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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:
Jul. 09, 1991
Filed:
Jul. 08, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382 10 ; 382 48 ; 382 41 ;
Abstract
Apparatus for the flexible recognition of subject structures in color and picture half-tone images incorporates a recognition system that can recognize general subject structures in a video image given arbitrary orientation. The signal of an opto-electronic image converter is supplied via an analog-to-digital converter to a digital hardware image pre-processor in which the momentary brightness value of the image scanning is processed with a preceeding logic result with the assistance of control information, and the new result is again stored. The reduced image data read out from the result memory at the end of an image pass can be interpreted in a job-specific way in an image processor.