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Patent No.:

US 10210610 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019

Filed:

Dec. 05, 2016

Image processing apparatus for generating combined image signal of region-of-interest image signal and second image signal, the region-of-interest image signal being generated based on blank portion and initial region-of-interest of first image signal

Applicant:

Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Tomoki Iwasaki, Fuchu, JP;

Tatsuhiko Suzuki, Hino, JP;

Susumu Hashimoto, Hachioji, JP;

Yuji Kutsuma, Kokubunji, JP;

Toshihiro Hamada, Fuchu, JP;

Assignee:

OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:

Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

Primary Examiner:

Vu Le

Assistant Examiner:

Samah A Beg

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); G06T 11/60 (2006.01); G06T 7/12 (2017.01); A61B 6/12 (2006.01); A61B 8/12 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); A61B 1/0005 (2013.01); A61B 1/00009 (2013.01); A61B 6/12 (2013.01); A61B 6/463 (2013.01); A61B 6/469 (2013.01); A61B 6/5205 (2013.01); A61B 6/5211 (2013.01); A61B 6/5247 (2013.01); A61B 8/12 (2013.01); A61B 8/463 (2013.01); A61B 8/469 (2013.01); A61B 8/5207 (2013.01); A61B 8/5215 (2013.01); A61B 8/5261 (2013.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); G06T 7/12 (2017.01); G06T 11/60 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10024 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10068 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10116 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10132 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20132 (2013.01);
Abstract

An image processing apparatus processes a first image signal including pixel signals, the first image signal having a picture portion in which a subject is shown and having a blank portion surrounding the picture portion. The apparatus includes: a blank detection unit configured to set similar frames different in size from one another within a display area of a screen representing the first image signal, in a stepwise manner from an outer periphery, and to detect the blank portion based on whether or not a part of the pixel signals belonging to a region outside each of the similar frames has the uniform color or brightness; a region-of-interest setting unit configured to set an initial region-of-interest corresponding to the picture portion in the first image signal, based on the blank portion; and a region-of-interest image generation unit configured to generate a region-of-interest image signal representing the initial region-of-interest.

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Iwasaki, Tomoki. (2019). Image processing apparatus for generating combined image signal of region-of-interest image signal and second image signal, the region-of-interest image signal being generated based on blank portion and initial region-of-interest of first image signal (U.S. Patent No. 10210610). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/10210610

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