ENHANCING THE LEGIBILITY OF IMAGES USING MONOCHROMATIC LIGHT SOURCES

Patent №

US 9,525,802

Granted

2016-12-20

Filed 2016

Owner

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY

Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15001027

A system and method are described for enhancing readability of document images by operating on each document individually. Monochromatic light sources operating at different wavelengths of light can be used to obtain greyscale images. The greyscale images can then be used in any desired image enhancement algorithm. In one example algorithm, an automated method removes image background noise and improves sharpness of the scripts and characters using edge detection and local color contrast computation.

VisionH04N 1/58G06T 5/50G06T 5/70G06T 5/73G06T 5/77G06T 7/13G06T 7/174G06T 7/90+12 more

AI classification

Vision1.00
Natural language0.29
AI hardware0.11
Machine learning0.05
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY

assignment · 375930371

Assignors

FRIEDER, OPHIR, FRIEDER, GIDEON, PARKER, JON

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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