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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2006
Daryl Edward Janisch, Lexington, KY (US);
Daryl Edward Janisch, Lexington, KY (US);
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Abstract
A method for analyzing an image formed of a plurality of pixels, each pixel of the plurality of pixels including a plurality of color channels, each color channel of the plurality of color channel having a channel level within a range of channel levels corresponding to each pixel, including designating from the plurality of color channels a primary channel, a secondary channel, and a tertiary channel; generating histogram data from the image using the plurality of pixels to form a histogram having a first axis and a second axis based on the primary channel, the first axis pertaining to the range of channel levels within the primary channel, and the second axis pertaining to a number of pixels of the image at each the channel level within the primary channel; and reorganizing the histogram based on the secondary channel and the tertiary channel to form a multi-dimensional histogram.