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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:
Oct. 01, 1996
Filed:
Jun. 10, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hitachi Medical Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382264 ; 382275 ;
Abstract
A noise filtering method including the steps of calculating a magnitude E.sub.i of density change for each of a plurality of linear direction components i in a local region around each of pixels of an inputted two-dimensional image, detecting such a direction as to minimize the magnitude E.sub.i of density change, conducting smoothing processing by deriving an arithmetic mean of densities of pixels in the local region arranged in the detected direction, and thereby reducing noise of the inputted image.