Obscuring marker-outlined free-form areas of a document
AssigneeLexmark International, Inc.
InventorSaikat Chakrabarty
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Abstract
A method for eliminating one or more outlined sections of a document before printing is described herein. The method comprising receiving an input image of the document including the one or more outlined sections and a user input indicating color information of one or more outlines, identifying the one or more outlines and the one or more outlined sections of the image, obtaining the one or more outlined sections associated with the one or more outlines of the image, and outputting an output image to be printed, wherein the one or more outlined sections are eliminated from the output image of the document.
Claims14
A method of eliminating one or more outlined sections of a document before printing, the method comprising:
- receiving an input image of the document including the one or more outlined sections and a user input indicating color information of one or more outlines;
- identifying the one or more outlines and the one or more outlined sections of the input image;
- obtaining the one or more outlined sections associated with the one or more outlines of the input image;
- and
- outputting an output image to be printed, wherein the one or more outlined sections are eliminated from the output image of the document.
A system for eliminating one or more outlined sections of a document before printing, the system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- a memory storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, configure the one or more processors to:
- receive an input image of the document including the one or more outlined sections and a user input indicating color information of one or more outlines;
- identify the one or more outlines and the one or more outlined sections of the input image;
- obtain the one or more outlined sections associated with the one or more outlines of the input image;
- and
- output an output image to be printed, wherein the one or more outlined sections are eliminated from the output image of the document.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.