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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:
Sep. 09, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 07, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Naoto Kawamura, Tokyo, JP;
Hidejiro Kadowaki, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382270 ;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus comprises an input device for inputting an image data, a first converter circuit for converting the input image signal to an analog image output and a second converter circuit for converting the input image data to a digital image output. The first converter circuit controls the analog image output in accordance with the output of the second converter circuit. The second converter circuit produces different digital signals in accordance with the input image data and has a threshold matrix to be compared with the input image data.