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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:
Oct. 28, 2003
Filed:
May. 25, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Tousuke Kawada, Chiryu, JP;
Assignee:
Fuji Machine Mfg. Co., Ltd., Chiryu, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 ;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus, including an image taking device which takes an image of an object, an image-data memory in which image data representing the taken image of the object is stored, a negative-search-line producing device which produces one or more negative search lines which are expected not to intersect an edge of the image of the object represented by the image data, an optical characteristic of the image significantly changing at the edge, and a judging device which judges whether one or more negative search lines intersect the edge of the image of the object.