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Image quality assurance system and methodologies in a post-image capture document processing environment

US7376258B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateApr 30, 2004
Grant dateMay 20, 2008
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Expiry dateJun 23, 2026

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N1/0009
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An image quality assurance method for identifying image defects in a plurality of previously-imaged documents, where each previously-imaged document includes at least one image rendition stored in at least one image rendition file according to type of image rendition. The image renditions are analyzed to provide selected image metrics, the latter of which are compared against preselected image quality metric threshold values. An image quality flag is generated for any image rendition if at least one of the selected image metrics for that image rendition does not successfully compare against the preselected image quality metric threshold values. A record entry is created in an image quality flag file for those documents having at least one flagged image rendition, the record entry including information about the selected image metrics of the at least one flagged image rendition for that imaged document. Image defects in a plurality of imaged documents can be identified by examining the record entries in the image quality flag file.

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