| US 7,551,181 B2 | ||
| Image region filling by exemplar-based inpainting | ||
| Antonio Criminisi, Cambridge (United Kingdom); Patrick Perez, Cambridge (United Kingdom); Kentaro Toyama, Redmond, Wash. (US); Michel Gangnet, Cambridge (United Kingdom); and Andrew Blake, Stapleford (United Kingdom) | ||
| Assigned to Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Wash. (US) | ||
| Filed on Mar. 30, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/95,138. | ||
| Application 11/095138 is a continuation of application No. 10/453404, filed on Jun. 03, 2003, granted, now 6,987,520. | ||
| Application 10/453404 is a continuation in part of application No. 10/373635, filed on Feb. 24, 2003, granted, now 7,088,870. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0168482 A1, Aug. 04, 2005 | ||
| This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer. | ||
| Int. Cl. G09G 5/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 345—619 [345/641; 382/256] | 19 Claims |

| 1. A computer-readable medium storing a computer program which when executed on a computer system operates a computer process,
the computer process comprising:
computing a fill priority for each point on a fill front of a destination region in an image;
filling a destination tile associated with a point on the fill front having the highest fill priority associated with the
fill front;
defining a new fill front of the destination region, excluding the filled destination tile;
computing a fill priority for each point on the new fill front; and
filling a destination tile associated with a point on the new fill front having the highest fill priority associated with
the new fill front.
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