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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2003
Filed:
May. 25, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kenichiro Asada, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/40 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/40 ;
Abstract
In the image forming apparatus a binary-digitizing section compares inputted multi-valued image data with a threshold value and converts the image data to binary data, a template matching section determines whether smoothing is to be executed or not by comparing the binary-digitized data with the template data, a smoothing section converts the image data for a pixel determined as an object for smoothing to multi-valued data, and a data selector selects and outputs the multi-valued pixel data when the image data is determined as an object for smoothing, or selects and outputs the original data when the image data is not an object for smoothing.