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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:
Sep. 01, 1992
Filed:
Jul. 30, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michitaka Honda, Tochigi, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushika Kaisha Toshiba, Kawsaki, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382 54 ; 358455 ; 358464 ; 36441313 ; 382-6 ;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus for medical diagnostic purposes includes a spatial shift variant filtering unit. Whole pixels of one image are filtered by different variant filtering coefficients , with each pixel being filtered by a different matrix of shift variant filtering coefficients in accordance with the location and characteristics of the original image.