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Background-based image segmentation

  • US 6,973,213 B2
  • Filed: 10/12/2001
  • Issued: 12/06/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An image segmentation process comprising the following steps:

  • a) segmenting an image into a main background, a first local background, and a first object, wherein the first object is on either the main background or the first local background;

    b) classifying the first object into one class of a group of classes consisting of a text object, a picture object, and a composite object;

    c) if the first object is classified as a composite object, identifying a second local background for the first object; and

    d) segmenting a next object on the second local background.

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