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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2015
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Golnaz Abdollahian, San Jose, CA (US);
Alexander Berestov, San Jose, CA (US);
Hiromasa Naganuma, Ichikawa, JP;
Hiroshige Okamoto, Yokohama, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing system and method of operation includes: a source image having source pixels; homogeneous blocks in the source image having a block color; a homogeneous region in the source image formed by merging the homogeneous blocks having the block color within a color threshold; a text background region having text pixels and background pixels in the homogeneous region with the text background region having a texture feature above a texture threshold and a region size above a region size threshold; and a binary text mask representing the text pixels and the background pixels for displaying on a device.