At&t Bell Laboratories

Henry Spalding Baird

John Stewart Denker

Donnie Henderson

Hans Peter Graf

Wayne E. Hubbard

Richard Edwin Howard

Lawrence David Jackel

Lawrence O'gorman

Wayne E Hubbard

Richard E Howard

Hans P Graf

Lawrence O'Gorman

A method for improved thinning or skeletonizing handwritten characters or other variable-line-width images. The method scans a template set over the image to be thinned. Each template has a specific arrangement of dark and light pixels. At least one of those templates includes either more than three pixels per row or more than three rows of pixels. An odd number is good choice. Moreover, the templates are chosen so that each template can unconditionally delete image pixels without consideration of the effect of such deletions on the behavior of the other templates. Thus the templates are independent of each other.

Image skeletonization method

Growing community of inventors

Toms River, NJ, United States of America

Wayne E Hubbard