Patent · US Active

Printing white features of an image using a print device

US11244212B2 · kind B2 · utility

0Cited by
4References
20Claims
0Family size

Inventors

Key dates

Filing dateDec 31, 2018
Grant dateFeb 8, 2022
Priority date
Expiry dateMar 10, 2039

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N1/3873
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating, based on a portrait image, a foreground image mask to indicate foreground pixels of the portrait image; identifying a percentage of white or near white pixels in the foreground by using the foreground image mask and pixel colors in the portrait image; determining whether the percentage of white or near white pixels in the foreground is larger than a predefined threshold; in response to determining, triggering identification of edge pixels in a background of the portrait image; adjusting white background pixels to add shadows by darkening the white background pixels; and adjusting the white or near white pixels in the foreground by darkening the white or near white pixels.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.