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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2017
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiki Nakatani, Kawasaki, JP;
Masaharu Yamagishi, Yokohama, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An edge detecting apparatus according to the present invention includes: a first determining unit configured to determine, based on an input image, at least one of a distance between local maximum pixels which are pixels of which gradation values are local maximum values and a distance between local minimum pixels which are pixels of which gradation values are local minimum values; and a detecting unit configured to detect an edge from the input image with a detection sensitivity based on the distance determined by the first determining unit.
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