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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 1989
Filed:
Apr. 21, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kenjiro Cho, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382 21 ; 340730 ; 364518 ; 382 55 ;
Abstract
An image processing system includes: a memory unit for storing an image in the form of vectors; a discrimination unit for fetching vector data representative of the image stored in the memory unit and discriminating the signs of a component of a normal vector of the vector data at a point constituting the contour of the image; and a moving unit for moving the point constituting the contour of the image on the basis of the discrimination result by the discrimination unit.