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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:
Dec. 23, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2004
Applicants:
Ching-lung Mao, Taipei, TW;
Shun-yen Yao, Taipei, TW;
Fu-wen Lee, Taipei, TW;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Primax Electronics Ltd., Taipei, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of photo/text separation, which includes converting a document image into a plurality of source color planes, setting a source color consecutive point threshold (Tc), performing an intensity/color operation for each of the source color planes, and assigning photo/text types to the document image according to a connected length density threshold (Td) and a result of the intensity/color operation.