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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:
Dec. 30, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 09, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/40 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/40 ;
Abstract
Input image data is divided into blocks so as to make adjacent blocks partially overlap image data, and the divided image data is filtered in the unit of block. An image processing apparatus and method are provided which can process image data of an arbitrary size at high speed independently from the capacity of a buffer memory, and a computer readable storage medium is provided which stores a program realizing such a method.