Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Mapping and encoding gemological features
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Application No.: US15814706Application Date: 2017-11-16
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Publication No.: US10552950B2Publication Date: 2020-02-04
- Inventor: Venkat K. Balagurusamy , Donna N. Eng Dillenberger , Joseph W. Ligman
- Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent John Noh
- Main IPC: G06T7/00
- IPC: G06T7/00 ; G06T7/11 ; G06T7/13 ; G06T15/20 ; G06T7/60 ; G06T3/60

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for mapping one or more inclusions in a mineral crystal. A set of image data associated with the mineral crystal is receiving. The received set of image data is analyzed. One or more inclusions associated with the mineral crystal is identified based on the analyzed image data. The identified one or more inclusions of the mineral crystal are mapped to a tree structure representing the surface of the mineral crystal. The mapped one or more inclusions are encoded as a chain-code associated with the mineral crystal. A radial distance between a center of mass value of the mineral crystal and a center of mass value of the identified one or more inclusions is calculated and a mineral crystal fingerprint is generated.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180342053A1 MAPPING AND ENCODING GEMOLOGICAL FEATURES Public/Granted day:2018-11-29
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