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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:
Jun. 23, 1992
Filed:
Aug. 25, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358448 ; 358426 ; 358443 ;
Abstract
An image encoding apparatus includes a smoothing circuit for smoothing a binary image to be encoded, a binary-encoding circuit for binary-encoding the image smoothed by the smoothing circuit, a sampling circuit for sub-sampling the image binary-encoded by the binary-encoding circuit, and an encoding circuit for encoding the binary image sub-sampled by the sampling circuit. A degree of smoothness of an image by the smoothing circuit and a threshold value for a binary-encoding operation of the binary-encoding circuit can be varied.