Patent ID: 6839466
Filing Date: 2005-01-04
Classification: G06K,G06T

Abstract:
1. A method for processing multiple structured images using an imaging input device with a smart platen so as to reduce occurrence of image orphans due to the bleeding of edges in scanning multiple digital images arranged upon the smart platen, comprising: arranging multiple objects upon the imaging input device with a smart platen for scanning; scanning the multiple objects with the imaging input device with a smart platen so as to produce an input image; generating linked lists with greater than three edge pixels therein for the input image data produced in the scanning step; generating a boundary of a first structured image from the linked lists; generating a boundary of a second structured image from the linked lists; identifying a first bounding box for the first structured image from its generated boundary; identifying a second bounding box for the second structured from its generated boundary; determining whether an overlap exists between the identified bounding boxes of the first structured image and second structured image; merging the first structured image and the second structured image for a third structured image when an overlap of bounding boxes is determined; and, modeling a new bounding box for the third structured image from the merging of the first and second structured images wherein the new bounding box contains the orphaned first and second structured images and represents a depiction of the orphaned first and second structured images.