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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2011
Mark A. Barton, Virginia Beach, VA (US);
Mark A. Barton, Virginia Beach, VA (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for segmenting a composite image containing a plurality of individual images, comprising: locating line segments corresponding to edges in a composite image; defining a plurality of candidate rectangles by identifying sets of four line segments having a first pair of line segments that are parallel to and a second pair of line segments that are perpendicular to the first pair of line segments; identifying image regions that are more than a predefined isolation distance from any of the line segments; identifying a set of enclosing rectangles from among the candidate rectangles for each of the identified image regions; selecting a rectangle for each of the identified image regions from the corresponding set of enclosing rectangles by applying geometric constraints; forming a plurality of sub-images from the composite image by extracting the digital image data corresponding to the selected rectangles; and; and storing the sub-images in a processor-accessible memory.