METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC WINDOW CLASSIFICATION IN A DIGITAL REPROGRAPHIC SYSTEM
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1. A method for processing an image in a digital reprographic system, comprising:
- (a) performing a first segmentation process upon a contone digital image to identify one of a plurality of image data types for each pixel in the contone digital image;
(b) generating tags, the tags coding the identity of the image data type of each pixel of the contone digital image;
(c) binarizing the contone digital image;
(d) reconstructing the binarized digital image to generate a reconstructed contone digital image; and
(e) performing a second segmentation process upon the reconstructed contone digital image to identify areas of the reconstructed contone digital image with common image data types.
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Abstract
A method and system for processing an image in a digital reprographic system that performs a first segmentation process upon a contone digital image to identify one of a plurality of image data types for each pixel in the contone digital image, generating tags, binarizing the contone digital image and storing the binary image as an intermediate format. This binary image is later reconstructed to generate a reconstructed contone digital image; and performing a second segmentation process upon the reconstructed contone digital image to identify areas of the reconstructed contone digital image with common image data types.
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1. A method for processing an image in a digital reprographic system, comprising:
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(a) performing a first segmentation process upon a contone digital image to identify one of a plurality of image data types for each pixel in the contone digital image; (b) generating tags, the tags coding the identity of the image data type of each pixel of the contone digital image; (c) binarizing the contone digital image; (d) reconstructing the binarized digital image to generate a reconstructed contone digital image; and (e) performing a second segmentation process upon the reconstructed contone digital image to identify areas of the reconstructed contone digital image with common image data types. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A system for image processing in a reprographic system comprising:
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a source of contone digital images; a first segmentation module, operatively connected to said source of digital page images, to generate tags, the tags encoding the identity of the image data type of each pixel of the contone digital image; a binary encoding module, operatively connected to said first segmentation module, said binary encoding module transforming the contone digital image into a high resolution binary image; a decoding module, operatively connected to said binary encoding module, to convert the high resolution binary image into a second contone image; and a second segmentation module to identify areas of the second contone image with common image data types. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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