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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. 26, 1995
Filed:
Jan. 13, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ross A Donelly, West Ryde, AU;
Jim Mulhearn, Eastwood, AU;
Assignees:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Information Systems & Research Australia, New South Wales, AU;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395131 ; 395132 ; 395141 ; 395142 ;
Abstract
Computer based images are normally provided in the form of large amounts of data on a pixel by pixel basis. Method and apparatus (25) are disclosed for converting this pixel based data (7,8,9-16,17) to spline based data (FIG. 5) wherein the characteristics present in the pixel based data are substantially retained in the spline based version of the image.