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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2003
Applicants:
Hironori Sumitomo, Nishinomiya, JP;
Yuichi Kawakami, Nishinomiya, JP;
Inventors:
Hironori Sumitomo, Nishinomiya, JP;
Yuichi Kawakami, Nishinomiya, JP;
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image processing apparatus first forms an edge image of an input image using, for example, SOBEL operator, and performs a smoothing process on the formed edge image by using an average filter. Thereafter, the image processing apparatus calculates a difference between the edge image and the edge smoothed image, and binarizes the edge image based on the difference.