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| Class 382 | IMAGE ANALYSIS |
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![[List of Pre Grant Publications for class 382 subclass 100]](../as.gif) | ![[List of Patents for class 382 subclass 100]](../ps.gif) | 100 | APPLICATIONS |
| | 101 |  Mail processing |
| | 103 | Target tracking or detecting |
| | 104 | Vehicle or traffic control (e.g., auto, bus, or train) |
| | 106 | Range or distance measuring |
| | 107 | Motion or velocity measuring |
| | 108 | Surface texture or roughness measuring |
| | 109 | Seismic or geological sample measuring |
| | 110 | Animal, plant, or food inspection |
| | 111 | Textiles or clothing |
| | 112 | Document or print quality inspection (e.g., newspaper, photographs, etc.) |
| | 113 | Reading maps, graphs, drawings, or schematics |
| | 114 | Reading aids for the visually impaired |
| | 115 | Personnel identification (e.g., biometrics) |
| | 116 |  Using a combination of features (e.g., signature and fingerprint) |
| | 117 | Using a characteristic of the eye |
| | 118 | Using a facial characteristic |
| | 119 | Using a signature |
| | 120 |  Sensing pressure together with speed or acceleration |
| | 121 | Sensing pressure only |
| | 122 | Sensing speed or acceleration only |
| | 123 | Sensing geometrical properties |
| | 124 | Using a fingerprint |
| | 128 | Biomedical applications |
| | 129 | DNA or RNA pattern reading |
| | 130 | Producing difference image (e.g., angiography) |
| | 131 | Tomography (e.g., CAT scanner) |
| | 132 | X-ray film analysis (e.g., radiography) |
| | 133 | Cell analysis, classification, or counting |
| | 135 | Reading paper currency |
| | 136 | Reading coins |
| | 137 | Reading bank checks (e.g., documents bearing E-13B type characters) |
| | 141 | Manufacturing or product inspection |
| | 142 | Bottle inspection |
| | 143 | Inspection of packaged consumer goods |
| | 144 | Mask inspection (e.g., semiconductor photomask) |
| | 145 | Inspection of semiconductor device or printed circuit board |
| | 146 | Measuring external leads |
| | 147 | Inspecting printed circuit boards |
| | 148 | At plural magnifications or resolutions |
| | 149 | Fault or defect detection |
| | 151 | Alignment, registration, or position determination |
| | 152 | Tool, workpiece, or mechanical component inspection |
| | 153 | Robotics |
| | 154 | 3-D or stereo imaging analysis |
| | 155 | LEARNING SYSTEMS |
| | 162 | COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING |
| | 163 | Drop-out color in image (i.e., color to be removed) |
| | 164 | Image segmentation using color |
| | 165 | Pattern recognition or classification using color |
| | 166 | Compression of color images |
| | 167 | Color correction |
| | 168 | HISTOGRAM PROCESSING |
| | 169 | With a gray-level transformation (e.g., uniform density transformation) |
| | 170 | With pattern recognition or classification |
| | 171 | For segmenting an image |
| | 172 | For setting a threshold |
| | 173 | IMAGE SEGMENTATION |
| | 174 | Using projections (i.e., shadow or profile of characters) |
| | 175 | Separating document regions using preprinted guides or markings |
| | 176 | Distinguishing text from other regions |
| | 177 | Segmenting individual characters or words |
| | 180 | Region labeling (e.g., page description language) |
| | 181 | PATTERN RECOGNITION |
| | 182 | Limited to specially coded, human-readable characters |
| | 183 | Characters formed entirely of parallel bars (e.g., CMC-7) |
| | 184 | With separate timing or alignment marks |
| | 185 | Ideographic characters (e.g., Japanese or Chinese) |
| | 186 | Unconstrained handwriting (e.g., cursive) |
| | 187 | On-line recognition of handwritten characters |
| | 190 | Feature extraction |
| | 191 | Multispectral features (e.g., frequency, phase) |
| | 192 | Feature counting |
| | 193 | Counting intersections of scanning lines with pattern |
| | 194 | Counting individual pixels or pixel patterns |
| | 195 | Local or regional features |
| | 196 | Slice codes |
| | 197 | Directional codes and vectors (e.g., Freeman chains, compasslike codes) |
| | 199 | Pattern boundary and edge measurements |
| | 201 | Point features (e.g., spatial coordinate descriptors) |
| | 202 | Linear stroke analysis (e.g., limited to straight lines) |
| | 203 | Shape and form analysis |
| | 205 | Local neighborhood operations (e.g., 3x3 kernel, window, or matrix operator) |
| | 206 | Global features (e.g., measurements on image as a whole, such as area, projections, etc.) |
| | 207 | Waveform analysis |
| | 209 | Template matching (e.g., specific devices that determine the best match) |
