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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2000
Takahiro Hongu, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes an edge processing section, an region data producing section, and a region determining section. The edge processing section enhances an edge portion of a first region of an image in units of picture elements to produce an enhanced image. The image includes the first region and a second region which are mixed, and picture elements of the image are expressed to as RGB data. The region data producing section divides the enhanced image into regions to output region data indicative of each of the regions, variance data of each of the regions and contour edge data indicative of a contour of each of the regions. The region determining section determines the first region in the enhanced image based on the region data, the variance data and the contour edge data.
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