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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2016
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Jun Nagai, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/40 (2006.01); H04N 1/387 (2006.01); H04N 1/409 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/40093 (2013.01); H04N 1/3871 (2013.01); H04N 1/4092 (2013.01);
Abstract
To detect an image region to be an object of thinning processing appropriately and through the use of simple processing. An image processing apparatus detects a line region being a region sandwiched by white pixel regions and consisting only of a non-white pixel region, and detects a thinning candidate region being a region sandwiched by black pixel regions in the line region. A thinning region is detected from the inside of the thinning candidate region.