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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2009
Qingxiong Yang, Urbana, IL (US);
Irwin E. Sobel, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Kar-han Tan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Qingxiong Yang, Urbana, IL (US);
Irwin E. Sobel, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Kar-Han Tan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Comapany, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
An alpha matte is generated from image forming elements of an image. For each of one or more of the image forming elements: a respective representative foreground value is determined from one or more of the image forming element values; the respective representative foreground value and the value of the image forming element are normalized with respect to a threshold level; and a respective value of the alpha matte is generated from an evaluation of the normalized image forming element value in relation to the normalized representative foreground value.