File conversion method and apparatus

• US 10,304,196 B2
• Filed: 01/08/2016
• Issued: 05/28/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Archidraw. Inc.
• Original Assignee: Jong Sun Hong, Ju Sung Lee
• Inventors: Lee, Ju Sung, Hong, Jong Sun
• Primary Examiner(s): Yang, Qian
• Application Number:
  US15/542,628
• Publication Number:
  US 20180268551A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,236 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/00 Computer-aided design [CAD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2200/08 involving all processing steps from image acquisition to 3D model generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/20032 Median filtering
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/20164 Salient point detection; Corner detection
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2211/432 Truncation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 5/20 using local operators
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/00 Image analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/12 Edge-based segmentation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/13 Edge detection

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for converting an image file or document file into a drawing file including the steps of extracting an outline from an image of a subject file to be drafted; detecting corner feature points from the image of the subject file to be drafted based on the extracted outline to coordinate the corner feature points into outer edge coordinate information and connecting the detected corner feature points with a line to generate a first image; removing the outline from the image of the subject file to be drafted and detecting one or more elements to coordinate the elements into element coordinate information and generating a second image including the one or more detected elements; template matching by superimposing the generated first image and second image; and generating a drawing file for the subject file to be drafted by using the outer edge coordinate information and element coordinate information.

Claims

1. A method for converting an image file or document file into a drawing file comprising,

extracting an outline from an image of a subject file to be drafted;

detecting corner feature points from the image of the subject file to be drafted based on the extracted outline to coordinate the corner feature points into outer edge coordinate information and connecting the detected corner feature points with a line to generate a first image;

removing noise from the first image and detecting one or more elements to coordinate the elements into element coordinate information and generating a second image including the one or more detected elements;

superimposing the noise-removed first image and the second image including the one or more detected elements; and

generating a drawing file for the subject file to be drafted by using the outer edge coordinate information and element coordinate information.

2. A method of claim 1, wherein the subject file to be drafted comprises one of a JPG file, a GIF file, a PNG file, and a PDF file.

3. A method of claim 1, wherein the outline extracting step comprises the steps of,

converting the image of the subject file to be drafted into gray scale;

truncate coding the image converted into gray scale to obtain the most significant bit information; and

extracting the outline by applying a median filter to the most significant bit information for smoothing out.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the most significant bit information obtaining step uses bit-plane slicing.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first image generating step comprises,

detecting a corner image from the outline-extracted image by using Harris corner detection;

and

detecting the corner feature points using the detected corner image.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the second image generating step comprises, detecting an outline by obtaining information on a linear component significant in the noise-removed first image;

and detecting an element comprising at least one of a door, a window and a washbasin from which the detected outline is removed.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the superimposing step template-matches the first and second images with priority on at least one of a door, a window, and a washbasin.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the element coordinate information detects a position value of the detected element, and is obtained by calculating a position value of the outline-removed image and detected element.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the drawing file generation step comprises generating a 2D drawing by applying the outer edge coordinate information and the element coordinate information to a CAD program.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of generating a 3D drawing file based on the generated drawing file.

11. A terminal device comprising:

at least one processor, and a memory in which a program for executing the method of claim 1 is installed.

12. An apparatus for converting an image file or document file into a drawing file comprising,

an input unit for receiving a subject file to be drafted;

an image processing unit for extracting an outline from an image of the subject file to be drafted, detecting corner feature points from the image of the subject file to be drafted based on the extracted outline to coordinate the corner feature points into outer edge coordinate information and connecting the detected corner feature points with a line to generate a first image, removing noise from the first image and detecting one or more elements to coordinate the elements into element coordinate information and generating a second image including the one or more detected elements, superimposing the noise-removed first image and the second image including the one or more detected elements, and then generating a drawing file for the subject file to be drafted by using the outer edge coordinate information and element coordinate information; and

a storage unit for storing the generated drawing file.