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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:
Sep. 11, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2001
Applicant:
Hideaki Tanaka, Yamatokoriyama, JP;
Inventor:
Hideaki Tanaka, Yamatokoriyama, JP;
Assignee:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 (2006.01); G06K 9/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The image processing apparatus extracts edge pixels of an input image, connects the edge pixels so as to extract a segment, extracts an inclination angle of the image based on the segment, corrects an inclination of the image based on the angle, determines that correction has ended when the corrected inclination is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold value, and repeats inclination extraction, inclination correction and end determination using an output image obtained after the inclination correction as a new input image until it is determined that correction has ended.