appellant's invention relates to a
system for recognition of three-dimensional objects in a two-
dimensional image. Independent claim 1 is reproduced as
follows:
1. A method of model-based image recognition,
comprising the steps of:
(a) extracting image points from an input two-
dimensional image;
(b) selecting a set of n of said image points
extracted in step (a) and a set of n model points of a three-
dimensional model in a class of K models, where n is a
positive integer greater than or equal to 4 and K is a
positive integer;
(c) computing a transformation of three dimensions
to two dimensions based on said set of n model points and said
2
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