Opera hat described as: Some sources have taken this to describe an early folding top hat, although it is not explicitly stated whether Dollman's design was specifically for male or female headgear. Dollman's patent expired in 1825. Operating from Poissy, Paris, France, around 1840, Antoine Gibus's design for a spring-loaded collapsible top-hat proved so popular that hats made to it became known as "gibus". They were also often called "opera hats" due to the common practice of storing them in their flattened state under one's seat at the opera, though the term can also refer to any tall formal men's hat. The
Top-hat transform The threshold values are 0.5216 and 0.2 and normalized to formula_8 for original image and applied white top-hat transform respectively. Top-hat transform In mathematical morphology and digital image processing, top-hat transform is an operation that extracts small elements and details from given images. There exist two types of top-hat transform: The "white top-hat transform" is defined as the difference between the input image and its opening by some structuring element; The "black top-hat transform" is defined dually as the difference between the closing and the input image. Top-hat transforms are used for various image processing tasks, such as feature extraction,