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Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2019

Filed:

Feb. 23, 2016
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Hiroyuki Omi, Kamakura, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 5/009 (2013.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); G06T 2207/10116 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20208 (2013.01);
Abstract

An image forming apparatus includes a conversion acquisition unit configured to acquire a gradation conversion characteristic based on an X-ray image captured by an X-ray sensor, a storage unit configured to store a pixel value range in which a signal-to-noise ratio is higher than a threshold value according to a characteristic of the X-ray sensor, a determination unit configured to determine whether a pixel value range in which gradation is widened according to the gradation conversion characteristic is included in the stored pixel value range, and a correction unit configured to correct the gradation conversion characteristic depending on a result of determination by the determination unit.


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