USER SELECTED BACKGROUND NOISE REMOVAL FOR SCANNED DOCUMENT IMAGES

A system and method of removing background noise from a digital image of a scanned document is described. The system and method is a reversible background noise removal technique that allows a user to select whether background noise is removed or not. In addition, since the present invention divides...

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Main Authors MAURER, RON P, SMITH, KRISTIN M, STAELIN, CARL H, VANS, MARIE
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 24.11.2004
Edition7
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
ELECTRICITY
IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
PHYSICS
PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
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Summary:A system and method of removing background noise from a digital image of a scanned document is described. The system and method is a reversible background noise removal technique that allows a user to select whether background noise is removed or not. In addition, since the present invention divides the background noise removal operations into a two phase process, the overall efficiency of the system and method are significantly improved.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20030716203