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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:
Feb. 06, 1996
Filed:
Oct. 13, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yuji Ishikawa, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358451 ; 358448 ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus forms interpolating image data of a plurality of lines subjected to smoothing processing including original image data from the original image data. The apparatus selects and outputs image data of a predetermined number of lines corresponding to a reduction ratio from among the image data of the plurality of lines. A reduced image subjected to smoothing processing with high picture quality without loss of information of original lines is thereby obtained.