US PATENT SUBCLASS 382 / 282
.~ Selecting a portion of an image

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382 /   HD   IMAGE ANALYSIS

276  DF  IMAGE TRANSFORMATION OR PREPROCESSING {13}
282.~ Selecting a portion of an image {1}
283  DF  .~.~> Using a mask

DEFINITION

Classification: 382/282

Selecting a portion of an image:

(under subclass 276) Subject matter wherein transformation or pre-processing operations are performed on a limited subset of the total image data which has been designated using a scanning window or preliminary step which identifies specific regions of the image (i.e., only text portions).

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173+, for actually segmenting the image into regions.

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345, Computer Graphics Processing, Operator Interface Processing, and Selective Visual Display Systems,

118, and 434 for clipping an image to a designated region for display presentation.

358, Facsimile,

453, for image portion selection in a facsimile system.