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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2015
Applicant:
Imatte, Inc., Chatsworth, CA (US);
Inventor:
Paul E. Vlahos, Tarzana, CA (US);
Assignee:
IMATTE, INC., Chatsworth, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 11/60 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); H04N 9/75 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 11/60 (2013.01); G06K 9/4604 (2013.01); G06K 9/6215 (2013.01); G06T 7/0085 (2013.01); H04N 9/75 (2013.01); G06T 2210/62 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention converts an image into a transparency, or 'foreground image layer', on which the readability of text and other detail is preserved after compositing with a background, while maintaining color information of broad areas of the image. In an embodiment, a matte is determined for the background image to reduce transparencies in the foreground layer, so as to prevent irrelevant parts of the background image from showing through. This is in distinction to only using the original foreground image data (prior to its transformation to a layer) to compute a matte (or mask, or alpha channel) to form a foreground layer.