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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. 30, 1991
Filed:
Mar. 10, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Mitsubishi Kenki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382 24 ; 382 21 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for discriminating the linearity of a line segment in an image processing system consisting of elements for extracting and tracking a train of points from a high contrast portion of a video image and for determining whether the position of one ofthe points exceeds a predetermined threshold value representative of a condition which defines the end of the linearity of the train of points.