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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 1997
Filed:
Jan. 23, 1996
Yoshiko Hozumi, Zushi, JP;
Victor Company of Japan, Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
A bi-level image is represented by an array of pixels. Code words are generated which represent outline tracing directions defined at points between the pixels respectively. The outline tracing directions represented by the code words are determined in accordance with states of the pixels surrounding and adjoining the related points respectively. A movement from one of the points to another being one of neighboring points is performed in accordance with the outline tracing direction represented by the code word defined at the one of the points. The movement-performing is repeated to trace an outline of a region in the bi-level image. Data representing the traced outline is generated in accordance with addresses of the points along which the movements are performed.
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