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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:
Feb. 25, 1992
Filed:
Apr. 10, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ikuo Ohsawa, Kyoto, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382 22 ; 382 33 ; 382 50 ; 382 51 ; 358458 ; 358 96 ;
Abstract
An image window (N) is intermittently moved along the contour (CT) of a subject image (I). At a respective paused position of the image window, a spacial differential of the density level is calculated for each pixel in the image window. A differential histogram is produced from the respective differentials, and a threshold level (Eth) is determined from the differential histogram and a designated percentile ratio. A contour image is then obtained by discriminating the respective differentials with the threshold level.