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Description
- 1. Field of the Invention
- The invention relates in general to a method of effacing zipper image, and more particularly, to a method of effacing zipper image by approximating the gray scales of two neighboring pixels.
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FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a scanner having a stagger charge-coupled device. InFIG. 1 , thescanner 100 is coupled to acomputer 150. The scanner comprises a stagger charge-coupleddevice 110 with a primary line and a secondary line, an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) 120, animage compensation buffer 130 and an I/O interface 140. - When the scanner having the stagger charge-coupled device is scanning a document, the pitch between the primary line and the secondary line is small. The primary line is thus affected by the light reflected from the secondary line. Similarly, the secondary line is also affected by the light reflected from the primary line. A zipper image (as shown in
FIG. 3 ) in addition to a real image (as shown inFIG. 2 ) is thus produced by using the scanner with the stagger charge-coupled device to scan the document. When a document has a black-and-white boundary, the zipper image is more obvious, causing error in the actual image. Currently, a method to compensate the zipper image has not been found in the prior art. - The invention provides a method of effacing a zipper image by approximating the gray scales of two neighboring pixels.
- The method of effacing the zipper image provided by the invention is applicable to scan a document using a scanner with a stagger charge-coupled device. The nth pixel obtained by scan on a scan line at which the zipper image is produced is subtracted by the (n+1)th pixel obtained by scan on the scan line. The absolute value of the subtraction result is compared to a critical value. When the result is smaller than the critical value, the nth pixel is modified as the nth pixel after process. If the result is larger than the critical value, no process is performed.
- The processed nth pixel is one half of the sum of the nth pixel obtained by scan and the (n+1)th pixel obtained by scan.
- In one embodiment of the present invention, the nth pixel after being processed is the sum of one half of the nth pixel obtained by scan and one half of the (n+1)th pixel obtained by scan.
- In one embodiment of the present invention, the critical value is a predetermined value or produced by a logic circuit. The critical value can be adjusted according to the modulation transfer function of the scanner with the stagger charge-coupled device.
- Both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory only and are not restrictive of the invention, as claimed.
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FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a scanner with a stagger charge-coupled device; -
FIG. 2 shows a real image of a document; -
FIG. 3 shows a zipper image produced by scanning the document using a scanner with a stagger charge-coupled device; and -
FIG. 4 shows a flow chart for a method of effacing a zipper image. - Referring to
FIG. 1 , a compensation operation is performed on a document before the document is scanned by ascanner 100 with a stagger charge-coupleddevice 110. Thereby, an image compensation parameter is obtained and stored in acomputer 150. When the stagger charge-coupleddevice 110 performs the scan on any part of the document, an image compensation parameter corresponding to the scanned part is retrieved from thecomputer 150 and transmitted to theimage compensation buffer 130 via the I/O interface 140. The staggered scanned image obtained from the stagger scan by the stagger charge-coupleddevice 110 is then corrected by theASIC 120 according to the image compensation parameter transmitted from theimage compensation buffer 130. The corrected image is then transmitted to thecomputer 150 via the I/O interface 140 for storage. - However, as the distance between the primary line and the secondary line is very short, the primary line is affected by the light reflected from the secondary line. Similarly, the secondary line is also affected by the light reflected from the primary line. A zipper image is thus produced to cause an error between the scanned image and the real image.
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FIG. 4 shows a flow chart of effacing a zipper image according to the invention. In the following embodiment, a critical value used in the effacing process of the zipper image can be a predetermined value or a value generated by a logic circuit. InFIG. 4 , assume that the nth (n is a positive integer) pixel obtained by scan on the scan line at which the zipper is produced is Pn, and the (n+1)th pixel obtained by scan on the scanning line is Pn+1. The nth pixel being processed is referred as Pn′, and the critical value is denoted as T. In this embodiment, whether Pn subtracted by Pn+1 is smaller than T is determined in step s400. When the absolute value of |Pn−Pn+1| is smaller than T, Pn is modified as Pn′. The value of Pn′ can be expressed as (Pn+Pn+1)/2 or (1/2)Pn+(1/2)Pn+1, as shown in step s410. The nth pixel after being processed as Pn′ approximates the gray values of the nth and (n+1)th pixel Pn and Pn+1 obtained by scan, so that the zipper image can be effaced. When |Pn−Pn+1| is larger than T, the effacing process is not performed. - The above embodiment compares two neighboring pixels at a scan line at which the zipper image is produced with a critical value as a reference for effacing process. If the effacing process is required, the gray values of these two neighboring pixels are approximated to each other to reduce the zipper image. However, the modulation transfer function of the scanner with the stagger charge-coupled device is slightly reduced.
- According to the above, the invention has the following advantages:
- 1. Only a critical value is required to determine whether an effacing process is performed, thereby, two gray scales of two neighboring pixels are approximated to each other, and the zipper image is effaced.
- 2. The fabrication cost is not increased.
- Other embodiments of the invention will appear to those skilled in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the invention disclosed herein. It is intended that the specification and examples to be considered as exemplary only, with a true scope and spirit of the invention being indicated by the following claims.
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