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Patent No.:

US 9066036 B1

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Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 14, 2012
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Yu-Ling Chen, Epping, AU;

James Austin Besley, Killara, AU;

Steven Richard Irrgang, North Ryde, AU;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/46 (2006.01); H04N 1/40 (2006.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 11/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/40093 (2013.01); G06T 5/005 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10024 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30176 (2013.01); G06T 11/40 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed is a method of generating an electronic document having an enclosed region with a fill color. The method receives a digital representation of a source document, the source document containing an enclosed region and at least one corresponding background region, the enclosed region overlapping at least a portion of the background region. A fill color is determined for the enclosed region from the digital representation as is a reference background color for the enclosed region from the corresponding background region of the digital representation. The method assigns a transparent fill color to the enclosed region based on a comparison of the determined fill color for the enclosed region with the reference background color and stores enclosed region with the transparent fill color to generate an electronic document.


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