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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2017
Jeol Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Norihisa Mori, Tokyo, JP;
Naoki Kato, Tokyo, JP;
JEOL Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is an image processing apparatus, which is configured to perform smoothing processing on a mapping image obtained by detecting a signal emitted from one of a plurality of analysis areas of a specimen. The image processing apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor configured to execute a program stored in the memory to perform: processing for calculating a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of signal intensity data being intensity information on the signal of one of pixels within the mapping image, and determining a degree of smoothing to be used for the smoothing processing based on the difference; and processing for performing the smoothing processing based on the determined degree of smoothing.