Image analysis – Color image processing
Reexamination Certificate
2007-07-31
2007-07-31
Bella, Matthew C. (Department: 2624)
Image analysis
Color image processing
C345S635000, C348S586000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10105237
ABSTRACT:
When a photograph album is generated by laying out images, a background image is set in accordance with the images. Image data sets representing the images are input to background setting means and area ratio calculation means calculates a ratio of an area where a chroma value is not smaller than a predetermined threshold value for an entire area of each image. Setting means finds a ratio of the image data sets whose area ratio is not smaller than a predetermined threshold value to all the image data sets, and sets the background color to white or beige if the ratio is small. If the ratio is large, a hue histogram is generated and the background color is set in accordance with a hue appearing with the largest frequency. Layout means arranges the images on the background to obtain album data. A printer prints the album data.
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English abstract of JP 2000312242 A.
Selected pages from Webster's II New Riverside University Dictionary.
Birch & Stewart Kolasch & Birch, LLP
Fujifilm Corporation
Hung Yubin
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