Inventors:
Stephen G. Huntington - Cedar Hills UT, US
Bevan Rowley - Lehi UT, US
E Derek Rowley - Olympia WA, US
International Classification:
G06K 9/46
US Classification:
382194, 382118, 382100, 382135, 382298, 382299, 382251, 382102, 382101, 382181, 3482221, 348348, 348347
Abstract:
A method of pattern and image recognition and identification includes building a data store of known patterns or images having known attributes and comparing those patterns to unknown patterns. The data store and comparison processing may be distributed across processors. A digital pattern recognition engine on each of the processors has the ability to compare a known pattern from the data store and an unknown pattern and compare the two patterns to determine whether the patterns constitute a match based on match criteria. If the comparison indicates a match, the match may be communicated to the data store and added as a known pattern with detected attributes to the data store. If the comparison does not indicate a match, the pattern may be flagged, transmitted to manual recognition, or further processed using character thresholding or cutting or slicing the pattern.