Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Masanobu Narazaki

Tadayuki Kajiwara

Yuji Toyomura

Masakazu Mizusaki

Shoichi Kitagawa

Takumi Shimokawa

Yoshinori Senju

Tatsuya Yoshida

Yasuhiko Isobe

Atsushi Wakiyama

Shigehisa Fujisaki

An image reading apparatus for reading a original line by line, by moving the line image sensor in a direction orthogonal to the line, in which the line sensor is displaced in the line direction in each line to read the image of the original in a checkered pattern of pixels, and for interpolating a pixel in spaces of the said checkered pattern, plural interpolation candidate values for the pixel are determined and one of them is selected according to surrounding pixel values of the said pixel position to be interpolated, thereby reproducing edge portion of the original accurately.

Image reading apparatus

An image processing apparatus includes a window setting device for setting a portion of a written region of an image composed of dots in an orthogonal matrix as a window, and for moving the set portion within the written region. A first edge detecting device serves to detect differences between image data of a given dot in the window set by the window setting device and image data of dots neighboring the given dot, and serves to detect directions of the detected differences. A second edge detecting device serves to detect edges between neighboring dots other than the given dot, the detected edges relating to image data differences and image data difference directions respectively equal to the image data differences and the image data difference directions detected by the first edge detecting device. A calculating device serves to provide the edges, detected by the second edge detecting device, with predetermined coefficients respectively, and serves to add the predetermined coefficients for the edges detected by the second edge detecting device to calculate a sum of the predetermined coefficients. A signal generating device serves to generate an image signal which varies a size of the given dot in accordance with the sum of the predetermined coefficients which is calculated by the calculating device.

Image processing apparatus

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Fukuoka, Japan

Masanobu Narazaki