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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. 28, 1994
Filed:
Apr. 28, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382 50 ; 3582612 ; 358430 ; 358454 ; 358466 ; 382 52 ;
Abstract
An image treatment apparatus comprising: an input device for inputting image data; a setting circuit serving as a reference when the image data is quantized in accordance with the image data input by the input device; a quantizing circuit for quantizing the image data; and a device for outputting an image in accordance with the result of treatment performed by the quantizing circuit, wherein the quantizing circuit performs the quantization by correcting the error between the image data input by the input device and the image output by the outputting device.