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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:
Apr. 06, 1993
Filed:
Jul. 06, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358451 ; 358453 ;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus comprises an image-area discriminating circuit for discriminating the attribute of an image, such as whether it is a character/line image or a dot image or whether or not it is an isolated point noise, and outputting a discrimination result, an enlargement/reduction processing circuit for performing enlargement/reduction processing on an image, and a filtering circuit for controlling the spatial frequency response of an image in accordance of a discrimination signal.