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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2016
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Ramin Eslami, Milpitas, CA (US);
Yu Kimishima, Tokyo, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Various aspects of a system and method for image processing are disclosed herein. The method, implemented in an image-processing device, comprises computation of a plurality of boundary-connectedness values associated with a plurality of regions in a plurality of Boolean maps. The plurality of Boolean maps corresponds to a plurality of color channels of an image. The plurality of boundary-connectedness values associated with the plurality of regions is compared with a pre-specified threshold value. A first set of regions is identified from the plurality of regions in the plurality of Boolean maps as a set of foreground regions, based on the comparison.