Image processing device generating binary image data by selecting specific component

• US 9,230,186 B2
• Filed: 02/26/2013
• Issued: 01/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Ozawa, Ryohei, Kondo, Masaki
• Primary Examiner(s): BEKELE, MEKONEN T
• Application Number:
  US13/777,311
• Publication Number:
  US 20130259363A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,043 Days
• Field of Search: 382/162, 382/164, 382/254, 382/276, 382/300, 348/589, 348/467, 348/555, 348/557, 235/379, 235/375
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/10 Character recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/162 Quantising the image signal
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/18105 related to colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/413 Classification of content, e.g. text, photographs or tables

Abstract

An image processing device includes a processor configured to perform: acquiring target image data representing a target image; and generating binary image data representing the letter in the target image by using the target image data. The generating of the binary image data comprises: identifying a background color value representing color of background of the target image; identifying a letter color value representing color of the letter in the target image; acquiring a difference between the background color value and the letter color value, the difference including a plurality of component differences; selecting one specific component image data corresponding to a specific component from among the plurality of components, the specific component corresponding to a maximum component difference among the plurality of component differences; and performing a binarizing process on the selected one specific component image data to generate one binary image data.

Claims

1. An image processing device comprising:

a processor configured to perform;

acquiring target image data representing a target image including a letter, the target image data including a plurality of component image data corresponding respectively to a plurality of components constituting a color coordinate system; and

generating binary image data representing the letter in the target image by using the target image data, the generating of the binary image data comprising;

identifying a background color value representing color of background of the target image, the background color value being composed of values for the plurality of components;

identifying a letter color value representing color of the letter in the target image, the letter color value being composed of values for the plurality of components;

acquiring a difference between the background color value and the letter color value, the difference including a plurality of component differences corresponding respectively to the plurality of components, each of the plurality of component differences being a difference between a component value that composes the background color value and a component value that composes the letter color value;

selecting, from among the plurality of component image data, one specific component image data corresponding to a specific component from among the plurality of components, the specific component corresponding to a maximum component difference among the plurality of component differences; and

performing a binarizing process on the selected one specific component image data to generate one binary image data, as the binary image data representing the letter in the target image.

2. The image processing device according to claim 1, wherein the generating of the binary image data further comprises:

determining a binarizing threshold value by using a component value that composes the background color value and corresponds to the specific component, and a component value that composes the letter color value and corresponds to the specific component,

wherein the performing of the binarizing process on the selected one specific component image data is performed by using the determined binarizing threshold value corresponding to the specific component.

3. The image processing device according to claim 1, wherein the generating of the binary image data further comprises:

identifying a pixel group that includes a plurality of pixels configuring the target image excluding pixels having color values in a prescribed range including the background color value,

wherein the identifying of the letter color value is performed by using a part of pixels of the pixel group.

4. The image processing device according to claim 1, wherein the target image data represents the target image that is a part of parent image represented by parent image data,

wherein the identifying of the background color value is performed by using partial data of the parent image data, the partial data being different from the target image data.

5. The image processing device according to claim 1, wherein the identifying of the letter color value is performed by using the background color value.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed by a processor, causes an image processing device to perform:

acquiring target image data representing a target image including a letter, the target image data including a plurality of component image data corresponding respectively to a plurality of components constituting a color coordinate system; and

generating binary image data representing the letter in the target image by using the target image data, the generating of the binary image data comprising;

identifying a background color value representing color of background of the target image, the background color value being composed of values for the plurality of components;

identifying a letter color value representing color of the letter in the target image, the letter color value being composed of values for the plurality of components;

acquiring a difference between the background color value and the letter color value, the difference including a plurality of component differences corresponding respectively to the plurality of components, each of the plurality of component differences being a difference between a component value that composes the background color value and a component value that composes the letter color value;

selecting, from among the plurality of component image data, one specific component image data corresponding to a specific component from among the plurality of components, the specific component corresponding to a maximum component difference among the plurality of component differences; and

performing a binarizing process on the selected one specific component image data to generate one binary image data, as the binary image data representing the letter in the target image.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 6, wherein the generating of the binary image data further comprises:

determining a binarizing threshold value by using a component value that composes the background color value and corresponds to the specific component, and a component value that composes the letter color value and corresponds to the specific component,

wherein the performing of the binarizing process on the selected one specific component image data is performed by using the determined binarizing threshold value corresponding to the specific component.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 6, wherein the generating of the binary image data further comprises:

identifying a pixel group that includes a plurality of pixels configuring the target image excluding pixels having color values in a prescribed range including the background color value,

wherein the identifying of the letter color value is performed by using a part of pixels of the pixel group.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 6, wherein the target image data represents the target image that is a part of parent image represented by parent image data,

wherein the identifying of the background color value is performed by using partial data of the parent image data, the partial data being different from the target image data.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 6, wherein the identifying of the letter color value is performed by using the background color value.