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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:
Aug. 04, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 20, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Takahiro Ohde, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395102 ; 395109 ;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus and method which can perform a thinning process without deteriorating an output quality are provided. The apparatus is constructed by a keyboard to instruct so as to work dot data to be outputted and a CPU to work and form the dot data to be outputted on the basis of a detection result of states of the dot data as a target of the dot data to be outputted and peripheral dot data.