US 11,734,527 B1
Optimal matching of image portion data sets
Jean-Charles Bernard Marcel Bazin, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Anselm Grundhoefer, Saratoga, CA (US); and Arun Srivatsan Rangaprasad, Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/355,658.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/055,471, filed on Jul. 23, 2020.
Int. Cl. G06K 7/10 (2006.01); G06K 7/14 (2006.01)
CPC G06K 7/10722 (2013.01) [G06K 7/1417 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
at an electronic device having a processor:
obtaining a first set of first image portions and a second set of second image portions;
determining first descriptors for the first image portions and second descriptors for the second image portions; and
matching the first image portions and the second image portions based on an optimization function and one or more constraints, the optimization function utilizing distances between the first descriptors of the first image portions and the second descriptors of the second image portions, wherein the second image portion is decoded based on the matching.