Smart erasure brush
CA 2306593 A1 · Owner: Adobe Systems Incorporated · Inventors: Hamburg, Mark
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A method and apparatus for erasing a feature from a digital image. The method includes identifying a plurality of tip regions on the image each including multiple pixels of, the image and each covering a portion of the feature and sequentially processing the tip, regions to erase the feature. The sequential processing includes determining an erasure, color, defining a color match function for the tip region applying the color , match function to each pixel in the tip region including determining a color match value for each pixel and, completely erasing ones of the pixels in the tip region that have a color match value greater, than a threshold value. For a pixel having a color match …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed April 25, 2000. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended April 25, 2020.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by April 25, 2022.
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