Once a machine-vision system has acquired an image, a software image-analysis algorithm, known as a pattern-finding tool (PFT), must determine whether the image contains a particular pattern. While ...

When you shop at thrift stores, you might come across items that look similar but have subtle differences in patterns and designs. These variations can sometimes make a big difference in how much the ...

Dear Vicki: We've just cleaned out our late parents' house and found boxes of patterns. Since my mother made most of our clothes, some of the patterns date back to the early 1940s. Is there any ...

Humans are natural pattern recognizers. Whether, as in prehistoric times, we were recognizing danger in a telltale rustle of the bushes or skimming a page of letters and numbers today, we use patterns ...

Making a home flow from room to room is a unique decorating challenge. This is true whether you have an open floor plan or not. It’s important that rooms have a relationship to each other. A great way ...

Rebecca Shutt, who works in the NYPD's Office of Crime Control Strategies, speaks about utilizing Patternizr in her work AP The NYPD has a new digital pattern-spotting partner to help connect crimes ...