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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2003
Takeshi Soeda, Kawasaki, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
According to the invention, a plurality of points in the HOLZ pattern are substituted for a plurality of Hough transform images by means of the Hough transform, according to an image processing of image data that includes a plurality of pixels obtained by opto/electric converting a HOLZ pattern; clusters of the Hough transform images are extracted; and HOLZ lines are then specified by means of reverse transformation of these clusters. Therefore, HOLZ lines can be specified by means of predetermined calculation steps without an arbitrary HOLZ line specification step being performed by a person performing the measurement. It is thus possible to increase the accuracy with which HOLZ lines are specified.