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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:
Apr. 01, 1997
Filed:
Sep. 09, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Tsutomu Yoneyama, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Kinoshita, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Konica Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ; G06K / ; G06K / ; G01B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382199 ; 382316 ; 382203 ; 364550 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for searching a contour line of an image to be cut out, has a displaying device to display an image obtained when an original image is subjected to photographic conversion scanning, a belt-shaped region setting device to set a belt-shaped region at a designated position located along a contour line of an image to be cut out, and a contour line searcher and processor to process image data in a belt-shaped region that has been set by the belt-shaped region setting device and to search a contour line of the image to be cut out, based on the image data processed by the processor.