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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2005
Frederik Carl Moesgaard Kjeldsen, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Robert Bruce Mahaffey, San Fafael, CA (US);
Frederik Carl Moesgaard Kjeldsen, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Robert Bruce Mahaffey, San Fafael, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides for visual enhancement of text. A text area is selected. A plurality of non-identical images of the text area are captured. Background information is removed from these images. The contrast characteristics of text area of the plurality of images are increased. The contrasted images are combined so as to increase their effective resolution. In an alternative embodiment, the text picture is broken up into a plurality of component colors, and these colors are then sharpened and recombined.