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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 28, 1996
Teruyoshi Washizawa, Atsugi, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A visual information processing method and apparatus for acquiring and processing visual information by successively changing the amount of visual information entered with regard to a desired target position in space, reading image data at each position at which an image is formed and storing the image data in correspondence with the target position in space. The amount of visual information is successively changed by changing the image-forming position corresponding to the target position in space by moving of the optic axis of a wide-angle lens. The visual information is successively altered by zooming or by filtering which relies upon a two-dimensional filter.
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