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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:
Dec. 10, 1996
Filed:
Dec. 11, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358296 ; 382268 ; 382269 ;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus for performing predetermined processing on an image of a document having a character/line portion, a gradation portion and a background portion. The apparatus reads the document image, converts image densities to binary pixel data, and expands the black pixels in the vertical and horizontal directions. Using this expanded image, character/line, gradation and background portions can be accurately distinguished from each other.