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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 23, 1998
David L. Salgado, Victor, NY (US);
James G. Nargi, Victor, NY (US);
Kevin F. Aubertine, Ontario, NY (US);
Francis K. Tse, Rochester, NY (US);
Nancy R. Kelly, Rochester, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
An image processing apparatus and method include a plurality of different background suppression data acquisition modes selectable by a user in order to obtain background suppression data from a document being reproduced. The obtained background suppression data is used by an image processing unit to suppress the background region of the document being reproduced. The user is able to select one of the plurality of background suppression data acquisition modes depending upon the user's desire for high speed document reproduction versus the required quality of background suppression. In this manner, the user is able to determine whether document reproduction speed or background suppression quality is to be emphasized. The user's choice of a background suppression data acquisition mode is selectively overridden if the image processing apparatus determines that a more performance-intensive background suppression data acquisition mode may be implemented to improve background suppression quality without an associated loss of document reproduction speed.