Thresholding technique for graphics images using histogram analy

Details Thresholding technique for graphics images using histogram analy Thresholding technique for graphics images using histogram analy

1985-01-15

1987-04-07

Boudreau, Leo H.

Image analysis

Histogram processing

For setting a threshold

382 18, 358163, 358280, G06K 939

Patent

active

046566651

ABSTRACT:
A system is described for thresholding graphics images to reduce the information content for transmission and reproduction and which uses a particular image data thresholding technique that may be used to obtain display images with a number of intensity levels. Firstly, an histogram of the image to be encoded is generated and analyzed to determine essential parameters. In particular, the background color of the image is determined by summing the histogram elements to find the median of the distribution, that is, the point at which the half sum of total pixels is reached. The extrema of the histogram are calculated and the skew is determined from the position of the median with respect thereto. If the difference between the median and the black extreme is less than half the difference between the median and the white extreme then the background of the image is deemed to be black, otherwise, the image will be defined as having a white background. After the background color is determined, the width of the background region, that is, the difference between the median and the foreground color extreme, is used to define the edge between the background and foreground regions, which edge occurs at one-half the background width from the median in the direction of the background color extreme. A sequence of threshold levels may then be determined using this edge as a base, by setting them at points disposed at fractionally different distances between the edge and the background color extreme.

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