Exportation of scanner's internal image auto-segmentation
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsRudolph A. Rodrigues, Ralph H. Huedepohl, Matthew A. Ippolito, Todd W. Glatz, Kenneth M. Cigna, SR., David B. Baum, Gene M. Nitschke
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Abstract
A method and system are disclosed for exporting metadata from an image capture device, for example a scanner, preferably using a standard application programming interface. The metadata may be associated with a pixel, a page, or a region/object of the image, and could be used by an application, for example, to improve the quality of the image when printed or to facilitate the conversion from a single layer of image information to multi-mask mixed raster content (MRC).
Claims21
A method for exporting image metadata from an image capture device, comprising:
- generating electronic image data comprising a plurality of pixels representative of an image using the image capture device;
- generating metadata associated with the image data, the metadata representing a characteristic of an associated division of the image;
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- exporting the image data and the metadata from the image capture device.
A system for exporting image metadata from an image capture device, comprising:
- an image capture device for generating electronic image data comprising a plurality of pixels representative of an image;
- a processor configured to generate metadata associated with the image data, the metadata representing a characteristic of an associated division of the image;
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- an interface coupled to the processor for exporting the data image and the metadata from the image capture device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.