| US 7,565,028 B2 | ||
| Digital composition of a mosaic image | ||
| Aryan Saed, #812-265 Poulin Ave., Ottawa, Ontario K2B 7Y8 (Canada) | ||
| Filed on Sep. 29, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/951,638. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2442603 (CA), filed on Oct. 01, 2003. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0147322 A1, Jul. 07, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06K 9/36 (2006.01); G06K 9/40 (2006.01); G06K 9/32 (2006.01); G09G 5/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 382—284 [382/274; 382/282; 382/298; 345/629] | 29 Claims |
| 22. A method for generating a mosaic representation of a target image, the mosaic representation incorporating a plurality
of source images, the method comprising the steps of:
a) loading the target image into a computer;
b) generating a database having a library of source images;
c) dividing the target image into multiple generally complex tile regions;
d) selecting a tile region of the target image;
e) selecting one or more source images from the library;
f) for each of the selected one or more source images, producing multiple versions of the source image by applying one or
more digital image processing schemes to the source image, each of the versions being generally of a same size and generally
of a different appearance;
g) comparing each of the multiple versions of the source image with for the selected tile region, wherein the comparing comprises
calculating figures of visual difference between the multiple versions of the source image and the selected tile region using
a processor;
h) for the selected tile region, selecting a version from the multiple versions of the source image, that has a high measurement
of visual similarity based on the figures of visual difference;
i) positioning the selected version with the high measurement of visual similarity in the mosaic at the selected tile region;
j) repeating steps e) to i) for all the tile regions.
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