Method of separating vertical and horizontal components of a...

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2006-12-22

2010-11-16

Bella, Matthew C (Department: 2624)

Image analysis

Image enhancement or restoration

Object boundary expansion or contraction

C382S100000, C382S173000, C382S199000, C382S258000, C358S001600, C347S019000, C347S055000

Reexamination Certificate

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07835583

ABSTRACT:
A method of separating an image is provided. The method comprises: running a bitmap image of at least one polygon comprising a plurality of pixels through a distance filter; skeletonizing the polygon formed after filtering by modulo arithmetic; logically ANDing the skeletonized image with two masks separately consisting of horizontal and vertical lines of 1 bit thickness at a particular frequency to form an image of the horizontal edges and an image of the vertical edges; and filtering the resulting image through a particle filter eliminating particles of size greater than 2.

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