1. A laminate flooring system, comprising:
at least one laminated flooring panel, each laminated flooring panel comprising:
a board substrate and a decorative paper sheet including at least one decorative motif pre-printed thereon, the decorative paper sheet on the board substrate;
a plurality of side surfaces;
a first upper surface adjacent the plurality of side surfaces; and
a second upper surface surrounded by the first upper surface, wherein the first upper surface lower than the second upper surface and wherein at least one of the first and second upper surfaces includes an embossed surface, at least a portion of the embossed surface in registration with the decorative motif.
2. The flooring system according to claim 1, further comprising at least one locking mechanism arranged on at least one of the plurality of side surfaces.
3. The flooring system according to claim 2, wherein the at least one locking mechanism is underneath and not visible from the surface of the at least one laminated flooring panel.
4. The flooring system according to claim 1, wherein the embossed surface comprises at least one depression less than about 0.2 mm in depth.
5. The flooring system according to claim 1, wherein the first upper surface is about 0.794 mm below the second upper surface.
6. The flooring system according to claim 1, wherein the first upper surface has a width of about 3.175 mm.
7. The flooring system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one decorative motif comprises one decorative motif viewable from the first and second upper surfaces.
8. The flooring system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one decorative motif comprises a first decorative motif viewable from the first upper surface and a second decorative motif, the second decorative motif having an image different from an image of the first decorative motif, and viewable from the second upper surface.
9. The flooring system according to claim 8, wherein the first decorative motif comprises at least two decorative sub-motifs.
10. The flooring system according to claim 8, wherein the second decorative motif comprises at least two decorative sub-motifs.
11. The flooring system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one decorative motif comprises one decorative motif.
12. The flooring system according to claim 1, wherein one or more portions of the texture of the embossed surface are substantially aligned with the one or more of the graphic elements of the at least one decorative motif.
13. The flooring system according to claim 1, wherein flooring panels within the flooring system are substantially the same shape.
14. The flooring system according to claim 1, wherein at least one laminated flooring panel within the flooring system has a unique shape.
15. The flooring system according to claim 1, wherein adjacent laminated flooring panels are joined together with glue.
16. The flooring system according to claim 1, wherein adjacent laminated flooring panels are joined together without glue.
17. The flooring system according to claim 1, wherein decorative motifs of adjacent ones of flooring panels are alignable with each other such that a substantially continuous decorative motif is viewable from the upper surfaces of adjacent laminated flooring panels within the flooring system.
18. The flooring system according to claim 1, wherein embossing patterns on the embossed surfaces of adjacent ones of flooring panels are alignable with each other to form a substantially continuous embossed surface pattern viewable from across adjacent laminated flooring panels within the flooring system.
19. The flooring system according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of side surfaces of at least one flooring panel contacts more than one adjacent laminated flooring panel.
20. The flooring system according to claim 1, wherein at least one laminated flooring panel visually depicts wood.
21. The flooring system according to claim 1, wherein at least one laminated flooring panel visually depicts ceramic.
22. The flooring system according to claim 1, wherein at least one laminated flooring panel visually depicts stone.
23. The flooring system according to claim 1, wherein the decorative motif on at least the second upper surface visually depicts multiple ceramic tiles.
24. The flooring system according to claim 23, wherein the second upper surface varies in height in registration with the decorative motif.
25. The flooring system of claim 1, wherein the continuous first upper surface extends along at least a majority of the perimeter of the flooring panel.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. Method for extracting texture features from an image, comprising a plurality of pixels, comprising:
(a) for each of the plurality of pixels, comparing the pixel intensity of the pixel with a threshold to generate a binary mask, comprising a first binary value for every pixel when the pixel intensity exceeds the threshold, or a second binary value when the pixel intensity does not exceed the threshold;
characterised in that
the image is a multichannel image and the step (a) is repeated for each of the channels to generate a binary mask for each of the channels; and
the method further comprises the following steps:
(b) for each of the plurality of pixels of at least two different channels, logically combining the binary values for the pixel in the binary mask associated to the first channel with the binary value for the pixel in the binary mask associated to the second channel to obtain a binary interlevel image; and
(c) determining one or several texture features from the binary interlevel image.
2. Method of claim 1, wherein the step (b) is repeated until binary interlevel images are present for all combinations of different channels of the image.
3. Method of claim 1, wherein the determined texture features are integrated into one or several total texture features of the multichannel image.
4. Method of claim 3, wherein integrating the texture features comprises generating a texture vector for the multichannel image, wherein the determined texture features are stored.
5. Method of claim 1, wherein the image is generated by a multichannel picture, wherein the channels of the image contain different color information or different multispectral information, wherein the other multispectral information is based on pictures by IR radiation, UV radiation or X-ray radiation.
6. Method of claim 5, wherein, when the channels of the image contain color information, information with regard to the color of the image, with regard to the luminance and the chrominance of the image or with regard to the hue of the image, the saturation of the image and the value of the image is associated to the channels.
7. Method of claim 1, wherein the image from which the texture features are to be extracted is a portion of an overall image formed in any way.