Systems and methods for image conversion useful in the transformation of photographic pictures into templates for painting
CA 2289890 A1 · Owner: Number Art, Llc · Inventors: Putnam, Leland Kent
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Methods and computer executable instructions are provided for converting original, images such as photographic pictures into various other formats such as drawings by, reducing the amount of data contained in the original images. It is a feature of this invention, that a photographic picture can be converted into a drawing useful as a template to enable, a person to paint the template into a likeness of the photographic picture. In a preferred, embodiment, an original image is supplied to a computing environment where it is quantized, into pixels of information. Each scalar value of each pixel is evaluated and aberrant pixels, are absorbed into adjacent pixels by converting various …
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- Filed November 18, 1999. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended November 18, 2019.
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