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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Scitex Corporation, Herzelia, IL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ; G06K / ; G06K / ; H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382275 ; 382254 ; 382190 ; 382205 ; 382308 ; 358447 ; 358463 ; 358531 ;
Abstract
Apparatus and a method for semi-automatic retouching of digital images is provided. The method includes the steps of processing the digital image to obtain a list of candidate defect segments, computing statistics for a list of candidate defect segments and for the segments of the image surrounding the candidate defect segments, selecting a sublist of defect segments in accordance with pre-determined criteria using the computed statistics, displaying the image together with the sublist and amending the values of the sublist of defect segments to obtain a retouched image.