Image analysis – Color image processing – Pattern recognition or classification using color
Reexamination Certificate
2006-02-14
2006-02-14
Patel, Kanjibhai (Department: 2625)
Image analysis
Color image processing
Pattern recognition or classification using color
C382S170000, C382S171000, C382S176000, C382S190000, C382S224000, C382S205000, C358S002990, C358S515000, C358S462000, C358S540000, C345S442000, C345S443000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06999616
ABSTRACT:
Automatic interpretation processing operations, such as character recognition, require a binary image of information-bearing image elements and a background. Digital image data produced by scanning a color-containing document frequently contain many different colors so that a division into information-bearing image elements and background is not evident. The invention divides connected components (contiguous pixels with the same color) in the digital image into background and other connected components, whereafter the other connected components are allocated, in accordance with a predetermined criterion, either to the background or to a foreground. The foreground connected components are combined into information elements suitable for the automatic interpretation processing. The division into information-bearing image elements and background can be preceded by a color quantisation processing of the digital image data.
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Bayat Ali
Birch & Stewart Kolasch & Birch, LLP
Oce--Technologies B.V.
Patel Kanjibhai
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