This is a theoretical study of partially occluded one-dimensional images. H
ere, we consider ''valid" images composed from a given set of objects, wher
e some objects appearing in the image may be partially obstructed by others
. A CRCW PRAM algorithm is presented here for validating a one-dimensional
image x of length n over a set of k objects of equal length in O(log logn)
time with linear work, where k is a fixed integer. (C) 2000 Published by El
sevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.