Patent ID: 6175663
Filing Date: 2001-01-16
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
A method for preserving background continuity in an image comprising vector pixels, said method comprising:acquiring said image into a working memory so that said vector pixels can be randomly accessed for manipulation, wherein said image comprises a number of graphic objects, at least one of said graphic objects includes texts;converting said vector pixels, accordingly and respectively, to scalar pixels;binarizing scalar pixels to produce a binarized image;producing an object image from said acquired image with respect to said binarized image, said object image comprising a foreground and a background, wherein said foreground corresponds to object spaces occupied by said graphic objects in said image;generating a patched image from said object image by filling in said object spaces with colors of said background;receiving rendered objects generated respectively from said graphic objects in said acquired image with respect to said object image, wherein one of said rendered objects is from an optical character recognition (OCR) engine and in accordance with said at least one of said graphic objects including texts; andsuperimposing said rendered objects onto the patched image near respective positions of each of said graphic objects to produce a composed output image.