Image analysis – Image transformation or preprocessing – Selecting a portion of an image
Reexamination Certificate
2008-02-18
2009-08-18
Kassa, Yosef (Department: 2624)
Image analysis
Image transformation or preprocessing
Selecting a portion of an image
C382S212000, C382S213000, C358S517000, C358S537000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07577312
ABSTRACT:
Motion picture scenes to be colorized are broken into separate elements, backgrounds/sets or motion/onscreen-action. Background and motion elements are combined separately into single frame representations of multiple frames which becomes a visual reference database that includes data for all frame offsets used later for the computer controlled application of masks within a sequence of frames. Each pixel address within the database corresponds to a mask/lookup table address within the digital frame and X, Y, Z location of subsequent frames. Masks are applied to subsequent frames of motion objects based on various differentiating image processing methods, including automated mask fitting of all masks or single masks in an entire frame, bezier and polygon tracing of selected regions with edge detected shaping and operator directed detection of subsequent regions. The gray scale actively determines the mask and corresponding color lookup that is applied in a keying fashion within regions of interest.
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Dalina Law Group P.C.
Kassa Yosef
Legend Films Inc.
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