Patent ID: 7684085

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for reconstructing a digitized image provided by a scanner or an image memory, the method comprising: receiving from a multi-scan system the digitized image with a computer that is selectively configurable to process images for reproduction on a printing device; performing, with the computer, preliminary color adjustment to the digitized image to generate colorant information for each colorant; generating, with the computer, preliminary color tags; applying, with the computer, a color conversion to the colorant information to generate color information and intensity information; applying, with the computer, a dust and background removal function to the color information, the intensity information, and the preliminary color tags to generate clean color information, clean intensity information, and classification tags; binarizing, with the computer, the clean intensity information to generate binarized intensity information; applying, with the computer, a halftone detection function to the binarized intensity information to generate halftone tags; smoothing, with the computer, the clean color information for descreening; applying, with the computer, a descreening function to the clean intensity information, the clean color information, and the halftone tags to generate descreened color information, descreened intensity information, and halftone tags; applying, with the computer, a text detection function to the descreened intensity information and the classification tags to generate text tags; applying, with the computer, a text enhancement function to the intensity information and the text tags to generate enhanced text and intensity information; applying, with the computer, a merge text function to the descreened color information, the enhanced text and intensity information, and the text tags to generate reconstructed color information and reconstructed intensity information; applying, with the computer, a scale function to the reconstructed color information and the reconstructed intensity information to generate scaled color and intensity information; generating, with the computer, output image data; and providing, with the computer, the output image data to any of the printing device and an image memory.