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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2007
Yea-shuan Huang, Zhugong Town, TW;
Hao-ying Cheng, Hsinchu, TW;
Po-feng Cheng, Kaohsiung, TW;
Shih-chun Wang, Dahua Village, TW;
Yea-Shuan Huang, Zhugong Town, TW;
Hao-Ying Cheng, Hsinchu, TW;
Po-Feng Cheng, Kaohsiung, TW;
Shih-Chun Wang, Dahua Village, TW;
Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
A method of image processing, the method comprising receiving an image frame including a plurality of pixels, each of the plurality of pixels including an image information, conducting a first extraction based on the image information to identify foreground pixels related to a foreground object in the image frame and background pixels related to a background of the image frame, scanning the image frame in regions, identifying whether each of the regions includes a sufficient number of foreground pixels, identifying whether each of regions including a sufficient number of foreground pixels includes a foreground object, clustering regions including a foreground object into at least one group, each of the at least one group corresponding to a different foreground object in the image frame, and conducting a second extraction for each of at least one group to identify whether a foreground pixel in the each of the at least one group is to be converted to a background pixel.