Patent ID: 6231188
Filing Date: 2001-05-15
Classification: G02C

Abstract:
A method of processing a digital eyeglass frame image which depicts an eyeglass frame and a background, said method comprising the steps of:converting said digital frame image into a gray-level image which depicts a gray-level eyeglass frame and a gray-level background corresponding to the eyeglass frame and the background of said digital eyeglass frame image;smoothing the gray-level image such that the boundary of the gray-level eyeglass frame is smooth;substantially removing the gray-level background from the gray-level image to produce gray-level frame boundary data;converting the gray-level frame boundary data into a binary image depicting a binary eyeglass frame; andcreating a color-filled image from said binary image and said digital eyeglass frame image, said color-filled image depicting an eyeglass frame having left and right color-filled rim areas and further depicting a color-filled background area, the left rim area being filled with a first color, the right rim area being filled with a second color, and the background area being filled with a third color.